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The Ecosystems and Ecology Issues

The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest
by Lynne Cherry
Amazon Price: $7.00
Customer Reviews:
» I use this book as a teaching tool. I show students the importance of protecting our Earth.

» I used this book as an introduction to the Rain Forest for my 3rd graders and it got them interested in learning more. It is a great book as a lesson plan or in a classroom library. Kids seemed to rea...

» Both my 4 year old boy and my 7 year old girl like this book and so do I. It's a great way to introduce them to many of the different types of animals you could find in a rainforest. Great pictures!

» This book is truly inspiring for anyone that does not believe in saving the rainforests. The Great Kapok Tree really tells you from all the animals point of view on how the rianforest is their home. T...

» For centuries, man has abused nature and thoughtlessly destroyed forests without realizing the harm this causes. Only recently has the importance of trees become apparent, brought to light by those wh...

Down-to-Earth Guide To Global Warming
by Laurie David and Cambria Gordon
Amazon Price: $10.87
Customer Reviews:
» The book was given as a gift to my son, who found it rather boring, quickly discarding it in favor of books about soccer and American football. This allowed a careful perusal of the book and its cont...

» Potential of unlimited methane gas can release from the ocean in a couple yrs. 2/3 of the population might be gone if we don't go veg or at least cut down on meat info. Don't believe me. Check this o...

» I bought this book for my 9 and 10 year old boys. Both are above average students and were vaguely familiar with the concept of global warming. This book was PERFECT for them. It was easy to read, ...

» This is a wonderful book, chock full of information about what we are doing to our Earth, as well as great tips for making a difference, all in a very USER FRIENDLY FORMAT. Forget the doom and gloom,...

» As the title summarizes, this book discusses the topic of global warming. The book is split up into chapters that describe what global warming is, how it can effect our planet and everything living o...

Why Should I Recycle? (Why Should I?)
by Jen Green
Amazon Price: $6.99
Customer Reviews:
» I've just recently bought all of the Jan Green Why Should I? series and they are great! The books are easy to read for the little ones, not too much text is good, it goes right to the point, and that ...

» I taught a lesson using this book and it worked great. I got a lot of positive response from the children on recycling. We started a recycling center in our classroom and it is working great. I have r...

Owl Puke: Book and Owl Pellet
by Jane Hammerslough
Amazon Price: $11.16
Customer Reviews:
» What young boy doesn't want to learn about gross stuff?! Got this for my 8 year old nephew and he was ecstatic. Perfect Christmas gift!

» This kit is an exciting way to discuss owls with your students or children. The book does a great job talking about owls and their behaviors. I bought two kits. I put one in my library at work and use...

» My son thought this was the greatest, better than our Disney trip! Wow, if I'd only known!

» I was very pleasantly surprised by this book. It appears to be designed to appeal to kids, but turns out to also have stunning array of fantastic information, often more than you find in "serious" owl...

» Owl Puke(TM) is a wonderful hunters tool used for trapping pigeons which feed on the poop and vomit of nighttime owls, which by the way, has plenty of calcium and protein. Just spread this out on the ...

An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
by Al Gore
Amazon Price: $14.11
Customer Reviews:
» A must read for everyone. We must ALL act now to save our planet from self-destruction!

» He says the climate is important and supports us taking care of it, by driving smaller cars. Yet he still flies around in his own jet. hmmmmmm.

» In his book, 'An Inconvenient Truth', Al Gore writes about a
"hockey-stick" graph, with "global average temperature" on
one axis, and time on the other axis. "GLOBAL WARMING" IS
...

» The distresses with Gore's propaganda book for global warming are manifold. The first and worst sin Gore commits is he's NOT FAIR AND BALANCED in his struggling argument that global warming is real, c...

» I am horrified to hear a reviewer, in this day and age and with the united voices out thousands of the world's preeminent scientists shouting it to the rafters, that he/she doubts the existence of a g...

Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America
by Adrian Forsyth, Ken Miyata
Amazon Price: $11.90
Customer Reviews:
» This book is well written and easy to read and understand. The literary quality is not lost in the scientific terminology. A must read prior to a trip to the tropics. A good written explanation of why...

» I just loved this book. I have always been fascinated by tropical forests, and this book did a great job of presenting lots of factual information about them and at the same time giving a really good...

» It's much more readable than a textbook but still provides a lot of detail. It's probably an excellent way to actually gain some understanding of tropical nature, and the many types of inter-relation...

» I first read this book when I was on a jungle trek in Ecuador - it was available in our lodge. This book perfectly reflected our experience of life and death of the rain forest. It's an essential firs...

» Still in print and selling well 23 years after its first publication, this is a classic book about the beauty and importance of rain forests and their many inhabitants, both plant and animal. I read ...

Recycle!: A Handbook for Kids
by Gail Gibbons
Amazon Price: $7.99
Customer Reviews:
» This book is full of facts and figures to demonstrate just how damaging some of the products we use every day can be to our environment. The information regarding the biodegradability of every day pro...

» I bought this book to help me put on a presentation on recycling to a cub scout den. Age group- first grade. I loved the book! I found it very informative and motivating. It touched on all the hig...

» This book had a lot of good factual information in it about recycling. We read about recycling for Health this week. This book had great information about what is done with the things we recycle and h...

» While this book isn't the best I've found, it does have information a lot of other books don't have. It's a little hard for some younger learners to read as it has words like "bauxite" and "silica" b...

» This is an amazing book. It covers the major groups of recyclables. It shares facts, tells children how to prepare each item to recycle, and gives a comprehendable description of how they are made in...

How Many Ways Can You Catch a Fly?
by Robin Page
Amazon Price: $10.88
Customer Reviews:
» Steve Jenkins and Robin Page's HOW MANY WAYS CAN YOU CATCH A FLY? provides a fine picture book story of fast creatures and how different creatures can succeed at capturing the same prey. Drawings of b...

» I'm a fan of Steve Jenkins and Robin Page because I think they do an amazing job of making nonfiction interesting and engaging and presenting fun and interesting facts. I also think they make an effor...

Generation Green: The Ultimate Teen Guide to Living an Eco-Friendly Life
by Linda Sivertsen, Tosh Sivertsen
Amazon Price: $9.34
Customer Reviews:
» I completely loved this book. I loved the amount of ideas. They were little things that you could do to help. The whole book was very positive. It wasn't so much as "you shouldn't do this," it was "do...

» I thoroughly enjoyed this book. My daughter is 15 and, as most kids her age, has more than just a passing interest in all things "green". This age group recognizes that the environmental issues of to...

» I started going green a couple years ago mostly because it saves you money and helps you live a healthier lifestyle, the whole saving the Earth thing is just an added bonus. So I am always on the loo...

» Living an eco-friendly life is not always about buying the latest recycled gadget or solar product. Linda Sivertsen and Tosh Sivertsen have written a great book that can either be read or used as a p...

» Generation Green is a great guide for young people who want in on the kinds of changes that will have to take place quickly if we are to live in a way that is ecologically sustainable in the long term...

Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World
by Brian Walker, David Salt
Amazon Price: $22.50
Customer Reviews:
» A very accessible book as an introduction to concepts of resilience. Nice use fo case studies which means that an educated layman can get the concepts, and see them applied. I'll be buying several c...

» This is a fascinating and very timely book. Easy to read and understand with many examples from real life.
Makes one understand why the serious problems in our world's environment will not go aw...

» Brian Walker, Program Director Resilience Alliance and a scientist with the CSIRO. Canberra Australia, has, with the assistance of science writer David Salt, written the best and most straightforward ...

» This is a gem of an educational book. Mixing case studies with elaborating chapters on key concepts, it's as a good a volume as I have found for teaching undergraduates, graduates, and practitioners ...

» This book is Latour's actor network theory in another guise, with the physicalization of Kuhn's paradigm shift thrown in for good measure. It is a very interesting book on an emerging way to look...