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Ingenuity Gap by Thomas Homer Dixon Publisher Comments "Looking back from the year 2100, we'll see a period when our creations--technological, social, ecological--outstripped our understanding and we lost control of our destiny. And we will think: if only--if only we'd had the ingenuity and will to prevent... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Writing the Future: Progress and Evolution by David Rothenberg Publisher Comments The theory of evolution connects us to the natural world, explaining how and why we are a part of nature. The idea of progress, on the other hand, projects a destination. andquot;If nature can supply wonderfully elegant solutions to the problem of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $7.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ecoregion-Based Design for Sustainability by Robert G Bailey Publisher Comments This book completes Robert G. Bailey's celebrated study of ecoregions, begun in the landmark Ecosystem Geography (1996) and further articulated in Ecoregions (1998). In this third installment, the author expands his system for defining large-scale... (read more) Your price $49.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Global Warning: The Last Chance for Change by Paul Brown Publisher Comments This visually enticing and hard-hitting text not only promotes understanding and insight into the complex issue of climate change, but also delivers a clarion call to action by showing how each person can do his or her part to save the Earth. Includes... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $19.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Oil Addiction: The World in Peril by Pierre Chomat Publisher Comments Totally addicted to oil, Man in his industrial adventure has transformed nearly all the Earth's ecosystems into egosystems designed to serve only his own needs and desires, at the expense of all other species. He persists despite the irreversible damage... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature by David Oates Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-307) and index.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future by Elizabeth C Economy Publisher Comments Economy examines China's recent economic growth with an eye on its looming environmental crisis, including the depletion of natural resources, skyrocketing rates of pollution and significant problems of public health and social unrest.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Rural Life by Verlyn Klinkenborg Publisher Comments This is a collection of Klinkenborg's writings on the natural world and the changing seasons which appear frequently in a column entitled "The Rural Life" on the editorial page of the "New York Times."... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie by Richard Manning Publisher Comments More than forty percent of America was once open prairie, grassland that extended from Missouri to Montana. Taking a critical look at this little understood biome, award-winning journalist Richard Manning urges the reclamation of the land, showing how... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Value of Life, C by Stephen Kellert Publisher Comments The Value of Life is an exploration of the actual and perceived importance of biological diversity for human beings and society. Stephen R. Kellert identifies ten basic values, which he describes as biologically based inherent human tendencies that are... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Environmental Studies on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Democracy & Claims of Nature by Ben A Minteer Publisher Comments In Democracy and the Claims of Nature, the leading thinkers in the fields of environmental, political, and social theory come together to discuss the tensions and sympathies of democratic ideals and environmental values. The prominent contributors... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Politics, Pollution and Pandas: An Environmental Memoir by Russell E Train Publisher Comments "This is an adventure story-not among the wild animals he knows so well but among the politicians as he pioneered the efforts to conserve our wildlife, our natural resources, and the very atmosphere that supports us all. It is a history invaluable to... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore Publisher Comments Published to tie in to a documentary film of the same name, "An Inconvenient Truth" is Gore's battle cry about what needs to be done about global warming. 75 illustrations. (Environmental Studies)... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Forcing the Spring, P by Robert Gottlieb Publisher Comments Forcing the Spring challenges standard histories of the environmental movement by offering a broad and inclusive interpretation of past environmentalist thought and a sweeping redefinition of the nature of the contemporary environmental movement. Robert... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $19.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol: And the Struggle to Slow Global Warming (Council on Foreign Relations Book) by David G Victor Publisher Comments Even as the evidence of global warming mounts, the international response to this serious threat is coming unraveled. The United States has formally withdrawn from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol; other key nations are facing difficulty in meeting their Kyoto... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $15.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Manifestos on the Future of Food & Seed by Vandana Shiva Publisher Comments "Shiva is a burst of creative energy, an intellectual power."-The Progressive Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seedis a short, pocket-sized collection that goes to the heart of our existence-what we eat and how we grow it. It covers the questions:How... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Political Environmentalism: Going Behind the Green Curtain by Terry L Anderson Publisher Comments Anderson and his contributors boldly confront specific environmental laws, asking whether they were motivated by environmental or strictly political concerns, whether they achieve their goals, whether they are cost-effective and whether they generate... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Good News for a Change by David T. Suzuki Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [386]-387) and index.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Publisher Comments In this powerful and far-reaching indictment of George W. Bush's White House, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the country's most prominent environmental attorney, charges that this administration has taken corporate cronyism to such unprecedented heights that it... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Wildlife-Habitat Relationships in Oregon and Washington with CDROM by David Johnson Synopsis The biggest challenge facing natural resource conservation efforts today is to maintain biological diversity and viable ecosystems. This requires the best available scientific information on the relationships between individual species and their habitat.... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $45.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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