Environmental Studies
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How Shall I Live My Life?: On Liberating the Earth from Civilization
by Derrick Jensen  Publisher Comments Derrick Jensen discusses the destructive dominant culture with ten people who have devoted their lives to undermining it in this collection of interviews. Whether it is Carolyn Raffensperger and her radical approach to public health, or Thomas Berry on...
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The World Without Us
by Alan Weisman Publisher Comments Time #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Entertainment Weekly #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Salon Book Awards 2007 Amazon Top 100 Editors’ Picks of 2007 (#4) Barnes and Noble 10 Best of 2007: Politics...
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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
by Bjorn Lomborg Review “Brilliant! A devastating critique of the prevailing climate change hysteria. This book provides an overwhelming case for re-assessing where exactly our policy priorities should lie if we are genuinely concerned with world welfare rather than with...
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Arctic Melting: How Climate Change Is Destroying One of the World's Largest Wilderness Areas
by Chad Kister Publisher Comments "This little book shares amazing on-site details only the Alaskans and intent visitors know firsthand. [Author Chad Kister] tells of seeing the shocking differences of melting from warmer and shorter winters. Chad documents how the Arctic is suffering...
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Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
by Alan Weisman Publisher Comments Los Llanosathe rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombiaaare among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian...
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Greenwood Guides to Biomes of the World: Eight Volumes] (Greenwood Guides to Biomes of the World)
by Bernd Kuennecke Publisher Comments The biome -- an area of the earth that shares similar geography, climate, animals, and plants - is the concept that forms the backbone for studying the living world. Without a firm understanding of how animals and plants have adapted to a particular...
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Wilderness Partners: Buzz Caverly and Baxter State Park
by Phyllis Austin Synopsis Buzz Caverly first joined the ranger staff at Baxter State Park in 1960, when the new park was just taking shape under the direction of Helon Taylor and the park's donor, Percival Baxter, who wished the park to be "forever wild." Caverly's legendary...
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Future Energy: Improved, Sustainable and Clean Options for Our Planet
by Trevor Letcher Synopsis Increasing global energy demand requires fact-based evaluations of alternative energy sources. This includes solving questions like how energy is produced, provided, and transported in sustainable ways. Solving future energy demands requires new...
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The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World
by Jacques Yves Cousteau Publisher Comments “An electrifying, many-faceted masterwork.”—Booklist The beloved explorer Jacques Cousteau witnessed firsthand the complexity and beauty of life on earth and undersea—and watched the toll taken by human activity in the twentieth...
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Environmental Pollution #14: Wastewater Treatment in Constructed Wetlands with Horizontal Sub-Surface Flow
by Jan Vymazal Publisher Comments Constructed wetlands with horizontal sub-surface flow (HF CWs) have been used for wastewater treatment for more than four decades. HF CWs are used around the world for many types of wastewater, including municipal sewage, agricultural and industrial...
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Hot Air: Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge
by Mark Jaccard Publisher Comments Here's a clear, believable book for Canadians concerned about our situation -- and it offers a solution. It's a brilliant mix. To Canada's best mind on the environment, Mark Jaccard, who won the 2006 Donner Prize for an academic book in this area, you...
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Arctic Melting: How Climate Change Is Destroying One of the World's Largest Wilderness Areas
by Chad Kister Publisher Comments "This little book shares amazing on-site details only the Alaskans and intent visitors know firsthand. [Author Chad Kister] tells of seeing the shocking differences of melting from warmer and shorter winters. Chad documents how the Arctic is suffering...
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Handbook of Environmental Engineering #8: Biological Treatment Processes: Volume 8
by Lawrence K. Wang Publisher Comments Pollution and its effects on the environment have emerged as critical areas of research within the past 30 years. The Handbook of Environmental Engineering is a collection of methodologies that study the effects of pollution and waste in their three...
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The Green Festival Reader
by Alisa Gravitz Synopsis The Green Festivals now draw over 100,000 visitors every year in four U.S. cities. This book collects the most memorable talks from all four festivals on the most urgent social issues of the day. In addition to inspiring addresses by Alice Walker, Paul...
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Vanishing Landscapes
by Robert Adams Publisher Comments Climate change is affecting the world's beautiful landscapes. Global warming is melting the ice in Antarctica. Slash-and-burn farming practices are destroying forests. Rivers are dying of industrial pollution. Vanishing Landscapes provides different...
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Who Cares about Wildlife?: Social Science Concepts for Exploring Human-Wildlife Relationships and Conservation Issues
by Michael J. Manfredo Publisher Comments Who Cares About Wildlife? integrates social science theory in order to provide a conceptual structure for understanding and studying human interaction with wildlife. A thorough review of the current literature in conceptual areas, including norms, values,...
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The Final Resource: How the Politics of Water Will Affect the World
by William Houston Synopsis We can do without oil - as we did until the latter years of the Nineteenth Century - but we cannot do without water; without it we die. Whilst debates on fossil fuel reserves rage and tensions over oil fields and supplies continue, this new...
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Enviromental Politics: Cases in Enviornmental Politics
by Norman Miller Publisher Comments The second edition of Environmental Politics: Stakeholders, Interests, and Policymaking shows students that environmental politics is fundamentally a clash of competing stakeholders' interests, and environmental policy the result of their reconciliation....
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Soil Pollution: Origin, Monitoring & Remediation
by Ibrahim Mirsal Publisher Comments Unique among the soil literature, this graduate-level text and reference treats the subjects related to the interdisciplinary fields of soil pollution and remediation. After a thorough and comprehensible introduction to the relevant fundamentals of the...
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The Little Book of Living Green
by Mark Hegarty Publisher Comments Mark Hegarty offers more than 150 insights on how you can go green within the comfort of your own home. Witty and concise, Hegarty offers practical tips like donating your gently used items to charity or using baking soda and vinegar instead of harsh...
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