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by David Goodstein Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-132) and index.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Terborgh Publisher Comments For ecologist John Terborgh, Manu National Park in the rainforest of Peru is a second home; he has spent half of each of the past twenty-five years there conducting research. Like all parks, Manu is assumed to provide inviolate protection to nature. Yet... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $14.21 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Peter G Brown Publisher Comments "Convincing analysis; empowering vision."-David Suzuki, scientist and host of the CBC's The Nature of Things "A pioneering work in ethics and economics for the new global era raising all the hard questions that we need to think about in the coming... (read more) List Price $48.99 Your price $46.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ingeborg Boyens Publisher Comments Do you know what you're eating? Do you know what you're feeding your children? Chances are, the last time you visited the grocery store, you unwittingly purchased foodstuffs that have been genetically altered. That means you've become part of a grand... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Irene Frankel Publisher Comments "Integrated English is a flexible, integrated four-skills program with an emphasis on speaking and listening. The program is comprised of Gateways, Transitions, and Explorations. It can be used as a complete, six-level course or as three separate, two... (read more) List Price $18.50 Your price $3.99 (Used - Spiral) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michael P Dombeck Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-207) and index.... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $15.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Lewis Feldman Publisher Comments "In one slim volume, Feldman has managed to combine a history of U.S. water policy, two in-depth case studies on the politics of water, an analysis of the institutional biases affecting U.S. water policy, and a discussion of water policy in France. Nor... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Guy Mcpherson Publisher Comments Savannas are ecosystems with a continuous grass layer and scattered trees or shrubs. These lands occupy nearly a third of the earth's land surface and are an important resource not only in world economies but also as repositories of biodiversity. Because... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michael T Klare Publisher Comments In his pathbreaking Resource Wars, world security expert Michael Klare alerted us to the role of resources in conflicts in the post-cold-war world. Now, in Blood and Oil, he concentrates on a single precious commodity, petroleum, while issuing a warning... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Peter Alma Publisher Comments This series of A-level social biology topic books responds to the changing demands of social biology syllabuses, with each text dealing with a particular area of interest. Although the series is primarily intended for students of A-level social biology... (read more) List Price $4.75 Your price $2.70 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Ernest Callenbach Publisher Comments This is the 30th Anniversary edition of the classic environmental novel about a future in which a socially and ecologically responsible state is created in the West. The story is told by a reporter who is the first media vistor from the United States... (read more) Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Firor Publisher Comments Firor and Jacobsen argue that two revolutions are necessary to achieve a stable population and freedom from human-induced climate change: a social revolution that improves equity, particularly the status of women, and a technical revolution that yields... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Valerie Belsey Synopsis For anyone interested in green lanes, this handbook shows how to identify them on the ground, recognise them on antique maps and locate documents and records which will reveal who used them in the past. It also discusses their ecological value and how to... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Scott Slovic Publisher Comments Desert vistas are often deemed vacant, inhospitable wastelands. Don't suggest that to Joy Harjo, Pat Mora, or other contemporary southwestern writers. In these arid stretches, often devoid of green, today's southwestern writers see pyrotechnic colors and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gretchen C Daily Publisher Comments Why shouldn't people who deplete our natural assets have to pay, and those who protect them reap profits? Conservation-minded entrepreneurs and others around the world are beginning to ask just that question, as the increasing scarcity of natural... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Melvin A Benarde Publisher Comments Scientific evidence that challenges the environmental myths of our time This new and expanded Fourth Edition of Dr. Benarde's myth-defying book uses an evidence-based approach to refute today's pervasive, environmental doomsday hype. With up-to-date... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Will Sanford Synopsis Growing populations, increasing industrial use and heavy agricultural demand are beginning to tax water supplies in many regions of Canada's west. Future economic and social development will depend upon how much we know about our surface and ground water... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Eugene Linden Publisher Comments The Winds of Change places the horrifying carnage unleashed on New Orleans, Mississippi, and Alabama by Hurricane Katrina in context. Climate has been humanity's constant, if moody, companion. At times benefactor or tormentor, climate nurtured the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jenny Kurzweil Publisher Comments Fields That Dream explores the lives of refugees, immigrants, former chefs, insurance brokers, and union organizers who are now small-scale sustainable farmers. Each chapter of the book combines the story of a farmer who sells at a successful farmers... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Rob Ferguson Publisher Comments Set among the ruins of the Soviet empire, this darkly comic true-crime thriller involves environmental disaster, international intrigue, and an unsolved murder. In January 2000, Rob Ferguson went to Uzbekistan to work on a project designed to save the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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