Sierra Club Books, Author Random House (NY) $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87156-700-0
In their introduction, Lown and Chazov, Nobel Peace Prizewinners and founders of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, liken the nuclear arms buildup of the superpowers to a ""cancer'' and state that ``pointing nuclear-tippe
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Sierra Club Books, Author, Murray Bookchin, Author Random House (NY) $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87156-706-2
Once arenas for humanly scaled interactions in distinctive neighborhoods, our cities are fast being swallowed up by sprawling metropolitian entities designed to serve corporate needs. To reverse the city's dehumanization, social thinker Bookchin (The
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Sierra Club Books, Author, David Weir, Author Random House (NY) $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87156-718-5
In the wake of the Bhopal disaster in 1984, there has been mounting public concern, worldwide, about the safety of pesticide technology. Could such an accident happen again? Weir, coauthor of Circle of Poison, examines the potential at pesticide...
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Sierra Club Books, Author, Linsay Knight, Author Sierra Club Books for Children $16.45 (68p) ISBN 978-0-87156-507-5
This book takes two dips into the study of mammalia: the first offers tastes by the spoonful--a sip of evolution, a nip of behavior, a swig of climatology and environment and a (slightly harder to swallow) swill of human guilt over species...
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Sierra Club Books, Author, Hugo Van Lawick, Author Random House (NY) $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87156-774-1
Filmmaker, photographer, naturalist Van Lawick has lived among wild animals in Africa for 25 years. He has observed at close quarters the large carnivoreslions, leopards, cheetahs; wild dogs, hyenas, jackalsand he spent six years with chimpanzees,...
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Sierra Club Books, Author, Robert Wenkam, Author Random House (NY) $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87156-714-7
No natural phenomena inspire such awe as do earthquakes and volcanoes. Photojournalist Wenkam takes us on a dramatic tour of the geologically unstable Pacific Coast, Central America to Alaska, and to the volcanically active islands of Hawaii. He...
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