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How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by Tim Flannery
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by Jeff Goodell
Published Aug 2018
Read ReviewsAn eye-opening and essential tour of the vanishing world.
by Simon Winchester
Published Oct 2016
Read ReviewsPacific is a paean to this magnificent sea of beauty, myth, and imagination that is transforming our lives.
by Susan Casey
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsFrom Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devils Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.
by Stephan Faris
Published Sep 2009
Read ReviewsA vivid and illuminating portrayal of the surprising ways that climate change will affect the world in the near futurepolitically, economically, and culturally
by Charles Clover
Published Mar 2008
Read Reviews"Here is the worlds fishing industry laid bare, gutted and filleted for all to see: the greed, the folly, the waste and destruction. You will never look at a fish supper in the same way again." - The Economist.
by Mayer Hillman
Published Apr 2007
Read ReviewsAn outstanding overview on global warming--and what we can do about it--from a distinguished world-class authority.
by Jeff Goodell
Published Apr 2007
Read ReviewsAs oil prices increase, Coal has effectively become the default fuel for electricity generation in the twenty-first century. Goodell debunks the faulty assumptions underlying coal's revival and shatters the myth of cheap coal energy.
by Marla Cone
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsWhether hunting giant bowhead whales with native Alaskans who are struggling to protect their livelihood, or tracking endangered polar bears in Norway, Cone reports with an insider's eye on the dangers of pollution to native peoples and ecosystems, how Arctic cultures are adapting to this pollution, and what solutions will prevent the crisis ...
by Jared Diamond
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsBrilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?
by Ross Gelbspan
Published Nov 2005
Read ReviewsA brilliant examination of the most challenging environmental and political crisis this civilization has ever faced, Gelbspan shows not only the seriousness of climate disruption, but also how it could be deflected at huge savings to the public.
by Dr John Brandenburg, Monica Rix Paxson
Published Mar 2000
Read ReviewsA passionate call to arms to halt the destruction of the worlds forests and end the release of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels.
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