Ecology

1. Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

   Lester R. Brown

   Substantially Revised

   “[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington PostMore

2. If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth

   Helen Caldicott

   Revised and updated

   “Helen Caldicott has the rare ability to combine science with passion, logic with love, and urgency with humor.” —Naomi KleinMore

3. The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth

   Edward O. Wilson

   The book that launched a movement: “Wilson speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all” (Oliver Sacks).
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4. The Earth Policy Reader

   Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts, Et Al.

   Award-winning environmental analyst Lester R. Brown and his colleagues chart progress in building the eco-economy, an economy that is compatible with the earth's ecosystem.More

5. The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth

   Stephen Jay Gould

   Second Edition

   A new edition of the beautifully illustrated depiction of the dramatic story of survival and extinction.More

6. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World

   J. R. McNeill

   "Refreshingly unpolemical and at times even witty, McNeill's book brims with carefully sifted statistics and brilliant details."—Washington Post Book WorldMore

7. Life Out of Bounds: Bioinvasion in a Borderless World

   Chris Bright

   The first general-interest study of the global spread of alien, "exotic" organisms and how they are undermining the world's ecosystems and societies.More

8. Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?

   David M. Raup, Stephen Jay Gould

   This is the first major book to present a comprehensive overview of the current state of extinction studies. At the end of the journey, Raup has put forward the best science of the day to answer the question posed by the title: Bad genes or bad luck?
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