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  • Opportunity, Montana

    Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape

    by Brad Tyer ...
    A memoir-meets-exposé that examines our fraught relationship with the West and our attempts to clean up a toxic environmental legacyIn 2002, Texas journalist Brad Tyer strapped a canoe on his truck and moved to Montana, a state that has long exerted a mythic pull on America’s imagination as an unspoiled landscape. The son of an engineer who reclaimed wastewater, Tyer was looking for a pristine ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change

    by Annie Leonard ...
    A classic exposé in company with An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring, The Story of Stuff expands on the celebrated documentary exploring the threat of overconsumption on the environment, economy, and our health. Leonard examines the “stuff” we use everyday, offering a galvanizing critique and steps for a changed planet.The Story of Stuff was received with widespread enthusiasm in hardcover, by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell

    A True Story of Violence, Corruption, and the Soul of Surfing

    by Chas Smith ...
    A finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for NonfictionWelcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell, is surfer and former war reporter Chas Smith’s wild and unflinching look at the high-stakes world of surfing on Oahu’s North Shore—a riveting, often humorous, account of beauty, greed, danger, and crime.For two months every winter, when Pacific storms make landfall, swarms of mainlanders, Brazilians, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Landscape and Building Design for Bushfire Areas

    by Caird Ramsay, Lisle Rudolph ...
    Shortlisted in TAFE Vocational Education category in the 2004 Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing. The devastation wreaked by bushfires on Australian homes and landscapes is an all too familiar scenario. Yet, why do we often see one house burn, whilst an apparently similar house on an adjacent block can endure? Research has shown that many factors affect the chances of a ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Aurum Solis

    Gold Of The Sun

    by steven school ...
    The ancient art of alchemy, secrets hidden in the bible, the fountain of youth, the formation of crystals within the earths crust, journey across time and explore these ancient mysteries and more which are illuminated like never before in this exciting book. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Energy and Security

    Strategies for a World in Transition

    Edited by Jan H. Kalicki, David L. Goldwyn ...
    The second, completely updated edition of this widely read and respected guide is the most authoritative survey available on the perennial question of energy security. Energy and Security gathers today's topmost foreign policy and energy experts and leaders to assess how the United States can integrate its energy and national security interests.This edition offers fresh analysis and insight into• ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Saving the Pryor Mountain Mustang

    A Legacy of Local and Federal Cooperation

    by Reed ...
    In 1968 the residents of Lovell, Wyoming, began the work of saving the Pryor Mountain Mustang, a breed of horse with a genetic link dating back to the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistadores’ horses. In this moving case study, Christine Reed shows how, through a grassroots campaign, these residents championed the creation of the first federal public wild horse range. Crucial to this provocative ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Water Policy in Canada

    Problems and Possible Solutions

    by Mohammed H. Dore ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book deals with the water policy and management in Canada. It discusses various problems and risks in the fresh and drinking water supply in the second largest country in the world. Mohammed Dore argues that water is underpriced and used wastefully in Canada. In selected case studies, he illustrates the major threats from human activity to Canadian freshwaters and drinking water resources, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp

    A Nisei Youth Behind A World War II Fence

    by Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey ...
    Lily Nakai and her family lived in southern California, where sometimes she and a friend dreamt of climbing the Hollywood sign that lit the night. At age ten, after believing that her family was simply going on a “camping trip,” she found herself living in a tar-papered barrack, nightly gazing out instead at a searchlight. She wondered if anything would ever be normal again.In this creative memoir ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Adaptive Management of Social-Ecological Systems

    Edited by Craig R. Allen, Ahjond S. Garmestani ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Adaptive management is an approach to managing social-ecological systems that fosters learning about the systems being managed and remains at the forefront of environmental management nearly 40 years after its original conception. Adaptive management persists because it allows action despite uncertainty, and uncertainty is reduced when learning occurs during the management process. Often termed ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Look Up, Virginia City! A Walking Tour of Virginia City, Nevada

    by Doug Gelbert ...
    There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. Whether you are preparing for a road trip or just out to look at your own town in a new way, a downloadable walking tour is ready to explore when you are.Each walking tour describes historical and architectural landmarks and provides pictures to help out ... Read more

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  • Groundwater Contamination: Use of Models in Decision-Making

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Groundwater Contamination: Use of Models in Decision-Making, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 26–29 October 1987, Organized by the International Ground Water Modeling Center (IGWMC), Indianapolis — Delft

    Edited by G. Jousma, Jacob Bear, Y.Y. Haimes, F. Walter ...
    The protection of groundwater resources has emerged in recent years as a high priority topic on the agenda of many countries. In responding to the growing concern over deteriorating groundwater quality, many countries are developing a comprehensive regulatory framework for the management of subsurface water resources with management referring to both quantity and quality aspects. Within this ... Read more

    $188.99 USD