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    Continent Aflame
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    Continent Aflame

    Our devastating bushfires of 2019-20, their effects, meanings and implications, have not been forgotten. The Australian bushfire crisis of 2019-2020 was a disaster on an unprecedented scale which dramatically focused attention on the need to review and...
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  • Secrets of Snakes
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    Secrets of Snakes

    Snakes inspire extreme reactions. Love or hate these limbless reptiles, almost everyone is fascinated by them. Although snakes are widespread and frequently encountered, they may be more misunderstood than any other group of animals. From giant...
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  • Water Talks
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    Water Talks

    'Ignoring water's essential role as the connective tissue of all life on Earth is widespread. Unfortunately, the response to each environmental problem tends to be piecemeal -- addressing one threat rather than responding with complex solutions that will...
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  • Spirit of the Earth
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    Spirit of the Earth

    Often spoken at the end of a prayer, a well-known Sioux phrase affirms that "we are all related." Similarly, the Sioux medicine man, Brave Buffalo, came to realize when he was still a boy that "the maker of all was Wakan Tanka (the Great Spirit), and . ...
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  • Global Hive
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    Global Hive

    In a world all too familiar with environmental disasters, Horst Kornberger argues that the bee crisis is a more significant problem than deforestation, pollution and global warming put together, as it points to the causes behind all these. Global Hive is...
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  • Metabolic Rifts
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    Metabolic Rifts

    Like an autoimmune disease that attacks the body it dwells in, capitalism is tearing apart the very planet that feeds it. Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System, builds on Karl Marx’s insight that while capitalism is dependent on the...
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  • The Blessings of Disaster
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    The Blessings of Disaster

    Are we doomed? As individuals, certainly, eventually, inevitably. But as a species? As a civilization? Leading catastrophe engineer Michel Bruneau thinks perhaps not. The Blessings of Disaster draws on knowledge from multiple disciplines to illustrate...
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  • Snow
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    Snow

    From "Winter Wonderland" to "Snowmageddon," we've had a long, love-hate relationship with snow. This entertaining look at snow in all its delightful and fearsome manifestations delves into science, history, economics, and popular culture to examine...
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  • Consumer Ethics in a Global Economy
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    Consumer Ethics in a Global Economy

    Workers in distant nations who produce the products we buy frequently suffer from accidents, managerial malfeasance, and injustice. Are consumers who bought the products made by these workers in any way morally responsible for those injustices? And what...
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  • The Natural History of Flowers
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    The Natural History of Flowers

    Flowers have played an important role in human culture and survival for thousands of years. The final products of flowers-fruits and seeds-are vitally important as food. Flowers provide bursts of color to homes and gardens and they symbolize love,...
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  • Divining Chaos
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    Divining Chaos

    A spirited memoir by artist Aviva Rahmani, offering a relatable narrative to discuss trigger point theory and the importance of eco-art activism. Divining Chaos is an intimate personal memoir of unparalleled transparency into the moments in Rahmani's...
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  • Ecoart in Action
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    Ecoart in Action

    Ready-to-go, vetted approaches for facilitating artistic environmental projects How do we educate those who feel an urgency to address our environmental and social challenges? What ethical concerns do art-makers face who are committed to a deep green...
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  • Cultivating Creativity
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    Cultivating Creativity

    A rich and playful resource for fostering creativity in the classroom The product of over three decades of teaching design studios and creativity seminars primarily at the University of Washington, Cultivating Creativity offers firsthand, on-the-ground...
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  • Placemaking with Children and Youth
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    Placemaking with Children and Youth

    An illustrated, essential guide to engaging children and youth in the process of urban design From a history of children's rights to case studies discussing international initiatives that aim to create child-friendly cities, Placemaking with Children and...
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  • The Year Yellowstone Burned
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    The Year Yellowstone Burned

    The Yellowstone fires of 1988 consumed nearly 800,000 acres-36 percent of the park. In the years following, spectacular wildflowers rose from the ashes and trees rapidly reclaimed the landscape. In this twenty-five-year look back at the fires, author and...
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  • Climate Change and National Security
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    Climate Change and National Security

    In this unique and innovative contribution to environmental security, an international team of scholars explore and estimate the intermediate-term security risks that climate change may pose for the United States, its allies and partners, and for...
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  • The Ecological Rift
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    The Ecological Rift

    Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on...
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  • America's Bountiful Waters
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    America's Bountiful Waters

    Fish and Aquatic Conservation (FAC) in the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is the direct descendant of the U.S. Fish Commission, founded in 1871. In 2021, FAC marks its 150th anniversary, the oldest conservation agency in history. To commemorate this...
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  • How to Read a Florida Gulf Coast Beach
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    How to Read a Florida Gulf Coast Beach

    Come explore the geology of Florida's Gulf Coast beaches, from a bird's-eye view down to a crab's-eye view. You'll journey from Panhandle sugar-sand beaches to southwestern shell beaches, taking a fresh look at the ever-changing landscape. With Tonya...
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  • Engineering Nature
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    Engineering Nature

    Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 exported the...
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  • To Save the Wild Bison
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    To Save the Wild Bison

    Although the American bison was saved from near-extinction in the nineteenth century, today almost all herds are managed like livestock. The Yellowstone area is the only place in the United States where wild bison have been present since before the first...
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  • grace
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    grace

    Grace is a form of resilience. It is love in action. It holds us as we encounter difficulties and trauma. In recent years Australia has faced flood, drought, fire and the COVID-19 pandemic and these have challenged us deeply as as individuals as well as...
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  • An Inconvenient Apocalypse
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    An Inconvenient Apocalypse

    Confronting harsh ecological realities and the multiple cascading crises facing our world today, An Inconvenient Apocalypse argues that humanity's future will be defined not by expansion but by contraction. For decades, our world has understood that we...
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  • Children of a Modest Star
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    Children of a Modest Star

    A clear-eyed and urgent vision for a new system of political governance to manage planetary issues and their local consequences. Deadly viruses, climate-changing carbon molecules, and harmful pollutants cross the globe unimpeded by national borders...
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  • Ethics for a Full World
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    Ethics for a Full World

    The global emergencies facing the inhabitants of our planet -climate change, biodiversity meltdown, ocean acidification, overfishing, land degradation and more - are symptoms of a common problem: the world is full. Humanity has already exceeded several...
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  • Snake Oil
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    Snake Oil

    The rapid spread of ‘fracking' (hydraulic fracturing) has temporarily boosted natural gas and oil production, particularly in the USA, but it has also sparked a massive environmental backlash in local communities. The fossil fuel industry is promoting...
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  • Queen of the Sun
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    Queen of the Sun

    In Autumn 2006 an unnerving phenomenon hit the United States: honeybees were mysteriously disappearing from hives across the nation, with beekeepers reporting losses of between 30 and 90 per cent of their entire colonies. The problem soon spread to parts...
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  • Queen of the Sun
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    Queen of the Sun

    In Autumn 2006 an unnerving phenomenon hit the United States: honeybees were mysteriously disappearing from hives across the nation, with beekeepers reporting losses of between 30 and 90 per cent of their entire colonies. The problem soon spread to parts...
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change
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    Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change

    Mikhail Gorbachev is living proof that the word is mightier than the sword; that ideas, not armies, change the world. Dedicated to ridding humanity of the threat of nuclear annihilation, Gorbachev called for multilateral action to forge a common future...
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change
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    Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change

    Mikhail Gorbachev is living proof that the word is mightier than the sword; that ideas, not armies, change the world. Dedicated to ridding humanity of the threat of nuclear annihilation, Gorbachev called for multilateral action to forge a common future...
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  • Chill, A Reassessment of Global Warming Theory
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    Chill, A Reassessment of Global Warming Theory

    Although the world's climate has undergone many cyclical changes, the phrase 'climate change' has taken on a sinister meaning, implying catastrophe for humanity, ecology and the environment. We are told that we are responsible for this threat, and that...
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  • Understanding Environmental Issues
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    Understanding Environmental Issues

    'The arena of environmental issues is a minefield for undergraduate students seeking clarity about key problems and solutions. This is where Understanding Environmental Issues will play a major role, providing a stimulating guide through the wealth of...
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  • Sustainable Marketing
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    Sustainable Marketing

    By recognizing marketing as the key to the success of ecologically sound products, this text seeks to define the paradigm of sustainable marketing, and offers criteria for sustainable marketing strategies and products, and more.'
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  • Meltdown
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    Meltdown

    Why is news about global warming always bad? Why do scientists so often offer dire predictions about the future of the environment? In Meltdown, climatologist Patrick Michaels says it?s only natural. He argues that the way we do science today - when...
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  • Water for Sale
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    Water for Sale

    More than a billion people lack access to clean and safe water, causing 12 million deaths a year, as well as widespread poverty and disease. Government monopolies, underinvestment, inappropriate pricing, and insufficient property rights are to blame. Of...
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  • Scaling Conservation
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    Scaling Conservation

    How do we make protecting the planet more profitable than destroying it? Scaling Conservation presents a bold 'greenprint' for revolutionising the way we value nature. It is a transformative exploration of the complexities of natural capital, green...
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  • Scaling Conservation
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    Scaling Conservation

    How do we make protecting the planet more profitable than destroying it? Scaling Conservation presents a bold 'greenprint' for revolutionising the way we value nature. It is a transformative exploration of the complexities of natural capital, green...
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  • Scaling Conservation
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    Scaling Conservation

    How do we make protecting the planet more profitable than destroying it? Scaling Conservation presents a bold 'greenprint' for revolutionising the way we value nature. It is a transformative exploration of the complexities of natural capital, green...
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  • The Architecture of Change
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    The Architecture of Change

    The Architecture of Change is a collection of articles that demonstrates the power of the human spirit to transform the environments in which we live. This inspiring book profiles people who refused to accept that things couldn't change, who saw the...
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  • Nurses and Disasters
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    Nurses and Disasters

    This timely volume describes and analyzes the collaborative nursing response to a variety of historic and recent global disasters that occurred between 1908 and 2012, including Hurricane Sandy. The book is unique in its discussion of the trans-national...
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  • The Orphaned Land
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    The Orphaned Land

    Although most people prefer not to think about them, hazardous wastes, munitions testing, radioactive emissions, and a variety of other issues affect the quality of land, water, and air in the Land of Enchantment, as they do all over the world. In this...
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