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Field Guide To the Global Economy Revised Edition
by Sarah Anderson  
Publisher Comments - If Wal-Mart were an independent nation, it would rank as China's fifth-largest export market - Air pollution from Mexican manufacturing nearly doubled during Nafta's first four years - Since 1968, worldwide employment at the top ten U.S...
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Earth from Above
by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Publisher Comments Remarkable aerial photographs offer the most spectacular portrait of our world ever created. Produced under the sponsorship of UNESCO, the book is also a unique documentary of the world's fragile environment....
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Sale: $7.67 Hardcover List Price $19.95
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Regime Change Begins at Home: Freeing America from Corporate Rule
by Charles Derber
Publisher Comments Derber argues that the current regime is destroying the American dream by outsourcing millions of jobs, turning American employment into a "one-night stand," undermining the security that created the American middle class, and turning the forces of law...
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The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
by Paul Krugman
Powells.com Staff Pick Though Paul Krugman has been sounding the alarm twice a week in his New York Times column, he is no alarmst. That such a distinguished economist has become so distressed about current policies should concern citizens of all political persuasions. That he...
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Welcoming Wildlife to the Garden: Creating Backyard and Balcony Habitats for Wildlife
by Catherine J Johnson
Publisher Comments Welcoming Wildlife to the Garden offers ecologically sound gardening and landscaping techniques to turn barren lawns and concrete spaces into hospitable environments for birds, insects, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals. The book takes readers through...
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Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University
by Michael Mgonigle
Publisher Comments "Planet U" places the university at the forefront of the sustainability movement. Questioning the university's ability to equip society to deal with today's serious challenges such as economic growth, democratic citizenship and planetary survival, it...
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When the Rivers Run Dry: Water-The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century
by Fred Pearce
Publisher Comments It was with the Colorado River that engineers first learned to control great rivers. But now the Colorados reservoirs are two-thirds empty. Great rivers like the Indus and the Nile, the Rio Grande and the Yellow River are running on empty. And...
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Into Hot Air: Mounting Mount Everest
by Chris Elliott
Publisher Comments From Emmy)-winning comedian and bestselling author Elliott comes a brilliantly funny and original comic spoof that takes on the classic survival adventures. Everest-bound celebrities endure hurricane-force winds, blinding blizzards, one guys insufferable...
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Fixing Elections: The Failure of America's Winner Take All Politics
by Steven Hill
Publisher Comments "What's wrong with politics in America?...Political analyst Steven Hill offers up a single answer in his new book, Fixing Elections--it's the winner-take-all system of elections." --Neal Peirce, Houston...
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What Should I Do If Reverend Billy Is in My Store?
by Bill Talen
Publisher Comments The spiritual leader of the Church of Stop Shopping takes his anti-consumerist sermon from the stage to the page....
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Tree (Mini Ed.): A New Vision of the American Forest
by James Balog
Publisher Comments The format's more modest, but the visual splendor is as huge as ever. This miniature "Tree" offers James Balog's groundbreaking portraits in a smaller but equally beautiful format, with three gatefolds. Makes a great gift! <P>Acclaimed photographer...
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Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves
by Andrew Szasz
Publisher Comments "Not long ago, people did not worry about the food they ate. They did not worry about the water they drank or the air they breathed. It never occurred to them that eating, drinking water, satisfying basic, mundane bodily needs might be a dangerous thing...
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
by Al Franken
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-367)....
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Degrees That Matter : Climate Change and the University (07 Edition)
by Ann Rappaport
Publisher Comments Universities and colleges are in a unique position to take a leadership role on global warming. As communities, they can strategize and organize effective action. As laboratories for learning and centers of research, they can reduce their own emissions...
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The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans
by Patricia Klindienst
Publisher Comments "Why have we tamed the history of gardening in America?" Patricia Klindienst asks in The Earth Knows My Name. We are a democracy of gardeners yet, with few exceptions, the garden is presented as the province of the privileged and the white. Garden...
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Mongo: Adventures in Trash
by Ted Botha
Publisher Comments mongo n. 1 1970s ]] an idiot. 2 1980s ]] (US, New York) any discarded object that is retrieved. 3. 1980s ]] (US, New York) a scrap-metal scavenger. (The Cassell Dictionary of Slang) When journalist Ted Botha moved to New York from South Africa, where...
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Six Modern Plagues: And How We Are Causing Them
by Mark Jerome Walters
Publisher Comments "In a clear, engaging style, Dr. Walters tells the tale of each disease like a detective story. He allows each mystery to unfold as it did in reality, often slowly, through the lives of the plants and animals involved, the first human victims, the...
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Organic Weddings: Balancing Ecology, Style and Tradition
by Michelle Kozin
Publisher Comments Every year in the United States, over 2.4 million people get married, fueling a wedding industry estimated at seventy billion dollars per year. Until now, there had been no readily available help for those wanting their wedding celebrations to reflect...
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Local Treasures: Geocaching Across America (Center for American Places-Center Books on American Places)
by Margot Anne Kelley
Publisher Comments In the spring of 2000, a man in Oregon hid a box of toys in the woods, posted the geographic coordinates of its location on a Web site, and issued a challenge for others to find it. People used their GPS receivers to find his treasure, and a new game was...
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Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor (Urban and Industrial Environments)
by Steve Lerner
Publisher Comments The story of how a mixed-income minority community in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor fought Shell Oil and won....
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