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Environmental Studies



Environmental Studies

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Food and Famine
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
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True or false: One out of every four items for sale in the average American supermarket contains corn? (Think, think, think...) Believe it or not, it's true. If this unsettles you ... (read more)

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Sustainable Living
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Foxfire 4 (Foxfire)
Foxfire 4 (Foxfire)
by Eliot Wigginton
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Fiddle making, spring houses, horse trading, sassafras tea, berry buckets, gardening, and other affairs of plain living are the topics covered in this volume.... (read more)

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General
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
by David Abram
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David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural... (read more)

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Whole Earth Discipline Signed Edition
Whole Earth Discipline Signed Edition
by Stewart Brand
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An icon of the environmental movement outlines a provocative approach for reclaiming our planet. According to Stewart Brand, a lifelong environmentalist who sees everything in terms of solvable design problems, three profound transformations are... (read more)

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Environment
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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World
by Paul Hawken
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Feeling crushed beneath the weight of ominous news, borderline-apocalyptic statistics, and global warming alerts that offer no recourse but panic? Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest is the book you've been waiting for. Here is a call to arms with concrete... (read more)

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Alternative Energy
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
by Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba
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William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger, and a place where hope and opportunity were hard to find. But William had read about windmills in a book... (read more)

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Forests
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Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees
Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees
by Roger Deakin
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Here, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed British nature writer and icon of the environmentalist movement. In Deakin's glorious meditation on wood, the "fifth element" -- as it exists in nature, in... (read more)

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Air and Water
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Cadillac Desert : the American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised and Updated (Rev 93 Edition)
Cadillac Desert : the American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised and Updated (Rev 93 Edition)
by Marc Reisner
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Newly updated, this timely history of the struggle to discover and control water in the American West is a tale of rivers diverted and damned, political corruption and intrigue, billion-dollar battles over water rights, and economic and ecological... (read more)

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Winning Our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How
Winning Our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How
by S. David Freeman
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Winning Our Energy Independence shares energy solutions from S. David Freeman, a man who has spent his life at the forefront of energy policy. Freeman explains how the sun, wind, biomass, geothermal, and hydrogen resources we have right now can be the... (read more)

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Earth Prayers: From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth
Earth Prayers: From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth
by Elizabeth Roberts
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When it was published in 1987, "Letting God was the first book to explore the themes of the Twelve-Step programs within the context of Christian tradition. Now revised to emphasize its spiritual focus, and including an introduction presenting a monthly... (read more)

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Bestsellers

Saturday, December 19, 2009
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
  1. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
    by Michael Pollan
  2. Foxfire 4 (Foxfire)
    by Eliot Wigginton
  3. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
    by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
  4. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
    by David Abram
  5. Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits and Vegetables
    by Mike Bubel and Nancy Bubel
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