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Condor: To the Brink & Back the Life & Times of One Giant Bird
by John Nielsen  
Publisher Comments The California condor has been described as a bird "with one wing in the grave." Flying on wings nearly ten feet wide from tip to tip, these birds thrived on the carcasses of animals like woolly mammoths. Then, as humans began dramatically...
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The Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply
by Ken Midkiff
Publisher Comments "We have given up to the agribusiness corporations a crucial part of our responsibility as human beings and we must now think of ways to take it back."- Wendell Berry, from the ForewordIn this eye-opening book, Sierra Club Director Ken Midkiff exposes...
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Nature-Friendly Communities: Habitat Protection and Land Use Planning
by Christophe Duerksen
Publisher Comments Nature-Friendly Communities presents an authoritative and readable overview of the successful approaches to protecting biodiversity and natural areas in America's growing communities. Addressing the crucial issues of sprawl, open space, and political...
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The Sixth Extinction: Journeys Among the Lost and Left Behind
by Terry Glavin
Publisher Comments “Asks us to care, deeply, about living in the midst of the greatest extinction rates of the past 65 million years. If there’s room for hope, it can be found in a book like this.”--The Globe and Mail The Sixth Extinction is a...
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Third Views, Second Sights: A Rephotographic Survey of the American West
by Mark Klett
Publisher Comments "Third Views, Second Sights" presents 43 pairings of photographs, documenting two periods of geologic and environmental changes to the Western landscape while exploring changing human perceptions of landscape....
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Brilliant Waters
by Elizabeth Carmel
Publisher Comments Brilliant Waters combines Elizabeth Carmel's stunning landscape photography with a wonderful selection of moving poetry. Robert Redford contributes engaging insights and commentary in his beautifully written foreword. This collection of remarkable...
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The Rough Guide to Shopping with a Conscience: The Essential Handbook for Responsible Consumers (Rough Guide Reference)
by Richie Unterberger and Duncan Clark
Special Offer For a limited time, buy a new copy of any of the books in Rough Guide's Popular Culture section, and get The Rough Guide to World Party CD free!...
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Edens Lost and Found: How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great American Cities
by Harry Wiland
Publisher Comments With Edens LostandFound, award-winning filmmakers Harry Wiland and Dale Bell herald an exciting sea change in the relationship between ordinary citizens, environmental groups, and government. From across America they gather evidence of a new spirit of...
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Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
by Elizabeth Royte
Powells.com Staff Pick In a clear, accessible, and entertaining style, Elizabeth Royte takes readers along the trail of our trash — from riding along in the garbage trucks with the "san men" to landfills, recycling centers, and other spots that are usually far from the...
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Foodfight: The Citizen's Guide to a Food and Farm Bill
by Daniel Imhoff
Publisher Comments The Farm Bill is perhaps the single most significant land use legislation enacted in the United States, yet many citizens remain unaware of its power and scope. With subsidies ballooning toward $25 billion dollars per year, the Farm Bill largely dictates...
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Potato City: Nature, History, and Community in the Age of Sprawl
by Sue Leaf
Publisher Comments Catbirds and pocket gophers, bur oaks and bull snakes, bluestem grass and leopard frogs have populated the gently rolling prairies around Sue Leaf's midwestern farming community for centuries. A hundred years ago her town, located forty-five miles from...
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Who Owns the Sky? : Our Common Assets and the Future of Capitalism (01 Edition)
by Peter Barnes
Publisher Comments Global warming has finally made clear the true costs of using our atmosphere as a giant sponge to soak up unwanted by-products of industrial activity. As nations, businesses, and citizens seek workable yet fair solutions for reducing carbon emissions...
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Bayou Farewell : Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast (03 Edition)
by Mike Tidwell
Publisher Comments Mike Tidwell knew nothing of the disappearing bayou country when he first visited the Cajun coast of Louisiana, but the evidence was all around him: the skeletons of oak trees killed by the salinity of the groundwater, whole cemeteries sinking into...
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Thrillcraft: The Environmental Consequences of Motorized Recreation
by George Wuerthner
Publisher Comments Thrillcraft: The Environmental Consequences of Motorized Recreation exposes the lasting damage done to our land, water, and air from the growing plague of jet skis, quads, dirt bikes, dune buggies, snowmobiles, and other motorized recreational craft that...
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Hey Mr. Green: Sierra Magazine's Answer Guy Tackles Your Toughest Green Living Questions
by Bob Schildgen
Publisher Comments When is the right time to replace an old refrigerator? Is it okay to knit a sweater with acrylic yarn? Is it more environmentally correct to buy beer in bottles or cans? For the last several years, Bob Schildgen’s popular “Hey Mr. Green...
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How to Live Well Without Owning a Car: Save Money, Breathe Easier, and Get More Mileage Out of Life
by Chris Balish
Powells.com Staff Pick "For the auto-addict in your life, this is a practical guidebook to eliminating or minimizing reliance on the much beloved (and/or despised) oil-guzzling, four-wheeled beasts." Allison, Powells...
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Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
by Scott Weidensaul
Publisher Comments On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the publication of "Wild America," naturalist Scott Weidensaul retraces Roger Tory Peterson's and James Fisher's steps to tell the story of wild America today....
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Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers
by Amy Stewart
Powells.com Staff Pick The magic of a great writer is that she can elevate any topic to fascinating status. In Flower Confidential, Amy Stewart uses equal parts journalism and florid writing to illuminate the machinal underpinnings of the flower industry. From the grail-like...
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Holding Back the Sea the Struggle For
by Christoph Hallowell
Publisher Comments " Holding Back the Sea is exceptionally well-written, pages of poetic descriptions of bayou scenery, small towns and Louisiana people make it worth the effort to read."...
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Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them: A Popular Study of Their Habits and Their Peculiarities
by Harriet L Keeler
Publisher Comments Educator, author, and naturalist Harriet L. Keeler (1844-1921) was a prominent figure in her time. With this facsimile reprint of her first book written for a national audience, she once again is brought to the public's attention. An 1870 graduate of...
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