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Recently-Added  Books
  | "The Survival of Civilization Depends Upon Our Solving Three Problems: Carbon Dioxide, Investment Money, and Population" [1982] Selected Papers of John D. Hamaker, Edited by Donald A. Weaver Hamaker-Weaver Publrs 9x6 pb [6/82] out of print/many used book entry at Wikipedia Hamaker entry at Wikipedia online .PDF etext at Soil and Health Library website |
  | "Our Dying Planet: An Ecologist's View of The Crisis We Face" [2011] by Peter F. Sale Kindle Edition from Univ California Press [9/2011] for $16.17 Univ California Press 9x6 pb [9/2011] for $16.09 Univ California Press 9x6 hardcover [9/2011] for $39.95 |
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"Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade To Deny Global Warming" [9/2009] by James Hoggan, with Richard Littlemore
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"The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Cli..." [] by Philip Conkling
http://www.amazon.com/Fate-Greenland-Lessons-Abrupt-Climate/dp/0262015641/
"Empire of The Beetle: How Human Folly and A Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests"
[8/2011] by Andrew Nikiforuk
http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Beetle-Killing-Americas-Foundation/dp/1553655109/
"George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation" [4/2000] by David Lowenthal and William Cronon
http://www.amazon.com/George-Perkins-Marsh-Conservation-Environmental/dp/0295979429/
"George Perkins Marsh: Versatile Vermonter" [1958] by David Lowenthal
http://www.amazon.com/George-Perkins-Marsh-Versatile-Vermonter/dp/B0007DTLLY/
"Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis" [] by Sandra Steingraber
http://www.amazon.com/Raising-Elijah-Protecting-Environmental-ebook/dp/B004P1JDXA/
http://www.amazon.com/Raising-Elijah-Protecting-Children-Environmental/dp/0738213993/
Periodicals About Earth's Biosphere
  | National Geographic Magazine [est. 1888] subscribe at Amazon: 12 issues/year for $15.00 {USA only} magazine website entry at Wikipedia |
  | "National Wildlife Magazine" [est. 1962] Published bi-monthly by the National Wildlife Federation [est. 1936] subscribe at Amazon: 6 issues/year for $20.00 magazine website entry at Wikipedia |
  | "High Country News" biweekly magazine [est. 1970] based in Colorado, "covering environmental & natural resource issues in the inter-mountain West" subscribe: 22 issues/year for $47.00 official website entry at Wikipedia |
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"Orion Nature Magazine" [est. 1982] The first issue of "Orion Nature Quarterly" was published in June 1982; the Orion Society moved from New York City to Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1996. Recent contributors include Wendell Berry, Cormac Cullinan, Gretel Ehrlich, Derrick Jensen, Barbara Kingsolver, James Howard Kunstler, William Kunstler, Mark Kurlansky, Barry Lopez, Bill McKibben, Michael Pollan, Rebecca Solnit, Sandra Steingraber, and E.O. Wilson subscribe at Amazon: 6 issues/year for $39.00 Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [9/2011] for $1.99/month magazine website entry at Wikipedia |
Books About Earth's Biosphere
{ in chronologial order, from 1864 }
  | "Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography As Modified By Human Action" [1864] by George Perkins Marsh [1801-82] Univ Michigan Libraries 9x6 pb [10/2011] for $25.80 book entry at Wikipedia full text online at Library of Congress |
  | "A Sand County Almanac" [1949 nature classic] by Aldo Leopold [1887-1948] Ballantine pb [6/90] for $7.50 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 |
  | "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 |
  | "Silent Spring" [1962 bestseller] by Rachel Carson
