Recent Acquisitions January 2008

Subject	Call No. and Title

Atlantic Coast -- Maine -- History
	201652 Woodard, Colin. The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier. New York: Penguin Books, 2004. This lively book reveals a little known culture that predates the Pilgrims and has remained true to the earliest version of the American Dream: an egalitarian, self-reliant republic. The self-sufficient lobstermen of the Maine coast are models of environmental prudence: at a time when the fishing industry is in crisis, they have conserved the bounty of their waters, even as the once-humble lobster has become a coveted delicacy.

Building -- Details -- Drawings
	181615 Steiner, Frederick R. and Kent Butler, editors. Planning and Urban Design Standards. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2006. Planning and Urban Design Standards provides essential specification and detailing information for various types of plans, environmental factors and hazards, building types, transportation planning, and mapping and GIS. In addition, expert advice guides readers on practical and graphical skills, such as mapping, plan types, and transportation planning.

Cities and towns -- Growth -- Pictorial works
	152297 Hayden, Dolores. A Field Guide to Sprawl. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. Duck, ruburb, tower farm, big box, and pig-in-a-python are among the dozens of zany terms invented by real estate developers and designers today to characterize land-use practices and the physical elements of sprawl. Sprawl in the environment, based on the metaphor of a person spread out, is hard to define. This concise book engages its meaning, explains common building patterns, and illustrates the visual culture of sprawl.

Community life
	201657 Beatley, Timothy. Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2004. Native to Nowhere brings together a wide range of new ideas and insights about sustainability and community, and introduces readers to a host of innovative projects and initiatives. Native to Nowhere is a compelling source of information and ideas for anyone seeking to resist place homogenization and build upon the unique qualities of their local environment and community.

Environmental degradation
	030794 Jackson, Robert Bradley. The Earth Remains Forever: Generations at a Crossroads. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. Laying out the scientific facts in plain language and with flashes of humor, Rob Jackson shows how the escalation of population growth and resource consumption in the twentieth century caused problems from ozone depletion to global warming, habitat destruction, and biodiversity loss. At the same time, he highlights ongoing solutions to these problems and ways in which we can create a sustainable future for subsequent generations and all life on earth.

Habitat conservation -- Economic aspects -- United States
	030811 Scotti, R. A. Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. Drawing upon newspaper accounts, the personal testimony of survivors, forecasters, and archival footage, Sudden Sea recounts the terrifying day of the Great Hurricane in gripping detail. R. A. Scotti describes the unlikely alignment of meteorological conditions that conspired to bring a tropical cyclone to the Northeast. A masterful storyteller, Scotti follows the trajectory of that awful wind -- and recovers for posterity the lost stories of those whose lives, families, and communities were destroyed by the Hurricane of 1938.

Land use -- Planning
	181614 Steiner, Frederick. The Living Landscape. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000. An American Society of Landscaping Architecture Merit Award Winner, The Living Landscape offers: a systematic approach to landscape planning that maximizes ecological objectives, community service, and citizen participation; case studies that demonstrate how problems were met and overcome from varied locations; help with zoning, land use, and regulatory issues; coverage of advances in GIS technology and global sustainability standards; and more than 150 illustrations.

Marine resources conservation -- United States -- Directories
	271378 Helvarg, David, ed. The Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide: The Blue Movement Directory, 2005-2006. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2005. This one-of-a-kind new reference details more than 2,000 organizations and institutions that are working to understand, protect, and restore our ocean and coastal areas. For each entry, the book gives contact information including phone and fax numbers, email addresses, web addresses and a brief description of program areas of interest.

Natural disasters -- United States -- History
	030807 Steinberg, Ted. Acts of God. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Focusing on America's worst natural disasters, Ted Steinberg argues that it is wrong to see these tragedies as random outbursts of nature's violence or expressions of divine judgment. He reveals how the decisions of business leaders and government officials have paved the way for the greater losses of life and property, especially among those least able to withstand such blows--America's poor, elderly, and minorities.

Natural history -- Great Lakes region (United States) -- Literary collections
	071186 St. Antoine, Sara. The Great Lakes: A Literary Field Guide. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2005. This delightful anthology conveys not only the richness of nature in the Great Lakes region, but also the importance it holds for so many of its inhabitants. Contributors include Margaret Atwood, Sigurd Olson, Sandra Cisneros, Edwin Way Teale, and Gene Stratton-Porter.

Poaching -- Antarctin Ocean -- Case studies
	281481 Knecht, G. Bruce. Hooked: Pirates, Poaching and the Perfect Fish. Emmaus, Penn.: Rodale, 2006. Hooked tells the story of the poaching of the Patagonian toothfish (known to Americans as "Chilean Sea Bass"). Author G. Bruce Knecht chronicles how an obscure fish merchant in California "discovered" and renamed the fish, kicking off a worldwide craze for a fish no one had ever heard of and everyone had to have. With demand exploding, pirates were only too happy to satisfy our taste for Chilean Sea Bass.

Population density -- United States
	152299 Campoli, Julie and Alex S. MacLean. Visualizing Density. Cambridge, Mass.: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2007. Visualizing Density includes an essay on the density challenge facing the United States, an illustrated manual on planning and designing for “good” density, and a catalog of more than 250 diverse neighborhoods across the country, noting density in housing units per acre for each site. Four photographs of each location are included—close-up, context, neighborhood, and plan views—to provide an impartial and comparative view of the many ways to design neighborhoods.

Restoration ecology -- Colorado River
	152290 Adler, Robert W. Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems: A Troubled Sense of Immensity. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2007. Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems explores the many questions and challenges surrounding the issue of large-scale restoration of the Colorado River basin, and of large-scale restoration in general. Robert W. Adler evaluates the relationships among the laws, policies, and institutions governing use and management of the Colorado River for human benefit and those designed to protect and restore the river and its environment.

Technology -- Social aspects
	232375 Fox, Nichols. Against the Machine: The Hidden Luddite Tradition in Literature, Art, and Individual Lives. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2004. In this timely and incisive work, Nicols Fox examines contemporary resistance to technology and places it in a surprising historical context. She shows that the Luddite tradition can yield important insights into how we might reshape both technology and modern life so that human, community, and environmental values take precedence over the demands of the machine.

Urbanization -- United States
	152298 Duany, Andres, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. New York: Point Press, 2000. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk assess here sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. It is a lively, thorough, critical lament, and a lesson on the distinctions between postwar suburbia and the traditional neighborhoods that were built as a matter of course until mid-century. Most important, though, it is that rare book that also offers solutions.

Water resources development -- Encyclopedias
	271380 Ref Fierro, Pedro and Evan K. Nyer, eds. The Water Encyclopedia. 3rd ed. Boca Raton: CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2007. A definitive compilation of hydrologic and geologic data, The Water Encyclopedia: Hydrologic Data and Internet Resources, Third Edition, identifies the most current information on a wide range of water related topics. The book contains a brief introduction of data presented and commentary on important data-related issues in each chapter and provides more than 1100 tables and 500 figures of reliable and complete hydrologic data.

Waterworks -- Security -- United States
	240557 Spellman, Frank R. Water Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security. Lanham, Md.: Government Institutes, 2007. This thoughtful book provides a much-needed look at the vulnerabilities and security of our nation's water sources. Written as a result of 9/11 and in response to the critical needs of water/wastewater plant managers, plant engineers, design engineers, and utility managers, it addresses the need to incorporate security upgrades in existing facility systems and careful planning in all new construction sites.

Wisconsin -- Geography
	271374 Ostergren, Robert C. and Thomas R. Vale, eds. Wisconsin Land and Life. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. Wisconsin Land and Life is an exploration of place, a series of original essays by Wisconsin geographers that offers an introduction to the state's natural environment, the historical processes of its human habitation, and the ways that nature and people interact to create distinct regional landscapes. Abundantly illustrated with photos and maps, this book will richly reward anyone who wishes to learn more about the land and life of the place we know as Wisconsin.


Other new books
	030812 Mapping New Terrain: Climate Change and America’s West. Boulder, Colo.: Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, 2006.

	051531 Stoor, R. W., David E. Armstrong, Kristofer Rolfhus, Lisa Cleckner and David P. Krabbenhoft. Importance of Groundwater in Productions and Transport of Methylmercury in Lake Superior Tributaries. Madison: University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute, 2002.

	071079 2005 Great Lakes Commission. Annual Report of the Great Lakes Commission, 2005. Ann Arbor: Great Lakes Commission, 2005.

	162682 Swanson, Susan K., Kenneth R. Bradbury, and David J. Hart. Assessing the Ecological Status and Vulnerability of Springs in Wisconsin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute, 2007.

	181630 Thomas, Judith C., Michelle A. Lutz, Jennifer L. Bruce, David J. Graczyk, Kevin D. Richards, David P. Krabbenhoft, Stephen M. Westenbroek, Barbara C. Scudder, Daniel J. Sullivan, and Amanda H. Bell. Water-Quality Characteristics for Selected sites within the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District Planning Area, Wisconsin, February 2004-September 2005. Reston, Va.: U.S. Geological Survey, 2007.

	191123 Cooper, David J. and Bradley A. Rodgers. Report on Phase I Marine Magnetometer Survey in Death’s Door Passage, Door County, Wisconsin, 1989. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1990.

	232374 Making Maps, Mapping History: 300 Years of Original Maps. Madison: University of Wisconsin Aquatic Sciences Center, 2007.

SELECTED RECENT ACQUISITIONS - January 2008