Environmental Science
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Climate Capitalism: Winning the Race to Zero Emissions and Solving the Crisis of Our Age
$28.95 Add to cart“An important read for anyone in need of optimism about our ability to build a clean energy future.”–BILL GATES
“Illuminating, incisive, and deeply reported.”–DAVID WALLACE-WELLS, New York Times-bes- Author: Rathi, Akshat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1778401856
- Language: English
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Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
$18.99 Read more“Remarkable . . . Emma Marris explores a paradox that is increasingly vexing the science of ecology, namely that the only way to have a pristine wilderness is to manage it intensively.” –The Wall Stre
- Author: Marris, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 20, 2013
- ISBN10: 160819454X
- Language: English
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The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
$18.00 Read moreFinalist for the 2021 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
A Library Journal Best Science & Technology Book of 2020
A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2020
2020 Goodreads Choice Award- Author: Shah, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1635577861
- Language: English
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The Secret Lives of Glaciers
$24.95 Add to cartGeographer, adventurer, environmental educator, 2018 TED Fellow and National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer Dr. M Jackson studies and writes about glaciers and climate change worldwide.
Seeking
- Author: Jackson, M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0996267670
- Language: English
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The Green Amendment: The People’s Fight for a Clean, Safe, and Healthy Environment
$23.32 Add to cartA veteran environmentalist shares her roadmap to a healthier world–one that uses the law to empower activists and provide hope for communities everywhere.
We have reached a critical tipping point in
- Author: Van Rossum, Maya K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 365
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1633310647
- Language: English
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Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis
$18.95 Add to cart“This book comes at just the right moment. It is NOT too late if we get together and take action, NOW.” –Jane Goodall
Fears about climate change are fueling an epidemic of despair across the world: a- Series: David Suzuki Institute
- Author: Kelsey, Elin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 1771647779
- Language: English
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Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe proposal that the impact of humanity on the planet has left a distinct footprint, even on the scale of geological time, has recently gained much ground. Global climate change, shifting global cycl… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Ellis, Erle C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0198792980
- Language: English
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The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River
$17.00 Add to cartThe Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.
In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the- Series: Hill and Wang Critical Issues
- Author: White, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 31 1996
- ISBN10: 0809015838
- Language: English
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Weather Prediction: What Everyone Needs to Knowr
$18.95 Add to cartWeather has always affected human life. Understanding how weather events form and predicting what kind of weather is coming can help enormously to manage weather-risk and will become even more importa… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Buizza, Roberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0197652123
- Language: English
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The New City: How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future
$39.95 Read moreCities are at once among humanity’s crowning achievements and core drivers of the climate crisis. Their dependence on the outside world for vital resources is causing global temperatures to rise and w
- Author: Despommier, Dickson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0231205503
- Language: English
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Constructing Civil Society in Japan: Voices of Environmental Movements Volume 3
$34.95 Add to cartJapan’s post-World War II “economic miracle” is well-known and much discussed, as is the collapse of the “bubble economy” and the almost decade long economic stagnation of the 1990s. In this collectio… [more below]
- Series: Stratification and Inequality #3
- Author: Hasegawa, Koichi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 187684373X
- Language: English
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The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
$17.00 Add to cartA finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world–sand–and the crucial role it plays in our lives. After w- Author: Beiser, Vince
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 0399576444
- Language: English
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The Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town
$24.95 Add to cartIn October 1948, a seemingly average fog descended on the tiny mill town of Donora, Pennsylvania. With a population of fewer than fifteen thousand, the town’s main industry was steel and zinc mills-mi… [more below]
- Author: McPhee, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0822966719
- Language: English
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An Environmental History of the Civil War
$32.50 Add to cartThis sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans’ relationship to the natural world. To be sure, envir… [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Browning, Judkin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1469655381
- Language: English
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Savage Dreams: A Journey Into the Hidden Wars of the American West
$33.68 Add to cart“A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book.”–Larry McMurtry
In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later-in 1951-and a hundre- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: June 06 2014
- ISBN10: 520282280
- Language: English
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Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
$20.95 Add to cartThe impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind’s active involvement in climate change really begin with the industrial revolution, as com
- Series: Princeton Science Library #46
- Author: Ruddiman, William F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0691173214
- Language: English
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Scaling Impact: Finance and Investment for a Better World
$44.99 Add to cartThe global challenges confronting us — climate change, poverty, inequality, and many others — can feel overwhelming. Those of us who believe in market-based solutions to these challenges get even mo
- Author: Hornberger, Kusisami
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: February 02 2023
- ISBN10: 3031226135
- Language: English
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Not for Greens: He Who Sups with the Devil Should Have a Long Spoon
$29.95 Add to cartThe processes required to make a humble stainless steel teaspoon are remarkably complicated and every stage involves risk, coal, energy, capital, international trade and finance. Stainless steel cutle… [more below]
- Author: Plimer, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: May 23 2014
- ISBN10: 1925138194
- Language: English
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Great Lakes Rocks: 4 Billion Years of Geologic History in the Great Lakes Region
$29.95 Add to cartThe geologic story of the Great Lakes region is one of the most remarkable of any place on Earth. Great Lakes Rocks takes readers on this fascinating journey through geologic history, beginning with a… [more below]
- Author: Kesler, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0472053809
- Language: English
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Secret Life of the City: How Nature Thrives in the Urban Wild
$27.95 Read moreCome along on an informative, whirlwind tour of urban species–from intelligent crows to backyard lichens–and discover that you are surrounded by wild nature, even in your own backyard.
When biologist
- Author: Bj?rgaas, Hanna Hagen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1771649356
- Language: English
