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Title: insular academic chatter
Review: I was assigned this as a text for a college class, which I subsequently dropped after reading the book. What I had wanted was a basic introduction to the concepts of the science of ecology. What I got instead was unnecessary academic references and page after page of statistical methodology. These might be important in a graduate class or a professional journal, but they are woefully out of place in an introductory textbook. This book is a perfect example of what is wrong with the modern technocratic university: overspecialized PhDs, preoccupied with methodology, writing for each other, and unable to communicate with anyone outside their disciplines. It is a lousy tool for teaching and learning. If I were you I'd run screaming.
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