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Global Warming Gridlock
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 33.00Twenty years of talks have done little to slow global warming. This book explains why and offers an alternative strategy. more...
Environmental Economics For Non-economists
World Scientific Publishing Company 2005; US$ 75.40Environmental economics, which used to be on the periphery of the economics discipline, is fast becoming mainstream as concern for the environment grows. Practitioners in other disciplines (e.g. engineering, science, natural resource management, social sciences) are increasingly faced with environmental problems that have an economic component. more...
Walden
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 4.95One of the most famous non-fiction American books, Walden by Henry David Thoreau is the history of Thoreau's visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson's woodland retreat near Walden Pond. Thoreau, stirred by the philosophy of the transcendentalists, used the sojourn as an experiment in self reliance and minimalism… "so as to "live deliberately,... more...
How We Can Save the Planet
St. Martin's Press 2008; US$ 18.99An outstanding overview on global warming---and what we can do about it---from a distinguished world-class authority Climate change is the single biggest problem that humankind has ever had to face, as we continue with lifestyles that are way beyond the planet?s limits. In this book Mayer Hillman explains the real issues: what role technology... more...
Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 32.00Political theory scholars examine the challenge that political ecology presents to political theory. more...
Holy the Firm
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 10.99In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a... more...
Urban Green
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 27.99Sustainable design is booming, but the men and women dedicated to reducing their carbon impact have lost sight of what they are trying to save: the natural world. Author Neil Chambers has been at the forefront of cutting-edge, sustainable architecture for years, and Urban Green is his revolutionary vision for bringing the power of the conservation... more...
The Koala
University of NSW Press 1999; US$ 11.35Perhaps the most long-awaited new edition in the Australian Natural History Series, this is a substantially different book from the previous edition by Tony Lee and Roger Martin. The contents cover the history of the koala; its distribution and abundance; nutrition; behaviour, sociality and life cycle; predators, parasites and pathogens; population... more...
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 38.00Combining their expertise in atmospheric science and public policy, the authors present an accessible description of the scientific and political issues involved in the climate-change debate. This introductory primer will help students and the general public to sort through the conflicting claims made by scientists, politicians and the media. more...
The African City
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 21.00Gives a comprehensive picture of cities in Africa from early origins to the present. more...









