Kellert, Signed (3 results)

Condition: Like New. Signed (inscribed) by author on title page, first edition first printing. Text block, pages, boards and binding are pristine. Dust wrapper is like new. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Inscribed to no recipient on the front free endpaper: "With great respect for your work in conserving the world's environment. F. H. Bormann, S.R. Kellert." The inscription is in Bormann's hand, but it's signed by both authors. Uncommon signed. From the publisher: "In this book a distinguished group of environmental experts argues that in order to solve global environmental problems, we must view them in a broad interdisciplinary perspective that recognizes the relations, the interconnected circle, among ecology, economics, and ethics." Thirteen chapters,includingcontributions from luminaries such as E.O. Wilson, Norman Myers, and Wes Jackson. The editors contribute the opening and concluding chapters.Bormann (1922-2012)was an Americanplant ecologistwhose 1971 shared research in theHubbard Brook Experimental Forestin New Hampshire was credited with the discovery ofacid rain, contributing to the argument for the Clean Air Act.Kellert (19432016) was a professor of Social Ecology at Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.A near fine book with a touch of edge wear and a fewspeckles to upper text block face near spine; in a fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. An association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Victor Nell, colleague, warm regards, EO Wilson." Uncommon or scarce signed.Wilson and Stephen Kellert edit this important follow up to Wilson's bookBiophilia, collecting angles on the theory from an impressive array of thinkers in ecology and environmental fields including, among others, Roger Ulrich, Richard Nelson, Gary Paul Nabhan, Jared Diamond, Paul Shephard, Lynn Margulis, Holmes Rolston III, David Orr, and Michael Soulé. All together a fantastic and fascinating book. Terry Tempest Williams says in a blurb on the rear of the jacket: "The Biophilia Hypothesisis a rigorous, imaginative, and evocative exploration of what it means to be human. Let us take these ideas of the mind and allow them to enter our bodies. Perhaps then, through this distillation, we can inhabit the earth with a moral compass to guide, inform, and inspire our behavior." The inscribee Victor Nell is a South African neuropsychologist and the author ofLost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure. Very good or better with trace rubbing/sunning to board edges and some faint waviness to top of half-title and title pages only. In a very good jacket with a touch of wear to corners, a diagonal crease across front panel, and some light creasing on spine.