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Our Choice by Al Gore Publisher Comments Our Choice is an inspiring call to action for those ready to fight for solutions that really work — including some bold initiatives that were deemed impossible only a short time ago but are now gaining support around the world. Since the... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Climate Change in the 21st Century by Stewart Cohen Publisher Comments Stewart Cohen and Melissa Waddell explain and clarify the different ways of approaching the study of climate change and the fundamental ideas behind them. From a history of climate change research to current attempts to mitigate its impact such as the... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Climate Change: Picturing the Science by Gavin Schmidt Publisher Comments Going beyond the headlines, this work by leading NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt and master photographer Joshua Wolfe illustrates as never before the ramifications of shifting climate. Photographic spreads show retreating glaciers, sinking villages... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming (Solutions Project) by Guy Dauncey Publisher Comments This is a terrific labor. Nowhere will readers find a more exhaustive, yet accessible, treatment of the climate challenge. The Climate Challenge is a terrific resource for anyone interested in understanding the preeminent issue of our time. Guy Dauncey's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse by David Orr Publisher Comments The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives.... It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and for worse, of our actions. So writes David Orr in... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Encyclopedia of Global Warming Science & 2 Volumes by Bruce E Johansen Publisher Comments Comprehensive in scope and accessible to all reader levels, The Encyclopedia of Global Warming Science and Technology covers a vast range of topics, concepts, issues, processes, and scientists sifted and melded from the many scientific and technological... (read more) Your price: $60.00 Sale - Set Hardcover
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What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate by Greg Craven Publisher Comments 7.2 million YouTube viewers can't be wrong: A provocative new way to look at the global warming debate. Based on a series of viral videos that have garnered more than 7.2 million views, this visually appealing book gives readers-be they global warming... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World by Gary Braasch Publisher Comments Award-winning photojournalist Braasch presents this illustrated guide to the effects of climate change on the Earth and its inhabitants. The accompanying text offers an upbeat and intelligent account of how to lessen the effects of our near total... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming by Fred Krupp Publisher Comments The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that"s not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund, brings a surprisingly hopeful message: We can solve global warming.And in doing so, we will... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Earthscan Reader on Adaptation to Climate Change (Earthscan Readers) by Lisa Schipper Publisher Comments Climate change is now upon us. While mitigation is essential to reduce the future severity of climate change, it will take time and some effects will inevitably continue for centuries. Consequently, more attention is now also being directed to adaptation... (read more) List Price $38.95 Your price: $30.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming by Bjorn Lomborg Publisher Comments A groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns. Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren (American and Comparative Environmental Policy) by Joseph Dimento Publisher Comments Most of us are familiar with the terms climate change and global warming, but not too many of us understand the science behind them. We don't really understand how climate change will affect us, and for that reason we might not consider it as pressing a... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Global Warming the Complete Briefing 3RD Edition by John T Houghton Publisher Comments The best briefing on global warming the student or interested general reader could wish for.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us about Our Future by Peter D. Ward Publisher Comments According to paleontologist Ward, all but one of the major extinction events in history have been brought on by climate change--the same global warming that occurs today. The author argues that events in the past can give valuable information about the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James Lovelock Publisher Comments Celebrities drive hybrids, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, and supermarkets carry no end of so-called “green” products. And yet the environmental crisis is only getting worse. In Surviving Gaia’s Revenge, the eminent scientist James... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate by Stephen H. Schneider Publisher Comments It's been nearly four decades since scientists first realized that global warming posed a potential threat to our planet. Why, if we knew of the threats way back in the Carter Administration, can't we act decisively to limit greenhouse gases... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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The Rising Sea by Orrin Pilkey Publisher Comments On Shishmaref Island in Alaska, homes are being washed into the sea. In the South Pacific, small island nations face annihilation by encroaching waters. In coastal Louisiana, an area the size of a football field disappears every day. For these... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Earth Then and Now: Amazing Images of Our Changing World by Fred Pearce Publisher Comments 300 stunning before-and-after photographs that show the staggering transformation of our world. Earth Then and Now records the dramatic way our planet has changed over the past century. On one page is a specific part of the world as it was 5, 20, 50 or... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Hardcover
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Adapting Cities to Climate Change: Understanding and Addressing the Development Challenges by David Satterthwaite Publisher Comments Climate change is one of the most pressing issues affecting the world today. Although half of the world's population lives in urban areas, little consideration has been given to the effects that climate change will have on urban dwellers, especially in... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper
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Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat--and How To Counter It (08 Edition) by Wallace S. Broecker Publisher Comments The product of a unique collaboration between a pioneering earth scientist and an award-winning science writer, Fixing Climate takes an unconventional approach to the problem of global warming—and offers a possible solution. Hailed by his... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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