Environment category: 6530 books
An Indomitable Beast
The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The jaguar is one of the mmysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of environmental and human threats partly because of an evolutionary history unique among wild felines, but also because of a power and indomitable spirit so strong,...
by Philosophical Library
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Reverence for Life—Albert Schweitzer’s pivotal philosophy
Musician, physician, humanitarian, and philosopher, Albert Schweitzer was a twentieth-century Renaissance man who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his “Reverence for Life” philosophy. The Wisdom of Albert Schweitzer explores this...
Becoming Water
Glaciers in a Warming World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.
Becoming Water takes the reader on a tour of Canada’s glaciers, describing the stories they tell and educating the reader about how glaciers came to be,...
Respect for Nature
A Theory of Environmental Ethics - 25th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth? In Respect for Nature, Paul Taylor draws on biology, moral philosophy, and environmental science to defend a biocentric environmental ethic in which all life has value. Without making claims for...
Being Animal
Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
For most people, animals are the most significant aspects of the nonhuman world. They symbolize nature in our imaginations, in popular media and culture, and in campaigns to preserve wilderness, yet scholars habitually treat animals and the environment as mutually exclusive objects of concern. Conducting...
The Tarball Chronicles
A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican and Into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Winner of the 2013 ASLE Book AwardWinner of the Reed Award for the Best Book on the Southern Environment 2011Named a Top Book from the South 2011 by The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA San Francisco Chronicle Gift Book Recommendation for 2011A Southern Independent Booksellers BestsellerTraveling the shores...
Threaded Journeys
Fishing, Hunting, Conservation, Adventure...and America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2016
Threaded Journeys is a compilation of fly fishing and bow hunting stories ‘interwoven’ with discussions on various issues regarding conservation, preservation, and healthy living. The author, Tom Johnson, delves into topics about our blue-green planet and its resources that we must preserve. ...
The Wind Engineers
Building a Hurricane-Safe House
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society's most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world.
Hurricanes and tornadoes--and the devastation they...
Introduction to Energy and Climate
Developing a Sustainable Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
The purpose of this textbook is to provide a well-rounded working knowledge of both climate change and environmental sustainability for a wide range of students. Students will learn core concepts and methods to analyze energy and environmental impacts; will understand what is changing the earth’s...
by Andrew J. Marshall, Bruce M. Beehler
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
The Ecology of Papua provides a comprehensive review of current scientific knowledge on all aspects of the natural history of western (Indonesian) New Guinea.
Designed for students of conservation, environmental workers, and academic researchers, it is a richly detailed text, dense with biogeographical...
by Andrew J. Marshall, Bruce M. Beehler
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
The Ecology of Papua provides a comprehensive review of current scientific knowledge on all aspects of the natural history of western (Indonesian) New Guinea.
Designed for students of conservation, environmental workers, and academic researchers, it is a richly detailed text, dense with biogeographical...
by Albert Bates
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
The scourge of plastic has poisoned our environment and damaged our health. In this timely book, Albert Bates takes a critical look at the magnitude of this ubiquitous problem, and explains that what is needed is mandatory economic and industrial changes so that recycled, bio-sourced, and biodegradable...
Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin
Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made...
Forests at Risk
Climate Change and the Future of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Climate change poses a huge threat to the West. The currmountain pine beetle epidemic with over 50 million acres of dying trees in western North America has created a powerful “teachable moment” across the region.
A primary goal of the Forests At Risk symposium was to reframe the nation’s...