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From New York Times bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimer comes a sensational biography of the son of the legendary Senator and troubled standard bearer of America's most fabled political dynasty. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. inherited his assassinated father's piercing blue eyes and Brahmin style, earning a reputation as the nation's foremost environmental activist and lawyer - the "toxic avenger" - battling corporate polluters. But in this, the most revelatory portrait ever of a Kennedy, Oppenheimer places Bobby Jr., leader of the third generation of America's royal family, under a journalistic microscope.Based on scores of exclusive, candid on-the-record interviews, public and private records, and correspondence, Jerry Oppenheimer paints a balanced, objective portrait of this virtually unaccounted-for scion of the Kennedy dynasty. Like his slain father, the iconic senator and presidential hopeful, RFK Jr. was destined for political greatness. Why it never happened is revealed in this first-ever biography of him.
Hardcover:
9781250032959, titled "RFK Jr.: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the Dark Side of the Dream" | St Martins Pr, September 22, 2015, cover price $27.99
Paperback:
9781250096661, titled "RFK Jr.: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the Dark Side of the Dream" | Griffin, September 13, 2016, cover price $17.99
CD/Spoken Word:
9781427264336, titled "RFK Jr.: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Dark Side of the Dream" | Unabridged edition (St Martins Pr, September 22, 2015), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: From New York Times bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimer comes a sensational biography of the son of the legendary Senator and troubled standard bearer of America's most fabled political dynasty.
Product Description: David Brower (1912–2000) was a central figure in the modern environmental movement. His leadership, vision, and elegant conception of the wilderness forever changed how we approach nature. In many ways, he was a twentieth-century Thoreau...read more
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9780231164467 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 7, 2016, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: David Brower (1912–2000) was a central figure in the modern environmental movement.
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9781250079541 | Thomas Dunne Books, April 19, 2016, cover price $27.99
Product Description: An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it.Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches National Park in Utah, braiding their stories and asking how they speak to the lives of all those who care about the West...read more
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9780393089998 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 20, 2015, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it.
Paperback:
9780393352375 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, March 14, 2016), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it.
Product Description: Reflections on race, environment, politics, and living on the front lines of change In Angels by the River, James Gustave "Gus" Speth recounts his unlikely path from a southern boyhood through his years as one of the nation's most influential mainstream environmentalists and eventually to the system-changing activism that shapes his current work...read more
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9781603586320 | Reprint edition (Chelsea Green Pub Co, September 23, 2015), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Reflections on race, environment, politics, and living on the front lines of change In Angels by the River, James Gustave "Gus" Speth recounts his unlikely path from a southern boyhood through his years as one of the nation's most influential mainstream environmentalists and eventually to the system-changing activism that shapes his current work.
9780534586669, titled "Texas Politics Today" | Wadsworth Pub Co, August 1, 2001, cover price $68.95 | also contains Texas Politics Today | About this edition: TEXAS POLITICS TODAY continues to be a best-selling overview of Texas Politics because it offers students a wide range of viewpoints from contributing authors.
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9780520278363 | Univ of California Pr, October 1, 2015, cover price $29.95
Product Description: When Hazel Wolf died, at the age of 101, more than nine hundred of her friends -- from the governor of Washington to union organizers, from birdwatchers to hunters -- crowded Town Hall in Seattle to honor the feisty activist and tell the often outrageous "Hazel stories" that were their common currency...read more
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9780295998220 | Univ of Washington Pr, August 17, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: When Hazel Wolf died, at the age of 101, more than nine hundred of her friends -- from the governor of Washington to union organizers, from birdwatchers to hunters -- crowded Town Hall in Seattle to honor the feisty activist and tell the often outrageous "Hazel stories" that were their common currency.
9780295982229 | Univ of Washington Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: When Hazel Wolf died, at the age of 101, more than nine hundred of her friends - from the governor of Washington to union organizers, from birdwatchers to hunters - crowded Town Hall in Seattle to honor the feisty activist and tell the often outrageous "Hazel stories" that were their common currency.
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9780295994857 | Reprint edition (Univ of Washington Pr, August 13, 2015), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: When Hazel Wolf died, at the age of 101, more than nine hundred of her friends â from the governor of Washington to union organizers, from birdwatchers to hunters â crowded Town Hall in Seattle to honor the feisty activist and tell the often outrageous "Hazel stories" that were their common currency.
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9780826355911 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, May 1, 2015, cover price $21.95
Product Description: Reflections on race, environment, politics, and living on the front lines of change In Angels by the River, James Gustave "Gus" Speth recounts his unlikely path from a southern boyhood through his years as one of the nation's most influential mainstream environmentalists and eventually to the system-changing activism that shapes his current work...read more
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9781603585859 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, October 31, 2014, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Reflections on race, environment, politics, and living on the front lines of change In Angels by the River, James Gustave "Gus" Speth recounts his unlikely path from a southern boyhood through his years as one of the nation's most influential mainstream environmentalists and eventually to the system-changing activism that shapes his current work.
