Ecology
of a Cracker Childhood
by Janisse Ray
(Paperback -- September 2000)
The
Future of Life
by Edward Osborne Wilson
The eminent Harvard naturalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Wilson
marshals all the prodigious powers of his intellect and imagination in
this impassioned call to ensure the future of life. Opening with an imagined
conversation with Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond, he writes that he
has come "to explain to you, and in reality to others and not least to
myself, what has happened to the world we both have loved." Based on a
love affair with the natural world that spans 70 years, Wilson combines
lyrical descriptions with dire warnings and remarkable stories of flora
and fauna on the edge of extinction with hard economics. How many species
are we really losing? Is environmentalism truly contrary to economic development?
And how can we save the planet? Wilson has penned an eloquent plea for
the need for a global land ethic and offers the strategies necessary to
ensure life on earth based on foresight, moral courage, and the best tools
that science and technology can provide. -- Lesley Reed - Amazon.com
(Hardcover -- January 8, 2002)
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
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A
Sand County Almanac
by Aldo Leopold, Charles W. Schwartz (Illustrator)
(Mass Market Paperback -- April 1991)
Design
With Nature
by Ian L. McHarg
(Paperback -- February 6, 1995)
The
Control of Nature
by John McPhee
(Paperback -- September 1990)
The
Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from
the Union of Concerned Scientists
by Michael Brower, et al
(Paperback -- March 1999)
Fire
on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire
by John N. Maclean
(Paperback -- August 29, 2000)
A
Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There: With Other Essays on Conservation
from Round River
by Aldo Leopold, Charles W. Schwartz (Illustrator)
(Paperback -- February 2000)
Encounters
With the Archdruid
by John A. McPhee
Born in 1915, the mountaineer and outdoorsman David Brower has arguably
been the single most influential American environmentalist in the last
half of the 20th century; even his erstwhile foes at the Department of
the Interior grudgingly credit him with having nearly single-handedly halted
the construction of a dam in the heart of the Grand Canyon, and he has
converted thousands, even millions, of his compatriots to the preservationist
cause through his work with the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and
other organizations. Brower was in the thick of battle when John McPhee
profiled him for the New Yorker in a piece that would evolve into Encounters
with the Archdruid. McPhee follows Brower into unusually close combat as
Brower faces down a geologist who is, it seems, convinced that there is
no sight quite so elevating as that of a fully operational mine; a developer
who (successfully, it turned out) sought to convert an isolated stretch
of the Carolina coast into a resort for the moneyed few--and who provided
the title for McPhee's book, wryly opining that conservationists are at
heart druids who "sacrifice people and worship trees"; and, most formidable
of all, former Interior Secretary Floyd Dominy, who oversaw the construction
of a structure that for Brower stands as one of the most hated creations
of our time, Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. McPhee offers up an
engaging portrait of Brower, a man unafraid of a good fight in the service
of the earth, making Encounters an important contribution to the history
of the modern environmental movement. --Gregory McNamee - Amazon.com
Paperback: Noonday Press
ISBN: 0374514313; Reissue edition (September 1990)
Dirt
Under My Nails: An American Farmer and Her Changing Land
by Marilee Foster
(Hardcover -- May 2002)
Every
Drop for Sale: Our Desperate Battle Over Water
by Jeff Rothfeder, Jeffrey Rothfeder
(Hardcover -- October 11, 2001)
Living
in the Environment With Infotrac: Principles Connections and Solutions
by G. Tyler Miller
Hardcover from Brooks Cole
Book Published: August, 2003
Wetlands
by William J. Mitsch, James G. Gosselink
Hardcover from John Wiley & Sons
Book Published: 15 January, 2000 |
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Edge
of the Earth, Corner of the Sky
by Art Wolfe, Art Davidson
Hardcover from Wildlands Press
Book Published: September, 2003
A Language Older Than Words
by Derrick Jensen
(Paperback -- April 2000)
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