books about: degradation

books about: degradation

books:

Degradation

Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (World As Home, The)

Milkweed Editions, 2007

At Last I Get It
This book is an exploration into what's right and what's wrong with the planet and our relationship with it. It was written as a sequel to an earlier book by McKibben, "The End of Nature." In this book, McKibben starts by identifying some areas where there is hope ...

The Frog: A Tale of Sexual Torture and Degradation

Claire Thompson

Running Press, 2006

You Love It or You Hate It, I Guess
Well, *I* LOVED IT! I've owned this book for a while and just happened across these three very disparate reviews. I think this book appeals if you like the dangerous side of things. I do agree with the reviewer who liked it , that it's a fantasy, and as such those old ...

Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's

Hunter S. Thompson

Simon & Schuster, 2003

Take this in small doses
What we have here are over 100 op-ed pieces (about 2 1/2 book pages each) that ran in the San Francisco Examiner over a three-year period, December 1985 thru November 1988 and are now compiled in Gonzo Papers Volume 2 (Volume 1 was The Great Shark Hunt). These were ...

Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle (The Lamar Series in Western History)

Matthew Klingle

Yale University Press, 2007

A History that Speaks to All Cities
Matthew Klingle has written a brilliant study of how the city--in this case Seattle but it could be any city--creates both beauty and ugliness in the same instance. Tracing stories about the physical, social, and cultural reorganization of Seattle and its hinterlands, ...

Evening Thoughts

Thomas Berry

Sierra Club Books, 2006

In comparison, our cultural thinking is dead.
The perspective I have come to is that for most of my life I lived in a human world which has not been able to offer in any comprehensive way, what really matters. What is going on is that the sources of human survival, imagination, knowledge and emotional balance ...

High Noon 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them

Jean-francois Rischard, J. F. Rischard

Basic Books, 2003

Straight-Forward, Understandable, URGENT, "Strong Buy"
Edit of 21 Dec 07 to aadd comment and links. Comment: This is still the best strategic overview and a book I would recommend all. See the others below. Having read perhaps 20 of the best books on global issues and environmental sustainability, water scarcity, ...

Disappearing World: 101 of the Earth's Most Extraordinary and Endangered Places

Alonzo C. Addison

Collins, 2008

Great coffee table book - with substance
I found this to be a really interesting book about an important, and I think, little known subject. I had heard a bit about world heritage sites but I wasn't really sure what they were. The book is very well-organized and easy to read. For each of the 100 sites ...

The Rabbits

John Marsden

Simply Read Books, 2003

Beautiful
Shaun Tan is one of the most talented artists in the picture books/graphic novels. This short book with huge pictures stands as one of his best. Each image is full of small details, beautiful colors, and creativity. It may be too dark for young children but anyone who ...

The Future of Life

Edward O. Wilson

Vintage, 2003

We are drawn to the natural world--but why?
This remarkable volume is one of a series of books in which Wilson sets forth the nature of life on earth, the preciousness of biodiversity and the significance of its loss to the planet. He also tries to suggest value systems and pathways for humanity to surmount its ...

The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment (Cornerstone Books (New York, N.Y.).)

John Bellamy Foster

Monthly Review Press, 1999

Slender but potent
This is a little book, but very informative, although some may be put off by its Marxist point of view. Environmental destruction, as Foster shows, is as old as humankind. Nevertheless destruction of the natural world has increased at an astonishing rate during modern ...

Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850
Steven W. Hackel

The University of North Carolina Press, 2005

Recovering lost voices and exploring issues intimate and institutional, this sweeping examination of Spanish California illuminates Indian struggles against a confining colonial order and amidst harrowing depopulation. To capture the enormous challenges Indians confronted, Steven W. Hackel integrates textual and quantitative sources and weaves ...

World Risk Society
Ulrich Beck

Polity, 1999

This major new book draws together key essays by one of Europe's leading social and political theorists.

Ill Nature

Joy Williams

Vintage, 2002

"Beautiful, menacing and slightly out of control."
Death and suffering are a big part of writing. A big part. (To paraphrase and turn upon the gifted Joy Williams; see page 49.) And you can't waste satire or pure hardcore ridicule on targets unworthy of the name. You've got to go after the people who kill animals, ...

Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World, Concise Revised ...
Richard P. Tucker

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007

Now in a concise edition created expressly for students and general readers, this widely hailed study traces the transformation of the tropics in modern times. Exploring the central role of the United States in the ongoing devastation of tropical lands, Richard Tucker highlights the unrelenting pressure caused by the demands of U.S. consumerism. ...

Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health!

John Berlau

Thomas Nelson, 2006

Just the Facts Please
This book nails down all of the garbage that the Environmentalist wackos have done to our industries, and to our judicial system. The amount of blood on their hands is astronomical. How much destruction is caused by saving a tree, banning an efficient chemical, ...