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Bottom Billion / Poorest Countries   "The Bottom Billion: Why The Poorest Countries Are Failing & What Can Be Done About It" [2007]
by Paul Collier

Oxford Univ Press pb [9/2008] for $10.85  
Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/2007] for $18.48
The War On Poverty & How To Win It   "Why America Lost The War On Poverty - and How To Win It" [2007]
by Frank Stricker

Univ NC Press 9¼x6 pb [7/2007] for $19.95
Univ NC Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [7/2007] for $59.95
The Syndicate / World Government  "The Syndicate: The Story of The Coming World Government"
[2004] by Nicholas Hagger

O Books 8¾x6 pb [11/2004] for $13.46
Free Lunch   "Free Lunch: How The Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves At Government Expense (and Stick You With The Bill)" [2007]
by David Cay Johnston

Portfolio 9x6 hardcover [12/2007] for $16.47
Penguin ABR audio CD read by the author [12/2007] for $19.77
Squandering of America   "The Squandering of America: How The Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity" [2007]
by Robert Kuttner
{co-founder of The American Prospect & of The Economic Policy Institute}
Knopf 9x6½ hardcover [11/2007] for $17.79
New Golden Age by Ravi Batra   "The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution Against Political Corruption & Economic Chaos" [2007]
by Ravi Batra

Projecting from the work of his mentor, P.R. Sarkar of India, the author describes the likely outcome of the excesses of the Age of Acquisitors: Today's economic and political corruption will continue to escalate and worsen until the Working Class eventually rises up like warriors against the Oligarchy. {Optimistic? We shall see.}
Palgrave Macmillan 9¼x6 hardcover [1/2007] for $18.45
Blackstone UNABR audio CD [1/2007] for $22.76
Are The Rich Necessary?  
"Are The Rich Necessary?: Great Economic Arguments & How They Reflect Our Personal Values" [2007]
by Hunter Lewis

Axios Press hardcover [9/2007] for $13.60
official booksite
Falling Behind   "Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms The Middle Class" [2007]
by Robert H. Frank

Univ CA Press 8x5 pb [7/2007] for $13.57
Univ CA Press 8½x5½ hardcover [7/2007] for $50.00
Hegemony of Common Sense   "The Hegemony of Common Sense: Wisdom & Mystification In Everyday Life" [2006]
by Dean Wolfe Manders

examines how deeply embedded 'class' is in American society, thru paroemiology, the study of popular sayings
Peter Lang Publg pb [8/2006] for $34.95
Power & Powerlessness   "Power and Powerlessness" [2006]
by Susan Rosenthal

Trafford pb [9/2006] for $18.23
official booksite
Caesar's Column   "Caesar's Column: A Story of The Twentieth Century" [1890]
by Ignatius Donnelly, edited by Nicholas Ruddick

Classic early dystopian science fiction novel: A Swiss from Africa visits New York City at the time that labor revolts against their rich bosses.
Wesleyan Univ Press 8½x5½ pb [12/2003] for $17.90
Fredonia Books 8x5 pb [11/2004] for $29.95
War On The Middle Class   "War On The Middle Class: How The Government, Big Business & Special Interest Groups Are Waging War On The American Dream - and How To Fight Back" [2006]
by Lou Dobbs

Viking 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2006] for $16.47
author's official C.N.N. website
Restoring The American Dream   "Restoring The American Dream: A Working Families' Agenda For America" [2005]
by Thomas A. Kochan

M.I.T. Press 9x6 pb [10/2006] for $11.16
M.I.T. Press 9x6 hardcover [9/2005] for $21.24
publisher's bookpage
Screwed / War Against The Middle Class   "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class - And What We Can Do About It" [2006]
by Thom Hartmann, Foreword by Mark Crispin Miller

Berrett-Koehler hardcover [8/2006] for $15.61
publisher bookpage
author website
Making of The English Working Class   "The Making of The English Working Class" [1963 classic]
by E.P. Thompson [1924-93]

Vintage 8x5¼ pb [2/66] for $15.75
Peter Smith Publr 8½x5¾ hardcover [6/99] for $36.49
Fortune At The Bottom of The Pyramid   "The Fortune At The Bottom of The Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits" [2004]
by C.K. Prahalad

Wharton School 9x6¼ pb [1/2006] for $11.04
Wharton School hardcover {book & CD-ROM} [8/2004] for $18.89
Poverty in America   "Poverty In America: A Handbook" [2003]
by John Iceland

Univ CA Press 9x6 2nd edition pb [2/2006] for $19.95
Univ CA Press 9¼x6 hardcover [10/2003] for $50.00


Planet of Slums   "Planet of Slums" [2006]
by Mike Davis

Verso 8½x6 hardcover [3/2006] for $15.60
Global Class War   "The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take To Win It Back" [2006]
by Jeff Faux

Wiley 9½x6½ hardcover [1/2006] for $18.45
author's E.P.I. bookpage
Inequality Matters   "Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide In America & Its Poisonous Consequences" [2006]
Edited by Jim Lardner & David Smith; Foreword by Bill Moyers

New Press 8x5½ hardcover [1/2006] for $16.35
Undercover Economist   "The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why The Rich Are Rich, The Poor Are Poor – and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!"
[2005] by Tim Harford

Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [11/2005] for $17.16
Battle for the Soul of Capitalism  "The Battle For The Soul of Capitalism: How The Financial System Under- mined Social Ideals, Damaged Trust In The Markets, Robbed Investors of Trillions – and What To Do About It" [2005]
by John C. Bogle

Yale Univ Press hardcover [11/2005] for $16.50
Empire of Debt   "Empire of Debt: The Rise Of An Epic Financial Crisis" [2005]
by Bill Bonner & Addison Wiggin

Wiley 9½x6 hardcover [11/2005] for $18.45
their 'Agora Financial' website
their 'Daily Reckoning' website
An End to Poverty?   "An End To Poverty?: A Historical Debate" [2005]
by Gareth Stedman Jones

Columbia Univ Press 7x6½ hardcover [10/2005] for $29.50
Short Changed by Karger   "Short hanged: Life & Debt In The Fringe Economy" [2005]
by Howard Karger

Berrett-Koehler 9½x6¼ hardcover [9/2005] for $16.47
official booksite
Class Matters   "Class Matters" [2005]
by correspondents of the New York Times; Introduction by Bill Keller

Times Books 8x6½ pb [8/2005] for $10.78
Winning by Jack Welch   "Winning" [2005] by Jack Welch, with Suzy Welch
"No other management book will ever be needed." — Warren E. Buffett
2005 bestseller at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal
HarperBusiness 9x6¼ hardcover [4/2005] for $19.56
HarperAudio UNABR audio CD [4/2005] 10 disks for $26.37
official booksite

End of Poverty / Sachs   "The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities For Our Time" [2005]
by Jeffrey D. Sachs

Penguin 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2005] for $18.45
official bookpage
author's page at The Earth Institute of Columbia University
United Nations Millennium Project website
Time Magazine cover story / book excerpt [March 2005]
listed as one of the Time Magazine 100 (April 2005)
Shadow Cities  
"Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World"
[2004] by Robert Neuwirth

Routledge 9¼x6½ pb [3/2006] for $18.95
Routledge 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2004] for $33.87
Pay It Down!   "Pay It Down!: From Debt To Wealth On $10 A Day" [2004]
by Jean Chatzky

Portfolio 7¼x5 pb [1/2006] for $10.36
Portfolio 7½x5¼ hardcover [9/2004] for $13.57
author website
Business of America / Consumers   "The Business of America: How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens & How We Can Reverse The Trend" [2004]
by Saul Landau

Routledge 8¼x5½ pb [6/2004] for $12.57
Routledge 8¼x5½ hardcover [7/2004] for $75.00
author's website
Running On Empty   "Running On Empty: How The Democratic & Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future & What Americans Can Do About It" [2004]
by Peter G. Peterson

"It's a rare pleasure to see both political parties chastised equally."
— Howard S. Marks, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Picador 8½x5½ pb [6/2005] for $10.20
FS&G hardcover [7/2004] for $16.32
Greed & Good  
"Greed and Good: Understanding & Overcoming The Inequality That Limits Our Lives" [2004]
by Sam Pizzigati

CIPA-Apex Press 6¼x9 hardcover [5/2004] for $29.71
official booksite
Who Shot Goldilocks? / Greenspan   "Who Shot Goldilocks?: How Alan Greenspan Did In Our Jobs, Savings & Retirement Plans" [2004]
by William D. Rutherford

Crown Point Press 9x5½ hardcover [5/2004] for $13.27
Take The Rich Off Welfare   "Take The Rich Off Welfare" [1996; rev 2004]
by Mark Zepezauer

South End Press 8½x5½ pb [4/2004] for $10.50
South End Press 8x6½ hardcover [4/2004] for $40.00
Coming Generational Storm   "The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need To Know about America's Economic Future" [2004]
by Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Scott Burns

"On balance, the book does an excellent job of preaching two economic basics. First, our promise of Social Security & Medicare benefits in their current form to all retired Americans, regardless of means, is unsustainable. ... Second, individuals & families need to save more for their futures." — Los Angeles Times Book Review
M.I.T. Press 9x6¼ pb [1/2005] for $11.53
M.I.T. Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/2004] out of print/used
Working Poor  
"The Working Poor: Invisible In America" [2004]
by Pulitzer-winning former N.Y. Times reporter David K. Shipler

Vintage 8x5¼ pb [1/2005] for $10.50
Knopf 9.6x6.6 hardcover [2/2004] for $16.50
Perfectly Legal   "Perfectly Legal: The Secret Campaign To Rig Our Tax System To Benefit The Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else" [2003]
by New York Times reporter David Cay Johnston

Portfolio 8½x5½ pb [1/2005] for $10.20
Portfolio 9¼x6.4 hardcover [12/2003] for $16.35
official booksite
Ruthless Economy   "The New Ruthless Economy: Work & Power In The Digital Age" [2003]
by Simon Head

Oxford Univ Press 8x5½ pb [3/2005] for $10.17
Oxford Univ Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [11/2003] for $18.48
Poverty in America   "Poverty In America: A Handbook" [2003]
by John Iceland

Univ CA Press 9x6¼ pb [10/2003] for $13.97
Univ CA Press 9¼x5¾ hardcover [10/2003] for $50.00
Soul of Capitalism   "The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths To A Moral Economy" [2003]
by William Greider

S&S 9¼x6 pb [8/2004] for $11.20
S&S hardcover [9/2003] for $17.64
Highbridge ABR audio CD [9/2003] for $32.95
Highbridge ABR audio [9/2003] for $32.95
author website & blog
Betrayal of Work  
"The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans & Their Families" [2003]
by Beth Shulman

New Press 7&frav34x5½ hardcover [9/2003] for $16.35
Low-Wage America   "Low-Wage America: How Employers Are Reshaping Opportunity In The Workplace" [2003]
Edited by Eileen Appelbaum, Annette Bernhardt & Richard J. Murnane

"Nearly 24 percent of the labor force earn less than $8.70 an hour, not enough to keep a family of four out of poverty, even working full-time year-round."
Russell Sage Fndtn 9½x6.3 hardcover [9/2003] for $45.00
publisher's bookpage
Take Back Your Time  
"Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork & Time Poverty In America" [2003]
Edited by John de Graaf

Berrett-Koehler 9x6 pb [7/2003] for $10.17
official website
Eco-Nomics by Stroup   "Eco-Nomics: What Everyone Should Know About Economics & The Environment" [2003]
by Richard L. Stroup

Cato Institute 9x6 pb [5/2003] for $3.98
Work to Live   "Work To Live: The Guide To Getting A Life" [2003]
by Joe Robinson

Perigee 9¼x6 pb [1/2003] for $10/47

author booksite

Unequal Protection / Hartmann   "UNequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance & The Theft of Human Rights" [2002]
by Thom Hartmann

Rodale 8¾x6 pb [4/2004] for $10.85
Rodale 9.4x6.4 hardcover [10/2002] for $16.98
author website
official booksite
Wealth & Democracy   "Wealth and Democracy: How Great Fortunes & Government Created America's Aristocracy" [2002]
by Kevin Phillips

listed in 'Los Angeles Times 100 Best Books of 2002'
Broadway Books 9¼x6¼ pb [4/2003] for $11.87
Broadway Books hardcover [5/2002] for $20.97
Fast Food Nation   "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of The All-American Meal" [2001]
by Eric Schlosser

a hundred years after Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", and here we go again...
HarperCollins 8x5¼ pb [1/2002] for $9.77
Houghton Mifflin 9x6 hardcover [1/2001] for $17.50
Bantam ABRIDGED audio [1/2002] for $20.97
feature film announced for 2006: web-article • latest info at IMDb

Nickel & Dimed   "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America" [2001]
by Barbara Ehrenreich

winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize April 2002
Owl Books 9x5 pb [5/2002] for $7.80
Metropolitan 9x5¾ hardcover [5/2001] for $16.10
author's website • "Nickel & Dimed: The Play" [2002]
Class War / Kelly   "Class War In America: How The Economic & Political Conservatives Are Exploiting Low- & Middle-Class Americans" [2000]
by Charles M. Kelly

Fithian Press 9x6 pb [9/2000] for $15.95
Majority / Secret   "The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret" [2000]
by Michael Zweig

"[a] pungent critique of class and economics in the U.S. ... an insightful, radical analysis that will make many readers rethink commonly held but unexamined beliefs"
Publishers Weekly

Cornell Univ Press 9x6 pb [2/2001] for $0.00
Cornell Univ Press 9x5¾ hardcover [4/2000] out of print/used
Coming Class War  
"The Coming Class War & How To Avoid It: Rebuilding The American Middle Class" [1999]
by Frederick R. Strobel & Wallace C. Peterson

M.E. Sharpe 8½x5¾ hardcover [6/99] for $35.95
Overspent   "The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting & The New Consumer" [1998]
by Juliet B. Schor

Perennial 8x5¼ pb [5/99] for $10.40
Basic Books 9¾x6½ pb [5/98] out of print/used
Chomsky Class War CD   "Class War: The Attack On Working People" [1996]
by Noam Chomsky

Epitaph audio CD [11/98] for $14.99
Bogle On Mutual Funds   "Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives For The Intelligent Investor" [1993]
by John C. Bogle

Dell 9x6 pb [9/94] for $12.24
McGraw Hill 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/93] for $16.50
Dynamite   "Dynamite: A Century of Class Violence In America, 1830-1930"
[1984] by Louis Adamic

A.K./Rebel Press 8¼x6 pb [6/84] for $12.99

"Class Act: America's Last Dirty Secret" [1983]
by Benita Eisler
FWatts/Scholastic hardcover [11/83] out of print/many used

"Not Working: An Oral History of The Unemployed" [1979] by Harry Maurer
Plume mass pb [3/81] out of print/used
Holt, Rinehart & Winston hardcover [12/79] out of print/used

How to Be Rich / J. Paul Getty   "How To Be Rich: His Formulas" [1965]
by J. Paul Getty [1892-1976]

Jove pb [9/86] for $6.99
Playboy Press hardcover [1965] out of print/used
Other America   "The Other America: Poverty In The United States" [1962 classic]
by Michael Harrington

Scribner 8½x5½ pb [8/97] for $13.00
Collier pb [1/94] out of print/many used
MacMillan hardcover [6/70] out of print/used
Power Elite   "The Power Elite" [1956] by C. Wright Mills
Oxford Univ Press pb [1/2000] for $13.27
Oxford Univ Press pb [2/93] out of print/used
Oxford Univ Press pb [1/60] out of print/used

more C. Wright Mills at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore

Native Land video   "Native Land" b&w docu film [Frontier Films 1942]
Co-written & co-produced & co-directed by Leo Hurwitz & Paul Strand, co-written by Ben Maddow; narrated by Paul Robeson

