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A Balanced Look At Global Warming and Renewable Energy
Global warming, renewable energy, expanding populations, sustainability--Climate of Uncertainty examines all issues with an objectivity and grace in an arena often fraught with dissent and extremism. Perfect for anyone seeking an understanding of all sides of the climate change debate, Climate of Uncertainty has garnered praise from every part of the ideological spectrum, proving that sometimes$1.99 USD
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by Robert Moor
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award and the Pacific Northwest Book Award“The best outdoors book of the year.” —Sierra ClubA New York Times BestsellerA Best Book of the Year—as chosen by The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, Amazon, National Post, New York, The Telegraph, Booklist, The Guardian BookshopFrom a ...$11.99 USD
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by Alan Weisman
A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human EarthIn The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become$9.99 USD
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A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
by Erik Larson
At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage the city of Galveston, Texas, where he was based, was to him preposterous, "an absurd delusion." It was 1900, a year when America felt$10.99 USD
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by Hope Jahren
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyA New York Times 2016 Notable BookNational Best SellerNamed one of TIME magazine’s "100 Most Influential People"An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016A Washington Post Best Memoir of 2016A TIME and Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a...$11.99 USD
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Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by Andrea Wulf
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism.NATIONAL BEST SELLER**One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, The James Wright Award for Nature Writing, the$12.99 USD
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Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet
by Heidi Cullen
From Heidi Cullen, one of America’s foremost experts on weather and climate change and a senior research scientist with Climate Central, comes The Weather of the Future, a fascinating and provocative book that predicts what different parts of the world will look like in the year 2050 if current levels of carbon emissions are maintained.$11.99 USD
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The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
“I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi—it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people depend on it, and there's no backup plan. As Steven Solomon makes clear, the same is true the world over; this volume will give you the$1.99 USD
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The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in Science
Is science beautiful? Yes, argues acclaimed philosopher and historian of science Robert P. Crease in this engaging exploration of history’s most beautiful experiments. The result is an engrossing journey through nearly 2,500 years of scientific innovation. Along the way, we encounter glimpses into the personalities and creative thinking of some of the field’s most interesting figures.We see the$12.99 USD
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The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex. Rather than only three states of water—liquid, ice, and vapor—there is a fourth, “molecular water,” fused into rock 400 miles deep in the Earth, and that’s where most of the planet’s water is found. Unlike most precious resources, water cannot be used up; it can always be made$12.99 USD
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The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
One of Bill Gates's Favorite Books of 2016A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must be completely reimagined for our fast-approaching energy future.America's electrical grid, an engineering triumph of the twentieth century, is turning out to be a poor fit for the present. It's not just that the grid has grown old and is now in dire need of$12.29 USD
