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The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
Abigail Tucker · Simon & Schuster Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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A lively adventure through history, natural science, and pop culture in search of how cats conquered the world, the Internet, and our hearts.House cats rule back alleys, deserted Antarctic islands, and our bedrooms. Clearly, they own the Internet, where a viral cat video can easily be viewed... |
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Living in the Anthropocene: Earth in the Age of Humans
John W. Kress · Smithsonian Books Pages: 208 Format: Hardcover
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Explores the causes and implications of the Anthropocene, or Age of Humans, from multiple points of view including anthropological, scientific, social, artistic, and economic.Although we arrived only recently in Earth's timeline, humans are driving major changes to the planet's... |
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The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Jeff Goodell · Little, Brown and Company Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening and essential tour of the vanishing world What if Atlantis wasn't a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly... |
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The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy
Lester R. Brown · W W Norton Pages: 192 Format: Paperback
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The great energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is under way. As oil insecurity deepens, the extraction risks of fossil fuels rise, and concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new world energy economy is emerging. The old economy,... |
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Just Cool It!: The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do - A Post-Paris Agreement Game Plan
DAVID SUZUKI · Greystone Books Pages: 312 Format: Paperback
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Climate change is the most important crisis humanity has faced, but we still confront huge barriers to resolving it. So, what do we do, and is there hope for humanity? The problem itself is complex, and there's no single solution. But by understanding the barriers to resolving global warming... |
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Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics
JAMES CHESHIRE · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 192 Format: Hardcover
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"Where the Animals Go is beautiful and thrilling, a combination of the best in science and exposition, and a joy to study cover to cover." -- Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard UniversityFor thousands of years, tracking animals meant following footprints.... |
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Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves
Brenda Peterson · Da Capo Press Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold, Brenda Peterson tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. It is also our own history, seen through our relationship with wolves. The earliest Americans revered them. Settlers zealously exterminated... |
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The People's Republic of Chemicals
Chip Jacobs · Rare Bird Books, A Vireo Book Format: Hardcover
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Maverick environmental writers William J. Kelly and Chip Jacobs follow up their acclaimed Smogtown with a provocative examination of China's ecological calamity already imperiling a warming planet. Toxic smog most people figured was obsolete needlessly kills as many as died in the 9/11... |
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Outsmart Waste: The Modern Idea of Garbage and How to Think Our Way Out of It
Tom Szaky · Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., Pages: 156 Format: Paperback
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Ever-expanding landfills, ocean gyres filled with floating plastic mush, endangered wildlife. Our garbage has become a massive and exponentially growing problem in modern society. Eco-entrepreneur Tom Szaky explores why this crisis exists and explains how can we solve it by eliminating... |
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The Great Divide
Stephen Grace · Two Dot Books Pages: 216 Format: Hardcover
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Written by Stephen Grace, the companion book to The Great Divide, a film by Havey Productions, is a sweeping, magnificently illustrated story of Colorado water from the region's first inhabitants to the incoming settlers and developers to modern environmentalists. Times and places are covered... |
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The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts
Philip Kitcher · Liveright Publishing Corp Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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A landmark work of environmental philosophy that seeks to transform the debate about climate change.As the icecaps melt and the sea levels rise around the globe -- threatening human existence as we know it -- climate change has become one of the most urgent and controversial issues of our time.... |
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