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Among the largest of all insects, dragonflies and damselflies are conspicuous. Active during the day, often brightly colored, and extremely photogenic¿something about their appearance and dashing flight suggests a primeval world of tree ferns and dinosaurs. The first guide of its kind, this book includes an in-depth introduction with an overview of Costa Rican biodiversity and illustrated morphological terms. The species accounts show males an...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Guides readers through the snowy San Juan Mountains of the Colorado Plateau in southwestern Colorado, and its human legacies. This title describes in detail the ecology of its six sub-regions, showing readers how to recognise human influences on the flora and fauna, and even has a discussion of the trends.

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William Paulson is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. His books include The Noise of Culture: Literary Texts in a World of Information, also from Cornell, and Sentimental Education: The Complexity of Disenchantment.

Environmental issues have become increasingly prominent in local struggles, national debates, and international policies. In response, scholars are paying more attention to conventional politics and to more broadly defined relations of power and difference in the interactions between human groups and their biophysical environments. Such issues are at the heart of the relatively new interdisciplinary field of political ecology, forged at the in...