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Ecology by Michael L Cain Synopsis In this new introductory ecology text, the authors (associated with Bowdoin College, U. of Colorado, and Oregon State U.) emphasize community ecology, ecosystem ecology, and applied aspects of ecology within discussion of principles. The 24 chapters are... (read more) List Price $112.95 Your price: $26.00 Used - Hardcover
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Corporation 2020: Transforming Business for Tomorrow's World by Pavan Sukhdev Publisher Comments There is an emerging consensus that all is not well with todays market-centric economic model. Although it has delivered wealth over the last half century and pulled millions out of poverty, it is recession-prone, leaves too many unemployed, creates... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture by Andrew Kimbrell Publisher Comments Fatal Harvest takes an unprecedented look at our current ecologically destructive agricultural system and offers a compelling vision for an organic and environmentally safer way of producing the food we eat. The Fatal Harvest Reader brings together in an... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West by George Wuerthner Publisher Comments With more than 175 powerful photographs, Welfare Ranching vividly illustrates the difference between lands appropriated for livestock production and the spectacular deserts, grasslands, and forests that have been protected from its shattering effects... (read more) List Price $53.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crossing the Next Meridian by Charles F. Wilkinson Publisher Comments In "Crossing the Next Meridian," Charles F. Wilkinson, an expert on federal public lands, Native American issues, and the West's arcane water laws explains some of the core problems facing the American West now and in the years to come. He examines the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late by Thom Hartmann Publisher Comments In this passionate and visionary call to enlightened consciousness, Hartmann combines spirituality and ecology to point the way to a luminous future for the planet.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World by Paul Hawken Staff Pick Feeling crushed beneath the weight of ominous news, borderline-apocalyptic statistics, and global warming alerts that offer no recourse but panic? Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest is the book you've been waiting for. Here is a call to arms with concrete... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver Staff Pick After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Wasteland (10 Edition) by Jonathan Bloom Publisher Comments What Tom Vanderbilt did for traffic and Brian Wansink did for mindless eating, Jonathan Bloom does for food waste. The topic couldnt be timelier: As more people are going hungry while simultaneously more people are morbidly obese, American Wasteland... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben Publisher Comments "Masterfully crafted, deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding."--Los Angeles Times In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. Deep Economy makes the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner Publisher Comments "Beautifully written and meticulously researched."St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This updated study of the economics, politics, and ecology of water covers more than a century of public and private desert reclamation in the American West.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment (Cornerstone Books) by John Bellamy Foster Publisher Comments From reviews of the first edition (1994): "Extraordinarily well written . . . " --Contemporary Sociology "A readable chronicle aimed at a general audience . . . Graceful and accessible . . . " --Dollars and Sense "Has the potential to be a political... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Control of Nature by John Mcphee Publisher Comments The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strageties and tactics through which people attempt to control nature.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan Staff Pick True or false: One out of every four items for sale in the average American supermarket contains corn? (Think, think, think...) Believe it or not, it's true. If this unsettles you — or just plain doesn't make sense — pick up a copy of Michael Pollan... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken Synopsis Three leading innovators explain and define a superior and sustainable form of capitalism based on a system that radically raises the productivity of nature's dwindling resources.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fostering Sustainable Behavior (99 - Old Edition) by Doug Mckenzie-mohr Publisher Comments Our consumption patterns are threatening to outstrip Earth's ability to support humanity and other species. A sustainable future will require sweeping changes in public behavior. While conventional marketing can help create public awareness, social... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin Publisher Comments Deemed "the best history of oil ever written" by andlt;iandgt;Business Week andlt;/iandgt;and with more than 300,000 copies in print, Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power has been extensively... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Desert or Paradise: Restoring Endangered Landscapes Using Water Management, Including Lake and Pond Construction by Sepp Holzer Publisher Comments Sepp Holzer farms steep mountainsides in Austria 5,000 feet above sea level. His farm is an intricate network of terraces, raised beds, ponds, and waterways, well covered with productive fruit trees and other vegetation, in dramatic contrast to his... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature by David George Haskell Publisher Comments A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest. In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one- square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future by Melissa K. Nelson Publisher Comments Indigenous leaders and other visionaries suggest solutions to todays global crisis • Original Instructions are ancient ways of living from the heart of humanity within the heart of nature • Explores the convergence of indigenous and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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