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Rich World, Poor World

de Geoffrey Lean

This reissue, first published in 1978, confronts a whole range of international development issues: hunger, energy, supply, population growth, pollution, the state of the cities, nuclear proliferation. Geoffrey...

Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future

de Tim Flannery

In Now or Never, the internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers returns to the subject of climate change with a book that is at once a forceful call to action and a deeply (and often surprisingly)...

Arctic Autumn: A Journey to Season's Edge

de Pete Dunne

The third in a four-book series on humans' relationship to nature.  

Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource

de Marq De Villiers

In his award-winning book WATER, Marq de Villiers provides an eye-opening account of how we are using, misusing, and abusing our planet's most vital resource. Encompassing ecological, historical, and cultural...

Silent Spring

de Rachel Carson, Linda Lear & Edward O. Wilson

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced...

The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana

de Rick Bass

The Wild Marsh is Rick Bass’s most mature, full account of life in the Yaak and a crowning achievement in his celebrated career. It begins with his family settling in for the long Montana winter, and captures...

Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth

de Mark Hertsgaard

On a quest to protect the next generation from mounting climate change, renowned journalist Mark Hertsgaard offers a deeply reported blueprint on how to navigate this unavoidable new era.

Trading the Genome: Investigating the Commodification of Bio-Information

de Bronwyn Parry

In a groundbreaking work that draws on anthropology, history, philosophy, business and law, Parry links firsthand knowledge of the operation of the bioprospecting industry to a sophisticated analysis of broader...

Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies

de Margo DeMello

Human–animal studies explores human–animal relations and the place of animals within human social and cultural worlds. Considering that much of human society is structured through its interaction with non-human...

People in Nature: Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America

de Kirsten M. Silvius, Richard E. Bodmer & Jose M. V. Fragoso

This book reviews wildlife management and conservation in Central and South America. The book discusses the threats to biodiversity in this area including habitat fragmentation, development, ranching, tourism...

On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring

de William Souder

Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the environmental movement

She loved the ocean and wrote three books about...

The GALILEO Syndrome

de Daniel H Gottlieb

On the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day, humanity can no longer bring antiquated systems to bear against the climate problems that have been washing over the species for decades. Having inherited a bulwark...

The FIRES Of Home

de Daniel H. Gottlieb

It had once been called the Tipping Point. We didn’t know what it might be, but we were warned that it might be dangerous.

For Winston Doe, the Tipping Point is a memory: A war called the Jazz War. Battling...

The Dialogues of Sancho and Quixote, MYTHICAL Debates on Global Warming: 1997 - 2010

de Daniel H. Gottlieb

Sancho and Quixote Annotation Do you understand the American climate debate? Have you ever wanted to laugh at it? Sancho and Quixote made their debut in 1997. Here is their entire debate, in all its absurdity....

Huck: The Remarkable True Story of How One Lost Puppy Taught a Family--and a Whole Town--About Hope and Happy Endings

de Janet Elder

Huck is a page-turning, unforgettable true story of the tenacity of one small dog, the unexpected, extraordinary kindness of strangers, and a family’s devotion to each other.

Michael was four when his relentless...

Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change: Renewing Damaged Ecosystems

de Stuart K. K. Allison

What is a natural habitat? Who can define what is natural when species and ecosystems constantly change over time, with or without human intervention? When a polluted river or degraded landscape is restored...

Nature Unbound: "Conservation, Capitalism and the Future of Protected Areas"

de Dan Brockington, Rosaleen Duffy & Jim Igoe

This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive, critical examination of the rise of protected areas and their current social and economic position in our world. It examines the social impacts of protected...

Beautiful Corn: America's Original Grain from Seed to Plate

de Anthony Boutard

From seed to plate – the seasons of a remarkable crop

Ancient Ecologists

de Wence Horak & Keana Texeira

Addicted to rather flawed concept of Darwinism, we tend to think even of climatic changes as slow, gradual processed. Yet the termination of the last Ice Age was fast and furious. It ended about 15,500 years...

Applying Nature's Design: Corridors as a Strategy for Biodiversity Conservation

de Anthony B. B. Anderson & Clinton N. N. Jenkins

The fragmenting of habitats is endangering animal populations and degrading or destroying many plant populations throughout the world. To address this problem, conservationists have increasingly turned to biological...