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Amphibians and Reptiles of the Carolinas and Virginia
by Bernard S. Martof  Publisher Comments Amphibians and reptiles are important in nature and many are highly beneficial to man. This book was written to acquaint persons with abundant and varied herpetofauna of Virginia and the Carolinas and to encourage the growth of knowledge about, and...
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Savage Dreams: Journey Into Landscape Wars of American West
by Rebecca Solnit Publisher Comments Think of this as the non-fiction companion to Larry McMurtry's novels about the American West (he's a fan of Solnit's work, his blurb will be on our cover). With characteristic flair and moral force, Solnit narrates the the bloody and continuing wars...
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Your Land and Mine: Evolution of a Conservationist
by Edgar Wayburn Publisher Comments Memoir of one of the 20th century's great conservation leaders, detailing his role in landmark conservation campaigns....
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Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines
by Richard Heinberg Publisher Comments A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book tells how we might make the transition from the Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty....
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The Casual Conservationist
by Eric Mongo Robbins Synopsis Presenting more than 100 easy and creative ways to conserve the planet while saving time and money, this volume includes more than 15 original, do-it-yourself stickers that remind people when, where, and how to conserve natural resources around the house....
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European Wet Grasslands: Biodiversity, Management and Restoration (Series in Financial Economics and Quantitative Analysis)
by Joyce Publisher Comments There is growing concern over the conservation and management of European wet grasslands. The maintenance of the European wet grassland landscape, including floodplain meadows and coastal grazing marshes or pastures, through traditional low-intensity...
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Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (World as Home)
by Bill McKibben Publisher Comments Divided into three sections, Hope, Human and Wild profiles the efforts of three caring communities to preserve wilderness and reverse environmental devastation. They include the reforestation of McKibben’s home territory, New York’s...
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Visions of Caliban: on Chimpanzees and People
by Dale Peterson Publisher Comments Using Shakespeare's play The Tempest and its characters Prospero and Caliban as structural metaphors representing the master-slave relationship between humans and chimpanzees, authors Dale Peterson and Jane Goodall collaborate in this exploration of our...
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The Sacred Balance: A Visual Celebration of Our Place in Nature
by David T. Suzuki Publisher Comments Based on Suzuki's bestselling "The Sacred Balance," this visual feast celebrates the forces that unite all living things through spectacular photos, beautiful reproductions of artwork, and amazing satellite photographs, joined by quotations from literary...
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Urban Geography: (Routledge Contemporary Human Geography)
by Tim Hall Publisher Comments valuable introduction to urban geography for all geography students....
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Climate Change and Globalization in the Arctic: An Integrated Approach to Vulnerability Assessment
by E. Carina H. Keskitalo Publisher Comments Climate change vulnerability assessment-to assess people's overall vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change-is a rapidly developing field. However, despite the fact that major trends such as globalization and the changing characteristics of...
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A Guide to the Coral Reefs of the Caribbean
by Mark D Spalding Publisher Comments Inspired by the Caribbean section of "The World Atlas of Coral Reefs," and augmented with detailed maps and colorful illustrations, this guidebook informs readers about the natural history of coral reefs and diving sites throughout the region....
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Crisis & Decline in Bunyoro: Population & Environment in Western Uganda 1860-1955 (Eastern African Studies)
by Shane Doyle Publisher Comments The Kingdom of Bunyoro's story demonstrates convincingly that environmental change there was not a uniform, statewide process. In one of the first studies of the political ecology of a major African kingdom, Crisis & Decline in Bunyoro addresses...
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Desperate Prayers: A Quest for Sense in a Senseless Time
by Daniel Dancer Publisher Comments As his stories unfold, Daniel Dancer reflects on spirituality, indigenous knowledge, quantum physics, psychology, and ecological principles. Humor, synchronicity, delight, and heartfelt struggle are all present in these tales. The result is a breath of...
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New Eden
by Michael Fax Publisher Comments Dr. Fox, vice president of the Humane Society of the USA, an internationally known defender of wildlife and the environment, states, "This new book is about healing the earth and ourselves in the process ... changing our attitudes to respect and...
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Deserts (Firefly Guide)
by Marco C Stoppato Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 253) and index....
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The Ten Minute Activist: Easy Ways to Take Back the Planet
by Mission Collective Publisher Comments The planet is in trouble. Global warming, record-breaking natural disasters, 9/11, two hotly contested presidential elections, and a war abroad has left many Americans feeling uneasy with the state of our own lives and the security of the planet. We know...
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Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West (Haymarket)
by Chip Ward Publisher Comments Raising his family on the edge of the Great Basin Desert in Utah, Ward was caught up in a seven-year quest to find out why people there were getting sick and dying. Ward now presents his firsthand account of the quest and the lessons he learned....
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Saving America's Countryside: A Guide to Rural Conservation
by Samuel N. Stokes Publisher Comments A new edition of the book that received the Historic Preservation Book Prize and the American Society for Landscape Architects' Honor Award Since publication of the first edition of Saving America's Countryside in 1989, the fight to save America's rural...
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Sacramental Commons: Christian Ecological Ethics (Nature's Meaning)
by John Hart Publisher Comments The increasing awareness of environmental issues as ultimately moral issues has led to the intersection of religion and environment. Sacramental Commons presents a unique way of looking at this topic by relating the Christian word sacrament (signs of...
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