William R. Burch Knihy

A guide to inspire the future of conservation and to lead the next generation of conservation leaders in this country, written by the former Director of the National Park Service and the first Science Advisor to the Director of the NPS.

The first "urban century" in history has arrived: a majority of the world's population now resides in cities and their surrounding suburbs. Urban expansion marches on, and the planning and design of future cities requires attention to such diverse issues as human migration, public health, economic restructuring, water supply, climate and sea-level change, and much more. This important book draws on two decades of pioneering social and ecological studies in Baltimore to propose a new way to think about cities and their social, political, and ecological complexity. Readers will gain fresh perspectives on how to study, build, and manage cities in innovative and sustainable ways.

A landmark book that strives to provide both grand theory and practical application, innovatively describing the structure and dynamics of human ecosystems

With the end of the most destructive war in human history, plenty of hope exists that the human penchant for making war has finally been relegated to history. Unfortunately, with the use of atomic bombs in 1945, another war pitting democracy versus communism is only five years in the future. This historical fiction look at those years, including the first six months of the Korean War, sheds plenty of light on a flawed decision making process that affects all of us now and beyond.

Opening with the extraordinary story of a young French priest working in 1968 amongst impoverished villages of northeast Brazil, struggling to bring sustenance, sustainability, and hope to these disregarded and willfully ignored communities, this book asks a broad and far-reaching question that challenges the contemporary sustainability movement.