Product Description: Henry David Thoreau is an American intellectual icon; what made him so was the decade between his graduation from Harvard and the years he spent in a cabin he built himself on Ralph Waldo Emerson's land at Walden Pond--the formative decade that turned him into one of America's most influential writers...read more

Product Description: This biography of Aldo Leopold follows him from his childhood as a precocious naturalist to his profoundly influential role in the development of conservation and modern environmentalism in the United States. This edition includes a new preface by author Curt Meine and an appreciation by acclaimed Kentucky writer and farmer Wendell Berry...read more

The no. 1 study guide for working and aspiring electronics technicians who are preparing for their CET exams, this book provides a comprehensive review of all the topics on the test, including theory and practical workbench techniques for servicing TVs, radios, VCRs, stereos, computers, and other electronic equipment. As the former Director of CET Testing for ISCET, Sam Wilson has actually written many of the official CET tests-so this is as close to the real thing as you'll find anywhere! Completely updated to include the very latest information on digital electronics technology, CET Study Guide is designed to help readers identify gaps in their knowledge of electronics, so they'll know what material to brush up on before taking the test. In addition to the two complete exams for associate- and journeyman-level certification, each chapter includes review questions, practice tests, and lots of valuable advice on how to avoid careless mistakes. Anyone who understands the material presented here is virtually guaranteed to pass the CET exam with flying colors.

Designed for the Introduction to Communication course, this trusted text presents the foundation of communication studies through numerous examples that range from the campus to the workplace to communities both in the United States and throughout the world. Every chapter contains numerous activities that engage students and promote group work. The eighth edition features a new appendix on computer-mediated communication; a new section, in each chapter, on the impact of the Internet; and coverage of the Integrative Listening Model Framework.

Taking a close look at the lives and adventures of two of America's first botanists, this account chronicles the lives of the father-and-son team composed of John and William Bartram. It relates John's role as a peer of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, among others, and the visits that these men paid to him at his botanical garden.

Contains portions of Muir's autobiography, letters, his lesser known books, and essays (view table of contents)

Product Description: An omnibus of eight books of mountaineering and conservation literature: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Our National Parks, The Yosemite, Travels in Alaska and Steep Trials.

My First Summer in the Sierra written by John Muir . John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become the famed conservationist whom he liked to call "John o' the Mountains" when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada not long after the end of the Civil War. My First Summer in the Sierra: Having caught a glimpse of such magical places as Tuolumne Meadows and El Capitan, Muir ached to return, and in the summer of 1869 he signed on with a crew of shepherds and drove a flock of 2,500 woolly critters toward the headwaters of the Merced River. John Muir: The diary he kept while tending sheep forms the heart of My First Summer in the Sierra; published in 1911, it enticed thousands of Americans to visit the Yosemite country. Sierra Summer is full of the concerns Muir would later voice as America's foremost preservationist and wildlands advocate, which would bear fruit in the creation of several national parks and monuments. And it resounds with Muir's nearly pantheistic regard for the natural world: with celebrations of the Sierra's lizards that "dart about on the hot rocks, swift as dragonflies," its mountain lions and tall trees and fierce thunderstorms and bears; with Muir's overarching awe for places that civilization had yet to tame. Though perhaps a little purple by modern standards, John Muir's book continues to inspire readers to seek out such places for themselves and make them their own--and as such it stands among the enduring classics of environmental literature. --Gregory McNamee -- My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir is highly recommended to read. "john muir" "my sierra" "john muir books" "my first summer in the sierra" "sierra summer" "the sierra" "who was john muir"

The name John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both America and Britain. Muir's writings of his summer in what would become the great national park of Yosemite in California's Sierra valley raise a close awareness of nature to a spiritual dimension.

[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.

Product Description: Was the nineteenth-century naturalist C. S. Rafinesque insane? Did he die in “abject poverty?” Just what is the value of his contributions to scientific nomenclature? Charles Boewe’s Profiles of Rafinesque takes up these questions and others...read more

Product Description: Beginning with Thoreau, nature writers not only have influenced our appreciation of the natural world but also have helped to preserve the American wilderness, from the Maine Woods to Yosemite and the Sierra. Writer and activist Paul Brooks presents narrative portraits of great literary naturalists, offering a 200-year history of the country's movement toward conservation...read more