false 45840 80513 1596911301 9781596911307 107 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170983459m/80513.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170983459s/80513.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80513.Field_Notes_from_a_Catastrophe_Man_Nature_and_Climate_Change 3.79 432 New Yorker, for which she won a National Magazine Award in 2006, Kolbert cuts through the competing rhetoric and political agendas to elucidate for Americans what is really going on with the global environment and asks what, if anything, can be done to save our planet. Now updated and with a new afterword, Field Notes from a Catastrophe is the book to read on the defining issue and greatest challenge of our times.</div></div>]]> 45840 3.82 498 129 2006 504373 1596914432 9781596914438 5 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/504373.The_Ends_of_the_Earth_An_Anthology_of_the_Finest_Writing_on_the_Arctic_and_the_Antarctic 3.73 11 A beautiful literary anthology published to commemorate the International Polar Year—and remind us what we’re in danger of losing.

The Arctic and Antarctic ice shelves have been an object of obsession for as long as we’ve known they existed. Countless explorers, including such legends as Richard Byrd, Ernest Shackleton, and Robert Falcon Scott, have risked their lives to chart their frozen landscapes. Now, for the first time in human history, we are in legitimate danger of seeing polar ice dramatically shrink, break apart, or even disappear. The Ends of the Earth, a collection of the very best writing on the Arctic and Antarctic, will simultaneously commemorate four centuries of exploring and scientific study, and make the call for preservation.
Stocked with first-person narratives, cultural histories, nature and science writing, and fiction, this book is a compendium of the greats of their fields: including legendary polar explorers and such writers as Jon Krakauer, Jack London, Diane Ackerman, Barry Lopez, and Ursula K. LeGuin. Edited by two contemporary authorities on exploring and the environment, The Ends of the Earth is a memorable collection of terrific writing—and a lasting contribution to the debate over global warming and the future of the polar regions themselves.

About International Polar Year -

International Polar Year (which begins in spring 2007) is a major international science initiative that aims to focus public attention on the polar regions and our effect on them. The last such initiative, the International Geophysical Year in 1957–58, involved 80,000 scientists from 67 countries. This one promises to be bigger still.</div></div>]]> 45840 3.82 498 129 2007 6351645 0547002599 9780547002590 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6351645-the-best-american-science-and-nature-writing-2009 4.10 10 Publishers Weekly).]]> 45840 3.82 498 129 12780 3.97 418 83 2009 7224340 0061713511 9780061713514 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7224340-la-catastrofe-que-viene 0.0 0 45840 3.82 498 129 1682315 0.0 0 0 2009 3016193 3827007291 9783827007292 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3016193.Vor_uns_die_Sintflut 0.0 0 45840 3.82 498 129 2006 1049299 1582344639 9781582344638 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180508276m/1049299.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180508276s/1049299.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1049299.The_Prophet_of_Love_And_Other_Tales_of_Power_and_Deceit 0.0 0 New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert dissects the body politic in these incisive-and often hilarious-portraits of the people who make New York City run.

As a reporter for The New York Times and then the The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert has had unparalleled access to the inner workings of the country's most complex and fascinating city. In the acclaimed profiles assembled here, Kolbert talks to politicians and policemen, bureaucrats and radicals, celebrities and demagogues. She follows some on their heady ascent to greatness and others as they fall from grace, all the while questioning how power is attained, and then, just as often, squandered.

Kolbert writes about such classic New York characters as Boss Tweed, Michael Bloomberg, Hillary Clinton, and Rudolph Giuliani. She reveals the machinations of city power in a provocative piece about the Amadou Diallo shooting and takes an unforgettably disgusting look at the work of city restaurant inspectors. And she investigates the influence of several private citizens, including Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin, the always controversial Al Sharpton, and Regis Philbin at the height of his fame.

Written during a defining period in the city's history-one that encompasses the Bloomberg mayoral campaign, the Clinton-Giuliani senatorial race, and September 11th-The Prophet of Love is a witty and eye-opening debut from one of our most fiercely intelligent writers.
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