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Biodiversity and Global Changeby Otto T. Solbrig, H.M. Van Emden, C.A.B. International, International Union of Biological Sciences, Otto Thomas Solbrig, P.G.W. Van Oordt, H. M. Van Emden, P. G. W. J. Van OordtISBN 0851989314 (0-85198-931-4)
Softcover, C A B Intl
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Breath Taking: Stopping the Plunder of Our Planet's Airby Edna ZeavinISBN 0882479253 (0-88247-925-3)
Softcover, R & E Pub
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Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Optionsby David G. VictorISBN 0876093438 (0-87609-343-8)
Softcover, Brookings Inst Pr
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Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeedby Jared DiamondISBN 0143036556 (0-14-303655-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed'Book summary:Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart. Not every collapse has an environmental origin, but an eco-meltdown is often the main catalyst, he argues, particularly when combined with society's response to (or disregard for) the coming disaster. Still, right from the outset of Collapse, the author makes clear that this is not a mere environmentalist's diatribe. He begins by setting the book's main question in the small communities of present-day Montana as they face a decline in living standards and a depletion of natural resources. Once-vital mines now leak toxins into the soil, while prion diseases infect some deer and elk and older hydroelectric dams have become decrepit. On all these issues, and particularly with the hot-button topic of logging and wildfires, Diamond writes with equanimity.
Because he's addressing such significant issues within a vast span of time, Diamond can occasionally speak too briefly and assume too much, and at times his shorthand remarks may cause careful readers to raise an eyebrow. But in general, Diamond provides fine and well-reasoned historical examples, making the case that many times, economic and environmental concerns are one and the same. With Collapse, Diamond hopes to jog our collective memory to keep us from falling for false analogies or forgetting prior experiences, and thereby save us from potential devastations to come. While it might seem a stretch to use medieval Greenland and the Maya to convince a skeptic about the seriousness of global warming, it's exactly this type of cross-referencing that makes Collapse so compelling. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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The Collapse Of The Kyoto Protocol And The Struggle To Slow Global Warmingby David G. Victor, Victor, David G. (AFT)ISBN 0691120269 (0-691-12026-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Coming Global Superstormby Whitley StrieberISBN 0743470656 (0-7434-7065-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Coming Global Superstorm'Book summary:It's time to stop talking about the weather and do something about it. Paranormal superstars Art Bell and Whitley Strieber bring environmentalism to the masses tabloid-style in The Coming Global Superstorm, a quick look at global warming and its potentially catastrophic effects. Like Old Testament prophets, Bell and Strieber embrace lovingly detailed depictions of global cataclysm; unlike them, our modern-day doomsayers have more to go on than that old-time religion. Their writing is clear and straightforward, interspersing hard data with dramatization and speculation to create an engaging, enjoyable, but thoroughly spooky warning of the next Ice Age.
Scoffers would do well to remember the 1900 hurricane that devastated Galveston, Texas, despite the clear warnings--we may have advanced our meteorological knowledge over the 20th century, but is our judgment any better? Bell and Strieber are ultimately optimistic that quick behavior change can avert the big storm for a while, even if archaeological evidence suggests its inevitability. Their solutions range from the small scale (buy fuel-efficient cars) to the grandiose (global cooperation in weather monitoring). Whether their suggestions will help is a moot question (how could we ever know?); surely, though, they won't hurt. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Coming Storm: Extreme Weather and Our Terrifying Futureby Bob ReissISBN 0786866659 (0-7868-6665-9)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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David Suzuki: The Autobiographyby David T. SuzukiISBN 1741147921 (1-74114-792-1)
Softcover, Allen & Unwin
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Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warmingby Tom Athanasiou, Paul BaerISBN 1583224777 (1-58322-477-7)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming'Book summary:Today's "extreme weather events" (record-breaking heat waves, droughts, and melting ice caps) foreshadow an increasingly unstable and dire future. Yet, despite all, the US government continues to reject the Kyoto Protocol, to deny the catastrophic consequences of oil dependency, and to define the politics of oil as the politics of U.S. unilateralism, domination, and war.
Dead Heat argues that justicenot rhetoric and "aid" but real developmental justice for the people of developing worldis going to be necessary, and surprisingly soon. It argues, more particularly, that such a justice must involve a phased transition from the Kyoto Protocol to a new climate treaty based on equal human rights to emit greenhouse pollutants. Dead Heat makes the case for climate justice, but insists that justice and equity, for all their manifold ethical and humanitarian attractions, must also be seen as the most "realistic" of virtues. It insists, in other words, that our limited environmental space will itself show that it is the dream of a "business as usual" future that is naïve and utopian. [via]More editions of Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming:
The Discovery of Global Warmingby Spencer R. WeartISBN 0674016378 (0-674-01637-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Drowned Worldby J.G. BallardISBN 0881843245 (0-88184-324-5)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Drowning Towersby George TurnerISBN 1557100381 (1-55710-038-1)
Hardcover, Arbor House Pub Co
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Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spiritby Al GoreISBN 1594866376 (1-59486-637-6)
Softcover, Rodale Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit'Book summary:What's most inspiring about Earth in the Balance is who wrote it. It's a big deal, after all, that a sitting senator was willing to write, "We must make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization." And that's not all. In his 1992 book, Al Gore also wrote:
I have become very impatient with my own tendency to put a finger to the political winds and proceed cautiously.... [E]very time I pause to consider whether I have gone too far out on a limb, I look at the new facts [on the environment crisis] that continue to pour in from around the world and conclude that I have not gone far enough.... [T]he time has long since come to take more political risks--and endure more political criticism--by proposing tougher, more effective solutions and fighting hard for their enactments.
And the buzz on the street is that Gore actually wrote those words himself.
When Earth in the Balance first came out, it caused quite a stir--and for good reason. It convincingly makes the case that a crisis of epidemic proportions is nearly upon us and that if the world doesn't get its act together soon and agree to some kind of "Global Marshall Plan" to protect the environment, we're all up a polluted creek without a paddle. Myriad plagues are upon us, but the worst include the loss of biodiversity, the depletion of the ozone layer, the slash-and-burn destruction of rainforests, and the onset of global warming. None of this is new, of course, nor was it new in 1992. But most environmentalists will still get a giddy feeling reading such a call to action as written by a prominent politician.
The book is arranged into three sections: the first describes the plagues; the second looks at how we got ourselves into this mess; and the final chapters present ways out. Gore gets his points across in a serviceable way, though he could have benefited from a firmer editor's hand; at times the analogies are arcane and the pacing is odd--kind of like a Gore speech that climaxes at weird points and then sinks just as the audience is about to clap. Still, at the end you understand what's been said. Gore believes that if we apply some American ingenuity, the twin engines of democracy and capitalism can be rigged to help us stabilize world population growth, spread social justice, boost education levels, create environmentally appropriate technologies, and negotiate international agreements to bring us back from the brink. For example, a worldwide shift to clean, renewable energy sources would create huge economic opportunities for companies large and small to design, build, and maintain solar panels, wind turbines, fuel cells, and other ecofriendly innovations.
Gore doesn't mince words when describing just how hard it will be to get out of this jam. Real hope is contingent on a swelling up of concern among the public--and fast. A year into the vice presidency, in an interview with writer Bill McKibben, Gore paraphrased a key passage in his book, "The minimum that is scientifically necessary far exceeds the maximum that is politically feasible." Ah, a political out. Some readers will ask of Gore: what has he done since publishing his book to advance the political feasibility of decisive environmental action? --Chip Giller [via]
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Earth's Climate: Past and Futureby W. F. RuddimanISBN 0716737418 (0-7167-3741-8)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth's Climate: Past and Future'Book summary:Paleoclimatology courses are growing, attracting a wide variety of students in earth and environmental sciences, geography, ecology, and related fields. earth's climate: past and future works as either a nonmajors introduction to earth system science or climate change, or as a majors/graduate-level overview of the processes and techniques in climate science. written from a multidisciplinary perspective by one of the field's preeminent researcher/instructors, the text summarizes the major lessons to be learned from 550 million years of climate changes, as a way of evaluating the climatological impact on and by humans in this century. the book also looks ahead to possible effects during the next several centuries of fossil fuel use [via]
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The Empire of Iceby Richard MoranISBN 0812530098 (0-8125-3009-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Estado De Miedo / State of Fearby Michael CrichtonISBN 0307376443 (0-307-37644-3)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Estado De Miedo / State of Fear'Book summary:Estado de miedo es una novela de denuncia que ya está causando mucha polémica en EEUU e Inglaterra. Michael Crichton dedicó tres años a la investigación de los datos y cifras que nos facilitan los investigadores científicos sobre el calentamiento global de la tierra, lo que llamamos el efecto invernadero. Cuestiona y descarta muchos de ellos. Según Crichton no hay pruebas claras de calentamiento global. Afirma que hay organizaciones que manipulan datos para probar lo que a ellos les interesa. Además hay personas dispuestas a convertirse en activistas, en ecoterroristas, incluso a provocar catástrofes para publicitar su causa y "confirmar" sus predicciones.
La novela es un thriller poderoso, convincente, fascinante y muy ágil. La historia es ficción pura pero lo que hay detrás es todo verdadero.
Para apoyar su tesis incluye al final del libro apéndices y una bibliografía amplísima que demuestran la seriedad y profundidad de la investigación. [via]More editions of Estado De Miedo / State of Fear:
Exploring the Weather Makersby Tim FlanneryISBN 0802142826 (0-8021-4282-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, And Climate Changeby Elizabeth KolbertISBN 1596911301 (1-59691-130-1)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, And Climate Change'Book summary:An argument for the urgent danger of global warming in a book that is sure to be as influential as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.[via]
Known for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial subject of global warming. Americans have been warned since the late nineteen-seventies that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate. With little done since then to alter this dangerous course, now is the moment to salvage our future. By the end of the century, the world will likely be hotter than it's been in the last two million years, and the sweeping consequences of this change will determine the future of life on earth for generations to come.
In writing that is both clear and unbiased, Kolbert approaches this monumental problem from every angle. She travels to the Arctic, interviews researchers and environmentalists, explains the science and the studies, draws frightening parallels to lost ancient civilizations, unpacks the politics, and presents the personal tales of those who are being affected most--the people who make their homes near the poles and, in an eerie foreshadowing, are watching their worlds disappear. Growing out of a groundbreaking three-part series for the New Yorker, Field Notes from a Catastrophe brings the environment into the consciousness of the American people and asks what, if anything, can be done, and how we can save our planet.More editions of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, And Climate Change:
Fifty Degrees Belowby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0553585819 (0-553-58581-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fifty Degrees Below'Book summary:Bestselling, award-winning, author Kim Stanley Robinson continues his groundbreaking trilogy of eco-thrillersand propels us deeper into the awesome whirlwind of climatic change. Set in our nations capital, here is a chillingly realistic tale of people caught in the collision of science, technology, and the consequences of global warmingwhich could trigger another phenomenon: abrupt climate change, resulting in temperatures...
When the storm got bad, scientist Frank Vanderwal was at work, formalizing his return to the National Science Foundation for another year. Hed left the building just in time to help sandbag at Arlington Cemetery. Now that the torrent was over, large chunks of San Diego had eroded into the sea, and D.C. was underwater.
Shallow lakes occupied the most famous parts of the city. Reagan Airport was awash and the Potomac had spilled beyond its banks. Rescue boats dotted the saturated cityscape. Everything Frank and his colleagues in the halls of science and politics feared had culminated in this massive disaster. And now the world looked to them to fix it.
Whatever Frank can do, now that he is homeless, hell have to do from his car. Hes not averse to sleeping outdoors. Years of research have made him hyperaware of his status as just another primate. That plus his encounter with a Tibetan Buddhist has left him resolved to live a more authentic life.
Hopefully, this will prepare him for whatever is to come....
For even as D.C. bails out from the flood, a more extreme climate change looms. With the melting of the polar ice caps shutting down the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, another Ice Age could be imminent. The last time it happened, eleven thousand years ago, it took just three years to start.
Once again Kim Stanley Robinson uses his remarkable vision, trademark wry wit, and extraordinary insight into the complexity between man and nature to take us to the brink of disasterand slightly beyond.
