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Environmental Conservation & Protection eBooks

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  • Silent Spring

    by Rachel Carson ...
    Rachel Carson's "The Silent Spring" is widely recognized as one of the most important seminal works in launching the environmental movement into public awareness. Originally published in 1962, Carson details the effects of synthetic pesticides on the environment, specifically its effects on bird populations. This taking-to-task of the pesticide industry revolutionized the United States pesticide ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Nutmeg's Curse

    Parables for a Planet in Crisis

    by Amitav Ghosh ...
    In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment.A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh’s new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD $17.99 CAD

  • All That We Say is Ours

    Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation

    by Ian Gill ...
    Haida Gwaii, the ancient territory of the Haida people, is a West Coast archipelago famous for its wild beauty and rich species diversity. But that natural bounty, since European contact, has also been a magnet for industry. In the mid-1970s, the Haida rallied with environmentalists to end the rapacious logging of their monumental old-growth forests—and to reassert their title and rights to their ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Not the End of the World

    How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

    This "eye-opening and essential" book (Bill Gates) will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems—and explains how we can solve them.It’s become common to tell kids that they’re going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won’t be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, and that we should reconsider ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Longest Race

    A Lifelong Runner, an Iconic Ultramarathon, and the Case for Human Endurance

    by Ed Ayres ...
    “It soon becomes clear that this book isn’t just about an athletic race. It’s also about the human race” (Bloomberg Businessweek).Having run in more than six hundred races over the span of fifty-five years, Ed Ayres is a legendary distance runner—and this book is his urgent exploration of the connection between individual endurance and a sustainable society.The Longest Race begins in 2001 at the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Desert Solitaire

    by Edward Abbey ...
    This memoir of life in the American desert by the author of The Monkey Wrench Gang is a nature writing classic on par with Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.In Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey recounts his many escapades, adventures, and epiphanies as an Arches National Park ranger outside Moab, Utah. Brimming with arresting insights, impassioned arguments for wilderness conservation, and a raconteur’s ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cry Of The Kalahari

    An international bestseller, this is an emotional and riveting story of the Owens’ travel and adventurous life in the Kalahari Desert.?“A remarkable story beautifully told…Among such classics as Goodall’s In the Shadow of Man and Fossey’s Gorillas in the Mist.”—Chicago TribuneCarrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Environmentalist's Dilemma

    Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis

    by Arno Kopecky ...
    Honorable Award Mention, The Rachel Carson Environment Book Award“Timely and relevant, this offers plenty to think about.” — Publishers WeeklyFrom the winner of the 2014 Edna Staebler Award comes a lively, intelligent and nuanced discussion of climate change — a hopeful take on how to live knowing disaster is imminentA compelling inquiry into our relationship with humanity’s latest and greatest ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Earth Wisdom

    Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists

    by Leah Penniman ...
    A soulful collection of illuminating essays and interviews that explore Black people’s spiritual and scientific connection to the land, waters, and climate, curated by the acclaimed author of Farming While BlackAuthor of Farming While Black and co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, Leah Penniman reminds us that ecological humility is an intrinsic part of Black cultural heritage. While racial capitalism ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Sustainability Myth

    Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice

    WINNER OF THE 2021 DELMOS JONES AND JAGNA SHARFF MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR THE CRITICAL STUDY OF NORTH AMERICA!Uncovers the hidden costs and contradictions of sustainable policies in an era driven by real estate developmentFrom state-of-the-art parks to rooftop gardens, efforts to transform New York City’s unsightly industrial waterfronts into green, urban oases have received much public attention. In ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Eat, Poop, Die

    How Animals Make Our World

    **NAMED A TOP-TEN BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY SCIENTIFIC AMERICANA “fascinating” exploration (Elizabeth Kolbert) of how ecosystems are sculpted and sustained by animals eating, pooping, and dying—and how these fundamental functions could help save us from climate catastrophe.**If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains—eating, pooping, and dying ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather

    A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)

    Bringing Up Bébé meets Last Child in the Woods in this “fascinating exploration of the importance of the outdoors to childhood development” (Kirkus Reviews) from a Swedish-American mother who sets out to discover if the nature-centric parenting philosophy of her native Scandinavia holds the key to healthier, happier lives for her American children.Could the Scandinavian philosophy of “There’s no ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Freshwater Ecology

