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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Setting the Scene: A Timeline -- Introduction: The Slave Trade: An Ancient Practice -- Chapter One: The Beginning of the Slave Trade in North America -- Chapter Two: Slavery Expands Through the Colonies -- Chapter Three: Slavery in the New United States -- Chapter Four: The Abolitionists -- Chapter Five: Resistance and Rebellion -- Chapter Six: Unrest and War -- Chapter Seven: Reconstruction: The Fight for Freedom Continues -- Epilogue: The Long Way Forward -- Notes -- For More Information -- Index -- Picture Credits -- About the Author -- Back Cover

The human path across North America -- Ferry from Seattle -- Road Trip across Canada -- Dog sledding in Greenland -- Streetcar around Toronto -- Barge on the Mississippi -- Boat cruise on the Erie Canal -- Fly out of Atlanta -- Going West by train -- On horseback through Navajo Country -- On the Los Angeles Metro -- Trucking on the Pan American highway -- Shipping out of Costa Rica.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- A brief overview of ecology -- The ecosystem -- Abiotic limits -- Climate and topography -- Soils and soil profiles -- Biotic community -- Community succession -- Plant succession: from pioneer to climax -- Primary and secondary succession -- Succession and species abundance -- The biome concept -- Biodiversity -- The "species richness gradient" -- Biodiversity "hotspots" -- Patterns of distribution -- Continental patterns -- Geographical and ecological distribution -- Some ecological concepts -- Niches -- Ecological equivalents -- Bergmann's rule -- Allen's rule -- Readings and references -- Across North America -- A brief overview of ecology -- Community succession -- Biodiversity -- Patterns of distribution -- Some ecological concepts -- Infobox 1.1. Victor E. Shelford (1877-1968), Father of animal ecology -- Infobox 1.2. Taxonomy and the binomial system -- Chapter 2 Tundra -- Climatic and glacial influences -- Soils and geological influences -- Permafrost -- Patterned ground -- Eskers and tundra wildlife -- Glacial refugia -- Features and adaptations -- Plant adaptations to harsh conditions -- Plant growth and reproduction -- Decomposition and soil nutrients -- Some animal adaptations -- Major vegetative communities -- Shrub tundra -- Dwarf birch heath -- Cottongrass heath -- Fellfields -- Invertebrates and tundra ecology -- Selected tundra mammals -- Lemmings -- Arctic ground squirrels -- Arctic foxes -- Barren-ground caribou -- Selected tundra birds -- Gyrfalcons -- Snowy owl -- Ross goose -- Highlights -- Absentees: amphibians and reptiles -- Lichens and "reindeer moss" -- Snow goose "eat outs" -- Alpine Tundra -- Fragile Tundra -- Impacts of human activity -- Global warming -- Readings and references -- The Tundra Biome.

"Emphasizing the voices of activists, this book's diverse contributors examine communities' common experiences with environmental injustice, how they organize to address it, and the ways in which their campaigns intersect with related movements such as Black Lives Matters and Indigenous sovereignty. The global COVID-19 pandemic exposed the ways in which BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities and white working-class communities have suffered disproportionately from the crisis due to sustained exposure to toxic land, air, and water, creating a new urgency for addressing underlying conditions of systemic racism and poverty in North America. In addition to exploring the historical roots of the Environmental Justice movement in the 1980s and 1990s, the volume offers coverage of recent events such as the DAPL pipeline controversy, the Flint water crisis, and the rise of climate justice. The collection incorporates the experiences of rural and urban communities, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, Puerto Ricans, and Indigenous peoples in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The chapters offer instructors, undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers a range of accessible case studies that create opportunities for comparative and intersectional analysis across geographical and ethnic boundaries"--