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Force of Nature: The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart's Green Revolution

by Edward Humes

What happens when a renowned river guide teams up with the CEO of one of the largest and least Earth-friendly corporations in the world? When it's former Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott and white-water expert turned...

Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles

by Laurie J. Vitt & Janalee P. Caldwell

This third edition, now fully revised and updated by two of Dr. Zug's colleagues, provides herpetology students and amateur reptile and amphibian keepers with the latest taxonomy and species developments from...

Garden Composting - How Garden Recycling Works

by Bill Butterworth

Hands-on, know-how and understanding of practical delivery of integrated, closed-loop gardening from waste delivering real sustainability. Includes your Safety Check List and how to calculate your own positive...

Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: Technology, Incentives, Behavior

by Fereidoon Perry Sioshansi

The complexity of carbon reduction and economic sustainability is significantly complicated by competing aspects of socioeconomic practices as well as legislative, regulatory, and scientific requirements and...

Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World

by Paul Hawken

The New York Times bestselling examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change

Paul Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment...

Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

by Paul Greenberg

"A necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why." -Sam Sifton, The New York Times Book Review.

Writer and life-long fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on...

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

by Marc Reisner

Beautifully written and meticulously researched.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This updated study of the economics, politics, and ecology of water covers more than a century of public and private desert reclamation...

Land, Weather, Seasons, Insects: An Archetypal View

by Dennis L. Merritt

'The Dairy Farmer's Guide to the Universe Volume IV' explores the environment, with the Midwest as an example, using traditional Jungian and Hillmanian approaches to deepen our connection with the land, the...

Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatis

by Diana Louise Walstad

Hobbyist reference book for keeping natural planted aquariums.

The Behaviour, Population Biology and Physiology of the Petrels

by John Warham

Over a lifetime's work with the group, John Warham has firmly established himself as one of the foremost experts on these birds. In this book he completes the major survey started in his earlier work, The Petrels:...

Hermes

by Dennis L. Merritt

"Who ever does not shy away from dangers of the most profound depths and the newest pathways, which Hermes is always prepared to open, may follow and reach, whether as scholar, commentator, or philosopher, a...

The Cry of Merlin: Jung, the Prototypical Ecopsychologist

by Dennis L. Merritt

Carl Jung can be seen as the prototypical ecopsychologist. Volume II of The Dairy Farmer's Guide to the Universe explores how Jung's life and times created the context for the ecological nature of Jungian ideas....

Homoplasy: The Recurrence of Similarity in Evolution

by Michael J. Sanderson & Larry Hufford

Why do unrelated organisms sometimes appear almost identical in details of the anatomy, behavior, physiology, and ecology? Homoplasy assembles leaders in evolutionary biology to explore issues of parallelism,...

Private Fire: Robert Francis's Ecopoetry and Prose

by Matthew James Babcock

Matthew J. Babcock's Private Fire: Robert Francis's Ecopoetry and Prose presents an introduction to and analysis of nearly six decades of nature-centered literature produced by one of America's most intriguing...

Ecotoxicology: The Study of Pollutants in Ecosystems

by Frank Moriarty

Ecotoxicology, Third Edition discusses the ecological effects of pollutants: the ways in which ecosystems can be affected, and current attempts to predict and monitor such effects. The emphasis is on ecosystems;...

Raptors in Human Landscapes: Adaptation to Built and Cultivated Environments

by David M. Bird, Daniel E. Varland & Juan Jose Negro

This book is a collection of papers highlighting ways in which Raptors have successfully adapted to man-made landscapes and structures. The coverage of Raptors in Human Landscapes is broad, ranging from the...

Advances in Agronomy

by Donald L Sparks

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy. As always, the subjects covered are varied and exemplary of the myriad of subject...

Marine Protected Areas and Ocean Conservation

by Tundi S. Agardy

This book reviews the need for marine conservation, summarizes general measures for ocean and coastal conservation, and explains the rationale for establishing marine protected areas. The second half of the...

White-Tailed Deer Habitat: Ecology and Management on Rangelands

by José Alfonso Ortega-Santos & Timothy Edward Fulbright

The original, 2006 edition of Timothy Edward Fulbright and J. Alfonso Ortega-S.’s White-Tailed Deer Habitat: Ecology and Management on Rangelands was hailed as “a splendid reference for the classroom and...

Forest Monitoring: Methods for terrestrial investigations in Europe with an overview of North America and Asia

by Marco Ferretti & Richard Fischer

The demand for comparable, long-term, high quality data on forest ecosystems' status and changes is increasing at the international and global level. Yet, sources for such data are limited and in many case it...