Ecology category: 3266 books
by Ray Kania
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Climate Change: How To Find A Safe Haven includes a brief history of how corporations in 1999 persuaded the United Nations to support the building of regional trading regions and trade agreements between nations, creating a global system of governance based on those trade agreements, appointed institutions,...
How the World Breaks
Life in Catastrophe's Path, from the Caribbean to Siberia
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
We’ve always lived on a dangerous planet, but its disasters aren’t what they used to be. How the World Breaks gives us a breathtaking new view of crisis and recovery on the unstable landscapes of the Earth’s hazard zones. Father and son authors Stan and Paul Cox take us to the explosive fire...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
On September 14, 2011, the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing entitled “Solyndra and The DOE Loan Guarantee Program.” Here is a full reproduction of the published material from that hearing, with statements by the Subcommittee...
by E.j.banfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
One of Australia’s most significant (and successful) early nature writers was Edmund James Banfield (1852-1923). Born in England, Banfield followed in his father’s footsteps and became a journalist, initially in Melbourne and Sydney but then in Townsville, where he became sub-editor of the Townsville...
by Lynn Haney
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2007
Roughing it doesn't have to be uncomfortable...or expensive!
Camping in Comfort is the complete guide to help you enjoy the latest advances in outdoor gear without wasting money on expensive, unnecessary paraphernalia. Packed with information on tents, sleeping gear, clothing, footwear, and...
All we need is hemp!
One plant, 1000 uses.
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Could hemp be the most versatile and indispensable plant on earth?
The pressing objective of this public information encyclopaedia (270 illustrations) is to put hemp firmly back in the spotlight, with all its excellent applications: biofuels, food, bio plastics, paper, textiles, construction...
Ether pur
projet écologique mondial de la Nation Essénienne
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Avant que les hommes ne tissent la trame d'un réseau mondial de communication artificiel, les montagnes et les grands arbres formaient déjà un vaste réseau de communication subtil qui entourait la Terre. A travers ce réseau, les hommes savaient communiquer entre eux et avec les êtres de la nature,...
by David J. Mackey
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Reflections is a collection of photographs and writings by the author from his journeys in the northeast and northwest over several decades of his life. The author's visual and informational elements address artistic aspects, poetic inspirations and occasionally the characteristics of reflective light...
Urban Green
Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that...
The Blue and the Green
A Cultural Ecological History of an Arizona Ranching Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
In The Blue and the Green, anthropologist Jack Stauder analyzes how large-scale political, social, and environmental processes have transformed ranching and rural life in the West. Focusing on the community of Blue, Arizona, Stauder details how the problems of overgrazing, erosion, and environmental...
Prairie Ghost
Pronghorn and Human Interaction in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
A Wildlife Management Institute Book
In this lavishly illustrated volume Richard E. McCabe, Bart W. O'Gara and Henry M. Reeves explore the fascinating relationship of pronghorn with people in early America, from prehistoric evidence through the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. The only one...
The Eternal Frontier
An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
A comprehensive history of the continent, “full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America’s geology, climate, and paleontology” (The Washington Post Book World).
Here, “the rock star of modern science” tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological...
by Richard M. Ketchum
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
In any given year, millions of people visit one or more of the 154 national forests in the United States, not to mention the hundreds of thousands who spend some time in the private forests of the nation. All of them - hikers, hunters, fishermen, campers, and canoeists - are drawn to the woods for...
Bird on Fire:Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted...