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The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them by Wayne Pacelle Publisher Comments In countless fascinating ways, our relationship with animals is an essential part of the human experience. Now, one of the world's leading champions of animal welfare offers a dramatic examination of our age-old bond to all creatures. Wayne Pacelle... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Oregon Plans: The Making of an Unquiet Land Use Revolution by Sy Adler Publisher Comments Oregon Plans provides a rich, detailed, and nuanced analysis of the origins and early evolution of Oregon’s nationally renowned land use planning program. Drawing primarily on archival sources, Sy Adler describes the passage of key state laws... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Land Grabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth by Fred Pearce Publisher Comments An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food shortages or eager to profit from them, the world’s wealthiest and most acquisitive countries, corporations, and individuals have been buying and leasing vast tracts... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea by Callum Roberts Publisher Comments A Silent Spring for oceans, written by "the Rachel Carson of the fish world" (The New York Times) Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts&mdash... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It by Fred Guterl Publisher Comments The sixth "mass extinction event" in the history of planet Earth is currently under way, with over two hundred species dying off every day. The cause of this seismic event is also the source of the single biggest threat to human life: our own inventions.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story by Daphne Jenkins Sheldrick Publisher Comments Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. Her deep empathy and understanding, her years of observing Kenyas rich variety of wildlife, and her... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places by Andrew Blackwell Publisher Comments For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth—Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. Its rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canadas oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover
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Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Ed Humes Publisher Comments A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage. Take a journey inside the secret world of our biggest export, our most prodigious product, and our greatest legacy: our trash. It’s the biggest... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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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: How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Waged a Lonely Crusade for Wildlife That Changed the World 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 began as a taxidermist and an adventurer who... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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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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Superfuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future by Richard Martin Publisher Comments A new solution to our global energy crisis may lie in a simple element few know -thorium At the dawn of the atomic age, uranium and thorium were equally important as the element of choice in researching nuclear energy. Either one could have... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age by Richard Louv Publisher Comments For many of us, thinking about the future conjures up images of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: a post-apocalyptic dystopia stripped of nature. Richard Louv, author of the landmark bestseller Last Child in the Woods, urges us to change our vision of... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Harvest the Wind: America's Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability by Philip Warburg Publisher Comments Winds sweeping through the Great Plains once robbed the Farm Belt of its future, stripping away overworked topsoil and creating the dreaded Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Today, those winds are bringing new hope to the declining rural communities of the central... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation by Eric Rutkow Publisher Comments This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of our nations history. Like many of us, historians have long been guilty of taking trees for granted. Yet... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth by Mark Hertsgaard Publisher Comments "Hot bravely takes aim at perhaps the greatest climate threat of all: apathy." — Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation "Hertsgaards answers . . . are lucid, realistic, and offer reason for hope." — Christian Science Monitor For... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Ecological Thought by Timothy Morton Publisher Comments In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of life. No being, construct, or object can exist independently from... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies by Tyler Cowen Publisher Comments One of the most influential economists of the decade-and the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Stagnation-boldly argues that just about everything you've heard about food is wrong. Food snobbery is killing entrepreneurship and innovation... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Cooler Smarter Signed Edition by The Union of Concerned Scientists Publisher Comments How can each of us live Cooler Smarter? While the routine decisions that shape our days — what to have for dinner, where to shop, how to get to work — may seem small, collectively they have a big effect on global warming. But which changes in... (read more) Available June 18, 2012 Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper 
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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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