"a scathing leftist critique of violence, racism & working class oppression"
Kino Video b&w VHS [3/94] for $59.95
full credits from IMDb

War of The Classes by Jack London   "War of The Classes" [1905] by Jack London
Synergy Intl 8x5 pb [11/2000] for $13.97
IndyPublish 9x6 pb [1/2003] for $17.99
IndyPublish 9x6 hardcover [1/2003] for $22.99
Quiet Vision CD-ROM [7/99] for $5.98
Henry Demarest Lloyd portrait   "Wealth Against Commonwealth" [1894 classic]
by muckraker Henry Demarest Lloyd [1847-1903]

Greenwood Press hardcover [3/76] for $45.00
Reprint Services hardcover [11/99] for $126.99



Earth's Biosphere

return to WM/Worry 'Earth's Biosphere' Page

Planet In Peril C.N.N. special   "Planet In Peril" [C.N.N. special 2007]  
Hosted by Anderson Cooper, with Jeff Corwin & Sanjay Gupta
CNN widescreen color DVD [11/2007] 2 disks for $29.95
full credits at IMDb
State of the Planet   "Science Magazine's State of The Planet 2006-2007" [2006]
by Donald Kennedy & the Editors of Science

Island Press 10x7 pb [6/2006] for $13.25
Moving Mountains / Big Coal   "Moving Mountains: How One Woman & Her Community  
Won Justice From Big Coal" [2007]
by Penny Loeb

Univ Press of KY 9x6¼ hardcover [7/2007] for $18.45
This Moment On Earth   "This Moment On Earth: Today's New Environmentalists & Their Vision For The Future" [2007]
by John Kerry & Teresa Heinz Kerry

PublicAffairs hardcover [3/2007] for $14.25
Tantor Media audio CD [4/2007] for $19.79
official book site
Thirst / Corporate Theft of Our Water   "Thirst: Fighting The Corporate Theft of Our Water" [2007]
by Alan Snitow & Deborah Kaufman, with Michael Fox

Jossey-Bass 9x6 hardcover [3/2007] for $18.45
"Thirst" episode of P.O.V. [aired on P.B.S. in 2004]
video/DVD not available at Amazon; program credits at IMDb
P.B.S. program page • producer's movie site
End of The Wild   "The End of The Wild" [2006]
by Stephen M. Meyer

"a to-the-point, X-ray-explicit diagnosis of the state of the biosphere"
M.I.T. Press/Boston Review 7¼x4¾ hardcover [9/2006] for $10.61
Wildfire / Forest Policy   "Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy" [2006]
Edited by George Wuerthner

Island Press 9x6 pb [8/2006] for $23.10
Island Press 16x12½ pb [6/2006] for $29.70
Island Press 13½x12 hardcover [6/2006] for $54.00
Environmental Endgame  
"The Environmental Endgame: Mainstream Economics, Ecological Disaster & Human Survival" [2006]
by Robert L. Nadeau

"a stimulating and radically new approach to sustainability"
Rutgers Univ Press 9x6¼ hardcover [4/2006] for $18.96
When the Rivers Run Dry   "When The Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of The Twenty-First Century" [2006]
by Fred Pearce

Beacon Press hardcover [3/2006] for $16.98
Lost Mountain / Devastation of Appalachia  "Lost Mountain: A Year In The Vanishing Wilderness - Radical Strip Mining & The Devastation of Appalachia" [2006]
by Erik Reece, photography by John J. Cox

Riverhead 8¼x6¾ hardcover [2/2006] for $15.72
Missing Mountains / Kentucky   "Missing Mountains: We Went To The Mountaintop But It Wasn't There" [2005]
Edited by Kristin Johannsen, Bobbie Ann Mason & Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

Wind Publns 10x7 pb [10/2005] for $10.40
Ecological Literacy   "Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children For A Sustainable World" [2005]
Edited by Michael K. Stone & Zenobia Barlow

Sierra Club 9x6 pb [10/2005] for $11.53
Center for EcoLiteracy [est.1995]
Deep Water   "Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People & The Environment" [2005]
by Jacques Leslie

