human ecology

Presents a visual representation of what the planet would become if all human habitation disappeared.

A NOVA investigation of deaths at high altitudes, looking at mountain rescues, emergency medical evacuations, and science experiments performed on Mt. McKinley in Alaska's Denali National Park.

Helps readers understand their impact on the environment by revealing the surprising links between objects, materials, and activities.

Presents the Mohawk Thanksgiving Address prayer, which voices gratitude to Mother Earth for all that nature provides.

A resource to help students identify and imagine solutions to problems related to climate change and pollution, with classroom-friendly readings and articles from Rethinking Schools magazine.

A group of individuals from different walks of life band together to bring positive changes to a world that is threatened by pollution, famine, and recession.

Looks at how geographers study the Earth and its people and teaches children the five dimensions of geography: place, location, human-environment interactions, movement, and regions.

A transcendent global tour that explores the sights and sounds of the human condition like nothing you've ever seen or felt before. These are the wonders of a world without words, viewed through man and nature's own prisms of symmetry and more.

"Introduces students and researchers to the fundamentals of sustainability using easy-to-understand language, giving readers a solid start and deeper understanding and appreciation of this complex subject"--Page vii.