Environment category: 6530 books
Sudden Sea
The Great Hurricane of 1938
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
The massive destruction wreaked by the Hurricane of 1938 dwarfed that of the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Mississippi floods of 1927, making the storm the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Now, R.A. Scotti tells the story.
Wilderness Survival Handbook : Primitive Skills for Short-Term Survival and Long-Term Comfort: Primitive Skills for Short-Term Survival and Long-Term Comfort
Primitive Skills for Short-Term Survival and Long-Term Comfort
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
An essential guide to everything you need to stay sheltered, fed, healthy, and safe in the backcountry
Organized around the six essentials of survival (shelter, water, food, fire, comfort and health, and navigation), Wilderness Survival Handbook covers 100 skills and techniques, including preserving...
Consulting the Genius of the Place
An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A call to agricultural revolution from a locavore and author who is one of “the most prominent and effective advocates of American environmental thought” (Prairie Fire Newspaper).
For years, Wes Jackson has made it his mission to raise Americans’ awareness about where their food comes...
The Genius of Earth Day
How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay ritual homage to the planet every April 22, everyone knows something about Earth Day. Some people may also know that Earth Day 1970 made the environmental movement a major force in American political...
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.
In...
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated Third Edition
The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
While everything appears to be collapsing around us – ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars – we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children’s children. The inspiration for...
The Song of the Dodo
Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a
brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope,
far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in
precarious times, which radically alters the way in
which we understand the natural world and our place
in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment
and...
by Sue Hubbell
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
A New York Times Notable Book: “A melodious mix of memoir, nature journal, and beekeeping manual” (Kirkus Reviews).
Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her bees’ lives, author Sue Hubbell lovingly describes the ins and outs of beekeeping on her small Missouri farm, where the...
by John Muir
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book-collection file includes: The Grand Canon of the Colorado (article), The Mountains of California, Steep Trails, Stickeen (article), The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Travels in Alaska, Yosemite, My First Summer in the Sierras, and Alaska Days with John Muir (by S. Hall Young). According to...
The Forest Unseen
A Year's Watch in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of old-growth forest--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Look out for David Haskell's new book, The Songs of Tree: Stories From Nature's Great Connectors, coming in April...
Seven Elements That Changed the World
An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
From iron to uranium, titanium to silicon, this is “a wide-ranging look at scientific progress. It’s also a lot of fun” (The Wall Street Journal).
Iron. Carbon. Gold. Silver. Uranium. Titanium. Silicon. These elements of the periodic table have shaped our lives and our world, in ways...
The Invention of Nature
Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism.
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The Uninhabitable Earth
Life After Warming
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated...
Legacy of Luna
The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousandyear-old redwood in Humboldt County, California.
Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a mountain on December 10, 1997, for...