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

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harrisburg, PA, 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. Patricks Day flood, and also affected other areas of the Mid-Atlantic on both sides of the Eastern Continental Divide.
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Foot Notes; or, Walking as a Fine Art [Footnotes]

By: Barron, Alfred

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Wallingford, Wallingford Printing Company: 1875

Seller ID: 2307814

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Corners rubbed, ink names and dates on front flyleaf, front hinge just beginning to weaken, minimal pencil marginalia. 1875 Hard Cover. viii, 330 pp. A meditation on the merits of walking, by a member of the Oneida Community, a utopian society founded by John Noyes. In his preface, Barron acknowledges the similarity of his work to that of Thoreau and even, though he denies being a Spiritualist, suggests that Thoreau may have guided his hand in the composition of this book.
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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: New York, 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: New York, 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: New York, 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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Soil and Water Conservation (Merit Badge Series)

By: Boy Scouts of America; Roth, Bernhard A.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, Boy Scouts of America: 1952

Seller ID: 2308798

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Front wrapper rubbed, ink marks on requirements pages. 1952 Stapled Binding. 93 pp. A Boy Scouts of American Merit Badge pamphlet on soil and water conservation. Get the dirt on soil and water! Using this pamphlet to earn the Soil and Water Conservation Merit Badge, you'll be prepared to spread the word on how to conserve these precious natural resources.
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Image for 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)

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: Boston, 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. 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 advocacy of environmental conservation, and i...
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Environment and Archeology: An Introduction to Pleistocene Geography

By: Butzer, Karl W.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: ., Aldine: 1964

Seller ID: 2157930

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First Edition. Former library copy - usual marks. Jacket rubbed. 1964 Hard Cover. A survey of the Pleistocene era with a focus on the relationship between man and land.
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The Sea Around Us

By: Carson, Rachel L.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, 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, 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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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: Albany, New York, 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: New York, 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 Ehrlichs love for winterfor remote and cold places, and the ways in which winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and souland out of the fear that our democracy of gratification has irreparably altered the climate. In The Future of Ice, Ehrlich travels to extreme pointsfrom Tierra del Fuego in the south to Spitsbergen, east of Greenland, at the very top of the worldin her quest to understand the comp...
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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: Waltham, Mass., 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: Madison, 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: San Francisco, 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: England, 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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War of the Whales: A True Story

By: Horwitz, Joshua

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 2014

Seller ID: 2306610

ISBN: 1451645015

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2014 Hard Cover. War of the Whales is the gripping tale of a crusading attorney who stumbles on one of the US Navys best-kept secrets: a submarine detection system that floods entire ocean basins with high-intensity soundand drives whales onto beaches. As Joel Reynolds launches a legal fight to expose and challenge the Navy program, marine biologist Ken Balcomb witnesses a mysterious mass stranding of whales near his research station in the Bahamas. Investigating this calamity, Balcomb is forced to choose between his conscience and an oath of secrecy he swor...
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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 environmental history and cultural studies, this volume provides st...
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For People and the Planet: Holism and Humanism in Environmental Ethics

By: Marietta, Don E.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: ., Temple: 1994

Seller ID: 2196200

ISBN: 1566392470

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Ink underlining & marginalia. 1994 Trade Paperback. The view of nature has begun to move away from a traditionally Western humans-apart-from-nature attitude toward one that sees humans as a part of nature. This book describes these changes and what the author perceives as a philosophical shift toward a different holistic models of environmental ethics.
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

By: McDonough, William; Braungart, Michael

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, 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: Boston, 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: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2004

Seller ID: 2202522

ISBN: 0297843737

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. No copyright date. A 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 any tre...
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Household Ecology

By: Percivall, Julia

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, 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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Whole Green Catalog: 1000 Best Things for You and the Earth

By: Robbins, Michael W.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: ., Rodale: 2009

Seller ID: 2208152

ISBN: 1594868875

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2009 Soft Cover. As interest in living a sustainable life has exploded, so has the green marketplace. It has become difficult to distinguish companies that provide truly eco-friendly products and services from those that greenwash. Now, from the company that foundedOrganic Gardeningwhen eating close to the land was far from mainstream and published Al Gore'sAn Inconvenient Truth, comes this timely guide to all things green. Modeled on the classicWhole Earth Catalog, the touchstone for an earlier generation,Whole Green Earth Catalogis poised to become the bib...
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Tide Pools (A Harpercollins Nature Study Book)

By: Rood, Ronald

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, 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: New York, Sterling Publishing: 1989

Seller ID: 2264322

ISBN: 0806969075

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. A guide to the ecology, animal life, and civilization of the Great Rift Valley in Africa.
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American Indian Environments: Ecological Issues in Native American History

By: Vecsey, Christopher; Venables, Robert W.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Syracuse, New York, 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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