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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--And How It Can Renew America
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Thomas L Friedman
Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
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William McDonough, Michael Braungart
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism "Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, ...
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Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections and Solutions
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G Tyler Miller
Miller's "Living In The Environment, 15th Edition" is the most comprehensive and up-to-date environmental science text on the market. It has the most balanced approach to environmental science instruction, with bias-free comparative diagrams throughout and a focus on prevention of and solutions to environmental problems.
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Principles of Environmental Science: Inquiry and Applications
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William P Cunningham
Rather than the 25 to 30 chapters found in most environmental science textbooks, the authors have limited "Principles of Environmental Science: Inquiry and Applications" to 15 chapters - perfect for the one-semester, non-majors environmental science course. True to its title, the goal of this concise text is to provide an up-to-date, introductory ...
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Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future
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Richard T Wright, Bernard J Nebel
For introductory courses in Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, and Environmental Biology. This text focuses on the question "What will it take to move our civilization toward a long-term sustainable relationship with the natural world?" Its goal is to engage and inform students so they can critically evaluate environmental issues and ...
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Mechanical and electrical equipment for buildings.
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Benjamin Stein, John S. Reynolds
The most widely-used text on the design of environmental control systems in buildings for students and practicing professionals, "Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings" has for generations prepared students of architecture, architectural engineering, and construction management what they need to know about mechanical and electrical ...
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Sustaining the Earth: An Integrated Approach
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G Tyler Miller
G. Tyler Miller's worldwide bestsellers have evolved right along with the changing needs of the diverse student population. Focused specifically on energizing and engaging materials for students, Miller and new coauthor Scott Spoolman have been at work scrutinizing every line - enhancing, clarifying, and streamlining to reduce word density as well ...
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Essential Environment: The Science Behind the Stories
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Jay Withgott
Essential Environment: The Science Behind the Stories retains all the popular features of the landmark first edition--including its integrated central case study approach, and focus on the scientific process, current data and critical thinking-- in a brief 15-chapter text. The Second Edition features a new chapter on ecology with expanded ...
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The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
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Bjorn Lomborg
The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organisations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence. Using the best available statistical information ...
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Introduction to Geography: People, Places, and Environment
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Edward F Bergman
For courses in Introductory Geography. This up-to-date revision continues to affirm that what happens at places depends increasingly on what happens among places, and mapped patterns can be understood only if we understand the patterns of movement that create and continuously rearrange them. The authors introduce the major tools, techniques, and ...
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Environmental Science: Problems, Concepts, and Solutions
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G Tyler Miller, Scott Spoolman
Environmental issues affect every part of your life. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: WORKING WITH THE EARTH, Twelfth Edition, shows you how nature works, how we interact with it, and how we have sustained--and can continue to sustain--our relationship with the earth by applying natureas lessons to our economies and individual lifestyles. This central theme ...
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Silent Spring
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Rachel L Carson
A new edition of the classic environmental tract with an introduction by Al Gore. Carson's muckraking book, originally published in 1962, brought about revolutionary changes in laws that affect our air, land, and water, in addition, to a banning of DDT. Considered one of the most influential books of the last 50 years, according to a panel of 22 ...
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Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science
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Ian Plimer
In this controversial new book Australia's leading geologist makes the case that carbon dioxide is just one of many factors that drive climate--and a relatively insignificant one at that. Heaven and Earth engagingly and comprehensively synthesizes what we know--or think we know -- about the sun, earth, ice, water, and air. Heaven and Earth is a ...
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Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Declineof America's Man-Made Landscape
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James Kunstler
This work tallies up the huge economic, social and spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed lifestyle. It is also a wake-up call for citizens to reinvent the places where they live and work and to build communities that are once again worthy of their affection.
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Applications and Investigations in Earth Science
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Edward J Tarbuck
Although designed to accompany Tarbuck and Lutgens'Earth Science and Foundations of Earth Science , this manual could be used in any Earth Science lab course.This manual is a comprehensive, versatile, and adaptable collection of introductory level laboratory experiences that examine the basic principles and concepts of the Earth sciences. Going ...
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do about It
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Albert Gore, Jr.
Published to tie in to a documentary film of the same name, "An Inconvenient Truth" is Gore's battle cry about what needs to be done about global warming. 75 illustrations. (Environmental Studies)
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Earth science and the environment
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Graham R Thompson
Two well-known geologists bring considerable writing experience and professional expertise to this introductory text that strongly emphasizes the environmental aspect of earth science. Full-color art by famed scientific illustrator George Kelvin adds clarity and visual appeal. Additionally, the active and changing nature of earth science is ...
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Thinking in Systems: A Primer
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Donella Meadows
In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, "Limits to Growth"athe first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planeta Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.Meadowsa newly released manuscript, "Thinking in Systems," is ...
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Environment
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Raven
There is more to "Environment, 4e" by Raven and Berg than what you see in this text. An enhanced book-specific Web site will help you further examine critical environmental issues. The Web site offers a variety of activities to help you succeed in your course and additional tools that will help you make environmentally responsible choices. Online ...
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Chemistry in the Community: Chemcom
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American Chemical Society
Structured around societal situations, "ChemCom" is a laboratory based text, that centres itself around decision making activities, where students apply their chemistry knowledge to realistic situations. The new edition has been vividly brought to life, with three times the number of photographs, new drawings from illustrators of "Scientific ...
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The World Without Us
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Alan Weisman
Weisman, an award-winning journalist, offers readers a penetrating--and sometimes terrifying--take on how the planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence.
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Cry of the Kalahari
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Mark Owens
After spending seven years in the Kalahari Desert, the authors provide a beautiful documentary examining wildlife in the Kalahari. Their adventure is the focus of a National Geographic special for television airing in January insert.
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Resource Management for Individuals and Families
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Elizabeth B Goldsmith
This text presents theories of management and shows readers how they are applied to decision making and life planning, emphasizing the ways in which life decisions and financial choices impact the family. The coverage reflects nontraditional cultures and family structures, as well as societal trends and lifestyle changes that may influence the ...
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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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Environmental Science Working with the Earth
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G Miller
This text presents a shorter alternative to Miller's "Living in the Environment", the foundational text for the environmental science course. Both texts aim to offer a developed art program, writing that communicates scientific information clearly and effectively, and up-to-date coverage of the subject. The flexible organization allows for the ...
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