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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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Land We Share : Private Property and the Common Good (03 Edition)
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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Quest for Environmental Justice : Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution (05 Edition)
by Robert D. Bullard 
Publisher Comments This much anticipated follow-up to Dr. Robert D. Bullard’s highly acclaimed Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color captures the voices of frontline warriors who are battling environmental injustice and human rights...
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Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
by Lawrence Anthony Publisher Comments The amazing story of the soldiers, conservationists, and ordinary Iraqis who united to save the animals of the Baghdad Zoo....
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Inside Passage: A Journey Beyond Borders
by Richard Manning Publisher Comments Inside Passage is a wonderfully subversive travelogue. The setting is the Pacific Northwest, from southeast Alaska down through Puget Sound, and then on to the northern Oregon coast and the Columbia River system. With the gifted writer Richard Manning as...
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The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture (Culture of the Land)
by Sir Albert Howard Publisher Comments During his years as a scientist working for the British government in India, Sir Albert Howard conceived of and refined the principles of organic agriculture. Howard’s The Soil and Health became a seminal and inspirational text in the organic...
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Green Phoenix (01 Edition)
by William Allen Publisher Comments Can we prevent the destruction of the world's tropical forests? In the fire-scarred hills of Costa Rica, award-winning science writer William Allen found a remarkable answer: we can not only prevent their destruction--we can bring them back to their...
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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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Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
by Heather Rogers Publisher Comments Part expose, part social commentary, this work traces the connections between modern industrial production, consumer culture, and America's disposable lifestyle....
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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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Suburban Safari! : Year on the Lawn (06 Edition)
by Hannah Holmes Publisher Comments The suburban lawn sprouts a crop of contradictory myths. To some, it’s a green oasis; to others, it’s eco-purgatory. Science writer Hannah Holmes spent a year appraising the lawn through the eyes of the squirrels, crows, worms, and spiders...
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Great Lakes for Sale: From Whitecaps to Bottlecaps
by Dave Dempsey Publisher Comments Great Lakes for Sale is a book for anyone interested in saving the Great Lakes, a huge fresh-water system that contains an estimated 6 quadrillion gallons of water and about twenty percent of the world's fresh surface water. The book poses---and answers--...
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Legal History of North America #5: The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity
by Debra Donahue Publisher Comments The Western Range Revisited has ignited a firestorm of controversy since its original publication. Angry critics have called, not just for Debra L. Donahue's dismissal, but for the dissolution of the University of Wyoming College of Law, where she...
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Native Plant Stories
by Joseph Bruchac Publisher Comments A collection of Native American nature stories which focus on the importance of plants....
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The Great Cacti: Ethnobotany and Biogeography (Southwest Center (Hardcover))
by David Yetman Publisher Comments Towering over deserts, arid scrublands, and dry tropical forests, giant cacti grow throughout the Americas, from the United States to Argentina—often in rough terrain and on barren, parched soils, places inhospitable to people. But as David Yetman...
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The Commonwealth of Life: Economics for a Flourishing Earth, Second Edition
by Peter G Brown Publisher Comments "Convincing analysis; empowering vision."-David Suzuki, scientist and host of the CBC's The Nature of Things "A pioneering work in ethics and economics for the new global era raising all the hard questions that we need to think about in the coming...
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Down the River
by Edward Abbey Publisher Comments "Be of good cheer," the war-horse Edward Abbey advises, "the military-industrial state will soon collapse." This sparkling book, which takes us up and down rivers and across mountains and deserts, is the perfect antidote to despair. Along the way...
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How Much is Enough?: The Consumer Society and the Future of the Earth (Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series)
by Alan Durning Publisher Comments Consuming goods and services has become a central goal of life in industrial lands the world over. In this book, Alan Durning of the Worldwatch Institute explores the roots of the consumer society, exposes the toll that our appetites have taken on the...
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