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  • Hijos De Dune/Children of Dune
    by Frank Herbert, Random House Mondadori
    ISBN 8497594320 (84-9759-432-0)
    Softcover, Debolsillo

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  • Homeland and Other Stories
    by Barbara Kingsolver
    ISBN 0060161124 (0-06-016112-4)
    Hardcover, Harpercollins

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    With the same wit and sensitivity that have come to characterize her highly praised and beloved novels Animal Dreams and The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver gives us a rich and emotionally resonant collection of twelve stories. Spreading her memorable characters over landscapes ranging from northern-California to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Kingsolver tells stories of hope, momentary joy, and powerful endurance. In every setting, Kingsolver's distinctive voice -- at times comic, but often heartrending -- rings true as she explores the twin themes of family ties and the life choices one must ultimately make alone. Homeland and Other Stories creates a world of love and possibility that readers will want to take as their own.

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  • European Environment Agency: Impacts of Europe's Changing Climate: An Indicator-Based Assessment
  • Vijayan, V. S.: Inland Wetlands of India: Conservation Priorities
    Inland Wetlands of India: Conservation Priorities
    by V. S. Vijayan, Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (Coimbatore, India)
    ISBN 8190213601 (81-902136-0-1)
    Hardcover, Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History

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  • Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded August 27, 1883
    by Simon Winchester
    ISBN 0060838590 (0-06-083859-0)
    Softcover, Harpercollins

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    In Krakatoa, the author of The Map That Changed the World and The Professor and the Madman focuses his considerable research powers on one of the most cataclysmic events of modern history: the volcanic eruption, in 1883, of the Southeast Asian island of Krakatoa, which resulted in the deaths of 36,000 people and sent shock-waves around the world. But what at the time was a mysterious, almost supernatural phenomenon has become, under the precepts of the contemporary science of plate tectonics, explicable if no less tragic. Winchester veers between eyewitness accounts by survivors and the limited scientific measurements of the time in an attempt to describe the indescribable. The event "is still said to be the most violent explosion ever recorded and experienced by modern man," he writes. "Six cubic miles of rock had been blasted out of existence, had been turned into pumice and ash and uncountable billions of particles of dust." Yet words and numbers can barely hint at the scale of the calamity, which resulted in tsunamis that washed whole villages into the ocean and forever changed the very topography of the area. The author also explores the social and cultural topography, noting, "Orthodox Islam, its revival in part triggered by tragic events such as the great cataclysm, was totally transformed in Java during the nineteenth century, with fundamentalism, militancy, and profound hostility to non-Muslims its watchwords." At times Winchester seems to overstate his case, and the link he finds between Krakatoa and the rise of anti-Western sentiment in the Islamic world isnt especially convincing. But, by weaving together the disaster with science, communications, politics, religion, and economics, he has come up with a comprehensive and often fascinating glimpse into the way the world, and our perception of it, can change in an instant. --Shawn Conner [via]

  • La Ciudad De Las Bestias / City of the Beasts
    by Isabel Allende
    ISBN 0060510323 (0-06-051032-3)
    Softcover, Rayo

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    Alexander Cold, un joven de quince años está a punto de embarcarse con su temeraria abuela, en el viaje de su vida. Una expedición de la International Geographic se dirige hacia la remotas y peligrosas tierras salvajes de Suramérica para documentar al legendario Yeti del Amazonas, más conocido como "La Bestia."

    Alex y su amiga Nadia descubrirán que el impenetrable mundo de la selva tropical esconde mucho más de lo que jamás hubieran imaginado. Con la fuerza de sus dos animales totémicos -- el jaguar para Alexander, y el águila para Nadia -- ambos jóvenes se embarcan en una apasionante e inolvidable aventura que los lleva al descubrimiento de . . .

