Paul R Ehrlich: 11 books
The Dominant Animal
Human Evolution and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
In humanity’s more than 100,000 year history, we have evolved from vulnerable creatures clawing sustenance from Earth to a sophisticated global society manipulating every inch of it. In short, we have become the dominant animal. Why, then, are we creating a world that threatens our own species?...
Hope on Earth
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Hope on Earth is the thought-provoking result of a lively and wide-ranging conversation between two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary environmental scientists: Paul R. Ehrlich, whose book The Population Bomb shook the world in 1968 (and continues to shake it), and Michael Charles Tobias,...
The Annihilation of Nature
Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Gerardo Ceballos, Anne H. Ehrlich, and Paul R. Ehrlich serve as witnesses in this trial of human neglect, where the charge is the massive and escalating assault on living things. Nature is being annihilated, not only because of the human population explosion, but also as a result of massive commercial...
Betrayal of Science and Reason
How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In this hard-hitting and timely book, world-renowned scientists and writers Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich speak out against what they call the "brownlash." Brownlash rhetoric, created by public relations spokespersons and a few dissidscientists, is a deliberate misstatemof scientific findings...
Human Natures
Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
The Bell Curve, The Moral Animal, The Selfish Gene -- these and a hof other books and articles have made a seemingly overwhelming case that our genes determine our behavior. Now, in a new book that is sure to stir controversy, one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists shows why mof those...
Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie
Australia, America, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Though separated by thousands of miles, the United States and Australia have much in common. Geographically both countries are expansive—the United States is the fourth largest in land mass and Australia the sixth—and both possess a vast amount of natural biodiversity. At the same time, both nations...
Jaws
The Story of a Hidden Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
There's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded, creating not only aesthetic challenges but also difficulties with breathing. Modern orthodontics has persuaded us that braces and oral devices can correct...
Wild Solutions
How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
We live on an unexplored planet, ignorant of more than eighty percent of the species that share our world. In this fascinating and abundantly illustrated book, two eminent ecologists discuss the biological diversity of the Earth, showing how the natural systems that surround us play an essential role...
One With Nineveh
Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Named a Notable Book for 2005 by the American Library Association, One with Nineveh is a fresh synthesis of the major issues of our time, now brought up to date with an afterword for the paperback edition. Through lucid explanations, telling anecdotes, and incisive analysis, the book spotlights the...
Humanity on a Tightrope
Thoughts on Empathy, Family, and Big Changes for a Viable Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
When we think of family, we most often think of our sisters and brothers, our cousins and grandparents, rather than our world family or even our community connections. We still identify with our differences more than our similarities, unless it's convenient to do otherwise. Here, two seasoned authors...
by John M. Marzluff, Tony Angell, Paul R. Ehrlich
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Crows and people share similar traits and social strategies. To a surprising extent, to know the crow is to know ourselves.”-from the PrefaceFrom the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain, there is clear evidence that crows and...