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Sierra BookshelfAbout SierraSierra magazine helps readers explore, enjoy, and protect the planet. Keep up to date with Sierra's timely and in-depth analysis of conservation issues by becoming a member of the Sierra Club. Members receive six issues each year. Plus, when you join, you will have the satisfaction of knowing you're helping to preserve irreplaceable wildlands, save endangered and threatened wildlife, and protect clean air and water. You can also be sure your voice will be heard through congressional lobbying and grassroots action on the environmental issues that matter to you most. Join the Sierra Club and get Sierra magazine. Visit the Sierra Club's Web site to get the daily scoop. Visit Sierra magazine's home page.by Thomas L. Friedman
In his brilliant, essential new book, Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges we face today: America's surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11; and the global environmental crisis, which is affecting everything from food to fuel to forests. In this groundbreaking account of where we stand now, he shows us how the solutions to these two big problems are linked — how we can restore the world and revive America at the same time. (read more)
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by Deirdre Imus
Living organically doesn't require a drastic overhaul and it doesn't have to be complicated or expensive — Deirdre Imus shows how easy and important it is for women to buy green, eat green, and be green. (read more)
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by Silas House
Something's Rising collects oral histories from a diverse group of individuals from Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Virginia who are fighting mountaintop removal, an ecologically devastating form of coal mining. Taken together, these voices stand as a testament of what it means to be an Appalachian and demonstrate the value of preserving a culture's history and spirit through the stories of its people. (read more)
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by Eric Simmons
Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, Darwin Slept Here offers a fresh-eyed and enchanting journey to South America that follows the famous biologist's footsteps. (read more)
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by Becky Kemery
Yurts inspire a sacred connection between people and their environment, between living and nature, between humankind and the forces that shape the world in which we live. Yurts: Living in the Round takes you on a journey, starting with nomads in Central Asia who still use the yurt today as their ancestors did in ancient times and ending with modern-day innovators who redesigned yurts...for use as modern permanent homes and offices. (read more)
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by Stephan Faris
Told through the narratives of current, past, and future events, the result of astonishingly wide travel and reporting, Forecast is a powerful, gracefully written, eye-opening account of this most urgent issue and how it has altered and will alter our world. (read more)
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by Chris Ayres
After returning to Los Angeles from his harrowing experience in Iraq, Ayres decides to trade the front lines of war for the front lines of the extreme leisure economy. Like Hunter Thompson crossed with one of David Brooks's bobos in paradise, Ayres embeds himself in L.A.'s leisuretocracy: an over-the-top-everything world of caviar facials, billionaire charity balls, souped-up SUVs, and monster home loans...not to mention thousand-dollar-a-night brothels and million-dollar poker tournaments. (read more)
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by Adrian Desmond
Desmond and Moore provide a major reexamination of Darwin's life and work. Drawing on a wealth of fresh manuscripts, unpublished letters, notebooks, diaries, and ships' logs, they argue that the driving force behind Darwin's theory of evolution was not simply his love of truth or personal ambition — it was his fierce hatred of slavery. Darwin's abolitionism had deep roots in his mother's family, and it was reinforced by his voyage on the Beagle as well as by events in America... (read more)
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by Gregory Dicum
An overview of the production, consumption, and cultural popularity of coffee, providing an historical overview of the drink, tracing its farming and processing, examining the international trade in coffee, and discussing marketing and the recent growth in popularity of specialty coffees. (read more)
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