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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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To the Ends of the Earth: Adventures of an Expedition Photographer
by Gordon Wiltsie
Publisher Comments In this journey through ten unique expeditions, adventure photographer Wiltsie illustrates the daily life of an explorer--from the thrill of summiting a virgin peak to the fear of surviving a storm to the humorous and unexpected everyday moments of life...
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Walking To Vermont
by Christopher S. Wren
Publisher Comments In this witty memoir, an acclaimed foreign correspondent for "The New York Times" embraces retirement by walking into it--nearly 400 miles from New York City to Vermont. From the author of the bestseller "The Cat Who Covered the World."...
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Fall
by Christophe Griffith
Publisher Comments Fall, the second powerHouse Books monograph by award-winning photographer Christopher Griffith, is a lavish, luscious volume of foliage at it's most autumn-escent. The idea for Fall came to Griffith while he was living in a Manhattan brownstone...
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Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress
by Carl Pope and Paul Rauber
Publisher Comments 'Strategic Ignorance' sets forth what the American public can and must do to bring a halt to Bush's radical experiment....
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Life - A Journey Through Time
by Frans Lanting
Publisher Comments Planet earth, home sweet home In the year 2000, world-renowned wildlife photographer Frans Lanting set out on a personal journey to photograph the evolution of life on earth. He made pilgrimages to true time capsules like a remote lagoon in Western...
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Edge of the Earth, Corner of the Sky
by Art Wolfe
Publisher Comments More than a decade has passed since acclaimed nature photographer Art Wolfe created his painterly world landscape portrait Light on the Land. With this long awaited sequel, Edge of the Earth, Corner of the Sky, Wolfe artistically pushes his craft to...
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Ocean Friendly Cuisine: Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the World's Finest Chefs
by James O Fraioli
Publisher Comments A noted marine expert and author introduces 50 delectable and ethical "best choice" seafoods that can be eaten with a clean conscience and culinary delight using 100 gloriously designed and photographed recipes from the world's finest chefs, including...
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Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World
by Steven Kazlowski
Publisher Comments 200 full-color images of the polar bear in its Arctic habitat, taken over a six-year period All-star roster of top nature essayists, including Richard Nelson, Steven C. Amstrup, Charles Wohlforth, and Theodore Roosevelt IV, among others The Last Polar...
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Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
by Alan Burdick
Publisher Comments A stunning work of narrative nonfiction that asks: what is natural? Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating...
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Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography
by Stephen Trimble
Publisher Comments One of the most photographed subjects on earth, the Grand Canyon continues to inspire awe and admiration. This text includes captivating essays from 21 Grand Canyon photographers. 115 photos....
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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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Tending Fire: Coping with America's Wildland Fires
by Stephen J Pyne
Publisher Comments The wildfires that spread across Southern California in the fall of 2003 were devastating in their scale-twenty-two deaths, thousands of homes destroyed and many more threatened, hundreds of thousands of acres burned. What had gone wrong? And why, after...
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On Ancient Wings: The Sandhill Cranes of North America (Natural History)
by Michael Forsberg
Publisher Comments Rising from sandbars on the Platte River with clarion calls, the sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) feels the urgency of spring migration. Elegant, noble, and spiritual, the sandhill crane is one of the most ancient of all birds. More than a half-million...
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A Contract with the Earth
by Newt Gingrich
Publisher Comments Focusing the environmental debate on the principle of common commitment, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and eminent conservationist Terry L. Maple present A Contract with the Earth. They declare a need for bipartisan environmentalism -- a new...
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Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years
by Bruce Sterling
Publisher Comments Visionary author Bruce Sterling views the future like no other writer. In his first nonfiction book since his classic The Hacker Crackdown, Sterling describes the world our children might be living in over the next fifty years and what to expect next in...
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