Island Press: 819 books
Reinventing Nature?
Responses To Postmodern Deconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
How much of science is culturally constructed? How much depends on language and metaphor? How do our ideas about nature connect with reality? Can nature be "reinvented" through theme parks and malls, or through restoration?Reinventing Nature? is an interdisciplinary investigation of how perceptions...
The Carnivore Way
Coexisting with and Conserving North America's Predators
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
What would it be like to live in a world with no predators roaming our landscapes? Would their elimination, which humans have sought with ever greater urgency in recent times, bring about a pastoral, peaceful human civilization? Or in fact is their existence critical to our own, and do we need to...
Aldo Leopold's Odyssey, Tenth Anniversary Edition
Rediscovering the Author of A Sand County Almanac
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
In 2006, Julianne Lutz Warren(néeNewton) asked readers to rediscover one of history's mrenowned conservationists. Aldo Leopold's Odyssey was hailed by The New York Times as a "biography of ideas,” making "us feel the loss of what might have followed A Sand County Almanac by showing us in authoritative...
by David Helvarg
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
A new environmental movemis emerging to help combat threats to America's oceans and coasts, with hundreds of local and regional groups as well as dozens of national and international organizations being formed. The Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide represents a comprehensive guide to this new "Blue...
Lyme
The First Epidemic of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into places they could not survive before. The first epidemic to emerge in the era of climate change, the disease infects half a million people in the US and Europe each year, and untold multitudes in Canada, China, Russia, and Australia.
Mary...
Seeing Things Whole
The Essential John Wesley Powell
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
John Wesley Powell was an American original. He was the last of the nation's great continental explorers and the first of a new breed of public servant: part scientist, part social reformer, part institution builder. His work and life reveal an enduringly valuable way of thinking about land, water,...
Salmon Without Rivers
A History Of The Pacific Salmon Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
From a mountain top where an eagle carries a salmon carcass to feed its young to the oceanic waters of the California current and the Alaskan Gyre, salmon have penetrated the Northwest to an extent unmatched by other animals. Since the turn of the twentieth century, natural productivity of salmon in...
An Affair with Africa
Expeditions and Adventures Across a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In June 1960, a young faculty wife named Alzada Kistner and her husband David, a promising entomologist, left their 18-month old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was gripped...
The Good in Nature and Humanity
Connecting Science, Religion, and Spirituality with the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Scientists, theologians, and the spiritually inclined, as well as all those concerned with humanity's increasingly widespread environmental impact, are beginning to recognize that our ongoing abuse of the earth diminishes our moral as well as our material condition. Many people are coming to believe...
by PhD Catherine Athans, Dotti Albertine
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
**The dreams of your heart are in reality the heavenly blueprints of your life.**In this book you will learn how just doing it brings a tremendous sense of self-esteem, faith, and accomplishment. You will learn how to select those activities, thoughts, and ideas that come from your heart and not your head. You will learn that just doing it brings you energy and enthusiasm for your life.
by John Grim, Mary Evelyn Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
From the Psalms in the Bible to the sacred rivers in Hinduism, the natural world has been integral to the world’s religions. John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker contend that today’s growing environmental challenges make the relationship ever more vital.
This primer explores the history of...
Blue Urbanism
Exploring Connections Between Cities and Oceans
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
What would it mean to live in cities designed to foster feelings of connectedness to the ocean? As coastal cities begin planning for climate change and rising sea levels, author Timothy Beatley sees opportunities for rethinking the relationship between urban development and the ocean. Modern society...
by Paul Shepard
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Paul Shepard is one of the mprofound and original thinkers of our time. He has helped define the field of human ecology, and has played a vital role in the developmof what have come to be known as environmental philosophy, ecophilosophy, and deep ecology -- new ways of thinking about human-environminteractions...
Sustainability Indicators
A Scientific Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
While the concept of sustainability has been widely embraced, it has been only vaguely defined and is exceedingly difficult to measure. Sustainability indicators are critical to making the broad concept of sustainability operational by providing specific measures by which decision makers and the public...