Environmental Protection

Empower your daily life with knowledge, and prepare for the EPA Section 608 Technician Certification while commuting, exercising, or managing chores. This audiobook transforms idle moments into immersive learning sessions, using the power of sound, energy, frequency, and vibration, to make retention seamless and intuitive. It’s sound education reimagined. All expertly crafted by Davidsons Audiobooks.

The second installment of Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series—a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend. Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she’s...

This is Citizen Jack’s book, a masterful demonstration of a personal view turned sociopolitical gold. —CHARLES R. AULT JR., Professor Emeritus, Lewis & Clark College Discover the truth about the Trump years with Citizen Jack's gripping and detailed account in The Trump Files. Renowned science educator, researcher, blogger, and author Jack Hassard vividly documents the nation's turbulent Trump years and brings readers back to those troubling days. Through sharp, clear-eyed prose, he takes on racial injustice, the Trumpist worldview, and how science was diminished in the Trump era. The ...

The third installment of Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series—a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend. Tally thought they were a rumor, but now she’s one of them. A Special. A super-amped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies...

Clear Understanding. Practical Solutions. Sustainable Living. Future Security. ^ Are you overwhelmed by rising environmental challenges, such as climate change, global warming, pollution, biodiversity loss, deforestation, and water scarcity? ^Are you confused about how natural resources, ecosystems, and the biosphere actually work, and what your role is in protecting them? Our current lifestyles, energy consumption, and population growth are contributing to increased environmental degradation, which poses a threat to human health, food security, and the well-being of future generations. ...

What should we do when things break down? The accumulation of garbage may become a big problem. Bilingual Tale available in both English and Spanish. The book also contains pictures to learn the alphabet through three sections: Learn the alphabet Letter ... is for ... Spell it out Other books in the series Tales to be told All the tales together can also be found in a single book (both English and Spanish). However, the bilingual version includes more pictures, in both e-book and printed formats: The doctor who didn't believe in kissing I will write what you say So that the cats can eat My ...

From environmental activist, renowned crusader, champion fighter, maverick—a book that looks at our present situation with water and shows us how we can each take action to make changes in our cities, towns, and villages, before it is too late. "Brockovich is a vocal, no-nonsense...

The final installment of Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series—a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend. A few years after rebel Tally Youngblood takes down the Specials regime, a cultural renaissance sweeps the world. “Tech-heads”...

From David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestselling The Making of Donald Trump, comes his New York Times bestseller about how the Trump Administration’s policies will affect our jobs, savings, taxes, and safety—completed revised and updated. New York...

Pulitzer Prize­–winning reporter and dean of Trumpologists David Cay Johnston reveals years of eye-popping financial misdeeds by Donald Trump and his family. While the world watched Donald Trump’s presidency in horror or delight, few noticed that his lifelong grifting quietly continued...

That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it’s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. The question we now face is: Can we change nature, this time in order to save it? Elizabeth Kolbert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction, takes a hard look at the new world we are creating.

From a young, award-winning scientist, a “thoughtful and illuminating” (Nature) look at one of the most compelling and historic turning points of our time—the race to harness the power of the stars and produce controlled fusion, creating a practically unlimited supply of clean energy. The...

The landmark New York Times bestselling biography of Richard M. Nixon, a political savant whose gaping character flaws would drive him from the presidency and forever taint his legacy. “A biography of eloquence and breadth . . . No single volume about Nixon’s long and interesting life...

From Vietnam to the Southern Strategy, from the opening of China to the scandal of Watergate, Pat Buchanan—speechwriter and senior adviser to President Nixon—tells the untold story of Nixon’s embattled White House, from its historic wins to it devastating defeats. In his inaugural address...

Early in the morning on August 27, 1996, 20-year-old Scott Dominguez showed up for an ordinary day at the fertilizing plant where he worked. By 11:00 am, he was clinging to life, unconscious and suffocating from toxic exposure to cyanide in a tank that was supposed to contain only mud and water. EPA Special Agent Joseph Hilldorfer was tasked with finding out what really happened on that horrific day in Soda Springs, Idaho, but the answers would not be easily uncovered.

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this inspiring culmination of Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s life’s work as a botanist, biochemist, biologist and poet of the global forest, she delivers a challenge to us all to dig deeper into the science of forests and the ways they will save us from climate...

From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the 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 Cincinnati Zoo...

George Bird Grinnell, the son of a New York merchant, saw a different future for a nation in the thrall of the Industrial Age. With railroads scarring virgin lands and the formerly vast buffalo herds decimated, the country faced a crossroads: Could it pursue Manifest Destiny without destroying its natural bounty and beauty? The alarm that Grinnell sounded would spark America's conservation movement. Yet today his name has been forgotten - an omission that John Taliaferro's commanding biography now sets right with historical care and narrative flair.

Establishes that being in partnership with Nature is our birthright, explores the roots of our separation, and demonstrates that we are designed to communicate with Nature Offers six principles of co-creative partnership with Nature that serve as a map for guiding us back to our rightful...

Environmental monitoring well contracting is a specialized discipline focused on constructing wells that observe subsurface conditions without altering them. These wells are used to detect, track, and evaluate hazardous substances in soil and groundwater, requiring a level of precision and restraint that differs fundamentally from water supply drilling or remediation work. This guide presents a focused, technical overview of how monitoring wells are properly designed, installed, and maintained to preserve subsurface integrity. The book explains how contaminants move through soil and ...