Search Results: Environment from Diatrope Books

Chelsea Green, 2012. Paperback. Very Good. 8x6x1. Unmarked text. Charts and graphs. Notes. Index. 392p. 6x9 inches. Published 40 years after the Limits of Growth, Randers issues a progress report and makes predictions for the next 40 years.

Holbrook, AZ: Petrified Forest Museum Association, 1951. Booklet (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked text. Color reproductions. 24p. Presented by the Petrified Forest Museum Association and the Arizona State Highway Department. Popular Series No. 3.

California Fish and Game, 1979. Booklet (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Illustrated throughout. with map, drawings, and tables. 112p. Measures 5x6.5 inches.

National Geographic, The Wilderness Society, 2014. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 10x8x0. Unmarked text. Dust jacket with large tears under clear mylar cover. Foreword by Jamie Williams. Peter Essick has photographed stories for National Geographic on many environmental issues including climate change, high-tech trash, nuclear waste and freshwater. 112p. Measures 10.5x9 inches.

US Atomic Energy Commission, 1966. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked text. Illustrated. 58p. References. Title in the World of the Atom Series. Topics include environmental studies, problems and projects, where are we now, etc.

Alameda County Waste Management Authority, nd. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Illustrated. A few nicks on cover. This 62 page guide is written for the professional landscape industry as a way to provide an integrated approach to environmentally friendly landscaping.

Island Press, A Shearwater Book, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. A look at environmental problems at the end of the 20th century and the fundamental importance of the scientific process in solving them. 335p. Index. Measures 6x9 inches.

Walker & Company, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked book. Unclipped dust jacket. 310p. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Charts the science of carbon and makes us aware of the seminal impact carbon has, and has had, on our lives.

University of California Press, 1998. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Previous owner's name on front end page. Foreword by Lester C. Thurow. A few illustrations. Notes. Sources. Index. 499p. Measures 6x9 inches. Offers a late 20th century description of the U.S. renewable energy industry and an argument for regulatory change to support it. Case studies.

National Academy of Sciences, 2011. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Program/Lecture by Warren M. Washington on February 25, 2011, Third Annual Address 2011 for the African American History Program Annual Lecture Series. 15p. Illustrated. Measures 8.5x12 inches.

Pew Center, 2004. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Good. Unmarked text. Some rubbing on cover. References. Notes. Tables. 42p. With contributions by Timothy Herzog and Matthew Markoff. Some rubbing on cover. This paper presents insights and observations from an analysis of emissions, energy and socio-economic data for the world's largest gas-emitting countries. It is a part of the Pew Center's series on Advancing the International Effort Against Climate Change.

National Academies Press, 1992. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Report of a Panel of the Board on Science and Technology for International Development US National Research Council. References. Recommended reading. 125p. The book includes late 20th century discussions of research needs in the biological sciences as well as economics and anthropology, areas of critical importance to conservation and sustainable development.

Little, Brown and Co, 2013. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 102x26x154. Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. 513p. Measures 6.25x9.75 inches. Black-and-white illustrations. Bibliography. Index. A 2013 perspective on the fastest, most acceptable, practical, and affordable way of returning our planet and our presence on it to balance. Weisman again shows that he is one of the most provocative journalists at work today, with a book whose message is so compelling that it will change how we see our lives and our destiny.

International Project for Sustainable Energy Paths (IPSEP), 2001. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Sun fading on cover. In collaboration with Paul Baer and Stephen J. DeCanio. 54p. Bibliography. Measures 8.25x11 inches.

International Water Association, 2004. Paperback. Good. Unmarked. Some edge wear. Issues addressed based on a systems approach. Key words index. Participants included P.A. Wilderer, R. Lenton, J. Ramirez-Vaellejo and P. Rogers, E. Gabbrielli, I.R. Cader, D. Duncan, and M. Meybeck. 242p.

Norton, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket with tiny tear at spine. Index. 279p. Descriptions on the many renewable energy sources currently being developed.

Yale University Press, 2013. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 5x1x9. Unmarked. Dust jacket under clear mylar cover. 247p. Measures 5.75x8.75 inches. Notes. Index. Includes figures and tables. Topics include what is geoengineering, carbon, sunlight, geopolitics, ethics, and more.

US Geological Survey, 1991. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Illustrated throughout with maps, photographs, and diagrams. Part of a series to provide information about the earth sciences, natural resources and the environment. Covers the history of earthquakes, locations, measurement, prediction, etc.

Childrens Press, 1987. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Previous owner's name stamped on title page. Price sticker shadow on back cover. Explores what causes earthquakes, where the tremendous power of a quake comes from, why they occur without warning, and whether it is possible to predict earthquakes. Illustrated throughout. 48p.

Wiley Academy, 2003. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Measures 5 inches square. Illustrated throughout. 144p. The ecocell is a vertical integrating device to bring landscape elements, daylight, rainwater, natural ventilation and sewage recycling vertically across all levels of the builtform. The concept is explained in two masterplan projects by Hamzah and Yeang (registered T. R. Hamzah and Yeang Sdn. Bhd.) the Amsterdam Center of Science & Technology and the West Kowloon Waterfront Development.