Environmental History Week 2023

Discover the rich and fascinating stories of our planet’s past with our collection of environmental history books that will take you on a journey through humankind’s relationship with the natural world. Explore the history of conservation and environmental activism, traverse the outdoors with useful field guides, and delve into the latest research on climate change and sustainability. Our books are sure to educate and inspire, so don’t miss out on this opportunity to deepen your understanding of our planet’s past and present.

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Life

A Journey through Science and Politics

Paul R. Ehrlich

$30.00

Hardcover

Confronting Climate Gridlock

How Diplomacy, Technology, and Policy Can Unlock a Clean Energy Future

Daniel S. Cohan, Michael E. Webber

$22.00

Paperback

Trees Are Shape Shifters

How Cultivation, Climate Change, and Disaster Create Landscapes

Andrew S. Mathews

$37.50

Paperback

A World Without Soil

The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet

Jo Handelsman, Kayla Cohen

$28.00

Hardcover

A Better Planet

Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future

Daniel C. Esty, Ingrid C. Burke

$21.00

Paperback

Wild Visions

Wilderness as Image and Idea

Ben A Minteer, Mark Klett, Stephen J. Pyne, Roderick Frazier Nash

$40.00

Hardcover

How I Became a Tree

Sumana Roy

$16.00

Paperback

Big World, Small Planet

Abundance within Planetary Boundaries

Johan Rockström, Mattias Klum, Peter Miller

$29.00

Hardcover

Water 4.0

The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource

David Sedlak

$19.00

Paperback

A Blue New Deal

Why We Need a New Politics for the Ocean

Chris Armstrong

$30.00

Hardcover

Breakpoint

Reckoning with America's Environmental Crises

Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Steve Chapple

$19.00

Paperback

Drawn to Nature

Gilbert White and the Artists

Simon Martin, David Attenborough, Virginia Woolf

$35.00

Hardcover

Ecology of Dakota Landscapes

Past, Present, and Future

W. Carter Johnson, Dennis H. Knight

$45.00

Paperback

The Human Planet

How We Created the Anthropocene

Simon L. Lewis, Mark A. Maslin

$20.00

Paperback

Islands and Cultures

How Pacific Islands Provide Paths toward Sustainability

Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Te Maire Tau, Peter M. Vitousek

$35.00

Paperback

Moving Crops and the Scales of History

Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn, John Bosco Lourdusamy, Tiago Saraiva

$40.00

Hardcover

Why Food Matters

Paul Freedman

$17.00

Paperback

The Long Land War

The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights

Jo Guldi

$40.00

Hardcover

Security and Conservation

The Politics of the Illegal Wildlife Trade

Rosaleen Duffy

$35.00

Hardcover

Our Common Ground

A History of America's Public Lands

John D. Leshy

$45.00

Hardcover

The King's Harvest

A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire

Brian Lander

$40.00

Hardcover

The Yellow River

A Natural and Unnatural History

Ruth Mostern

$35.00

Hardcover

Strange Natures

Conservation in the Era of Synthetic Biology

Kent H. Redford, William M. Adams

$32.50

Hardcover

Becoming Organic

Nature and Agriculture in the Indian Himalaya

Shaila Seshia Galvin

$65.00

Hardcover

Coral Reefs

Majestic Realms under the Sea

Peter F. Sale

$28.50

Hardcover

A Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic Coast

Including the Jersey Shore, Cape May, Delaware Bay, the Delmarva Peninsula, and the Outer Banks

Patrick J. Lynch

$27.50

Paperback

Adapting to Climate Change

Markets and the Management of an Uncertain Future

Matthew E. Kahn

$30.00

Hardcover

American Covenant

National Parks, Their Promise, and Our Nation's Future

Michael A Soukup, Gary E Machlis

$25.00

Hardcover

Bird versus Bulldozer

A Quarter-Century Conservation Battle in a Biodiversity Hotspot

Audrey L. Mayer

$30.00

Hardcover

Bitter Shade

The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness

Michael R. Dove

$38.00

Hardcover

We Alone

How Humans Have Conquered the Planet and Can Also Save It

David Western

$32.00

Hardcover

A Brief Natural History of Civilization

Why a Balance Between Cooperation & Competition Is Vital to Humanity

Mark Bertness

$30.00

Hardcover

The Anthropocene and the Humanities

From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability

Carolyn Merchant

$26.00

Hardcover

Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves

A History of American Environmental Policy

Richard N. L. Andrews

$50.00

Paperback

Forests Adrift

Currents Shaping the Future of Northeastern Trees

Charles D. Canham

$30.00

Hardcover

In Search of Meadowlarks

Birds, Farms, and Food in Harmony with the Land

John M. Marzluff

$30.00

Hardcover

Into Wild Mongolia

George B. Schaller

$30.00

Hardcover

Nature Underfoot

Living with Beetles, Crabgrass, Fruit Flies, and Other Tiny Life Around Us

John Hainze, Angela Mele

$30.00

Hardcover

Learning Science

The Value of Crafting Engagement in Science Environments

Barbara Schneider, Joseph Krajcik, Jari Lavonen, Katariina Salmela-Aro, Margaret J. Geller

$33.00

Hardcover

Patch Atlas

Integrating Design Practices and Ecological Knowledge for Cities as Complex Systems

