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The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble Over Earth's Future
The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble Over Earth's Future
by Paul Sabin
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In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the publics imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the... (read more)

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Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist
Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist
by Bill McKibben
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Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet. Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed in the city jail in Washington, D.C.... (read more)

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Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
by Alan Weisman
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A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us. In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if... (read more)

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The Fire Outside My Window: A Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire
The Fire Outside My Window: A Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire
by Sandra Millers Younger
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The Fire Outside My Window reveals the story of the Cedar Fire, the largest fire in California’s recorded history, which ravaged the San Diego area in late 2003, burning nearly 280,000 acres, destroying more than 2,200 homes and hundreds of other... (read more)

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Biodiversitat Und Klimawandel: Auswirkungen Und Handlungsoptionen Fur Den Naturschutz in Mitteleuropa
Biodiversitat Und Klimawandel: Auswirkungen Und Handlungsoptionen Fur Den Naturschutz in Mitteleuropa
by Franz (edt) Essl
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Das Buch „Biodiversität und Klimawandel" bietet erstmals einen umfassenden Überblick der Klimawandeleffekte auf die Biodiversität in Mitteleuropa. Dabei nehmen die Bewertung der beobachteten und prognostizierten Folgen des Klimawandels auf Arten und... (read more)

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The Art of India (Images of Nature)
The Art of India (Images of Nature)
by Judith Magee
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A beautiful collection of Indian natural history drawings from the 18th to the 20th centuries This book presents many of the beautiful images in the Library of Natural History Museum in London, from fine botanical and zoological... (read more)

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Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know (What Everyone Needs to Know)
Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know (What Everyone Needs to Know)
by Robert Paarlberg
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The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using... (read more)

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Their Fate Is Our Fate: How Birds Foretell Threats to Our Health and Our World
Their Fate Is Our Fate: How Birds Foretell Threats to Our Health and Our World
by Peter Doherty
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At the heart of this book by Nobel Prize-winning immunologist and professor Peter Doherty is this striking observation: Birds detect danger to our health and the environment before we do. Following a diverse cast of bird species around the world--from... (read more)

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The Carbon Crunch: How We're Getting Climate Change Wrong - And How to Fix It
The Carbon Crunch: How We're Getting Climate Change Wrong - And How to Fix It
by Dieter Helm
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“Dieter Helms lucid assessment of the risks of climate change and what we can do about it, has attracted fierce criticism from Green groups - not for his diagnosis, with which they agree, but for his prescription. Helm is clear that man-made... (read more)

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Extreme Simplicity: A Guide to Urban Homesteading
Extreme Simplicity: A Guide to Urban Homesteading
by Christopher Nyerges
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Prepare for everything from power failures and terrorist attacks to droughts and earthquakes with this perfect guide to self-sufficient city dwelling. Learn how to use natural resources with intelligent, efficient methods that ... (read more)

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Green in Gridlock: Common Goals, Common Ground, and Compromise (Conservation Leadership Series, Sponsored by the River Syste)
Green in Gridlock: Common Goals, Common Ground, and Compromise (Conservation Leadership Series, Sponsored by the River Syste)
by Paul Hansen
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Facing one of the most dangerous conservation crises in history—acid rain—lawmakers, industry leaders, and activists embraced an attitude of civil engagement that sought common ground and acceptance of compromise solutions on all sides. As a... (read more)

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The Once and Future World: Nature as It Was, as It Is, as It Could Be
The Once and Future World: Nature as It Was, as It Is, as It Could Be
by J. B. Mackinnon
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An award-winning ecology writer goes looking for the wilderness we’ve forgotten Many people believe that only an ecological catastrophe will change humanity’s troubled relationship with the natural world. In fact, as J.B. MacKinnon argues in... (read more)

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Telling Our Way to the Sea: A Voyage of Discovery in the Sea of Cortez
Telling Our Way to the Sea: A Voyage of Discovery in the Sea of Cortez
by Aaron Hirsh
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A luminous and revelatory journey into the science of life and the depths of the human experience. Every year, the molecular biologist Aaron Hirsh leads a group of students to Baja, in the Sea of Cortez, one of the richest marine ecosystems in the world.&... (read more)

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Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist
Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist
by Bill Mckibben
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Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he... (read more)

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The Hydropolitics of Dams: Engineering or Ecosystems?
The Hydropolitics of Dams: Engineering or Ecosystems?
by Mark Everard
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As we enter a time when human influence is so profoundly shaping the natural world, water is a prime focus for our technologies and victim of our largely unintended pressures. In particular, large dams exert an array of profound effects on ecosystems and... (read more)

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Invisible Nature: Healing the Destructive Divide Between People and the Environment
Invisible Nature: Healing the Destructive Divide Between People and the Environment
by Kenneth Worthy
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A revolutionary new understanding of the precarious modern human-nature relationship and a path leading to a healthier, more sustainable world. Polls show that most Americans care about environmental quality, yet they often behave as if they do not... (read more)

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Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health -- And How We Can Save Ourselves
Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health -- And How We Can Save Ourselves
by Linda Marsa
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Beyond images of emaciated polar bears and drought-cracked lakes, there remains a major part of climate changes impact that the media has neglected: how our health will suffer from higher temperatures and extreme weather. From spiraling rates of asthma... (read more)

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The Bottlenose Dolphin: Biology and Conservation
The Bottlenose Dolphin: Biology and Conservation
by John E. Reynolds, Iii
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“Probably the most comprehensive single piece of work ever done on bottlenose dolphins, the book represents a milestone for all those who are interested in the cetacean. . . . Stands as an essential reference.”—Marine Mammal Science... (read more)

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Ten Billion
Ten Billion
by Stephen Emmott
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Loving Nature, Fearing the State: Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics Before Reagan (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
Loving Nature, Fearing the State: Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics Before Reagan (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
by Brian Allen Drake
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A "conservative environmental tradition" in America may sound like a contradiction in terms, but as Brian Allen Drake shows in Loving Nature, Fearing the State, right-leaning politicians and activists have shaped American environmental consciousness... (read more)

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