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Following Nature's Lead
by Jeremy Narby
Credits: Digital Download
The essence of nature may not be the competitive struggle for survival we have been taught to believe.
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Earth in the Balance
by Al Gore
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
Before becoming Vice President, Al Gore spent 15 years leading the fight in Congress to save the...
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Collapse
by Jared Diamond
Credits: Audio CD
Diamond probes the other side of the equation: what caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?
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Living Systems
by Fritjof Capra
Credits: Digital Download
A new scientific understanding of life at all levels of living systems is currently evolving. At its heart is the awareness that everything is interconnected and interrelated.
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The Future of Life
by Edward O. Wilson
Credits: Digital Download
From one of the world's most influential scientists (and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author) comes his most timely and important book yet...
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Krakatoa
by Simon Winchester
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa (the name has since become a by-word for a cataclysmic disaster) was followed by an immense tsunami....
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When Elephants Weep
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Credits: Digital Download
This engaging and authoritative portrait of animals' emotional lives is as groundbreaking as Darwin's Origin of Species...
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Isaac's Storm
by Erik Larson
Credits: Audio CD
"Isaac's Storm" is the superb narrative of the extreme hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, on a late summer day in 1900, leaving at least 8,000 people dead.
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Rachel Carson
by Ginger Wadsworth
Credits: Audio Cassette
In 1962 Rachel Carson published her profound book Silent Spring, forever changing the way we look...
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The Weather Makers
by Tim Flannery
Credits: Audio CD
From Dr. Tim Flannery, one of the world's foremost experts on conservation and ecology, comes a book of immeasurable importance.
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The Outermost House
by Henry Beston
Credits: Digital Download
In 1926, Henry Beston spent two weeks in a two-room cottage on the sand dunes of Cape Cod. He had not intended to stay longer, but, as he later wrote, "I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me that I could not go."
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The Food Revolution
by John Robbins
Credits: Audio Cassette
Here, the man who started the "food revolution" with the million-plus-selling Diet for a New America, boldly posits that, collectively, our personal diet can save ourselves and the world.
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Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming
by Christopher C. Horner
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
Christopher C. Horner exposes the shoddy science, plain dishonesty, and hidden political agenda behind the biggest phony environmental scare since the predictions of catastrophic global cooling in the 1970s.
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Blessed Unrest
by Paul Hawken
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
Blessed Unrest tells the story of a worldwide movement that is largely unseen by politicians or the media. Hawken, an environmentalist and author, has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice.
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A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers
by Henry David Thoreau
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
Two years after graduating with Harvard’s class of 1839, Henry David Thoreau and his brother John built a riverboat and took a leisurely trip that provides the framework for A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
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Small Wonder
by Barbara Kingsolver
Credits: Audio Cassette
In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us from one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have.
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The Wild Trees
by Richard Preston
Credits: Audio CD
From the #1 bestselling author of "The Hot Zone" comes a thrilling true story of the adventurous scientists who discover, climb, and explore the astonishing and unknown world of the planet's tallest trees.
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The Sense of Wonder
by Rachel Carson
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
First published more than three decades ago, this award-winning classic brings Rachel Carson's unique vision to a new generation of readers.
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Blizzard! The Storm that Changed America
by Jim Murphy
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
On March 12, 1888, hurricane-force winds and unrelenting snow began to bring the East Coast...
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Whale Nation
by Heathcote Williams
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
Whale Nation is a hymn to the beauty, intelligence, and majesty of the largest mammal on earth. A 'green classic' read with natural resonance...
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Storm World
by Chris Mooney
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science and one of the leading young environmental journalists and bloggers working today, immerses readers in the world of those who study hurricanes.
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Don't Know Much About Geography
by Kenneth C. Davis
Credits: Audio CD
Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned...
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A Contract with the Earth
by Newt Gingrich
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
Focusing the environmental debate on the principle of common commitment, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and eminent conservationist Terry L. Maple present A Contract with the Earth.
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A Sand County Almanac
by Aldo Leopold
Credits: Audio CD
Blending the poet's soul with the prophet's vision, this collection of writings about Leopold's experiences on his farm along the Wisconsin River is a clarion call to preserve natural habitat. It's as profound and timely today as when it first appeared over 50 years ago.
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
by Simon Winchester
Credits: Audio CD
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion.
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