Environment category: 6530 books
by Art Bell, Whitley Strieber
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2001
Killer tornadoes. Violent tropical storms. Devastating temperatures. Are these just the prelude to an unprecedented environmental disaster in our near future?
Two of America's leading investigators of unexplained phenomena -- Art Bell, the top-rated late-night radio talk-show host, and Whitley Strieber,...
Born Free
The Story of Elsa
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Fifty years ago Joy Adamson first introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa the lioness, whom she had rescued as an orphaned cub, and raised at her home in Kenya. But as Elsa had been born free, Joy made the heartbreaking decision that she must be returned to the wild when she was...
by Bill McKibben
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth.
This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still...
El cambio climático
Causas, efectos y soluciones
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 17, 2017
En "El cambio climático" se ofrecen un compendio conciso, tanto de los elementos científicos básicos del conocimiento acerca del cambio climático, la modificación de la composición química de la atmósfera y sus repercusiones en los climas del planeta, como en aspectos relacionados...
Being a Beast
Adventures Across the Species Divide
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
A passionate naturalist explores what it’s really like to be an animal—by living like them
How can we ever be sure that we really know the other? To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans, the...
A Storm Too Soon
A True Story of Disaster, Survival and an Incredib
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
FROM MASTERFUL STORYTELLER MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS COMES A NEW, HEART-STOPPING TRUE-LIFE TALE OF MARITIME DISASTER, SURVIVAL, AND DARING RESCUE, HIS MOST THRILLING AND AMAZING STORY YET.
Seventy-foot waves batter a torn life raft 250 miles out to sea in one of the world’s most dangerous places,...
Water
The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2001
An award-winning, alarming account of “one of the central challenges facing civilization” (The Washington Post Book World).
Offering ecological, historical, and cultural perspectives, this “well-researched and thought-provoking book” (Minneapolis Tribune) explains how we are using, misusing,...
La sexta extinción
Una historia nada natural
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Kolbert explora cómo la actividad humana, el consumo de combustibles fósiles, la acidificación de los océanos, la contaminación, la deforestación y las migraciones forzadas amenazan contra formas de vida de todo tipo. «Se estima que un tercio de todos los corales que forman arrecifes, un tercio...
The Beauty of the Beasts
Tales of Hollywood's Wild Animal Stars
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
A trainer shares true stories of famous lion, orangutan, and other animal actors that “will hold readers enthralled” (School Library Journal).
They are major stars who do not speak a word onscreen, yet are world famous for their compelling performances. Who are they? The animal stars of...
by ASU Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative, Paolo Bacigalupi, Adam Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
A collection of gripping stories that explore a range of possible futures for Earth and humanity transformed by climate change. Featuring contributions from renowned science fiction authors Kim Stanley Robinson and Paolo Bacigalupi, along with 12 stories from Arizona State University's 2016 Climate Fiction Short Story Contest.
Breach of Faith
Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2006
Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans’ daily newspaper, the Pulitzer Prize—winning Times-Picayune, Jed Horne...
by Patrick Derr, Edward McNamara
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
Case Studies in Environmental Ethics is a collection of more than 40 case studies covering diverse topics such as: genetic engineering, aesthetics, pollution, animal rights, population, and resource management. It is intended as a supplemental book for college courses primarily in Environmental Ethics....
The Collapse of Western Civilization
A View from the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and—finally—the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West...
Super Volcano: The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park
The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Despite growing evidence of geothermic activity under America's first and foremost national park, it took geologists a long time to realize that there was actually a volcano beneath Yellowstone. And then, why couldn't they find the caldera or crater? Because, as an aerial photograph finally revealed,...