Hidden Forest : Biography of an Ecosystem
 Tucked away into the verdant folds of the Cascade foothills east of Eugene, Oregon, there is a forest that has been forming since before Columbus first set foot in the New World. The 16,000-acre Andrews Experimental Forest is an old-growth forest, a ... [... more]
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Condor: To the Brink and Back--the Life and Times of One ...
The California condor has been described as a bird "with one wing in the grave." Flying on wings nearly ten feet wide from tip to tip, these birds thrived on the carcasses of animals like woolly mammoths. Then, as humans began dramatically ... [... more]
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Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run: A Call to ...
As executive director of the Sierra Club through the 1950s and '60s, David Brower spearheaded its landmark campaigns, launched its publishing program, and, in Jerry Mander's words, "essentially vaulted the ecology movement into ... a major ... [... more]
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Sustainable Solar Housing: Strategies and Solutions
This far-reaching and authoritative two-volume set examines a range of potential solutions for low-energy building design, considering different strategies (energy conservation and renewable energy) and technologies (relating to the building envelope, ... [... more]
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The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 ...
The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook is the official companion volume to the Live Earth concerts, 24 hours of nonstop concerts broadcast from around the world on July 7, 2007. The book presents 77 essential skills for stopping climate change-- ... [... more]
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Wendell Berry: Life and Work (Culture of the Land)
The Man Behind the Work For those who have the privilege of knowing him as a friend, this book provides additional personal glimpses into the life of the man and his passionate friendships, as well as revealing the nature of his work as understood by his ... [... more]
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Three Rivers: The Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness
Finalist for 2006 BC Book Prize - Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize "Three Rivers: The Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness" is a gorgeous coffee-table book about a wilderness area so vast and so crucial to planetary survival it defies ... [... more]
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Biological and Bioenvironmental Heat and Mass Transfer ...
Providing a solid foundation in, and systematic treatment of, heat and mass transport, Biological and Bioenvironmental Heat and Mass Transfer covers engineering principles of heat and mass transfer. The author discusses biological content, context, and ... [... more]
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Achieving Sustainable Freshwater Systems: A Web Of ...
One of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century is to develop a means of satisfying the water demands of an ever-expanding human population while at the same time protecting the aquatic ecosystems and ecological services upon which all life ... [... more]
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Mimicking Nature's Fire: Restoring Fire-Prone Forests In ...
The magnificent stands of old-growth trees that characterize the forests of western North America depend on periodic fires for their creation or survival. Deprived of that essential disturbance process eventually they die, leaving an overcrowded growth ... [... more]
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Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the ...
The pivotal figure in John Elder's latest book-itself a combination of environmental history, travel writing, literary criticism, and memoir-is the nineteenth-century diplomat and writer George Perkins Marsh, generally regarded now as Americaís ... [... more]
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Wildlife Spectacles
Thousands of migratory birds' wings silhouetted against a setting sun; vivid monarch butterflies draped over forest grove branches as living leaves of autumn hue: the mass gatherings of animal species are a powerful and all-too-rare sight. Wildlife ... [... more]
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