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Floods and High Water, 1936: Pennsylvania's Greatest Flood Disaster in Pictures

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Telegraph Press: 1936

Seller ID: 2265079

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Front wrapper creased, edges lightly rubbed. 1936 Soft Cover. Unpaginated. A collection of black-and-white photographs of the Pittsburgh flood of 1936. On March 17 and 18, 1936, the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania witnessed the worst flood in its history when flood levels peaked at 46 feet (14 m). This flood became known as The Great St. Patrick’s Day flood, and also affected other areas of the Mid-Atlantic on both sides of the Eastern Continental Divide.
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No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process

By: Beavan, Colin

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Picador: 2010

Seller ID: 2291671

ISBN: 0312429835

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. 2010 Trade Paperback. 288 pp. What does it really take to live eco-effectively? For one year, Colin Beavan swore off plastic and toxins, turned off his electricity, went organic, became a bicycle nut, and tried to save the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his young daughter and his Prada-wearing wife along for the ride. Together they attempted to make zero impact on the environment while living right in the heart of Manhattan, and this is the sensational, funny, and consciousness-raising story of how they did it. With No Impact Man, Beavan found that no...
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The Arcturus Adventure: An Account of the New York Zoological Society's First Oceanographic Expedition, with 77 Illustrations from Colored Plates, Photographs and Maps

By: Beebe, William

Price: $25.00

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press: 1926

Seller ID: 2278347

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Lacks jacket. Rear board edge a bit soiled, front hinge beginning to weaken, ink gift note on front flyleaf, front and end matter and plates lightly foxed. 1926 Hard Cover. xix, [1], 439, [1] pp. 8vo. Original forest green cloth, blind-stamped borders, gilt titles. Color illustrated endpapers, color plates, black & white photographs, maps. Recounts the first oceanographic expedition of the New York Zoological society, an attempt to investigate the Sargasso Sea and the Humboldt Current. Beebe was also known for his deep sea dives in the Bathysphere designed for him by Otis Barton...
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Earthquakes and Geological Discovery (Scientific American Library)

By: Bolt, Bruce A.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Scientific American Library: 1993

Seller ID: 2295387

ISBN: 0716750406

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

A very nice copy. 1993 Large Hardcover. 229 pp. Explores the origins and history of seismology, advancements in earthquake prediction and risk reduction, and seismic geology.
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The Writings of John Burroughs, with Portraits and Many Illustrations, in Fifteen [15] Volumes: Wake Robin; Winter Sunshine; Birds and Poets; Locusts and Wild Honey; Pepacton; Fresh Fields; Signs and Seasons; Indoor Studies; Riverby; Whitman; The Light of Day; Literary Values; Far and Near; Ways of Nature; Leaf and Tendril (Riverby Edition)

By: Burroughs, John

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1908

Seller ID: 2268253

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Spine of final volume and boards of a few volumes soiled, bottom marginal corner of volume eleven pages lightly stained. 1908 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Complete in fifteen volumes, though additional volumes were released subsequently -- at the time of publication in 1908, this set comprised Burroughs entire body of work. Original green cloth, gilt titles & decorations, top edge gilt. Each volume includes black & white frontispiece and several photographic plates. John Burroughs was an influential naturalist in the 19th and early 20th century, particularly in his...
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The Sea Around Us

By: Carson, Rachel L.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1951

Seller ID: 2290424

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition, second state (shiny boards, not matte). Lacks jacket. Minor wear to corners. 1951 Hard Cover. vii, [1], 230 pp. 8vo. Illustrated endpapers. Author's second book. Carson would go on to write Silent Spring, which started the modern environmental movement as we know it, resulting in the ban of DDT and the creation of the EPA. Originally published in 1951, The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world. Rachel Carson's ability to combine scientific insight with poetic prose catapulted her book to the top of The New York Times best-seller ...
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Rainforests: An Activity Guide for Ages 6-9

By: Castaldo, Nancy F.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Chicago Review Press: 2003

Seller ID: 2272723

ISBN: 1556524765

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

3rd printing. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('For Lance! Get wild about rainforests! Nancy F. Castaldo'). 2003 Large Softcover. x, 133, [1] pp. Provides facts and activities that explore tropical and temperate ancient forests, discusses how individuals can help preserve them, and describes well-known and unfamiliar creatures of the rain forest.
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Life and Death in a Coral Sea: The Undersea Discoveries of Jacques-Yves Cousteau