Victoria J. Marshall, Mary L. Cadenasso, Brian P. McGrath, Steward T. A. Pickett

$50.00

Paperback

Climate Change from the Streets

How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement

Michael Mendez

$33.00

Hardcover

Memory Lands

King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

Christine M. DeLucia

$32.00

Paperback

On the Backs of Tortoises

Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden

Elizabeth Hennessy

$32.00

Hardcover

Science for the Sustainable City

Empirical Insights from the Baltimore School of Urban Ecology

Steward T. A. Pickett, Mary L. Cadenasso, J. Morgan Grove, Elena G. Irwin, Emma J. Rosi, Christopher M. Swan

$33.00

Paperback

On the Trail

A History of American Hiking

Silas Chamberlin

$19.00

Paperback

People and the Land through Time

Linking Ecology and History

Emily W. B. (Russell) Southgate

$44.00

Paperback

Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest

The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography

Doug Macdougall

$20.00

Hardcover

Nature Strange and Beautiful

How Living Beings Evolved and Made the Earth a Home

Egbert Giles Leigh, Christian Ziegler

$31.00

Hardcover

Maroon Nation

A History of Revolutionary Haiti

Johnhenry Gonzalez

$44.00

Hardcover

Nature's Giants

The Biology and Evolution of the World's Largest Lifeforms

Graeme D. Ruxton, Norman Owen-Smith

$37.00

Hardcover

Natural Encounters

Biking, Hiking, and Birding Through the Seasons

Bruce M. Beehler, John C Anderton

$33.00

Hardcover

Contested Territory

Dien Bien Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam

Christian C. Lentz

$39.00

Hardcover

Sustaining Lake Superior

An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World

Nancy Langston

$27.00

Paperback

A Field Guide to Cape Cod

Including Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, Block Island, and Eastern Long Island

Patrick J. Lynch

$30.00

Paperback

Thirst for Power

Energy, Water, and Human Survival

Michael E. Webber

$22.00

Paperback

Dangerous Years

Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward

David W. Orr

$19.00

Paperback

The Structure and Dynamics of Human Ecosystems

Toward a Model for Understanding and Action

William R. Burch, Gary E Machlis, Jo Ellen Force

$50.00

Hardcover

The City of Tomorrow

Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life

Carlo Ratti, Matthew Claudel

$21.00

Hardcover

The Bet

Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future

Paul Sabin

$19.00

Paperback

Emerald City

An Environmental History of Seattle

Matthew Klingle

$29.00

Paperback

High and Dry

Meeting the Challenges of the World’s Growing Dependence on Groundwater

William M. Alley, Rosemarie Alley

$32.00

Hardcover

The Nature of Tomorrow

A History of the Environmental Future

Michael Rawson

$30.00

Hardcover

The Long, Long Life of Trees

Fiona Stafford

$18.00

Paperback

A Field Guide to Long Island Sound

Coastal Habitats, Plant Life, Fish, Seabirds, Marine Mammals, and Other Wildlife

Patrick J. Lynch

$30.00

Paperback

A Meeting of Land and Sea

Nature and the Future of Martha’s Vineyard

David R. Foster, Brian R. Hall

$42.00

Hardcover

Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris

The Effort to Contain Global Warming

William Sweet

$20.00

Paperback

Natural Capital

Valuing the Planet

Dieter Helm

$17.00

Paperback

The Narrow Edge

A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey

Deborah Cramer

$15.00

Paperback

A Question of Balance

Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies

William D. Nordhaus

$30.00

Paperback

Global Crisis

War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

Geoffrey Parker

$27.50

Paperback

Saving the World's Deciduous Forests

Ecological Perspectives from East Asia, North America, and Europe

Robert A. Askins

$39.00

Hardcover

The Future of Nature

Documents of Global Change

Libby Robin, Sverker Sörlin, Paul Warde

$39.00

Paperback

Prosperity in the Fossil-Free Economy

Cooperatives and the Design of Sustainable Businesses

Melissa K Scanlan

$40.00

Hardcover

Better Business

How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism

Christopher Marquis

$20.00

Paperback


Also of Interest:

Implication
An Ecocritical Dictionary for Art History
Alan C. Braddock

Ecocriticism is an interdisciplinary mode of inquiry that examines the environmental significance of art, literature, and other creative endeavors. In Implication: An Ecocritical Dictionary for Art History, Alan C. Braddock, a pioneer in art historical ecocriticism, presents a fascinating group of key terms and case studies to demonstrate that all art is ecological in its interconnectedness with the world.
 
The book adopts a dictionary-style format, although not in a conventional sense. Drawing inspiration from French surrealist writer Georges Bataille, this dictionary presents carefully selected words that link art history to the environmental humanities—not only ecocriticism, but also environmental history, science, politics, and critical animal studies. A wide array of creative works from different cultures and time periods reveal the import of these terms and the inescapable entanglement of art with ecology. Ancient Roman mosaics, Song dynasty Taihu rocks, a Tlaxcalan lienzo, early modern European engravings and altarpieces, a Kongo dibondo, nineteenth-century landscape paintings by African American artist Edward Mitchell Bannister, French Impressionist urban scenes, and contemporary activist art, among other works, here disclose the intrinsic ecological conditions of art.


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