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Believing Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist’s World by Alan AtKisson
Paul Hawken, author of NATURAL CAPITALISM, says, "Alan AtKisson is the freshest and wisest voice to emerge from the sustainability movement in many years. BELIEVING CASSANDRA manages to be incisive, but also humorous and hopeful, while examining unblinkingly the environmental holocaust enveloping the earth. This book renews our sense of the possible and expands the dimensions of our collective intelligence, transforming our sense of the future from a curse to a blessing."
List Price: $16.95
Paperback: 236 pages
Beyond Compliance: A New Industry View of the Environment by Bruce Smart
List Price: $25.00
Paperback: 285 pages
Big and Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century by David Gissen (Editor), National Building Museum
A revolutionary new school of skyscraper design has refashioned the idiom with buildings that are sensitive to their environments, benevolent to their occupants, and economically viable to build and maintain. Designed by some of the best-known architects in the world, these towers are as daring aesthetically as they are innovative environmentally. This is the first book to examine the sustainable skyscraper, its history, the technologies that make it possible, and its role in the future of urban development.
List Price: $40.00
Hardcover: 192 pages
Bioclimatic Skyscapers (Revised Edition)
by T. R. Hamzah, Ken Yeang
This revised edition updates the author's programs of cutting edge research, development and design, focusing on a new building type, the bioclimatic skyscraper -- tall buildings whose architecture derives from a systematic understanding of the role climate can play in finding forms and technologies that are energy efficient and that enhance the quality of life for occupants. The projects show a commitment to innovative design achieved in a commercially competitive context. Includes the theoretical framework for Yeang's design work, and looks to the future, to explorations of wind energy and new environmentally-friendly or reactive materials.
List Price: $30.00
Paperback: 160 pages
Biodiversity
Edited by Edward O. Wilson
This book calls attention to a most urgent global problem: the rapidly accelerating loss of plant and animal species to increasing human population pressure and the demands of economic development. Biodiversity creates a systematic framework for analyzing the problem and searching for possible solutions.
List Price: $34.95
Paperback - 521 pages
The Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Counts by the American Museum of Natural History Books,
Michael J. Novacek (Introduction), and Ellen V. Futter
An assemblage of top guns from relevant fields including evolutionary biology, paleontology, environmental chemistry and economics explaining various ecosystems and how damage might be mitigated. 23 essays plus case studies and profiles of scientists and activists set forth our current crisis in three parts: the first explains big issues; the second describes particular species' extinctions; the third shows how people (and governments) might start "Saving Biodiversity."
List Price: $19.95
Paperback: 224 pages
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine Benyus
The sophisticated, almost pro-growth angle of Benyus shows the great potential profitability of copying some of nature's time-tested, non-polluting room-temperature manufacturing and computing technologies. The colors of Benyus, a splendid Stevensville, Mont., science writer with a grasp of several sciences, contain far more shades of green than of chrome.
List Price: $14.95
Paperback: 320 pages
Blueprint for Green Management: Creating Your Company's Own Environmental Action Plan by Georg Winter
List Price: $175.00
Hardcover
The Boiled Frog Syndrome: Your Health and the Built Environment
by Thomas Saunders
Our physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing will depend on our endeavours to bring about fundamental changes to combat the hazards. But how can this be done? And what can we do about it? This book provides the reader with the 'ammunition' to challenge the attitudes of those of us who are engaged in the built environment. "A tour de force. This book is both visionary and immensely practical.
List Price: $52.00
Paperback: 274 pages
Bruce Goff: 3 Houses
by Malcolm Holzman, Michael Kaplan (Photographer)
Architect Bruce Goff (1904-1982) is recognized as one of the 20th century's great creative geniuses. The spatial and textural qualities of his work can now be better understood and enjoyed. First in a series documenting great works of architecture using stereoscopic (3-D) photography, this book is published under the direction of Michael Kaplan, Architecture Emeritus at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he has taught architectural design and theory and is a veteran stereo photographer.
List Price: $28.00
Product Bundle of 21 full-color 3–D photographs on three View–Master reels
Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for a New Millennium by Thomas T. K. Zung and Buckminster Fuller (Editors)
R. Buckminster Fuller revolutionized Western thinking and design, even though only a tiny fraction of his ideas were ever developed. Outrageously, most of his works are out of print here at the turn of the century, so his collaborator and architectural partner, Thomas T.K. Zung, organized the publication of this book. Collected are 20 selections from Fuller's books, each introduced by notable thinkers and writers.
List Price: $29.95 Paperback: 416 pages
Buckminster Fuller's Universe: His Life and Work by Lloyd Steven Sieden, Norman Cousins
Inventor of the geodesic dome and the phrase "spaceship earth," Fuller reportedly once had an out-of-body experience in which a voice told him: "You do not belong to you. You belong to the Universe." Shook the world with his technological innovations and vision of global unity,here is brought down to earth in this absorbing biographical study. Though many of Fuller's major projects were commercial failures, Sieden succeeds in demonstrating how his search for Nature's underlying rules of harmony and efficiency is relevant to fields ranging from aviation and manufacturing technology to environmentalism, housing, parapsychology and extraterrestrial anthropology. Photos.
List Price: $22.95
Paperback: 511 pages
The Building Environment: Active and Passive Control Systems
by
Vaughn Bradshaw
To capitalize on today's rapidly evolving, specialized technologies, architects, designers, builders, and contractors work together to plan the mechanical and electrical equipment that controls the indoor environment of a building. The Building Environment: Active and Passive Control Systems, Third Edition helps you take advantage of design innovations and construction strategies that maximize the comfort, safety, and energy efficiency of buildings.
List Price: US $105.00
Hardcover: 624 pages
Building Materials: Dangerous Properties of Products in MASTERFORMAT Divisions 7 and 9 by H. Leslie Simmons and Richard J. Lewis
Covering the dangerous properties of 1,448 common building materials, this reference guide is similar to the classic Saxs Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials, except that the information is tailored specifically to the building industry. This first edition provides users with access to comprehensive health, hazard, and safety data on materials used in waterproofing, insulating, fireproofing, roofing, painting, and more.
List Price: $275.00
Hardcover: 421 pages
A Building Revolution: How Ecology and Health Concerns are Transforming Construction
by David Malin Roodman and Nicholas Lenssen, Worldwatch Institute
This book documents how a variety of traditional design solutions and advanced technologies — from earthen materials to efficient lights — can cost-effectively eliminate almost all of the damage done by modern buildings, while preserving the comfort and amenities that people expect from them.
Price: US $12.00
Paperback: 67 pages
Building Systems for Interior Designers by Corky Binggeli The first book to explain technical building systems and engineering issues in a clear and accessible way to interior designers. The technical knowledge and vocabulary presented here allow interior designers to communicate more effectively, leading to more accurate solutions for problems related to a building considerations with an impact on interior design. Information on sustainable design is integrated throughout the book, making it a relevant tool for current and emerging trends in building design. Revised edition.
List Price: $85.00
Hardcover: 464 pages
Business Ecology: Giving Your Organization the Natural Edge by Joseph M. Abe, David A. Bassett, Patricia E. Dempsey
A new field for sustainable organizational management and design, based on the principle that organizations are most successful when their development and behavior are aligned with their core purpose, values and environmental performance.
