One World, September 2020. Hardcover. Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement..... More
One World, September 2020. Hardcover. Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement..... More
Springer, July 2008. Paper Back. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th IEEE Tutorial and Research Workshop on Perception and Interactive Technologies for Speech-Based Systems, PIT 2008, held in Kloster Irsee, Germany, in June 2008. The 37 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited keynote lecture were..... More
Gondwana Alive Society, January 1999. Paper Back. Clean, solid. With inscription by Anderson: '24 Sept. 1999 with compliments & thanks for your participation. J. Anderson.' Otherwise no markings. Quarto. More
Chelsea Green Pub Co, February 1999. Trade Paperback. Of value to business people, environmentalists, and educators alike, "Mid-Course Correction" is a business book about the environment that's written from a personal perspective. With passion and pride, Ray Anderson, founder, Chairman, and CEO of one of the world's largest interior furnishings..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 2005. Trade Paperback. #1 New York Times bestseller "Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history."--Bill Gates, GatesNotes.com "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."--Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 2005. Trade Paperback. #1 New York Times bestseller "Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history."--Bill Gates, GatesNotes.com "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."--Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why..... More
Plume, May 2009. Trade Paperback. The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her..... More
See Sharp Press, 2002. Pamphlet. 12 page stapled pamphlet. More
Seven Stories Press, June 2006. Trade Paperback. Whereas Volume 1 of Endgame presents the problem of civilization, Volume 2 of this pivotal work illustrates our means of resistance. Incensed and hopeful, impassioned and lucid, Endgame leapfrogs the environmental movement's deadlock over our willingness to change our conduct, focusing instead on..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1997. Trade Paperback. Richard Feynman (1918-1988), winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. Here he recounts in his inimitable voice his experience trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek;..... More
Buckinghamshire Record Society, January 1990. Trade Paperback. More
University Of Chicago Press, November 1994. Paper Back. Today only about a thousand giant pandas survive in the wild. Dependent on a shrinking supply of bamboo on the one hand and threatened by human greed on the other, the panda is at extreme risk. Here, acclaimed naturalist George B. Schaller..... More
Clarion Books, March 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. The twentieth-century American writer and naturalist John Burroughs's remarkable contributions to society as poet, teacher, and ecological conservationist are chronicled in this thoughtfully crafted biography. "Wadsworth pays tribute to an icon of the environmental conservation movement. . . Burroughs' work remains a landmark..... More
Firefly Books, March 2001. Hardcover. Hydrangeas are one of the most popular flowering shrubs in the world. With many species native to North America and dozens of hardy hybrids developed over the years, there is an overwhelming range of plants to choose from. Here is practical, expert advice for the..... More
Frances Lincoln, April 2013. Oversized Hardcover. Nicknamed `the rose among the palms', the thousand-year-old city of Marrakesh is characterised by its pink-coloured pis? architecture and its deeply rooted tradition for gardens and green spaces. The majority of historic sites are inextricable from their gardens - or indeed are historic green..... More
ABRAMS, September 1991. Oversized Hardcover. A tribute to America's grand era of private estate gardens and their illustrious owners. The book presents over 500 of the nations's most exquisite gardens and the people who built them, from DuPont's Longwood (Pennsylvania) to the Huntington's San Marino Ranch (California). An engaging tribute..... More
Bates & Guild Company, January 1902. Oversized Hardcover. Decorative green cloth. Interior clean and complete. Light foxing. Hinges reinforced with binders tape. Spine quite rubbed. More
Harvard University Press, 1939. First Edition. Cloth. Green cloth with gold lettering, mild wear. Previous owner's bookplate affixed front free end page. In much tattered, tape repaired jacket. More
Bantam, January 1988. Hardcover. Small Ex Libris stamp on the front free endpaper. Name and date in pen on the front pastedown endpaper. Some abrasion at the top of the spine of the jacket. More
University of Georgia Press, May 2011. Paper Back. George Washington Carver (ca. 1864-1943) is at once one of the most familiar and misunderstood figures in American history. In My Work Is That of Conservation, Mark D. Hersey reveals the life and work of this fascinating man who is widely--and reductively--known..... More
Harper Perennial, January 2018. Paper Back. The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org--dubbed "the world's smartest website" by The Guardian--brings together 206 of the world's most innovative thinkers to discuss the scientific concepts that everyone should know. As science informs public policy, decision making, and so many aspects..... More
Shelter Publications, March 2020. Paper Back. Lloyd Kahn and his wife Lesley's story of building their own home, establishing a garden, and practicing crafts on a small piece of land on the Northern California Coast over a 46-year period, with over 500 photos. Lloyd, the former shelter editor of the..... More
Mariner Books, August 2000. Trade Paperback. At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. Maybe not all that unusual a thing to do in the..... More
Milkweed Editions, June 2017. Paper Back. From the fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina--a place "easy to pass by on the way somewhere else"--has been home..... More