By: Cousteau, Jacques-Yves; Diole, Philippe

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1971

Seller ID: 2207360

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

3rd printing. A nice copy. A few scratches to jacket rear, half-inch tear to top edge of jacket rear, jacket flaps creased. 1971 Large Hardcover. 302 pp. With 122 photographs in full color. Jacques-Yves Cousteau name is synonymous with underwater exploration. As indeed it should be. In the middle of the Second World War, Cousteau solved a problem that had restricted humans to the ocean's surface - or to where a person could dive on one long breath - since the beginning. Along with Emile Gagnan, he invited the Aqua-Lung, or, as it is more commonly called, the underwater regulator - a devise tha...
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Geology of the Vicinity of Ogdensburg (Brier Hill, Ogdensburg and Red Mills Quadrangles) (New York State Museum Bulletin, November 1, 1916, No. 191)

By: Cushing, H.P.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The University of the State of New York: 1916

Seller ID: 2297526

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

One inch tear to spine head, wrappers lightly toned. 1916 Soft Cover. 64 pp. Includes map. CONTENTS: Introduction; Location and Character; General Topography: Glacial Deposits; General Geology; Descriptive Geology: Precambrian Rocks - Igneous Rocks: Structures of the Precambrian Rocks - Paleozoic Rocks: Character of the Precambrian Surface Under the Paleozoics - Cambrian (Ozarkian) Formations: Theresa Formation - Ordovician Formations: Tribes Hill Formation - Ogdensburg Formation - Structures of the Paleozoic Rocks; Historical Geology: Precambrian Time - Cambrian Time - Ordovician Time - Later...
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Nature on the Rampage

By: De Blij, H.J.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Smithsonian: 1994

Seller ID: 2192925

ISBN: 0895990482

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition. Very light rubbing to rear jacket. Very Good. 1994 Large Hardcover. Photographs and other information on natural disasters.
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Majestic Lights: The Aurora in Science, History, and the Arts

By: Eather, Robert H.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., American Geophysical Union: 1980

Seller ID: 2304481

ISBN: 0875902154

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Slightly musty. Jacket edges lightly rubbed, jacket rear faintly foxed. A few spots to top page ridge. 1980 Large Hardcover. 323 pp. Auroras played in polar skies long before man appeared on earth. Records of auroras extend back nearly 5,000 years. ...This authoritative and beautifully illustrated book covers all aspects of this story--from early history, the beginning of scientific enquiry, legends and folklore, poetry and literature, and modern understanding.
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The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold

By: Ehrlich, Gretel

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Pantheon Books: 2004

Seller ID: 2281690

ISBN: 037542251X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2004 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xv, 200 pp. This book is written out of Gretel Ehrlich’s love for winter—for remote and cold places, and the ways in which winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and soul—and out of the fear that our “democracy of gratification” has irreparably altered the climate. In The Future of Ice, Ehrlich travels to extreme points—from Tierra del Fuego in the south to Spitsbergen, east of Greenland, at the very top of the world—in her quest t...
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An Introduction to Pollen Analysis (A New Series of Plant Science Books Volume XII [12])

By: Erdtman, G. [Gunnar]; Wodehouse, Roger P.; Verdoorn, Frans

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Chronica Botanica Company: 1943

Seller ID: 2266467

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First American edition. A couple minor smudges on rear board, pages lightly toned, ink name on half-title page and title page. 1943 Hard Cover. xv, [1], 239, [1] pp. The first English translation of the work that took what was previously a subject of research in just a few countires and made it an internationally recognized field, and revolutionized Quaternary vegetation and climate change research. Illustrations, diagrams, and charts throughout. Oddly, the verso of the final leaf bears an illustration of a tree playing a flute.
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The Leguminous Plants of Wisconsin: The Taxonomy, Ecology and Distribution of the Leguminosae Growing in the State Without Cultivation

By: Fassett, Norman C.; Mose, Catherine

Price: $12.00

Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press: 1961

Seller ID: 2291382

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Second printing. No jacket. A very nice copy. 1961 Hard Cover. xii, 157 pp. 9 3/8 x 6 1/4. Green boards, gilt on spine. Numerous photos, drawings, diagrams, maps. With drawings by Richard I. Evans. A Study of Epidermal Outgrowths by Catherine Mose. CONTENTS: Preface; The Distribution of the Leguminosae Native in Wisconsin; Artificial Key to the Leguminosae of Wisconsin Based on Vegetative Characters; Key Based on Flowers; Key Based on Fruits; Key Based on Seeds; Characteristics and Distributions of the Leguminosae of Wisconsin; Epidermal Outgrowths of the Leguminosae of Wisconsin; Glossary; In...
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Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods

By: Hill, Julia Butterfly; Hill, Julia

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harper San Francisco: 2000

Seller ID: 2291668

ISBN: 0062516590

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Faint edge wear. 2000 Trade Paperback. 261 pp. The Legacy of Luna is a book written by Julia Butterfly Hill about her experiences while protecting a tree named Luna. It is based on a true story, written like a diary of two years spent in an ancient redwood.
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Ecoviolence: Links Among Environment, Population and Society

By: Homer-Dixon, Thomas (Editor); Blitt, Jessica (Editor)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield: 1998

Seller ID: 2202014

ISBN: 0847688704

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Lightly rubbed, sticker on back cover. 1998 Trade Paperback. 238 pp. Explores links between environmental scarcities of key renewable resources_such as cropland, fresh water, and forests_and violent rebellions, insurgencies, and ethnic clashes in developing countries. Detailed contemporary studies of civil violence in Chiapas, Gaza, South Africa, Pakistan, and Rwanda show how environmental scarcity has played a limited to significant role in causing social instability in each of these contexts. Drawing upon theory and key findings from the case studies, the authors suggest that environmental s...
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A Fisheries Guide to Lakes and Ponds of Connecticut, Including the Connecticut River and Its Coves (Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection Bulletin 35)

By: Jacobs, Robert P.; O'Donnell, Eileen B.; Parker, Edward C. (Preface)

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection: 2002

Seller ID: 1833792

ISBN: 0942085124

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Near fine. 2002 Hard Cover. xiv, 354 pp. Provides the latest information on 113 of the state's public lakes and ponds, and ten locations on the Connecticut River, to give the reader a greater understanding of fish populations and the environment upon which they depend for survival. Useful for the environmentally conscious fisherman as well as the serious ecologist. Topics covered include: aquatic vegetation; bathymetry (depth contour) maps; fish populations and their habitats; lake and pond ecology; lake and pond fisheries management practices; lake productivity; life histories of common lake ...
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Backtracking: The Way of a Naturalist

By: Levin, Ted

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company: 1988

Seller ID: 1916090

ISBN: 0930031156

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First printing. Minimal toning to wrappers. 1988 Trade Paperback. 220 pp. He writes naturally and with unselfconscious but playful grace, like an otter making the shortest distance between two points a slide down a cascade concluded with a somersault...His book is full of information, lovingly distilled in fascinating true-life animal adventures. It will do Adam's work...creating fans for the wildlife and for the naturalists around us. Joan Waltermire captures the theme for each chapter in stunning pencil drawings.
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So Glorious a Landscape: Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture (American Visions: Readings in American Culture Series Number 5)

By: Magoc, Chris J.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Wilmington, SR Books / Scholarly Resources Inc.: 2002

Seller ID: 2202253

ISBN: 0842026967

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2002 Hard Cover. xvi, 301 pp. So Glorious a Landscape: Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture surveys the vast and interdisciplinary subject of American natural and environmental studies. It examines the literary landscape that has inspired a local, regional, and national sense of place; explores the dynamic meaning and significance of nature across time, place, culture, and gender; and looks at the essence and history of environmental change. The first all-encompassing introductory survey of environ-mental history and cultural studies, this volume provides s...
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

By: McDonough, William; Braungart, Michael

Price: $7.00

Publisher: North Point Press: 2002

Seller ID: 2293896

ISBN: 0865475873

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Reprint. An exceptional copy. 2002 Trade Paperback. Reduce, reuse, recycle urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as this provocative, visionary book argues, this approach perpetuates a one-way, cradle to grave manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world?
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In Service of the Wild: Restoring and Reinhabiting Damaged Land

By: Mills, Stephanie

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Beacon Press: 1995

Seller ID: 2264681

ISBN: 0807085340

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A nice copy. 1995 Hard Cover. xii, 237 pp. Lending her voice to the rapidly growing field of land restoration, the author examines a grassroots effort that has contributed new botanical, zoological, and geological knowledge, and takes the reader along as she assists the regenerative processes of nature.
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The Remarkable Baobab

