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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxx, 857 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon"--
2) Groundglass
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Groundglass takes shape atop a polluted aquifer in Minnesota, beside trains that haul fracked crude oil, as Kathryn Savage confronts the transgressions of US Superfund sites and brownfields against land, groundwater, neighborhoods, and people. Drawing on her own experiences growing up on the fence lines of industry and the parallel realities of raising a young son while grieving a father dying of a cancer with known environmental risk factors, Savage...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the wake of global catastrophes that have destroyed industrial civilization, the inhabitants of Union Grove, a small New York town, do anything they can to get by, as they struggle to deal with a new way of life over the course of an eventful summer.
4) The day the river caught fire: how the Cuyahoga River exploded and ignited the Earth Day movement
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 650L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illlustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the Industrial Revolution in the 1880s, the Cayuhoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire almost twenty times, earning Cleveland the nickname 'The Mistake on the Lake.' Waste dumping had made fires so routine that local politicians and media didn't pay them any mind, and other Cleveland residents laughed off their combustible river and even wrote songs about it. But when the river ignited again in June 1969, the national media picked up on...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24cm
Language
English
Description
"An urgent call to protect America's public lands, told through New York Times bestselling author David Gessner's American road trip with our greatest conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt, as his guide"--
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 287 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott first saw the Earth from space, she was filled with awe. Our shared home was a brilliant blue marble, with a razor thin atmosphere protecting billions of people, including everyone she loved. She realized that we are all bound together on this fragile planet. When she came back to earth, she knew she had to share this vision to help protect it. Stott knows the scale of the daunting task at hand-and yet, she believes...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 178 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
With a basis in environmental history, this groundbreaking study challenges the idea that a meaningful attachment to nature and the outdoors is contrary to the black experience. The discussion shows that contemporary African American culture is usually seen as an urban culture, one that arose out of the Great Migration and has contributed to international trends in fashion, music, and the arts ever since. However, because of this urban focus, many...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, ... nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches National Park in Utah, braiding their stories and asking how they speak to the lives of all those who care about the West" -- Dust jacket....
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
496 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Rachel Carson, founder of the modern environmental movement, began work on her seminal book Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use. Leading this chemical onslaught was the insecticide DDT. Effective against crop pests as well as insects that transmitted human diseases such as typhus and malaria, DDT had at first appeared safe. But as its use expanded, alarming reports surfaced of collateral...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines"--
"The Fifties is a dazzling and provocative work of history that transforms our understanding of a seemingly staid decade and honors the pioneers of gay rights, feminism, civil...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
178 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this new collection of [ten] essays, Berry confronts head-on the necessity of clear thinking and direct action. Never one to ignore the present challenge, he understands that only clearly stated questions support the understanding their answers require. For more than fifty years we've had no better spokesman and no more eloquent advocate for the planet, for our families, and for the future of our children and ourselves"--
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Green Fire...examines Leopold's thinking, renewing his idea of a land ethic for a population facing 21st century ecological challenges. Leopold's biographer, conservation biologist Dr. Curt Meine, serves as the film's on-screen guide. Green Fire describes the formation of Leopold's idea, exploring how it changed one man and later permeated through all arenas of conservation. The film draws on Leopold's life and experiences to provide context and...
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xv, 384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Few issues today excite more passion or alarm than the specter of climate change. In A Climate of Crisis, historian Patrick Allitt shows that our present climate of crisis is far from exceptional. Indeed, the environmental debates of the last half century are defined by exaggeration and fearmongering from all sides, often at the expense of the facts. In a real sense, Allitt shows us, collective anxiety about widespread environmental danger began...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt took a long trip to the far American West and capped his visit with a four-day camping trip through Yosemite with famed naturalist John Muir. Dodging persistent reporters, the men rode through ancient sequoia forests, climbed Glacier Peak and camped at the foot of Bridalveil Fall. As a direct result of this trip Roosevelt used his influence to help establish five new national parks and to create...
20) Engineering Eden: the true story of a violent death, a trial, and the fight over controlling nature
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 370 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to control nature in the national parks. When twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions about American wilderness management that had been boiling for a century. At immediate issue was whether the Park Service should have done more to keep bears away...