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Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us about the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals

10 best books like Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us about the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals (Sharon Levy): With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change, Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth, Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America, Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound, Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink, Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures, The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One, Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis, Eruptions That Shook The World, How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction

With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
AuthorFred Pearce
ISBN0807085766
Fred Pearce has been writing about climate change for eighteen years, and the more he learns, the worse things look. Where once scientists were concerned about gradual climate change, now more and more of them fear we will soon be dealing with abrupt change resulting from triggering hidden tipping...
Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
AuthorMark Hertsgaard
ISBN0618826122
A fresh take on climate change by a renowned journalist driven to protect his daughter, your kids, and the next generation who’ll inherit the problem. For twenty years, Mark Hertsgaard has investigated global warming for outlets including theNew Yorker, NPR, Time, Vanity Fair, and The Nation....
Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America
AuthorPaul S. Martin
ISBN0520231414
As recently as 11,000 years ago—"near time" to geologists—mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's greatest riddles, these large animals...
Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound
AuthorDavid Rothenberg
ISBN0465071287
Whale song is an astonishing world of sound whose existence no one suspected before the 1960s. Its discovery has forced us to confront the possibility of alien intelligence-not in outer space but right here on earth. Thoughtful, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining, Thousand Mile Song uses the...
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
AuthorJane Goodall
ISBN0446581771
From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the new National Geographic documentary Jane, comes an inspiring message about the future of the animal kingdom.

With the insatiable curiosity and conversational prose that have made her a bestselling author, Goodall - along with...
Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
AuthorBill Schutt
ISBN0307381129
For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes readers on an entertaining voyage into the world of some of nature’s strangest creatures—the sanguivores. Using...
The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
AuthorSylvia A. Earle
ISBN1426205414
A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.

In...
Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis
AuthorCynthia Barnett
ISBN0807003174
Americans see water as abundant and cheap: we turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. We use more water than any other culture in the world, much to quench what’s now our largest crop—the lawn. Yet most Americans cannot name the river or aquifer that flows to our taps, irrigates...
Eruptions That Shook The World
AuthorClive Oppenheimer
ISBN0521646774
What does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Did volcanic eruptions extinguish the dinosaurs, or help humans to evolve, only to decimate their populations with a super-eruption 73,000 years ago? Did they contribute to the ebb and flow of ancient empires, the French Revolution...
How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
AuthorBeth Shapiro
ISBN0691157057
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From...
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
AuthorAlan Burdick
ISBN0374219737
A stunning work of narrative nonfiction that asks: what is natural?
Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating snakes from Australia hitchhike to Hawaii in the landing...
Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
AuthorRachel Carson
ISBN0807085472
Making America Great Again

From “Mr. Day’s Dismissal”: A Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post, April 22, 1953.

In 1952 Republicans won the White House and immediately began dismantling environmental protections in favor of big business concerns. Day was fired as Secretary...
Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty
AuthorCraig Welch
ISBN0061537136
A unique blend of natural history and crime drama, Shell Games by Craig Welch is a riveting tale of rogues, scoundrels, and the hunt for nature’s bounty in the tradition of The Orchid Thief. A stranger-than-fiction true story centered around a larger-than-life character who pursued a larger-than-life...
Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery
AuthorJennie Erin Smith
ISBN0307381471
Tortoises disappear from a Madagascar reserve and reappear in the Bronx Zoo. A dead iguana floats in a jar, awaiting its unveiling in a Florida court. A viper causes mayhem from Ethiopia to Virginia. In Stolen World, Jennie Erin Smith takes the reader on an unforgettable journey, a dark adventure over...
Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger
AuthorMargaret Mittelbach
ISBN0812967690
Packing an off-kilter sense of humor and keen scientific minds, Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson, along with renowned artist Alexis Rockman, take off on a postmodern safari. Their mission? Tracking down the elusive Tasmanian tiger. Tragically, this mysterious, striped predator was hunted...
Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution
AuthorHeather Rogers
ISBN1416572228
In Green Gone Wrong environmental writer Heather Rogers blasts through the marketing buzz of big corporations and asks a simple question: Do today's much-touted "green" products, carbon offsets, organic food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes really work? Implicit in efforts to go green...
Twilight of the Machines
AuthorJohn Zerzan
ISBN1932595317
The mentor of the green anarchist and neo-primitive movements is back with his first book in six years, confronting civilization, mass society, and modernity and technoculture—both the history of its developing crisis and the possibilities for its human and humane solutions.As John Zerzan writes,...
The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention
AuthorDavid W. Orr
ISBN0195173686
By page 75 I decided I was just going to read it all in one day. In addition to feeling confirmed in my convictions personality, it also challenged me. The same pages that supported the ideas of my eco-design project working with Maasai women, also uncovered ways to improve our collaboration. All in all...
Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature
AuthorBrian Switek
ISBN1934137294
“Switek seamlessly intertwines two types of evolution: one of life on earth and the other of paleontology itself.”—Discover Magazine

““In delightful prose, [Switek] . . . superbly shows that ‘[i]f we can let go of our conceit,’ we will see the preciousness of life in all its...
Wake Up and Smell the Planet: The Non-Pompous, Non-Preachy Grist Guide to Greening Your Day
AuthorBrangien Davis
ISBN1594850399
Forget the guilt; forget the panic; learn to live green. That seems to be the message of Grist's guide to grassroots sustainability. Readers familiar with the online magazine's credo will know what to expect: "We believe that news about green issues and sustainable living doesn't have to be predictable,...
Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future
AuthorTim Flannery
ISBN0802118984
In Now or Never, the internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers returns to the subject of climate change with a book that is at once a forceful call to action and a deeply (and often surprisingly) pragmatic roadmap toward sustainability. Utilizing the most up-to-the-minute data available,...
الكوارث العالمية: مقدمة قصيرة جدًّا
AuthorBill McGuire
الحياة على كوكب الأرض ستنتهي حتمًا؛ إنها مسألة وقت فحسب. يركِّز كتاب «الكوارث العالمية: مقدمة قصيرة جدًّا» على الكوارث العديدة المحتمَلة التي قد تواجه...
Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction
AuthorMark Maslin
ISBN0192840975
Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction is an informative, up to date discussion about the predicted impacts of global warming. It draws on material from the recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a huge collaborative study drawing together current thinking on the subject...
Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
AuthorBobbi S. Low
ISBN0691089752
Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? Why is killing infants routine in some cultures, but forbidden in others? Why is incest everywhere taboo? Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the...
Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction
AuthorHelen Pilcher
Helen Pilcher is uniquely qualified to explain the cutting-edge science that makes the resurrection of extinct animals a very real possibility, while acknowledging the serious and humorous aspects of giving a deceased animal a second chance to live. If you could bring back to life a person or animal,...
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