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Environmental Science eBooks

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  • Ignition

    Lighting Fires in a Burning World

    by M.R. O'Connor ...
    A work of on-the-ground reporting into the science of, and cultural ideas around, wildfires and fire management that challenges the ethos of the conservation movement, offering a hopeful vision of the connection between humans and our environment.In a riveting investigation of the science and ecology of wildfires, journalist M.R. O'Connor ventures into some of the oldest, most beautiful, and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Not the End of the World

    How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

    This "eye-opening and essential" book (Bill Gates) will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems—and explains how we can solve them.It’s become common to tell kids that they’re going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won’t be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, and that we should reconsider ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Swamp

    The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise

    “Brilliant.” —The Washington Post Book World * “Magnificent.” —The Palm Beach Post * “Rich in history yet urgently relevant to current events.” —The New RepublicThe Everglades i****n southern Florida were once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and Americans have launched the largest environmental project in history to try ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    With the World desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gasses, nuclear power is back on the agenda and in the news, following the increasing cost of fossil fuels and concerns about the security of their future supply. However, the term 'nuclear power' causes anxiety in many people and there is confusion concerning the nature and extent of the associated risks. Here, Maxwell Irvine ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Dominant Animal

    Human Evolution and the Environment

    In humanity’s more than 100,000 year history, we have evolved from vulnerable creatures clawing sustenance from Earth to a sophisticated global society manipulating every inch of it. In short, we have become the dominant animal. Why, then, are we creating a world that threatens our own species? What can we do to change the current trajectory toward more climate change, increased famine, and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Vulnerable Planet

    A Short Economic History of the Environment

    From reviews of the first edition (1994): "Extraordinarily well written . . . "--Contemporary Sociology "A readable chronicle aimed at a general audience . . . Graceful and accessible . . . "--Dollars and Sense "Has the potential to be a political bombshell in radical circles around the world."--Environmental Action The Vulnerable Planet has won respect as the best single-volume introduction to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Planet Remade

    How Geoengineering Could Change the World

    by Oliver Morton ...
    A fascinating look at the perils and promise of geoengineering and our potential future on a warming planetThe risks of global warming are pressing and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, possibly even insurmountable. So there is an urgent need to rethink our responses to the crisis. To meet that need, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Wizard and the Prophet

    Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World

    **From the bestselling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493—an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world.In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $5.99 USD

  • Science Be Dammed

    How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River

    Science Be Dammed is an alarming reminder of the high stakes in the management—and perils in the mismanagement—of water in the western United States. It seems deceptively simple: even when clear evidence was available that the Colorado River could not sustain ambitious dreaming and planning by decision-makers throughout the twentieth century, river planners and political operatives irresponsibly ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Saving Us

    A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

    United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling “optimistic view on why collective action is still possible—and how it can be realized” (The New York Times).Called “one of the nation’s most effective communicators on climate change” by The New York Times, Katharine ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Living More with Less

    In 1980, before living simply and "green" became trendy and popular, Doris Janzen Longacre, author of the enormously popular More-with-Less Cookbook (over 900,000 sold), wrote Living More with Less, a practical guide for living in simple, sustainable, and healthy ways-ways that keep the future of the planet, and the plight of poor people, in mind.Thirty years later, Living More with Less 30th ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Live Sustainably Now

    A Low-Carbon Vision of the Good Life

    by Karl Coplan ...
    Any realistic response to climate change will require reducing carbon emissions to a sustainable level. Yet even people who already recognize that the climate is the most urgent issue facing the planet struggle to understand their individual responsibilities. Is it even possible to live with a sustainable carbon footprint in modern American society—much less to live well? What are the options for ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Next Species

    The Future of Evolution in the Aftermath of Man

    “Simultaneously sobering and exhilarating, Michael Tennesen’s wide-ranging survey of disasters highlights both life’s fragility and its metamorphosing persistence” (Booklist) and describes what life on earth could look like after the next mass extinction.A growing number of scientists agree we are headed toward a mass extinction, perhaps in as little as 300 years. Already there have been five mass ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • One Green Thing

    Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet

    by Heather White ...
    Your non-overwhelming, down-to-earth guide for daily climate action…personalized to your unique strengths.The climate crisis is the biggest challenge of our time. But the urgency of a warming world creates anxiety and can sometimes cause us to throw our hands in the air and think, How can I possibly make a difference?Heather White—known as "the Brené Brown of the environmental movement"—will show ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Museum Space

    Where Architecture Meets Museology

    by Kali Tzortzi ...
    Museums are among the iconic buildings of the twenty-first century, as remarkable for their architectural diversity as for the variety of collections they display. But how does the architecture of museums affect our experience as visitors? This book proposes that by seeing space as common ground between architecture and museology, and so between the museum building and its display, we can ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Energy Humanities

    An Anthology

    Edited by Imre Szeman, Dominic Boyer ...
    How can humanities scholars help us respond to growing concerns about climate change and fossil fuels?Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical and digital humanities before it, aims to overcome traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied research. Responding to growing public concern about anthropogenic climate change and the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Isaac's Storm

    A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

    by Erik Larson ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history—from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White City“A gripping account ... fascinating to its core, and all the more compelling for being true.” —The New York Times Book Review**September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Ends of the Earth

    An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic

    An innovatively packaged literary anthology published to commemorate the International Polar Year-and remind us what we're in danger of losing.The Arctic and Antarctic ice shelves have been an object of obsession for as long as we've known they existed. Countless explorers, such as Richard Byrd, Ernest Shackleton, and Robert Falcon Scott, have risked their lives to chart their frozen landscapes. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Rachel Carson and Her Sisters

    Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment

    Choice Outstanding Academic Title“In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Musil fills the gap by placing Carson's achievements in a wider context, weaving connections from the past through the present. Readers will find new insight into Carson and contemporary figures she influenced...who have historically received less attention. Musil’s respect and enthusiasm for these women is evident throughout the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Hanford Plaintiffs

    Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice

    For more than four decades beginning in 1944, the Hanford nuclear weapons facility in southeastern Washington State secretly blanketed much of the Pacific Northwest with low-dose ionizing radiation, the byproduct of plutonium production. For those who lived in the vicinity, many of them families of Hanford workers, the consequences soon became apparent as rates of illness and death steadily ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Politics of Climate Change

    "A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it."—Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of AmericaSince it first appeared, this book has achieved a classic status. Reprinted many times since its publication, it remains the only work that looks in detail at the political issues posed by global warming. This new ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • What We Leave Behind

    What We Leave Behind is a piercing, impassioned guide to living a truly responsible life on earth. Human waste, once considered a gift to the soil, has become toxic material that has broken the essential cycle of decay and regeneration. Here, award-winning author Derrick Jensen and activist Aric McBay weave historical analysis and devastatingly beautiful prose to remind us that life—human and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • An Ecotopian Lexicon

    Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generationAs the scale and gravity of climate change becomes undeniable, a cultural revolution must ultimately match progress in the realms of policy, infrastructure, and technology. Proceeding from the notion that dominant Western cultures lack the terms and concepts ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • More Urban Less Poor

    An Introduction to Urban Development and Management

    A world more urban...The world is undergoing massive urbanization, and is projected to increase from three to over four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within 15 years. This historic shift is producing dramatic effects on human well-being and the environment....but less poorUnplanned shanty-towns without basic services are not an inevitable consequence of urbanization and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD $32.99 USD