Science:

Science as a Contact Sport
Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate
Written by Stephen H. Schneider
Introduction by Tim Flannery

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $28.00

It’s been nearly four decades since scientists first realized that global warming posed a potential threat to our planet. Why, if we knew of the threats way back in the Carter Administration, can’t we act decisively to limit greenhouse gases, deforestation, and catastrophic warming trends? Why are we still addicted to... Read more >

Antarctica 2041
My Quest to Save the Earth's Last Wilderness
Written by Robert Swan and Gil Reavill

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $24.99

Adventurer turned environmentalist Robert Swan illuminates the perils facing the planet come 2041—the year when the international treaty protecting Antarctica is up for review—and the many steps that can be taken to avoid environmental calamity.

In 1985, when Robert Swan walked across Antarctica, the fragile polar environment was not high in his... Read more >

Antarctica 2041
My Quest to Save the Earth's Last Wilderness
Written by Robert Swan and Gil Reavill

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $24.99

Adventurer turned environmentalist Robert Swan illuminates the perils facing the planet come 2041—the year when the international treaty protecting Antarctica is up for review—and the many steps that can be taken to avoid environmental calamity.

In 1985, when Robert Swan walked across Antarctica, the fragile polar environment was not high in his... Read more >

The World Is Blue
How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
Written by Sylvia A. Earle
Foreword by Bill McKibben

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $26.00

A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.

In recent decades we’ve learned more... Read more >

The World Is Blue

Written by Sylvia A. Earle

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $26.00

A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.

In recent decades we’ve learned more... 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: eBook
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $25.00

For the past twelve thousand years, Earth’s stable climate has allowed human civilization to flourish. But this long benign summer is an anomaly in the Earth’s history and one that is rapidly coming to a close. The radical experiment of our modern industrial civilization is now disrupting our planet’s very metabolism... 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
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $25.00

For the past twelve thousand years, Earth’s stable climate has allowed human civilization to flourish. But this long benign summer is an anomaly in the Earth’s history and one that is rapidly coming to a close. The radical experiment of our modern industrial civilization is now disrupting our planet’s very metabolism... Read more >

Carbon Shift
How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future
Written by Thomas Homer-Dixon

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $29.95

"We are now so abusing the Earth that it may rise and move back to the hot state it was in fifty-five million years ago, and if it does, most of us, and our descendants, will die."
-James Lovelock, leading climate expert and author of The Revenge of Gaia

"I don't... 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
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $16.95

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 >

Six Degrees
Our Future on a Hotter Planet
Written by Mark Lynas

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $16.95

Possibly the most graphic treatment of global warming that has yet been published, Six Degrees is what readers of Al Gore's best-selling An Inconvenient Truth or Ross Gelbspan's Boiling Point will turn to next. Written by the acclaimed author of High Tide, this highly relevant and compelling book uses accessible journalistic... Read more >

Hot Air
Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge
Written by Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard and Nic Rivers

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $18.99

Here’s a clear, believable book for Canadians concerned about our situation — and it offers a solution.

It’s a brilliant mix. To “Canada’s best mind on the environment,” Mark Jaccard, who won the 2006 Donner Prize for an academic book in this area, you add Nic Rivers, a researcher who works with... Read more >

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

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $14.95

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 >

Poisoned Profits
The Toxic Assault on Our Children
Written by Philip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $26.00

In this shocking and sobering book, two fearless journalists directly and definitively link industrial toxins to the current rise in childhood disease and death. In the tradition of Silent Spring, Poisoned Profits is a landmark investigation, an eye-opening account of a country that prizes money over children’s health.

With indisputable data, Philip... Read more >

Poisoned Profits
The Toxic Assault on Our Children
Written by Philip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $26.00

In this shocking and sobering book, two fearless journalists directly and definitively link industrial toxins to the current rise in childhood disease and death. In the tradition of Silent Spring, Poisoned Profits is a landmark investigation, an eye-opening account of a country that prizes money over children’s health.

With indisputable data, Philip... Read more >

Six Degrees
Our Future on a Hotter Planet
Written by Mark Lynas

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2008
Price: $26.00

Possibly the most graphic treatment of global warming that has yet been published, Six Degrees is what readers of Al Gore's best-selling An Inconvenient Truth or Ross Gelbspan's Boiling Point will turn to next. Written by the acclaimed author of High Tide, this highly relevant and compelling book uses accessible journalistic... Read more >

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

Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $27.95

In this timely book, Gwyneth Cravens takes an informed and clarifying look at the myths, the fears, and the truth about nuclear energy.

With concerns about catastrophic global warming mounting, it is vital that we examine all our energy options. Power to Save the World describes the efforts of one determined woman... Read more >

Cool It

Written by Bjorn Lomborg

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $14.95

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 >

Isaac's Storm
A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Written by Erik Larson
Read by Edward Herrmann

Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 22, 2006
Price: $19.99

September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a... Read more >

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

Format: Trade Paperback, 356 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2005
Price: $35.00

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 >

The Suburban You
Reports from the Home Front
Written by Mark Falanga
Read by Jonathan Marosz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 4, 2004
Price: $15.00

You are about to discover that living in the suburbs is a whole lot funnier than you ever thought possible. For this country’s 145,892,494 (give or take) suburbanites, Mark Falanga is an utterly deadpan (and thoroughly entertaining) spokesman.

Mark Falanga is a slick urban dweller, at the top of his game professionally... Read more >

Isaac's Storm
A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Written by Erik Larson

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2000
Price: $15.00

September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a... Read more >

Storm Warning
Gambling With the Climate of Our Planet
Written by Lydia Dotto

Format: Trade Paperback, 344 pages
On Sale: January 18, 2000
Price: $19.00

The Ice Storm of 1998. The flooding of Manitoba of 1997. Wherever you live, it's likely you've experienced some extreme weather lately. A recent report from the Red Cross stated that natural catastrophes in 1998 has wreaked the most havoc on record, and warned that a series of "super-disasters" could be... Read more >