books by Fred Pearce     books:     Fred Pearce      When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century Fred Pearce Beacon Press, 2007 Lots of Detail He makes his point over and over and over again. I had to read this for a class, and the running joke we had was that he could have got his point across in 75 pages and saved alot of water from not having to print as many pages. Overall, this is a really good ...             With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change Fred Pearce Beacon Press, 2008 Welcome to the anthropocene--prepare to be surprised According to Dutch scientist Paul Crutzen, sometime in last two centuries the Earth left the relatively benign holocene and plunged into the uncharted waters of the anthropocene. "A single species is in charge of the planet," writes science journalist Fred Pearce, ...             Dry: Life Without Water Harvard University Press, 2006 Unevenly distributed, unevenly described For my shower this morning I probably used more water than many of the people described in "Dry, Life Without Water" use for a whole month. Water is so scarce for them that a bath might indeed be a once in a lifetime event. It's not, of course, that I am particularly ...             Deep Jungle Fred Pearce Transworld Publishers, 2005 More than for just a coffee table! I watched the PBS program on television and bought this book for my environmental scientist fiance. We both love this book and find it very interesting to flip through. The pictures are marvelous and the content is an easy, yet very informative read.             Keepers of the Spring: Reclaiming Our Water In An Age Of Globalization Fred Pearce Island Press, 2004 A Snapshot of today's water Fred Pearce serves his readers well. He provides us with an overview of the present water crisis, while also giving us historical glimpses of ancient water management practices that may help solve our present predicament. I have been researching and writing about ...             Fragile Earth: Views of a Changing World (Collins) Collins with contributors, Mark Lynas, ... Collins, 2006 Pictures are worth a thousand words. This is a book for those interested in the environment, business, photography or science. I teach business courses to adults. This book demonstrates the awesome power of paired photos to convey important messages about dramatic changes over a very short period of time. ...             Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff Fred Pearce Beacon Press, 2008 A global journey to find the sources of all the stuff in one man's life?and its social and environmental footprint Where does everything in our daily lives come from? The clothes on our backs, the computers on our desks, the cabinets in our kitchens, and the spices behind their doors? Under what conditions?environmental and social?are they ...             Earth Then and Now: Amazing Images of Our Changing World Fred Pearce Firefly Books, 2008 Disturbing yet totally captivating I work at a library, and as I was covering this book, I just had to look inside. I'm a fan of satellite images of the Earth to begin with, so naturally my interest in this book was piqued. I only opened to a random page to take a peek, but I ended up completly ...             Last Generation - How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change Fred Pearce Eden Project Books, 2007 Fantastic book; US edition known as "With Speed and Violence" FYI, this book is published in the US under the title "With Speed and Violence," so don't buy this expensive UK edition, thinking it's another, separate book by Pearce. The book is the best out of about a dozen that I've read recently on global warming. His ...             Global Warming (Essential Science Series) Fred Pearce, John Gribbin DK ADULT, 2002 Big ideas made simple -- six books in an incredible new series that explains important scientific ideas more clearly than ever before. Climate change resulting from an increase in greenhouse gases is perhaps the greatest threat to our planet's future. Here, Fred Pearce examines the causes and dramatic effects, and what can be done to remedy the ...             Turning Up the Heat Fred Pearce Bodley Head, 1989 Dated? I read this aware that it was well over 10 years old, and alot has changed in climatology and the general environmental debate in that time. Nevertheless, it holds many concurrent arguments, and some which have (temporarily?) become unfashionable. It perhaps ...             Deep Jungle: Travel to the Heart of the Rainforest Fred Pearce Transworld Publishers, 2007 An award-winning journalist takes us deep into the heart of the rain forests, past and present, to explore the many wonders of one of the final frontiers of biological science, where new discoveries occur daily.              Earth Then and Now: Potent Visual Evidence of Our Changing World Fred Pearce Mitchell Beazley, 2007 "Earth Then and Now" records the dramatic way in which our planet has changed in just the past one hundred years. It draws on the combined photographic archives of print, picture, and space agencies to create a powerful collection of images. Each pair of photographs has been selected to tell a compelling story - of a melting glacier, an expanding ...             Confessions of an Eco Sinner: Travels to Find Where My Stuff Comes from Fred Pearce Eden Project Books, 2008             When the Rivers Run Dry: Journeys Into the Heart of the World's Water Crisis Fred Pearce Key Porter Books, 2006 Nothing seems more abundant than water. In fact, the world is confronting a global water shortage that could make the oil crisis trivial by comparison. To put the problem in perspective, it takes a staggering 11,000 litres of water to feed the cow it takes to make one McDonald's quarter pounder. As Fred Pearce warns, "The planet is running out of ...          products you might be interested in search for books confessions, globalization, rainforest, reclaiming, scientists, twenty-first      toavi.com    web randomly chosen music: The Broadway Album