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Forty Signs Of Rainby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0553585800 (0-553-58580-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Fueling The Future: How The Battle Over Energy Is Changing Everythingby Evan Solomon, Andrew HeintzmanISBN 0887847242 (0-88784-724-2)
Softcover, House of Anansi Pr
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The Future of Ice: A Journey into Coldby Gretel EhrlichISBN 1400034353 (1-4000-3435-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Future of Ice: A Journey into Cold'Book summary:This book was written out of Gretel Ehrlichs love for winterfor remote and cold places, for the ways winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and souland also out of the fear that our democracy of gratification has irreparably altered the climate.
Over the course of a year, Ehrlich experiences firsthand the myriad expressions of cold, giving us marvelous histories of wind, water, snow, and ice, of ocean currents and weather cycles. From Tierra del Fuego in the south to Spitsbergen, east of Greenland, at the very top of the world, she explores how our very consciousness is animated and enlivened by the archaic rhythms and erupting oscillations of weather. We share Ehrlichs experience of the thrills of cold, but also her questions: What will happen to us if we are deseasoned ? If winter ends, will we survive? [via]More editions of The Future of Ice: A Journey into Cold:
Global Warming: Can Civilization Survive?by Paul BrownISBN 0713726024 (0-7137-2602-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Global Warming: Opposing Viewpointsby Cynthia A. BilyISBN 073772935X (0-7377-2935-X)
Hardcover, Greenhaven Pr
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Global Warming: The Complete Briefingby John Houghton, . T.ISBN 0521528747 (0-521-52874-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Global Warming: Understanding the Forecastby Andrew C. RevkinISBN 1558593101 (1-55859-310-1)
Hardcover, Abbeville Press, Incorporated
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Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Johannesbergby Ken Conca, Geoffrey D. DabelkoISBN 0813342007 (0-8133-4200-7)
Softcover, Westview Pr
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Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Kyotoby Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda, Ken Conca, Geoffrey D. DabelkoISBN 0813368820 (0-8133-6882-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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The Greenhouse Gas Protocol: A Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standardby World Business Council for Sustainable DevelopmentISBN 1569735689 (1-56973-568-9)
Softcover, World Resources Inst
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Hands-On Environmentalismby Brent Haglund, Thomas W. StillISBN 1594030855 (1-59403-085-5)
Softcover, Encounter Books
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Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burningby George MonbiotISBN 0713999241 (0-7139-9924-1)
Softcover, Allen Lane
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Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burningby George MonbiotISBN 0385662211 (0-385-66221-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday of Canada
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Heavy Weatherby Bruce SterlingISBN 055357292X (0-553-57292-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heavy Weather'Book summary:Why hack computers when you can hack nature? Sterling's Storm Troupe lives in a post-greenhouse world ravaged by monster storms and finds itself hacking the ultimate storm: the F-6 tornado. No one in the Troupe, not even it's brilliant, driven leader, guesses the real nature of the F-6 or the shadowy forces unleashed in its twisting fury. Not until it is too late... [via]
High Tide: News from a Warming Worldby Mark LynasISBN 000713939X (0-00-713939-X)
Hardcover, Flamingo
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High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisisby Mark LynasISBN 0312303653 (0-312-30365-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Hungry for Trade: How the Poor Pay for Free Tradeby John MadeleyISBN 1864031301 (1-86403-130-1)
Hardcover, Pluto Pr Australia
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hungry for Trade: How the Poor Pay for Free Trade'Book summary:John Madeley shows that the food imports of many developing countries are rising sharply while their food exports are not. He argues there is a contradiction between Western governments' rhetoric on reducing world poverty and their pursuit of more trade liberalization--against the wishes of most of the world. Food security affects us all. There is no more important issue.[via]More editions of Hungry for Trade: How the Poor Pay for Free Trade:
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Ice Ageby Mary Gribbin, John R. GribbinISBN 0713996129 (0-7139-9612-9)
Hardcover, Allen Lane/Penguin Press
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Impacts of Europe's Changing Climate: An Indicator-Based Assessmentby European Environment AgencyISBN 9291676926 (92-9167-692-6)
Hardcover, European Environment Agency
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Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warmingby Al GoreISBN 0670062715 (0-670-06271-5)
Hardcover, Viking Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming'Book summary:Former Vice President Al Gore's New York Times #1 bestselling book is a daring call to action, exposing the shocking reality of how humankind has aided in the destruction of our planet and the future we face if we do not take action to stop global warming. Now, Viking has adapted this book for the most important audience of all: today's youth, who have no choice but to confront this climate crisis head-on.[via]Dramatic full-color photos, illustrations, and graphs combine with Gore's effective and clear writing to explain global warming in very real terms: what it is, what causes it, and what will happen if we continue to ignore it. An Inconvenient Truth will change the way young people understand global warming and hopefully inspire them to help change the course of history.
