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A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River
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Aldo Leopold (Foreword by), Charles W Schwartz (Illustrator), Carolyn Clugston Leopold (Preface by)
"We can place this book on the shelf that holds the writings of Thoreau and John Muir." San Francisco Chronicle These astonishing portraits of the natural world explore the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled American landscape -- the mountains and the prairies, the deserts and the coastlines. A stunning tribute to our land and a bold ...
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The Future of Life
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Edward Osborne Wilson
Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson paints a graphic picture of the human disregard for nature through examinations of the hunting habits of our forebears and the modern-day technological destruction of our environment. But despite the bleak view, Wilson is hopeful that, through science, we will come to our senses and make the right choices about how to ...
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A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River
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Aldo Leopold, Charles W Schwartz (Illustrator)
With other Essays on Conservation from Round River'. Illustrated by Charles W. Schwartz.
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Sand County Almanac
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Aldo Leopold
With this spectacularly illustrated gift edition, a new generation of readers can walk beside one of America's most respected naturalists as he conveys the beauty of a marsh before sunrise or the wealth of history to be found in an ancient oak.
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American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
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Bill McKibben
Author and activist McKibben gathers the essential American writings that changed the way the public looks at the natural world. "American Earth" features essays by Walt Whitman, Rachel Carson, Barbara Kingsolver, Michael Pollan, and dozens more.
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Biophilia
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Edward Osborne Wilson
The eminent biologist reflects on his own response to nature and the aesthetic aspects of his exploration of natural systems in an intensely personal essay that examines the essential links between mankind and the rest of the living world.
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Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston
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Ernest Callenbach
This is the 30th Anniversary edition of the classic environmental novel about a future in which a socially and ecologically responsible state is created in the West. The story is told by a reporter who is the first media vistor from the United States allowed.
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Wilderness and the American Mind
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Professor Roderick Nash
Roderick Nash's classic study of America's changing attitudes toward wilderness has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times has listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine has included it in a survey of "books that changed our world", and ...
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Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet
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Edward Humes
Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Humes examines a crucial crossroads in environmental preservation--and the remarkable steps taken by philanthropists and visionaries who dedicate their lives to saving land from destruction.
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On the Mesa
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John Nichols (Text by)
For the first time in paperback with a new foreword by the author, On the Mesa is an autobiographical celebration of life in a fragile and marginal place. On the deserted sagebrush plain just west of his home in Taos, New Mexico, John Nichols finds a healing serenity and an astonishing variety of life and mood that casual observers rarely notice. ...
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Method in Ecology: Strategies for Conservation
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Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Earl D McCoy (Editor)
In this volume, the authors discuss what practical contributions ecology can and can't make in applied science and environmental problem solving. In the first section, they discuss conceptual problems that have often prevented the formulation and evaluation of powerful, precise, general theories, explain why island biogeography is still beset with ...
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Why Should I Protect Nature? Why Should I Protect Nature?
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Jen Green, Wendy (Editor), Mike Gordon (Illustrator)
Today, some of the most important questions kids ask are related to the natural environment. These enlightening and entertaining entries in the four-book Why Should I? series demonstrates the importance of protecting nature and recycling. Includes a note for parents and teachers. Full color.
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
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Timothy Egan
In "The Worst Hard Time," Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history. Now he performs the same alchemy with this story of the largest-ever forest fire in America, painting a moving portrait of the people who lived through the disaster.
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Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-First Century
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Daniel B Botkin, Ph.D.
Global warming, acid rain, the depletion of the rainforests, the polluting of our atmosphere and oceans - the threats to our environment are growing at an alarming pace. It's certainly easy to indulge the kinds of desperate, hand-wringing environmentalism that point to problems without suggesting solutions. Thankfully, however, Daniel Botkin is ...
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The Book of Yaak
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Rick Bass
The Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana is one of the last great wild places in the United States, a land of black bears and grizzlies, wolves and coyotes, bald and golden eagles, and even a handful of humans. In "The Book of Yaak", Rick Bass captures the soul of the valley itself and shows how if places like the Yaak are lost, so too will be the ...
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An American Idea: The Making of the National Parks
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Kim Heacox, Professor Jimmy Carter (Foreword by)
This book chronicles the evolution of the American land ethic, beginning in 18th century Europe, through the 1800s, culminating with the creation of the national park service in 1916. An epilogue brings the story up to the present and features the work of celebrated photographer Ansel Adams. The story of the birth of our national parks is a unique ...
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365 Ways to Save the Earth
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Philippe Bourseiller (Photographer), Elizabeth Kolbert (Foreword by), Carissa Bluestone (Text by)
Throughout his award-winning photographic career, Bourseiller has recorded the splendors of untamed nature, from the immensities of the ice floe to the fury of the volcano. In "365 Ways to Save the Earth," he takes the reader on a daily journey through the planet, revealing its hidden face.
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Wilderness and the American Mind, Third Edition
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Professor Roderick Nash
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Land of Bears and Honey: A Natural History of East Texas
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Joe C Truett, Daniel W Lay
The authors of "Land of Bears and Honey" are both native East Texans. Joe C. Truett heads Truett Research, an organization that investigates the effects of people on the land; for the past twenty-five years he has conducted research on the ecological impacts of human actions. Daniel W. Lay, now a consultant in forestry and wildlife, worked for ...
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Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks
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Mark David Spence
This study examines the ideal of wilderness preservation in the United States from the antebellum era to the first half of the 20th century, showing how the early conception of the wilderness as the place where Indians lived (or should live) gave way to the idealization of uninhabited wilderness. It focuses on specific policies of Indian removal ...
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American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation
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John F Reiger
Environmentalists who believe that hunters and anglers are interested only in the kill and the catch may be surprised to learn that sportsmen were originally in the vanguard of the conservation movement. Reiger's work has been hailed as an authoritative look at these early conservationists; now his landmark book is available in an expanded edition ...
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The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World
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Jacques Yves Cousteau, Susan Schiefelbein
Part adventure story, part manifesto, this prescient, clear-sighted book, available for the first time in the United States, is a remarkable testament to the life and work of one of our greatest modern adventurers.
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Win-Win Ecology: How the Earth's Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise
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Michael L Rosenzweig
As humanity presses down inexorably on the natural world, people debate the extent to which we can save the Earth's millions of different species without sacrificing human economic welfare. But is this argument wise? Must the human and natural worlds be adversaries? In this book, ecologist Michael Rosenzweig finds that ecological science actually ...
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Crossing Next Meridian, P
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Charles F Wilkinson
In "Crossing the Next Meridian," Charles F. Wilkinson, an expert on federal public lands, Native American issues, and the West's arcane water laws explains some of the core problems facing the American West now and in the years to come. He examines the outmoded ideas that pervade land use and resource allocation and argues that significant reform ...
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Nature and the American: Three Centuries of Changing Attitudes
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Hans Huth
'A fascinating and charming presentation of our earliest American expressions of appreciation for the natural scene, wild and unmodified by man...an account of the development of this appreciation and its practical application in programs to protect such areas from exploitation and development' - "Nature". 'A valuable reference work for the ...
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