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by Sonali Deraniyagala
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir,...
by Thomas Alan Ratz
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Arizona is proud to have one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World�the Grand Canyon. With the arrival of the Santa Fe and Union Pacific Railroad in the early 20th century, the development of the canyon began in earnest. The railroads, along with the Santa Fe�s business partner, the Fred Harvey...
Wild Lives
Leading Conservationists on the Animals and the Planet They Love
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
“You will be inspired” by these true stories from twenty leaders of the conservation movement detailing their tireless, fascinating work preserving wildlife (Jane Goodall).
Today we are faced with the frightening possibility that as many as fifty percent of species currently alive will...
Disaster in Lawrence
The Fall of the Pemberton Mill
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2008
The destruction was unimaginable. Workers in nearby factories watched with horror as the Pemberton Mill buckled and then collapsed, trapping more than six hundred workers, many of them women and children. Word of the disaster spread quickly and volunteers rushed to the scene. As survivors called out...
Simple Prosperity
Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
In his bestseller Affluenza, David Wann and his co-authors diagnosed the debilitating disease of over-consumption. In Simple Prosperity he shows readers how we can overcome this disease by investing in a variety of real wealth sources. To recapture a more abundant and sustainable lifestyle, try:
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California Dry
Diary During the Great Drought
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
In this digital publication, James Laxer writes a diary of the time he spent in California in the winter of 2014 during the great drought. In Los Angeles and the vicinity of Palm Springs, Laxer looks at the golden state at a time when its way of life is facing an existential threat as a consequence...
Two Billion Trees and Counting
The Legacy of Edmund Zavitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Edmund Zavitz (1875–1968) rescued Ontario from the ravages of increasingly more powerful floods, erosion, and deadly fires. Wastelands were talking over many hectares of once-flourishing farmlands and towns. Sites like the Oak Ridges Moraine were well on their way to becoming a dust bowl and all...
Jumping Fire
A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
This “terrifying, grimly funny” memoir about fighting forest fires in Alaska offers “an affectionate portrait of a fraternity of daredevils” (The New Yorker).
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
Fighting fires since 1965, legendary smokejumper Murry A. Taylor finally hung...
City Farmer
Adventures in Urban Food Growing
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
"It's wonderfully soul-nourishing to read a book that's all about impossibilities made possible, and how to plant your dreams and watch them grow." -- Globe & Mail
City Farmer celebrates the new ways that urban dwellers are getting closer to their food. Not only are backyard vegetable...
American Wasteland
How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It)
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
What Tom Vanderbilt did for traffic and Brian Wansink did for mindless eating, Jonathan Bloom does for food waste. The topic couldn't be timelier: As more people are going hungry while simultaneously more people are morbidly obese, American Wasteland sheds light on the history, culture, and mindset...
Red River Rising
The Anatomy of a Flood and the Survival of an American City
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
On April 19, 1997, in one of the most dramatic floods in U.S. history, more than 50,000 people abandoned their homes and businesses in Grand Forks, North Dakota. A nation watched as the heart of downtown, engulfed by a river, burst into flames above the water line. Like Sebastian Junger's The Perfect...
by Theresa Mitchell Barbo, Captain W. Russell Webster USCG (Ret.), Master Chief John "Jack" Downey (Ret.)
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
On February 18, 1952, off the coast of Cape Cod, a fierce nor'easter snapped in half two 503-foot oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer. Human grace and grit, leadership and endurance prevail as Theresa Mitchell Barbo and Captain W. Russell Webster (Ret.) recount the historic, heroic rescue...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Preparing for Armageddon, Natural Disasters, Nuclear Strikes, the Zombie Apocalypse, and Every Other Threat to Human Life on Earth!
Most of us have thought about how we would handle various types of scenarios that could signal the end of the world. There are plenty of movies on the subject,...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Paul Hawken in his book “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading...