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    Not In Our Genes

    Informative, entertaining, lucid, forceful, frequently witty . . . never dull . . . should be read and remembered for a long time."-New York Times Book Review "The authors argue persuasively that biological explanations for why we act as we do are based...
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    Confronting Injustice

    A new generation of activists working for economic and environmental justice, and against war and poverty, confronts critical questions. Why is the world so unjust and crisis-prone? What kind of world should we fight for? How can we win? In this...
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    Marx and Nature

    Though infrequently viewed as an environmental thinker, Karl Marx insisted that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by both historically developed relations among producers and natural conditions. Paul Burkett shows that...
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  • The Secret Life of Corals
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    The Secret Life of Corals

    When we think of coral reefs we tend to think of beautiful rock-like structures teaming with colourful fish and other marine life. But what exactly are the 'corals' in the coral reef? What are these creatures that start out very small...
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    Homemade Contrivances and How to Make Them
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    Homemade Contrivances and How to Make Them

    The traditional American devices contained in this intriguing compilation date from an era long before milking machines, pesticide sprayers, and industrial hay bailers. Yet the simple inventions described for doing everything from managing young bulls to...
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  • Wild Sonoma
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    Wild Sonoma

    An all-access guide to the abundant natural splendor of Sonoma County.Wild Sonomacelebrates the spectacular and resilient natural landscapes of Sonoma County, which along with its neighboring counties is one of the world's premier winegrowing regions...
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  • Full Ecology
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    Full Ecology

    How to confront the climate crisis without losing heartIt's easy to feel overwhelmed in the face of global climate breakdown. So how might we develop the inner resolve to confront it? Full Ecology, a collaboration between social-cultural psychologist...
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    Do Childfree People Have Better Sex?
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    Do Childfree People Have Better Sex?

    A brief book by a well-known activist on the growing childfree movement, its many positive benefits and the conventional resistance with adopting this lifestyle.Verena Brunschweiger is no stranger to controversy. In her latest book, Do Childfree People...
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    Protecting the Places We Love
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    Protecting the Places We Love

    Protecting special places in danger of being changed forever requires urgent action. It's time for bold conservation strategies to boost land protection around the world.Bold conservation goals require strategic action. InProtecting thePlaces We Love:...
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    The Four Elements of the Wise
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    The Four Elements of the Wise

    An in-depth exploration of the elements, their lore, history, correspondences, and use in spellwork and ritual.The four elements are the pillars that uphold the manifest world and anchor spirit to matter. They are associated with a wide range of...
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    Rising

    'Sea level rise is not some distant problem in a distant place. As Elizabeth Rush shows, it's affecting real people right now. Rising is a compelling piece of reporting, by turns bleak and beautiful.' - Elizabeth KolbertFINALIST FOR THE...
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    Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

    "A gutsy, wholly original memoir of ragged grace and raw beauty." -Kirkus Reviews (STARRED) From the memories of a childhood marked by extreme poverty, mental illness, and restrictive fundamentalist Christian rules, Janisse Ray crafted a memoir that has...
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    The Colors of Nature

    From African American to Asian American, indigenous to immigrant, "multiracial" to "mixedblood," the diversity of cultures in today's world is reflected in our richly various stories-stories of creation and destruction, displacement and heartbreak, hope...
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    The Pine Island Paradox

    Can the love reserved for family and friends be extended to a place? In her latest book, acclaimed author Kathleen Dean Moore reflects on how deeply the environment is entrenched in the human spirit, despite the notion that nature and humans are somehow...
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  • The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon
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    The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon

    As the Amazon burns, Fbio Zuker shares stories of resistance, self-determination, and kinship with the land.In 2007, a seven-ton minke whale was found stranded on the banks of the Tapajs River, hundreds of miles into the Amazon rainforest. For days,...
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  • Living with water
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    Living with water

    Living with water brings together sociologists, geographers, artists, writers and poets to explore the ways in which water binds, immerses and supports us. Drawing from international research on river crossings, boat dwelling, wild swimming, sea fishing,...
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    Walleye

    Walleye, the holy grail of game fish: on catching them, understanding their biology and history, and ensuring their survivalAmong the more than 34,000 species of fish, few have the walleye's following-among anglers and diners, states conferring official...
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  • Does the Earth Care?
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    Does the Earth Care?

    Rethinking our relationship with Earth in a time of environmental emergencyThe world is changing. Progress no longer has a future but any earlier sense of Earth as "providential" seems of merely historical interest. The apparent absence of Earthly...
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    Plant Life

    How afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plantsIn Plant Life, Rosetta S. Elkin explores the procedures of afforestation, the large-scale planting of trees in otherwise treeless environments, including grasslands,...
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    Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth

    An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological eraWhat can the Gothic teach us about our current geological era? More than just spooky, moonlit castles and morbid graveyards, the Gothic represents a...
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    The Three Sustainabilities

    Bringing the word sustainability back from the brink of clich-to a substantive, truly sustainable future Is sustainability a hopelessly vague word, with meager purpose aside from a feel-good appeal to the consumer? In The Three Sustainabilities, Allan...
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    Saving Animals

    A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States In the past three decades, animal rights advocates have established everything from elephant sanctuaries in Africa to shelters that rehabilitate animals used in...
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    Man and Nature

    After being appointed the United States Minister Resident to the Ottoman Empire in 1849, George P. Marsh had the opportunity to travel the world and visit the sites of ancient civilizations. Troubled by what he saw, Marsh came to the conclusion that...
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    Year of No Garbage
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    Year of No Garbage

    "Eve's brave and honest experiment reveals the shocking impact of the throwaway society we've become and at the same time showing small ways we can all do better." -Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, founder of Plastic Free JulyYear of No Garbage is Super Size Me...
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    Unusual Uses for Ordinary Things
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    Unusual Uses for Ordinary Things

    Most people use nail polish remover to remove nail polish. They use coffee grounds to make coffee and hair dryers to dry their hair. The majority of people may also think that the use of eggs, lemons, mustard, butter, and mayonnaise should be restricted...
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    The Monsanto Papers
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    The Monsanto Papers

    A David and Goliath battle for truthA specialist in GM foods and pesticides, the biologist Gilles-ric Seralini has studied their toxicity and effects on people's health for many years. In September 2012, for the first time in a major scientific journal...
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    Climate in Crisis
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    Climate in Crisis

    The science is overwhelming; the facts are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are everywhere to be seen.Yet, as time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet: energy...
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    Trooper
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    Trooper

    A charming tale for fans of Marley & Me and Dewey's Nine Lives.Whenever middle-aged desert tour guide Forrest Bryant Johnson went out on his daily walks into the Mojave, all was usually peaceful and serene. But one beautiful summer day in 1987,...
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    Aquascaping
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    Aquascaping

    Learn how to create and maintain your own underwater ecosystem. Aquascaping is the art of arranging underwater plant life in aesthetically pleasing displays. From the brilliance of Takashi Amano and numerous other innovators, planted tanks have become...
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    Foraging for Survival
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    Foraging for Survival

    Learn how to find tasty and ecofriendly food in the wild.As consumerism and a meat-heavy, processed diet become the norm and the world's population continues to grow at an exponential rate, more and more people are looking toward a more sustainable path...
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    Building a Sustainable Home
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    Building a Sustainable Home

    Learn the logistics of choosing windows, insulation, appliances, and lighting. Find out about FSC certified wood and about using reclaimed materials. Here is everything you need to make your home sustainable.Whether the reader is building a new home or...
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    Zero Waste
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    Zero Waste

    Easy and Effective Strategies to Jumpstart a Sustainable, Waste-Free LifestyleWe have a worldwide trash epidemic. The average American disposes of 4.4 pounds of garbage per day, and our landfills hold 254 million tons of waste.What if there were a...
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    Inside Animal Hearts and Minds
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    Inside Animal Hearts and Minds

    As Charles Darwin suggested more than a century ago, the differences between animals and humans are "one of degree and not of kind." Not long ago, ethologists denied that animals had emotions or true intelligence. Now, we know that rats laugh when...
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    Understanding Climate Change
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    Understanding Climate Change

    Conversations about climate change are filled with challenges involving complex data, deeply held values, and political issues. Understanding Climate Change examines climate change as both a scientific and a public policy issue. Sarah L. Burch and Sara E...
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    Living in AWE - Abundance - Wellness -Empowerment-
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    Living in AWE - Abundance - Wellness -Empowerment-

    Living in AWE was written to address the urgent need for positive change at this critical time in human history. This book provides tools, principles and frameworks for both the personal and systemic transformation we need. This transformation requires...
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    The Post Carbon Reader

    This diverse collection by best-selling authors, renowned scientists, and experienced activists is an engaging and practical book that will be of interest to the lay reader as well as university students in both graduate and undergraduate courses. The...
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    Builders of the Pacific Coast
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    Builders of the Pacific Coast

    A continuation of Lloyd Kahn's journeys into the creative processes of owner-built homes - their innovative techniques, use of sustainable materials, and essential dedication to the natural elements surrounding their designs...
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  • The Barefoot Architect
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    The Barefoot Architect

    The Barefoot Architect is a book dedicated to helping economically-challenged tropical builders learn how to provide shelter, clean water, electrical energy, and sanitation by using indigenous,...
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  • The Septic System Owner's Manual
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    The Septic System Owner's Manual

    This is a thorough, non-technical handbook and guide to the basics of septic systems - the physical process that takes place in the septic system and the simple technology needed to make it work. Emphasis is on conventional...
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    What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate that there is a...
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    Meditations of John Muir

    Carry John Muir's wisdom with you in this inspirational guide that features 60 of his most insightful quotes.As a patriarch of the American environmental movement, John Muir helped to give birth to the national park system, the Sierra Club, and a myriad...
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  • Plough Quarterly No. 4
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    Plough Quarterly No. 4

    This issue of Plough Quarterly explores our relationship with the natural world. Hear from leading scientists, farmers, writers, activists, theologians, and artists who have set their hearts and minds and hands to caring for the earth for generations to...
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  • The Path to a Livable Future
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    The Path to a Livable Future

    This book evolved from the crises of 2020: fighting a pandemic, climate catastrophe, and racial injustice.The author's previous book The Green New Deal and Beyondwas published in April 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, so it, obviously, suffered...
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    Learning to Die in the Anthropocene

    "In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim realities of climate change. The result is a fierce and provocative book."--Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth...
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  • Earth for All
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    Earth for All

    Earth For All is an antidote to despair. Combining the global economy, population, inequality, food, and energy in a state-of-the art computer model, a leading group of scientists and economists present a plan of five system-shifting steps to achieve...
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  • Escape from Overshoot
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    Escape from Overshoot

    An excellent primer on key insights and questions in ecological economics from a celebrated pioneer of the field. Less is MoreEarth is in overshoot. The juggernaut of economic growth rolls on, consuming the biosphere, breaking planetary boundaries, and...
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  • Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle
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    Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle

    Stop thinking about efficiency and start thinking about sufficiency.Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do, identifying where we can make big reductions, while not sweating the small stuff.The international scientific...
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  • We're All Climate Hypocrites Now
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    We're All Climate Hypocrites Now

    Changing your behaviour matters. Transforming the system matters more.Our culture tells us that personal responsibility is central to tackling the climate emergency, yet the choices we make are often governed by the systems in which we live. Whether...
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