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by Michael Maniates Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-245) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $7.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Erin Williams Publisher Comments Why Animals Matter: The Case for Animal Protection offers a concise yet complete overview of the problems of animal suffering, linking them to larger issues of human and environmental exploitation.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alan Burdick Publisher Comments A stunning work of narrative nonfiction that asks: what is natural? Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $19.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jill Ker Conway Publisher Comments Written in a clear, accessible style with a general audience in mind, the essays in this volume offer fresh approaches to thinking about environmental issues.<P>When we consider the forms of environmental decline most urgently in need of attention -... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Reed F Noss Publisher Comments Written by two leading conservation biologists, "Saving Nature's Legacy" is a thorough and readable introduction to issues of land management and conservation biology. It presents a broad, land-based approach to biodiversity conservation in the United... (read more) List Price $39.50 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jann S Wenner Publisher Comments Now for the first time, the best of Rolling Stone's environmental essays are gathered together in a single volume, The Rolling Stone Environmental Reader. Written by leading journalists and environmentalists, topics discussed include media coverage of... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $3.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Elizabeth Hess Powells.com Staff Pick This compassionate biography explores a fascinating character and an important story, beautifully illustrating the life of the mischievous chimpanzee who was the subject of a language experiment in the '70s. Both hopeful and sad, this moving account... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Terry Anderson Publisher Comments A wonderfully stimulating read for those willing to have their beliefs on conservation challenged. --The... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Dryzek Publisher Comments The Politics of the Earth provides an excellent and accessible introduction to thinking about the environment by looking at the way people use language on environmental issues. John Dryzek helps make sense of the diverse developments in environmental... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Paul Ehrlich Publisher Comments "Here, between the covers of one book, you can find out about the major problems facing the world today, and how to fix them. It all comes sprinkled with the deliciously surprising examples, and wrapped in the alternately gripping and humorous prose, for... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Reed F Noss Publisher Comments Broad-scale conservation of habitats is increasingly being recognized as a more effective means of protecting species and landscapes than single-species preservation efforts. While interest in the approach has grown tremendously in recent years, it... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Duncan Grey Publisher Comments Written in a non-threatening and nontechnical style, this guide examines both the pitfalls and the opportunities of Internet use in schools. The author discusses techniques for use in the classroom, such as exercises and activities in the core subjects... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Joshua Tickell and Meghan Murphy and Claudia Graziano Powells.com Staff Pick Tickell, an expert on biodiesel, explains how biodiesel is the best alternative to gasoline in today's age of peak oil. America, with its insatiable appetite for fast food, uses more vegetable oil for frying than any other nation. Why not turn that fat... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jane Dirks Edmunds Publisher Comments This gracefully written story shows all that is lost when we destroy ancient stands of trees--as revealed through a 60-year study of the flora and fauna in an Oregon Coast Range forest that is selectively logged and finally clear-cut.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mark Lynas Publisher Comments "President Bush and his Administration have risen to the global warming challenge with responses ranging from obfuscation to pretense to outright denial...I'd like to issue each and every one of them a challenge. Come with me--see what I have seen--and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Indur Goklany Publisher Comments This book demonstrates that Washington, D.C.'s 30-year regulatory war against air pollution has done little to improve air quality.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $2.90 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by T R Steinheimer Publisher Comments This book emphasizes the importance of scale-of-study when evaluating the environmental fate and transport characteristics of field-applied pesticides, including insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides. The volume examines pesticide usage and its... (read more) List Price $95.00 Your price $35.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Glen Ketchum Publisher Comments In dramatic color photographs by renowned environmental photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum and in insightful text by Charles Callison, Overlooked in America warns of the careless devastation of America's federally-held lands. Using the Cuyahoga Valley... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Phillip Cooper Publisher Comments Implementing Sustainable Development focuses on the challenge of turning international commitments and policy promises into action. Using examples and cases from around the U.S. and around the world, it examines the successful and failed efforts designed... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Schoenbrod Publisher Comments A veteran environmentalist tells vivid tales of the environmental wars and arrives at a surprising conclusion.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $7.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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