Michael Lannoo: 4 books
Leopold’s Shack and Ricketts’s Lab
The Emergence of Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Aldo Leopold and Ed Ricketts are giants in the history of environmental awareness. They were born ten years and only about 200 miles apart and died within weeks of each other in 1948. Yet they never met and they didn't read each other's work. This illuminating book reveals the full extent of their...
The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory
A Century of Discovering the Nature of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Imagine a place dedicated to the long-term study of nature in nature, a permanent biological field station, a teaching and research laboratory that promotes complete immersion in the natural world. Lakeside Laboratory, founded on the shore of Lake Okoboji in northwestern Iowa in 1909, is just such...
This Land Is Your Land
The Story of Field Biology in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Field biology is enjoying a resurgence due to several factors, the most important being the realization that there is no ecology, no conservation, and no ecosystem restoration without an understanding of the basic relationships between species and their environments—an understanding gleaned only...
Britain's Future in Europe
The Known Plan A to Remain or the Unknown Plan B to Leave
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Following the agreement made by Prime Minister David Cameron with the EU on 18-19 February 2016, the day for the referendum for the UK to remain in or leave the EU is set for 23 June 2016. This will be the most important decision taken by the British people in half a century, and whose consequences...