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" Nature's economy : "
Donald Worster.
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BL
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1037988
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b792358
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| Main Entry
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Worster, Donald,1941-
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Nature's economy : : the roots of ecology /\ Donald Worster.
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San Francisco :: Sierra Club Books,, ©1977.
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xii, 404 pages ;; 24 cm
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0871561972
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: 9780871561978
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-398) and index.
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| Contents
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Preface -- Part I: Two roads diverged: ecology in the eighteenth century: 1. Science in Arcadia ; 2. The empire of reason -- Part II: The subversive science: Thoreau's romantic ecology: 3. A naturalist in Concord ; 4. Nature looking into nature ; 5. Roots and branches -- Part III: The dismal science: Darwinian ecology: 6. A fallen world ; 7. The education of a scientist ; 8. Scrambling for place ; 9. The ascent of man -- Part IV: O Pioneers: ecology on the frontier: 10. Words on a map ; 11. Clements and the climax community ; 12. Dust follows the plow -- Part V: The morals of a science: ethics, economics, and ecology: 13. The value of a varmint ; 14. Producers and consumers ; 15. Declarations of interdependence -- Epilogue: the age of ecology -- Notes -- Glossary of terms.
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Ecology-- History.
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Ecology-- history.
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Ecology.
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History.
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Écologie-- Histoire.
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08.35 philosophy of science.
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42.90 ecology: general.
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Ecology.
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574.5/09
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QH541.W64
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08.35bcl
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42.90bcl
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