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Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
by Peter Menzel  
Publisher Comments On the banks of Mali's Niger River, Soumana Natomo and his family gather for a communal dinner of millet porridge with tamarind juice. In the USA, the Ronayne-Caven family enjoys corndogs-on-a-stick with a tossed green salad. This age-old practice of...
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Reason for Hope
by Jane Goodall
Publisher Comments From one of the world's most renowned scientists, conservationists, and animal rights activists comes a bestselling spiritual autobiography that explores her deepest beliefs about spirituality and moral evolution. NPR sponsorship....
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This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future
by John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry
Publisher Comments An inspiring celebration of courageous American innovators who are transforming the way we protect and care for the world we live in. The environment, and the movement that grew up to protect it, is under attack — concerted and purposeful. Yet...
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Unbowed: A Memoir
by Wangari Maathai
Publisher Comments Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and...
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Among Grizzlies
by Timothy Treadwell
Publisher Comments An extraordinary account of how one man's unique communication with bears in the Alaskan wilderness helped to heal his own life. Photo insert....
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Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish
by G Bruce Knecht
Publisher Comments "This modern pirate yarn has all the makings of a great true adventure tale and is also an exploration of the ways our culinary tastes have all manner of unintended consequences for the world around us. <BR>Hooked" is a story about the poaching of...
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The Curve of Binding Energy
by John Mcphee
Publisher Comments Theodore Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an individual being able to construct a weapon of mass destruction on their own. McPhee tours American nuclear...
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Mountain Dialogues
by Frank Waters
Publisher Comments Mysticism is peculiar to the mountainbred", Frank Waters once told an interviewer for Psychology Today. And in Mountain Dialogues, available for the first time in paperback, the mountainbred Waters proves it true. Ranging over such diverse subjects as...
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The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success -- And How You Can Too
by Andrew W. Savitz
Publisher Comments The Triple Bottom Line is the groundbreaking book that charts the rise of sustainability within the business world and shows how and why financial success increasingly goes hand in hand with social and environmental achievement. Andrew Savitz chronicles...
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Paper Or Plastic : Searching for Solutions To an Overpackaged World (05 Edition)
by Daniel Imhoff
Publisher Comments The supermarket conundrum “Paper or plastic?” sums up a Western consumer society that is on a collision course with the planet’s life-support systems. Do we clearcut forests, process pulp, and bleach it with chlorine to make paper bags?...
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60 Hikes Within 60 Miles Chicago 1ST Edition
by Ted Villaire
Publisher Comments Chicago residents grab your boots and get outside! Using clear and entertaining narrative, 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Chicago eliminates doubts about where to hike and what to expect when you get to the trailhead. To locate and assess the best hikes...
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Crude: The Story of Oil
by Sonia Shah
Publisher Comments "Shah...has written a book that couldn't be more relevant." -"USA Today" <P>"Required reading for all who care about the future of this country and the planet as a whole."- "The Nation"<P>"This is not a Michael Moore-style anti-corporate rant-...
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Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank
by Lisa Margonelli
Publisher Comments Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry: the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day. Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second...
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Tree: A Life Story
by David Suzuki
Publisher Comments "Only God can make a tree," wrote Joyce Kilmer in one of the most celebrated of poems. The richly detailed text and Bateman's original art pay tribute to this ubiquitous organism that is too often taken for granted....
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Cochabamba : Water War in Bolivia (04 Edition)
by Oscar Olivera
Publisher Comments A new phase in the international movement to turn back the rising tide of corporate globalization was marked by US protests in Seattle and the triumphs of grassroots activists in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Volumes have been written about the struggle to shut...
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Backcast: Fatherhood, Fly-Fishing, and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska
by Lou Ureneck
Publisher Comments While father and son fishing trips can be the stuff of American legend, they can also turn out to be the stuff of anger, love and self-discovery. In his memoir of a fishing trip through the Alaskan wilderness, Lou Ureneck brings to life the...
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Vanishing Act
by Art Wolfe
Publisher Comments One of the world's preeminent nature photographers shows the beauty and evolutionary brilliance of animals and insects with a tenacious will to stay alive in an eat-or-be-eaten world....
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The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold
by Gretel Ehrlich
Publisher Comments This book is written out of Gretel Ehrlich’s love for winter—for remote and cold places, and the ways in which winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and soul—and out of the fear that our “democracy of...
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The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity
by Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder
Publisher Comments When industry giants such as GE, Toyota, and Sharp and investment firms such as Goldman Sachs are making multibillion-dollar investments in clean technology, the message is clear. Developing clean technologies is no longer a social issue championed by...
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Bush Versus the Environment
by Robert S Devine
Publisher Comments Since becoming president, George W. Bush has walked away from the Kyoto Protocol, pushed for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, undermined protections for endangered species and wilderness, and retreated from his campaign pledge to...
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