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About Itby Al GoreISBN 1594865671 (1-59486-567-1)
Softcover, Rodale Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It'Book summary:[via]An Inconvenient Truth--Gore's groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in the Balance--is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia presentations on global warming that Gore created and delivers to groups around the world. With this book, Gore, who is one of our environmental heroes--and a leading expert--brings together leading-edge research from top scientists around the world; photographs, charts, and other illustrations; and personal anecdotes and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of global warming. He presents, with alarming clarity and conclusiveness--and with humor, too--that the fact of global warming is not in question and that its consequences for the world we live in will be disastrous if left unchecked. This riveting new book--written in an accessible, entertaining style--will open the eyes of even the most skeptical.More editions of An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It:
Just One Planet: Poverty, Justice, and Climate Changeby D. Mark SmithISBN 1853396435 (1-85339-643-5)
Softcover, Stylus Pub Llc
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Leading Change Toward Sustainability: A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Societyby Bob DoppeltISBN 1874719640 (1-874719-64-0)
Softcover, Greenleaf Pubns
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The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0802713025 (0-8027-1302-5)
Hardcover, Walker & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Left Hand of Darkness'Book summary:Genly Ai is an emissary from the human galaxy to Winter, a lost, stray world. His mission is to bring the planet back into the fold of an evolving galactic civilization, but to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own culture and prejudices and those that he encounters. On a planet where people are of no gender--or both--this is a broad gulf indeed. The inventiveness and delicacy with which Le Guin portrays her alien world are not only unusual and inspiring, they are fundamental to almost all decent science fiction that has been written since. In fact, reading Le Guin again may cause the eye to narrow somewhat disapprovingly at the younger generation: what new ground are they breaking that is not already explored here with greater skill and acumen? It cannot be said, however, that this is a rollicking good story. Le Guin takes a lot of time to explore her characters, the world of her creation, and the philosophical themes that arise.
If there were a canon of classic science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness would be included without debate. Certainly, no science fiction bookshelf may be said to be complete without it. But the real question: is it fun to read? It is science fiction of an earlier time, a time that has not worn particularly well in the genre. The Left Hand of Darkness was a groundbreaking book in 1969, a time when, like the rest of the arts, science fiction was awakening to new dimensions in both society and literature. But the first excursions out of the pulp tradition are sometimes difficult to reread with much enjoyment. Rereading The Left Hand of Darkness, decades after its publication, one feels that those who chose it for the Hugo and Nebula awards were right to do so, for it truly does stand out as one of the great books of that era. It is immensely rich in timeless wisdom and insight.
