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  • The End of the Wild

    by Stephen M. Meyer ...
    Series series Boston Review Books
    A wake-up call that argues that although it may be too late to save biodiversity, we can take steps to save our ecosystems.With the extinction rate at 3000 species a year and accelerating, we can now predict that as many as half of the Earth's species will disappear within the next 100 years. The species that survive will be the ones that are most compatible with us: the weedy species—from ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

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  • Everything Under the Sun

    Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet

    by David Suzuki, Ian Hanington ...
    In this compilation of David Suzuki's latest thoughts and writings, the renowned scientist, author, and broadcaster explores the myriad environmental challenges the world faces and their interconnected causes. In doing so, Suzuki shows that understanding the causes-and recognizing that everything in nature, including us, is interconnected-is crucial to restoring hope for a better future. The ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World Is Blue

    How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One

    by Sylvia A. Earle ...
    A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis. In recent decades we've learned more about the ocean than in all previous human history combined. But ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Half-Earth

    Our Planet's Fight for Life

    by Edward O. Wilson ...
    "An audacious and concrete proposal…Half-Earth completes the 86-year-old Wilson’s valedictory trilogy on the human animal and our place on the planet." —Jedediah Purdy, New RepublicIn his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Future of Life

    ALA Notable Books for Adults

    by Edward O. Wilson ...
    Eloquent, practical and wise, this book by one of the world’s most important scientists—and two time Pulitzer Prize winner—should be read and studied by anyone concerned with the fate of the natural world. It "makes one thing clear ... we know what we do, and we have a choice" (The New York Times Book Review).E.O. Wilson assesses the precarious state of our environment, examining the mass ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Silence Of The Songbirds

    How We Are Losing the World's Songbirds and What We Can Do to Save Them

    by Bridget Stutchbury ...
    Migratory songbirds are disappearing at a frightening rate. By some estimates, we may have already lost almost half the songbirds that filled the skies only 40 years ago. Following the birds on their 10,000-kilometre migratory journey, Bridget Stutchbury looks at the most threatening factors in their extinction, from pesticides, still a major concern decades after Rachel Carson first raised the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth

    An Appeal to Save Life on Earth

    by Edward O. Wilson ...
    The book that launched a movement: “Wilson speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all” (Oliver Sacks).Called “one of the greatest men alive” by The Times of London, E. O. Wilson proposes an historic partnership between scientists and religious leaders to preserve Earth’s rapidly vanishing biodiversity. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Inheritors of the Earth

    How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction

    by Chris D. Thomas ...
    Human activity has irreversibly changed the natural environment. But the news isn't all bad.It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have permanently damaged the natural world, causing extinction, deforestation, pollution, and of course climate change. But in Inheritors of the Earth, biologist Chris Thomas shows that this obscures a more hopeful truth -- we're also helping nature grow and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • A Brain For All Seasons

    by William H. Calvin ...
    Mankind has recently come to the shocking realization that our ancestors survived hundreds of abrupt and severe changes to Earth's climate. In this unique travelogue, William H. Calvin takes us around the globe and back in time, showing us how such cycles of cool, crash, and burn provided the impetus for enormous increases in the intelligence and complexity of human beings and warning us of human ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Where Do Camels Belong?

    Why Invasive Species Aren't All Bad

    by Ken Thompson ...
    The ecologist and author of Do We Need Pandas? "presents a stimulating challenge to our perceptions of nature" and non-native species (George Monbiot).You may be surprised to learn that camels evolved and lived for tens of millions of years in North America—and also that the leek, national symbol of Wales, was a Roman import to Britain, as were chickens, rabbits and pheasants. These classic ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Do We Need Pandas?

    The Uncomfortable Truth About Biodiversity

    by Ken Thompson ...
    How much do we really know about the species that make up the natural world?All over the world, biodiversity is gravely threatened – by overfishing, habitat destruction, pollution and climate change. Yet life on Earth has previously experienced five episodes of mass extinction, and nature has repeatedly proved itself to be a resilient, regenerative force.In this fascinating book, ecologist Dr. Ken ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Wild Hope

    On the Front Lines of Conservation Success

    by Andrew Balmford ...
    Tropical deforestation. The collapse of fisheries. Unprecedented levels of species extinction. Faced with the plethora of gloom-and-doom headlines about the natural world, we might think that environmental disaster is inevitable. But is there any good news about the environment? Yes, there is, answers Andrew Balmford in Wild Hope, and he offers several powerful stories of successful conservation ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus