title: Biodiversity II: Understanding and Protecting Our Biological Resources
author: A Joseph Henry Press book
description: The groundbreaking Biodiversity (LJ 4/1/88) was responsible for introducing the term into the common parlance and for dramatically increasing awareness of the plight of the world's dwindling biological resources. The 33 chapters in the current multiauthored volume provide not only a comprehensive ten-year update on the state of the art of biodiversity but also proceed even further than the 1988 book in suggesting concrete and cost-effective solutions to the biodiversity crisis. Biodiversity II, with its longer and more technical chapters, may be slightly less lay reader-friendly than the original, but the inclusion in the new work of 70 color photos greatly enhances its attractiveness. Imperative for all academic and large public libraries and for all sizable environmental collections.?Lynn C. Badger, Univ. of Florida Lib., Gainesville<br />Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  **Praise for _Biodiversity and Climate Change: Transforming the Biosphere_**
  
  
  “The evidence assembled in _Biodiversity and Climate Change_ leaps out at us
  like a scene from a 3-D movie. It’s warning us—compelling us—to act. Nowhere
  is the science clearer or the facts more compelling than in this meticulously
  researched volume. When conservationists and scientists of Lovejoy’s and
  Hannah’s caliber warn that if we don’t press forward faster, we’ll see greater
  species extinction, more ocean acidification, more biodiversity loss, more
  strains on agriculture and fishing—let me tell you: we need to listen. This
  book isn’t just a call to heed the science; it’s a call to citizens everywhere
  to live up to their responsibilities and protect this fragile planet we
  share.”
  
  
  —John Kerry, United States Secretary of State, 2013–2017
  
  
  “Mankind’s heedless extraction and pollution of our planet’s resources is
  tearing apart the web of natural systems that has sustai