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Sustainable Excellence
The Future of Business in a Fast-Changing World
Aron Cramer and Zachary Karabell
Rodale Books
A pioneering work about integrating environmentally responsible practices with the aims of big business It is becoming increasingly clear that today’s...
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Changes in the Land, Revised Edition
Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
20th-Anniversary Edition; William Cronon; With a Foreword by John Demos and an Afterword by the author
Hill and Wang
"Written with an elegant simplicity of style, this pioneering study has become an enduring classic in the field of American colonial and environmental history."—
Howard R. Lamar, Yale University
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If Dogs Could Talk
Exploring the Canine Mind
Vilmos Csányi; Translated by Richard E. Quandt
North Point Press
“This book is endlessly enlightening and entertaining . . . will appeal to all dog owners.” —Ann LaFarge, Taconic News How do dogs think? Short of breeding...
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Oceana
Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them
Ted Danson with Michael D'Orso
Rodale Books
Most people know Ted Danson as the affable bartender Sam Malone in the long-running television series Cheers. But fewer realize that over the course of the...
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Sahara
The Extraordinary History of the World's Largest Desert
Marq De Villiers with Sheila Hirtle
Walker & Company
In the parched and seemingly lifeless heart of the Sahara desert, earthworms find enough moisture to survive. Four major mountain ranges interrupt the flow of...
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Sable Island
The Strange Origins and Curious History of a Dune Adrift in the Atlantic
Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle
Walker & Company
"As delightful to experience in words as it is difficult to experience in actuality . . . inherently compelling."—
Chicago Sun-Times
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Windswept
The Story of Wind and Weather
Marq de Villiers
Walker & Company
Windswept is the story of humankind’s long struggle to understand wind and weather—from the wind gods of ancient times to early discoveries of the dynamics of...
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The End
Natural Disasters, Manmade Catastrophes, and the Future of Human Survival
Marq de Villiers
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, pandemics, cosmic radiation, gamma bursts from space, colliding comets, and asteroids – these catastrophic events...
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The Living Great Lakes
Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
Jerry Dennis
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Named the Best Book of the Year by the Outdoor Writers Association of America
Winner of the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award and the Great Lakes Culture Award for Nonfiction from Michigan State University
A Read Michigan Notable Book
"A vigorous adventure story packed with tidbits about the Great Lakes' extraordinary human and natural history. Dennis brings to his subject a respect born of knowledge of the sublime, deadly power of the lakes' storms."—
Nature Conservancy
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The Vertical Farm
Feeding the World in the 21st Century
Dr. Dickson Despommier
Picador
“Despommier has quickly become the central figure in what could be a worldwide revolution.”—
Scientific American
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The Viking in the Wheat Field
A Scientist's Struggle to Preserve the World's Harvest
Susan Dworkin
Walker & Company
For thirty years, Danish plant scientist Bent Skovmand served as adviser to dozens of countries and hunted for seeds with genes to resist disease and such...
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The Great Warming
Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Brian Fagan
Bloomsbury Press
“[A] fascinating account of shifting climatic conditions and their consequences from about A.D. 800 to 1300, often referred to as the Medieval Warm Period . . . Mr. Fagan, an anthropologist who has written on climate change in
The Long Summer
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The Little Ice Age,
proceeds methodically, working his way across the globe and reading the evidence provided by tree rings, deep-sea cores, coral samples, computer weather models and satellite photos. The picture that emerges remains blurry . . . but it has sharpened considerably over the past 40 years, enough for Mr. Fagan to present a coherent account of profound changes in human societies from the American Southwest to the Huang He River basin in China.”—
William Grimes,
The New York Times
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Forecast
The Surprising--and Immediate--Consequences of Climate Change
Stephan Faris
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The revealing and highly praised portrayal of the surprising ways that climate change will affect the world in the very near future Climate change has already...
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Rewilding the World
Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution
Caroline Fraser
Picador
“Since I spend much of my time trying to head off environmental calamity, this fascinating and lyrical book came as a particularly welcome gift. It shows how scientists and activists are using imagination and research to build a realistic strategy for securing our green and noble heritage for the future. It will help you think big, which is the only way to think about these questions.”—
Bill McKibben, author of
Eaarth
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The End of Nature
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The Fish's Eye
Essays About Angling and the Outdoors
Ian Frazier
Picador
"There is nothing so rare as a perfect book . . .
The Fish’s Eye
, by Ian Frazier, is one of these happy few . . . It is a charming and idiosyncratic collection in which Frazier reflects on his life of fly-fishing, the great outdoors, the natural worlds of the city and suburb, and their unique travails and pleasures."—
Chicago Tribune
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Rowing to Latitude
Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge
Jill Fredston
North Point Press
Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug...
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
Thomas L. Friedman
Picador
"When the Soviet Union chucked Sputnik into space in 1957, it galvanized America to come from behind and win the space race. The federal government opened its checkbook to finance an array of projects. Students shifted to new subjects like astronautical engineering and Russian studies to help the United States understand and eclipse the Soviet Union. The moon shot inspired a patriotic nation and produced useful commercial technologies along the way. The space race was expensive, but it worked. Thomas L. Friedman’s latest book is a plea for a new Sputnik moment. His breezy tour of America’s energy policy documents a nation that has become dangerously dependent on fossil fuels . . . Mr. Friedman’s voice is compelling and will be widely heard . . . Mr. Friedman’s strength is his diagnosis of our energy and environmental nightmares . . . The most intriguing chapter in Mr. Friedman’s book is his last, which poses the toughest challenge. Can America be like China, where a visionary government can impose a new direction on the country in the face of national emergency? Or will America devolve into a country that is so mired in red tape and local opposition that it builds absolutely nothing anywhere, near anything? Societies like that get stuck because they can’t embrace new technologies, like the cherished wind turbines and the power lines needed to carry their current . . . Heads will be nodding across airport lounges, as readers absorb Mr. Friedman’s common sense about how America and the world are dangerously addicted to cheap fossil fuels while we recklessly use the atmosphere as a dumping ground for carbon dioxide. The Sputnik is heading into orbit, thanks to high energy prices, growing fear of the changing climate and pleas like Mr. Friedman’s. But whether we as a nation—and with us, the world—are really prepared to do anything to solve the problem is still in doubt."—
David Victor,
The New York Times
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Indian Creek Chronicles
A Winter Alone in the Wilderness
With a New Afterword by the Author; Pete Fromm
Picador
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm’s account of seven winter months spent alone in...
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Our Posthuman Future
Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
Francis Fukuyama
Picador
"In this groundbreaking inquiry, Fukuyama warns that advances in drugs and genetic engineering will allow society to control human behavior and manipulate physical characteristics—and this power could alter our understanding of what it means to be human . . . In a contentious and fast-moving policy area, Fukuyama provides a remarkably sensible and human vision of what is at stake and what needs to be done."—
Foreign Affairs
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Critical Path
R. Buckminster Fuller; Kiyoshi Kuromiya, Adjuvant
St. Martin's Griffin
R. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century, renowned for his achievements as an inventor, designer, architect,...
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The Meadow
James Galvin
Holt Paperbacks
An American Library Association Notable Book In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider's web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year...
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A Reenchanted World
The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature
James William Gibson
Picador
A Reenchanted World
reveals the many ways in which our self-imposed exile from our original network of natural relationships is civilization’s most disorienting misstep. Fortunately for us, James William Gibson gives us a compass back to that very sane, very grounded place. This is a wisely haunting, soulful book.”—
Carl Safina, author of
Song for the Blue Ocean
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Voyage of the Turtle
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The Great Disruption
Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World
Paul Gilding
Bloomsbury Press
\u0022One of those who has been warning me of [a coming crisis] for a long time is Paul Gilding, the Australian environmental business expert. He has a name...
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An Inconvenient Truth
The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Al Gore
Rodale Books
"As a user-friendly introduction to global warming and a succinct summary of many of the central arguments laid out in those other volumes,
An Inconvenient Truth
is lucid, harrowing and bluntly effective . . . Like Mr. Gore's 1992 book
Earth in the Balance
, this volume displays an earnest, teacherly tone, but it's largely free of the New Age psychobabble and A-student grandiosity that rumbled through that earlier book. The author's wonky fascination with policy minutiae has been tamed in these pages, and his love of charts and graphs has been put to good use . . . In this multimedia day of shorter attention spans and high-profile authors,
An Inconvenient Truth
could play a similar role in galvanizing public opinion about a real and present danger. It could goad the public into reading more scholarly books on the subject, and it might even push awareness of global warming to a real tipping point—and beyond."—
Michiko Kakutani,
The New York Times
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