Mariner 8x5½ pb [10/2002] for $11.20 Houghton Mifflin 8½x5¾ hardcover [10/2002] for $16.80 |
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"The Lorax" [1971] by Dr. Seuss A heartfelt ecological warning, a morality play for adults as well as children. Random House [8/81] hardcover [8/71] for $8.22 Random House pb & audio combo [3/92] out of prodn/used Lectorum Pubns Spanish edition [1/93] for $11.66 animated cartoon on DVD [10/2003] for $13.03 animated cartoon on VHS [10/2003] for $9.98 |
  | "Laying Waste: The Poisoning of America By Toxic Chemicals" [1981] by Michael H. Brown Pocket rev edition mass pb [2/81] out of print/many used Random House Bookthrift 8¼x5¾ hardcover [10/83] out of print/many used |
  | "Extinction: The Causes & Consequences of The Disappearance of Species" [1981] by Paul & Anne Ehrlich
Ballantine pb [4/83] out of print/used Random House hardcover [4/81] out of print/many used |
  | "Where The Sky Began: Land of The Tallgrass Prairie" [1982 classic] by James Madson [19231995], Illustrated by Dycie Madson Univ Iowa Press 8¾x5¼ pb [4/2004] for $14.96 Random House 8x5½ pb [3/85] out of print/used Iowa State Press 9x6 hardcover [11/94] out of print/used |
  | "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 |
  | "The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability" [1993 bestseller] by eco-activist Paul Hawken HarperBusiness 8x5¼ Revised Edition pb [10/2010] for $12.23 HarperBusiness 8x5¼ pb [6/94] for $11.69 HarperCollins 9¼x6 hardcover [11/93] out of print/used author's official website |
  | "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 |
  | "Reel Nature: America`s Romance With Wildlife On Film" [1999] by Gregg Mitman Univ Washington Press 2nd edition 9x6¼ pb [4/2009] for $20.19 Harvard Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [12/99] out of print/many used |
   | "Canaries On The Rim: Living Downwind In The West" [2000] by Chip Ward Citizens in rural Utah are fighting 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 |
   | "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 |
   | "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 |
  | "Extinction: Evolution & The End of Man" [2002] by Michael Boulter Columbia Univ Press 8¼x6½ hardcover [11/2002] for $26.00 |
  | "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 |
  | "Strangely Like War: The Global Assault On Forests" [2003] by Derrick Jensen & George Draffan Chelsea Green 8½x5½ pb [10/2003] for $10.50 |
  | "Six Modern Plagues: And How We Are Causing Them" [2003] by Mark Jerome Walters, DVM Shearwater Books hardcover 8½x6 [10/2003] for $15.40 |
  | "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 |
  | "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 |
  | "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 |
  | "Bush vs. The Environment" [2004] by Robert S. Devine Anchor pb [6/2004] for $9.00 |
  | "Rewilding North America: A Vision For Conservation In The 21st Century" [2004] by Dave Foreman Island Press 9x6 pb [7/2004] for $23.96 Island Press 9x6¼ hardcover [7/2004] for $50.00 The Rewilding Institute [est. 2003] in Albuquerque, NM |
  | "No Turning Back: The Life & Death of Animal Species" [2004] by Richard Ellis HarperCollins 9¼x6¼ hardcover [8/2004] for $17.65 |
  | "The End of The Line: How Overfishing Is Changing The World & What We Eat" [2004] by Charles Clover Univ CA Press 8¼x6 pb [3/2008] for $15.52 Ebury Press pb [3/2005] out of print/used The New Press 8½x6 hardcover [11/2006] for $19.81 |
  | "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 |
  | "Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of The Arctic" [2005] by Marla Cone Grove Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [4/2005] for $16.32 |
  | "Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage" [2005] by Heather Rogers New Press 6x5 pb [9/2006] for $10.85 New Press hardcover [10/2005] for $23.95 |
