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Cosmos
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 7.99This visually stunning book with over 250 full-color illustrations, many of them never before published, is based on Carl Sagan?s thirteen-part television series. Told with Sagan?s remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting, Cosmos is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew... more...
Composting Inside and Out
F+W Media 2011; US$ 16.99Rethink Your Refuse Hundreds of millions of tons of solid waste are produced in the U.S. annually, and the landfills simply store it, not eliminate it. Recycling diverts significant amounts of waste, but the fact remains that the majority of landfill space is occupied by organic material. The good news is composting is a natural and beneficial way... more...
Ecology of Australian Freshwater Fishes
CSIRO Publishing 2013; US$ 128.70Reviews our past and present understanding of Australian freshwater fishes. more...
Grass Roots
Simon & Schuster 2012; US$ 2.99Returning once again to the fertile southern landscape that so distinguished his Edgar Award winning novel, Chiefs , Stuart Woods gives us his most riveting book to date. Will Lee, who fans will remember from earlier Woods novels, is now chief aide to Washington's most powerful senator, Benjamin Carr, and is one of the United States Senate's most... more...
Into Thin Air
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 1998; US$ 15.00When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), twenty other climbers were still pushing... more...
Systems Science and Modeling for Ecological Economics
Elsevier Science 2008; US$ 78.95Modeling is a key component to sciences from mathematics to life science, including environmental and ecological studies. By looking at the underlying concepts of the software, we can make sure that we build mathematically feasible models and that we get the most out of the data and information that we have. This book shows how models can be analyzed... more...
Evolutionary Conservation Genetics
Oxford University Press, UK 2009; US$ 65.00Conservation genetics focuses on understanding the role of genetic variation for population persistence. This book is about the methods used to study genetic variation in endangered species and whether genetic variation matters in the extinction of species. - ;Conservation genetics focuses on understanding the role and requirement of genetic variation... more...
Cradle to Cradle
Random House 2009; US$ 12.00'Reduce, reuse, recycle' urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, this approach only perpetuates the one-way, 'cradle to grave' manufacturing model, dating to the Industrial Revolution, that... more...
Animal Rights
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 12.99In this compelling volume in the What Everyone Needs to Know series, Paul Waldau expertly navigates the many heated debates surrounding the complex and controversial animal rights movement. Organized around a series of probing questions, this timely resource offers the most complete, even-handed survey of the animal rights movement available. The book... more...
No Impact Man
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009; US$ 15.99A guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power, and generally becomes a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears and the rest of the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his baby daughter and Prada-wearing, Four Seasons?loving wife along for the ride. And... more...









