The Great Courses: Earth at the Crossroads

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The books mentioned within The Great Courses course titled "Earth at the Crossroads: Understanding the Ecology of a Changing Planet".
1
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
25,143 members
377 reviews
4.1
2
On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
14,454 members
120 reviews
4.1
3
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
13,106 members
168 reviews
½ 3.7
4
The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
10,879 members
120 reviews
½ 4.3
5
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
6,605 members
98 reviews
4
6
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
by Aldo Leopold
4,435 members
59 reviews
4.2
7
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky
3,253 members
68 reviews
3.9
8
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
by Edward O. Wilson
2,648 members
29 reviews
3.9
9
An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
by Al Gore
2,510 members
33 reviews
4
10
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough
1,957 members
33 reviews
4
11
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
by Marc Reisner
1,760 members
35 reviews
½ 4.3
12
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
by David Quammen
1,455 members
20 reviews
½ 4.4
13
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
by Bill McKibben
1,064 members
17 reviews
4
14
The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
by Henry Beston
953 members
30 reviews
4.1
15
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
by Edward O. Wilson
663 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
16
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
by Edward O. Wilson
465 members
3 reviews
½ 4.5
17
Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach
by John Alcock
349 members
1 review
3.9
18
Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
by Miriam Horn
220 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
19
Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
by Richard Manning
204 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
20
The Cartoon Guide to the Environment
by Larry Gonick
190 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
21
The Discovery of Global Warming
by Spencer R. Weart
182 members
11 reviews
3.8
22
After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America
by E. C. Pielou
177 members
2 reviews
4.2
23
Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
by Williams E. Rees
175 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
24
Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly
by Sue Halpern
168 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
25
Environmental Science: Toward A Sustainable Future (8th Edition)
by Richard T. Wright
155 members
2 reviews
3.9
26
Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics
by Timothy Morton
135 members
½ 4.5
27
The Human Impact on the Natural Environment
by Andrew Goudie
87 members
1 review
4
29
Fragile Dominion: Complexity and the Commons
by Simon Levin
50 members
3
30
Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia
by Stephen DeStefano
48 members
1 review
½ 3.5
31
Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches
by Peter R. Grant
48 members
32
A View of the River
by Luna B. Leopold
34 members
1 review
½ 4.4
33
The Ecology of Hope: Communities Collaborate for Sustainability
by Ted Bernard
33 members
3
34
Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography
by Paul L. Knox
26 members
4
36
Road Ecology: Science And Solutions
by Richard T. T. Forman
17 members
½ 4.5
38
Fire in North American Tallgrass Prairies
by Scott L. Collins
14 members
3
39
An Entangled Bank: The Origins of Ecosystem Ecology
by Joel Hagen
13 members
41
Dry: Life Without Water
by Ehsan Masood
11 members
4
42
Urban Wildlife Management
by Clark E. Adams
10 members
3
48
Ecology
by William D. Bowman Michael L. Cain, Sally D. Hacker
1 member