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Gifford Pinchot
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot was central to the early twentieth-century conservation movement in the United States and the political history and evolution of the Keystone State. This collection of Pinchot’s essays, articles, and...
Landslide Science and Practice
Volume 6: Risk Assessment, Management and Mitigation
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2013
This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from the conference has been split into seven volumes, this one is the sixth: 1. Landslide Inventory...
Deep Things out of Darkness
A History of Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Natural history, the deliberate observation of the environment, is arguably the oldest science. From purely practical beginnings as a way of finding food and shelter, natural history evolved into the holistic, systematic study of plants, animals, and the landscape. Deep Things out of Darkness chronicles...
Censoring Science
Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2007
The dramatic story of global warming, politics, and the scientist Al Gore calls “the most powerful and consistent voice calling for intelligent action to preserve our planet's environment.”
Censoring Science is the gripping story of the world's preeminent climatologist, Dr. James Hansen,...
Understories
The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Through lively, engaging narrative, Understories demonstrates how volatile politics of race, class, and nation animate the notoriously violent struggles over forests in the southwestern United States. Rather than reproduce traditional understandings of nature and environment, Jake Kosek shifts the...
Fields of the Tzotzil
The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Highland Chiapas
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Fields of the Tzotzil is the first study of social processes in contemporary highland Maya communities to encompass a regional view of the highlands of Chiapas as a system. In viewing tradition, not as a survival of traits, but as a dynamic process of adaptation by local systems to their placement...
Tipping Point for Planet Earth
How Close Are We to the Edge?
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Four people are born every second of every day. Conservative estimates suggest that there will be 10 billion people on Earth by 2050. That is billions more than the natural resources of our planet can sustain without big changes in how we use and manage them.
So what happens when vast population...
by Stephen M. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
A wake-up call that argues that although it may be too late to save biodiversity, we can take steps to save our ecosystems.
With the extinction rate at 3000 species a year and accelerating, we can now predict that as many as half of the Earth's species will disappear within the next 100 years....
by Sharona Muir
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist
Orion Book Award Finalist
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An amazing feat of imagination.” -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid...
The View from Lazy Point
A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
An exhilarating journey of natural renewal through a year with MacArthur fellow Carl Safina
Beginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, Carl Safina's The View from Lazy Point takes us through the four seasons to the four points of the compass, from the high Arctic south...
Replenishing the Earth
Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
An impassioned call to heal the wounds of our planet and ourselves through the tenets of our spiritual traditions, from a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
It is so easy, in our modern world, to feel disconnected from the physical earth. Despite dire warnings and escalating concern over the state...
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America Goes Green: An Encyclopedia of Eco-Friendly Culture in the United States [3 volumes]
An Encyclopedia of Eco-Friendly Culture in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Evidence of humanity's detrimental impact on the environment is mounting. As Americans, we are confronted daily with news stories, blogs, and social media commentary about the necessity of practicing green behaviors to offset environmental damage. This essential reference is a fascinating review of...
The Ravaging Tide
Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2006
If, like many Americans, you believe the ongoing tragedy of Hurricane Katrina was a once-in-a-lifetime fluke, you need to read this book. In the coming years and decades, the safety of your region, your town, your home may depend on the warnings you'll encounter on these pages. That's because the...
The Untrained Environmentalist
How an Australian grazier brought his barren property back to life
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Fifty years ago a young farmer named John Fenton took over his family's run-down sheep property in Victoria. Named Lanark, the property was barren, windswept and environmentally all but dead. Fenton set about bringing the property back to life by bringing the environment back to life. He planted trees....