Environmental Science
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Pbb: Michigan Chemical Poisoning Reverberates 50 Years Later
$24.95 Add to cartPBB: An Environmental Disaster – Michigan Chemical Poisoning Reverberates 50 Years Later is intended to provide the reader with an understanding of the chemical catastrophe that occurred in Michigan i
- Author: Corbett, T. H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1958363820
- Language: English
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Blueprint for Going Green: How a Small Foundation Changed the Model for Environmental Conservation
$85.00 Add to cartHow one organization took on industrial pollution–and the lessons for our new century
In 1977, one forward-thinking judge took an ecological disaster–the poisoning of the James River by Allied Che- Author: McCarthy, Gerald P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0813950724
- Language: English
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A Naturalist’s Guide to the Arctic
$26.00 Add to cartThis book is a practical, portable guide to all of the Arctic’s natural history-sky, atmosphere, terrain, ice, the sea, plants, birds, mammals, fish, and insects-for those who will experience the Arct… [more below]
- Author: Pielou, E. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0226668142
- Language: English
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Ocean Outbreak: Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease
$31.18 Add to cartWinner of the Sustainability Science Award 2020, Ecological Society of America
Winner of the PROSE Award (Biological Sciences category) 2020, Association of American PublishersThere is a growing cris
- Author: Harvell, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 520382986
- Language: English
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Downwind: A People’s History of the Nuclear West
$24.95 Add to cartDownwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for the inhabitants and the environment in nuclear testing by the federal government and in uranium extraction
- Author: Fox, Sarah Alisabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1496207661
- Language: English
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Re-Envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean
$34.95 Add to cartThe world is at a critical moment, when humans must grapple with thinking about the planet’s oceans from ecological, physical, social, and legal perspectives. Warming ocean temperatures, changing cur
- Author: Craig, Robin Kundis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 164769101X
- Language: English
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The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
$23.99 Add to cartOne smart book…delving deep into the history and implications of a daily act that dare not speak its name.–Newsweek
Bodily waste is common to all and as natural as breathing. We prefer not to talk a- Author: George, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1250058309
- Language: English
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A Naturalist’s Guide to Wetland Plants: An Ecology for Eastern North America
$19.95 Add to cartHere is a comprehensive, significant study of wetlands flora, which encompasses all members of the plant and fungi kingdoms. These include poisonous, hallucinogenic, medicinal, and edible plant life a
- Author: Cox, Donald D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0815607407
- Language: English
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The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
$19.99 Add to cartFor more than a century we’ve known that much of human evolution occurred in an Ice Age. Starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to rise, the glaciers receded, and sea levels rose. The ris… [more below]
- Author: Fagan, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: December 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0465022820
- Language: English
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Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity
$29.27 Add to cartA passionate eyewitness account of the mysteries and looming demise of glaciers–and what their fate means for our shared future
The ice sheets and glaciers that cover one-tenth of Earth’s land surfac- Author: Wadham, Jemma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0691241813
- Language: English
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Planet Aqua: Rethinking Our Home in the Universe
$29.95 Read moreWhat would happen if we were to awaken one day and suddenly realize that the world we live in appeared eerily alien, as if we’d been teleported to some other distant world? That frightening prospect i… [more below]
- Author: Rifkin, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1509563733
- Language: English
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Mushrooms of Cascadia, Second Edition: An Illustrated Key to the Fungi of the Pacific Northwest
$28.00 Add to cartAn illustrated key to identifying the mushrooms of the Cascadian bioregion, stretching from coastal Alaska to central California and Idaho, featuring nearly 1,100 full-color photographs and more than … [more below]
- Author: Beug, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1984863479
- Language: English
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Fire: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFire is rarely out of the headlines, from large natural wildfires raging across the Australian or Californian countrysides to the burning of buildings such as the disasters of Grenfell tower and Notre… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Scott, Andrew C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198830033
- Language: English
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The Buzz about Bees: Biology of a Superorganism
$54.99 Read moreTis book, already translated into ten languages, may at frst sight appear to be just about honeybees and their biology. It c- tains, however, a number of deeper messages related to some of the most ba… [more below]
- Author: Tautz, J?rgen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: May 21 2008
- ISBN10: 3540787275
- Language: English
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Flashes of Brilliance: The Science and Wonder of Arizona Lightning
$32.99 Add to cart- Author: Holle, Ronald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 231
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 3031198786
- Language: English
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Seabird’s Cry
$28.99 Add to cartEnter ancient lands of wind and waves where the planet’s greatest flyers battle for survival.
As the only creatures at home on land, at sea, and in the air, seabirds have evolved to thrive in the most- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1250181593
- Language: English
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The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation: Technological, Socioeconomic and Political Change
$37.99 Add to cartThe Path to a Sustainable Civilisation shows that we have unwittingly fallen into an existential crisis of our own making. We have allowed large corporations, the military and other vested interests t
- Author: Diesendorf, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 251
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 9819906628
- Language: English
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West Side Rising: How San Antonio’s 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement
$19.95 Add to cartOn September 9, 1921, a tropical depression stalled just north of San Antonio and within hours overwhelmed its winding network of creeks and rivers. Floodwaters ripped through the city’s Latino West S… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Char
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1595349731
- Language: English
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Summary and Analysis of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History: Based on the Book by Elizabeth Kolbert
$8.99 Add to cartSo much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Sixth Extinction tells you what you need to know–before or after you read Elizabeth Kolbert’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Bo- Series: Smart Summaries
- Author: Worth Books
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 1504046781
- Language: English
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The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
$79.33 Add to cartBj rn Lomborg, a former member of Greenpeace, challenges widely held beliefs that the world environmental situation is getting worse and worse in his new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist. Using st… [more below]
- Author: Lomborg, Bj?rn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: August 28 2001
- ISBN10: 0521010683
- Language: English
