102 books (6 pages) in this category
A Holistic Treatise On Overpopulation
by Michiel Stofferis
<p>Rising world population is often mentioned as a key factor impacting the environment. But there is more to a rising world population.</p> <p>A Holistic Treatise on Overpopulation is shining a light on overpopulation from all possible angles:
ISBN: 9780463746158
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eBookThe Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts
by Sue Leaf
<DIV><p><BR>Imagine a Minneapolis so small that, on calm days, the roar of St. Anthony Falls could be heard in town, a time when passenger pigeons roosted in neighborhood oak trees. Now picture a dapper professor conducting his ornithology class
ISBN: 9780816688821
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eBookAlaska Days with John Muir: 4 Books in One Volume
Illustrated: Travels in Alaska, The Cruise of the Corwin, Stickeen and Alaska Days
by John Muir & S. Hall Young
<p>John Muir made four trips to Alaska, as far as Unalaska and Barrow. Muir, Mr. Young and a group of Native American Guides first traveled to Alaska in 1879 and were the first Euro-Americans to explore Glacier Bay. Muir Glacier was later named ...
ISBN: 9788027304431
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eBookAmerican Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
by Victoria Johnson
<p><strong>Finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction<br /> A <em>New York Times</em> Notable Book of the Year</strong></p> <p><strong>The untold story of Hamilton’s—and Burr’s—personal physician, whose dream to build America’s ...
ISBN: 9781631494208
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eBookAnti-Human Rights & Anti-Environmental Practices of the United Nations
Misused American Taxes
by Pallavi Kakoti-McHugh
<p>“The UN, the creator of international human rights law in the current world, does not practice human rights themselves and this is a threat to the environment, Climate Change, human right to life and wellbeing of the world,” according to the ...
ISBN: 9781684184804
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eBookLiving the Life of Thoreau Today
by Bradford Angier & Vena Angier
<p>One hundred years ago, Henry Thoreau wrote of the charms and joys of simple living in the woods, away from the hectic nuisances of our city civilization. His philosophy has become part of our American heritage, as sound today as the day he ...
ISBN: 9781608934430
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eBookField Research and High Arctic Adventure, 1961-67
by Jack D. Ives
<p>A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the “golden age” of federal research. In the 1960s, scientists ...
ISBN: 9781552388327
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eBookBecause They Needed Me: Rita Miljo and the Orphaned Baboons of South Africa
by Micheal Blumenthal
<p>In 1980, a 50-year old animal-obsessed Lithuanian-born woman, and former member of the Hitler Youth, by the name of Rita Neumann-- later to become Rita Miljo-- spirited a battered young baboon by the name of Bobby from a national park in ...
ISBN: 9781311154248
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eBookA Sage, a Seeker, and the World's Most Elusive Fish
by Chris Dombrowski
<div>Chris Dombrowski was playing a numbers game: two passions-poetry and fly-fishing; two children, one of them in utero; and an income hovering perilously close to zero. Enter, at this particularly challenging moment, a miraculous email: ...
ISBN: 9781571319159
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eBookby Dave Foreman
<p>A book that will set the course for the environmental movement for years to come, <em>Confessions of an Eco-Warrior</em> is an inspiring ecological call to arms by America's foremost and most controversial environmental activist. "Rude ...
ISBN: 9780451499455
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eBookA transformational journey through beauty and tragedy.
by LoraKim Joyner
<p>Have you ever asked how you can both save yourself and the world despite overwhelming odds? With parrot extinction looming, "Conservation in Time of War" shares one woman's willingness to risk everything to protect this beautiful ...
ISBN: 9780999207017
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eBookEnvironmental Politics in New Mexico Forest Communities
by Kay Matthews
<p>The Culture Clash story begins in the 1970s in the village of Placitas, New Mexico at the north end of the Sandia Mountains, where author Kay Matthews built a house and began a family while involved in disputes with the Forest Service over ...
ISBN: 9781611392913
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eBookby Stephen M. Silverman
<p>Here is the story of Sir David Lean, one of the greatest moviemakers of all time, director of such epics as Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and A Passage to India. Stephen M. Silverman spent the better part ...
ISBN: 9781640193536
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eBookA Memoir
by Douglas Wood
<DIV><P><I>Wait</I>, young Douglas’s grandfather says as the bobber twitches on the surface of Little Lake.<I> Be patient</I>. And so begins an encounter with the promise and wonder of nature that will last a lifetime. <I>Deep Woods, Wild Waters
ISBN: 9781452954868
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eBookThe Sacraments of Hunting and Fishing
by Donald C. Jackson
<p>In <em>Deeper Currents</em>, Donald C. Jackson guides us on a journey into the cathedrals of wild and lonely places, those sacred spaces where hunters and fishers connect with the rhythms of the earth and the spirit that resonates within us. ...
ISBN: 9781496805317
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eBookDispatches from the Sweet Life
One Family, Five Acres, and a Community's Quest to Reinvent the World
by William Powers
<p>A memoir of life in Suraqueta, a subtropical town in Bolivia where the Andes meets the Amazon — part of a grassroots network of “transition towns” that aim to increase self-sufficiency to reduce the potential effects of climate change and ...
ISBN: 9781608685653
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eBookA Memoir of Friendship, Loss, and Wildfire
by Mary Emerick
<p><strong>A powerful memoir of a female wilderness firefighter—“a story of love, friendship, wildfire, and death written in vivid prose fresh from the fire line” (John N. Maclean, author of <em>Fire on the Mountain</em>).</strong></p> <p>Mary ...
ISBN: 9781628728477
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eBookFlying the Fog Roads of Cascadia: Grover Krantz on the Trail of Bigfoot
by Wayne Kyle Spitzer
<p>Dr. Krantz served as a full professor of anthropology at Washington State University from 1968 until 1998. Though he was a popular teacher with an almost cult-like following and highly regarded for his work on <em>Homo Erectus</em>, it was ...
ISBN: 9781386817154
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eBookFrederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society (LOA #270)
by Frederick Law Olmsted
<p><strong>The biggest and best single-volume collection ever published of the fascinating and wide-ranging writings of a vitally important nineteenth century cultural figure whose work continues to shape our world today</strong>. Seaman, ...
ISBN: 9781598534603
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eBookTravel and Tourism, Family travel, Vacation, Honeymoon Holiday
by Knight John
<p>Fuerteventura Island. Travel and Tourism, Family travel, Vacation, Honeymoon Holiday. The seven sub-tropical Canary Islands bask in sunny splendour off the Atlantic coast of north-west Africa. Millions of sun-starved north Europeans flock ...
ISBN: 9781912483280
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