astonishing feat of detective work reveals how a founder of the Bronx Zoo wound up writing. The passing of the Great Race (1916), the book that the Nazis later used to justify the exterminationist policies of the Third Reich.

"This is a highly significant--one might argue revolutionary--book.

The essential, cornerstone book of modern environmentalism is now offered in a handsome 40th anniversary edition which features a new Introduction by activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new Afterword by Carson biographer Linda Lear.

This collection of essays historicizes the divorce of the 'natural' from the human, and shows that 'nature' is a human construction, arguing that what we have constructed we can reconstruct.

The story of how scientists reached that conclusion—by way of unexpected twists and turns—was the story Spencer Weart told in The Discovery of Global Warming.

'In the Shadow of Slavery' explores the wealth of plant life brought to the Americas by slaves and slave ships as provisions, medicines, cordage and bedding, and afterwards cultivated in garden plots.

The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism Through the unique lens of “Indigenized ...

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The 4th edition of Pollution has been once again updated and expanded to reflect the changes that have taken place in recent years. It contains a new chapter on clean technologies and industrial ecology.

Heavily referenced and beautifully illustrated, this book is destined to be a classic reference for bemushroomed generations to come.