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  • Linnea in Monet's Garden
    by Claude Monet, Christina Bjork, Lena Anderson
    ISBN 9129583144 (91-29-58314-4)
    Hardcover, R & S Books

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    Linnea has visited Claude Monet's garden! In Paris, she got to see many of his actual paintings. Now she understands what it means for a painter to be called an Impressionist. This innovative art book for children contains full-color photos of many of Monet's famous paintings.
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  • Bjork, Christina: Linnea's Almanac
    Linnea's Almanac
    by Christina Bjork, Lena Anderson
    ISBN 9129591767 (91-29-59176-7)
    Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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  • Bressesen, Brooke: Look Who Lives in the Desert!: Bouncing and Pouncing, Hiding and Gliding, Sleeping and Creeping
  • Marine Mammals of India
    by World Wide Fund for Nature--India, Kumaran Sathasivam
    ISBN 8173714657 (81-7371-465-7)
    Hardcover, Universities Press

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    The intelligent dolphins, the giant whales and the inoffensive Dugong or sea-cow are among the most fascinating creatures in the wild. Every aspect of their way of life is astonishing some of them use sound to see in the water, some of them dive to incredible depths in search of food, and some of them sing complex songs. Marine mammals are so intriguing that worldwide there is a multi-million dollar industry in just watching these animals. Yet, in India few are even aware that there are many of these creatures in the seas around the country a full fourth of the world s 120 or so species, in fact. This is due to the lack of information about them. Most existing records are scattered in various scientific journals. No book published so far covers this group of Indian wildlife adequately. This book is meant for a wide range of readers including children, wildlife enthusiasts and serious students. A significant part of the book is devoted to the more than 30 species accounts, which make the book a useful reference. Glimpses of their lifestyles are given through several essays dealing, for example, with the phenomenon of mass strandings of whales or the reputed ferocity of the Killer Whale. Further, color illustrations and character matrices meant for easy identification make Marine Mammals of India a useful field guide. The extensive bibliography makes the book a valuable research aid. The accounts of whaling and other threats faced by marine mammals highlight the conservation requirements of these animals. [via]

  • Mutant Message Down Under
    by Marlo Morgan, K. T. Travers
    ISBN 0060723513 (0-06-072351-3)
    Softcover, Harpercollins

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    1994 HarperCollins first edition HB, 1st printing, Author Marlo Morgan's"...fictional account of the spiritual odyssey of an American woman in Australia." [via]

  • Klatzel, Frances: Natural History Handbook for the Wild Side of Everest: The Eastern Himalaya and Makalu-Barun Area  a Concise Guide to Trees, Shrubs, Birds, and Mammals
  • Miyazaki, Hayao: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind 5
    Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind 5
    by Hayao Miyazaki
    ISBN 4190869759 (4-19-086975-9)
    Hardcover, Tokuma Pub Co

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    In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving industrial societies disappeared. The earth is slowly submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Corruption, an enormous toxic forest that creates mutant insects and releases a miasma of poisonous spores into the air. At the periphery of the sea, tiny kingdoms are scattered on tiny parcels of land. Here lies the Valley of the Wind, a kingdom of barely 500 citizens; a nation given fragile protection from the decaying sea's poisons by the ocean breezes; and home to Nausicaa. Nausicaa, a gentle but strong-willed young princess, has an empathic bond with the giant Ohmu insects, who open their hearts to her. In her quest to create peace among empires fighting over the world's remaining precious natural resources, will Nausicaa be able to interpret the Ohmus' urgent warning about the southern forest? And what of the war which rages all around her? [via]

  • Never Cry Wolf
    by Farley Mowat
    ISBN 0030554586 (0-03-055458-6)
    Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston

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    More than a half-century ago the Canadian Wildlife Service assigned the naturalist Farley Mowat to investigate why wolves were killing arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone-studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for the wolves (who were of no threat to caribou or man) and for a friendly Inuit tribe known as the Ihalmiut ("People of the Deer")-is a work that has become cherished by generations of readers, an indelible record of the myths and magic of wild wolves. [via]