FS&G 9½x6¼ hardcover [9/2005] for $16.50
Silent Snow   "Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of The Arctic" [2005]
by Marla Cone

Grove Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [4/2005] for $16.32
Wisdom for a Livable Planet   "Wisdom For A Livable Planet: The Visionary Work of Terri Swearingen, Dave Foreman, Wes Jackson, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Werner Fornos, Herman Daly, Stephen Schneider & David Orr" [2005]
by Carl N. McDaniel

Trinity Univ Press 9x6 pb [2/2005] for $12.21
Trinity Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/2005] for $26.40
End of The Line / Overfishing   "The End of The Line: How Overfishing Is Changing The World & What We Eat" [2004]
by Charles Clover

Ebury Press pb [3/2005] out of print/used
New Press 8½x6 hardcover [11/2006] for $18.60
No Turning Back   "No Turning Back: The Life & Death of Animal Species" [2004]
by Richard Ellis

HarperCollins 9¼x6¼ hardcover [8/2004] for $17.65
Bush vs. Environment   "Bush vs. The Environment" [2004]
by Robert S. Devine

Anchor pb [6/2004] for $9.00
Limits To Growth 30   "The Limits To Growth: The 30-Year Global Update" [2004]
by Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers & Dennis Meadows

Chelsea Green pb [6/2004] for $15.75
Chelsea Green hardcover [6/2004] for $24.50
original "The Limits To Growth" [1972]
NAL pb [10/77] out of print/used

Strategic Ignorance   "Strategic Ignorance: Why The Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying A Century of Environmental Progress" [2004]
by Carl Pope & Paul Rauber

Sierra Club Books 8½x6½ pb [5/2006] for $11.53
Sierra Club Books 9¼x6½ hardcover [5/2004] for $15.72
Red Sky at Morning   "Red Sky At Morning: America & The Crisis of The Global Environment - A Citizen's Agenda For Action" [2004]
by James Gustave Speth {dean at Yale}

Yale Nota Bene pb [3/2005] for $10.88
Yale Univ Press hardcover [2/2004] for $24.00
Six Modern Plagues   "Six Modern Plagues: And How We Are Causing Them" [2003]
by Mark Jerome Walters, DVM

Shearwater Books hardcover 8½x6 [10/2003] for $15.40
Strangely Like War   "Strangely Like War: The Global Assault On Forests" [2003]
by Derrick Jensen & George Draffan

Chelsea Green 8½x5½ pb [10/2003] for $10.50
Guide to Ecology   "A Citizen's Guide To Ecology" [2003]
by Lawrence B. Slobodkin

Oxford Univ Press pb [4/2003] for $10.47
Oxford Univ Press hardcover [5/2003] for $37.62
Extinction   "Extinction: Evolution & The End of Man" [2002]
by Michael Boulter

Columbia Univ Press 8¼x6½ hardcover [11/2002] for $26.00
Water Wars   "Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly & The Politics of Thirst" [2002]
by Diane Raines Ward

"A solidly researched, eminently accessible book on the world's water situation." – Bernadette Murphy, Los Angeles Times
Riverhead Books 9½x6.3 hardcover [8/2002] for $17.47
Global Warming   "Essential Science: Global Warming (A Beginner's Guide To Our Changing Climate)" [2002]
by Fred Pearce

Dorling Kindersley 7x5 pb [4/2002] for $6.95
Blue Gold   "Blue Gold: The Fight To Stop The Corporate Theft of The World's Water" [2002]
by Maude Barlow & Tony Clarke

New Press 9¼x6 pb [4/2003] for $11.87
New Press 9.4x6½ hardcover [4/2002] out of print/used
Fire In The Turtle House   "Fire In The Turtle House: The Green Sea Turtle & The Fate of The Ocean" [2001]
by Osha Gray Davidson

Public Affairs 8.9x4.8 pb [8/2003] for $10.50
Public Affairs 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2001] for $18.20
Canaries   "Canaries On The Rim: Living Downwind In The West" [2000]
by Chip Ward

