http://www.ebooks.com/The-EnvironmentFeatured The Environment titles at eBooks.comhelp@ebooks.com©2009 Ebooks Corporation Ltd11/19/2009 7:40:09 AMhttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=29128320091911.29128311/19/2009 7:40:09 AMA 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 impact on the world's temperature.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=29486120091911.29486111/19/2009 7:40:09 AMCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is a 2005 book by Jared M. Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at University of California, Los Angeles. Diamond's book deals with "societal collapses involving an environmental component, and in some cases also contributions of climate change, hostile neighbors, and trade partners, plus questions of societal responses". In writing the book Diamond intended that its readers should learn from history.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=31939320091911.31939311/19/2009 7:40:09 AM2004 Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Wangari Maathai's book offers a compelling insight into the internationally acclaimed tree-planting movement founded by Kenyans and run by and for Kenyans.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=32703420091911.32703411/19/2009 7:40:09 AMFrom one of the world's greatest economic minds, author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty, a clear and vivid map of the road to sustainable and equitable global prosperity and an augury of the global economic collapse that lies ahead if we don't follow it. The global economic system now faces a sustainability crisis, Jeffrey Sachs argues, that will overturn many of our basic assumptions about economic life. The changes will be deeper than a rebalancing of economics and http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=34556420091911.34556411/19/2009 7:40:09 AMConsiders from a biological perspective, the controversial issues of our day: abortion, euthanasia, engineered evolution, cooperativity, and the future of sustainable life on this planet. This book explains the biological research and reviews the insights into molecular and human evolution and the role of DNA sequences in determining traits.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=35356320091911.35356311/19/2009 7:40:09 AM"Hakes argues persuasively that the United States can end its damaging dependence on foreign oil. He tells the story of failures and surprising successes in federal energy policies of the last forty years, and where we need to go in the future. Both a careful scholar and a realistic veteran of state and federal government, Hakes has written an important book that provides workable solutions to our nation's energy problems.". — Former President Jimmy Carter. In response to thehttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=31361520091911.31361511/19/2009 7:40:09 AMDeep Challenge blends oil-patch history, eyewitness accounts of disasters, and open access to the official files of Global Marine Inc., the recognized leader in offshore drilling, to tell a true and exciting story.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=30846420091911.30846411/19/2009 7:40:09 AMWhether you are a flower fanatic or just planning a trip to the countryside, this guide should form an ideal in-the-field reference. From orchids to cowslips, learn everything you need to know to be able to quickly and easily identify over 400 of the UK and Europe's most commonly found wild flowers.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=32200720091911.32200711/19/2009 7:40:09 AMProvides plans, with diagrams and schematics, to build more than 50 solar energy projects. This book provides explanations of the science and math behind each project. It also explains projects that progress in difficulty - from simple ones that may inspire science fair entries - all the way to converting a real home to solar energy.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=33366920091911.33366911/19/2009 7:40:09 AMLonging for a kinder, gentler world? As the old saying goes, everything begins at home, and odds are, if you live in the all-American household, the air inside is more toxic than the air outside, even if you live in the most polluted of cities. You regularly handle the filthiest object in your home -- the kitchen sponge -- and put the same chemicals on your face that are used in brake fluid and antifreeze. Learn time-saving, preventative housekeeping, such as taking thirty seconds to clean the shttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=27602920091911.27602911/19/2009 7:40:09 AMAustralian Aboriginals taught themselves thousands of years ago how to build a sustainable society in our fragile landscape. In a unique collaboration, a Swedish knowledge management professor finds out from an Aboriginal cultural custodian how they did it, and what we can learn from them.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=21502520091911.21502511/19/2009 7:40:09 AMDescribes new ways of looking at environmental science and politics, and discusses the problems of formulating and implementing environmental policy, particularly in the global arena and in developing countries.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=26644020091911.26644011/19/2009 7:40:09 AMThis book explains why the global community has been successful in correcting some recent large-scale problems, but has failed in addressing others. The analysis reaches from antibiotic-resistant microbes to greenhouse gases, from civil wars to international terrorism, and from the polluted atmospheres of cities to the depths of outer space.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=27212720091911.27212711/19/2009 7:40:09 AMWhile being pregnant is thrilling, the responsibility of a growing baby can provoke anxiety about what is and isn't safe. In The Complete Organic Pregnancy , Deirdre Dolan and Alexandra Zissu address how you can minimize your exposure to the invisible toxins that surround us&#8212in everything from food, cleaning products, and cosmetics to furniture, rugs, air, and water. Step by step, they tell you where dangerous chemicals are lurking, why it's so important to avoid them when pregnant, ahttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=27543920091911.27543911/19/2009 7:40:09 AMA CEO of the Institute for Global Futures makes predictions for the next four decades while counseling readers on how to appropriately prepare for anticipated changes, in an account that discusses large-scale events in such arenas as climate, energy, and terrorism.