  • Chiras, Daniel D.: The New Ecological Home: A Complete Guide to Green Building Options
  • Berger, Melvin: Oil Spill!
    Oil Spill!
    by Melvin Berger, Paul Mirocha
    ISBN 0060229128 (0-06-022912-8)
    Hardcover, Harpercollins

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  • Opening Spaces: Design As Landscape Architecture
    by Stefan Bernard, Hans Loidl
    ISBN 3764370130 (3-7643-7013-0)
    Hardcover, Springer Verlag

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    The art of designing both unites and divides landscape architecture and architecture. Despite having a long tradition, landscape architecture has lacked a concise presentation of the fundamental principles underlying its design and planning concepts. This much sought-after book has evolved out of more than twenty years of teaching experience. The authors distinguish between the variable factors such as climate, growth of vegetation etc., and the more abstract element of design. They describe the ideal design components and demonstrate the extent to which natural features such as surfaces, spaces, paths, borders, hard and soft materials shape the designs. This book reveals how concepts such as order and chaos, way and goal, intention and reaction form the basis for landscape design, just as they do in architecture. Hans Loidl has been Professor for Landscape Architecture in Berlin since 1982 and has headed his own atelier since 1984. Stefan Bernard works as a landscape architect and graphic designer. [via]

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  • Pigs in Heaven
    by Barbara Kingsolver
    ISBN 0060168013 (0-06-016801-3)
    Hardcover, Harpercollins

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    When Turtle witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her mother responds and a man's life is saved, but their lives are changed by the incident. By the author of Animal Dreams. 100,000 first printing. $125,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]

  • Ray, Janisse: Pinhook: Finding Wholeness In A Fragmented Land
  • Francis, Charles M.: Pocket Guide to the Birds of Borneo
    Pocket Guide to the Birds of Borneo
    by Charles M. Francis, Bertram E. Smythies
    ISBN 9679994708 (967-99947-0-8)
    Hardcover, Sabah Society

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  • Pryor, Barbara K.: The Role of an Environmental Ngo in the Landmark Florida Everglades Restoration an Ethnography of Environmental Conflict Resolution With Many Twists And Turns
  • Hobhouse, Henry: Seeds of Change: Five Plants That Transformed Mankind
  • Sikkim: Society, Polity, Economy, Environment
    by Mahendra P. Lama
    ISBN 8173870136 (81-7387-013-6)
    Hardcover, South Asia Books

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    Sikkhim stands to be a model state of India in terms of economic development, social harmony and political stability. This book carries articles addressing the issues like integration process development interventions, social change and environmental agenda. [via]

  • Smart Architecture
    by Ed van Hinte
    ISBN 9064504903 (90-6450-490-3)
    Hardcover, 010 Publishers

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    A small but lavishly illustrated book, the outcome of the research project that SLA Foundation presented on its website. The crux of its search is a question: how can we create sustainable buildings? Examples of challenges and opportunities regarding climate control, planning, construction and the application of intelligent systems are engagingly presented. Solutions using efficiency of materials and energy, and careful planning demonstrate how to reduce the environmental impact of building. [via]

  • Franke, Richard W.: Striving for Sustainability: Environmental Stress and Democratic Initiatives in Kerala
  • Sternfeld, Joel: Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America
  • Gussow, Joan Dye: This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader
  • [???]: Trade And Environment Review, 2003
    Trade And Environment Review, 2003
    ISBN 9211126088 (92-1-112608-8)
    Softcover, Renouf Pub Co Ltd

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  • Mittermeier, Russell A.: Transboundary Conservation: A New Vision for Protected Areas
    Transboundary Conservation: A New Vision for Protected Areas
    by Russell A. Mittermeier, Patricio Robles Gil, Cyril F. Kormos, Cristina G. Mittermeirer
    ISBN 9686397833 (968-6397-83-3)
    Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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  • Heinrich, Bernd: The Trees in My Forest
    The Trees in My Forest
    by Bernd Heinrich
    ISBN 0060174463 (0-06-017446-3)
    Hardcover, Harpercollins

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  • Walking On Water: Reading, Writing And Revolution
    by Derrick Jensen
    ISBN 1931498784 (1-931498-78-4)
    Softcover, Chelsea Green Pub Co

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    A startling and provocative look at teaching, writing, creativity and life by a writer increasingly recognized for his passionate and articulate critique of modern civilization. This time Derrick Jensen brings us into his classroomowhether college or maximum security prisonowhere he teaches writing. He reveals how schools perpetuate the great illusion that happiness lies outside of ourselves and that learning to please and submit to those in power makes us into lifelong clockwatchers. As a writing teacher, Jensen guides his students out of the confines of traditional education to find their own voices, freedom, and creativity. [via]

  • Water House
    by Felix Flesche, Christian Burchard
    ISBN 3791332805 (3-7913-3280-5)
    Softcover, Prestel Pub

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    The latest volume in Prestel's "House" series explores a revolutionary movement in land use - one that doesn't involve land at all. This study of built and yet-to-be-realised aquatic habitats shows how water has become architecture's next frontier. Whether they're floating on top, hovering over, or submerged beneath the water, each of the more than fifty structures examined here demonstrates an innovative use of water resources. Colourfully illustrated with photographs, drawings, and plans, this book includes: Shanghai's Bionic Tower - complete with its own lake; Biorock - an artificial reef in the Indian Ocean; An undersea hotel where scuba divers can spend a comfortable night; and Sweden's Ice Hotel, where translucent frozen walls reveal the beauty of the Northern Lights. Each of these projects offer reassuring proof that today's architects are finding workable and appealing solutions to the problems of shrinking resources and growing populations. [via]

  • Watership Down
    by Richard George Adams
    ISBN 0027000303 (0-02-700030-3)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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    Watership Down has been a staple of high-school English classes for years. Despite the fact that it's often a hard sell at first (what teenager wouldn't cringe at the thought of 400-plus pages of talking rabbits?), Richard Adams's bunny-centric epic rarely fails to win the love and respect of anyone who reads it, regardless of age. Like most great novels, Watership Down is a rich story that can be read (and reread) on many different levels. The book is often praised as an allegory, with its analogs between human and rabbit culture (a fact sometimes used to goad skeptical teens, who resent the challenge that they won't "get" it, into reading it), but it's equally praiseworthy as just a corking good adventure.

    The story follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven, skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and its compelling culture and mythos. Adams has crafted a touching, involving world in the dirt and scrub of the English countryside, complete with its own folk history and language (the book comes with a "lapine" glossary, a guide to rabbitese). As much about freedom, ethics, and human nature as it is about a bunch of bunnies looking for a warm hidey-hole and some mates, Watership Down will continue to make the transition from classroom desk to bedside table for many generations to come. --Paul Hughes [via]

  • Where Does the Garbage Go
    by Paul Showers, Randy Chewning
    ISBN 0060210575 (0-06-021057-5)
    Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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    Trash doesn't just disappear after the garbage truck takes it away. So where does it go? In this book young readers follow the garbage truck to the landfill and the incinerator and then visit the recycling center to see how glass, metal, paper, and plastic are recycled. This information-packed book is perfect for budding environmentalists. Full color. [via]

  • EAWAG: Who Owns The Water?
    Who Owns The Water?
    by EAWAG, Lars Muller, Christian Rentsch, Rene Schwarzenbach
    ISBN 3037780185 (3-03778-018-5)
    Hardcover, Springer Verlag

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  • Yellowstone Wolves in the Wild
    by Halfpenny, James, C.
    ISBN 1931832269 (1-931832-26-9)
    Softcover, Riverbend Pub

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    Spectacular color photos of Yellowstone National Park's wild wolves plus eye-witness stories from park scientists and "wolf watchers." An unprecendented portrait of individual wolves and wolf packs and astonishing new information about how wolves are changing the park's very nature. This book sets a new standard for wolf photography and natural history. [via]

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