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• FROM EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST MENNO SCHILTHUIZEN, A BOOK THAT WILL MAKE YOU SEE YOURSELF AND THE WORLD AROUND YOU IN AN ENTIRELY NEW WAY For a long time, biologists thought evolution…
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  Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution, Hardcover/Menno Schilthuizen

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• This could be the most important book you will read this year. Around the office at Chelsea Green it is referred to as the "pharmaceutical Silent Spring ." Well-known author,…
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  The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines to Life on Earth, Paperback/Stephen Harrod Buhner

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• The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of…
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  The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy, Hardcover/Michael Mann

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• In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot, '…
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  The Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, Paperback/Donella Meadows

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• The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his startling new book, J.…
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  Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, Paperback/J. R. McNeill

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• The United States government has spent billions of dollars to prepare the nation for bioterrorism despite the extremely rare occurrence of biological attacks in modern American history. Germ Wars argues…
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  Germ Wars: The Politics of Microbes and America’s Landscape of Fear, Paperback/Melanie Armstrong

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• How changing the way we think about water and energy can secure the long-term sustainability of both precious resources Although it is widely understood that energy and water are the…
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  Thirst for Power: Energy, Water, and Human Survival, Hardcover/Michael E. Webber

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• Point Reyes National Seashore has a long history as a working landscape, with dairy and beef ranching, fishing, and oyster farming; yet, since 1962 it has also been managed as…
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  The Paradox of Preservation: Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore, Paperback/Laura Alice Watt

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• The United States of America will likely be devastated by earthquakes within the next twenty years. That is the startling conclusion of the authors of this book, all of them…
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  Upheaval!: Why Catastrophic Earthquakes Will Soon Strike the United States, Paperback/John L. Casey

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• The first edition of Living Downstream --an exquisite blend of precise science and engaging narrative--set a new standard for scientific writing. Poet, biologist, and cancer survivor, Steingraber uses all three…
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  Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, Paperback/Sandra Steingraber

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• When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, including the environmental classic Silent Spring, had made her one of the most famous people in America. This trove…
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  Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson, Paperback/Rachel Carson

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• Time #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Entertainment Weekly #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Salon Book Awards 2007 Amazon Top 100 Editors'…
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  The World Without Us, Paperback/Alan Weisman

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• Listen for the calls of nesting ravens and warblers, watch the growth of wild geranium and black cohosh, and savor the first autumn blush in the tupelo trees. Revel, as…
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  Sugarloaf: The Mountain’s History, Geology, and Natural Lore the Mountain’s History, Geology, and Natural Lore, Paperback/Melanie Choukas-Bradley

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• 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…
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  The End of Nature, Paperback/Bill McKibben

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• WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE…
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  The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Paperback/Elizabeth Kolbert

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• Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Awar Midwest Booksellers Choice Award Winne "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.... Egan's book…
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  The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, Paperback/Dan Egan

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• So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Sixth Extinction tells you what you need to know--before or after you read Elizabeth Kolbert's book. Crafted and…
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  Summary and Analysis of the Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History: Based on the Book by Elizabeth Kolbert, Paperback/WorthBooks

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• Lovelock argues that such things as the level of oxygen, the formation of clouds, and the saltiness of the oceans may all be controlled by biological processes. He believes that…
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  Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth, Paperback/James Lovelock

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• A comprehensive study of wetlands flora encompassing all members of the plant and fungi kingdoms. These include poisonous, hallucinogenic, medicinal and edible plant life as well as native and non-native…
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  A Naturalist’s Guide to Wetland Plants: An Ecology for Eastern North America, Paperback/Donald D. Cox

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