By: Pakenham, Thomas

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2004

Seller ID: 2202522

ISBN: 0297843737

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. No copyright date. A near fine copy. 2004 Hard Cover. 143 pp. Standing tall on the sunburnt plains of Africa and Australia, like great living giants, baobabs may be the oldest life forms on the planet, and many of the specimens still standing today have been around for at least 2000 years. For centuries, the tree has provided food, medicine, shelter, places of refuge and worship and even served as prisons and tombs. Long before Africa was opened up by European explorers, the news of the baobab had astonished the world of science, due to its stupendous size (twice the girth of an...
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Household Ecology

By: Percivall, Julia

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Barnes & Noble: 1971

Seller ID: 2277946

ISBN: 0064633594

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Wrappers rubbed. 1971 Trade Paperback. A great resource for those who like to be economical and help the environment.
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Tide Pools (A Harpercollins Nature Study Book)

By: Rood, Ronald

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Harper Trophy: 1993

Seller ID: 2296339

ISBN: 0064461513

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First printing. Very minor general wear. 1993 Soft Cover. 48 pp. Introduces the many kinds of sea creatures that can be found in tide pools, including starfish, mollusks, crustaceans, and jellyfish.
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The Fate of the Earth

By: Schell, Jonathan

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1982

Seller ID: 2304599

ISBN: 0394525590

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Multiple tears to jacket edges, tears along top edge of front jacket panel mended with tape. Front jacket flap taped down to front paste-down endpaper, ink name on front free endpaper. 1982 Hard Cover. 244 pp. When Jonathan Schell heard all that loose talk about attainment of objectives in a limited nuclear war, it was too much for him. He did what all of us would like to do: he wrote a book. It's very pessimistic. The mere presence of all those weapons is enough to ensure that sometime, somewhere, someone is going to set one off. Schell makes sure all of us know the horrendous ...
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The Great Rift: Africa's Changing Valley

By: Smith, Anthony

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Sterling Publishing: 1989

Seller ID: 2264322

ISBN: 0806969075

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 1989 Hard Cover. A guide to the ecology, animal life, and civilization of the Great Rift Valley in Africa.
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers

By: Thoreau, Henry D. [David]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hurst & Company: 1895

Seller ID: 2292353

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No publisher date (gift note dated 1924). No jacket. Pencil gift note on front free endpaper. 1895 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 355 pp. Green boards. It is ostensibly the narrative of a boat trip from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire, and back, that Thoreau took with his brother John in 1839. John died of tetanus in 1842 and Thoreau wrote the book, in part, as a tribute to his memory.
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American Indian Environments: Ecological Issues in Native American History

By: Vecsey, Christopher; Venables, Robert W.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Syracuse University Press: 1980

Seller ID: 2289132

ISBN: 0815622279

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First edition - a paperback original. Minor general wear. 1980 Trade Paperback. xxv, 208 pp. Contributions from Kai T. Erikson, William T. Hagan, Laurence M. Hauptman, Wilbur R. Jacobs, Oren Lyons, Peter MacDonald, Calvin Martin. These essays discuss the historical and contemporary relationships between Native Americans and the natural world. Topics include: environmental religions, Iroquois villages of the 18th century, Navajo natural resources, and subarctic Native Americans and wildlife.
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Keep Looking Up: A Limited Edition Guide to the Climate of Rochester, the Finger Lakes and Western New York

By: Williams, Kevin

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Weather-Track: 1995

Seller ID: 2289177

Binding: Spiral-Bound Softcover

Condition: Very Good

SIGNED by author. Faint edge wear. 1995 Spiral-Bound Softcover. A calendar for 1996 that includes seasonal and climate information.
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Wild Life in a Southern County

By: [Jefferies, Richard]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Roberts Brothers: 1879

Seller ID: 2304566

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, pencil name on second blank and last page. 1879 Hard Cover. viii, 344, iv, [4] pp. The front panel shows the interesting design of ever-smaller rectangles of black lines shrinking to outline the handsome small gilt picture of a rabbit bounding through a wild field. The spine shows black striping and gilt title and decoration of a squirrel.--JDBFamily, AbeBooks. Immersed in the detail of this ancient landscape, its people and the habitats of its wildlife, what emerges from Jefferies’ dazzling prose is his sense of perpetual wonder and the...
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