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Introduction to International Disaster Management

by Damon P. Coppola

Introduction to International Disaster Management, Second Edition continues to serve as the sole comprehensive overview of global emergency management.  This second edition contains updated information on...

Wildflowers of the Sandia and Manzano Mountains of Central New Mexico

by Larry Littlefield & Pearl Burns

“If the plants could speak they would say, ‘This is how we want you to know us.’ A must-have for all who truly love the mountains.”—Robert Julyan, New Mexico naturalist and author.

Sasol Birds of Southern Africa

by Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey & Warwick Tarboton

This fourth edition of Sasol Birds of Southern Africa has been greatly improved by the addition of group introductions and thoroughly revised text, calendar bars showing species' occurrence and breeding periods,...

The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs

by Gregory S. Paul

This lavishly illustrated volume is the first authoritative dinosaur book in the style of a field guide. World-renowned dinosaur illustrator and researcher Gregory Paul provides comprehensive visual and textual...

Landscape: from Knowledge to Action

by Daniel Terrasson, Martine Berlan-Darqué & Yves Luginbühl

This book is a collection of the contributions of researchers who have analysed examples of landscape actions, primarily in Europe, on the basis of actual experiences. It illustrates the diversity of situations...

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

by Charles Eisenstein

Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and...

Endgame, Volume 2: Resistance

by Derrick Jensen

Whereas Volume 1 of Endgame presents the problem of civilization, Volume 2 of this pivotal work illustrates our means of resistance. Incensed and hopeful, impassioned and lucid, Endgame leapfrogs the environmental...

Finding Higher Ground

by Amy Seidl

While much of the global warming conversation rightly focuses on reducing our carbon footprint, the reality is that even if we were to immediately cease emissions, we would still face climate change into the...

Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father's Search for the Wild

by Tom Montgomery

Cabin Fever might be described as a modern Walden, if you can imagine Thoreau married, with a job, three kids, and a minivan. A seasonal memoir written alternately from a little cabin in the Michigan woods...

The American Bird Conservancy Guide to the 500 Most Important Bird Areas in the: Key Sites for Birds and Birding in All 50 States

by American Bird Conservancy

The American Bird Conservancy Guide to the 500 Most Important Bird Areas in the United States offers both bird enthusiasts and conservationists specialized information never before compiled in a single comprehensive...

The Nature Principle:

by Richard Louv

The immediacy of Richard Louv's message in Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder galvanized an international movement to reconnect children with nature. Now, in The Nature...

Cascadia's Fault: The Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America

by Jerry Thompson

There’s a crack in the earth’s crust that runs roughly 31 miles offshore, approximately 683 miles from northern California up through Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia. The Cascadia Subduction...

Written in Water: Messages of Hope for Earth's Most Precious Resource

by Irena Salina

Written in Water: Messages of Hope for Earth's Most Precious Resource comprises a collection of essays authored by heroes and leaders in the field of water solutions and innovations—a broad range of people...

Recovering a Lost River: Removing Dams, Rewilding Salmon, Revitalizing Communities

by Steven Hawley

A powerful argument for why dam removal makes good scientific, economic, and environmental sense—and requires our urgent attention

The Snake River, flowing through the Northwest, was once one of the world's...

Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society

by CONSTANCE LEVER-TRACY

This handbook will bring together the latest research on climate change from the social sciences. It will comprehensively cover social causes, impacts, recognition and responses to climate change and will feature...

The Virtues of Ignorance

by Bill Vitek

Human dependence on technology has increased exponentially over the past several centuries, along with the notion that environmental problems can be solved with scientific applications. The Virtues of Ignorance:...

The North American Guide to Common Poisonous Plants and Mushrooms:

by NancyJ. Turner & Patrick vonAderkas

If people knew how many poisonous plants are commonly found in homes and gardens, they'd be shocked. Plants as common as monkshood, castorbean, and oleander are not just dangerous, they're deadly.The North American...

Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town

by SusanHand Shetterly

Whether we live in cities, suburbs, or villages, we are encroaching on nature, and it in one way or another perseveres. Naturalist Susan Shetterly looks at how animals, humans, and plants share the land-observing...

Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest: Timber Press Field Guide

by Steve Trudell & Joe Ammirati

The Pacific Northwest is one of the best places to find mushrooms - they are both abundant and spectacularly diverse. Yet until now, there has been no mushroom guide that focuses on the region. This compact,...

Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper

by C.Marina Marchese

One woman's charming and personal account of abandoning the rat race to live blissfully as a beekeeper and honey entrepreneur-plus everything you'd ever want to know about bees. Ten years ago, Marina Marchese...