    Concepts and Environmental Applications of Limnology

    Series series Aquatic Ecology
    Freshwater Ecology, Third Edition, covers everything from the basic chemical and physical properties of water, to the advanced and unifying concepts of community ecology and ecosystem relationships found in continental waters. Giving students a solid foundation for both courses and future fieldwork, and updated to include key issues, including how to balance ecological and human health needs, GMOs ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Simply Green:

    Easy, Money-Saving Tips for Eco-Friendly Families

    It's Not About Politics.It's About Caring--And What Every Family Can Do!Written by a passionately concerned couple--David Seligman is an active duty U.S. serviceman and Melissa is a devoted stay-at-home mom--this is the first book about going green that won't scare you with statistics, overwhelm you with science, or make you feel guilty about your SUV. Instead, this indispensable guide will help ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Climate Book

    The Facts and the Solutions

    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWe still have time to change the world. From climate activist Greta Thunberg, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.**You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope—but only if we listen to the science before it's too late.In The Climate Book, Greta ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD $14.99 CAD

  • On the Other Side of Sorrow

    Nature and People in the Scottish Highlands

    by James Hunter ...
    “An extraordinary intellectual voyage” through Gaelic environmental awareness, centuries ahead of its time, and its value today (The Herald).Caring for the environment, developing rural communities, and ensuring the survival of minority cultures are all laudable objectives, but they can conflict, and nowhere more so than the Scottish Highlands. As environmentalists strive to preserve the scenery ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Derangement

    Climate Change and the Unthinkable

    by Amitav Ghosh ...
    Series series Berlin Family Lectures
    **A “**concise and utterly enlightening” look at why we can’t wrap our minds around climate change (Publishers Weekly).Are we deranged? Award-winning essayist and novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? The Great Derangement examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects

    The untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts*'*A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived straight into this clever, joyous, celebration of nature, history, and – of course – the countryside.' Charles Spencer, author of The White ShipFor most of human history, we were rural folk.Our daily lives were bound up with working the land, living within the rhythm of the seasons... ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Biosphere

    Long unknown in the West, The Biosphere established the field of biogeochemistry and is one of the classic founding documents of what later became known as Gaia theory. It is the first sustained expression of the idea that life is a geological force that can change Earth's landforms, its climate, and even the contents of its atmosphere. A complete, unabridged translation has never before been ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Badvertising

    Polluting Our Minds and Fuelling Climate Chaos

    **An Independent Book of the Month**‘Why do we allow adverts that actively promote our own destruction? Halting climate catastrophe is hard enough without ads selling things that pollute more. With Badvertising, Simms and Murray have done the world an urgent favour. Funny and readable, it will make us all see advertising in a very different way’ Dr Chris van Tulleken, doctor, broadcaster and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lifeblood

    Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital

    Series series A Quadrant Book
    If our oil addiction is so bad for us, why don’t we kick the habit? Looking beyond the usual culprits—Big Oil, petro-states, and the strategists of empire—Lifeblood finds a deeper and more complex explanation in everyday practices of oil consumption in American culture. Those practices, Matthew T. Huber suggests, have in fact been instrumental in shaping the broader cultural politics of American ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Diet for a Hot Planet

    The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It

    by Anna Lappe ...
    Forty years after her mother's work changed the way we eat, Anna Lappé's*Diet for a Hot Planet* changed the way we think about food production and global warming.Fifty years ago, Frances Moore Lappé's Diet for a Small Planet sparked a revolution in thinking about the social and environmental impact of what we eat. Ten years ago, her daughter, Anna Lappé, controversially picked up the conversation ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Downriver

    Into the Future of Water in the West

    From an award-winning journalist and river raft guide, “a must-read for anyone who loves rivers or is concerned about the future of the West” (Outside magazine).The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Meandering through ranches, cities, national parks, endangered fish habitats, and some of the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oil in the Environment

    Legacies and Lessons of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

    Edited by John A. Wiens ...
    What light does nearly twenty-five years of scientific study of the Exxon Valdez oil spill shed on the fate and effects of a spill? How can the results help in assessing future spills? How can ecological risks be assessed and quantified? In this, the first book on the effects of Exxon Valdez in fifteen years, scientists directly involved in studying the spill provide a comprehensive perspective on ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD