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by Gary King Publisher Comments This book presents social scientific methods for drawing inferences about individuals based on aggregate data.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Greg Pahl Publisher Comments When Rudolph Diesel invented his engine in the late nineteenth century, he envisioned a device that could run anywhere on a wide range of local fuels. A century later, Greg Pahl recalls that vision and shows us it is possible with Biodiesel: Growing a... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Wyland Publisher Comments The Wyland Foundation is widely lauded by politicians and scientists alike for its practical insight and positive impact on our planet. Former Vice President Al Gore praised the group, saying, "Your organization makes an invaluable contribution to the... (read more) Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Charles F Sabel Publisher Comments 'When we think of environmental action, we draw upon images from the disaster of Love Canal or from A CIVIC ACTION--stories of lone activists fighting the government or some corporation against all odds. In their provocative essay, Sabel and Fung... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Andres R Edwards Publisher Comments Sustainability has become a buzzword in the last decade, but its full meaning is complex, emerging from a range of different sectors. In practice, it has become the springboard for millions of individuals throughout the world who are forging the fastest... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Peter Lovenheim Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-264) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Henry Gerhold Publisher Comments The biography of a forester and philanthropist devoted to bringing the benefits of forests to all people. Despite humble beginnings, Joseph E. Ibberson pursued his vision persistently, working hard at an early age and saving his meager earnings to... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $27.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kirkpatrick Sale Publisher Comments 'This is a powerful history that should empower present-day environmentalists to fight the good fight. It makes it clear that the major battles for life on earth are yet to be fought, and must be won. We need this inspiration now. We need a new Rachel... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Warren Leon Publisher Comments Every day, new warnings emerge about the safety of the food in our markets, school cafeterias, and restaurants. As industry and government officials rush in with reassurances--and food alarmists call for drastic changes in the American diet--ordinary... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Worldwatch Institute Publisher Comments SINCE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, many governments have reasserted the centrality of traditional, military-focused security. Yet the aftermath of the ensuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq underlines once more that lasting security is not found in soldiers... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Terry L Anderson Book News Annotation Anderson, a senior fellow at Stanford U.'s Hoover Institution think tank, and his co-contributors respond to "doomsayers" who "contend that (economic) growth will ultimately deplete natural resources and destroy the environment." They offer arguments... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Max Oelschlaeger Publisher Comments This timely book argues that religion has an indispensable role to play in solving the ecological crisis. Examining a broad range of Western religious traditions from conservative Christianity to Goddess feminism, Max Oelschlaeger shows that religion can... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Richard P Hiskes Publisher Comments This book presents a novel and compelling thesis about technological risk, liberalism, and policy making in liberal societies. Opposed to most theories of risk that focus on individual decision makers and models or rational choice, this book argues that... (read more) List Price $59.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ross Gelbspan Publisher Comments In Boiling Point, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ross Gelbspan argues that, unchecked, climate change will swamp every other issue facing us today. Indeed, what began as an initial response of many institutions denial and delay has now... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jeremy Leggett Publisher Comments In The Empty Tank, Jeremy Leggett, an internationally renowned geologist and energy entrepreneur who spent the 1980s working for Big Oil, sounds the alarm about an unprecedented crisis. The oil topping point–the day half of all the world’s... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Norman Myers Publisher Comments For the first time since its publication in l984, a completely updated and revised edition of this best-selling atlas which brings it into the 1990s, incorporating the new events, issues, and statistics of the past decade.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Tara Lohan Publisher Comments Water Consciousness is designed to change the way people think about water. It explores all aspects of the water crisis and what can be done about it. Compelling contributions by Bill McKibben, Maude Barlow, Vandana Shiva, and other top environmental... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 $45.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Eric T Freyfogle Publisher Comments Critics of environmental laws complain that such rules often burden people unequally, restrict individual liberty, and undercut private property rights. In formulating responses to these criticisms, the conservation effort has stumbled badly, says Eric T.... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price $24.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Helen Caldicott Publisher Comments "Dr. Helen Caldicott", the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle declares, "is back on the scene". A Desperate Passion is Caldicott's engaging, inspiring memoir, chronicling her life both on and off the scene. Raised in Australia and trained as a physician, she... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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