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The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable
by Gretchen C. Daily  Publisher Comments Why shouldn't people who deplete our natural assets have to pay, and those who protect them reap profits? Conservation-minded entrepreneurs and others around the world are beginning to ask just that question, as the increasing scarcity of natural...
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Coming Back To Life : Practices To Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (98 Edition)
by Joanna R. Macy Publisher Comments Many of us feel called to respond to the ecological destruction of our planet, yet we feel overwhelmed, immobilized, and unable to deal realistically with the threats to life on Earth. Noted spiritual and environmental thinkers Joanna Macy and Molly...
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America's National Parks (Smithsonian Handbooks)
by Paul Schullery Publisher Comments From stunning mountain ranges to arid expanses of desert, America has been blessed with an incredibly diverse land -- and the vision to protect it for our future generations to enjoy. These lands are ours to view, wander, learn from, and revel in...
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Coming Home To Pleistocene (98 Edition)
by Paul Shepard Publisher Comments "When we grasp fully that the best expressions of our humanity were not invented by civilization but by cultures that preceded it, that the natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams...
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
by Tim Flannery Publisher Comments In The Eternal Frontier, world-renowned scientist and historian Tim Flannery tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that ended the age of dinosaurs 65...
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Ethical Land Use: Principles of Policy and Planning
by Timothy Beatley Synopsis An examination of the ethical dimensions of land use decisions and policy, on the premise is that all land use decisions invariably involve ethical choices. Beatley is co-author, with Philip Berke, of "Planning for Earthquakes"....
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With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
by Fred Pearce Publisher Comments As Pearce began work on this book, normally cautious scientists beat a path to his door to tell him about their fears and their latest findings. Now he presents this up-to-date and readable book about the growing evidence for global warming and the large...
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The Hot Topic: What We Can Do about Global Warming
by Gabrielle Walker Publisher Comments Last year, awareness about global warming reached a tipping point. Now one of the most dynamic writers and one of the most respected scientists in the field of climate change offer the first concise guide to both the problems and the solutions. Guiding...
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Recycle: the Essential Guide (UK Edition)
by Publisher Comments A comprehensive survey of the status of recycling practices at every level, that also provides an overview and introduction into key economic, political, geographical and social issues. The guide takles everything from global politics to contemporary...
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Dragonflies and Damselflies of Georgia and the Southeast (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book)
by Giff Beaton Book News Annotation Beaton (Birding Georgia, Birds of Georgia), an award- winning birder/photographer, turns his attention and lens to the state's odonates. Preceding species accounts of the related suborders of dragonflies and damselflies, he describes their anatomy...
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Wild: An Elemental Journey
by Jay Griffiths Publisher Comments A poetic evaluation of the connection between human society and the natural world is a part-travelogue, symbolic tour of the earth's elements that explores "wildness" as an essential character of life. By the award-winning author of A Sideways Look at...
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Caribou Rising: Defending the Porcupine Herd, Gwich-'in Culture, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
by Rick Bass Publisher Comments The eloquent voice of Rick Bass has been raised often in celebration and defense of America’s wilderness and wildlife. In Caribou Rising, Bass journeys to one of the sole remaining landscapes on Earth where the wild is entirely untrammeled—...
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Thoreau on Water: Reflecting Heaven (01 Edition)
by Thoreau Publisher Comments From Henry David Thoreau's large body of work, only three books were published during his lifetime. In fact much of his greatest work was left behind in his journals and other manuscripts. Drawing on these writings, the editors of the Thoreau Society...
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The Land We Share: Private Property and the Common Good
by Eric T. Freyfogle Publisher Comments Is private ownership an inviolate right that individuals can wield as they see fit? Or is it better understood in more collective terms, as an institution that communities reshape over time to promote evolving goals? What should it mean to be a private...
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Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of Mother Earth
by Steven Best Publisher Comments "Before his 1969 assassination, Chairman Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party in Chicago famously remarked that, 'When one of us falls, 1000 will take his place.' This book proves Fred's point. No matter the degree of repression visited upon it, the...
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Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
by Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence Publisher Comments When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, located in the city center and caught in the war's crossfire. Once Anthony entered Baghdad he discovered that full-scale combat and...
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One Acre & Security: How to Live Off the Earth Without Ruining It
by Bradford Angier Publisher Comments Bradford Angier's classic One Acre & Security is a book for all those who have dreamed of living close to the earth, not in the wilderness, but on land within easy driving distance of the city or suburbs. It begins by explaining what sort of land to...
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Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
by Albert Gore 
Publisher Comments A passionate and lifelong defender of the environment, Vice President Al Gore describes in this classic best-selling book how human actions and decisions can endanger or safeguard the vulnerable ecosystem that sustains us all. The book's groundbreaking...
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Saving the Planet: The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century
by Hal K Rothman Publisher Comments Hal Rothman chronicles the American response to the environment in the 20th century, showing how the idea of conservation management was transformed after World War II into a program for "quality of life." His cogent narrative history is punctuated...
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New Geographies of the American West: Land Use and the Changing Patterns of Place
by William R. Travis Publisher Comments Reconciling explosive growth with often majestic landscape defines New Geographies of the American West. Geographer William Travis examines contemporary land use changes and development patterns from the Mississippi to the Pacific, and assesses the...
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