  | "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] |
  | "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 |
  | "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 |
  | "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 $16.47 |
  | "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 |
  | "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 |
  | "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 |
  | "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 |
  | "Science Magazine's State of the Planet, 2008-2009: With A Special Section On Energy & Sustainability" [2008] by Donald Kennedy & the Editors of Science
Kindle Edition from Island Press [12/2008] for $14.74 Island Press 10x7 pb [12/2008] for $21.26 Island Press 10x7 hardcover [12/2008] for $38.00 "Science Magazine's State of The Planet 2006-2007" [2006] by Donald Kennedy & the Editors of Science Island Press 10x7 pb [6/2006] for $4.04 [sic] Island Press 10x7 hardcover [6/2006] out of print/used |
  | "Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal" [2009] by Silas House & Jason Howard Univ Press of Kentucky 9x6 pb [1/2011] for $15.97 Univ Press of Kentucky 9x6¼ hardcover [3/2009] for $14.57 |
  | "Rewilding The World: Dispatches From The Conservation Revolution" [2009] by Caroline Fraser Picador 8¼x5½ pb [11/2010] for $12.24 Metropolitan Books 9¼x6 hardcover [12/2009] for $21.66 official book site |
  | "Living Through The End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism" [2010] by Paul Wapner M.I.T. Press 8¼x5¾ hardcover [3/2010] for $14.93 |
  | "Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining The Environmental Revolution" [2010] by Heather Rogers
Scribner 9x6 hardcover [4/2010] for $17.16 |
  | "On The Grid: A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and The Systems That Make Our World Work" [2010] by Scott Huler
Rodale Books 9x6 hardcover [5/2010] for $16.49 |
  | "Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost At Sea and of The Beach-combers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including The Author, Who Went In Search of Them" [2011] by Donovan Hohn
Penguin pb [2/2012] for $12.80 Viking 9¼x6½ hardcover [3/2011] for $16.83 |
  | "Four Fish: The Future of The Last Wild Food" N.Y. Times bestseller [2010] by Paul Greenberg Penguin 8x5¼ pb [5/2011] for $10.88 Penguin Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [7/2010] for $15.63 |
  | "The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half A Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America" [2011] by Hannah Nordhaus
Harper Perennial 7¾x5¼ pb [5/2011] for $9.64 |
  | "Mountains of Injustice: Social and Environmental Justice In Appalachia" [2011] Edited by Michele Morrone & Geoffrey L. Buckley Ohio Univ Press hardcover [11/2011] for $49.95 |
  | "Loosed Upon The World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction" [2015] Edited & Introduction by John Joseph Adams, Afterword by Ramez Naam 26 stories from Charlie Jane Anders, Margaret Atwood, Chris Bachelder, Paolo Bacigalupi (2), Gregory Benford, Tobias Buckell & Karl Schroeder, Tobias S. Buckell, Sarah Castle, Craig DeLancey, Toiya Kristen Finley, Alan Dean Foster, Jason Gurley, Nancy Kress, Seanan McGuire, Sean McMullen, Nicole Feldringer, Angela Penrose, Chen Qiufan, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karl Schroeder, Jim Shepard, Robert Silverberg, Vandana Singh, Cat Sparks, and Jean-Louis Trudel Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [9/2015] for $11.99 Saga Press pb [9/2015] for $16.99 Saga Press hardcover [9/2015] for $24.49 |
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Books on The Water Crisis
"Without water we are nothing. Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust.
