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The White Death
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2002; US$ 13.00In 1969, five young men from Montana set out to accomplish what no one had before: to scale the sheer north face of Mt. Cleveland, Glacier National Park's tallest mountain, in winter. Two days later tragedy struck: they were buried in an avalanche so deep that their bodies would not be discovered until the following June. The White Death is the... more...
Lost Mountain
Penguin Group Inc. 2007; US$ 14.00A new form of strip mining has caused a state of emergency for the Appalachian wilderness and the communities that depend on it-a crisis compounded by issues of government neglect, corporate hubris, and class conflict. In this powerful call to arms, Erik Reece chronicles the year he spent witnessing the systematic decimation of a single mountain and... more...
Natural Capitalism
Little, Brown and Company 2007; US$ 9.99There are no more reespected voices in the environmental movement than these authors, true counselors on the direction of twenty-first-century business. With hundreds of thousands of books sold worldwide, they have set the agenda for rational, ecologically sound industrial development. In this inspiring book they define a superior & sustainable form... more...
Run to the Mountain
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 14.99When Thomas Merton died accidentally in Bangkok in 1968, the beloved Trappist monk's will specified that his personal diaries not be published for 25 years -- presumably because they contained his uncensored thoughts and feelings. Now, a quarter of a century has passed since Merton's death, and the journals are the last major piece of writing to... more...
Earth Science
Infobase Publishing 2005; US$ 29.95Earth science is the study of the Earth, its origin, its structure, the changes it has undergone, and the past and future consequences of those changes. Its four major branches include meteorology, oceanography, astronomy, and geology. From the formulation of the three major principles of modern geology to the publishing of Principles of Geology, Earth... more...
Hormonal Regulation of Farm Animal Growth
CABI 2005; US$ 60.00This book describes the cellular and molecular mechanisms that are involved with the regulation of cell and tissue growth, including development and body composition. The emphasis is on circulating hormones, local growth factors and gene transcription factors which regulate growth and differentiation of skeletal muscle, bone and adipose tissue. more...
Nitrogen and Phosphorus Nutrition of Cattle
CABI 2005; US$ 120.00There are tremendous benefits to feeding ruminants nitrogen and phosphorus supplements, in terms of milk production and productivity. However, what goes in must come out. Nitrogen and phosphorus excretions from dairy cattle are a major environmental pollutant. more...
Winter World
HarperCollins 2007; US$ 11.99From award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich, an intimate, accessible and eloquent illumination of animal survival in Winter. From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must... more...
Extinction
HarperCollins UK 2002; US$ 19.95Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs were destroyed in a mass extinction event that could not have been predicted. Out of the devastation, new life developed and the world regained its natural equilibrium. Until now. Scientists, employing radically new perspectives on the science of life, are beginning to uncover signs of similar event on the... more...
The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life
Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 16.95It?s fairly obvious that one can?t be a ?perfect? environmentalist. But that?s okay. Perfection isn?t the goal. A good life is. And a good life has as much to do with your intent as with the end result.? ?from the Introduction The Newman?s Own Organics Guide to a Good Life is the essential book for those of us who can?t live in an organic hemp tepee... more...









