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Books on environmentalism/conservation

Postby cabbage » Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:40 pm

Has anyone got any recommendations? I'm looking for fairly 'hard' stuff, not "101 ways to save the planet by hugging kittens" type affairs. :lol: I'm also not really looking for autobiographical ones or anything describing someones 'journey' - either literally or metaphorically :D

I've been looking through Amazon - got a gift voucher to spend :D - and I've just got no idea where to go, the whole field is so politicised that I feel I can't trust the reviews. Everything I can find seems to come across as either too wishy washy and tree-huggery or is so far the other way that you half expect to find chapters on the financial benefit of drilling penguins for oil. I'm looking for something written from a neutral point of view and with facts and figures. The sort of thing that might be used as a textbook on Uni/college courses?

Just to make it harder it'd be nice if it was available for the Kindle :D
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Re: Books on environmentalism/conservation

Postby Jim Walker » Sun Apr 17, 2011 12:15 pm

From a more historical perspective there is always Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.
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Re: Books on environmentalism/conservation

Postby cabbage » Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:46 pm

Thats a very good shout Jim thanks for that its now on my wishlist, anyone got any others?

If you don't ask you don't get lol :lol:
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Re: Books on environmentalism/conservation

Postby chrisley56 » Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:56 am

hi there!
Try to look through the next links, possibly they will be useful for you. I booked buy levitra onlinethere a lof of it. :D
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/category/1694
http://www.abebooks.com/American-Enviro ... 1560445/bd
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Re: Books on environmentalism/conservation

Postby cabbage » Sat Jul 30, 2011 1:43 pm

chrisley56 wrote:hi there!
Try to look through the next links, possibly they will be useful for you. I booked there a lof of it. :D
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/category/1694
http://www.abebooks.com/American-Enviro ... 1560445/bd


Thanks for that its much appreciated :D

There are some excellent looking titles in the first link think this may be going to cost some money... :D
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Re: Books on environmentalism/conservation

Postby Deimos » Sat Jul 30, 2011 2:37 pm

One internet site good for wildlife/biology/environment/etc. books is http://www.nhbs.com/. I've not used them so cannot recommend them other than they seem to have a quite remarkable range. But I've not seen such a selection anywhere else.

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