Water is the real monarch and we are all its slaves." Salman Rushdie
  | "The Oceans: Our Last Resource" [1982] by Wesley Marx Random House hardcover [6/82] out of print/many used |
  | "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 |
  | "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 |
  | "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 |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People & The Environment" [2005] by Jacques Leslie
FS&G 9½x6¼ hardcover [9/2005] for $16.50 |
  | "When The Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of The Twenty-First Century" [2006] by Fred Pearce
Beacon Press 9x6 pb [3/2007] for $10.88 Beacon Press 9x6 hardcover [3/2006] out of print/many used |
  | "Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and The Coming Battle For The Right To Water" [2008] by Maude Barlow
New Press 8x5½ pb [6/2009] for $11.53 New Press 8½x6 hardcover [2/2008] out of print/many used |
  | "Harvest The Rain: How To Enrich Your Life By Seeing Every Storm As A Resource" [2009] by Nate Downey
available at official booksite |
  | "Sea Sick: The Global Ocean In Crisis" [2009] by Alanna Mitchell
book won the Grantham Prize: Honoring Exceptional Environmental Journalism Univ Chicago Press pb [9/2011] for $12.24 Univ Chicago Press 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2009] for $17.50 McClelland & Stewart 8½x5¾ import hardcover [3/2009] out of print/used |
  | "Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and The Battle Over America's Drinking Water" [2009] by Elizabeth Boyle
Bloomsbury 8x5½ pb [7/2009] for $11.70 |
  | "Dirty Water: One Man's Fight To Clean Up One of The World's Most-Polluted Bays" [2010] by Bill Sharpsteen In 1985, many scientists considered California's Santa Monica Bay to be one of the most-polluted bodies of water in the world. Howard Bennett happily (and ignorantly) swam in it every morning. He learned by accident that Los Angeles had applied for a waiver from the Clean Water Act to continue discharging partially-treated sewage into the bay – and he fought back in innovative ways. Univ CA Press 8¼x5¾ hardcover [1/2010] for $20.90 |
  | National Geographic Special Issue "Water: Our Thirsty World" [April 2010]
Special Issue / Table of Contents issue not yet available online in Special Editions Dept. National Geographic Magazine [est. 1888]
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  | "Running Out of Water: The Looming Crisis and Solutions To Conserve Our Most Precious Resource" [2010] by Peter Rogers & Susan Leal, Foreword by Congressman Edward J. Markey Palgrave Macmillan 9¼x6½ hardcover [8/2010] for $16.50 |
  | National Geographic Special Issue "Ocean" [Sept 2010] with exclusive photos of the Gulf disaster Special Issue / Table of Contents {not available online} issue available online in Special Editions Dept. for $12.99 National Geographic Magazine [est. 1888] magazine subscription (12 issues/year) for $15.00 {USA only} magazine website |
  | "Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them" [2011] by Ted Danson & Michael D'Orso Rodale Books hardcover [3/2011] for $19.57 Oceana Foundation: Protecting The World's Oceans [est. 2001] |
  | "A Great Aridness: Climate Change and The Future of The American Southwest" [2011] by William deBuys Staggering population growth and the intensifying effects of climate change are driving the oasis-based society of the Southwest United States close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale catastrophe. Oxford Univ Press hardcover [11/2011] for $18.26 author's official website |
  | "Thinking Like A Watershed: Voices From The West" [2012] Edited by Jack & Celestia Loeffler Editor Jack Loeffler worked with eco-activist Edward Abbey [1927-89] Kindle Edition from Univ New Mexico Press [10/2012] for $17.30 Univ New Mexico Press 9x6 pb [10/2012] for $18.21 |
  | "The Water Knife: A Novel" [2015] by Paolo Bacigalupi Three people – Angel Velasquez, trained as a 'water knife'; Lucy Monroe, a hardened journalist; and Maria Villarosa, a young migrant who dreams of escaping north to places where water still falls from the sky – team up within the chaos of a prolonged drought and find themselves pawns in a game far bigger, more corrupt, and dirtier than any of them could have imagined. Kindle Edition from Knopf/Random House [5/2015] for $10.99 Orbit U.K. 9¼x6 pb [5/2015] out of print/used Knopf 9½x6¾ deckle-edge hardcover [5/2015] for $17.74 |
  | "Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of The World's Oceans" [2017] by Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret), former Supreme Allied Commander at N.A.T.O. Yes, the book is about the history of military navies, but the extant geopolitics of it all has major impact on the ecology of those same oceans Kindle Edition from Penguin Press [6/2017] for $12.99 Penguin Books 8½x5½ pb [6/2018] for $13.85 Penguin Press 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2017] for $16.76 |
  | "Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity" [2017] by Sandra Postel Kindle Edition from Island Press [10/2017] for $15.65 Island Press 9x6 hardcover [10/2017] for $22.06 |
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