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The trees in my forest
By Bernd Heinrich. 1997
In 1977 the author purchased 300 acres of recently cutover woodlands in Maine. His "biography" of that land shows how…
he went about restoring its ecological balance. As caretaker, owner, scientist, and teacher, Heinrich muses on the relationships of the trees, plants, animals, and natural forces at work within the forest. 1997.The silent game
By David Stafford. 1988
Stafford compares spy novels to the real world of espionage. With the idea for the CIA's proposed assassination of Fidel…
Castro coming from a novel by William Le Queux, he shows that life imitates art; and, with authors like Graham Greene and John le Carre using their first-hand experiences to write about gentleman spies, shows that art imitates life. 1988.The revenge of Gaia: why the earth is fighting back - and how we can still save humanity
By J. E Lovelock. 2006
British scientist who originated the Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a superorganism assesses the impact of human activity on the…
planet. Lovelock supports a transition to nuclear energy and advocates preparation for inevitable climate and social changes in the twenty-first century as a result of global warming. 2006.Herbert Yardley had established America's first codebreaking agency in 1917. His unit was closed in 1929 by Henry Stimson, who…
intoned, "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail." Yardley then wrote a best-selling memoir, "The American Black Chamber", which detailed the exploits of the State Department's Cipher Bureau, and disclosed codemaking and breaking to the public. Some descriptions of sex. 2004.Parker, former chief scientist of the National Ocean Service, interweaves stories of unpredicted natural disaster with those of scientific discovery.…
The result is a journey from ancient man's first crude tide predictions to today's advanced early warning ability based on the Global Ocean Observing System, as we search for ways to predict tsunamis and rogue waves and critical aspects of climate change. Some descriptions of violence. c2010.The plundered planet: why we must, and how we can, manage nature for global prosperity
By Paul Collier. 2010
Natural resources can transform the poorest countries or tear them apart, while the actions of the rich world could further…
impoverish them. Collier proposes standards that would help poor countries rich in natural assets better manage them, policy changes that would raise world food supply, and a new approach to climate change. c2010.The oil man and the sea: navigating the Northern Gateway
By Arno Kopecky. 2013
As oil and gas behemoth Enbridge Inc.'s Northern Gateway pipeline proposal nears approval, Arno Kopecky and Ilja Herb set forth…
in a forty-one-foot sailboat to explore the controversial tanker route. Novice sailors both, Kopecky and Herb followed whale highways and indigenous creation stories through the largest tract of temperate rainforest on the planet, confronted Enbridge hacks and the activists who opposed them, while struggling to stay afloat. c2013.The optimistic environmentalist: progressing towards a greener future
By David R Boyd. 2015
The world faces substantial environmental challenges - climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the good news is that we have…
solutions to these problems. In the past 50 years, a remarkable number of environmental problems have been solved, while substantial progress is ongoing on others: endangered species pulled back from the precipice of extinction; thousands of new parks, protecting billions of hectares of land and water; the salvation of the ozone layer, vital to life on Earth; the growth of renewable energy powered by wind, water, and sun; remarkable strides in cleaning up the air we breathe and the water we drink; the banning of dozens of the world’s most toxic chemicals. Past successes will pave the way for even greater achievements in the future. 2015.The once and future world: nature as it was, as it is, as it could be
By J. B MacKinnon. 2013
J.B. MacKinnon argues that we are living in the midst of an ecological disaster and we hardly notice it. We…
have forgotten what nature can be, and adapted to a diminished world of our own making. The author invites us to remember nature as it was, to reconnect to nature in a meaningful way, and to remake a wilder world everywhere. Bestseller. 2013.The mystery of Olga Chekhova
By Antony Beevor. 2004
Russian Olga Chekhova was the niece of playwright Anton Chekhov and a famous Nazi-era film actress who was closely associated…
