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Everyone wants to save the planet. What makes us different?
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Visit www.islandpress.org and explore all-new features that include: • • • • • •
Bureau of environmental experts
podcasts blog postings photo galleries Island Press Readers Book chapters
Island Press, a nonprofit organiziation, stimulates, shapes, and communicates the ideas that are essential for solving today’s environmental problems—at home and around the world.
www.islandpress.org
August 27, 2009 www.islandpress.org
www.islandpress.org/catastrophe Too often, the U.S. “growth machine” generates wealth for a few and misery for many. Drawing lessons from the most expensive “natural” disaster in American history—Katrina, Catastrophe in the Making shows why thoughtless development comes at a price we can ill afford. To order visit islandpress.org • 800.621.2736 Press inquiries e-mail [email protected]
Danger Zone - Important elements in this area may appear too close to trim.
September 2009
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www.chasingmolecules.org There is substantial evidence that environmental conditions and environmental pollutants– among them synthetic chemicals in consumer products–have a profound effect on human health. With Chasing Molecules, Grossman illustrates the potential for green chemistry to revolutionize the materials we make, how they’re used, and the benefits to our health and environment. Press inquiries e-mail [email protected] To order visit islandpress.org • 800.621.2736
Appearing at the American Museum of Natural Histor y’s Kaufmann Theater this Fall October 2, 2007 at 7 pm
The Unnatural History of the Sea Callum Roberts “[A] passionate and immensely important book . . . .” —Washington Post
Cloth: $28.00 464 pages 2007
Thoughtful, inspiring, devastating, and powerful . . . . Readers won’t be able to put it down.” —Booklist
November 13, 2007 at 7 pm
“In this important and exceptionally well written book, a leading wildlife biologist shows how human No Way Home activity is not just erasing species and ecosystems but The Decline of the World’s also cutting the ancient natural highways that make Great Animal Migrations possible Earth’s greatest wildlife spectacles.” David S. Wilcove —E.O. Wilson, University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University Available October 2007
November 20, 2007 at 7 pm Life in the Valley of Death The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed
Cloth: $24.95 256 pages 2007
Alan Rabinowitz
Cloth: $25.95 256 pages 2007
“I could not put down this remarkable book. Alan Rabinowitz’s personal journey is every bit as moving and inspiring as is his passionate and courageous battle to save the world’s most endangered great cats. I am convinced that the efforts of Alan and his colleagues will have a profound effect on our collective soul.” —Glen Close
Available November 2007
800 • 621 • 2736 w w w.islandpress.org Solutions that inspire change.
Ecotourism and Sustainable Development Who Owns Paradise Second Edition
by Martha Honey A new edition of the most comprehensive guide to ecotourism
E
cotourism and Sustainable Development is the most comprehensive overview of worldwide ecotourism available today, showing how both the concept and the reality have evolved over more than twenty-five years. Here Martha Honey revisits six nations she profiled in the first edition— the Galapagos Islands, Costa Rica, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Kenya, and South Africa—and adds a fascinating new chapter on the United States. She examines the growth of ecotourism within each country’s tourism strategy, its political system, and its changing economic policies. Her useful case studies highlight the economic and cultural impacts of expanding tourism on indigenous populations as well as on ecosystems. Order your copy today and receive 20% off the retail price
Available Now Discount for Conde Nast Traveler World Saver Award
$29.50 NOW $23.60
Order online w w w.islandpress.org or call 800 • 621 •2736
www.islandpress.org
Visit www.islandpress.org and explore all-new features that include: • • • • • •
Bureau of environmental experts
podcasts blog postings photo galleries Island Press Readers Book chapters
Island Press, a nonprofit organiziation, stimulates, shapes, and communicates the ideas that are essential for solving today’s environmental problems—at home and around the world.
www.islandpress.org
August 27, 2009 www.islandpress.org
www.islandpress.org/catastrophe Too often, the U.S. “growth machine” generates wealth for a few and misery for many. Drawing lessons from the most expensive “natural” disaster in American history—Katrina, Catastrophe in the Making shows why thoughtless development comes at a price we can ill afford. To order visit islandpress.org • 800.621.2736 Press inquiries e-mail [email protected]
Danger Zone - Important elements in this area may appear too close to trim.
September 2009
www.islandpress.org
www.chasingmolecules.org There is substantial evidence that environmental conditions and environmental pollutants– among them synthetic chemicals in consumer products–have a profound effect on human health. With Chasing Molecules, Grossman illustrates the potential for green chemistry to revolutionize the materials we make, how they’re used, and the benefits to our health and environment. Press inquiries e-mail [email protected] To order visit islandpress.org • 800.621.2736
Appearing at the American Museum of Natural Histor y’s Kaufmann Theater this Fall October 2, 2007 at 7 pm
The Unnatural History of the Sea Callum Roberts “[A] passionate and immensely important book . . . .” —Washington Post
Cloth: $28.00 464 pages 2007
Thoughtful, inspiring, devastating, and powerful . . . . Readers won’t be able to put it down.” —Booklist
November 13, 2007 at 7 pm
“In this important and exceptionally well written book, a leading wildlife biologist shows how human No Way Home activity is not just erasing species and ecosystems but The Decline of the World’s also cutting the ancient natural highways that make Great Animal Migrations possible Earth’s greatest wildlife spectacles.” David S. Wilcove —E.O. Wilson, University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University Available October 2007
November 20, 2007 at 7 pm Life in the Valley of Death The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed
Cloth: $24.95 256 pages 2007
Alan Rabinowitz
Cloth: $25.95 256 pages 2007
“I could not put down this remarkable book. Alan Rabinowitz’s personal journey is every bit as moving and inspiring as is his passionate and courageous battle to save the world’s most endangered great cats. I am convinced that the efforts of Alan and his colleagues will have a profound effect on our collective soul.” —Glen Close
Available November 2007
800 • 621 • 2736 w w w.islandpress.org Solutions that inspire change.
Ecotourism and Sustainable Development Who Owns Paradise Second Edition
by Martha Honey A new edition of the most comprehensive guide to ecotourism
E
cotourism and Sustainable Development is the most comprehensive overview of worldwide ecotourism available today, showing how both the concept and the reality have evolved over more than twenty-five years. Here Martha Honey revisits six nations she profiled in the first edition— the Galapagos Islands, Costa Rica, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Kenya, and South Africa—and adds a fascinating new chapter on the United States. She examines the growth of ecotourism within each country’s tourism strategy, its political system, and its changing economic policies. Her useful case studies highlight the economic and cultural impacts of expanding tourism on indigenous populations as well as on ecosystems. Order your copy today and receive 20% off the retail price
Available Now Discount for Conde Nast Traveler World Saver Award
$29.50 NOW $23.60
Order online w w w.islandpress.org or call 800 • 621 •2736
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