 | While this gorgeous coffee table book celebrating America's national parks might be labeled by some as a companion to Ken Burns's PBS series, there is little question that it stands alone among books on the subject. Duncan and Burns combine... |
 | Columnist Thomas L. Friedman explains why, in a globalized world, crises in energy and the climate must be priorities. Friedman argues further that a globalized world makes it possible as never before to address these issues in a meaningful way, and... |
 | Nobel Peace Prize recipient Al Gore updates the status of the compelling ecological issues he first raised in his 2006 film and book AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, revealing that the solutions to every environmental problem exist, if we can summon the... |
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 | Evaluates Theodore Roosevelt's role in launching modern conservationsim, identifying the contributions of such influences as James Audubon and John Muir while describing how Roosevelt's exposure to natural wonders in his early life shaped his... |
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 | Pursuing the portrait of an apocalyptic near-future that she initiated in ORYX AND CRAKE--a future ravaged by alarmingly familiar excessive ways--Margaret Atwood tells a story as complex and prescient as she did with her masterwork THE HANDMAID'S... |
 | Filmed by astronauts from five space shuttle missions, this video gives the viewer an understanding of the forces affecting earth's fragile ecological balance through volcanoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and ultimately, humankind. |
 | Jared Diamond--a modern-day Gibbon with a scientific perspective--has created a study of the decline and fall of civilizations and societies that holds many lessons. In GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL, Diamond offered new and insightful reasons for the rise... |
 | When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too... |
