Environmental Science
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Escaping Nature: How to Survive Global Climate Change
$28.95 Add to cartIndustrial and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming Earth’s climate, unleashing rising seas, ocean acidification, melting permafrost, powerful storms, wildfires, floods, deadly he… [more below]
- Author: Pilkey, Orrin H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1478025441
- Language: English
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The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
$23.99 Add to cartNew York Times best-selling journalist Jeff Goodell presents a “masterful, bracing” (David Wallace-Wells) examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and on our planet, offe
- Author: Goodell, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 031649755X
- Language: English
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Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests
$25.00 Add to cartIn this inspiring culmination of Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s life’s work as a botanist, biochemist, biologist and poet of the global forest, she delivers a challenge to us all to dig deeper into the sci… [more below]
- Author: Beresford-Kroeger, Diana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1039009794
- Language: English
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The Burning Earth: A History
$35.00 Add to cartIn this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing
- Author: Amrith, Sunil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1324007184
- Language: English
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The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$16.95 Add to cartThe Amazon is a land of superlatives. The complex ecosystem covers an area about the size of the continental U.S. The Amazon River discharges 57 million gallons of water per second–in two hours, this… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Plotkin, Mark J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0190668288
- Language: English
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Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
$21.99 Add to cartFrom evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen, a book that will make you see yourself and the world around you in an entirely new way
*Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to us- Author: Schilthuizen, Menno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 125012784X
- Language: English
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Embracing Limits: A Radical and Necessary Approach to the Environmental Crisis
$25.00 Add to cartRADICAL MEASURES ARE NECESSARY
If you’ve ever wondered where we’re headed, and what a truly sustainable future might look like-this is the book for you.
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Today’s civilization is like a kid with a
- Author: Akers, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0945528027
- Language: English
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The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World
$18.99 Read moreOne man’s “curiously thrilling joyride” of travelogue, history, and climatology, across a planet on the brink of cataclysmic transformation (Donovan Hohn).
As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In- Author: Fox, Porter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316460907
- Language: English
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Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War – Enhanced Edition
$24.99 Add to cartAs weaponry and warfare have become more sophisticated, so their long-term effects have become more insidious and deadly. Whilst it is easy to identify the visible aftermath of war, how can we gauge l
- Author: Bertell, Rosalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: July 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1913191060
- Language: English
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Angry Weather: Heat Waves, Floods, Storms, and the New Science of Climate Change
$18.95 Add to cartFrom leading climate scientist Dr. Friederike Otto, this gripping book reveals the revolutionary science that definitively links extreme weather events–including deadly heat waves, forest fires, floo
- Series: David Suzuki Institute
- Author: Otto, Friederike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1778400744
- Language: English
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The Green Halo: A Bird’s-Eye View of Ecological Ethics
$26.95 Add to cartPresenting a wide range of views and strategies, The Green Halo analyzes the problematic relations between humans and the rest of the natural world. The author looks at the views of thinkers including… [more below]
- Author: Kohak, Erazim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0812694112
- Language: English
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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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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
