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  • Warbody

    A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare

    A friendship between an environmental historian and a chronically ill US Marine yields a powerful exploration into the toxic effects of war on the human body.Alexander Lemons is a Marine Corps scout sniper who, after serving multiple tours during the Iraq War, returned home seriously and mysteriously ill. Joshua Howe is an environmental historian who met Lemons as a student in one of his classes. ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

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    Warbody

    A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare

    Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 14 min

    A friendship between an environmental historian and a chronically ill US Marine yields a powerful exploration into the toxic effects of war on the human body.Alexander Lemons is a Marine Corps scout sniper who, after serving multiple tours during the Iraq War, returned home seriously and mysteriously ill. Joshua Howe is an environmental historian who met Lemons as a student in one of his classes. ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Behind the Curve

    Science and the Politics of Global Warming

    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. His project kicked off a half century of research that has expanded our knowledge of climate change. Despite more than fifty years of research, however, our global society has yet to find real solutions to the problem of global warming. Why?In Behind ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Making Climate Change History

    Documents from Global Warming's Past

    Edited by Joshua P. Howe ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics
    This collection pulls together key documents from the scientific and political history of climate change, including congressional testimony, scientific papers, newspaper editorials, court cases, and international declarations. Far more than just a compendium of source materials, the book uses these documents as a way to think about history, while at the same time using history as a way to approach ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

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  • Redeployment

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    The search for a friend’s killer is a riveting lesson in the way war has changed.The EOD-explosive ordnance disposal-community is tight-knit, and when one of their own is hurt, an alarm goes out. When Brian Castner, an Iraq War vet, learns that his friend and EOD brother Matt has been killed by an IED in Afghanistan, he goes to console Matt's widow, but he also begins a personal investigation. Is ... Read more

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