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Toward a Literary Ecology: Places and Spaces in American Literature

by Karen E. Waldron & Rob Friedman

In this book, editors Karen E. Waldron and Robert Friedman have assembled a collection of essays that study the interconnections between literature and the environment to theorize literary ecology. The disciplinary...

Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Lookingat Animals in America

by Jon Mooallem

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 a great storm of extinction. Half...

Ecology of Fresh Waters: A View for the Twenty-First Century

by Brian R. Moss

This new edition of an established textbook provides a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to rivers, lakes and wetlands, and was written as the basis for a complete course on freshwater ecology. Designed...

Plant and Animal Endemism in California

by Susan P. Harrison

California is globally renowned for its biological diversity, including its wealth of unique, or endemic, species. Many reasons have been cited to explain this abundance: the complex geology and topography of...

The Pipeline and the Paradigm: Keystone XL, Tar Sands, and the Battle to Defuse the Carbon Bomb

by Samuel Avery & Bill Mckibben

This thoroughly researched and wholly engaging book investigates the economic, ecological, political, and psychological issues behind the Keystone XL pipeline—a project so controversial it has inspired the...

Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods

by Christine Byl

A lively and lyrical account of one woman’s unlikely apprenticeship on a national-park trail crew and what she discovers about nature, gender, and the value of hard work

Christine Byl first encountered the...

Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature

by Mark R. Tercek & Jonathan S. Adams

A bold proposal to harness capitalism for the sake of environmentalism by a former investment banker and a conservation biologist

Creative Habitat Restoration: Comprehensive Planning, Implementation, and Long-Term Management

by Larry Lodwick

Creative Habitat Restoration provides guidance on the processes of rehabilitating natural systems of plant and animal communities. This book is an extended communication to novices and entry and mid-level environmental...

China's Disappearing Countryside: Towards Sustainable Land Governance for the Poor

by Yongjun Zhao

This book examines the linkages between land tenure, development and governance in the context of China's development transformation. Drawing on empirical studies, it advocates the exploration of innovative...

Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape

by Brad Tyer

A memoir-meets-exposé that examines our fraught relationship with the West and our attempts to clean up a toxic environmental legacy

In 2002, Texas journalist Brad Tyer strapped a canoe on his truck and...

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised: Natural Pest Control for Home and Garden

by Janet Hogan Taylor & Loren Nancarrow

A practical guide to repelling indoor and outdoor pests using organic methods, updated with new information on getting rid of bedbugs and dust mites, plus includes updated online resources.

If you’ve ever...

Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination

by Nicole Seymour

Queering the natural world through film and fiction

Greening of the Self

by Joanna Macy

The premise of Greening of the Self is that we are not individuals separate from the world. Instead we are always “co-arising” or co-creating the world, and we cannot escape the consequence of what we do...

The Agony of an American Wilderness: Loggers, Environmentalists, and the Struggle for Control of a Forgotten Forest

by Samuel A. MacDonald

What is a forest? What are forests for? Who should control them? These are familiar questions, but the Allegheny casts them in a new light. The national environmental movement has become less willing to compromise...

Weather, Climate and Human Affairs (Routledge Revivals): A Book of Essays and Other Papers

by H. H. Lamb

First published in 1988, this is a reissue of a groundbreaking collection of essays written by Hubert Lamb, one of the world's foremost experts on weather and climate and a uniquely authoritative voice in...

After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California

by Peter S. Alagona

Thoroughly researched and finely crafted, After the Grizzly traces the history of endangered species and habitat in California, from the time of the Gold Rush to the present. Peter S. Alagona shows how scientists...

Developing Ecological Consciousness: The End of Separation

by Christopher Uhl

Developing Ecological Consciousness is a unique introduction to environmental studies. In Chistopher Uhl’s view it is time to acknowledge the ways that our cultural conditioning leads to separation from self,...

Bears in the Bird Feeders: Cottage Life on Shaman's Rock

by Sr., Jim Poling

Going to the cottage is like going to school, only better. You learn interesting and important stuff every day. As well as fun and relaxation, cottage living throughout the seasons is a reminder that all of...

The Ecopoetry Anthology

by Laura-Gray Street, Ann Fisher-Wirth & Robert Hass

Definitive and daring, The Ecopoetry Anthology is the authoritative collection of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment--in all its glory and challenge. From praise to lament, the work...

Wetland Mitigation: Mitigation Banking and Other Strategies for Development and Compliance

by Mark Dennison

Regulations require that development projects in wetland areas restore or replace lost wetland functions and values. Completely updated to reflect recent legal developments, this practical reference explains...