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	"Planet In Peril" [C.N.N. special 2007]   Hosted by Anderson Cooper, with Jeff Corwin & Sanjay Gupta CNN widescreen color DVD [11/2007] 2 disks for $29.95 full credits at IMDb
	"Science Magazine's State of The Planet 2006-2007" [2006] by Donald Kennedy & the Editors of Science Island Press 10x7 pb [6/2006] for $13.25
	"Moving Mountains: How One Woman & Her Community   Won Justice From Big Coal" [2007] by Penny Loeb Univ Press of KY 9x6¼ hardcover [7/2007] for $18.45
	"This Moment On Earth: Today's New Environmentalists & Their Vision For The Future" [2007] by John Kerry & Teresa Heinz Kerry PublicAffairs hardcover [3/2007] for $14.25 Tantor Media audio CD [4/2007] for $19.79 official book site
	"Thirst: Fighting The Corporate Theft of Our Water" [2007] by Alan Snitow & Deborah Kaufman, with Michael Fox Jossey-Bass 9x6 hardcover [3/2007] for $18.45 "Thirst" episode of P.O.V. [aired on P.B.S. in 2004] video/DVD not available at Amazon; program credits at IMDb P.B.S. program page • producer's movie site
	"The End of The Wild" [2006] by Stephen M. Meyer "a to-the-point, X-ray-explicit diagnosis of the state of the biosphere" M.I.T. Press/Boston Review 7¼x4¾ hardcover [9/2006] for $10.61
	"Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy" [2006] Edited by George Wuerthner Island Press 9x6 pb [8/2006] for $23.10 Island Press 16x12½ pb [6/2006] for $29.70 Island Press 13½x12 hardcover [6/2006] for $54.00
	"The Environmental Endgame: Mainstream Economics, Ecological Disaster & Human Survival" [2006] by Robert L. Nadeau "a stimulating and radically new approach to sustainability" Rutgers Univ Press 9x6¼ hardcover [4/2006] for $16.47
	"When The Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of The Twenty-First Century" [2006] by Fred Pearce Beacon Press hardcover [3/2006] for $16.98
	"Lost Mountain: A Year In The Vanishing Wilderness - Radical Strip Mining & The Devastation of Appalachia" [2006] by Erik Reece, photography by John J. Cox Riverhead 8¼x6¾ hardcover [2/2006] for $15.72
	"Missing Mountains: We Went To The Mountaintop But It Wasn't There" [2005] Edited by Kristin Johannsen, Bobbie Ann Mason & Mary Ann Taylor-Hall Wind Publns 10x7 pb [10/2005] for $10.40
	"Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children For A Sustainable World" [2005] Edited by Michael K. Stone & Zenobia Barlow Sierra Club 9x6 pb [10/2005] for $11.53 Center for EcoLiteracy [est.1995]
	"Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People & The Environment" [2005] by Jacques Leslie FS&G 9½x6¼ hardcover [9/2005] for $16.50
	"Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of The Arctic" [2005] by Marla Cone Grove Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [4/2005] for $16.32
	"Wisdom For A Livable Planet: The Visionary Work of Terri Swearingen, Dave Foreman, Wes Jackson, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Werner Fornos, Herman Daly, Stephen Schneider & David Orr" [2005] by Carl N. McDaniel Trinity Univ Press 9x6 pb [2/2005] for $12.21 Trinity Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/2005] for $26.40
	"The End of The Line: How Overfishing Is Changing The World & What We Eat" [2004] by Charles Clover Ebury Press pb [3/2005] out of print/used New Press 8½x6 hardcover [11/2006] for $18.60
	"No Turning Back: The Life & Death of Animal Species" [2004] by Richard Ellis HarperCollins 9¼x6¼ hardcover [8/2004] for $17.65
	"Bush vs. The Environment" [2004] by Robert S. Devine Anchor pb [6/2004] for $9.00
	"The Limits To Growth: The 30-Year Global Update" [2004] by Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers & Dennis Meadows Chelsea Green pb [6/2004] for $15.75 Chelsea Green hardcover [6/2004] for $24.50 original "The Limits To Growth" [1972] NAL pb [10/77] out of print/used
	"Strategic Ignorance: Why The Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying A Century of Environmental Progress" [2004] by Carl Pope & Paul Rauber Sierra Club Books 8½x6½ pb [5/2006] for $11.53 Sierra Club Books 9¼x6½ hardcover [5/2004] for $15.72
	"Red Sky At Morning: America & The Crisis of The Global Environment - A Citizen's Agenda For Action" [2004] by James Gustave Speth {dean at Yale} Yale Nota Bene pb [3/2005] for $10.88 Yale Univ Press hardcover [2/2004] for $24.00
	"Six Modern Plagues: And How We Are Causing Them" [2003] by Mark Jerome Walters, DVM Shearwater Books hardcover 8½x6 [10/2003] for $15.40
	"Strangely Like War: The Global Assault On Forests" [2003] by Derrick Jensen & George Draffan Chelsea Green 8½x5½ pb [10/2003] for $10.50
	"A Citizen's Guide To Ecology" [2003] by Lawrence B. Slobodkin Oxford Univ Press pb [4/2003] for $10.47 Oxford Univ Press hardcover [5/2003] for $37.62
	"Extinction: Evolution & The End of Man" [2002] by Michael Boulter Columbia Univ Press 8¼x6½ hardcover [11/2002] for $26.00
	"Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly & The Politics of Thirst" [2002] by Diane Raines Ward "A solidly researched, eminently accessible book on the world's water situation." – Bernadette Murphy, Los Angeles Times Riverhead Books 9½x6.3 hardcover [8/2002] for $17.47
	"Essential Science: Global Warming (A Beginner's Guide To Our Changing Climate)" [2002] by Fred Pearce Dorling Kindersley 7x5 pb [4/2002] for $6.95
	"Blue Gold: The Fight To Stop The Corporate Theft of The World's Water" [2002] by Maude Barlow & Tony Clarke New Press 9¼x6 pb [4/2003] for $11.87 New Press 9.4x6½ hardcover [4/2002] out of print/used
	"Fire In The Turtle House: The Green Sea Turtle & The Fate of The Ocean" [2001] by Osha Gray Davidson Public Affairs 8.9x4.8 pb [8/2003] for $10.50 Public Affairs 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2001] for $18.20
	"Canaries On The Rim: Living Downwind In The West" [2000] by Chip Ward Utah citizens fight an uphill battle to prevent 'ecocide' in the American desert. The struggle is on-going... Verso Books pb [5/2001] for $11.20 Verso Books hardcover [1/2000] for $26.99
	Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource" [2000] by Canadian journalist Marq de Villiers Mariner 8¼x5½ pb [7/2001] for $10.50 Houghton Mifflin 8½x5¾ hardcover [1/2000] out of print/used
	"Fresh Water" [1998] by E. C. Pielou "A solid contribution to environmental literacy." Univ Chicago Press 8x6 pb [4/2000] for $11.20 Univ Chicago Press 8.3x6½ hardcover [9/98] for $16.80
	"Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer & The Environment" [1997] by Sandra Steingraber "...as accessible and invaluable as Silent Spring – and potentially as historic." – Washington Post Vintage 8x5¼ pb [9/98] for $11.20 Perseus 9½x6¼ hardcover [5/97] out of print/used
	"The End of Nature" [1989 classic; revised 1997] by Bill McKibben Random House 3rd edition pb [6/2006] for $10.17 Tenth Anniversary Edition: Anchor 8x5¼ pb [8/97] for $11.20 Peter Smith 8¼x5¼ hardcover [6/2001] out of print/used Random House 9¾x6¾ hardcover [9/89] out of print/many used
	"Cadillac Desert: The American West & Its Disappearing Water" [orig 1986; rev 1993] by Marc Reisner Penguin 8½x5½ pb [1/93] for $11.56 Viking 9½x6¼ hardcover [8/86] out of print/used

"Laying Waste: The Poisoning of America By Toxic Chemicals" [1983]
by Michael H. Brown
Bookthrift hardcover [10/83] out of print/many used

"The Oceans: Our Last Resource" [1982] by Wesley Marx
Random House hardcover [6/82] out of print/many used

"Extinction: The Causes & Consequences of The Disappearance of Species"
[1981] by Paul R. & Anne H. Ehrlich
Ballantine pb [4/83] out of print/used
Random House hardcover [4/81] out of print/many used

	"The Lorax" [1971] by Dr. Seuss A heartfelt ecological warning, a morality play for adults as well as children. Random House YR hardcover [8/71] for $10.47 Random House YR book & cassette [3/92] for $11.20 Lectorum Pubns Spanish edition [1/93] for $10.47 animated cartoon on DVD [10/2003] for $13.03 animated cartoon on VHS [10/2003] for $9.98
	"Silent Spring" [1962 bestseller] by Rachel Carson Mariner 8x5½ pb [10/2002] for $11.20 Houghton Mifflin 8½x5¾ hardcover [10/2002] for $16.80 Durkin Hayes ABR audio [3/99] out of print/used DH Audio [1/87] 2 tapes / out of print/used bio by Linda J. Lear [1997]: Owl pb [9/98] for $14.00 LJL's R.C. website
	"The Sea Around Us" [1951 bestseller] by Rachel Carson 31 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list Oxford Univ Press 8x5.3 pb [12/91] for $11.17 Oxford Univ Press hardcover [9/2003] for $31.50 Oscar-winning documentary film [1 hour; RKO 1952] video not available; credits from IMDb
	"A Sand County Almanac" [1949 nature classic] by Aldo Leopold Ballantine pb [6/90] for $7.50 Highbridge ABR audio [6/2000] 2 tapes for $13.27 2002 edition with photos by Michael Sewell Oxford Univ Press 12.3x9.3 hardcover [2/2002] for $24.50 1987 Commemorative Edition with additional essays, and sketches by Charles W. Schwartz Oxford Univ Press pb [5/89] for $9.56 Oxford Univ Press hardcover [12/87] for $18.70

Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82]
browse books • online etexts • Wikipedia

'Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson' site
'Emerson Central'

Henry David Thoreau [1817-62]
browse books • online etexts • Wikipedia

Thoreau Institute at Walden [est. 1998] in Maine
Thoreau papers at Northern Illinois University

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