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  • Apostles of the Alps

    Mountaineering and Nation Building in Germany and Austria, 1860-1939

    by Tait Keller ...
    Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' threefold role in transforming the two countries, as people sought respite in the mountains, transformed and shaped them according to their needs, and over time began ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Environmental Histories of the First World War

    Edited by Richard P. Tucker, Tait Keller, J. R. McNeill, Martin Schmid ...
    This anthology surveys the ecological impacts of the First World War. Editors Richard P. Tucker, Tait Keller, J. R. McNeill, and Martin Schmidt bring together a list of experienced authors who explore the global interactions of states, armies, civilians, and the environment during the war. They show how the First World War ushered in enormous environmental changes, including the devastation of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water

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    More energy is encapsulated in every drop of good spring water than an average-sized power station is presently able to produce. Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) Water – all life depends on it. Yet how often do we stop to consider its true significance, its essential nature? The Water Wizard, the first volume of the Eco-Technology series which presents the original, passionate and convincing ... Read more

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  • Making A Killing

    The Political Economy of Animal Rights

    by Bob Torres ...
    Suggest to the average leftist that animals should be part of broader liberation struggles and—once they stop laughing—you'll find yourself casually dismissed. With a focus on labor, property, and the life of commodities, Making a Killing contains key insights into the broad nature of domination, power, and hierarchy. It explores the intersections between human and animal oppressions in relation ... Read more

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  • Bottleneck : Humanity's Impending Impasse

    Humanity's Impending Impasse

    by William R. Catton Jr. ...
    Ecological roots of our toubled time are deeper than its economic manifestations. Anguished posterity will look back on this 21st century as the bottleneck century. Bottleneck: Humanitys Impending Impasse was written to show how and why three converging trends have put humankind in much deeper peril than is generally acknowledged. First, there are many more of us inhabiting this planet than it can ... Read more

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  • Eco-Geography

    What We See when We Look at Landscapes

    by Andreas Suchantke ...
    Whether you travel across the country, to work, or to your children's soccer games, you pass landscape along your way. What do you see as you look around? Author Andreas Suchantke shows you new ways to see and experience the world around you wherever you go.What do we really see when we look at a landscape? Andreas Suchantke, biologist, science teacher, attentive traveler, recounts in detailed and ... Read more

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  • Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Canada

    Edited by Laurie E. Adkin ...
    The urgent need to resolve conflicts over forests, fisheries, farming practices, urban sprawl, and greenhouse-gas reductions, among many others, calls for a critical rethinking of the nature of our democracy and citizenship. This work aims to move the ideas of green democracy and ecological citizenship from the margins to the centre of discussion and debate in Canada. Environmental Conflict and ... Read more

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  • How the World Breaks

    Life in Catastrophe's Path, from the Caribbean to Siberia

    by Stan Cox, Paul Cox ...
    We've always lived on a dangerous planet, but its disasters aren't what they used to be. How the World Breaks gives us a breathtaking new view of crisis and recovery on the unstable landscapes of the Earth's hazard zones. Father and son authors Stan and Paul Cox take us to the explosive fire fronts of overheated Australia, the future lost city of Miami, the fights over whether and how to fortify ... Read more

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  • Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues

    Reflections on Redecorating Nature

    by Marc Bekoff ...
    Series series Animals Culture And Society
    What is it really like to be a dog? Do animals experience emotions like pleasure, joy, and grief? Marc Bekoff's work draws world-wide attention for its originality and its probing into what animals think about and know as well as what they feel, what physical and mental skills they use to live successfully within their social community. Bekoff's work, whether addressed to scientists or the general ... Read more

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  • Sonoran Desert Spring

    by John Alcock ...
    "Spring on the Sonoran Desert can be a four-month-long spectacle of life and color. Within these well-written pages, Alcock exposes us to the plant and animal life of a land many regard as desolate. To Alcock, the desert has a constant evolutionary beauty he never seems to tire of. Alcock's approach to his subject is an elegant combination of science and literature. Only the desert itself, arrayed ... Read more

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  • The Fly River, Papua New Guinea

    Environmental Studies in an Impacted Tropical River System

    Edited by Barrie R. Bolton ...
    Series Book 9 - Developments in Earth and Environmental Sciences
    In 1984 the OK Tedi Mining Company Limited began mining copper and gold mineralization from Mt. Fubilan, which is located at the headwaters of the OK Tedi. Subsequent mining in the region followed in 1990. Since this time there has been intense monitoring of the environment undertaken by those in the field in order to better understand the possible impact of mining. This book assembles and ... Read more

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