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1	When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century more books like this by Fred Pearce add to wishlist In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most complete portrait yet of this growing danger and ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $9.76! \| SVS
2	With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change more books like this by Fred Pearce add to wishlist As Pearce began work on this book, normally cautious scientists beat a path to his door to tell him about their fears and their latest findings. Now he presents this up-to-date and readable book about the growing evidence for global warming and the large climatic effects it may unleash. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.26! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Earth Then and Now: Amazing Images of Our Changing World more books like this by Fred Pearce add to wishlist 300 before and after photographs that show how the world has changed. Each paired image is captioned and tells a story. Chapters include environmental change, industrialization, urbanization, natural disasters, war, travel and tourism. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	AAAS atlas of population & environment more books like this by Paul Harrison, Fred Pearce, Peter H Raven (Foreword by) add to wishlist The AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment is an important analysis of the relationships between human population and the environment. Illustrating through text, maps, and diagrams how population factors such as rates of growth, density, movement, and resource consumption, along with the use of certain technologies, affect the world's ecosystems ... see all copies from $3.58! new only from $25.78! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff more books like this by Fred Pearce add to wishlist Pearce exposes the hidden worlds that sustain a Western lifestyle, and does it by examining the sources of everything in his own life. This work offers a fascinating portrait of the effects the world's 6 billion inhabitants have on the planet, as well as their various working and living conditions. see all copies from $8.50! new only from $9.97! \| SVS
6	Keepers of the Spring: Reclaiming Our Water in an Age of Globalization more books like this by Fred Pearce add to wishlist Water has long been the object of political ambition and conflict. Recent history is full of leaders who tried to harness water to realize national dreams. Yet the people who most need water--farmers, rural villages, impoverished communities--are too often left, paradoxically, with desiccated fields, unfulfilled promises, and refugee status. It ... see all copies from $19.85! new only from $24.62! \| SVS
7	Deep Jungle more books like this by Fred Pearce add to wishlist Fred Pearce is a former news editor at "New Scientist" magazine, and is currently its environment and development consultant. He also writes regularly for the "Independent" and the "Times Higher Education Supplement", the "Boston Globe" and "Foreign Policy in the US" and has written reports and extended journalism for WWF, the UN Environment ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.24! \| first editions
8	Deep Jungle: Journey to the Heart of the Rainforest more books like this by Fred Pearce add to wishlist Fred Pearce is a former news editor at "New Scientist" magazine, and is currently its environment and development consultant. He also writes regularly for the "Independent" and the "Times Higher Education Supplement", the "Boston Globe" and "Foreign Policy in the US" and has written reports and extended journalism for WWF, the UN Environment ... see all copies from $2.69! new only from $8.79!
9	Global Warming more books like this by Fred Pearce add to wishlist Big ideas made simple -- six books in an incredible new series that explains important scientific ideas more clearly than ever before. Climate change resulting from an increase in greenhouse gases is perhaps the greatest threat to our planet's future. Here, Fred Pearce examines the causes and dramatic effects, and what can be done to remedy the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.99! \| first editions
10	The Last Generation How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change by Fred Pearce add to wishlist Climate change is not a matter of gradually increasing temperatures. New scientific findings about how our planet works show that it does not do gradual change. Under pressure, it lurches into another mode of operation. Man-made global warming is on the verge of unleashing unstoppable planetary forces. Biological and geological monsters are being ... see all copies from $6.75! new only from $12.87!