Utah citizens fight an uphill battle to prevent 'ecocide' in the American desert. The struggle is on-going...
Verso Books pb [5/2001] for $11.20
Verso Books hardcover [1/2000] for $26.99
Water by Marq de Villiers   Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource" [2000]
by Canadian journalist Marq de Villiers

Mariner 8¼x5½ pb [7/2001] for $10.50
Houghton Mifflin 8½x5¾ hardcover [1/2000] out of print/used
Fresh Water   "Fresh Water" [1998]
by E. C. Pielou

"A solid contribution to environmental literacy."
Univ Chicago Press 8x6 pb [4/2000] for $11.20
Univ Chicago Press 8.3x6½ hardcover [9/98] for $16.80
Living Downstream   "Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer & The Environment" [1997]
by Sandra Steingraber

"...as accessible and invaluable as Silent Spring – and potentially as historic." – Washington Post
Vintage 8x5¼ pb [9/98] for $11.20
Perseus 9½x6¼ hardcover [5/97] out of print/used
End of Nature   "The End of Nature" [1989 classic; revised 1997]
by Bill McKibben

Random House 3rd edition pb [6/2006] for $10.17
Tenth Anniversary Edition: Anchor 8x5¼ pb [8/97] for $11.20
Peter Smith 8¼x5¼ hardcover [6/2001] out of print/used
Random House 9¾x6¾ hardcover [9/89] out of print/many used
Cadillac Desert   "Cadillac Desert: The American West & Its Disappearing Water"
[orig 1986; rev 1993] by Marc Reisner

Penguin 8½x5½ pb [1/93] for $11.56
Viking 9½x6¼ hardcover [8/86] out of print/used

"Laying Waste: The Poisoning of America By Toxic Chemicals" [1983]
by Michael H. Brown
Bookthrift hardcover [10/83] out of print/many used

"The Oceans: Our Last Resource" [1982] by Wesley Marx
Random House hardcover [6/82] out of print/many used

"Extinction: The Causes & Consequences of The Disappearance of Species"
[1981] by Paul R. & Anne H. Ehrlich
Ballantine pb [4/83] out of print/used
Random House hardcover [4/81] out of print/many used

The Lorax   "The Lorax" [1971] by Dr. Seuss
A heartfelt ecological warning, a morality play for
adults as well as children.

Random House YR hardcover [8/71] for $10.47
Random House YR book & cassette [3/92] for $11.20
Lectorum Pubns Spanish edition [1/93] for $10.47
animated cartoon on DVD [10/2003] for $13.03
animated cartoon on VHS [10/2003] for $9.98

Silent Spring   "Silent Spring" [1962 bestseller] by Rachel Carson
Mariner 8x5½ pb [10/2002] for $11.20
Houghton Mifflin 8½x5¾ hardcover [10/2002] for $16.80
Durkin Hayes ABR audio [3/99] out of print/used
DH Audio [1/87] 2 tapes / out of print/used
bio by Linda J. Lear [1997]: Owl pb [9/98] for $14.00
LJL's R.C. website

Sea Around Us   "The Sea Around Us" [1951 bestseller] by Rachel Carson
31 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list
Oxford Univ Press 8x5.3 pb [12/91] for $11.17
Oxford Univ Press hardcover [9/2003] for $31.50
Oscar-winning documentary film [1 hour; RKO 1952]
video not available; credits from IMDb
A Sand County Almanac   "A Sand County Almanac" [1949 nature classic] by Aldo Leopold
Ballantine pb [6/90] for $7.50
Highbridge ABR audio [6/2000] 2 tapes for $13.27
2002 edition with photos by Michael Sewell
Oxford Univ Press 12.3x9.3 hardcover [2/2002] for $24.50
1987 Commemorative Edition with additional essays,
and sketches by Charles W. Schwartz

Oxford Univ Press pb [5/89] for $9.56
Oxford Univ Press hardcover [12/87] for $18.70


Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82]
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'Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson' site
'Emerson Central'

Henry David Thoreau [1817-62]
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Thoreau Institute at Walden [est. 1998] in Maine
Thoreau papers at Northern Illinois University


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