Environment category: 6530 books
by Rachel Carson
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
This New York Times bestseller by the author of the environmental classic Silent Spring beautifully details the coastal ecosystem of birds and the sea.
In her first book, preeminent nature writer Rachel Carson tells the story of the sea creatures and birds that dwell in and around the waters...
Rain
A Natural and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive.
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It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain.
Cynthia Barnett's *Rain begins four billion years ago with...
Active Hope
How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Most books addressing global issues focus on either our dire problems or grand-scale solutions. Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone focus instead on equipping readers with a transformational mind-set. Facing the facts of a planet and economies in crisis, many individuals feel hopeless because they recognize...
by Murie
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
This enduring story of life, adventure, and love in Alaska was written by a woman who embraced the remote Alaskan wilderness and became one of its strongest advocates. In this moving testimonial to the preservation of the Arctic wilderness, Mardy Murie writes from her heart about growing up in Fairbanks,...
The Big Ones
How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them)
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
By the world-renowned seismologist, a riveting history of natural disasters, their impact on our culture, and new ways of thinking about the ones to come
Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanoes--they stem from the same forces that give our planet life. Earthquakes give us natural...
Watermelons
How Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children's Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
If global warming isn't real then how come the ice caps are melting? Why would all the world's top scientists lie to us? What exactly is so wrong with biofuels, wind farms, carbon taxes, sustainability and preserving scarce resources for future generations? And what about Bangladesh, the drowning...
Wild Ones
A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
"Intelligent and highly nuanced… This book may bring tears to your eyes." -- San Francisco Chronicle
Journalist Jon Mooallem has watched his little daughter’s world overflow with animals butterfly pajamas, appliquéd owls—while the actual world she’s inheriting slides into...
Diver Down
Real-World SCUBA Accidents and How to Avoid Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
One diver, after a seemingly brief period below the surface, discovers that his gas supply has run perilously low. Another, paralyzed, bobs helplessly on the surface, and when a poorly trained divemaster attempts rescue, things go from bad to worse. Two other divers, fascinated by the bountiful undersea...
Complete Guide to Coaching Girls Basketball (EBOOK)
Building a Great Team the Carolina Way
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
"Coach Hatchell's book is a must-read for every girls' basketball coach. She is fantastic in every phase of the game, and I love watching her teams play." Roy Williams, head men's basketball coach, University of North Carolina, and Associated Press Coach of the Year, 2006 What does it take...
The Man Who Walked Through Time
The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The remarkable classic of nature writing by the first man ever to have walked the entire length of the Grand Canyon.
How to Shit in the Woods, 3rd Edition
An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
It’s the feisty third edition of How to Shit in the Woods, jam-packed with new information for outdoor enthusiasts of every stripe. Hailed in its first edition as “the most important environmental book of the decade” by Books of the Southwest, and in its second as “the real shit” by the...
by Alexander Stilwell
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Survival Techniques takes you through all the things you need to know about surviving natural disasters and staying alive in the wild, such as where to find water in the desert; how to build shelters from locally available materials that will keep out the wind and rain but will also be ventilated; and...
The Complete Book of Boondock RVing : Camping Off the Beaten Path: Camping Off the Beaten Path
Camping Off the Beaten Path
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Here’s Your Guide to Camping Off the Beaten Path
Ever feel frustrated by crowded RV parks? Yearn to camp out in the wild beside a babbling mountain brook or before a remote panoramic vista? Bill and Jan Moeller have been doing just that for more than thirty years, and The Complete Book of...
A 1,000-Mile Walk on the Beach
One Woman’s Trek of the Perimeter of Lake Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
In 2009, Loreen Niewenhuis walked completely around Lake Michigan. This book chronicles that journey, a 1,000-mile trek around the world’s fifth-largest lake.
The book explores both the geology of the lake and the measure of a person – a woman, married, mother of two sons (who joined her...