Skip to content

The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature Paperback - 2006

by Suzuki, David

  • Used

Description

UsedVeryGood The cover is clean but does show some wear. .
UsedVeryGood The cover is clean but does show some wear.
NZ$4.15
NZ$8.32 Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 3 to 12 days
More Shipping Options
Ships from Goodwill of the San Francisco Bay (California, United States)

Details

  • Title The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
  • Author Suzuki, David
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd
  • Condition UsedVeryGood The cover is clean but does show some wear.
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Greystone Books, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • Date January 12, 2006
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 49FUKR0017RC_ns
  • ISBN 9781550549638 / 1550549634
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.54 x 5.56 x 0.72 in (21.69 x 14.12 x 1.83 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 304.2

About Goodwill of the San Francisco Bay California, United States

Biblio member since 2021
Seller rating: This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

SF Goodwill is a non-profit social enterprise. We are committed to providing a second chance to tens of thousands of local people with barriers to employment through training and the power of work.

Terms of Sale:

Every book you buy on Biblio is backed by a 30 day return guarantee.

Biblio.com customers may return a book for a refund and/or exchange (if a copy is available from the bookseller) within the following terms and conditions:

If the order does not arrive within 7 business days of the estimated delivery date for domestic shipments, or within 14 business days of the estimated delivery date for international shipments, you are eligible for a full refund of the purchase price, including shipping costs. You must contact Biblio.com within 30 days of the estimated delivery date to initiate a refund for an order lost in transit.

If the book is returned to the bookseller for one of the above reasons, or a similar reason, the refund price will include the book price only. You must contact Biblio.com within 30 days of the estimated delivery date to initiate this refund.

You are eligible to receive a full refund of the purchase price, including the original shipping costs, if your return is a result of an error on the bookseller's part. Refunds on return shipping costs are at the discretion of the participating bookseller or Biblio.com. To receive a refund, you must send the item directly to the bookseller within 30 days of the estimated delivery date, in the same condition in which it was received. Please be sure to contact support@biblio.com before returning your item to the bookseller.

Browse books from Goodwill of the San Francisco Bay

Summary

This special 10th anniversary edition of the David Suzuki classic, re-examines our place in the natural world in light of sweeping environmental changes and recent advances in scientific knowledge.In the ten years since The Sacred Balance was first published, global warming has become a major issue as glaciers and polar ice caps have begun to melt at an alarming rate, populations of polar bears have dwindled, the intensity of hurricanes and tsunamis has drastically increased, coral bleaching is occurring globally, and the earth has experienced its hottest years in over four centuries. In this new and extensively revised and amplified edition of his best-selling book, David Suzuki reflects on these changes and examines what they mean for our place in the world.The basic message of this seminal, best-selling work remains the same: We are creatures of the earth, and as such, we are utterly dependent on its gifts of air, water, soil, and the energy of the sun. These elements are not just external factors; we take them into our bodies, where they are incorporated into our very essence. What replenishes the air, water, and soil and captures sunlight to vitalize the biosphere is the diverse web of all beings. The recently completed human genome project has revealed that all species are our biological kin, related to us through our evolutionary history. And it appears that our need for their company is programmed into our genome.The cataclysmic events of the last decade require that we rethink our behaviour and find a new way to live in balance with our surroundings. This book offers just such a new direction for us all.

First line

Suppose that 200,000 years ago, biologists from another galaxy searching for life forms in other parts of the universe had discovered Earth and parked their space vehicle above the Rift Valley in Africa.

Categories