"This is a highly significant--one might argue revolutionary--book.

A prize-winning r"Washington Post" reporter tells the story of the Florida Everglades, from its beginnings as 4,500 off-putting square miles of natural liquid wasteland to the ecological mess it has become. Photos.

This book is the first to analyze the environmental impact of Japanese trade, corporations, and aid on timber management in the context of Southeast Asian political economies.

Energy is humanity's single most important resource. In fact, as energy expert Michael E. Webber argues in Power Trip, the story of how societies rise can be told largely as the story of how they manage energy sources through time.

The story of ecological change is narrated alongside emergent practices of land speculation and transformation in colonial law.

Subtitle in pre-publication: Two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions of tomorrow's world.

Criticism based on literary or formalist conceptions of structure or on the history of ideas, Robert Weimann contends, has removed Shakespeare from the theater, and the theater from society at large.

In an important work that forces readers to view history with new eyes, Ponting shows in compelling detail how, over and over, human beings throughout history have prospered by exploiting the Earth's resources to the point where they could ...

Part history, part memoir, part lament, "this is a brave and precise book," according to the New York Times Book Review.

This is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water.