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we offer book reviews of environmental science books from other publishers. Our intent is not finding flaws in books, but sharing
highlights and tidbits from books that tease the visitor, prompting him or her to
read that book. We invite your
comments.
Subjects:
Associations
Human Stories
Diseases
Natural History
Ecoeconomics
Plants & Forests
Energy
Soil
Environmental Law
Solutions
Fiction
Water
General Science
Green Chemistry
Associations
Made
for Each Other: a Symbiosis of Birds and Pines by Ronald
M. Lanner. Oxford University Press. 160p.
Diseases
Yellow
Fever, Black Goddess: The
Coevolution of People and Plagues. Christopher Wills 1996. Helix
Books, Perseus
Publishing, Cambridge, MA 324p.
Ecoeconomics
NEW !
Eco-Economy, Building an Economy for the Earth.
by Lester Brown. 2001. W. W. Norton & Co. 334p.
Natural
Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins & Hunter Lovins, 1999. Little, Brown
& Co. 396p.
The
Ecology of Commerce
by Paul Hawken,
1993. Harper
Business. 250p.
When
Corporations Rule the World,
by David C. Korten.
2nd ed. 2001 published by Kumarian
Press. 384p.
Energy
The
Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, Waking up to Personal & Global
Transformation.
Thom Hartmann. 1998. Three Rivers Press. 314p.
Environmental
Law
Should
Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for
Natural Objects 1974. Christopher D. Stone. Wm.
Kaufmann, Inc. Publisher. 102p.
Fiction
All Over Creation 2003. Ruth Ozeki. Viking. 420p.
General
Science
NEW !
A Short History of Nearly
Everything. 2003.
Bill Bryson. Broadway Books, NY. 544p.
Green Chemistry
NEW !
Introduction to Green Chemistry
2001. Albert S. Matlack. Marcel Dekker, Inc. 551p.
Human
Stories
I
Heard the Owl Call My Name. 1993. Margaret Craven. Mass Market Paperback.
The
Gift of Story, a Wise Tale about What is Enough
1993. Clarissa P. Estes. Ballantine Books. 30p.
Two
Old Women.
1994. Velma Wallis.
On
the Edge of the Primeval Forest & More from the Primeval Forest by Albert Schweitzer. 1956. MacMillan
Co. 220p.
Natural
History
NEW !
Eye of the Albatross
by Carl Safina. 2002. Henry Holt & Co. 377p.
City
Birding by Kenn Kaufman, et al. published in
2003 by Stackpole Books in Mechanicsburg, PA 181p.
Cod:
a biography of the fish that changed the world by Mark Kurlansky.
1997, Penguin Books, 294p.
The
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed
Editions, 1999.
Four
Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly.
By Sue Halpern,
2001. Pantheon Books. 212p.
NEW !
Return of the Osprey. David Gessner.
2001. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 286p.
NEW !
Thieves, Deceivers and Killers, Tales of Chemistry in
Nature. by William Agosta. 2001. Princeton U. Press, 241p.
Plants
& Forests
In
Praise of Plants by Francis Halle. 2002. translated
from French by David Lee. Timber Press. 334p.
Soil
Tales
from the Underground, a Natural History of Subterranean Life. By
David W. Wolfe. 2001. Perseus
Publishing. 221p.
Solutions
Epicurean
Simplicity 2002. Stephanie Mills. Island
Press. 218p.
Misplaced
Blame, the Real Roots of Population Growth.
Alan T. Durning
& Christopher D. Crowther.
July, 1997. NEW Report No. 5, Northwest Environmental Watch, Seattle , WA
. 93p.
Solving
Sprawl, Models of Smart Growth in Communities across America.
2001. F. Kaid
Benfield, Jutka
Terris & Nancy Vorsanger.
Natural Resources Defense Council. 200p.
The
Ten Trusts, What We Must Do to Care for the Animals We Love. 2002.
Jane Goodall & Marc Bekoff. Harper Collins. 200p.
Water
Bayou
Farewell: the Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana’s Cajun Coast. 2003.
Mike Tidwell. Pantheon Books. 348p.
Holding Back the Sea,
the Struggle for America's Natural Legacy on the Gulf Coast .2001.
Christopher Hallowell. Harper Collins publisher. 265p.
Waters,
Rivers, and Creeks 1997. Luna B. Leopold. University
Science Books. Sausalito, CA 175p.
The Plundered Seas,
Can the World’s Fish Be
Saved? by Michael Berrill. 1997. Sierra Club Books, 208p.
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