Ecology category: 3266 books
Watermelons
How Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children's Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
If global warming isn't real then how come the ice caps are melting? Why would all the world's top scientists lie to us? What exactly is so wrong with biofuels, wind farms, carbon taxes, sustainability and preserving scarce resources for future generations? And what about Bangladesh, the drowning...
Diver Down
Real-World SCUBA Accidents and How to Avoid Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
One diver, after a seemingly brief period below the surface, discovers that his gas supply has run perilously low. Another, paralyzed, bobs helplessly on the surface, and when a poorly trained divemaster attempts rescue, things go from bad to worse. Two other divers, fascinated by the bountiful undersea...
Complete Guide to Coaching Girls Basketball (EBOOK)
Building a Great Team the Carolina Way
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
"Coach Hatchell's book is a must-read for every girls' basketball coach. She is fantastic in every phase of the game, and I love watching her teams play." Roy Williams, head men's basketball coach, University of North Carolina, and Associated Press Coach of the Year, 2006 What does it take...
The Complete Book of Boondock RVing : Camping Off the Beaten Path: Camping Off the Beaten Path
Camping Off the Beaten Path
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Here’s Your Guide to Camping Off the Beaten Path
Ever feel frustrated by crowded RV parks? Yearn to camp out in the wild beside a babbling mountain brook or before a remote panoramic vista? Bill and Jan Moeller have been doing just that for more than thirty years, and The Complete Book of...
by Gordon Groene, Janet Groene
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Take your home on the road, and turn your wanderlust into action
Praise for previous edition:
"A perfect guide."--Anchorage Daily News
"Honest, insightful advice."--Northeast Outdoors
"If any of our family or friends were contemplating becoming fulltime RVers, the first...
Infinite Earth
Organisms working together cooperatively
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Infinite Earth; An early theory piece By C.K. madden, Not one of her finest works but a great illustration on how she plots out her thoughts. Infinite Earth is quick paced theory on 3 things, Organisms, Animals, Humans, and Most willing to Adapt Evolution.
by Rogerio Cietto
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
The word eco means nature (in Greek oikos means house), so an Ecohouse would be a place that respects the environment (literally, a house inside a house). It would be easy for all of us to be ecologically friendly, in complete simbiosis with nature: we just need to live the way we did 10.000 years...
by Barry Lopez
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Five hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came to America and began a process not of discovery, but incursion -- "a ruthless, angry search for wealth" that continues to the present day. This provocative and superbly written book gives...
The Final Call
Investigating Who Really Pays For Our Holidays
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
No industry in the world employs more people or is the world's largest foreign currency earner than tourism. Long billed as the cleanest industry for developing countries to invest in, tourism seems to offer everyone involved a positive experience.
This is the official line, anyway. In truth, the...
Simple Prosperity
Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
In his bestseller Affluenza, David Wann and his co-authors diagnosed the debilitating disease of over-consumption. In Simple Prosperity he shows readers how we can overcome this disease by investing in a variety of real wealth sources. To recapture a more abundant and sustainable lifestyle, try:
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Two Billion Trees and Counting
The Legacy of Edmund Zavitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Edmund Zavitz (1875–1968) rescued Ontario from the ravages of increasingly more powerful floods, erosion, and deadly fires. Wastelands were talking over many hectares of once-flourishing farmlands and towns. Sites like the Oak Ridges Moraine were well on their way to becoming a dust bowl and all...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Paul Hawken in his book “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading...
An Archaeology of Social Space
Analyzing Coffee Plantations in Jamaica’s Blue Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
James Delle has solved a number of problems in Caribbean archaeology with An Archaeology of Social Space. He deals with most of the problems by using historical archaeology, and clearly implicates Ameri canist prehistorians. Although this book is about coffee plantations in the Blue Mountains area...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
This compendium of four federal documents provides coverage of the oil spill and the ongoing restoration of the gulf, with the text of the January 2011 Report of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, plus the Recovery Planning Checklist for Communities,...