11	Acid rain more books like this by Fred Pearce add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Green Warriors more books like this by Fred Pearce add to wishlist As the century comes to a close and we begin to comprehend the scale and brutality of our assaults on the planet, environmentalists are on the march as never before. All around the world their organizations are beginning to be taken seriously as the need for a new global order establishes itself in the public imagination. But who are these ... see all copies from $2.53! first editions
13	The Dammed more books like this by Fred Pearce add to wishlist This study explores the people and the politics behind the power of water, one of the key issues for the world in the coming decades. The author examines the squabbling that is already breaking out over the fate of great international rivers, such as the Nile and the Ganges. As the best dam sites are used up, underground water stores are plundered ... see all copies from $6.78! new only from $49.90! \| first editions
14 view cover	Fragile Earth: Views of a Changing World (Collins) by Collins With Contributors; Mark Lynas; Tim Flannery; Fred Pearce; Elizabeth Kolbert; Bjorn Lomborg; Guy Dauncey; Michael Allaby add to wishlist Natural disasters, climate change, the exploitation of the world's resources and human development are changing our planet at a relentless pace. Now, using one hundred and fifty stunning images from the air, land and space, "Fragile Earth" brings together the most dramatic natural and man-made events. You can trace, building-by-building, the path ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions
15	The Big Green Book more books like this by Fred Pearce, Ian Winton (Illustrator), James Lovelock (Illustrator) add to wishlist For children, a unique introduction to the environmental problems facing our earth. Through a lively text and highly imaginative, often humorous pictures, a whole range of complicated environmental issues is explained in a way that children can understand. Each beautifully designed double-page spread is brimming with information on a topic of ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
16	When the Rivers Run Dry: Journeys Into the Heart of the World's Water Crisis more books like this by Fred Pearce add to wishlist see all copies from $20.50! new only from $20.50!
17 view cover	When the Rivers Run Dry: What Happens When Our Water Runs Out? more books like this by Fred Pearce add to wishlist Do you know how much water you use each day - not just the 5 litres you may drink, or the 150 litres you guzzle to cook, wash, and flush the toilet with. It takes around 500 litres of water to grow the wheat to produce a loaf of bread. A staggering 11,000 litres to feed enough cow to make a quarter-pound hamburger. You could take 25 baths in the ... see all copies from $7.75!
18 view cover	Earth Then and Now: Potent Visual Evidence of Our Changing World by Fred Pearce add to wishlist "Earth Then and Now" records the dramatic way in which our planet has changed in just the past one hundred years. It draws on the combined photographic archives of print, picture, and space agencies to create a powerful collection of images. Each pair of photographs has been selected to tell a compelling story - of a melting glacier, an expanding ... see all copies from $6.60! new only from $38.24!
19 view cover	The Last Generation: How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change by Fred Pearce add to wishlist Nature is fragile, environmentalists tell us. Not so. The truth is far more worrying. She is strong and packs a serious counter-punch. And, it could be on the way. This is the story that scientists are scared to tell us, because they fear they won't be believed. Man-made global warming is on the verge of unleashing unstoppable planetary forces. ... see all copies from $2.53!
20	The Last Generation: How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change by Fred Pearce add to wishlist see all copies from $79.95! new only from $79.95!
21	El Calentamiento Global more books like this by Fred Pearce add to wishlist see all copies from $2.99!
22 view cover	AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment more books like this by Paul Harris, Fred Pearce, Association For the Advancement of American add to wishlist The AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment is an important analysis of the relationships between human population and the environment. Illustrating through text, maps, and diagrams how population factors such as rates of growth, density, movement, and resource consumption, along with the use of certain technologies, affect the world's ecosystems ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $21.75! \| first editions
23	Climate and man : from the ice ages to the global greenhouse. by Fred Pearce add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24	Ian & Fred's big green book more books like this by Fred Pearce add to wishlist A child's introduction to environmental issues which explores various topics, including CFCs, rainforests, soil erosion and over-population. Fred Pearce also wrote "Turning Up the Heat" and "Acid Rain", and Ian Winton has received an American Booksellers' Association Golden Accolade. This book was also winner of the 1991 TES Junior Information ... see all copies from $2.53! first editions
25 view cover	Confessions of an Eco Sinner: Travels to Find Where My Stuff Comes from by Fred Pearce add to wishlist The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Ever wondered if declaring support for fair-trade and then chucking Kenyan beans from your shopping trolley to reduce food miles really added up? Or whether the women in Bangladeshi sweatshops really want you to stop buying the clothes from their sewing machines? Or how the system works when you dump ... see all copies from $12.38! new only from $12.38!

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