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  • Sketch-Books - The Collection

    by Hoffmann, Joseph Pike, D. S. Andrews, Dorothy E.G. Woollard, Walter M. Keesey, Douglas S. Andrews, Richard Pike, Robert J. S. Bertram, Fred Richards, Elizabeth Butler, John Nisbet, H. G. Hampton, Sam J. M. Brown, Frederick Carter, Lester G. Hornby, E.V. Cole, Eugène Béjot, W. J. Rolfe, George Eyre, Todd and Gordon Home, R.S. Austin, Herman Melville, Thomas Taylor ...
    Ampleforth College; A Sketch-Book by Joseph Pike Bath and Wells; A Sketch-Book by D. S. Andrews Bristol; A Sketch-Book by Dorothy E.G. Woollard Bruges; A Sketch-Book by Joseph Pike Cambridge; A Sketch Book by Walter M. Keesey Canterbury; A Sketch Book by Walter M. Keesey Cardiff; A Sketch-Book by Douglas S. Andrews Chester; A Sketch-Book by Joseph Pike Durham; A Sketch-Book by Robert J. S. Bertram ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)

    Mobilizing to Save Civilization

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    “[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington PostAs fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing oil, coal, and natural gas, at a pace and on a scale we could ... Read more

    $13.69 CAD

  • Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity

    The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    With food supplies tightening, countries are competing for the land and water resources needed to feed their people.With food scarcity driven by falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security. “In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    "How to build a more just world and save the planet....We should all heed Brown's advice."—Bill ClintonIn this updated edition of the landmark Plan B, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first-century civilization. The world faces many environmental trends of disruption and decline, including rising temperatures and spreading water shortage. In addition to these looming ... Read more

    $14.09 CAD

  • A Spell At The Seaside

    The Whitewood Witches of Fennelmoore

    by Agnes Lester Brown ...
    Series series The Whitewood Witches of Fennelmoore
    A DREAM SEASIDE HOLIDAY AWAITED LORI AND MATT IN SUNNY PLEASANTSIDE. OR SO THEY THOUGHT...From the moment feisty witch sleuth Lori Whitewood set foot in the plush penthouse at the Seaview Inn, she knew something was amiss. When two uninvited ghostly figures paid them a visit on their first night, it convinced Lori something sinister was going on in the sleep little village of Pleasantside. Soon ... Read more

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  • The Great Transition

    Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    The great energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is under way.As oil insecurity deepens, the extraction risks of fossil fuels rise, and concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new world energy economy is emerging. The old economy, fueled by oil, natural gas, and coal is being replaced with one powered by wind, solar, and geothermal ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • World on the Edge

    How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse

    by Lester Brown ...
    In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food ... Read more

    $50.83 CAD

  • Outgrowing the Earth

    The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    Historically, food security was the responsibility of ministries of agriculture but today that has changed: decisions made in ministries of energy may instead have the greatest effect on the food situation. Recent research reporting that a one degree Celsius rise in temperature can reduce grain yields by 10 per cent means that energy policy is now directly affecting crop production. Agriculture is ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

  • Who Will Feed China?

    Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet

    by Lester Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1995, but with enduring relevance in a time of global population growth and food insecurity, when it was first published, this book attracted much global attention, and criticism from Beijing. It argued that even as water becomes scarcer in a land where 80% of the grain crop is irrigated, as per-acre yield gains are erased by the loss of agricultural land to ... Read more

    $60.45 CAD

  • Eco-Economy

    Building an Economy for the Earth

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    In 1543, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the view that the sun revolved around the earth, arguing instead that the earth revolved around the sun. His paper led to a revolution in thinking.In Lester Brown's brilliant and invigorating account of the industrial economy, he shows how a rethink of its fossil fuel-based, throwaway ethos is necessary to ensure that it works with, not ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Unmasked

    Venice Murder Mystery Series, #1

    by Agnes Lester Brown ...
    Series Book 1 - Venice Murder Mystery Series
    Brie Cullen's well-organized life in New York is thrown into disarray when her mother suddenly dies, leaving Brie destitute. With nothing left to lose, she travels to Venice, Italy on a whim, in the vain hope of meeting her long-lost Venetian relatives. It all turns into a nightmare when Brie becomes the victim of mistaken identity, and ends up in the cross-hairs of a shadowy hitman with a ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • World on the Edge

    How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food ... Read more

    $13.69 CAD