Product Description: Annalisa Wilson has fallen in love with the Menorcan estate she has unexpectedly inherited. But her plans to restore it and its orange grove are interrupted by her neighbor, Ramon di Crianza Perez.Ramon is used to getting his own way...read more
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9780373123186, titled "A Spanish Inheritance" | Harlequin Books, March 1, 2003, cover price $4.25 | also contains A Spanish Inheritance | About this edition: Annalisa Wilson has fallen in love with the Menorcan estate she has unexpectedly inherited.
Product Description: Blending memoir, cultural history, and a literary perspective, Facing It bears witness to controversies like Tellico and Chernobyl, global warming and local drought. But rather than merely drowning readers in waves of ecological angst, M...read more
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9781623491451 | Texas A & M Univ Pr, September 15, 2014, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Blending memoir, cultural history, and a literary perspective, Facing It bears witness to controversies like Tellico and Chernobyl, global warming and local drought.
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9781628737677 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, May 6, 2014, cover price $24.95
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9780199342488 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 2015, cover price $34.95
Product Description: This is the story of a visionary leader, Lynton Keith Caldwell, who in the early 1960s introduced the study of the environment and environmental policy at a time when such areas of expertise did not exist. Caldwellwas a principal architect of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 andis recognized as the "inventor" of the Act's important environmental impact statement provisions, now emulated around the world...read more
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9780253010308 | 1 edition (Indiana Univ Pr, April 8, 2014), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This is the story of a visionary leader, Lynton Keith Caldwell, who in the early 1960s introduced the study of the environment and environmental policy at a time when such areas of expertise did not exist.
Product Description: An inspirational memoir tracing Lester Brownâs life from a small-farm childhood to leadership as a global environmental activist. Lester R. Brown, whom the Washington Post praised as âone of the worldâs most influential thinkers,â built his understanding of global environmental issues from the ground up...read more
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9780393240061 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 21, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An inspirational memoir tracing Lester Brownâs life from a small-farm childhood to leadership as a global environmental activist.
[Library Edition Audiobook CD in vinyl case.] [Read by David Drummond] Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the modern environmental movement. She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The Sea around Us. But it was with her fourth book, Silent Spring, that this unassuming biologist transformed our relationship with the natural world. Rachel Carson began work on Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use. Leading this chemical onslaught was the insecticide DDT, whose inventor had won a Nobel Prize for its discovery. Effective against crop pests as well as insects that transmitted human diseases such as typhus and malaria, DDT had at first appeared safe. But as its use expanded, alarming reports surfaced of collateral damage to fish, birds, and other wildlife. Silent Spring was a chilling indictment of DDT and its effects, which were lasting, widespread, and lethal. Published in 1962, Silent Spring shocked the public and forced the government to take action -- despite a withering attack on Carson from the chemicals industry. The book awakened the world to the heedless contamination of the environment and eventually led to the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and to the banning of DDT and a host of related pesticides. By drawing frightening parallels between dangerous chemicals and the then-pervasive fallout from nuclear testing, Carson opened a fault line between the gentle ideal of conservation and the more urgent new concept of environmentalism. Elegantly written and meticulously researched, On a Farther Shore reveals a shy yet passionate woman more at home in the natural world than in the literary one that embraced her. William Souder also writes sensitively of Carson's romantic friendship with Dorothy Freeman and of Carson's death from cancer in 1964. This extraordinary biography captures the essence of one of the great reformers of the twentieth century.
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9780307462206 | Crown Pub, September 4, 2012, cover price $30.00
Paperback:
9780307462213 | Broadway Books, September 3, 2013, cover price $16.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9781470826635 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 4, 2012), cover price $109.00 | About this edition: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in vinyl case.
9781470826659 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 4, 2012), cover price $29.95
9781470826642 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 4, 2012), cover price $32.95
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9781597141864 | Heyday Books, May 1, 2011, cover price $20.00
Product Description: Diane Wilson is an activist, shrimper, and all around hell-raiser whose first book, An Unreasonable Woman, told of her battle to save her bay in Seadrift, Texas. Back then, she was an accidental activist who worked with whistleblowers, organized protests, and eventually sunk her own boat to stop the plastic-manufacturing giant Formosa from releasing dangerous chemicals into water she shrimped in, grew up on, and loved...read more
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9781603582155 | 1 edition (Chelsea Green Pub Co, April 5, 2011), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Diane Wilson is an activist, shrimper, and all around hell-raiser whose first book, An Unreasonable Woman, told of her battle to save her bay in Seadrift, Texas.
Product Description: Annalisa Wilson has fallen in love with the Menorcan estate she has unexpectedly inherited. But her plans to restore it and its orange grove are interrupted by her neighbor, Ramon di Crianza Perez.Ramon is used to getting his own way...read more
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9780373123186 | Harlequin Books, March 1, 2003, cover price $4.25 | also contains Facing It: Epiphany and Apocalypse in the New Nature | About this edition: Annalisa Wilson has fallen in love with the Menorcan estate she has unexpectedly inherited.
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