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Journey of the pink dolphins : an Amazon quest / Sy Montgomery

Author:
Montgomery, Sy  Search this
Physical description:
317 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Amazon River Region
Date:
2000
C2000
Topic:
Boto  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_591912
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The spears of twilight : life and death in the Amazon jungle / Philippe Descola ; translated from the French by Janet Lloyd

Author:
Descola, Philippe  Search this
Physical description:
458 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Amazon River Region
Date:
1996
C1996
Topic:
Social life and customs  Search this
Call number:
F2230.2.J58 D44 E1996b
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_543398
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Observations of radiation exchange above and below Amazonian forest / W. James Shuttleworth ... [et al.]

Author:
Shuttleworth, W. James  Search this
Instituto de Pesquisas Espaciais (Brazil)  Search this
Physical description:
[20] leaves : ill. ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Amazon River Region
Date:
1984
[1984]
Topic:
Hydrology, Forest  Search this
Micrometeorology  Search this
Radiative transfer  Search this
Call number:
GB842 .O14 1984
GB842.O14 1984
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_292461
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Desenvolvimento inteligente: doze princípios para maximizar o estoque de carbono e a proteção ambiental nas florestas da Amazônia

Publisher:
Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project  Search this
Author:
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia  Search this
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute  Search this
Physical description:
24 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Amazon River Region
Date:
2008
Topic:
Forests and forestry--Carbon content  Search this
Carbon sequestration--Carbon content  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1112389
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The Geophysiology of Amazonia : vegetation and climate interactions / Robert E. Dickinson, editor

Author:
Dickinson, Robert E (Robert Earl) 1940-  Search this
United Nations University  Search this
International Conference on Climatic, Biotic, and Human Interactions in the Humid Tropics with Emphasis on the Vegetation and Climatic Interactions in Amazonia (1985 : Instituto de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil)  Search this
Physical description:
xvii, 526 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Amazon River Region
Date:
1986
C1987
Topic:
Vegetation and climate--Congresses  Search this
Biogeochemical cycles--Congresses  Search this
Climate  Search this
Congresses  Search this
Call number:
QC988.A66G46 1987X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_304150
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Amazonia / editors, Ghillean T. Prance and Thomas E. Lovejoy

Author:
Prance, Ghillean T. 1937-  Search this
Lovejoy, Thomas E  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 442 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Amazon River Region
Date:
1985
Topic:
Natural history  Search this
Nature--Effect of human beings on  Search this
Call number:
QH112.A43 1985X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_267301
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Oil palms and other oilseeds of the Amazon / Celestino Pesce ; translated and edited by Dennis V. Johnson

Author:
Pesce, Celestino  Search this
Johnson, Dennis Victor 1937-  Search this
Physical description:
199 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Amazon River Region
Date:
1985
Topic:
Oilseed plants  Search this
Palms  Search this
Oil palm  Search this
Call number:
SB298.5.A43P4713 1985X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_269151
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Human carrying capacity of the Brazilian rain-forest / Philip M. Fearnside

Author:
Fearnside, Philip M (Philip Martin)  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Amazon River Region
Rodovia Transamazônica (Brazil)
Date:
1986
Topic:
Environmental policy  Search this
Land capability for agriculture  Search this
Rain forest ecology  Search this
Population density  Search this
Call number:
HC188.A5F42 1986X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_272307
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Molt in Neotropical birds : life history and aging criteria / Erik I. Johnson, Jared D. Wolfe

Author:
Johnson, Erik I.  Search this
Wolfe, Jared D.  Search this
Author:
American Ornithological Society  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 400 pages ; 27 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Amazon River Region
Date:
2018
Topic:
Feathers  Search this
Molting  Search this
Birds  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1091919
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Conjuring property : speculation and environmental futures in the Brazilian Amazon / Jeremy M. Campbell

Author:
Campbell, Jeremy M  Search this
Physical description:
xx, 231 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Amazon River Region
Brazil
Date:
2015
Topic:
Land tenure  Search this
Land settlement  Search this
Rural development  Search this
Environmental policy  Search this
Enivornmental conditions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1062805
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Medicinal plants of the Andes and the Amazon : the magic and medicinal flora of northern Peru / Rainer W. Bussmann, Douglas Sharon

Author:
Bussmann, Rainer  Search this
Sharon, Douglas  Search this
Publiser:
William L. Brown Center for Plant Genetic Resources  Search this
Physical description:
292 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Peru
Andes Region
Amazon River Region
Date:
2015
Topic:
Medicinal plants  Search this
Materia medica, Vegetable  Search this
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric  Search this
Plants  Search this
Call number:
QK99.P4 B868 2015
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1110470
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Trilhas da regularização fundiária para comunidades nas florestas amazônicas : como decidir qual a melhor solução para regularizar sua terra? / Katia O. Carvalheiro [and others]

Author:
Carvalheiro, Kátia  Search this
Physical description:
116 : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 poster (color ; 92 x 64 cm folded to 19 x 22 cm)
Type:
Books
Place:
Amazon River Region
Brazil
Date:
2010
Topic:
Forest policy  Search this
Land use--Government policy  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1104214
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Pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía peruana / Pedro Mayor Aparicio, Richard E. Bodmer

Author:
Mayor Aparicio, Pedro 1973-  Search this
Physical description:
312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Peru
Amazon River Region
Date:
2009
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1075439
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Derechos indígenas, gobernanza ambiental y recursos en la Amazonía peruana : hacia una antropología de la posfrontera / Peter Bille Larsen; traducción: Rosa Álvarez Orgaz

Author:
Larsen, Peter Bille 1973-  Search this
Translator:
Álvarez Orgaz, Rosa  Search this
Physical description:
275 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Amazon River Region
Date:
2016
Topic:
Indigenous peoples--Ecology  Search this
Indigenous peoples--Civil rights  Search this
Indigenous peoples--Land tenure  Search this
Forests and forestry--Economic aspects  Search this
Forest conservation  Search this
Natural resources, Communal  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1080485
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El ojo verde : cosmovisiones amazónicas / [catálogo, concepción y edición general, Gredna Landolt ; ensayos, Carlos Dávila ... et al. ; fotografía, Alejandro Balaguer and others]

Editor:
Landolt, Gredna  Search this
Writer of added text:
Dávila Herrera, Carlos  Search this
Photographer:
Balaguer, Alejandro 1959-  Search this
Issuing body:
Programa de Formación de Maestros Bilingües (Peru)  Search this
Physical description:
285 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Amazon River Region
Date:
2000
Topic:
Social life and customs  Search this
Material culture  Search this
Indian cosmology  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1063665
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The Clio, by L.H. Myers ..

Author:
Myers, L. H (Leopold Hamilton) 1881-1944  Search this
Signer:
Myers, L. H (Leopold Hamilton) 1881-1944 DSI  Search this
Bookjacket designer:
Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight) 1890-1954  Search this
Publisher:
G.P. Putnam's Sons  Search this
Printer:
Botolph Printing Works  Search this
Physical description:
257, [5] pages 20 cm
Type:
Fiction
Place:
Amazon River Region
Date:
1925
Topic:
Voyages and travels  Search this
Call number:
PR6025.Y94 C58 1925
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1104107
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Amazonia in the Anthropocene : people, soils, plants, forests / Nicholas C. Kawa

Author:
Kawa, Nicholas C. 1981-  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 186 pages ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Amazon River Region
Date:
2016
Topic:
Human ecology  Search this
Climatic changes  Search this
Human beings--Effect of environment on  Search this
Human geography  Search this
Environmental conditions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1062804
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Perspectivas antropológicas sobre la Amazonia contemporánea / Margarita Chaves y Carlos Del Cairo, compiladores

Title:
Amazonia contemporánea
Author:
Chaves, Margarita  Search this
Cairo, Carlos Del  Search this
Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia  Search this
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana  Search this
Physical description:
677 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Amazon River Region
Date:
2010
Topic:
Ethnology  Search this
Ethnicity  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Civilization  Search this
Ethnic relations  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1097157
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How forests think : toward an anthropology beyond the human / Eduardo Kohn

Author:
Kohn, Eduardo  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Amazon River Region
Date:
2013
Topic:
Social life and customs  Search this
Quechua mythology  Search this
Indigenous peoples--Ecology  Search this
Human-animal relationships  Search this
Human-plant relationships  Search this
Philosophy of nature  Search this
Semiotics  Search this
Social sciences--Philosophy  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1062753
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Colombian Amazon : policies for the protection of its indigenous peoples and their environment / Peter Bunyard

Author:
Bunyard, Peter  Search this
Physical description:
ii, 99 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Colombia
Amazonie
Colombie
Amazon River Region
Date:
1989
Topic:
Rivers--Environmental aspects  Search this
Indigenous peoples  Search this
Environnement--Politique gouvernementale  Search this
Environnement--Protection  Search this
Indiens d'Amérique--Relations avec l'État  Search this
Indiens d'Amérique  Search this
Regional development  Search this
Colonization and settlement  Search this
Farming systems  Search this
Conditions économiques  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1112447

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