Environmental Science and Sustainability

Updated July 29, 2024
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Desert solitaire
Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989.
Paper Book
Hailed by The New York Times as "a passionately felt, deeply poetic book," the moving autobiographical work of Edward Abbey, considered the Thoreau of the American West, and his passion for the southwestern wilderness. Desert Solitaire is a collection of vignettes...
Silent spring
Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.
Paper Book
THE CLASSIC THAT LAUNCHED THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT "Rachel Carson is a pivotal figure of the twentieth century...people who thought one way before her essential 1962 book Silent Spring thought another way after it."--Margaret Atwood Rarely does a single book alter the course of...
The winds of change climate, weather, and the destruction of civilizations
Linden, Eugene.
Paper Book
The Winds of Changeplaces the horrifying carnage unleashed on New Orleans, Mississippi, and Alabama by Hurricane Katrina in context. Climate has been humanity's constant, if moody, companion. At times benefactor or tormentor, climate nurtured the first stirrings of civilization and then repeatedly...
The omnivore's dilemma a natural history of four meals
Pollan, Michael.
Paper Book
One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year Winner of the James Beard Award Author of How to Change Your Mind and the #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of...
The song of the dodo island biogeography in an age of extinctions
Quammen, David, 1948-
Paper Book
"Compulsively readable--a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism." --Bill McKibben, Audubon A brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope and far-reaching in its message, The Song of the Dodo is a crucial book in precarious times....
Where the wild things were life, death, and ecological wreckage in a land of vanishing predators
Stolzenburg, William.
Paper Book
A provocative look at how the disappearance of the world's great predators has upset the delicate balance of the environment, and what their disappearance portends for the future, by an acclaimed science journalist. It wasn't so long ago that wolves and great cats, monstrous fish and...
The world without us
Weisman, Alan.
Paper Book
New Page 1 From five minutes to five billion years: an astonishing vision of Earth without humans Picture a world from which we all suddenly disappeared. Tomorrow. Noted journalist and professor...

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