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  • The Great Hurricane, 1938

    by Cherie Burns ...
    “Before there was the Perfect Storm, there was the Great Hurricane of 1938. A riveting and wonderfully written account.” —Nathaniel PhilbrickOn the night of September 21, 1938, news on the radio was full of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. There was no mention of any severe weather. By the time oceanfront residents noticed an ominous color in the sky, it was too late to escape. In an age before ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Sea in Flames

    The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout

    by Carl Safina ...
    Carl Safina has been hailed as one of the top 100 conservations of the 20th century (Audubon Magazine) and A Sea in Flames is his blistering account of the months-long manmade disaster that tormented a region and mesmerized the nation. Traveling across the Gulf to make sense of an ever-changing story and its often-nonsensical twists, Safina expertly deconstructs the series of calamitous ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Fire Weather

    A True Story from a Hotter World

    by John Vaillant ...
    **FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • ONE OF *TIME'*S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce • Winner ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Changes in the Land

    Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

    by William Cronon ...
    The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeIn this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic

    The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive

    by Martín Prechtel ...
    Martín Prechtel’s experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his flight from Guatemala’s brutal civil war to life in the U.S. inform this lyrical blend of memoir, cultural commentary, and spiritual call to arms. The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic is both an epic story and a cry to the heart of humanity based on the author’s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Life on Our Planet

    My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

    by Sir David Attenborough ...
    ***Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year*In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future.**See the world. Then make it better.I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • The Comfort of Crows

    A Backyard Year

    by Margaret Renkl ...
    USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * AMAZON EDITOR’S PICK * INDIE NEXT PICKFrom the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “howling love letter to the world” (Ann Patchett): a luminous book that traces the passing of seasons, personal and natural.In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapt... ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Rise of Wolf 8

    Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

    by Rick McIntyre ...
    Book 1 - The Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone
    “The powerful origin story of one of Yellowstone’s greatest and most famous wolves.” —Washington Post“[The Rise of Wolf 8] is a goldmine for information on all aspects of wolf behavior and clearly shows they are clever, smart, and emotional beings.” —Marc Bekoff, Psychology TodayYellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves—but park rangers killed the last of their kind in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quickening

    Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

    by Elizabeth Rush ...
    Pulitzer Prize finalist and award-winning author of Rising, which was named a Best Book of the Year by the Guardian, Chicago Tribune, Library Journal andAuthor’s previous book Rising has sold over 37K copies in all formatsAuthor is regular contributor to the New York Times, National Geographic and the GuardianStrong blurbs from Bathsheba Demuth and Meera Subramanian with blurbs forthcoming from ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Primer of Ecological Restoration

    by Karen Holl ...
    The pace, intensity, and scale at which humans have altered our planet in recent decades is unprecedented. We have dramatically transformed landscapes and waterways through agriculture, logging, mining, and fire suppression, with drastic impacts on public health and human well-being. What can we do to counteract and even reverse the worst of these effects? Restore damaged ecosystems.The Primer of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Temple at the End of the Universe

    A Search for Spirituality in the Anthropocene

    by Josiah Neufeld ...
    A journalistic memoir by a lapsed evangelical Christian that examines how the ecological crisis is shifting the ground of religious faith.Our species is leaving scars on the earth that will last for millennia. How has religious ideology helped bring humanity to the brink of catastrophe? What new expressions of faith might help us respond with grace, self-sacrifice, and love? What will spark our ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Braiding Sweetgrass

    Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

    by Robin Wall Kimmerer ...
    As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wilderness and the American Mind

    Fifth Edition

    by Roderick Frazier Nash ...
    Roderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of books ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • California Against the Sea

    Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline

    by Rosanna Xia ...
    An accessible, riveting look at how sea level rise manifests along the California coast from a star environmental journalist.Rosanna Xia was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 for an explanatory piece on sea level rise ("The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim") and her coverage of a toxic dumpsite in the deep ocean has been featured in the Best American ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Becoming Animal

    An Earthly Cosmology

    by David Abram ...
    David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous has become a classic of environmental literature. Now he returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature.As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we’ve ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Native Plant Propagation Guide And Nursery Model

    For Gardeners, Activists, and Professionals in the Eastern U.S.

    by Indigenous Landscapes ...
    This eBook is designed to empower individuals, businesses, non-profits, and public organizations to grow high quality native plants for their projects in support of biodiversity and restoration. The 13 Chapter eBook is sectioned off into 3 parts; Part 1. A Native Nursery Model, Part 2. Native Plant Propagation, Part 3. Sales, Installation and Native Plant Horticultural Guidance. Due to the amount ... Read more

    $18.50 USD

  • Justice for Animals

    Our Collective Responsibility

    by Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that people purport to love, animals suffer injustice and horrors at our hands every ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • To the Elephant Graveyard

    by Tarquin Hall ...
    “Introduces us to the darker side of the Asian elephant. It is more of a thriller than a straightforward travel book . . . insightful and sensitive.” —Literary ReviewOn India’s northeast frontier, a killer elephant is on the rampage, stalking Assam’s paddy fields and murdering dozens of farmers. Local forestry officials, powerless to stop the elephant, call in one of India’s last licensed elephant ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sand Talk

    How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

    by Tyson Yunkaporta ...
    A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living.As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and spiritual world. In considering how contemporary life ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Under a White Sky

    The Nature of the Future

    by Elizabeth Kolbert ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?RECOMMENDED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND BILL GATES • SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post • ONE OF THE ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Darkness Manifesto

    On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life

    by Johan Eklöf ...
    Translated by Elizabeth DeNoma ...
    This timely and captivating look at the hidden impact of light pollution is “rich in revelation and insight…lyrical” (The Wall Street Journal) and urges us to cherish natural darkness for the sake of the environment, our own well-being, and all life on earth.How much light is too much light? Satellite pictures show our planet as a brightly glowing orb, and in our era of constant illumination, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Rainforest Survivors

    Adventures Among Today's Stone Age Jungle Tribes

    by Paul Raffaele ...
    Even in our hyper-connected world, there are tribes scattered across the far reaches of the globe who still live much the same way that their ancestors did thousands of years ago. Having had minimal contact with the outside world, these peoples currently live in harmony and unison with the environment around them. But as technology grows and the human population expands, the way of life of these ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The New Wild

    Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation

    by Fred Pearce ...
    **Named one of the best books of 2015 by The EconomistA provocative exploration of the “new ecology” and why most of what we think we know about alien species is wrong**For a long time, veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce thought in stark terms about invasive species: they were the evil interlopers spoiling pristine “natural” ecosystems. Most conservationists and environmentalists share ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Beaverland

    How One Weird Rodent Made America

    by Leila Philip ...
    An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver—the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future.From award-winning writer Leila Philip, Beaverland is a masterful work of narrative science writing, a book that highlights, though history and contemporary storytelling, how this weird rodent plays an oversized role in American ... Read more

    $17.99 USD