Silent Spring by Linda Lear $14.95
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson’s passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully...
Second Nature by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A Civil Action by Vintage Books
Environment by Harcourt College Pub $38.50
Environment, 2/e is a serious science text that is appealing and understandable to students from all disciplines. It takes a solutions-oriented approach to environmental problems by providing students with information and allowing them to make their own conclusions.
Storms of My Grandchildren by Bloomsbury UK $10.11
World on the Edge by Earthscan Ltd $17.39
Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised) by W. W. Norton & Company $16.95
“[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington PostAs fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing oil, coal, and natural gas, at a pace and on a scale...
Rats: A Year with New York's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Granta Books
Environmental Science: A Global Concern by McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math $70.00
Environmental Science: A Global Concern, Eleventh Edition, is a comprehensive presentation of environmental science for non-science majors which emphasizes critical thinking, environmental responsibility, and global awareness. This book is intended for use in a one- or two-semester course in environmental science, human ecology, or environmental studies at the college or advanced placement high...
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape by Free Press $15.99
The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland of cartoon architecture and parking lots. In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern...