Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series by Arthur R. Kruckeberg

Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire

by Stephen J. Pyne

3.97 · 68 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1982 · 9 editions

From prehistory to the present-day conservation mo…

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World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth

by Stephen J. Pyne

4.04 · 26 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1995 · 6 editions

World Fire is the story of how fire and humans hav…

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The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica

by Stephen J. Pyne

3.70 · 40 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1986 · 19 editions

Stephen Pyne's overwhelming fascination with Antar…

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Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia

by Stephen J. Pyne

3.94 · 17 Ratings · 4 Reviews · 17 editions

Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from …

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Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800-1940

by William G. Robbins

3.71 · 14 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1997 · 8 editions

Landscapes of Promise is the first comprehensive e…

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Vestal Fire: An Environmental History, Told through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World

by Stephen J. Pyne

3.75 · 16 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1997 · 11 editions

Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consci…

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Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West

by Mark Fiege

3.85 · 65 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1999 · 5 editions

Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of opti…

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Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis

by Joseph E. Taylor III

4.12 · 24 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1999 · 5 editions

Taylor (history, Iowa State U.) examines the socia…

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George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation

by David Lowenthal

4.18 · 11 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2000 · 8 editions

George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) was the first to …

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The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush

by Kathryn Morse

4.04 · 28 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2003 · 9 editions

In 1896, a small group of prospectors discovered a…

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Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940-2000

by William G. Robbins

3.78 · 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2004 · 3 editions

Post-World War II Oregon was a place of optimism a…

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Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement

by Paul S. Sutter

3.78 · 58 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 2002 · 7 editions

In its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness…

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Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest

by Thomas R. Dunlap

3.71 · 14 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2004 · 9 editions

The human impulse to religion--the drive to explai…

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Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed

by Nancy Langston

4.16 · 32 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2003 · 7 editions

Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambig…

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The Rhine: An Eco-biography, 1815-2000

by Mark Cioc

3.54 · 48 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2002 · 8 editions

The Rhine River is Europe's most important commerc…

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On the Road Again: Montana's Changing Landscape

by William Wyckoff

3.80 · 10 Ratings · published 2006 · 2 editions

In On the Road Again, William Wyckoff explores Mon…

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Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy

by Karl Boyd Brooks

3.12 · 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2006 · 7 editions

In the years following World War II, the world's b…

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Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington's National Parks

by David Louter

3.65 · 31 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2006 · 7 editions

In his engaging book Windshield Wilderness, David …

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Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest

by Kevin R. Marsh

3.75 · 16 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2007 · 8 editions

Drawing boundaries around wilderness areas often s…

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The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area

by Richard A. Walker

3.55 · 44 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 2007 · 6 editions

Winner of the Western History Association's 2009 H…

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Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act

by Mark W.T. Harvey

4.29 · 14 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2000 · 5 editions

As a central figure in the American wilderness pre…

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Plowed Under: Agriculture and Environment in the Palouse

by Andrew P. Duffin

3.92 · 12 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2007 · 10 editions

In Plowed Under, Andrew P. Duffin traces the trans…

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Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills

by David Stradling

4.09 · 23 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2007 · 9 editions

For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains…

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The Lost Wolves of Japan

by Brett Walker

3.98 · 128 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 2000 · 7 editions

Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no M…

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Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast

by Connie Y. Chiang

4.00 · 22 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 6 editions

The Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium …

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The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era

by Kurkpatrick Dorsey

3.00 · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1998 · 7 editions

In the first decades of the twentieth century, fis…

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Seeking Refuge: Birds and Landscapes of the Pacific Flyway

by Robert M. Wilson

3.29 · 14 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2010 · 5 editions

Each fall and spring, millions of birds travel the…

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Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan

by Brett L. Walker

4.05 · 103 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 2001 · 6 editions

This fascinating environmental history of Japan ex…

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Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic

by Karen Oslund

3.39 · 57 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 2011 · 6 editions

Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe…

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Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country

by Marsha L. Weisiger

3.98 · 126 Ratings · 14 Reviews · published 2009 · 7 editions

"Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country" offers a fre…

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The Fishermen's Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska

by David F. Arnold

3.81 · 21 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 8 editions

In The Fishermen's Frontier, David Arnold examines…

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Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta

by David Andrew Biggs

3.81 · 48 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2011 · 11 editions

Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for …

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The Promise of Wilderness: American Environmental Politics since 1964

by James Morton Turner

4.13 · 23 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2012 · 7 editions

From Denali's majestic slopes to the Great Swamp o…

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Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon

by Cindy Ott

3.60 · 119 Ratings · 36 Reviews · published 2012 · 7 editions

While many cultures eat pumpkin year round, North …

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A Storied Wilderness: Rewilding the Apostle Islands

by James W. Feldman

3.91 · 22 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2011 · 8 editions

The Apostle Islands are a solitary place of natura…

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Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country

by William Philpott

3.74 · 42 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 2013 · 4 editions

Winner of the Western Writers of America 2014 Spur…

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The Republic of Nature: An Environmental history of the United States

by Mark Fiege

3.80 · 205 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 2012 · 9 editions

In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Repub…

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Nature Next Door: Cities and Trees in the American Northeast

by Ellen Stroud

4.03 · 29 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 8 editions

The once denuded northeastern United States is now…

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Tangled Roots: The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics

by Sarah Mittlefehldt

3.82 · 90 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 2013 · 7 editions

The Appalachian Trail, a thin ribbon of wilderness…

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Loving Nature, Fearing the State: Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics before Reagan

by Brian Allen Drake

3.88 · 16 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2013 · 4 editions

A "conservative environmental tradition" in Americ…

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Whales and Nations: Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas

by Kurkpatrick Dorsey

4.00 · 14 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2013 · 7 editions

Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980…

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Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming

by Joshua P. Howe

3.85 · 40 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2014 · 5 editions

In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the…

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How to Read the American West: A Field Guide

by William Wyckoff

4.17 · 35 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2014 · 4 editions

From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests…

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Car Country: An Environmental History

by Christopher W. Wells

3.76 · 115 Ratings · 13 Reviews · published 2012 · 7 editions

For most people in the United States, going almost…

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Wilderburbs: Communities on Nature's Edge

by Lincoln Bramwell

4.07 · 14 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2014 · 5 editions

Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the W…

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Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats

by Dawn Day Biehler

3.96 · 51 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2013 · 11 editions

From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth…

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Land Use, Environment, and Social Change: The Shaping of Island County, Washington

by Richard White

3.86 · 63 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1979 · 4 editions

Whidbey and Camano, two of the largest of the nume…

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Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place

by Coll Thrush

4.13 · 353 Ratings · 54 Reviews · published 2007 · 13 editions

Winner of the 2008 Washington State Book Award for…

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Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America

by Melanie A. Kiechle

3.67 · 57 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 2017 · 4 editions

What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And…

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Seismic City: An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake

by Joanna L. Dyl

4.11 · 38 Ratings · 5 Reviews · 4 editions

On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shoo…

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The Organic Profit: Rodale and the Making of Marketplace Environmentalism

by Andrew N. Case

3.67 · 6 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 4 editions

From green-lifestyle mavens who endorse products o…

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Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan

by Jakobina K. Arch

4.33 · 21 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions

Japan today defends its controversial whaling expe…

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Cultivating Nature: The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape

by Sarah R. Hamilton

4.25 · 4 Ratings · 3 editions

The watery terrain of the Albufera Natural Park, a…

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Footprints of War: Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam

by David Andrew Biggs

3.83 · 29 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 4 editions

When American forces arrived in Vietnam, they foun…

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Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics

by Darren Frederick Speece

3.87 · 23 Ratings · 7 Reviews · 4 editions

Giant redwoods are American icons, paragons of gra…

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The City Is More Than Human: An Animal History of Seattle

by Frederick L. Brown

3.96 · 28 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 2016 · 3 editions

Winner, 2017 Virginia Marie Folkins Award, Associa…

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Fire: A Brief History

by Stephen J. Pyne

3.66 · 125 Ratings · 18 Reviews · published 2001 · 12 editions

"The fate of humanity, like the fate of the earth,…

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Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China

by Ian M. Miller

4.20 · 10 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2020 · 4 editions

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The disappearan…

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Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall

by Thomas Fleischman

4.29 · 35 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2020 · 4 editions

The pig played a key role in the German Democratic…

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Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea

by David Fedman

4.53 · 15 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2020 · 3 editions

Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushere…

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Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin

by Emily O'Gorman

4.50 · 12 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 3 editions

In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and dise…

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Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future

by James Morton Turner

4.08 · 104 Ratings · 10 Reviews · 8 editions

Few technologies are more important to unlocking a…

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People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America

by Robert Michael Morrissey

4.30 · 40 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 2022 · 4 editions

Winner of the 2023 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize for b…

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The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade

by Simone M. Müller

3.83 · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions

In 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons …

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Capturing Glaciers: A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming

by Dani Inkpen

5.00 · 1 Ratings · 3 editions

Explores the photography of climate change

Photogra…

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Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory: Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest

by Casey A. Huegel

0.00 · published 2024 · 3 editions

Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio town’s restorat…

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Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series

Shelve The Natural History of Puget Sound Country

Shelve Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West

Shelve Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire

Shelve World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth

Shelve The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica

Shelve Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia

Shelve Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800-1940

Shelve Vestal Fire: An Environmental History, Told through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World

Shelve Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West

Shelve Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis

Shelve George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation

Shelve The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush

Shelve Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940-2000

Shelve Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement

Shelve Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest

Shelve Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed

Shelve The Rhine: An Eco-biography, 1815-2000

Shelve On the Road Again: Montana's Changing Landscape

Shelve Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy

Shelve Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington's National Parks

Shelve Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest

Shelve The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area

Shelve Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act

Shelve Plowed Under: Agriculture and Environment in the Palouse

Shelve Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills

Shelve The Lost Wolves of Japan

Shelve Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast

Shelve The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era

Shelve Seeking Refuge: Birds and Landscapes of the Pacific Flyway

Shelve Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan

Shelve Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic

Shelve Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country

Shelve The Fishermen's Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska

Shelve Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta

Shelve The Promise of Wilderness: American Environmental Politics since 1964

Shelve Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon

Shelve A Storied Wilderness: Rewilding the Apostle Islands

Shelve Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country

Shelve The Republic of Nature: An Environmental history of the United States

Shelve Nature Next Door: Cities and Trees in the American Northeast

Shelve Tangled Roots: The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics

Shelve Loving Nature, Fearing the State: Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics before Reagan

Shelve Whales and Nations: Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas

Shelve Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming

Shelve How to Read the American West: A Field Guide

Shelve Car Country: An Environmental History

Shelve Wilderburbs: Communities on Nature's Edge

Shelve Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats

Shelve Land Use, Environment, and Social Change: The Shaping of Island County, Washington

Shelve Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place

Shelve Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America

Shelve Seismic City: An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake

Shelve The Organic Profit: Rodale and the Making of Marketplace Environmentalism

Shelve Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan

Shelve Cultivating Nature: The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape

Shelve Footprints of War: Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam

Shelve Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics

Shelve The City Is More Than Human: An Animal History of Seattle

Shelve Fire: A Brief History

Shelve Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China

Shelve Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall

Shelve Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea

Shelve Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin

Shelve Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future

Shelve People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America

Shelve The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade

Shelve Capturing Glaciers: A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming

Shelve Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory: Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest