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Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach Publisher Comments A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Gasp!: The Swift and Terrible Beauty of Air by Joe Sherman Publisher Comments From a baby's first breath—that universal and fundamental entry into life outside the womb—air is taken for granted. Joe Sherman's Gasp is an entertaining investigation of air and the discoveries of how it works in the body and in our world... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage by Kenneth S Deffeyes Publisher Comments Geophysicist M. King Hubbert predicted in 1956 that U.S. oil production would reach its highest level in the early 1970s. Though roundly criticized by oil experts and economists, Hubbert's prediction came true in 1970. In this revised and updated... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture by Dale Allen Pfeiffer Publisher Comments The miracle of the Green Revolution was made possible by cheap fossil fuels to supply crops with artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. Estimates of the net energy balance of agriculture in the United States show that ten calories of... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History (Columbia Guides to American Indian History and Culture) by Carolyn Merchant Publisher Comments Merchant provides a context-setting overview of American environmental history from the beginning of the millennium; an encyclopedia of important concepts, people, agencies, and laws; a chronology of major events; and an extensive bibliography including... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Bottomless Well: The Twilgiht of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy by Peter W Huber Publisher Comments Subtitled, "The Twilight Of Fuel, The Virtue Of Waste & Why We Will Never Run Out Of Energy".... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list State of the World: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society (State of the World) by Worldwatch Institute Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-230) and index.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Wisdom of the Spotted Owl: Policy Lessons for a New Century by Steven Lewis Yaffee Publisher Comments Two decades of negotiations, lawsuits, court orders, and injunctions have transformed the northern spotted owl issue from a regional land management problem into a national controversy of immense proportions. Despite the best efforts of scientists, land... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $4.24 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Last Stands: A Journey Through North America's Vanishing Ancient Rainforests by Larry Pynn Publisher Comments An award-winning environmental reporter plunges into coastal rainforests from California to Alaska to explore this unique ecosystem and the complex factors that threaten it.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots by Kevin Danaher and Jason Mark and Shannon Biggs Publisher Comments After centuries of economic activity based on extraction, exploitation, and depletion, we now face undeniable environmental threats. New business models that save or restore natural resources are critical. But how can we translate that insight into more... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) 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   Is the Temperature Rising?: The Uncertain Science of Global Warning by S George Philander Publisher Comments Most of us have heard the dire predictions about global warming. Some experts insist that warming has already started, and they warn of such impending disasters as the sea level rising to flood coastal cities. Others, however, have issued loud... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Yellowstone Primer: Land & Resource Management in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem by John A Baden Publisher Comments Innovative strategies for resolving the competing concerns and interests that affect national park and federal lands policy in the U.S.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Watching, From the Edge of Extinction by Beverly Peterson Stearns Publisher Comments In this mesmerizing series of interviews with dedicated people who work to save endangered species throughout the world, an alarming truth emerges: the obstacles of human politics, greed, corruption, folly, and hypocrisy can present as much danger to a... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Edges of the Field: Lessons on the Obligations of Ownership by Joseph Singer Publisher Comments Startling new answers. . . . Turns the inherently inegalitarian implication of property on its head. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) In The Edges of the Field Harvard law professor Joseph William Singer offers a cogent look at America's complex... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Women & Nature: Saving the "Wild" West (Women in the West) by Glenda Riley Publisher Comments Long before Rachel Carson’s fight against pesticides placed female environmental activists in the national spotlight, women were involved in American environmentalism. In Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West, Glenda Riley calls for a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future by Jeff Goodell Publisher Comments In the tradition of Rachel Carson and Eric Schlosser, the veteran journalist Jeff Goodell examines the danger behind President George W. Bush's recent assertion that coal is America's economic destiny. Despite a devastating, century-long legacy... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Greenpeace: How a Group of Journalists, Ecologists and Visionaries Changed the World by Rex Weyler Publisher Comments Greenpeace founder and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Weyler has penned the first comprehensive eyewitness account of the human drama behind the creation of the world's largest direct-action environmental group.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation by Chris Park Publisher Comments Contains over 8,500 entries, this informative dictionary addresses the social, political and economic aspects of environmental science and conservation.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Solid-State Science and Technology Library #9: International Governance on Environmental Isssues by Mats Rolen Publisher Comments The internationalization of the world has put issues of governance at the heart of our future. This is obvious for most people when it comes to the environment. During the 1990's international cooperation on environmental issues has increased, especially... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $17.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Contested Landscape: The Politics of Wilderness in Utah and the West by Doug Goodman Synopsis There is a debate in the New West over the land and its proper uses. Some people of the rural West seek to continue the lifestyle that has contributed so much to the American image, while others want to protect the remnants of the wild lands that are so... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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