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    Published 2023
    Table of Contents: “…Commodifying the ocean world in the long nineteenth century / Kathleen Davidson and Molly Duggins -- Scent from the sea : ambergris in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century medicine, perfume and natural history / Georgina Cole -- Imperial coral : the transformation of a natural material to a Qing imperial treasure / Pippa Lacey -- Echoes of empire : the painted museums of Leroy de Barde / Jessica Priebe -- 'Native manufactures' : sailors' valentines and the Caribbean curio trade / Molly Duggins -- Reading the wrack line : ecology and visual culture on the French Atlantic shore / Maura Coughlin -- An intense curiosity : marine research stations and marine specimens in the late nineteenth century / Jude Philp -- The tears of pearls : archaic labour, fisheries and waste in Ceylon and beyond / Natasha Eaton -- Culture keeping and money making : Aboriginal women's shellwork from the South Coast of New South Wales / Priya Vaughan -- Their 'colours are brilliant, but fugitive' : coral concerns from imperial expeditions and the British Museum to the Royal Academy and Drury Lane / Kathleen Davidson -- Aquariums under the rising sun : a cultural history of early public aquariums in Japan, 1882-1903 / Yuichi Mizoi -- Merging the university museum and Volksbildung : the curatorial strategies of Berlin's museum für Meereskunde in 1900 / Stefanie Lenk -- 'An imitation of seaweed' : nature and design in a late eighteenth-century printed cotton / Ann Christie -- Fashioning whalebone : scrimshaw and the nineteenth-century tradition of the decorative busk / Martha Cattell -- The ornamental glass window of the Maison des Océans in Paris : a celebration of evolution / Jacqueline Goy and Robert Calcagno -- Trade connections : the acquisition of Blaschka marine invertebrate models in Australia and New Zealand / Jan Brazier.…”
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    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…McDiarmid, and Neil Chernoff -- Reptile diversity and natural history : an overview / Roy W. McDiarmid -- Study design and sampling / Robert N. …”
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    by Jonaitis, Aldona, 1948-
    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…The Seattle totem pole at Pioneer Square ; Grizzly Bear House posts at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture -- Victoria. Wawadit'la, the Mungo Martin House at the Royal British Columbia Museum ; Sgaang Gwaii (Ninstints) poles at the Royal British Columbia Museum ; Tony Hunt's grizzly bear and human post at Horseshoe Bay -- Vancouver. …”
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    Published 2007
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    by Erdős, László
    Published 2019
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Charles Darwin and the implications of evolution St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals -- Environmentalism gaining momentum: Rachel Carson and 'Silent sping' Denis Hayes and Earth Day -- Planting trees with Wangari Maathai -- In defense of rain forests: Chico Mendes and Bruno Manser Al Gore's fight for the environment -- The strong men of environmentalism: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Steven Seagal Movie stars and activism -- Arne Naess and 'Deep ecology' -- Vandana Shiva and traditional agriculture -- Ian Kiernan, Rossano Ercolini, and Bea Johnson Pioneers of ecological economics -- The Greenpeace story Forerunners of animal advocacy Spokesmen for animals: Peter Singer, Richard Ryder, and Tom Regan -- Henry Spira, the hero of animal advocacy -- Animal advocates from Central Europe -- Albert Schweitzer: The man who loved all living beings Talking animals: The capacity of animal minds -- Primatologists Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdikas Ingrid -- Newkirk, Alex Pacheco, and PETA -- John Muir and Yosemite -- Aldo Leopold, the founding father of nature conservation -- James Lovelock and the Gaia-hypothesis -- Their symbol: The giant panda -- Scientists involved in conservation and environmentalism -- Gerald Durrell: How an amateur naturalist developed into a great conservationist Farley Mowat never cried wolf -- David Attenborough, the grand old man of natural history films Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Under the spell of the sea -- Paul Watson, the daredevil of conservation -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements List of illustrations.…”
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