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By: Workman, James
Sea Change: Unlikely Allies and a Success Story of Oceanic Proportions
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartSea Change is the captivating, deeply-human tale of how fishermen–along with some unlikely allies–helped carry out the biggest conservation success story you’ve never heard of.
Exploring a victory fo
- Author: Workman, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 9798890920287
- Language: English
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By: Malm, Andreas
The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late
$39.95HardcoverAdd to cartA scathing critique of proposals to geoengineer our way out of climate disaster, by the bestselling authors of Overshoot
The world is crossing the 1.5 C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2 C soo- Author: Malm, Andreas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1836740301
- Language: English
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By: Workman, James
Sea Change: Unlikely Allies and a Success Story of Oceanic Proportions
$32.00HardcoverAdd to cartSea Change is the captivating, deeply-human tale of how fishermen–along with some unlikely allies–helped carry out the biggest conservation success story you’ve never heard of.
Exploring a victory fo
- Author: Workman, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 9798890920409
- Language: English
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By: Gillmor, Don
On Oil
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cartA journalist, and former roughneck, considers our long, complex, tortured relationship with oil.
Oil has dominated our lives for the last century. It has given us warmth, progress, and life-threatening
- Series: Field Notes #10
- Author: Gillmor, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 177196667X
- Language: English
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By: Epstein, Alex
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
$27.95HardcoverRead moreCould everything we know about fossil fuels be wrong?
For decades, environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a self-destructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet at the same- Author: Epstein, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 13 2014
- ISBN10: 1591847443
- Language: English
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By: Falgoux, Woody
Rise of the Cajun Mariners: The Race for Big Oil
$19.99PaperbackRead moreThe story of four families of Cajun boatmen and their rise from trappers and shrimpers to mega-millionaires.
Rise of the Cajun Mariners documents an untold piece of American history–the beginnings of- Author: Falgoux, Woody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1510769900
- Language: English
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By: Apps, Jerry
When the White Pine Was King: A History of Lumberjacks, Log Drives, and Sawdust Cities in Wisconsin
$22.95PaperbackAdd to cart“From the ring of the ax in the woods, to the scream of the saw blade in the mill, to the founding of many of Wisconsin’s communities, Jerry Apps does an outstanding job bringing Wisconsin’s logging a… [more below]
- Author: Apps, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0870209345
- Language: English
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By: Griswold, Eliza
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartWinner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the- Author: Griswold, Eliza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1250215072
- Language: English
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By: Hamby, Chris
Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartIn a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hamby uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, its Big Coal cover-up, and the resil… [more below]
- Author: Hamby, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0316299472
- Language: English
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By: Tabitha Lasley
Sea State: A Memoir
$16.99PaperbackAdd to cartA Recommended Read from: Vogue * USA Today * The Los Angeles Times * Publishers Weekly * The Week * Alma * Lit Hub
A stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female
- Author: Lasley, Tabitha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0063030845
- Language: English
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By: Burgis, Tom
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth
$19.99PaperbackRead moreOne of Financial Times’ Books of the Year, 2015
The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other “emerging- Author: Burgis, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1610397118
- Language: English
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By: Lisa Margonelli
Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cartOil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry–the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day.
Amer- Author: Margonelli, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 12 2008
- ISBN10: 0767916972
- Language: English
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By: Pereira, Kiran
Sand Stories: Surprising Truths about the Global Sand Crisis and the Quest for Sustainable Solutions
$25.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe overuse of sand is ‘one of the major sustainability challenges of the 21st-century.’
– United Nations Environment Program, 2019
Sand is the hidden foundation of our society. In Sand Stories, Kiran
- Author: Pereira, Kiran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1838125205
- Language: English
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By: Kero, Pete
Minescapes: Reclaiming Minnesota’s Mined Lands
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartStories from Minnesota’s Iron Range highlight the challenges of competing needs on lands that offer opportunities for both mining and recreation.
The Mesabi Iron Range in northeastern Minnesota conju- Author: Kero, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1681342243
- Language: English











