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Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
by Lester R Brown  Publisher Comments "How to build a more just world and save the planet....We should all heed Brown's advice."—Bill Clinton In this updated edition of the landmark Plan B, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first-century civilization. The...
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The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich Publisher Comments In humanity's more than 100,000 year history, we have evolved from vulnerable creatures clawing sustenance from Earth to a sophisticated global society manipulating every inch of it. In short, we have become the dominant animal. Why, then, are we...
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The Assault on Reason
by Albert Gore 
Powells.com Staff Pick More astute and timely observations from my favorite candidate who isn't running for President. Recommended by Ted, Powells.com...
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Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things
by John C. Ryan and Alan T. Durning Publisher Comments If you don't know your stuff, you don't know your world. Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things takes you to the places and people you touch every day-when you sip your coffee, tie your shoes, click your mouse, or step on the gas. Once you follow a...
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Silent Spring : 40TH Anniversary Edition ((Rev)02 Edition)
by Rachel Carson
Powells.com Staff Pick Silent Spring changed the way we thought about the environment and shaped today's environmental movement, calling us to action to protect our surroundings before we destroyed them. Today our impact on the environment is more harmful than ever, and Carson'...
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The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
by Michael Brower Publisher Comments From one of the most prestigious nonprofit organizations devoted to environmental issues comes a clear, practical, and rational overview of the relationship between consumers and the environment. Paper or plastic? Bus or car? Old house or new? Cloth...
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Essential Atlas of Ecology
by Parramon's Editorial Team (edt) Publisher Comments One of two brand-new titles in Barrons" Essential Atlas" series for Spring 2005, this book combines text with full-color photos and art on every page to examine the planet Earth as the habitat for all known life forms. Following a general introduction...
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The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
by Bjorn Lomborg
Publisher Comments A controversial, wide ranging and clearly documented survey of the state of the global environment....
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Life in the Soil: A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners
by James B. Nardi Publisher Comments Lavishly illustrated with nearly 300 color illustrations and masterfully rendered black and white drawings throughout, "Life in the Soil" invites naturalists and gardeners alike to dig in and discover the diverse community of creatures living in the dirt...
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High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them
by Jeanfranco Rischard Publisher Comments In this age of instant communication and biotechnology, on this ever-smaller planet, what kinds of problems have we created for ourselves? How do we tackle them in a world where the accustomed methods used by nation-states may be reaching their natural...
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Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change
by William H. Calvin Publisher Comments Every decade since 1950 has seen more floods and more wildfires on every continent. Deserts are expanding, coral reefs are dying, fisheries are declining, hurricanes are strengthening. The debate about climate change is over: there’s no question that...
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Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forest of Central and South America
by Adrian Forsyth Review Scientific AmericanIn 17 chapters, each a brief essay on tropical nature observed, these two young field biologists have made a model of contemporary natural history, cheerfully speculative, concerned as much with large pattern as with diversity...
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Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth (Counterpunch)
by Jeffrey St Clair Publisher Comments Movement reporting on a par with Mailer's Armies of the Night--Peter Linebaugh, author of Magna Carta Manifesto and The Many-Headed Hydra. Hold on tight as you open the pages of Born Under a Bad Sky and follow journalist Jeffrey St. Clair as he leads you...
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A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)
by Aldo Leopold Publisher Comments " We can place this book on the shelf that holds the writings of Thoreau and John Muir." San Francisco Chronicle These astonishing portraits of the natural world explore the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled American landscape...
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Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life
by Sophie Uliano Publisher Comments Are you confused by all the advice you hear and see daily on how to "go green"? Do you want to incorporate earth-friendly practices into your life, but you don't know where to start? Don't stress! Green guru Sophie Uliano has sorted through all the eco...
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Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
by Lester R. Brown Publisher Comments In this updated edition of the landmark book, Brown outlines a survival strategy for the early 21st-century civilization. He warns that the only effective response to the world-wide environmental disruption is a World War II-type mobilization like that...
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Wilderness & the American Mind 4TH Edition
by Roderick Frazi Nash Publisher Comments A fourth edition of Nash's classic study is now available with a new Preface and Epilogue in which the author explores the future of wilderness and reflects on its ethical and biocentric relevance....
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Endgame, Volume 2: Resistance
by Derrick Jensen Publisher Comments Whereas Volume 1 of Endgame presents the problem of civilization, Volume 2 of this pivotal work illustrates our means of resistance. Incensed and hopeful, impassioned and lucid, Endgame leap-frogs the environmental movement's deadlock over our...
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A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design
by Nancy Jack Todd Publisher Comments In the late sixties, as the world was waking to a need for Earth Day, a pioneering group founded a small non-profit research and education organization they called the New Alchemy Institute. Their aim was to explore the ways a safer and more sustainable...
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Ecotopia 30TH Anniversary Edition
by Ernest Callenbach Publisher Comments This is the 30th Anniversary edition of the classic environmental novel about a future in which a socially and ecologically responsible state is created in the West. The story is told by a reporter who is the first media vistor from the United States...
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