Environmental Science
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Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
$24.99 Add to cartSandra Steingraber, biologist, poet, and survivor of cancer in her twenties, brings all three perspectives to bear on the most important health and human rights issue of our time: the growing body of … [more below]
- Author: Steingraber, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: March 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0306818698
- Language: English
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Fire: A Brief History
$24.95 Add to cartOver vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne
- Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
- Author: Pyne, Stephen J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0295746181
- Language: English
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Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error
$20.99 Add to cartAre we now entering a mass extinction event? What can mass extinctions in Earth’s history tell us about the Anthropocene? What do mass extinction events look like and how does life on Earth recover fr… [more below]
- Author: Hannah, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: September 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1108843530
- Language: English
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The Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Cultural History
$34.95 Add to cartIn The Cemeteries of New Orleans, Peter B. Dedek reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City’s world-famous necropolises, exploring both their distinctive architecture and their cultural i
- Author: Dedek, Peter B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180386
- Language: English
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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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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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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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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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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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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 Path to a Sustainable Civilisation: Technological, Socioeconomic and Political Change
$32.99 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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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
$75.07 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
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The Plastics Paradox: Facts for a Brighter Future
$69.95 Add to cartThe Plastics Paradox is the first and only book to reveal the truth about plastics and the environment. Based on over 400 scientific articles, it dispels the myths that the public believe today.
We are
- Author: Dearmitt, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: March 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0997849967
- Language: English
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Boiling Frogs: Intel vs. the Village
$23.95 Add to cartThe story goes that if you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water, he will jump out and save himself. If you place the same frog in a pot of cool water and slowly bring it to a boil, he will allow h… [more below]
- Author: Rockwell, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0595375286
- Language: English
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Planetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene
$28.00 Add to cartThe climate emergency and other dramatic environmental changes pose growing threats to the health of humanity, and have defined a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. This book explains those threa… [more below]
- Author: Haines, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: July 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1108729266
- Language: English
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Sustainability
$16.95 Add to cartA concise and accessible examination of sustainability in a range of contemporary contexts, from economic development to government policy.
The word “sustainability” has been connected to everything fr
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Portney, Kent E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0262528509
- Language: English
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Planetwise: Dare to Care for God’s World
$13.99 Read more“I was in the act of throwing away my family’s rubbish while holidaying on a beautiful island when I heard God speak. I could easily have missed it, but an inner whisper asked, “How do you think I fee
- Author: Bookless, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 15 2008
- ISBN10: 1844742512
- Language: English
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Petroleum-238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It
$31.99 Add to cartAn acclaimed science journalist’s extraordinary seven-year investigation into how the U.S. oil and gas industry has avoided environmental regulations and created a dangerous and radioactive public hea
- Author: Nobel, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: April 24 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989546237
- Language: English
