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On the Burning Edge by Kyle Dickman
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Kyle Dickman [Dickman, Kyle]

But for many hours, the hotshots droned through the flat, windswept high desert that lies between Jemez Springs and Prescott. The crew didn’t pull into the base until after seven ...
( Category: Fire Science June 11,2015 )
Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg: The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic 30 by Ben Stewart
epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Ben Stewart [Stewart, Ben]

NINETEEN The appeals go on, the process grinds forward, always with a sense of impending, inevitable rejection. But the Kremlin does not only have the thirty in its sights. Mads ...
( Category: Conservation June 11,2015 )
Twilight of the Machines by John Zerzan
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-09-30 | Author:John Zerzan

The Modern Anti-World There now exists only one civilization, a single global domestication machine. Modernity's continuing efforts to disenchant and instru- mentalize the non-cultural natural world have produced a reality ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists June 11,2015 )
Hot by Hertsgaard Mark
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Hertsgaard, Mark [Hertsgaard, Mark]

"The Character of Our Wines Was Changing" Perhaps the leading exception to the trend is Alois Lageder, whose family has made wine in Alto Adige, the northernmost province in Italy, ...
( Category: Environmental Policy June 11,2015 )
Environmental Policy and Politics by Kraft Michael E
mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Kraft, Michael E. [Kraft, Michael E.]

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. Do the major environmental protection laws reviewed in this chapter need significant change? If so, what kinds of changes are most needed? 2. How good a job ...
( Category: Environmental Policy June 11,2015 )
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change by Annie Leonard
mobi |eng | 2010-03-09 | Author:Annie Leonard

The New Economics Foundation, the think tank that produces the annual Happy Planet Index, explains that “it is possible to live long, happy lives with a much smaller ecological footprint ...
( Category: Conservation June 11,2015 )
The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One by Sylvia A. Earle
mobi |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Sylvia A. Earle

Perversely spilled oil blackens Saudi Arabian marshes in 1991. Worldwide, more than 4,000 rigs are now working in depths up to 1,830 meters (6,000 feet). The deepest offshore rig, Shell ...
( Category: Oceanography June 11,2015 )
A Whale For The Killing by Farley Mowat
epub |eng | 2005-09-15 | Author:Farley Mowat [Mowat, Farley]

"We hailed them and told them to liold off so we could get clear of the Pond. George, he yelled down to we they had orders for to finish off ...
( Category: Marine Life June 5,2015 )
The Ugly Animals: We Can't All Be Pandas by Simon Watt
epub | | 2014-07-08 | Author:Simon Watt

‘… armed with chemical weaponry …’ PART SALAMANDER, PART sausage, this frankfurter-like amphibian is known as an olm. It lives in the cavernous pits below the ground of Slovenia, Croatia, ...
( Category: Zoology June 4,2015 )
A History of Japan by Totman Conrad
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Totman, Conrad [Totman, Conrad]

10 THE AGE OF GROWTH(1590–1700) Dimensions of Expansion Kyoto Revived Enriching a Common Higher Culture 11 STASIS AND DECAY (1700–1850) Primary Production:Trends and Ramifications Cultural and Political Trends 12 CRISIS ...
( Category: Japan June 3,2015 )
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Donald Worster
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-09-20 | Author:Donald Worster [Worster, Donald]

Muir gravitated toward idealistic people like the Strentzels, Carrs, and Bidwells who shared his disapproval of the naked pursuit of money. They also shared his passion for the outdoors, loved ...
( Category: State & Local June 3,2015 )
Steep Trails
mobi |eng | | Author:Muir, John [Muir, John]

* * * XVI Nevada's Dead Towns[21] Nevada is one of the very youngest and wildest of the States; nevertheless it is already strewn with ruins that seem as gray ...
( Category: General May 30,2015 )
The Yosemite
mobi |eng | | Author:Muir, John [Muir, John]

Chapter 8 The Flowers Yosemite was all one glorious flower garden before plows and scythes and trampling, biting horses came to make its wide open spaces look like farmers' pasture ...
( Category: Conservation May 29,2015 )
All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West by David Gessner
epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:David Gessner [Gessner, David]

DURING MY MAY trip to study the Abbey papers at the library in Tucson, I’d driven up to the Glen Canyon Dam and taken a raft trip that started at ...
( Category: United States May 27,2015 )
Blood of the Tiger: A Story of Conspiracy, Greed, and the Battle to Save a Magnificent Species by J. A. Mills
epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:J. A. Mills [Mills, J. A.]

Tiger farming has proven to be a divisive issue and one that has distracted many in the conservation community from the common goal of saving wild tigers. . . . ...
( Category: Cats, Lions & Tigers May 27,2015 )

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