Island Press: 819 books
by Edward O. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Edward O. Wilson -- University Professor at Harvard, winner of two Pulitzer prizes, eloquchampion of biodiversity -- is arguably one of the mimportant thinkers of the twentieth century. His career represents both a blueprint and a challenge to those who seek to explore the frontiers of scientific...
Passing Strange and Wonderful
Aesthetics Nature And Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
In this rich and rewarding work, Yi-Fu Tuan vividly demonstrates that feeling and beauty are essential components of life and society. The aesthetic is not merely one aspect of culture but its central core -- both its driving force and its ultimate goal.Beginning with the individual and his physical...
The Burning Season
The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
In this reissue of the environmental classic The Burning Season, with a new introduction by the author, Andrew Revkin artfully interweaves the moving story of Chico Mendes's struggle with the broader natural and human history of the world's largest tropical rain forest. "It became clear," writes Revkin,...
by The Worldwatch Institute
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
The challenges are still immense, of course, as the book also documents, but the building blocks for a historic reinvention of human civilization are now within reach.
Design for Good
A New Era of Architecture for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
"That's what we do really: we do miracles,” said Anne-Marie Nyiranshimiyimana, who learned masonry in helping to build the Butaro Hospital, a project designed for and with the people of Rwanda using local materials. This, and other projects designed with dignity, show the power of good design. Almnothing...
Against the Machine
The Hidden Luddite Tradition in Literature, Art, and Individual Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
From the cars we drive to the instant messages we receive, from debate about genetically modified foods to astonishing strides in cloning, robotics, and nanotechnology, it would be hard to deny technology's powerful grip on our lives. To stop and ask whether this digitized, implanted reality is quite...
Kitchen Literacy
How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
Ask children where food comes from, and they’ll probably answer: “the supermarket.” Ask most adults, and their replies may not be much different. Where our foods are raised and what happens to them between farm and supermarket shelf have become mysteries. How did we become so disconnected from...
Vital Signs Volume 21
The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Vital Signs Volume 21 is all about growth. From natural disasters to cars to organic farming, the two dozen trends examined here indicate both increasing pressure on natural resources and scaled up efforts to live more sustainably. In 2012, world auto production set yet another record with passenger-car...
Placing Nature
Culture And Landscape Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Landscape ecology is a widely influential approach to looking at ecological function at the scale of landscapes, and accepting that human beings powerfully affect landscape pattern and function. It goes beyond investigation of pristine environments to consider ecological questions that are raised...
Apollo's Fire
Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy ignited America’s Apollo Project and sparked a revolution in space exploration. Today the New Apollo Energy Project is poised to revolutionize the production of energy and thereby save our planet. The nation that built the world’s most powerful rockets, its most...
by George W. Cox
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Changes in seasonal movements and population dynamics of migratory birds in response to ongoing changes resulting from global climate changes are a topic of great interest to conservation scientists and birdwatchers around the world. Because of their dependence on specific habitats and resources in...
Bottled and Sold
The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned scientist and freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation "genius," and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. And he drinks from the tap. Why don’t the rest of us?
Bottled and Sold shows how water wfrom being a free natural resource...
by Edward O. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Perhaps more than any other scientist of our century, Edward O. Wilson has scrutinized animals in their natural settings, tweezing out the dynamics of their social organization, their relationship with their environments, and their behavior, not only for what it tells us about the animals themselves,...
by Richard Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
In The Empty Ocean, acclaimed author and artist Richard Ellis tells the story of our continued plunder of life in the sea and weighs the chances for its recovery. Through fascinating portraits of a wide array of creatures, he introduces us to the many forms of sea life that humans have fished, hunted,...