Best Sellers in Environmental Sciences

-- Library Journal, 04/23/2009

Best Sellers in Environmental Sciences
July 2008 to date as identified by YPB Library Services

1) Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America
Friedman, Thomas L.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2008. ISBN 0374166854 [9780374166854]. $27.95

2) Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
Worster, Donald
Oxford University Press
2008. ISBN 0195166825 [9780195166828]. $34.95

3) Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture
Ehrenfeld, John
Yale University Press
2008. ISBN 0300137494 [9780300137491]. $28

4) Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment
Dauvergne, Peter
MIT Press
2008. ISBN 0262042460 [9780262042468]. $24.95

5) Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next 50 Years
Smil, Vaclav
MIT Press
2008. ISBN 0262195860 [9780262195867]. $29.95

6) How Life Began: Evolution’s Three Geneses
Meinesz, Alexandre
University of Chicago Press
2008. ISBN 0226519317 [9780226519319]. $27.50

7) Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
Ehrlich, Paul R.
Island Press
2008. ISBN 1597260967 [9781597260961]. $35

8) Malformed Frogs: The Collapse of Aquatic Ecosystems
Lannoo, Michael
University Of California Press
2008. ISBN 0520255887 [9780520255883]. $65

9) Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
Stolzenburg, William
Bloomsbury USA
2008. ISBN 1596912995 [9781596912991]. $24.99

10) Global Environmental History
Simmons, I.G.
University of Chicago Press
2008. ISBN 0226758109 [9780226758107]. $49

11) Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability
Sperling, Daniel
Oxford University Press
2009. ISBN 0195376641 [9780195376647]. $24.95

12) Green Plans: Blueprint for a Sustainable Earth
Johnson, Huey D.
University of Nebraska Press
2008. ISBN 0803260202 [9780803260207]. $18.95

13) Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic
Ulanski, Stan L.
University of North Carolina Press
2008. ISBN 0807832170 [9780807832172]. $28

14) Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration: Five Case Studies from the United States
Doyle, Mary
Island Press
2008. ISBN 1597260258 [9781597260251]. $70

15) The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations Are Working Together To Create a Sustainable World
Senge, Peter
Doubleday
2008. ISBN 038551901X [9780385519014]. $29.95

16) Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures
Leichenko, Robin M.
Oxford University Press
2008. ISBN 0195177312 [9780195177312]. $74

17) Living with Fire: Fire Ecology and Policy for the Twenty-First Century
Jensen, Sara E.
University of California Press
2008. ISBN 0520255895 [9780520255890]. $29.95

18) Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
Pearce, Fred
Beacon Press
2008. ISBN 080708588X [9780807085882]. $24.95

19) Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology
Gould, Kenneth Alan
Oxford University Press
2009. ISBN 0195371127 [9780195371123]. $42.95

20) Global Environment, Natural Resources, and Economic Growth
Greiner, Alfred
Oxford University Press
2008. ISBN 019532823X [9780195328233]. $45

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