What is Environmental History?

What is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relation...

Reducere. From the outset, society in Japan has been shaped by its environmental context. The lush green mountainous archipelago of today supports a populati...

We live during a crucial period of human history on Earth. Anthropogenic environmental changes are occurring on global scales at unprecedented rate...

Description"Let this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice."--Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and po...

The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his s...

Reducere. An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of why our waterways continu...

Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically...

DescriptionAcross the globe, history has gone public. With the rise of the internet, family historians are now delving into archives continents apa...

Reducere. Economic growth since the Industrial Revolution has been achieved at great cost both to the natural environment and to the autonomy of communities....

The relationship between history and fiction has always been a controversial one. Can we ever know that a historical narrative is giving us a true ...

Reducere. - New edition of a NOLS classic; the definitive book on environmental ethics and their relation to managing wildlands - An excellent introduction t...

For readers of such crusading works of nonfiction as Katherine Boo s "Beyond the Beautiful Forevers" and Tracy Kidder s "Mountains Beyond Mountains...

While politicians, entrepreneurs, and even school children could tell you that sustainability is an important and nearly universal value, many of t...

Reducere. What is Earth's history, including the history of life? Where is Earth headed, and what can we do? A middle school science teacher addresses these ...

Reducere. What is Earth's history, including the history of life? Where is Earth headed, and what can we do? A middle school science teacher addresses these ...

Reducere. Play cards and learn about constellations Play your favorite card games while studying the constellations. Based on the award-winning Night Sky fie...

Reducere. In her book, midwife Ruth Ehrhardt very simply explores, as the title suggests, how the basic needs of labouring women can be met. It takes into co...

Reducere. With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering po...

Reducere. Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to moveme...

Reducere. Crassostrea virginica, the eastern oyster. These humble bivalves are the living bones of the Chesapeake and the ecological and historical lifeblood...

Description"A marvelously humor-laced page-turner about the science of semi-aquatic rodents....A masterpiece of a treatise on the natural world."--...

Reducere. Corporations faced with proof that they are hurting people or the planet have a long history of denying evidence, blaming victims, complaining of w...

Reducere. Amid the mass protests of the 1960s, another, less heralded political force arose: public interest progressivism. Led by activists like Ralph Nader...

"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 ...

Contributor(s): Author: Eric Holt-GimenezCapitalism drives our global food system. Everyone who wants to end hunger, who wants to eat good, clean, ...

DescriptionCoal, gas, and oil have powered our societies for hundreds of years. But the pace at which we use them changed dramatically in the twent...

Reducere. Barbara Hurd's Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music. The listening of the book de...

DescriptionA unique history of plant and animal invaders of the British isles spanning thousands of years of arrivals and escapes, as well as defen...

Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showin...

DescriptionA New Map of Wonders charts a course through the realm of the fascinating and awe-inspiring.With the curiosity and enthusiasm of a great...

This volume uses case studies to capture the recent emphasis on history in archaeological reconstructions of America's deep past. Previously, archa...

Conserving Oregon's Environment traces the arc of successes in conserving Oregon's environment, beginning in the 1880s and continuing to 2013. It a...

Since the dawn of human civilization, forests have provided us with food, resources, and energy. The history of human development is also one of fo...

DescriptionThe story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world A thirtieth-century toxic...

DescriptionSpace: it's everywhere, all around, a given. It's abstract and yet not abstract at all, because it governs all human relations, shapes t...

A tour of clocks throughout the centuries--from the sandglass to the telomere--to reveal the physical, biological, and social nature of time What i...

Reducere. Something happened in early 2011 that hasn't happened in decades, perhaps centuries-and we didn't even notice it. That is, we didn't see it for wha...

DescriptionRebel girls, young activists, and other trailblazing tweens and teens will be inspired by the stories of 40 women who have changed the w...

Reduced life expectancy, worsening health outcomes, health inequity, and declining health care options--these are now realities for most Americans....

Ayahuasca is a powerful tool for transformation, that more and more Westerners are flocking to drink in a quest for greater self-knowledge, healing...

Reducere. DescriptionBrie Arthur's Gardening with Grains is a passion project that grew from a light-bulb, aha moment - that's when she realized we've been m...

Reducere. "Marxism and Witchcraft is a vitally important book, a tremendous resource for anyone interested in the question 'How did we get into this mess?' A...

Reducere. Humanity is emerging into a Greater Community of worlds. Contact has begun and our isolation in the universe is over. This is the greatest event in...

What if we lived in a world where everyone had enough? A world where everyone mattered and where people lived in harmony with nature? What if the s...

DescriptionThe early childhood services of Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy has gained worldwide interest and admiration. Drawing on the 'Reggio app...

Reducere. As human populations inhabiting cities have grown dramatically, we have lost the ability to understand and even to see the natural world around us....

DescriptionBlackout poetry is created by removing or "blacking out" existing text to create a new piece of art. Make Blackout Poetry: Activist Edit...

Reducere. Renowned energy pundit and bestselling author Peter Tertzakian brings our energy history to life in this collection of 10 short stories that tell o...

Reducere. In October, 1998 an arson caused $12 million in damage at Vail, the country's largest ski area. A shadowy radical environmental group called the Ea...

From Aqualungs to the Eden Project: a history of closed systemsWhat do outer space capsules, submarines and office buildings have in common? Each w...

Reducere. When natural disasters happen they grab headlines around the world. People, creatures, and the environment are all impacted when nature gets out of...

Reducere. In this field guide to the future, esteemed Harvard University botanist Peter Del Tredici unveils the plants that will become even more dominant in...

Reducere. The extraction of raw turpentine and tar from the southern longleaf pine--along with the manufacture of derivative products such as spirits of turp...

From biomechanist and bestselling author Katy Bowman comes her eagerly anticipated guide to getting kids--from babies to preteens--and their famili...