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The Next World War: Tribes, Cities, Nations, and Ecological Decline 4 reviews
Roy Woodbridge
University of Toronto Press, 2004
NC_Dude
+ Sobering thought
+ Get prepared!
One of the most thought provoking books I read in the last few years. Full of breathtaking information and analysis, this book serves as a great knowledge base for the environmentally conscious person. I hope that more people will read it or at least be exposed to the ideas it is trying to promote. ...
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The World Without Us 242 reviews
Alan Weisman
Thomas Dunne Books, 2007
Fascinating Look at Our Effect on the Planet
+ Great Book
+ excellent
When I first picked up this book, I was concerned that it would simply be a lesson on how plants and animals would overtake our cities and houses once humans had disappeared from our planet. That is a major part of the book, but I never found it to be overdone. The parts of the book that I loved ...
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Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor7 reviews
Tom Athanasiou
University of Georgia Press, 1998
A far-ranging, essential work
+ Makes the connection concrete
+ A new outlook...
+ Sober analysis of current environmental realities
+ Brilliant! A gold-mine of truth and detail.
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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit869 reviews
Daniel Quinn
Bantam, 1995
Thank you Ishmael
+ Life Changing Novel
+ Original, Thought-Provoking and Intriguing
+ Step out of the box!
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Wild Borneo: The Wildlife and Scenery of Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan 2 reviews
Nick Garbutt, Cede Prudente
The MIT Press, 2006
an excellent addition to an excellent series
+ Great Pictures and Information
Nick Garbutt's "Wild Borneo: the Wildlife and Scenery of Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan" is a wonderful addition to an existing seies for the lay reader and expert alike. This series, started by New Holland Press and continued by MIT, has volumes on "Wild ....." including Indonesia, India, ...
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National Geographic80 reviews
National Geographic Society, 2001
Still The Gold Standard
I have loved National Geographic since my uncle (a teacher) thought is would make a good birthday gift when I was younger. He started me on a lifetime of finding magazines like National Geographic.
Though I have other magazines, National Geographic remains my favorite and the standard of ...
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Ready, Set, Green: Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living2 reviews
Graham Hill, Meaghan O'Neill
Villard, 2008
Positive and Doable Green Primer
+ Great tips and insights
Ready, Set, Green: Eight weeks to Modern Eco-Living by two experts at Treehugger.com, Graham Hill and Meaghan O'Neill is an easy to read--and digest--primer on green living.
Citing the industrial revolution at the turn of the 20th century as the beginning of the heavy use of non-renewable ...
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Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World (Revolutionary Thought/Radical Movements)2 reviews
Carolyn Merchant
Routledge, 2005
Handy overview
+ A good intro to environmentalism
Merchant has written a handy introduction to ecological problems and issues from a radical perspective. A medium-sized book, 240 pages, the author nonetheless manages to encompass major topics of concern, such as deep ecology, social ecology, spiritual ecology, science and world views, ecofeminism, ...
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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature 40 reviews
Janine M. Benyus
Harper Perennial, 2002
Book End for Zero Waste, Brilliant Introduction
+ Biomimicry - innovation inspired by nature
+ Nature Revelation
+ Innovative and a great read!
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Unhealthy Places: The Ecology of Risk in the Urban Landscape2 reviews
Kev Fitzpatrick
Routledge, 2000
A Citation Classic
Urban ecology is the study of how people shape and the urban environment and of how the urban environment shapes people. Unhealthy Places is an outstanding and major work in urban ecology.The authors begin by describing the importance of "place" and "space" in everyday life. To this they add a ...
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Hispaniola: A Photographic Journey through Island Biodiversity3 reviews
Eladio Fernández
Belknap Press, 2007
Un hito de incomparable valor
+ Time is running out
+ Breathtaking !
Como viaje es alucinante y como legado...es mucho mejor. Eladio Fernández nos trae en su recorrido fotográfico (titánico en todo el sentido de la palabra) visuales preciosas (en una DIFICIL aproximación de sensibilidad ARTISTICA y DOCUMENTACION) que nos colocan de frente ante la dimensión de toda ...
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Guns, Germs and Steel7 reviews
Jared Diamond
W W Norton & Co Inc (Np), 2005
Must read
+ Long, but great read!
+ History to be read
This is an excellent book and is a must read for anyone who cares about the history (and reasons why it unfolded the way it did) of the growth of civilization.
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The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
Writers Publishing Cooperative, 2003
A seminal work by Bookchin which stands at the pinnacle of the genre of utopian social criticism...a major builder of a mythic past, a shaker and a mover of social consciousness.
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Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.10 reviews
Cynthia Barnett
University of Michigan Press/Regional, 2007
Quenched my thirst
+ Passion for the environment drives this science book
+ Excellent Book
+ AlG
+ Heartfelt Science
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Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem--and the Threats That Now Put It at Risk5 reviews
Michael Novacek
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
The Fascinating Panorama of Earth's History
+ 100 million years of evolutionary ecology clearly explained
+ Return to Science Class
+ Accessible and serious
+ A good read
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals461 reviews
Michael Pollan
Penguin, 2007
Changed My World View
+ Eye-opener/mouth-closer
+ Enjoyed this book from cover to cover!
+ Very good book!
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Silent Spring (Edition 001)136 reviews
Rachel Carson
Mariner Books, 2002
Ahead of its time.
+ Excellent!
+ the beginning of environmental science
This book is more than I expected it to be. It is way ahead of its time and makes an important contribution to the environmental movement.
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Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature5 reviews
John Bellamy Foster
Monthly Review Press, 2000
Marx as ecologist
+ A wonderfully learned and useful book
+ Capital ecologies
+ Original and Compelling
+ A Revolutionary Debunking
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Ecology Against Capitalism2 reviews
John Bellamy Foster
Monthly Review Press, 2002
A Positive Alternative to Capitalism
+ An Ecology without Capitalism?
John Bellamy Foster's "Ecology Against Capitalism" is a collection of essays that addresses some of the various aspects of capitalism's crisis of accumulation and the environment. Importantly, the author compares and contrasts the failures of the ecological economics model with the more promising ...
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Jindagi:Himalayan Lives and Destinies
Silvia Lafranchi
Kam For Sud, 2008
True stories of the all-day life in the Himalayas, with fantastic non-turistic inedit pictures: an intimate approach to the live of normal, simple, strong and fragile persons, anti-heroes who live and survive in a physically hard environment but rich in human values. A trip in a far, fascinating culture, but also a trip into the hearth of the reader to rediscover and question oneself...
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