The Great Work
Our Way into the Future
Written by Thomas Berry

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: November 14, 2000
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-609-80499-5 (0-609-80499-5)

Thomas Berry is one of the most eminent cultural historians of our time. Here he presents the culmination of his ideas and urges us to move from being a disrupting force on the Earth to a benign presence. This transition is the Great Work — the most necessary and most ennobling... Read more >

The Hidden Connections
A Science for Sustainable Living
Written by Fritjof Capra

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49472-4 (0-385-49472-6)

The author of the bestselling The Tao of Physics and The Web of Life explores the profound social implications of emerging scientific principles and provides an innovative framework for using them to understand and solve some of the most important issues of our time.

For most of history, scientific investigation was based... Read more >

Power to Save the World
The Truth About Nuclear Energy
Written by Gwyneth Cravens
Introduction by Richard Rhodes

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38587-1 (0-307-38587-6)

An informed look at the myths and fears surrounding nuclear energy, and a practical, politically realistic solution to global warming and our energy needs. Faced by the world's oil shortages and curious about alternative energy sources, Gwyneth Cravens skeptically sets out to find the truth about nuclear energy. Her conclusion: it... Read more >

Power to Save the World
The Truth About Nuclear Energy
Written by Gwyneth Cravens
Introduction by Richard Rhodes

Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26656-9 (0-307-26656-7)

With the constant threat of oil shortages facing us and wanting to educate herself about possible alternatives, Gwyneth Cravens skeptically sets out to find for herself the truth about nuclear energy. Her conclusion: It is a totally viable and practical solution to global warming.

She enlists the help of Rip Anderson... Read more >

Bush Versus the Environment

Written by Robert S. Devine

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7521-8 (1-4000-7521-1)

In his first months as president, George W. Bush yanked America out of negotiations over the Kyoto Accords, signed a bill seeming to allow more arsenic into our water supply, and secretly met with industry executives in preparing an energy policy. He has pursued a number of other policies and objectives... Read more >

The End of the Long Summer
Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth
Written by Dianne Dumanoski

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-39607-5 (0-307-39607-X)

Climate change is happening, and it is the result of human activity: our fossil fuels, our global growth, our seemingly insatiable desire to consume. Despite the common belief that global warming will be a gentle escalator ride to a balmier climate, research reveals that Earth’s history is one of massive instability... Read more >

On Thin Ice
The Changing World of the Polar Bear
Written by Richard Ellis

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27059-7 (0-307-27059-9)

Polar bears—fierce and majestic—have captivated us for centuries. Feared by explorers, revered by the Inuit, and beloved by zoo goers everywhere, polar bears are a symbol for the harsh beauty and muscular grace of the Arctic. Today, as global warming threatens the ice caps’ integrity, the polar bear has also come... Read more >

Wallace Stegner and the American West

Written by Philip L. Fradkin

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4391-0 (1-4000-4391-3)

Wallace Stegner was the premier chronicler of the twentieth-century western American experience, and his novels, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Angle of Repose and the National Book Award–winning The Spectator Bird, brought the life and landscapes of the West to national and international attention. Now, in this illuminating biography, Philip L. Fradkin goes... Read more >

Ecological Intelligence
How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything
Written by Daniel Goleman

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Broadway Business
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52782-8 (0-385-52782-9)

Virginia Tech has selected Ecological Intelligence for its 2009-2010 Common Book Project.

Bestselling author Daniel Goleman (Emotional Intelligence) draws on cutting edge research into psychology, neuroeconomics and the science of the environment to show us a fresh way out of the largest crisis of our time—the environmental crisis that looms over us... Read more >

A Civil Action

Written by Jonathan Harr

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77267-5 (0-679-77267-7)

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a National Book Award nominee

Winner of the Scribes Book Award from the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects

“Jonathan Harr’s 1995 book about the lawsuit over the leukemia deaths of Woburn children is playing an extraordinary role in what some legal educators... Read more >

Eating in the Dark
America's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food
Written by Kathleen Hart

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72498-5 (0-375-72498-2)

Most Americans eat genetically modified food on a daily basis, but few of us are aware we’re eating something that has been altered. Meanwhile, consumers abroad refuse to buy our engineered crops; their groceries are labeled so that everyone knows if the contents have been modified. What’s going on here? Why... Read more >

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated
The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
Written by Thom Hartmann

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5157-1 (1-4000-5157-6)

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight details what is happening to our planet, the reasons for our culture’s blind behavior, and how we can fix the problem. Thom Hartmann’s comprehensive book, originally published in 1998, has become one of the fundamental handbooks of the environmental activist movement. Now, with fresh, updated... Read more >

Cool It
The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Written by Bjorn Lomborg

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38652-6 (0-307-38652-X)

A startling book that reshapes the debate about global warming and offers a moderate approach to meeting its challenges.

Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered—the Kyoto Protocol, for example—have a staggering potential cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, but, ultimately, will have little... Read more >

The Last Forest
The Amazon in the Age of Globalization
Written by Mark London and Brian Kelly

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: February 6, 2007
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-64305-0 (0-679-64305-2)

With a landmass larger than the continental U.S. west of the Mississippi and the richest diversity of plant and animal species on earth, the Amazon has always struck its explorers and would-be exploiters as infinite and largely impenetrable. For decades, anthropologists assumed that permanent human habitation was impossible–but they were wrong... Read more >

Unbowed
A Memoir
Written by Wangari Maathai

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27520-2 (0-307-27520-5)

In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa. Persevering through... Read more >

Unbowed

Written by Wangari Maathai

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26348-3 (0-307-26348-7)

Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya.

Born in a rural village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast... Read more >

African Silences

Written by Peter Matthiessen

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 30, 1992
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73102-3 (0-679-73102-4)

African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. Matthiessen explores the human lives oppressed by bankrupt political regimes and economies.  He finds an entire community threatened by ravaged land and wildlife, a catastrophe to which they have only begun to awaken.

"A... Read more >

The End of Nature

Written by Bill McKibben

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: June 13, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7608-3 (0-8129-7608-8)

Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth.

This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in... Read more >

What You See in Clear Water
Indians, Whites, and a Battle Over Water in the American West
Written by Geoffrey O'Gara

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73582-3 (0-679-73582-8)

For nearly a century, the Indians on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming have been battling their white farmer neighbors over the rights to the Wind River. What You See in Clear Water tells the story of this epic struggle, shedding light on the ongoing conflict over water rights in the... Read more >

American Buffalo
In Search of a Lost Icon
Written by Steven Rinella

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-52168-0 (0-385-52168-5)

A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination.

In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds—there’s only a 2 percent chance of drawing the permit, and... Read more >

The Necessary Revolution
How Individuals And Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World
Written by Peter M. Senge, Bryan Smith, Nina Kruschwitz, Joe Laur and Sara Schley

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Broadway Business
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-51901-4 (0-385-51901-X)

Imagine a world in which the excess energy from one business would be used to heat another. Where buildings need less and less energy around the world, and where “regenerative” commercial buildings – ones that create more energy than they use – are being designed. A world in which environmentally sound... Read more >

Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century

Written by George Sessions

Format: Trade Paperback, 520 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: January 24, 1995
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-57062-049-2 (1-57062-049-0)

Deep Ecology offers a solution to the environmental crisis through a radical shift in human consciousness, a fundamental change in the way people think about their relationship with the environment. Instead of thinking of nature as a resource to be used for human needs, Deep Ecology argues that the true value... Read more >

Dam!
Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park
Written by John W. Simpson

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: July 12, 2005
Price: $28.50
ISBN: 978-0-375-42231-7 (0-375-42231-5)

The building of the Hetch Hetchy Dam and Reservoir in the middle of Yosemite National Park, in spite of less expensive, less technically challenging, and less politically complicated possibilities, set off a defining controversy in American environmentalism. From the 1890s until 1913 Americans argued about proposals to dam the Tuolumne River... Read more >

Plenty
Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet
Written by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: April 22, 2008
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-34733-6 (0-307-34733-8)

One Book, One Community choice in Alliance, OH

Like many great adventures, the 100-mile diet began with a memorable feast. Stranded in their off-the-grid summer cottage in the Canadian wilderness with unexpected guests, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon turned to the land around them. They caught a trout, picked mushrooms, and... Read more >

Mycelium Running
How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
Written by Paul Stamets

Format: Trade Paperback, 356 pages
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
On Sale: October 1, 2005
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-58008-579-3 (1-58008-579-2)

More mushrooms, less pollution! Yes, you heard right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment and mushroom expert Paul Stamets explains how in MYCELIUM RUNNING, a groundbreaking manual for saving the world through mushroom cultivation.

The science goes like this: fine filaments of... Read more >