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Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers by Joanne Veal Gabbin Publisher Comments "A vital and volatile part of the New Orleans landscape and lifestyle, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin actually contains three major bodies of water--Lakes Borgne, Pontchartrain, and Maurepas. These make up the Pontchartrain estuary. Robert W. Hastings... (read more) Your price: $40.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic 
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Mr. Hornaday's War by Stefan Bechtel Publisher Comments He was complex, quirky, pugnacious, and difficult. He seemed to create enemies wherever he went, even among his friends. A fireplug of a man who stood only five feet eight inches in his stocking feet, he had an outsized ambition to make his mark on the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $24.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Change Comes to Dinner: How Vertical Farmers, Urban Growers, and Other Innovators Are Revolutionizing How America Eats by Katherine Gustafson Publisher Comments A fascinating exploration of America's food innovators, that gives us hopeful alternatives to the industrial food system described in works like Michael Pollan's bestselling Omnivore's Dilemma Change Comes to Dinner takes readers into the farms, markets,... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics by Roderick Nash Publisher Comments Traces the development of the concept that nature has rights, and examines the work of environmental... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.27 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Everglades Handbook by Thomas E. Lodge Publisher Comments The second edition of a bestseller, The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem continues to provide a wealth of information on the entire ecosystem of the Everglades. With an emphasis on natural history, the text is unified around themes of... (read more) List Price $55.95 Your price: $48.08 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Global Environment by Elizabeth Kay Berner Publisher Comments This newly revised edition of Global Environment discusses the major elements of the geochemical cycles and global fluxes found in the atmosphere, land, lakes, rivers, biota, and oceans, as well as the human effects on these fluxes. Retaining the... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $75.44 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo by Lawrence Anthony Publisher Comments ***This ebook edition does not contain the photo insert that appears in the print edition.*** When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, located in the city center and caught in... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Hope Beneath Our Feet by Martin Keogh Publisher Comments The environmental "tipping point" we approach is more palpable each day, and people are seeing it in ways they can no longer ignore--we need only turn on the news to hear the litany ofwhat is wrong around us. Serious reflection, inspiration, and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $16.82 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Introduction to Environmental Engineering by Stefan Fr?nzle Publisher Comments Building on the first principles of environmental chemistry, engineering, and ecology, this volume fills the need for an advanced textbook introducing the modern, integrated environmental management approach, with a view towards long-term sustainability... (read more) Your price: $64.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It) by Charles Saylan Publisher Comments At a time when wild places everywhere are vanishing before our eyes, Charles Saylan and Daniel T. Blumstein offer this passionate indictment of environmental education--along with a new vision for the future. Writing for general readers and educators... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $23.08 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Fruitless Fall by Rowan Jacobsen Publisher Comments Jacobsen reminds readers that bees provide not just the sweetness of honey, but also are a crucial link in the life cycle of our crops. Seattle Post-Intelligencer Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $11.09 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Scavengers' Manifesto by Anneli Rufus Publisher Comments Destined to become the bible for a bold new subculture of eco-minded people who are creating a lifestyle out of recycling, reusing, and repurposing rather than buying new. An exciting new movement is afoot that brings together environmentalists... (read more) Your price: $5.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce Publisher Comments Traveling to more than thirty countries to define the scientific, economic, and historical dimensions of the water crisis, offers a solution based on managing the water cycle for the maximum social good, rather than pure self-interest.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $14.20 Google eBooks - Electronic
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No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes Abo by Colin Beavan Publisher Comments What does it really take to live eco-effectively? For one year, Colin Beavanswore off plastic and toxins, turned off his electricity, went organic, became a bicycle nut, and triedto savethe planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his young... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mobilizing the Green Imagination by Anthony Weston Publisher Comments Dysfunctional cities, catastrophic climate change, ever-deepening distance from nature--today we see environmental disaster everywhere we look. In Mobilizing the Green Imagination, philosophical provocateur Anthony Weston urges us to move beyond ever... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.27 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Climate of the Mediterranean Region by P. Lionello Publisher Comments The Mediterranean region contains a diverse and interesting climate ranging from areas with permanent glaciers to areas of subtropical, semiarid regions. The region is potentially sensitive to climate change and its progress has environmental, social... (read more) List Price $165.00 Your price: $158.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Phenology of Ecosystem Processes: Applications in Global Change Research by Asko Noormets Publisher Comments Changes in the seasonal timing of ecosystem carbon, water and energy exchange are key sources of variation in biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks. Referencing this variability to traditional phenological events, such as bud break or flowering, introduces... (read more) List Price $79.95 Your price: $76.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Organic Soils and Peat Materials for Sustainable Agriculture by Léon-Etienne Parent Publisher Comments While organic soils have the potential to contribute greatly to agricultural production, the irreversible processes that occur from draining organic soils need to be managed with caution. The wise use of peatlands must include the avoidance of... (read more) Your price: $157.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Sampling and Surveying Radiological Environments by Mark E. Byrnes Publisher Comments Sampling and Surveying Radiological Environments provides the how-tos for designing and implementing cost effective and statistically defensible sampling and surveying programs in radiological environments. The guidance and methods provided in this book... (read more) Your price: $205.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Soil Biodiversity in Amazonian and Other Brazilian Ecosystems by Fattima M. S. Moreira Publisher Comments This book reviews soil biodiversity and related ecological processes in one of the key biodiversity hotspots of the world, the Amazon, and nearby regions of Brazil. It covers both the tropical savannah and rainforests. Chapters describe the biology... (read more) List Price $145.00 Your price: $128.69 Google eBooks - Electronic
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