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Rattling the
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Toward
Legal Rights for animals
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Authors:
Steven M. Wise, Jane Goodall
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Hardcover
- 362 pages 1st edition (Feb 2000) Perseus
Books
ISBN: 0738200654
Dimensions (in inches): 1.29 x 9.56 x 6.44
Synopsis (adapted): Steven Wise has
spent his legal career in courts across
the United States, championing the interests
of many animal species. In Rattling the
Cage, Wise (a teacher of Animal Rights Law
at several academic institutions, including
Harvard Law School), presents a thorough
survey of the legal, philosophical, and
religious origins of humankind's inhumanity
toward citizens of the animal kingdom.
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From
Naked Ape
to Super Species
A
Personal Perspective on Humanity and
the Global Ecocrisis (1999) |
Authors:
David Suzuki, Holly Dressel
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ISBN: 0773731946 Stoddart Pub. - Hardcover,
300 pages, November 1999
The Canadian genetic scientist Dr David
Suzuki took up the causes of Ecology and
Environmental Conservation over 30 years
ago. His insights into our current global
problems are both comprehensive and profound.
For a complete list of Dr Suzuki's Books
& tapes (radio interviews etc.) visit: http://www.davidsuzuki.org/completelist.htm
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Earth
in the Balance:
Ecology and
the Human Spirit
(1992) |
Author:
Al Gore
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Paperback - 432 pages
Reprint edition (January 1993) Plume
ISBN: 0452269350
Dimensions (in inches): 0.97 x 7.99 x 5.31
Other Editions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
Synopsis (Amazon.com):
A passionate defender of the environment
for more than 20 years, Senator Al Gore
from Tennessee is now convinced that the
engines of human civilization have brought
us to the brink of catastrophe. In this
brave work, he argues that only a radical
rethinking of our relationship with nature
can save the earth for future generations.
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The
Sky's the Limit
A Defense of
the Earth
(1990) |
Author:
John Nichols
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Hardcover - Sept. 1990 W.W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393028658
Dimensions (in inches): 0.88 x 9.53 x 6.49
Paperback not available, publisher out of
stock.
Synopsis (Amazon.com): In the tradition
of Thoreau, Edward Abbey, and Annie Dillard,
The Sky's the Limit is an environmental
manifesto, with 68 lyrical photographs of
an untouched mesa near the author's home
in Taos, New Mexico. A provocative essary
on the fate of our planet complements these
full-color images
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Gaia : An Atlas of Planet Management
(1984/93) |
Author:
Dr. Norman Myers
Editor: Nancy J. Myers
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Paperback
- 272 pages Rev & updatd edition (January
1, 1993) Anchor Books/Doubleday
ISBN: 0385426267
Dimensions (in inches): 0.71 x 11.33 x 8.42
Synopsis From the Publisher: For
the first time since its publication in
l984, a completely updated and revised edition
of this best-selling atlas which brings
it into the 1990s, incorporating the new
events, issues, and statistics of the past
decade.
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Greenhouse
- Global Warming
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Greenhouse:
The 200-Year
Story of Global Warming
(1999) |
Author:
Gale E. Christianson
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Hardcover
- 288 pages Walker & Co
ISBN: 0802713467
Dimensions (in inches): 1.20 x 9.46 x 5.87
Synopsis (Amazon.com): In this illuminating
history of global warming, a scientific
idea that fills today's headlines, Christianson
blends the research of a scholar with a
novelist's storytelling skills, unfolding
his epic through a series of elegantly linked
stories.
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Author:
Steven H. Schneider
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Paperback - 192 pages
(Nov 1998) Basic Books
ISBN: 0465072801
Dimensions (in inches): 0.55 x 8.01 x 5.30
Synopsis (Amazon.com):
Stephen H. Schneider is a climatologist
at Stanford and author and editor of several
books on the greenhouse effect His insights
into the impact of industrial emissions
on climate change influence policy makers
and environmental activists alike. In Laboratory
Earth, Schneider has digested the complex
and quantitative details of global warming
into an accessible overview of the scientific
situation that never slides into simplification.
The details of global warming can at times
seem overwhelming, but Schneider's slim
volume admirably attempts to tell this story
with the sense of importance and immediacy
he clearly believes it deserves.
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The
Heat Is on:
The
Climate Crisis,
the Cover-Up,
the Prescription
(1998) |
Author:
Ross Gelbspan
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Paperback - 288 pages Updated edition (September
1998) Perseus Books
ISBN: 0738200255
Dimensions (in inches): 0.93 x 8.27 x 5.40
Synopsis (Amazon.com): Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ross Gelbspan
exposes the machinations of oil and coal
companies and conservative politicians to
undermine the public confidence in science
and thereby defer action against global
warming. This riveting expose is a spirited
call to action against the corporate disinformation
campaign that threatens us all.
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Power
Places - Destinations
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Author: Michael Palin
Photographer:
Basil Pao
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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated
ISBN: 0297843710
Synopsis (Excerpt from Amazon.com): In this his most challenging journey, Michael Palin tackles the Himalaya, the greatest mountain range on earth.
In a journey rarely, if ever, attempted before, in 6 months of hard travelling Palin takes on the full length of the Himalaya including the Khyber Pass, the hidden valleys of the Hindu Kush, ancient cities like Peshawar and Lahore, the mighty peaks of K2, Annapurna and Everest, the bleak and barren plateau of Tibet, the gorges of the Yangtze, the tribal lands of the Indo-Burmese border and the vast Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh. Facing altitudes as high as 17,500 feet as well as some of the world's deepest gorges, Palin also passed through political flashpoints like Pakistan's remote north-west frontier, terrorist-torn Kashmir and the mountains of Nagaland, only recently open to visitors. They had a brush with the Maoists while filming in Nepal and advice from the Dalai Lama before crossing into Tibet. This book, compiled from his diaries, records the pleasure and pain of an extraordinary journey.
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Walking the
Yukon:
A Solo Trek
Through the Land of Beyond
(1993) |
Author:
Chris Townsend
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Paperback
(September 1993) Tab Books
ISBN: 0877424209
Dimensions (in inches): 0.61 x 8.97 x 5.99
Synopsis (Amazon.com): Leaving Skagway,
Alaska, in June 1990, Townsend followed
the footsteps of the Klondike goldrushers
across the Yukon's rugged mountains, wild
rivers, and muskeg swamps. Focusing on the
Yukon's history, geology, and wildlife,
Townsend finds reminders of the gaunt men
chronicled by Robert Service almost a century
ago. 15 illustrations.
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