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Forecast
The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley
Henry Holt and Co.
A vivid and illuminating portrayal of the surprising ways that climate change will affect the world in the near future—politically, economically, and...
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The Life of the Skies
Birding at the End of Nature
Picador
In The Life of the Skies, Jonathan Rosen explores the significance of this timeless pursuit, chronicling his own birding adventures alongside those of John...
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The Big Necessity
The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
Metropolitan Books
An utterly original exploration of the world of human waste that will surprise, outrage—and entertain Produced behind closed doors, disposed of discreetly,...
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The Eco Chick Guide to Life
How to Be Fabulously Green
St. Martin's Griffin
SAVE THE WORLD IN STYLE! Lower your carbon footprint—in your favorite pair of stilettos—with THE ECO CHICK GUIDE TO LIFE. Here you’ll find hundreds of ideas...
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Home to Roost
A Backyard Farmer Chases Chickens Through the Ages
Thomas Dunne Books
Each day, Bob Sheasley leaves Lilyfield Farm and heads into the city. And each day, he brings along a basket of eggs for his coworkers at The Philadelphia...
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Babylon's Ark
The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
St. Martin's Griffin
THE ASTONISHING STORY OF ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST ANIMAL RESCUES. When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing:...
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Central Park in the Dark
More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Love and loss, life and death, among the nighttime creatures of the city that never sleeps Like her bestseller Red-Tails in Love, Marie Winn’s Central...
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Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet
The New Geopolitics of Energy
Metropolitan Books
From the author of the now-classic Resource Wars, an indispensable account of how the world’s diminishing sources of energy are radically changing the...
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Travels in the Greater Yellowstone
Thomas Dunne Books
Award-winning nature writer Jack Turner directs his attention to one of America’s greatest natural treasures: the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Comprised of...
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The Mad Fisherman
Kick Some Bass with America's Wildest TV Host
St. Martin's Press
Charlie Moore was married with two kids (and one on the way) when his Massachusetts bait-and-tackle shop sank without a trace. A skilled fisherman and a savvy...

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Cradle to Cradle
Remaking the Way We Make Things
North Point Press
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism "Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other...
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Birds of North America, Revised and Updated
A Guide To Field Identification
Golden Field Guide from St. Martin's Press
Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
Spot the silhouette of a Northern Goshawk in flight. Identify the raucous call of the Red-winged Blackbird. Discover the secret of picking out a Chipping...
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The Control of Nature
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested...
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Simple Prosperity
Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle
St. Martin's Griffin
In his bestseller Affluenza, David Wann and his co-authors diagnosed the debilitating disease of over-consumption. In Simple Prosperity he shows readers how...
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The Outermost House
A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
Holt Paperbacks
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald...
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Encounters with the Archdruid
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the...
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Birds
A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press
Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
This guide will help you identify-quickly and easily-the birds you are most likely to see. It tells you: What to look for Where and when to look How to...
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Dominion
The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
St. Martin's Griffin
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over...
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The Bill McKibben Reader
Pieces from an Active Life
Holt Paperbacks
Powerful, impassioned essays on living and being in the world, from the bestselling author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy For a generation, Bill...
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Coal River
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
One of America’s most dramatic environmental battles is unfolding in southern West Virginia. Coal companies are blasting the mountains, decapitating them for...
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The Meadow
Holt Paperbacks
An American Library Association Notable Book In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider's web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year...
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Living on the Wind
Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
North Point Press
Bird migration is the world's only true unifying natural phenomenon, stitching the continents together in a way that even the great weather systems fail to do....
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Out of Eden
An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them...
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Danger Stalks the Land
Alaskan Tales of Death and Survival
St. Martin's Griffin
Alaska is like no other state and few countries; men experience greater risk in her arms. This one-of-a-kind anthology captures the spine tingling adventures...