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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Biopiracy	Vandana Shiva	"Internationally renowned environmentalist Vandana Shiva argues that genetic engineering and the cloning of organisms are "the ultimate expression of the commercialization of science and the commodif…	OL1054919W
Early spring	Amy Seidl	An ecologist and mother brings the overwhelming problem of global warming to a personal level, with a mix of memoir and science.	OL11826159W
Developing skill, developing vision	Cristina Grasseni	xii, 212 p. : 24 cm	OL13652478W
Overheated	Andrew T. Guzman	“Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may be right with respect to its p…	OL16805265W
Evolutionary history	Edmund Russell	"This book introduces a new field that unites history and biology to create a fuller understanding of the past"-- "We tend to see history and evolution springing from separate roots, one grounded in…	OL16988146W
Be the change for the environment	Megan Kopp	Caring for Earth is everyone's job! Readers will discover some of the different ways they can have a positive impact on the environment. From planting trees and eating locally grown foods, to pre-cyc…	OL17893285W
On extinction	Melanie Challenger	How do we think about the things we have lost? How can we use what we know about extinctions - cultural, biological and industrial - to reconnect with nature? When the gigantic bones of mammoths were…	OL17916559W
The end of nature	Bill McKibben	"First published in 1989 in seventeen languages on six continents, The End of Nature has changed the way many people view the planet. Now, in a special tenth anniversary edition, the author presents …	OL1815627W
The devouring dragon	Craig Simons	"China's rise is assaulting the natural world at an alarming rate. In a few short years, China has become the planet's largest market for endangered wildlife, its top importer of tropical trees, and …	OL18157172W
Plant ecology, herbivory, and human impact in Nordic mountain birch forests	F. E. Wielgolaski,Dietbert Thannheiser	This volume contains results from the EU HIBECO project. It was performed from 2000 to 2003 to investigate the mountain birch ecosystem in northern Fennoscandia. The accompanying CD-ROM contains addi…	OL18286775W
Ecological footprints	Cheryl Jakab	"Discusses the environmental issue of large ecological footprints and how to create a sustainable way of living"--Provided by publisher.	OL18591707W
Protecting wild nature on Native lands	Vance Martin	"Native peoples control millions of hectacres of their own sovereign wildlands around the world. Some of these lands are well managed in a traditional manner, and some of them are managed with a comb…	OL18612060W
DDT, Silent spring, and the rise of environmentalism	Thomas R. Dunlap	"No single event played a greater role in the birth of modern environmentalism than the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and its assault on insecticides. This collection of documents ... …	OL18614295W
Fire in the Turtle House	Osha Gray Davidson	"Sea turtles have existed since the time of the dinosaurs. But now they are dying, ravaged by a gruesome plague that some biologists consider the most serious epidemic now raging in the natural world…	OL1906933W
Earth Odyssey	Mark Hertsgaard	Like many of us, Mark Hertsgaard has long worried about the declining health of our environment. But in 1991, he decided to act on his concern and investigate the escalating crisis for himself. Trave…	OL1918666W
After nature	Jedediah Purdy	"Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The g…	OL19667147W
Darwin comes to town	Menno Schilthuizen	With human populations growing, we're having an increasing impact on global ecosystems, and nowhere do these impacts overlap as much as they do in cities. "Urban ecologists" study how our manmade env…	OL19742624W
Imperial San Francisco	Gray A. Brechin	This book has lots of great stories and background about how the San Francisco power brokers of the late 19th century interrelated with the city, the state, and the rest of the country, including som…	OL1995185W
Empire of extinction	Ryan Tucker Jones	"In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire-already the largest on earth-expanded its dominion onto the ocean. Through a series of government-sponsored voyages of discovery and …	OL20005179W
Rewilding our hearts	Marc Bekoff	"In wildlife conservation work, rewilding - to make wild once again - refers to the creation of corridors between preserved lands that allow declining populations to rebound. Marc Bekoff, one of our …	OL20010262W