with Hitler. After fleeing Bolshevik Moscow for Berlin in 1920, she was allegedly recruited by her composer brother Lev to become a Soviet spy - a career she spent her entire postwar life denying. Nevertheless, she ingeniously played powerful figures off against each other to survive the revolution, the war, and Stalin's purges. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2004.The Meinertzhagen mystery: the life and legend of a colossal fraud
By Brian Garfield. 2007
Tall, handsome, charming Col. Richard Meinertzhagen was an acclaimed British war hero, a secret agent, and a dean of international…
ornithology. He was trusted by Winston Churchill, David Ben Gurion, T. E. Lawrence, and Elspeth Huxley, but he bamboozled them all - Meinertzhagen was a fraud. Many of the adventures recorded in his celebrated diaries were imaginary, he committed a half-century of major and costly scientific fraud, and - oddly - may have been innocent of many killings to which he confessed. Some descriptions of violence. c2007.The man from Odessa
By Greville Wynne. 1981
Master spy Greville Wynne tells the story of his career as a British secret agent up to the time of…
his trial and imprisonment in the Lubyanka over the Penkovsky affair, and following his exchange for top Russian spy Gordon Lonsdale. 1981.The lost spy: an American in Stalin's secret service
By Andrew Meier. 2008
A brilliant Columbia University graduate, Isaiah Oggins went to Berlin to establish a safe house and spy for his country…
- but he turned coat. Working for the Soviets, he was nevertheless poisoned in 1947 on Stalin's orders. 2008.Describes the exploration of the Libyan desert in the 1920s and 1930s, which is also the story behind the novel…
"The English Patient" (DC11460). In 1939 the group known as the Zerzura Club split allegiances: Englishman Ralph Bagnold formed the Long Range Desert Group of patrols that gathered intelligence and generally bedeviled Italian and German troops, while Hungarian Count Ladislaus Almasy led the German equivalent of the LRDG. Some descriptions of violence. 2002.The legacy: an elder's vision for our sustainable future
By David T Suzuki. 2010
The world witnessed an explosion of scientific knowledge as well as a tripling of the world's population, a greatly increased…
ecological footprint through the global economy, and a huge growth in technological capacity. These changes have had a dire effect on Earth's ecosystems and consequently on our own well-being. We must accept that the laws of nature have priority over the forces of economics, and join together to respond to the problems we face. Bestseller. 2010.The last panda
By George B Schaller. 1993
From 1980 to 1985, George and Kay Schaller lived among the pandas on the Wolong panda reserve in China's Sichuan…
province. By the 1990s, there were fewer than 1,000 living in the wild -- despite efforts by the World Wildlife Fund International. Schaller describes his study of the panda in its natural habitat and efforts to save it, as well as discussing various factors -- such as human greed -- that have placed the panda in critical danger. 1993.The legacy of Luna: the story of a tree, a woman, and the struggle to save the redwoods
By Julia Butterfly Hill. 2000
The author writes of the more than two years she spent living high in a thousand-year-old California redwood tree called…
Luna. Her "treesit" was to protest Luna's slated destruction in an environmentally destructive clear-cutting. In December 1999 Hill, twenty-five, descended after an agreement was reached to preserve Luna and surrounding trees. 2000.The implosion conspiracy
By Louis Nizer. 1973
Our choice: a plan to solve the climate crisis
By Albert Gore. 2009
Picks up where An Inconvenient Truth left off, providing a blueprint for solving the global climate crisis and drawing on…
Mr. Gore's forty years of experience as a student, policymaker, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and activist. A co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental work, Mr. Gore illuminates the real solutions to the climate crisis and describes a comprehensive global strategy to implement them urgently. 2009.An inconvenient sequel: truth to power
By Albert Gore. 2017
Al Gore has been advocating on earth's behalf for twenty-five years. Here he recounts and contextualizes the critical issues and…
moments in the climate change movement since the release of An Inconvenient Truth more than ten years ago, and highlights the real solutions we have at hand to change the planet for the better. 2017.