Environment

Introduction -- Pt. I. What Is Voluntary Simplicity -- Voluntary Simplicity: The Middle Way To Sustainability -- Pt. Ii. Why Practice Voluntary Simplicity -...

Looks At The Causes And Impact Of The Great Famines In Nineteenth Century IrelandCategories: Science & Math Nature & Ecology EnvironmentNatural Disa...

The leading guide to driving growth and profits through green strategy—now revised and updated "Green to Gold provides the definitive thinking on how busi...

The Chemical Maze: Your Guide to Food Additives and Cosmetic IngredientsCategories: Medical Books PharmacologyToxicology

Updated And Expanded Edition. Winner Of The Grawemeyer Award For Ideas Improving World Order 1992, Named New Options Best Political Book. Economist Herman D...

The Former Mayor Of New York City And The Former Sierra Club Head Present A Manifesto On How The Benefits Of Taking Action On Climate Change Can Be Real, Im...

To much of the world, North Korea is an impenetrable mystery, its inner workings unknown and its actions toward the outside unpredictable and frequently pr...

Today most Americans live in the city or suburbs--a safe, comfortable life, at least on the surface. Few of us realize how close we are to the elemental st...

In this expanded version of an inspiring speech delivered in December 2009, David Suzuki reflects on how we got where we are today and presents his vision f...

A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as amission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outd...

From the rear cover of this 444 page book: "'Secrets of the Soil' tells the fascinating story of the innovative, nontraditional, often surprising things tha...

The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets, Spycraft and Gaia TheoryCategories: Science & MathHistory & Philosophy

Sustainability is the integrating theme of this current and thought-provoking book. SUSTAINING THE EARTH provides the basic scientific tools for understandi...

Newfoundlanders and Labradorians love to talk about the weather. And why wouldn't they? The province is known for its great gales, fierce blizzards, destru...

It is now abundantly clear that we have at our fingertips all of the tools we need to solve the climate crisis. The only missing ingredient is collective w...

An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's path...

Environmental Change and Challenge: A Canadian Perspective, Updated Second Edition with DVD helps students understand the ongoing change, complexity, and co...

From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to The Year Without Summer, Bill Streever journeys through history...

As New Groundbreaking Research Suggests That Climate Change Played A Major Role In The Most Extreme Catastrophes In The Planet's History, Award-winning Scie...

Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten,” notes guest editor Amy Stewart in her...

From Legendary Science Fiction Author Kim Stanley Robinson Comes A Vision Of Climate Change Unlike Any Ever Imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson Is One Of Contemp...

“Unpredictable and amusing and informative and original, cavorting between biology, history, travel writing, and memoir.” —Mark Kurlansky The Whale...

Richard Leakey, One Of The World's Foremost Experts On Man's Evolutionary Past, Now Turns His Eye To The Future And Doesn't Like What He Sees. To the ph...

This anthology contains 37 articles published since 1974 in American Scientist, the journal of the scientific society Sigma Xi. While sequenced particularly...

Examines America's Loss Of Focus And National Purpose Since 9/11, And The Global Environmental Crisis, And Shows How The Solutions To These Two Problems Are...

This book develops the Sustainable Governance Approach and the principles of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM). It provides practical exa...

In the tradition of Silent Spring and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent, meticulously researched, and groundbreaking book about the ways in which chemicals i...

This Book Is Aimed At Non-science-major Undergraduates And Is Tightly Focused On The Problem Of Anthropogenic Climate Change. The First Half Of The Book Foc...

The 1977 Sorokin Award–winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood.On February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled m...

It’s the feisty third edition of How to Shit in the Woods, jam-packed with new information for outdoor enthusiasts of every stripe. Hailed in its first ed...

It is difficult to believe that our planet has been weaponized before our very eyes, but that is exactly what has happened. First, we were seduced by the co...

Through A Greater Understanding Of Trees In The Golden Horseshoe, We Can Become More Rooted To The Land Beneath Our Feet, And Our Place In It.Categories: Sc...

A landmark publishing event of one of Japan’s most famous cartoonists Shigeru Mizuki is the preeminent figure of Gekiga manga and one of the most famous...

Is the thought of the 51 trillion pieces of plastic in our oceans keeping you up at night? Don't panic! The war on plastic has begun and you can help! In th...

New York Times number-one bestselling author Debbie Ford presents revolutionary questions that, when answered with complete honesty, change the way we see...

An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today's foremost thinkers in crisis management The future may still be unpredictable,...

the Economy Is Imploding: It's Impossible For First Time Buyers To Break Into The Housing Market, Jobs Are Vanishing Faster Than High Street Banks And The ...

In this first US edition, the author of the The Map That Changed the World portrays the 19th-century eruption of a Javanese volcano that still has global r...

Like its phenomenally popular predecessor, The Perfection of the Morning, Wild Stone Heart has once again touched a chord with Canadian readers, becoming an...

The destruction of coral reefs around the world is not as straightforward as you might think. What directly causes the destruction is an epidemic of crown-...

What If We Examined A Landscape On Its Own Terms, Freed From Expectations Or Assumptions? The River Is A Gorgeous And Moving Meditation That Uses Fiction, N...

This Book Not Only Brings Home The Imminence Of Climate Change But Also Examines The Campaign Of Deception By Big Coal And Big Oil That Is Keeping The Issue...

This Book Is An Account Of The History, Ecology, And Mystique Of The Arctic Region. The Author Offers A Thorough Examination Of This Obscure World, Its Terr...

Within the interviews, lectures, essays, and letters of this book, Srila Prabhupada talks about practicing yoga in the modern age. Topics include karma and ...

The First Book About The Bp Disaster By A World-renowned Oceanographer, A Sea In Flames Examines The Environmental And Social Consequences Of The Spill From...

Design for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the...

America's most renowned witch and eco–feminist offers a sequel to her bestselling classic The Spiral Dance, weaving together the latest findings in envir...

Ice Age Earth provides the first detailed review of global environmental change in the Late Quaternary. Significant geological and climatic events are analy...