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The Grandest of Lives: Eye to Eye with Whales
by Douglas H Chadwick  
Publisher Comments Acclaimed nature writer Douglas Chadwick offers engaging portraits of five diverse whale species--the humpback, northern bottlenose, blue whale, minke whale, and orca--in the context of his hands-on adventures with prominent whale researchers....
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Lost Mountain
by Erik Reece
Publisher Comments A groundbreaking work of literary nonfiction that exposes how radical strip mining is destroying one of America's most precious natural resources and the communities that depend on it. The mountains of Appalachia are home to one of the great forests of...
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Quest for Environmental Justice : Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution (05 Edition)
by Robert D. Bullard
Publisher Comments This much anticipated follow-up to Dr. Robert D. Bullard’s highly acclaimed Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color captures the voices of frontline warriors who are battling environmental injustice and human rights...
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Chasing Spring: An American Journey Through a Changing Season
by Bruce Stutz
Publisher Comments Driving a 20-year-old Chevy, Stutz set out on a three-month journey through the unfolding of an American spring, showing readers that spring is a transformation in the greening landscape as well as in the human spirit....
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The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific
by Julia Whitty
Publisher Comments Julia Whitty paints a mesmerizing, scientifically rich portrait of teeming coral reefs off Rangiroa in French Polynesia — the underwater equivalent of an African big game safari — where hammerhead sharks, the thugs of the reef, rule a cascading...
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Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life
by Arlene Blum
Publisher Comments Arlene Blum is a legendary trailblazer by any measure. Defying the climbing establishment of the 1970s, she led the first teams of women on successful ascents of Mt. McKinley and Annapurna, and was the first American woman to attempt Mt. Everest. In her...
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Superbia!: Thirty-One Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods
by Dan Chiras and Dave Wann
Publisher Comments Superbia! 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods is book of practical possibilities. It contains 31 innovative ways citizens, working cooperatively with their neighbors, can transform their neighborhoods — both urban and suburban — to...
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Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World
by Richard Heinberg
Publisher Comments This stark look at prospects for a truly sustainable culture speaks frankly about how it is time to "Powerdown," or to reduce per-capita resource usage in wealthy countries, develop alternative energy sources, and much more....
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Walking It Off: a Veteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness
by Doug Peacock
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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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Coyote: Seeking the Hunter in Our Midst
by Catherine Reid
Publisher Comments One of the most dramatic wildlife stories of our times -- the ever-increasing presence of a wholly new species, literally part wolf, in every suburb, city, and backyard east of the Mississippi Catherine Reid left her hometown in western Massachusetts in...
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No Mans Garden: Thoreau and a New Vision for Civilization and Nature
by Daniel B. Botkin
Publisher Comments In No Man's Garden, ecologist Daniel Botkin takes a fresh look at the life and writings of Henry David Thoreau to discover a model for reconciling the conflict between nature and civilization that lies at the heart of our environmental problems. He...
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An Uncertain Grace
by Sebastiao Salgado
Publisher Comments A world renowned photographer's powerful, empathetic, troubling vision of people struggling against difficult odds while maintaining the dignity and sense of self that define the very roots of human existence....
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