The Left Hand of Darkness is science fiction for the thinking reader, and should be read attentively in order to properly savor the depth of insight and the subtleties of plot and character. It is one of those pleasures that requires a little investment at the beginning, but pays back tenfold with the joy of raw imagination that resonates through the subsequent 30 years of science fiction storytelling. Not only is the bookshelf incomplete without owning it, so is the reader without having read it. --L. Blunt Jackson [via]
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Limits to Growth: Limits to Growthby Dennis Meadows, Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen RandersISBN 193149858X (1-931498-58-X)
Softcover, Chelsea Green Pub Co
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Little Ice Ageby Brian M. FaganISBN 1417625902 (1-4176-2590-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850by Brian M. FaganISBN 0465022723 (0-465-02272-3)
Softcover, Basic Books
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For all that he takes a broad--a very broad--view of European history, Fagan's writing is laced with human faces, fascinating anecdotes, and a gift for the telling detail that makes history live, very much in the style of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror. When Fagan talks about the voyages of Basque fishermen to American shores (probably landing before Columbus sailed), he puts in the taste of dried cod and the terrifying suddenness of fogs on the Grand Banks. The Great Fire of London, what it was like when the Dutch dikes broke, the Irish Potato Famine, the year without a summer, ice fairs on the Thames, and volcanoes in the South Pacific--Fagan makes history a ripping yarn in which we are all actors, on a stage that has always been changing. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Centuryby James Howard KunstlerISBN 0871138883 (0-87113-888-3)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century'Book summary:With his classics of social commentary The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler has established himself as one of the great commentators on American space and place. Now, with The Long Emergency, he offers a shocking vision of a post-oil future. As a result of artificially cheap fossil-fuel energy, we have developed global models of industry, commerce, food production, and finance over the last 200 years. But the oil age, which peaked in 1970, is at an end. The depletion of nonrenewable fossil fuels is about to radically change life as we know it, and much sooner than we think. The Long Emergency tells us just what to expect after the honeymoon of affordable energy is over, preparing us for economic, political, and social changes of an unimaginable scale. Riveting and authoritative, The Long Emergency is a devastating indictment that brings new urgency and accessibility to the critical issues that will shape our future, and that we can no longer afford to ignore. It is bound to become a classic of social science. [via]
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Centuryby James Howard KunstlerISBN 0802142494 (0-8021-4249-4)
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The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilizationby Brian FaganISBN 1862076448 (1-86207-644-8)
Hardcover, Granta Books
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The Making of the Representative for Planet 8by Doris LessingISBN 0679720154 (0-679-72015-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A New Kind of Sharing: Why We Can't Ignore Global Environmental Changeby Arthur J. Hanson, June D. HallISBN 0889366462 (0-88936-646-2)
Hardcover, International Development Research Centre
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The No-nonsense Guide to Climate Changeby Dinyar GodrejISBN 1904456413 (1-904456-41-3)
Softcover, New Internationalist Pubns Inc
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The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the Worldby Andrew RevkinISBN 0753459930 (0-7534-5993-0)
Hardcover, Kingfisher Books
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O-Zoneby Paul TherouxISBN 0804101515 (0-8041-0151-5)
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The Renewable Energy Handbook: A Guide to Rural Energy Independence, Off-grid And Sustainable Livingby William H. KempISBN 0973323329 (0-9733233-2-9)
Softcover, New Society Pub
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The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back, and How We Can Still Save Humanityby James LovelockISBN 046504168X (0-465-04168-X)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Rough Guide to Climate Changeby Robert HensonISBN 1843537117 (1-84353-711-7)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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Smart Power: An Urban Guide To Renewable energy and efficiencyby William KempISBN 0973323310 (0-9733233-1-0)
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Starkby Ben EltonISBN 0751501999 (0-7515-0199-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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State of Fearby Michael CrichtonISBN 006055438X (0-06-055438-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions To Global Climate Changeby Guy Dauncey, Patrick Mazza, Ross GelbspanISBN 0865714215 (0-86571-421-5)
Softcover, New Society Pub
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Tectonic and Eustatic Controls on Sedimentary Cyclesby Dennison, Frank R. EttensohnISBN 1565760174 (1-56576-017-4)
Softcover, Sepm Society for Sedimentary
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They Blew Our Weatherby Frederick ClareISBN 0682498246 (0-682-49824-6)
Hardcover, Exposition Press
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Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountainsby Mark BowenISBN 0805081356 (0-8050-8135-6)
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Thinking the Unthinkable: Civilization and Rapid Climate Changeby Lydia Dotto, Calgary Institute for the Humanities, Conference Civilization and Rapid Climate Change (1987 University OfISBN 0889209685 (0-88920-968-5)
Softcover, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
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This Other Edenby Ben EltonISBN 0671897020 (0-671-89702-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Futureby Richard B. AlleyISBN 0691102961 (0-691-10296-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate And What It Means For Life On Earthby Tim FlanneryISBN 0802142923 (0-8021-4292-3)
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The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizationsby Eugene LindenISBN 0684863529 (0-684-86352-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Changeby Fred PearceISBN 0807085766 (0-8070-8576-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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