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Title: Life Out of Bounds: Bioinvasion in a Borderless World (Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series (Paper)) by Chris Bright, Linda Starke ISBN: 0-393-31814-1 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Life Out of Bounds: Bioinvasion in a Borderless World
Comment: Technology is advancing and the world is becoming a smaller and smaller place. Due to this always changing world, bioinvasion has become a new danger to the planet. Bioinvasion is the spread of exotic species that invade and spread all over the world, destroying ecosystems, endangering public health, disrupting the cultures of traditional forest and fishing peoples, and costing billions of dollars a year. These invaders range from highly flammable weeds to human pathogens and forest diseases. Worldwatch Institute researcher Chris Bright tracks and explains the dangers of bioinvasion, and analyzes the rate at which it is spreading. Bright outlines a counter-invasion strategy that can help prevent these alien species from spreading across the globe, and demonstrates how to appreciate native plants and animals. This insightful and informational book explains this danger that the public is not aware of, and how we can stop bioinvasion before it costs us the termination of nearly all native species.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent, timely work.
Comment: This is an intelligent, important contribution to the field, and would make a superb addition to a college reading curriculum on the subject.
Rating: 2
Summary: Writing out of bounds
Comment: Chris Bright's book on bioinvasion is timely and certainly on an important topic. The author is clearly informed on the numerous examples of the devastating environmental problem and the policy and social issues related to it. However, this is one of the most poorly organized books I have ever read. I read it with a group of college sophomores and the students were generally completely lost as to the purpose or direction of the writing throughout the text. While the author can surely take some blame, why didn't Norton provide some editorial guidance? In general, each chapter was filled with miscellaneous examples of the devastating effects of introduced species. But the examples were not organized in any apparent fashion within chapters nor was there any presentation of the basic ecological mechanisms or processes involved. The book presents a convincing argument that bioinvasion is a real problem, but no indication as to why or what, scientifically, can be done about it. The last two chapters are somewhat better: the last chapter's emphasis on scientific literacy was much appreciated. All in all, this book was a disappointing and confusing read.
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Title: The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants by Charles S. Elton ISBN: 0226206386 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Invasive Plants: Weeds of the Global Garden (21st Century Gardening Series, Handbook No. 149) by John M. Randall, Janet Marinelli ISBN: 0945352956 Publisher: Brooklyn Botanic Garden Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Nature Out of Place: Biological Invasions in the Global Age by Jason Van Driesche, Roy Van Driesche ISBN: 1559637579 Publisher: Island Press Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: Tinkering with Eden: A Natural History of Exotics in America by Kim Todd, Claire Emery ISBN: 0393048608 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Alien Invasion by Robert S. Devine ISBN: 0792274490 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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