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  • The Disfiguration of Nature

    Why Caring for the Environment is Inherently Conservative

    by James G. Krueger ...
    Good stewardship of nature and the earth--those foundations upon which life depends--is our most pressing challenge, requiring a monumental and relentlessly single-minded unity of purpose. Yet in America, the cause of conservation suffers while the political Left and Right conduct an endless tug of war. The result is stalemate and inaction. James Krueger shows how this state of affairs stems from ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Good That Transcends

    How US Culture Undermines Environmental Reform

    by Eric T. Freyfogle ...
    Since the birth of the modern environmental movement in the 1970s, the United States has witnessed dramatic shifts in social equality, ecological viewpoints, and environmental policy. With these changes has also come an increased popular resistance to environmental reform, but, as Eric T. Freyfogle reveals in this book, that resistance has far deeper roots. Calling upon key environmental voices ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wildlife Law, Second Edition

    A Primer

    by Eric T. Freyfogle, Dale D. Goble, Todd A. Wildermuth, Dr. ...
    Wildlife is an important and cherished element of our natural heritage in the United States. But state and federal laws governing the ways we interact with wildlife can be complex to interpret and apply. Ten years ago, Wildlife Law: A Primer was the first book to lucidly explain wildlife law for readers with little or no legal training who needed to understand its intricacies. Today, navigating ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Agrarianism and the Good Society

    Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope

    by Eric T. Freyfogle ...
    Series series Culture of the Land
    Every society expresses its fundamental values and hopes in the ways it inhabits its landscapes. In this literate and wide-ranging exploration, Eric T. Freyfogle raises difficult questions about America's core values while illuminating the social origins of urban sprawl, dwindling wildlife habitats, and over-engineered rivers. These and other land-use crises, he contends, arise mostly because of ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Our Oldest Task

    Making Sense of Our Place in Nature

    by Eric T. Freyfogle ...
    “This is a book about nature and culture,” Eric T. Freyfogle writes, “about our place and plight on earth, and the nagging challenges we face in living on it in ways that might endure.” Challenges, he says, we are clearly failing to meet. Harking back to a key phrase from the essays of eminent American conservationist Aldo Leopold, Our Oldest Task spins together lessons from history and philosophy ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • The New Agrarianism

    Land, Culture, and the Community of Life

    Edited by Eric T. Freyfogle ...
    The engaging writings gathered in this new book explore an important but little-publicized movement in American culture -- the marked resurgence of agrarian practices and values in rural areas, suburbs, and even cities. It is a movement that in widely varied ways is attempting to strengthen society's roots in the land while bringing greater health to families, neighborhoods, and communities. The ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Water, Community, and the Culture of Owning

    by Eric T. Freyfogle ...
    Series series Wallace Stegner Lecture
    In this timely work, Eric Freyfogle probes the long-simmering struggles in the American West to address water-related problem. The big challenge is to resolve water shortages and meet high-valued water needs while also improving river ecosystems. These water conflicts, he suggests, have less to do with our contentious political differences than they do with longstanding core elements of American ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • For the Health of the Land

    Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings

    by Aldo Leopold ...
    Aldo Leopold's classic work A Sand County Almanac is widely regarded as one of the most influential conservation books of all time. In it, Leopold sets forth an eloquent plea for the development of a "land ethic" -- a belief that humans have a duty to interact with the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise "the land" in ways that ensure their well-being and survival.For the ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Why Conservation Is Failing and How It Can Regain Ground

    by Professor Eric T. Freyfogle ...
    Critics of environmental laws complain that such rules often burden people unequally, restrict individual liberty, and undercut private property rights. In formulating responses to these criticisms, the conservation effort has stumbled badly, says Eric T. Freyfogle in this thought-provoking book. Conservationists and environmentalists haven’t done their intellectual homework, he contends, and they ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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  • Animal Rights

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Paul Waldau ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    In this compelling volume in the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, Paul Waldau expertly navigates the many heated debates surrounding the complex and controversial animal rights movement. Organized around a series of probing questions, this timely resource offers the most complete, even-handed survey of the animal rights movement available. The book covers the full spectrum of issues, beginning ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Earth in Mind

    On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect

    by David W. Orr ...
    In Earth in Mind, noted environmental educator David W. Orr focuses not on problems in education, but on the problem of education. Much of what has gone wrong with the world, he argues, is the result of inadequate and misdirected education that:alienates us from life in the name of human dominationcauses students to worry about how to make a living before they know who they areoveremphasizes ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Local Politics of Global Sustainability

    by Thomas Prugh, Robert Costanza, Herman E. Daly ...
    The most difficult questions of sustainability are not about technology; they are about values. Answers to such questions cannot be found by asking the "experts," but can only be resolved in the political arena. In The Local Politics of Global Sustainability, author Thomas Prugh, with Robert Costanza and Herman Daly, two ofthe leading thinkers in the field of ecological economics, explore the kind ... Read more

    $31.69 USD