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By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Telegraph Press: 1936
Seller ID: 2265079
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. View more info
By: Bass, Rick
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Ballantine Books: 1993
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 1913200
Condition: Near Fine
First printing. Bright copy. 1993 Trade Paperback. 163 pp. Defiant and opionated, Rick Bass has written an inspired essay advocating wolf reintroduction and recolonization, in the context of one, small pack's fate. An environmental issue for all, philosophical for some and moral for Bass, the wolf and its return have polarized the whole of the West--igniting the passions of both cattle ranchers and environmentalists, wildlife biologists and hunters. The result of years of personal study and scores of interviews with people both for and against the wolf's return to the Northern Rockies, THE NIN... View more info
By: Beavan, Colin
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Picador: 2010
Seller ID: 2291671
ISBN: 0312429835
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... View more info
By: Beebe, William
Price: $25.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press: 1926
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2278347
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... View more info
![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)](/assets/images/product/2268253.jpg)
By: Burroughs, John
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1908
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2268253
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... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1951
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2290424
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 ... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Chicago Review Press: 2003
Edition: 3rd Printing
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2272723
ISBN: 1556524765
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. View more info
By: Cousteau, Jacques-Yves; Diole, Philippe
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1971
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 2207360
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 that... View more info
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing: 1987
Seller ID: 1642325
Condition: Very Good
Includes original jacket. Lightly rubbed.Very Good. 1987 Large Hardcover. 168 pp. A photographic journey through England's threatened landscapes. View more info
By: Davis, Mike
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The New Press: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2196997
ISBN: 1565847652
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. 2002 Hard Cover. viii, 432 pp. First edition. In his most brilliantly syncretic writing yet, radical urban theorist Mike Davis explores the combat zone that is contemporary urban America, a ceaseless battle waged both within cities and against nature. Using environmental science as his frame of understanding, Davis examines themes of urban life today -- white fight, deindustrialization, housing and job segregation and discrimination, and federal policy -- and looks at areas he calls national sacrifice zones, military landscapes that simulated warfare and arms production have re... View more info
By: De Blij, H.J.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Smithsonian: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2192925
Condition: Very Good
First Edition. Very light rubbing to rear jacket.Very Good. 1994 Large Hardcover. Photographs and other information on natural disasters. View more info
By: Diamond, Jared
Price: $6.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1999
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2200229
ISBN: 0393317552
Condition: Near Fine
Reprint. Sticker on back cover. 1999 Trade Paperback. 480 pp. In this artful, informative, and delightful (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel ch... View more info
By: Ehrlich, Gretel
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Pantheon Books: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2281690
ISBN: 037542251X
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... View more info
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By: Erdtman, G. [Gunnar]; Wodehouse, Roger P.; Verdoorn, Frans
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Chronica Botanica Company: 1943
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266467
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. View more info
By: Fassett, Norman C.; Mose, Catherine
Price: $12.00
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press: 1961
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2291382
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... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: University of Chicago Press: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2279905
ISBN: 022602010X
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Faintly rubbed. 2013 Hard Cover. Our oceans are becoming increasingly inhospitable to life—growing toxicity and rising temperatures coupled with overfishing have led many marine species to the brink of collapse. And yet there is one creature that is thriving in this seasick environment: the beautiful, dangerous, and now incredibly numerous jellyfish. As foremost jellyfish expert Lisa-ann Gershwin describes in Stung!, the jellyfish population bloom is highly indicative of the tragic state of the world’s ocean waters, while also revealing the incredible tenacity of these remar... View more info
By: Godwin, Sara
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Friedman / Fairfax: 1994
Seller ID: 1919455
ISBN: 1567991041
Condition: Near Fine
Minimal wear to corners. 1994 Stapled Binding. 128 pp. From Gorilla myths spread by early explorers to modern-day research proving the gorilla's intelligence, Gorillas tells the story of our interactions with the gentlest of the great apes. The studies conducted by George Schaller and Dian Fossey have taught us much about the lives of gorillas in the wild. Gorillas explores their intriguing habits and social behavior as it takes you through a typical gorilla day and presents important conservation issues. Gorillas also discusses gorillas in captivity, such as Koko, who have learned to speak an... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1968086
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Lightly rubbed. 1974 Large Hardcover. ix, 397 pp. Bibliography and index follow text. A collection of scientific essays about the geology and oceanography of the Arctic seas, contributed by various authors. The fifteen chapters consider the oceanographic and topographic setting of the region. The past atmospheric circulatory patterns, the structure and evolution of the crust beneath the Arctic and surrounding seas, as well as the origin and mode of dispersal of sediments are discussed. Special problems include biostratigraphic correlations, paleooceanography and faunal evolution... View more info
By: Hill, Julia Butterfly; Hill, Julia
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Harper San Francisco: 2000
Seller ID: 2291668
ISBN: 0062516590
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. View more info
By: Homer-Dixon, Thomas (Editor); Blitt, Jessica (Editor)
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield: 1998
Seller ID: 2202014
ISBN: 0847688704
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... View more info
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
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 ... View more info
By: Klein, Naomi
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 2014
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2194696
ISBN: 1451697384
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Jacket edges lightly rubbed, ink name and date on front endpaper, ink and pencil marginalia. Very Good. 2014 Hard Cover. x, 566 pp. The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller 'The Shock Doctrine', a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. In short, either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical changes will be visited upon our physical world. The status quo is no longer an option. In 'This Chan... View more info
By: Klein, Ross A.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: New Society Publishers: 2002
Seller ID: 2269894
ISBN: 0865714622
Condition: Near Fine
Newspaper clippings laid in. 2002 Trade Paperback. vi, 200 pp. Cruising is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Attracting more than 12 million passengers a year, cruise ship companies are merging to become be-hemoths. And cruise ships themselves have swollen dramatically in size, now sometimes carrying more than 5,000 people on board. Not surprisingly, this growth is causing huge problems-problems that the industry would rather not acknowledge, and the potential cruiser would have a hard time discovering. Cruise Ship Blues reveals the dark underside of this industry. Author Ros... View more info
By: Levin, Ted
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company: 1988
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 1916090
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. View more info
By: Magoc, Chris J.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: SR Books / Scholarly Resources Inc.: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202253
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... View more info
By: Mills, Stephanie
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Beacon Press: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2264681
ISBN: 0807085340
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. View more info
By: Pakenham, Thomas
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202522
ISBN: 0297843737
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. No copyright date. A fine copy.Fine. 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... View more info
By: Percivall, Julia
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Barnes & Noble: 1971
Seller ID: 2277946
ISBN: 0064633594
Condition: Good
Wrappers rubbed. 1971 Trade Paperback. A great resource for those who like to be economical and help the environment. View more info
By: Peterson, Dale; Goodall, Jane (Foreword)
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Avon Books: 1991
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 1913197
Condition: Very Good
First paperback printing. Spine creased, pages lightly toned. 1991 Trade Paperback. 378 pp. Tells of the Deluge unleashed by human primates, homo sapiens, on the world's nonhuman primates, but also of the Ark - sanctuaries, reserves, captive breeding programmes, rehabilitation efforts and so on - that may help save the primates and other animals. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Thames & Hudson: 2000
Seller ID: 2202112
ISBN: 0500280738
Condition: Very Good
Ink stamp to half-title page and table of contents page. 2000 Trade Paperback. 143 pp. Confronts the assessment of the benefits and risks of scientific advance, advising a cautious and sceptical approach in applying scientific knowledge as we try to improve the world around us. The author takes on three crucial topics: climate change; genetic engineering; and toxic chemicals.Keywords: JONATHON PORRITT PLAYING SAFE SCIENCE ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENTAL View more info
