Showing how GIS and geography provide a framework for ecology and conservation efforts, this book describes how new technological tools for that kind of analysis, chief among them GIS, are being used to revolutionize the work of conservation.
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Charles L. "Chuck" Convis has been writing Old West history for forty years. He is the biographer of Myles Keogh of Indian Wars fame, and has been published in many western magazines and journals. A retired trial lawyer, he has lived in Nevada for ten years, where he writes and gives talks on Nevada history.
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The Community Builders, Inc. (TCB), is a 35-year-old nonprofit organization with a mission of rebuilding urban neighborhoods to serve families and individuals of all incomes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- Bears of the World (Worldlife Discovery Guides) by Dr. Lance Craighead on page 42, page 50, and page 51
- Practical Approaches to the Conservation of Biological Diversity by Richard K. Baydack on page 57, and page 58
- Main Street (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics) by Sinclair Lewis in Back Matter
- Central Asia in World History (The New Oxford World History) by Peter B. Golden on page 193
- Santa Barbara County by Automobile Club of Southern California on page 147
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- Imaginatio Creatrix: The Pivotal Force of the Genesis/Ontopoiesis of Human Life and Reality (Analecta Husserliana) by A-T. Tymieniecka on page 244
- WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems by Donald G. Janelle on page 84
- GIS for the Urban Environment by Juliana Maantay on page 289
- Marine Geography: GIS for the Oceans and Seas by Joe Breman in Front Matter
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