Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+5525+4294967242 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694343 Sam Sheridan has done everything from mixed martial arts to firefighting to construction at the South Pole. If he isnt ready for the apocalypse, no one is. Still, despite his arsenal of skills, when Sam had his son, he was beset with nightmares about being unable to protect him. Sam decided to face his fears head-on, embarking on a quest to gain as many skills as possible that might come in handy should the world as we know it end. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687302 Sam Sheridan has traveled the world as an amateur boxer and mixed martial arts fighter; he has worked as an EMT, a wilderness firefighter, a sailor, a cowboy at the largest ranch in Montana, and in construction under brutal conditions at the South Pole. If he isnt ready for the apocalypse and the fractured world that will ensue, we are all in a lot of trouble. Despite an arsenal of skills that puts many to shame, when Sam became a father he was beset with nightmares about being unable to protect his son. If the power grid went down, how much food and water would you need? If you were forced outside the city limits, could you survive in the wilderness? And lets not even talk about plagues and attacking aliens. The problem is, each scenario requires a different skill set--so Sam decides to gain as many skills as possible.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713925 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667961 We dont have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumptions regarding energy, offers refreshingly straight talk about whats wrong with the way we think and talk about the problem. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683183 More people live in closer proximity to more wild animals, birds and trees in the eastern United States today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history. Perhaps you are one of more than 4,000 drivers who will hit a deer today, your childs soccer field is carpeted with goose droppings, coyotes are killing your pets, or bears are looting your garbage cans. As conservationists transplanted isolated species to restored habitats and imposed regulations on hunters and trappers, and people moved across a landscape once occupied by family farms, an animal-lovers dream-come-true often turns into a sprawl-dwellers nightmare. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674809 Offers a travelogue of the authors trip to family-owned farms across America to help farmers harvest over a dozen food crops, including wheat, cranberries, and Hopi blue corn, and his efforts to form connections with them and the land. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1235709 If youve ever been intrigued by chirping in the treetops or wished you could attract more bird life to your front porch, The Joy of Birding is for you. Here is the ideal illustrated companion for becoming a successful bird watcher. This colorful and unique guide combines the best of all birding books--it offers basic instructions for beginning birders, a key for identifying popular birds, and tips for attracting beautiful winged visitors to your neighborhood and backyard...--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306892 A modern Walden--if Thoreau had had three kids and a minivan--Cabin Fever is a serious yet irreverent take on living in a cabin in the woods while also living within our high-tech, materialist culture. Tom Montgomery Fate turns Thoreaus immortal statement I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately on its head with the phrase, I got married and had children because I wished to live deliberately. Though he spends half his time at a cabin in the woods, the author issues no world-renouncing, back-to-nature paean. Fate, unlike Thoreau, balances his solitude with full engagement in family and civic life, and cultivates mindfulnesss in both worlds. Through stories such as The Confused Cardinal, in which a male bird feeding chicks of another species leads the author to reflect on parenting, and In the Time of Cicadas, which juxtaposes his wifes hysterectomy with the burgeoning fecundity of seventeen-year cicadas, Fate explores how to live a more deliberate life amid a high-tech material culture and invites readers to consider the possibility of enough in a culture of more-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1299187 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1273938 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393801 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1427591 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1272303 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110554 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1087101 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1170139 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1185538 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1128620 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110923 Veteran environmental journalist Craig Welch delves into the wilds of our nations waters and forests in search of some of Americas most unusual criminals and the cops who are on a mission to take them down. This thrilling examination of the international black market for wildlife is filled with butterfly thieves, bear slayers, and shark-trafficking pastors--all part of one of the largest illegal trades in the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306809 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110565 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=938851 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1008043 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1271380 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=963027 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=993163 As an antidote to the destructive culture of consumption dominating American life today, Scott Russell Sanders calls for a culture of conservation that allows us to savor and preserve the world, instead of devouring it. How might we shift to a more durable and responsible way of life? What changes in values and behavior will be required? Ranging geographically from southern Indiana to the Boundary Waters Wilderness and culturally from the Bible to billboards, Sanders extends the visions of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and Rachel Carson to our own day. He shows the crucial relevance of a conservation ethic at a time of mounting concern about global climate change, depletion of natural resources, extinction of species, and the economic inequities between rich and poor nations. The important message of this book is that conservation is not simply a personal virtue but a public one.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=938720 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=964508 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1033074 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1003501 In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the worlds first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=945990 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1005863 In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into an unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. In the days after the storm, Abdulrahman traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared-- arrested and accused of being an agent of al Qaeda. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=962782 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1133006 Kevin Armitage presents the first comprehensive history of the nature study movement, demonstrating its significance to American environmental thought and politics. He shows how nature study, as both a pedagogic and popular idea, has had a lasting effect on American culture and society, and his reevaluation of the movement has much to tell us about the American relationship with the nonhuman world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=959257 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=962885 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=985357 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=719769 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=694350 Storm Warning is an account of one of the most terrible tornadoes in history - and the extraordinary people who kept it from becoming the deadliest. May 3, 1999, is a day that Oklahomans will never forget. By the time the sun set over a ravaged plain, some 71 tornadoes had claimed 11,000 homes and businesses and caused a billion dollars in damages. One of them was a mile-wide monster of incredible power, the fiercest F5 twister to hit a metropolitan area, and whose 300 mph winds were the fastest ever recorded on the planet. Journalist Nancy Mathis draws on numerous interviews to weave the story of those few terrifying hours that irrevocably changed the lives of many Oklahomans. Storm Warning features Kara Wiese, who fought to save her son from the fatal winds, and Charlie Cusack, who followed the tornados progress on television until it came knocking on his front door. Amazingly, only thirty-eight people perished at the hands of the Oklahoma F5. Many lives were saved by the efforts of professionals such as Ted Fujita, the creator of the Fujita Scale (dubbed Mr. Tornado for his relentless pursuit to unravel a twisters mysteries); the oft-criticized but dogged government meteorologists; and Gary England, a resourceful TV weatherman whose tireless efforts prepared hundreds of people in the tornados path. Storm Warning alternates between personal stories and the history of the struggle to understand this bewildering force of Mother Nature.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=725402 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=695413 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=689826 In this book energy experts Alan Herbst and George Hopley provide you with a balanced look at the benefits and drawbacks associated with this effective alternative to traditional energy sources, and discuss why the time has come for the United States to revitalize its nuclear generation assets.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=880161 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=606546 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=647376 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=728739 The average American household generates 55,000 pounds of carbon dioxide every year. Gershon explains how, by making specific changes to actions we already take every day, we can significantly reduce our CO2 emissions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=641898 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=669514 A gripping account of the dramatic race to preserve one of Americas most imperiled birds.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=654426 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=621986 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=630333 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=654933 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=651658 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=613768 Hands-On Environmentalism shows how to find voluntary, enduring solutions to environmental problems apart from governmental intervention.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=603992 The restoration of the Florida Everglades. The return of the wolf to Yellowstone and the condor to the wild. The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Dismantling obsolete dams. Each was a landmark of environmental progress in the 1990s and each was realized under the guidance of then Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt. Now he draws on these experiences to develop a surprising message - such episodic conservation victories, however important, will not be sufficient either to protect our disappearing open spaces or to contain the blight of urban sprawl. In Cities in the Wilderness, Babbitt makes the case for a new national land use policy. Throughout our history, from George Washingtons day to the present, federal policies have encouraged and subsidized destructive resource exploitation and out-of-control development that threaten the American landscape. From Babbitts incisive analysis comes a vision and a program for how it should be done: a federal leadership role in land use planning, a new way of thinking about open space that retains local control while acknowledging national interests.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1429123 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=612494 Americas national parks are home to hundreds of species of wild mammals. Captured in vivid photographs, both the mammals and the parks are revealed in this book written by two leading experts - one a forester and the other a zoologist. The book opens with descriptions of the history and landscape of each park and gives an overview of conservation issues and tips on sighting particular animals. The second half of the book provides a thorough description of each type of mammal, including appearance, behavior, range, and feeding habits. The environmental issues affecting the mammal populations are highlighted for each group.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=606515 As we stand eye-to-eye with an eel or octopus, watch the mesmerizing drift of jellyfish, or admire the powerful leap of a dolphin, we begin to comprehend the complexity, beauty, and adventure of our planets inner space-the oceans. Public aquariums can open that window to the sea. They offer close and often eerily personal glimpses of a watery world far removed from our everyday experience and yet vital to our existence. Window to the Sea, the companion to the PBS television program, provides a rare glimpse behind the scenes and into the field with professionals from four great aquariums: the New England Aquarium in Boston, the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, and the Waikiki Aquarium in Hawaii. Youll see how different aquariums work: how staff members care for and feed their animals, how they educate the public, and what research and conservation activities are under way on land or in the sea. With its engaging writing, 300 color photographs (including images from the TV show), and an appendix detailing major aquariums in the United States, Window to the Sea provides an insiders view of the oceans alien underwater realm. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=582274 With Matt Biddle, an Ahab-like veteran storm chaser as his guide, Mark Svenvold draws a portrait of a culture enamored by extremes during a 6,000-mile journey through Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. Along the way, the author encounters an assortment of characters out of a Fellini film: a duo named the Twister Sisters, from St. Cloud, Minnesota; a crowd-pleasing trio from CUPP (California University of Pennsylvania at Pittsburgh); a team of chaser-scientists who have partnered with an IMAS filmmaker from Los Angeles who drives an armor-plated truck; and a stock car racer from North Carolina whose goal is to drive through a tornado. Big Weather is a wryly observed meditation upon the weather as a marketable celebrity and what this says about us. In Mark Svenvolds prose we confront the tornados awesome power while keeping company with a merry band of meteorological savants ready to drop everything and drive hundreds of miles in pursuit of the next big one.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=571102 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1170954 Aliens in the Backyard: Plant and Animal Imports into America recounts the origins and impacts of non-indigenous species on our environment and pays overdue tribute to the resolve of nature to survive in the face of challenge and change. Mixing natural history with engaging anecdotes, Leland cuts through patriotic and problematic myths coloring our grasp of the natural world and suggests that the stories of how these alien species have reshaped our landscape are as much a part of the continents heritage as tales of our presidents and politics. Simultaneously, he poses questions about which, if any, of our accepted icons are truly American (not apple pie or Kentucky bluegrass; not Idaho potatoes or Boston ivy).--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584173 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=567082 The U.S. Guide to Venomous Snakes and Their Mimics is a quick and reliable guide to identifying the small percentage of snakes that pose a real threat to man. This carefully researched volume contains detailed information on the natural history of each species and subspecies region by region. Detailed full-color photographs and accurate range maps provide a quick and reliable guide to both venomous snakes and the harmless non-venomous species that closely resemble their toxic relatives. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=534261 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=459091 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=448208 Eighteenth century advocates of animal welfare concentrated on compassion for other creatures. By the late twentieth century, the concern for animals evolved to include the concept that all animals had inherent rights, which should not be infringed by humans.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=412401 In The Last American Man, Gilbert explores the true story of Eustace Conway, who left his comfortable suburban home at the age of seventeen to move into the Appalachian Mountains, where for the last twenty years he has lived, making fire with sticks, wearing skins from animals he trapped, and living off the land. A charismatic and romantic fgure, both brilliant and tormented, brave and contradictory, restless and ambitious, Conway has always seen himself as a Man of Destiny whose goal is to convince modern Americans to give up their materialistic lifestyles and return with him back to nature. Gilbert tells of Eustaces crusade and his extraordinary wilderness adventures, including his 2000-mile hike down the Appalachian Trail (surviving almost exclusively on what he could hunt and gather along the way) and his legendary journey across America on horseback. To Elizabeth Gilbert, Eustace Conways mythical character challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be a modern man in America; he is a symbol of what we feel our men should be, but rarely are. From his example, she delivers a look at an archetypal American man and - from the point of view of a contemporary woman - refracts masculine American identity in all its conflicting elements of inventiveness, narcissism, isolation, and intimacy.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=632742 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=361701 Erupting volcanoes are the core features of many of the National Parks and Monuments in the US. This book tells where and how volcanoes are created, and describes the beautiful and awesome examples found in National Parks and Monuments. It also provides travel information on reaching and enjoying these magnificent places, and is illustrated in Odysseys distinctive style. Maps. Illustrations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=402545 From the brontosaurus to the slug, this book describes hundreds of tracks. Author Jaeger tells how to read natures signs in mud, brush, water and sky. A useful book for the naturalist, hunter, weekend tracker or camp counselor. Illustrations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=358981 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=332008 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=313426 Doyle, who has been a consultant to the Presidents Council on Environmental Quality, details how the U.S. auto industry--particularly the Detroit big three auto makers: General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler--misled the American people and Congress about cars harmful emissions. Illustrations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1168180 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=269011 The mountain lion is one of the last icons of American wilderness, and it is making a startling comeback. Whether called cougar, puma, or mountain lion, this wild cat is a fearsome predator, an elusive loner, and a mythic creature. In a potent gathering of twenty writings from the likes of David Quammen, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Pam Houston, Ted Williams, and Rick Bass, this book describes their natural history, encounters with humans, and the politics of predators. As civilization invades more of this animals natural turf, suburban encounters will increase, and the next cat one of us sees may be a cougar, not a calico. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=267793 In these pages, the Union of Concerned Scientists help inform consumers about everyday decisions that significantly affect the environment. For example, a few major decisions - such as the choice of a house or vehicle - have such a disproportionately large affect on the environment that minor environmental infractions shrink by comparison. Learn what you can do to have a truly significant impact on our world from the people who are at the forefront of scientific research.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=277699 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=279158 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=398001 Animal Rights is a book about differences: the difference between animal rights and animal welfare is the difference between radical activists and concerned citizens, between pipe bombing mink farms and building humane shelters, between fanatical animal releases that backfire and protection measures that care for animals. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=273684 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=134801 In a celebration of the wild hoofed animal that descended from the prehistoric bison and was the lifeblood of the Plains Indians, the author and photographer document this awesome beast in all its grandeur and beauty.100 color photos. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=293367 In his latest pursuit of the many incarnations of his amour, naturalist Keenan treks from Alaska (to find the continents tiniest orchid in downtown Anchorage) to his New England home distilling the essence of some 1,000 North American species in 165 gemlike color photographs by region. Other noteworthy features by this founding member of the North American Native Orchid Alliance include: an orchid checklist, identification synopsis, glossary, notes on the photography and personal favorites (including the under-appreciated green orchids). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=90433 This comprehensive volume, the first survey published since 1943, describes the ecology, evolution, biodiversity, behavior, and natural history of 127 recognized species of salamanders found in the United States and Canada, from newts and sirens to waterdogs and hellbenders. Drawing on more than 2100 research publications, the book includes detailed life history accounts, nearly five hundred black and white and color photographs, identification keys for larvae as well as adults, and up-to-date distribution maps. James W. Petranka presents a wealth of information on each species: identification, systematics, courtship and breeding, diet and predation, and the ecology of larval and adult stages are all described. He summarizes major patterns of geographic variation within species to emphasize differences between local and regional populations and to provide a realistic view of intraspecific life history diversity. With its comprehensive coverage and extensive references, this volume is an indispensable guide not only for herpetologists but also for teachers, naturalists, conservation biologists, environmental planners, and anyone who needs detailed information on the diverse salamander fauna of the United States and Canada.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=293307 This book is intended for the education of policy- and decision- makers. It defines and assesses the hurricane problem, focusing primarily on the US. The authors address scientific concepts such as forecasting and the evolution of tropical cyclones as well as societal aspects of hurricanes, including evacuation, recovery, preparedness assessment, and appropriate decision-making in the face of an imminent impact. Several appendices provide economic and casualty data for the US, selected data on tropical storm and hurricane incidence in the Atlantic Ocean Basin, and a guide for local hurricane decision-makers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=63924 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=252106 Since its publication in 1988, Americas Neighborhood Bats has changed the way we look at bats by underscoring their harmless and beneficial nature. In this revised edition, Merlin Tuttle offers bat aficionados the most up-to-date bat facts, including a wealth of new information on attracting bats and building bat houses and a revamped key to the identification of common North American species. The easy-to-understand text, clear illustrations, and spectacular color photographs make this the perfect bat book for the general reader, as well as an invaluable resource for professionals who field questions from the public. Those who provide advice at health and animal control departments, museums, zoos, and nature centers will find it especially useful.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=227905 A modern-day David and Goliath tale, The Riverkeepers is an impassioned firsthand account by two advocates who have taken on powerful corporate and government polluters to win back the river they love. John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., report from the frontline of environmental activism, the Hudson River Valley, to tell us how we too can fight and win by reclaiming a fundamental right that dates back to the Magna Carta - the right to defend and enjoy our invaluable natural resources. Revealing shocking stories of commonplace environmental crime - from drinking water tainted with hospital waste to fish populations contaminated by freely dumped PCBs - John and Bobby describe their dramatic confrontations with more than ninety environmental lawbreakers. They vividly recount the hands-on investigations, the groundbreaking court battles, and the courageous local heroes that characterize their mission to bring to justice some of the worlds most powerful institutions. Interweaving the personal, philosophical, and political, The Riverkeepers is a timely call to action that will resonate across America as the backlash spearheaded by congressional leaders and their major corporate allies threatens to reverse the hard-won victories in environmental law and policy. It is an eloquent and essential reminder that environmentalism is really about defending democracy and our most basic rights as citizens.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=231481 In Of Bison and Man, Harold Danz, longtime National Park Service employee and former executive director of the American Bison Association, gives a clear, informative, and highly entertaining overview of this magnificent animal. Danz explores the bisons prehistory and natural history, its complex relationship with Native Americans, the bison slaughter and recovery, the establishment of the bison as an industry, and the role bison play today, both as a food source and as a wild animal.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=189726 In recent years, the contamination of municipal water supplies by bacteria like E. coli or parasites like cryptosporidium have been traced to malfunctioning water treatment plants and unprotected reservoirs. Despite these facts, federal support is waning and local governments are now refusing to accept responsibility to upgrade facilities and enforce water-quality laws. At a time when environmental standards are under attack in Congress, this alarming but empowering sourcebook offers a way for average citizens to join the fight to safeguard our nations drinking water. Learn how to find out if your water is safe, how to evaluate purification systems, and the merits of bottled water. Featuring ratings of 200 municipal water systems, The Sierra Club Guide to Safe Drinking Water is essential reading for all who care about the water they drink.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=232159 The high-profile campaign to protect and preserve the Pacific Northwests ancient forests has been a hot environmental issue for the past 25 years, and remains so today. Tree Huggers is an incisive and spirited account of this ongoing conflict and the people at the forefront of the battle. Focusing on Oregon, the state at the forefront of the forest debate since the early 1970s, this fast-paced account retells the early history of logging on public lands and the origins of the forest campaign in the wilderness wars of the 1970s and early 1980s. It explains the belated efforts by scientists to understand the ecology of old-growth forests and the stubborn refusal by the Forest Service to heed the early warnings from within its own ranks that the forests were being overcut. Covering a vast amount of information in concise chapters, the book introduces forest activists, the lands they love, and the politicians who tried to thwart their efforts at every turn.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=32004 The trout of North America range from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and from the Arctic Circle to the Tropic of Cancer. No other book pictures all of the popular varieties, much less the rare, exotic, and in some cases extinct species, subspecies, and strains included in this comprehensive collection. Char; Apache, Gila, and Mexican trout; rainbow, redband, and golden trout; cutthroat trout; brown trout and Atlantic salmon - each of these, and many more, are captured in vivid watercolors, along with engaging, informative descriptions of their evolution and habitats. With youthful passion and stunning accuracy, James Prosek celebrates as never before the indelible beauty and variety of the trout, and makes an eloquent plea for its preservation. An unprecedented reference, Trout is essential for the serious angler - and a glorious introduction for anyone who loves fishing and the outdoors.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=322613 Uncommon Ground is the best kind of book, one that shocks the reader into entirely fresh ways of seeing. Perhaps the most important work facing us over the next several years involves the reconception of nature and our relationship to it. This indispensable volume makes a bold start on that project attacking it with imagination, insight, originality, and wit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=179166 In this volume a distinguished committee focuses on the science underlying the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and offers recommendations for making the act more effective. The committee provides an overview of what scientists know about extinction and what this understanding means to implementation of the ESA. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=380926 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=138649 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=113798 As a climber, David Brower scaled many previously insurmountable mountains. As a conservationist, Brower has brought a mountaineers determination and reverence for nature to his efforts to protect the Earth and educate its human inhabitants. He has kept dams out of the Grand Canyon and loggers out of Olympic National Park, established the National Wilderness Preservation System, added seven new regions to the National Park System, and helped to foster a mind-set that questions careless growth. In Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run, the archdruid of modern environmentalism, the man The New York Times designated the most effective conservation activist in the world, offers a tough, witty, and impassioned game plan for those who would save the Earth. Now eighty-two years old, Brower also recounts the highs and lows of his controversial career, sparing no politician or public figure, least of all himself. He frankly discusses his mistakes, such as compromising on the construction of Glen Canyon Dam, and the strategic flourishes that have earned him both fans and foes, including the full-page, in-your-face national newspaper ads that helped save the Grand Canyon by asking, Should we also flood the Sistine Chapel so that tourists can get a better look at the ceiling? Brower issues visionary yet practical CPR - Conservation, Preservation, Restoration - for the future. With these wittily formulated operating instructions for our planet, he imagines an International Green Cross and an Earth Corps, and he describes healthy cities with boundaries and wildlife havens; the importance of wildness, redwoods, rain forests, and wood substitutes; green businesses and the Misfortune 500. While offering strong criticism for those who would harm the Earth, he advises environmental organizations on how they might more effectively work to restore both the natural world and the hope of its peoples.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=119403 Deeper Shades of Green documents the convergence of two great American movements - conservation and the struggle for social justice. Environmentalists, once faulted for ignoring minorities and the poor, are recognizing the need to find common ground. Poor communities of all colors, the worst targets of pollution and waste-dumping, are perceiving that environmental ills are part of their larger fight. Spurred to action out of concern for their families health and safety, they are bringing new energy and focus to mainstream conservation. As a blue-collar college student, author Jim Schwab worked summers in a Midwest chemical plant and saw its toxic effects on fellow workers. As an environmentalist and urban planner, he was troubled by the relative absence of poor and nonwhite people in the conservation constituency. All that began to change, he recounts, with the landmark Love Canal case, which transformed a shy housewife named Lois Gibbs (who has contributed a foreword to this book) into a nationally known citizen activist and gave impetus to other neighborhood struggles. In evocative, hard-hitting reportage, Schwab profiles eight minority and blue-collar communities that rose up against environmental injustice - in an African-American suburb of Chicago, Louisianas notorious Cancer Alley, and an Ohio mill town, among others - in the process forging unprecedented bonds with national environmental groups. He notes the special place of Native Americans in this web of newfound allies: Americas first victims of social injustice, they have been among the strongest voices linking abuse of the land with abuse of human rights. In a later chapter, Schwab examines how industrial America can clean up its act, spotlighting progressive businesses and utilities, anti-pollution technologies, and other practical solutions. But change starts with people power, and that is his real subject: African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Asian-Americans, and blue-collar whites joining together in an environmental revival that is on the verge of shaking American politics at its roots.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=93820 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=102581 Jim Dine, renowned for his wit and creativity as a Pop and Happenings artist, has a restless, searching intellect that leads him to challenge himself constantly. In the 1970s he began to focus on flowers and plants, sometimes from his own garden. Always a superb draftsman, Dine revealed a hitherto untapped precision and depth of expression in his botanical drawings and paintings, which are collected here for the first time. Many of these works have never before been published; the impetus for them came from this projected book. In this extraordinary and intense series, he extends traditional botanical illustration and flower painting to encompass a new subjectivity, deriving from artistic and personal sources. Familiar garden and house plants yield unsuspected qualities in Dines work. Gardeners as well as art lovers will find his wide knowledge of plants and flowers delightful and rewarding. Unusual techniques underlie the uniqueness of much of Dines botanical work. On several ceramic jars created to his specifications, Dine has drawn towering foxgloves or a clump of crocuses or a strong old trunk with a tangled network of branches - giving these plants an unexpected context that provokes new thinking. His eagerness to get down his ideas leads Dine to press any blank surface into use: two handsome wooden panels, purchased to become doors, now provide the backgrounds for an imposing thicket of weeds and a glorious bunch of gladiolas. The author, Marco Livingstone, who has written widely on Pop and other aspects of contemporary art, makes skillful use of interviews with the artist, whose comments on specific works provide direct insights into his working methods and intentions. With great sensitivity, Livingstone scrutinizes each work, noting the effect of Dines virtuosity - a stroke of color here, a patch of scuffed paper, painstaking detail on the surface of a cactus - or Dines patient studying and restudying of calla lilies or hyacinths or his bold rendering of crabapples. The remarkable power and beauty of Jim Dines plant and flower works - 93 reproduced in full color - make this elegant book an exhilarating and memorable experience.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=176339 A Shadowy backlash against environmentalists has begun to emerge in America, the most visible element of which calls itself the Wise Use movement. Among its stated goals are the unregulated use of timber, oil, gas, minerals, and range land, and the abolition of all environmental laws and agencies. In this first in depth investigation of the Wise Use backlash, author David Helvarg visits rallies, conferences, and confrontations that are the fronts in its war against the greens. Helvarg shows the dimensions of this struggle as it is being waged in the courts; in the media, through popular mouthpieces like Rush Limbaugh and sympathetic coverage in influential newspapers such as the New York Times; in the heretical claims of the movements counterscience; and in the growing number of physical confrontations and threats used against environmental activists. Helvarg also documents the failure of the FBI to prevent such violence.--BOOK JACKET.