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1.		Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream from North Point Press Price: $44.57 Customer Review: I am a college student, and as many people know college book prices are outrageous at the college's bookstore. Therefore to save a little money I go to Amazon to buy mine. I ordered my book appx a week before my class were to begin, and the same day I order another book from another carrier. I NEVER... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 from Pantheon Price: $18.35 Customer Review: In the United States today, more people reside in suburban landscapes than in inner cities and rural areas combined. To contextualize what led to our peripheral migration, urban historian, Dolores Hayden timelines seven vernacular patterns in the history of suburban development. From the picturesque... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change (Urban and Industrial Environments) from The MIT Press Price: $13.43 Customer Review: This book is a respectable collection of case studies of sustainability/greening activities on college and University campuses in the 1990s and early 2000s. Each group of case studies is accompanied by a lesson or narrative for how to begin similar activities on your campus. Although each case study... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit from Rodale Books Price: $2.99 Customer Review: While in college, Senator Al Gore awakened to the reality of the environmental crisis when, in a science class, he had to deal with data documenting the steady increase of carbon dioxide in earth's atmosphere. Later as a fledgling congressman from Tennessee, he held hearings and sought to alert the... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.	[no image]	All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life from South End Press Price: $44.70 Customer Review: I ordered this book for my college students to read before we visited the Navajo Nation. The book was informative and gave the students good background into the current struggles of the Native American people. Students found the book easy to read and to comprehend key issues and concerns.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Biochar for Environmental Management: Science and Technology from Earthscan Publications Ltd. Price: $66.71	Click here for more information


7.		Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Management from McGraw-Hill/Dushkin Price: $19.70 Customer Review: My item was received in perfect condition and in a timely manner. It was great to receive it when they said it would be there!	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		The Complete Guide to Zoning: How to Navigate the Complex and Expensive Maze of Zoning, Planning, Environmental, and Land-Use Law from McGraw-Hill Price: $13.43 Customer Review: The book really is a complete guide to zoning. A great primer for anyone starting on their first development or zoning project; but also helpful to those of us already working in the field who come across new and interesting challenges.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		American Environmental Policy, 1990-2006: Beyond Gridlock (American and Comparative Environmental Policy) from The MIT Press Price: $24.85	Click here for more information


10.		Believing Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist's World from Chelsea Green Price: $3.93 Customer Review: This book provides good views that make sense and can help you remain engaged in mainstream concerns to understand the audience and how you can better approach them. On several occasions Alan talks about how people can be resistant to the devastating things they hear, suffering from existential... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Global Environmental Governance: Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies (Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies Series) from Island Press Price: $31.00 Customer Review: This book was very good. It is informative, but easy to read and understand. It mentions modern issues, and also mentions how past environmental acts have influenced certain acts today. A good, educational read that anyone interested in the environment as a career should consider.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century) from Duke University Press Price: $18.18 Customer Review: This book reports a rare success story in Third World conservation: the rise of grassroots-level forest management in Kumaon, India. In the colonial period, the British tried to stop deforestation by increasingly authoritarian methods. This failed; the local countryfolk, prevented from using their... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.	[no image]	Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications from John Wiley & Sons Inc Price: $8.99 Customer Review: I'd recommend this book especially to any Earth/Environmental Science Majors. I actually just read this entire book cramming for an Environmental Planning exam (I was originally just going to skim some chapters). I wish I'd been reading it all along! There's a lot of cross-over with a Geology class... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		Environmental Management: Readings and Cases from Sage Publications, Inc Price: $55.67 Customer Review: Russo's Environmental Management book is a good primer on many issues concerning the environment today. I use it as the base text (which I expand on) in both my undergrad and master's environmental strategy courses. Overall, I think it's a nice mix of established 'thought pieces', more modern... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Environmental Management Quick and Easy: Creating an Effective ISO 14001 EMS in Half the Time from ASQ Quality Press Price: $70.37 Customer Review: I found the book to be an excellent review of the ISO 14001 EMS. The resources on the CD that comes with the book are a practical extension of the theory and guidelines described. I had to learn ISO 14001 quickly and this was the most helpful book I found.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		With People in Mind: Design And Management Of Everyday Nature from Island Press Price: $26.15	Click here for more information


17.		From Eco-Cities to Living Machines: Principles of Ecological Design from North Atlantic Books Price: $12.84 Customer Review: John Todd (b. 1939) is a biologist working in the field of ecological design, and this 1994 book was co-written with his wife Nancy (who has also written A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise Of Ecological Design). This book is an updating (with much material copied literally word-for-word) of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Making Your Move to One of America's Best Small Towns: How to Find a Great Little Place as Your Next Home Base from M. Evans and Company, Inc. Price: $4.98 Customer Review: The book gives a lot of information about the process the author used and a verbal look at each town. No pictures in the book but there is plenty of info online and pictures when you go to real estate websites to check out the towns.	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		Integrated Environmental Planning: A Landscape Synthesis from Wiley-Blackwell Price: $57.73	Click here for more information


20.		From the Bottom Up: One Man's Crusade to Clean America's Rivers from National Geographic Price: $8.70 Customer Review: What Chad Pregrake and his crews are doing is what we should all do. That's a broad statement, I know, but I mean it. This book is an interesting read about how he became involved and how his river clean-up project progressed. It was obviously a lot of hard work accomplished through strong... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.		Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail (Creating the North American Landscape) from The Johns Hopkins University Press Price: $29.15 Customer Review: Perhaps you're familiar with the name Benton MacKaye (1879-1975); at the very least, you've heard of the Appalachian Trail. You might see the title of this book and say, "Oh, OK, he was the guy who thought up the idea for a footpath from Maine to Georgia. Big deal. I've never stepped on it, so why... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-Way Street of Global Warming (MacSci) from Macmillan Price: $0.01 Customer Review: This book makes one huge mistake. The author assumes that man-made catastrophic global warming is a reality when it's just a myth. It has been scientifically proven that global warming is natural part of the earth's cycle, and is most likely beneficial to mankind. Even the renowned environmentalist,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.		Sustainability: A Philosophy of Adaptive Ecosystem Management from University Of Chicago Press Price: $32.05 Customer Review: By far one of the best books I have read on sustainability. This is a lengthy book and Norton can definitely be both wordy and well over my head at times, but the message is solid. Adaptive Management offers a complement to progressive viewpoints by firmly rejecting economic reductionism, while... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		Green Engineering: Environmentally Conscious Design of Chemical Processes from Prentice Hall Price: $59.16 Customer Review: I used this book for a graduate level course, "Advances in Pollution Prevention". This book is not the best book I've ever read. The end-of chapter problems are mediocre, and often insult the reader's ability, particularly as a graduate level chemical engineering student. One example that comes to... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


25.		Ecosystem Management: Adaptive, Community-Based Conservation from Island Press Price: $32.90 Customer Review: If you are interested in Ecosystem Managment, than you probably have heard of most of the concepts in this book. However, this book provides a good easy to read (and easy to understand) summary of concepts related to Ecosystem Managment.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


26.		Sprawl Costs: Economic Impacts of Unchecked Development from Island Press Price: $23.16 Customer Review: As a rural resident trying to help my town control predatory developers and manage issues of growth and land use, this book is a potent tool, a fact that is clearly disturbing to some who stand to profit handsomely from sprawl, like the automobile and oil companies, the large-scale construction... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.	[no image]	Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice from Oxford University Press, USA Customer Review: The book was in great condition as listed, the price was beyond fair and shipping was fast.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		An Environmental History of the World: Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life (Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment) from Routledge Price: $200.00	Click here for more information


29.		Conservation Design for Subdivisions: A Practical Guide To Creating Open Space Networks from Island Press Price: $47.02 Customer Review: Check out some of the final subdivision design parameters on page 87. While other reviewers might benefit from the author's justified concern for conserving open space--especially in communities where cookie-cutter style developers 'rule the Board', the end result for some of the plans in this work... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.		Pluralism by the Rules: Conflict and Cooperation in Environmental Regulation (American Governance and Public Policy) from Georgetown University Press Price: $18.31 Customer Review: I've been out of college for several years, yet I would expect that many political-science courses still include some reference to various debates over "pluralism" as a theory of how the American system of politics works. Pluralism in the form Weber has in mind was classically formulated in the... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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