Environment category: 6530 books
Ice
The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Like the adventurer who circled an iceberg to see it on all sides, Mariana Gosnell, former Newsweek reporter and author of Zero Three Bravo, a book about flying a small plane around the United States, explores ice in all its complexity, grandeur, and significance.More brittle than glass, at times...
by Midwest Journal Press, John Williams Streeter.
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Farm lands are each year being brought closer to markets by steam and electric roads; telephone and telegraphic wires give immediate service; and the daily distribution of mails brings the producer into close touch with the consumer. The day of isolation and seclusion has passed, and the farmer is...
Matter and Desire
An Erotic Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Nautilus Award Gold Medal Winner, Ecology & Environment
In Matter and Desire, internationally renowned biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber rewrites ecology as a tender practice of forging relationships, of yearning for connections, and of expressing these desires through our bodies....
Quarterly Essay 48 After the Future
Australia's New Extinction Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Australia is home to many animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, making Australians caretakers of a unique heritage in a land that tolerates few mistakes. Yet, in After the Future, Tim Flannery shows that this country is now on the brink of a new wave of extinctions, which threatens to leave...
by John Felstiner
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Poems vivifying nature have gripped people for centuries. From Biblical times to the present day, poetry has continuously drawn us to the natural world. In this thought-provoking book, John Felstiner explores the rich legacy of poems that take nature as their subject, and he demonstrates their force...
Agrarianism and the Good Society
Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2007
Every society expresses its fundamental values and hopes in the ways it inhabits its landscapes. In this literate and wide-ranging exploration, Eric T. Freyfogle raises difficult questions about America's core values while illuminating the social origins of urban sprawl, dwindling wildlife habitats,...
Global Spin
The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Global Spin reveals the sophisticated techniques being used around the world by powerful conservative forces to try to change the way the public and politicians think about the environment. Large corporations are using their influence to reshape public opinion, to weaken gains made by environmentalists,...
Credo for the Checkout Line in Winter - Poems
Poems by Maryann Corbett
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Maryann Corbett’s second full-length collection, Credo for the Checkout Line in Winter, draws on profound experience of deep winter in the lived environment, while keeping alive faith that the thaw will come and bring with it the bloom of “uncountable rows of petals.” The themes of this finalist...
Climate Change Challenge (3C) and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building
Exploring Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource Conservation and Livelihood Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
This book is the outcome of two International Conferences held at the ISEC in Bangalore, India: the international conference on “Climate Change and Social-Ecological-Economical Interface-Building: Modelling Approach to Exploring Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource Conservation and Livelihood...
Deep Down Things
The Earth in Celebration and Dismay
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Beloved and critically acclaimed author Lin Jensen returns with this bounteous volume exploring what the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins calls "deep down things." Richly informed by deep ecology, Lin's writing explores our intimate connection to the land, to the specificities of place, and to the living...
Volcanoes in Human History
The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
When the volcano Tambora erupted in Indonesia in 1815, as many as 100,000 people perished as a result of the blast and an ensuing famine caused by the destruction of rice fields on Sumbawa and neighboring islands. Gases and dust particles ejected into the atmosphere changed weather patterns around...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Definitive and daring, The Ecopoetry Anthology is the authoritative collection of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment--in all its glory and challenge. From praise to lament, the work covers the range of human response to an increasingly complex and often disturbing natural world...
by John Hemming
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
“In his long career of exploration and scholarship, Hemming has become a powerful advocate for the Amazon.”—The New York Times, John Hemming
Amazonia is one of the most magnificent habitats on earth. Containing the world’s largest river, with more water and a broader basin than any...
by Dan Bodine
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
An El Paso, Tx, retired judge's deal with God, promising to feed Smart Growth neighborhood birds in exchange for better personal health, runs afoul when neighbors complain about large amounts of bird poop causing health problems. Responding to a demand the feeder be removed probes the quintessence of the connection between God, an individual, and the environment.