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Summary and Analysis of The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World
Based on the Book by Peter Wohlleben
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Hidden Life of Trees tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Peter Wohlleben’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
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Wildlife Tourism, Environmental Learning and Ethical Encounters
Ecological and Conservation Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
This book outlines the status quo of worldwide wildlife tourism and its impacts on planning, management, knowledge, awareness, behaviour and attitudes related to wildlife encounters. It sets out to fill the considerable gaps in our knowledge on wildlife tourism, applied ecology, and environmental...
by Lester R. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.
We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise?...
Sustaining Lake Superior
An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A compelling exploration of Lake Superior’s conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world, has had a remarkable history, including resource extraction and industrial exploitation that caused nearly irreversible degradation....
by William Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2011
Giant earthquakes and tsunamis devastate western Oregon every 300 to 600 years. The last one hit in 1700, so we're due anytime. This informative, entertaining book tells the stories of Oregon's past floods, fires, and eruptions. Then it investigates the cycles behind our natural disasters and takes a look at what may happen when the next "Big One" strikes.
Visit Sunny Chernobyl
And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth—Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It's rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the...
by Alastair Bonnett
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
"I cannot imagine a better guide to the transition between school and undergraduate geography than this short, informative and confidently-argued book. Written without fuss but based on solid learning and clear thinking, it tackles head-on a question many professional academic geographers would...
Grand Canyon For Sale
Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Grand Canyon For Sale is a carefully researched investigation of the precarious future of America’s public lands: our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, monuments, and wildernesses. Taking the Grand Canyon as his key example, and using on-the-ground reporting as well as scientific research,...
The Humboldt Current
Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
A masterly and beautifully written account of the impact of Alexander von Humboldt on nineteenth-century American history and culture
The naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769?1859) achieved unparalleled fame in his own time. Today, however, he and his enormous legacy to American...
Vital Signs Volume 21
The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Vital Signs Volume 21 is all about growth. From natural disasters to cars to organic farming, the two dozen trends examined here indicate both increasing pressure on natural resources and scaled up efforts to live more sustainably. In 2012, world auto production set yet another record with passenger-car...
Good News For a Change
How Everyday People are Helping the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2003
The litany of environmental bad news -- rapid extinction of species, pollution, depleted food sources -- can be overwhelming, but there's hope too. In this thoughtful look at whatís happening behind the grim headlines, authors David Suzuki and Holly Dressel show that thousands of individuals, groups,...
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...
More Good News
Real Solutions to the Global Eco-Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2001
More inspiring stories in this revised and updated edition of the bestselling Good News for a Change.
David Suzuki and Holly Dressel update their bestseller Good News for a Change, published in 2003 with over 35,000 copies sold, with the latest inspiring stories about individuals, groups, and...
The Shadows of Consumption
Consequences for the Global Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
An environmentalist maps the hidden costs of overconsumption in a globalized world by tracing the environmental consequences of five commodities.
The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth's ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences...