Updated throughout with the latest information on environmental issues, the new eighth edition of Environmental Science provides a clear introduction tot the environmental issues facing society today and offers many possible solutions for how we can create a more sustainable way of life. The author focuses on the root causes of environmental problems and takes care to present both sides of the issues. Every chapter emphasizes critical analysis to teach students how to approach these complex topics and determine the merits of the debates for themselves. New Go Green tips offer suggestions for how students can live more environmentally responsible lives.

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Presents information on how to improve a home's energy efficiency and switch to renewable energy resourses to provide electricity, hot water, heat, and cooling for a home.

Product Description: Previous Edition 9780763734336

Product Description: This comprehensive book describes the ecological principles, policies, and practices required to create a sustainable future. It emphasizes practical, cost-effective, sustainable solutions to these problems that make sense from social, economic, and environmental perspectives...read more

Product Description: Today, a new generation of architects and builders is emerging, intent on creating homes that meet human needs for shelter while causing only a fraction of the environmental impact of conventional housing. "The New Ecological Home" provides an overview of green building techniques, materials, products, and technologies that are either currently available or will be in the near future...read more

Product Description: Superbia! is a book of practical ideas for creating more socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable neighborhoods. It is about remaking suburban and urban neighborhoods to serve people better and to reduce human impact on the environment...read more

Describes the basics of human biology, anatomy, and physiology.

Product Description: Passive solar heating and passive cooling—approaches known as natural conditioning—provide comfort throughout the year by reducing, or eliminating, the need for fossil fuel. Yet while heat from sunlight and ventilation from breezes is free for the taking, few modern architects or builders really understand the principles involved...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Textbook written for the introductory human biology course. Presents basic concepts of chemistry and explores the cell and structure of tissues and organs. Looks at evolution, ecology, and environmental issues. Previous edition: c1999. Softcover. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Biological Sciences

Product Description: This practical book provides tips for developing better study habits, sharpening memory, getting more out of lectures, preparing for tests, writing great term papers, and more.

Product Description: The Natural House is a tour of the construction, costs, and pros and cons of fourteen natural building methods. Straw Bale, Rammed Earth, Cob, Cordwood, Adobe, Earthbags, Papercrete, Earthships…whatever the method, the common goal is to create a house that is economical, energy efficient, nontoxic, soothing to the soul, kind to the environment, and pleasing to behold...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Through numerous examples, this book focuses on the root causes of common environmental problems and offers students critical thinking sections that allow them to analyze different viewpoints and come to their own conclusions. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: An anthology of innovative solutions to pressing environmental issues by some of the world’s most influential and informed thinkers. It contains fourteen excerpts from the best environmental books published within the last five years.

Product Description: This study skills supplement was designed to accompany all introductory science texts. This text emphasizes critical thinking and developing a positive lifestyle. Students learn simple ways to improve memory, learn more quickly, get the most out of lectures, prepare for tests, produce top-notch term papers, and improve critical-thinking skills...read more

Product Description: Presenting sustainability as an overarching theme essential to rethinking current policies and practices, this book highlights positive efforts towards implementing sustainability. It presents the key principles of sustainability in the first chapter and develops them throughout the text...read more

Product Description: Citizens concerned about the environment are taking up the call for a new, sustainable lifestyle. Lessons from Nature tells us what sustainability really is, and how we can achieve it. Daniel Chiras brings the concept of sustainability to life, defining it in a variety of contexts - economic, biological, political, and ethical - and exploring creative, practical ways to apply the principles of sustainability to nearly all aspects of modern life...read more