Environment category: 6530 books
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Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.
Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded...
by Aldo Leopold
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. Written with an...
by John McPhee
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where words etched in limestone said: "Strive on--the control of Nature is won, not given." In the morning sunlight, that central phrase--"the...
Coyote America
A Natural and Supernatural History
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The New York Times best-selling account of how coyotes--long the target of an extermination policy--spread to every corner of the United States
Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
"A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation."-Wall...
Facing the Wave
A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**
**Kansas City Star Best Books of the Year (2013)**
A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to...
The One-Straw Revolution
An Introduction to Natural Farming
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book,” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative...
Catastrophe
An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2000
It was a catastrophe without precedent in recorded history: for months on end, starting in A.D. 535, a strange, dusky haze robbed much of the earth of normal sunlight. Crops failed in Asia and the Middle East as global weather patterns radically altered. Bubonic plague, exploding out of Africa, wiped...
by Anke Bialas
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
When you already know what herbs you want to use and what herbal product you want to make you need a resource that covers the base formulas. Something that provides you with the ratios and the method of how to make your desired remedy.
Learn the age old methods of making herbal tea, tinctures,...
by David Laskin
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. Using the storm as a lens, Laskin captures the brutal, heartbreaking folly of this chapter in America’s history, and along the way...
Dark Summit
The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
The inside story of the deadly 2006 climbing season on Everest
On May 15, 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber,...
The Wild Trees
A Story of Passion and Daring
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained–the coast redwood trees,Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments...
Saving Tarboo Creek
One Family's Quest to Heal the Land
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
“We all live in particular places and at particular times, but when we act with family and friends to preserve a local slice of nature, we are, together, saving the planet.” —Natural History Magazine
Can each of us, as stewards of our land, make an environmental difference that can be...
Overboard!
A True Blue-water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
From masterful storyteller Michael J. Tougias comes a new, heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, his most thrilling and amazing story yet.
In May 2005, Tom Tighe, captain of a forty-five-foot-long sailboat named the Almeisan, and his first mate, Loch Reidy, welcomed three new...
The Water Will Come
Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
"An immersive, mildly gonzo and depressingly well-timed book about the drenching effects of global warming, and a powerful reminder that we can bury our heads in the sand about climate change for only so long before the sand itself disappears." (Jennifer Senior, New York Times)
A New York Times...