books by Island Press     books:     Island Press      The Great Lakes Water Wars Peter Annin Island Press, 2006 Great Lakes Water Wars is an excellent read I started out to skim Peter Annin's book, determine what to say, and decide how to write a requested review. I had no trouble becoming completely engrossed at the start of the Author's Note and Prologue, and read the whole thing. Cover to cover. I do not need to ...             The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream Christopher B. Leinberger Island Press, 2007 Urbanism, meet Realism Written from a perspective that most urban critiques fail to provide, this book grounds the reader in the real estate, demographic and policy realities that have shaped the American built environment into what we see today. Leinberger knows this stuff cold, both as a ...             The Unnatural History of the Sea Callum Roberts Island Press, 2007 Disappearing act The problem with the oceans is that you can't see what's going on down there. Foresters can count trees, birdwatchers have "life lists", but fishery managers can only weigh a catch and guesstimate the numbers. That's the fish that are landed - those and other life ...             Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, ... Island Press, 2004 reasonably well done A broad (though not particularly deep) guide to the public health problems associated with sprawl, including: (1) the air pollution caused by sprawl-induced auto traffic, (2) the health consequences of the reduction in walking caused by automobile dependency, (3) ...             The Complete Guide to Environmental Careers in the 21st Century Environmental Careers Organization Island Press, 1998 Excellent guide to environmental career paths This book is a superb guide to what is often a confusing jumble of environmental career paths. From forestry to hazardous waste management to environmental education, the authors at the Environmental Careers Organization give detailed information about 11 major ...             More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want Robert Engelman Island Press, 2008 "More" is Needed It seems inevitable that the world food crisis, combined with climate change and rising energy prices, will spur a renewed and contentious debate over the issue of population. Before that debate is renewed in its full intensity, everyone should read this book. ...             The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization Thomas Homer-Dixon Island Press, 2008 Reflecting in the fog The key question in this book is raised in the very middle: "Why don't we face reality?" A major reason is that we are groping in a fog to learn what that reality is. Homer-Dixon likens our society to a driver careering along a country road in a dense fog. We can ...             Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping And The Fate Of America's Fresh Waters Robert Jerome Glennon Island Press, 2004 The biggest pump wins! If we say "Glennon covers all the ground" in a book about water, will the reader be confused? Let's take the risk, since that is precisely what the author does in this excellent study. From the ways in which water collects or flows on the land's surface to the ...             Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed Alan Rabinowitz Island Press, 2007 Awesome account of getting stuff done in Burma While there has been a lot of criticism of Alan Rabinowitz's efforts in Myanmar, this book should put them to rest. Rabinowitz makes clear his desire to incorporate local stakeholders in the Hukawng Tiger Reserve and give them a surprisingly open voice in an otherwise ...             Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors, Second Edition J. William Thompson, Kim Sorvig Island Press, 2007 One of the most comprehensive books on sustainable landscape construction Time has changed. A few years ago, few people knew about sustainable design and construction, green buildings or LEED. Today, sustainable design and construction has gone mainstream. How do we know? We actually have clients asking us to design a LEED certified building ...             The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich Island Press, 2008 Ehrlichs Provide Both 'Big Picture' and Depth Using the theory of evolution as a framework, 'The Dominant Animal' provides a brilliant biological, cultural, economic, psychological, and political synthesis of the human condition at the dawn of the 21st century. Concepts and facts from an impressively wide variety ...             The World's Water 2006-2007: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources (World's Water) Peter H. Gleick, Heather Cooley, ... Island Press, 2006 A gem for water studies This is the first time I have seen "The World's Water" a bienniall report on the state of the planet's freshwaters and I have found what a gem of information it is. The individual essays on concrete aspects of freshwater in the world today refer to matters that are ...             Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy Jay Inslee, Bracken Hendricks Island Press, 2007 The Four Horsemen of the Energy Apocalypse Congressman Jay Inslee puts forth his view toward a solution to fuel prices and climate change. The field is rather crowded right now for books on this topic. Inslee approaches the angle of the economy and jobs more fully than his competitors. He remains more ...             Poisoned for Pennies: The Economics of Toxics and Precaution Frank Ackerman Island Press, 2008 “Cost-benefit analysis” is a term that is used so frequently we rarely stop to think about it. But relying on it can lead to some dubious conclusions, as Frank Ackerman points out in this eye-opening book. For example, some economists have argued that states should encourage—and even subsidize—cigarette smoking by citizens ...             Ecological Economics: Principles And Applications Joshua Farley, Herman E. Daly Island Press, 2003 A Solid Text on an Increasingly Important Science Ecological economics is a relatively new field that I believe will be central to economics in this century. This text book presents the basics. It is more comprehensive than most other works in this area, and also has greater depth. (If this is your first expedition ...          products you might be interested in search for books applications, catastrophe, civilization, communities, construction, environmental      geepe.com    web randomly chosen book: Villard: The Life and Times of an American Titan