Environment

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...

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...

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 ...

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-...

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...

Planet Earth needs its own lawyer. James Thornton is that lawyer. Who will stop the planet from committing ecological suicide? The UN? Governments? Activis...

Hybrid Geographies critically examines the opposition between nature and culture, the material and the social, as represented in scientific, environmental a...

The global environmental future is a matter of major scientific and public importance. Problems such as deforestation, pollution, the loss of natural habita...

Challenges For Research And Development On Improving Shifting Cultivation System / Dennis P. Garrity -- Working With And For Plants : Indigenous Fallow Mana...

The text product message is similar to what it has been in the past - Fellmann et al seeks to introduce users to the scope and excitement of human geography...

This Book Takes Readers Deep Into The Sonoran Desert, Looking Closely At The Relationships Of Plants And Animals With The Land And People, Through Time And ...

The third edition of Gordon Bonan's comprehensive textbook introduces an interdisciplinary framework to understand the interaction between terrestrial ecosy...

Deserts and Desert Environments focuses on geomorphic systems, providing a comprehensive introduction to the physical, biological, temporal, and human com...

Previous Ed.: 2003. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Science & Math Nature & EcologyEnvironment

This Text Highlights The Diversity Of Political Responses To Environmental Issues, Bringing Together Over 40 Readings In Environmental Politics That Cover V...

Using a geographic approach to the study of the environment and environmental policy, the authors have successfully integrated physical, economic, social an...

This modern climatology textbook explains those climates formed near the ground in terms of the cycling of energy and mass through systems.Categories: Scien...

This book takes a non mathematical looks at the principles and processes of hydrology. Now in its fourth edition, this well established book preserves the e...

Conventional wisdom considers deserts stark, harsh regions that support few living things. Most people also believe that water alone makes the desert bloom....

"A superb reference." —- Physics Today "Will become a classic text in climate research. " —- Physics World "Valuable to anyone who studies, models, or u...

Part I. Essays On Fresh Water Issues -- An Introduction To Global Fresh Water Issues / Peter H. Gleick -- World Fresh Water Resources / Igor A. Shiklomanov ...

Rising interest in climate change and severe weather phenomena are making meteorology courses more popular than ever–yet this fast-paced, one-semester cur...

Sand dunes cover up to a quarter of many desert regions. Understanding the factors that determine their shape, size and dynamics is important to an understa...

Global Environmental Issues, second edition builds on the popularity of the first edition, viewing global environmental problems as complex issues with a ne...

How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens for intelligent design, others argue that it is determined by information encoded in DNA. S...

Global Warming: The Hard Science presents a comprehensive, qualitatively rigorous, and critical discussion of the science underlying the global warming issu...