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A fascinating handbook providing a rare synthesis of the environmental history of northern Europe from the Paleolithic era to the present day.

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A sweeping overview of the problems, politics, and policies of international and domestic management of the world's oceans.

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Written by a leading authority on living off the grid, this book takes a fascinating and timely look at one of the fastest growing movements in America.

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Tells the story of a farming community fighting to rehabilitate land degraded by more than a century of farming. This work tells of the trials and triumphs of the Sutherland family and other volunteers, as they set out to restore native vegetation and create the Genaren Hill wildlife sanctuary.

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Outlines the history of change to Australia's environment and explains why so many plants and animals are now on a downward slide to extinction. This book examines what the main conservation approaches are, and how these are affected by law and politics.

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Europeans' romanticist imaginings of people from the South Pacific have been around since the Enlightenment and have been significantly informed by the accounts of voyages to Tahiti by people such as Louis Bougainville.

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This book is a comprehensive examination of pesticide use, pesticide harm, and alternatives to harmful pesticides.

Levine highlights the role of farming, because a substantial majority70 percent or more annuallyof pesticides are applied in agricultural uses, thereby making their way into the food chain and into the water supply.

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A collection of stories and myths about geography, navigation, and geodesy - the science that deals with the Earth's figure and the interrelationship of selected points on its surface - that reaches far beyond dry scientific texts to concentrate on the people behind the discoveries.

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A pioneering work of environmental journalism that vividly depicts the people, animals and landscapes on the front lines of change's inexorable march.

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An overview of recycling as an activity and a process, following different materials through the waste stream.

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This volume provides an insightful overview of renewable and alternative energy technologies and policies in the United States and around the world.

Are renewable and alternative energy solutions needed to combat many of the negative effects of fossil fuel (including global warming)

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We know how dire the future looks. We know how little time we have left to act. Yet we continue to ignore the warnings. One of Australia's sharpest thinkers explores the reasons why and offers his vision of our new future.

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Rivers of the World, vividly written and meticulously researched, is a rich and thorough treatment of some 200 of the world's rivers.

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The stories of residents of low-income communities across the country who took action when pollution from heavy industry contaminated their towns.

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The personal history of a pioneer woman oceanographer and her role in the development of science during the Cold War

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Finally reaching an uninhabited island, Shackleton, Worsley and four others sailed eight hundred miles in a small boat to the island of South Georgia, an astounding feat of navigation and courage.