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Economic Risks of Climate Change
The Age of Sustainable Development
An American Prospectus
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Trevor Houser, Solomon Hsiang, Robert Kopp, and Kate Larsen
Foreword by Ban Ki-moon
Foreword by Michael R. Bloomberg, Henry M. Paulson, and Thomas F. Steyer
“This work points the way toward a new era in climate risk analysis. It not only provides a basis for rational judgments by policy makers but at the same time opens a new avenue toward progressive improvement in our understanding of risk.” — From the opening commentary by Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University Combining current data with state-of-the-art climate models, econometric research on human responses to climate, and cutting-edge private sector risk assessment tools, this volume provides a gamechanging analysis of the risks of future climate change in specific U.S. regions and sectors. $60.00 / £49.95 cloth 978-0-231-17456-5 2015 384 pages / 120 illus.
Paleoclimates Understanding Climate Change Past and Present Thomas M. Cronin “I strongly recommend this book as essential background material for graduate students, an up-to-date review for researchers in the field and an important resource for anyone with a general interest in climatic change.”—The Holocene $95.00 / £79.95 cloth 978-0-231-14494-0 2009 448 pages
Principles of Paleoclimatology Thomas M. Cronin
Designed to give a fundamental background—including both history and methodology—to the discipline of paleoclimatology, this book advances our understanding of how climate change develops, how those changes are detected, and how the climate of the past can shape the climate of the future. $60.00 / £49.95 paper 978-0-231-10955-0 1999 592 pages / 76 illus.
Choice Oustanding Academic Title “The best, most comprehensive and most articulate exposition of sustainable development ever written.... I would make this book compulsory reading for all politicians and business leaders.”—Nature “My candidate for most important book in current circulation. Inspirational, encyclopedic in coverage, moving smoothly from discipline to discipline as though composed by multiple experts, the book explains why humanity must attain sustainability as its highest priority—and outlines the best ways to do it.”—Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University $39.95 / £32.95 paper 978-0-231-17315-5 $120.00 / £99.95 cloth 978-0-231-17314-8 2015 544 pages / 300 illus.
What Is Relativity? An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter Jeffrey Bennett
Choice Outstanding Academic Title “An impressively accessible distillation of epoch-making science.”—Booklist (starred review) "A well-written and uniquely readable book that beautifully serves as an introduction to special and general relativity.”—Alberto Nicolis, Columbia University $18.95 / £14.95 paper 978-0-231-16727-7 $25.95 / £20.95 cloth 978-0-231-16726-0 2016 208 pages
Facing Climate Change An Integrated Path to the Future Jeffrey T. Kiehl "There is nothing similar to Facing Climate Change in climate-science literature; it is unique. Jeffrey T. Kiehl calls on scientists to find their voices as humans, as citizens of this planet, to declare their moral and ethical values."—Benjamin Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory $28.00 / £22.95 cloth 978-0-231-17718-4 2016 176 pages
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The Collapse of Western Civilization
Rising Seas
A View from the Future
Vivien Gornitz
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
“Highly recommended.” —Midwest Book Review
“Packed with salient science, smart speculation, and flashes of mordant humour.”—Nature “Oreskes and Conway's startling and all-tooplausible history of the century to come is in the spirit of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley and all the writers who have turned to prophecy in the attempt to ward off an oncoming disaster.”—Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Shaman, 2312, and Science in the Capital
Past, Present, Future
“Should be on the desk of anyone involved in coastal planning and resource management and will be extremely effective as a textbook. A great, much-needed book!” —Maureen E. Raymo, Columbia University
Earth, Environment, and Sustainability Science New and Noteworthy
2018
$42.00 / £34.95 paper 978-0-231-14739-2 $120.00 / £99.95 cloth 978-0-231-14738-5 2013 360 pages / 70 illus.
$9.95 / £8.95 paper 978-0-231-16954-7 2014 104 pages
The Five Horsemen of the Modern World Climate, Food, Water, Disease, and Obesity Daniel Callahan “Callahan, a pioneer in bioethics, has written a thoughtful meditation on our most recalcitrant worldly challenges, from the health of our bodies to the wellbeing of our planet.... The Five Horsemen of the Modern World demonstrates how the complex mix of technology, politics, and media have slowed progress and calls for a more productive partnership with sustainable businesses to chart a path forward.”—Paul Sabin, author of The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble Over Earth's Future $35.00 / £27.95 cloth 978-0-231-17002-4 2016 416 pages / 20 illus.
Fixing the Sky The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control James Rodger Fleming
Winner of the Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology The Louis J. Battan Author's Award from the American Meteorological Society “This interesting and original work, building off of Fleming's previous studies of meteorology and climate science history, provides valuable perspective on what may soon become serious policy debates over how to respond to global warming.”—H-Environment $24.95 / £19.95 paper 978-0-231-14413-1 $27.95 / £22.95 cloth 978-0-231-14412-4 2012 344 pages
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
The Man Who Built the Sierra Club
Dispatches from the Front Lines
A Life of David Brower
Michael E. Mann
Robert Wyss
“An important and disturbing account of the fossil-fuel industry’s well-funded publicrelations campaign to sow doubt about the validity of the science of climate change....This blistering indictment of corporate-funded chicanery demands a wide audience.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) $19.95 / £14.95 paper 978-0-231-15255-6 $28.95 / £23.95 cloth 978-0-231-15254-9 2012 448 pages
"Wyss provides a penetrating and readable narrative of the highest–profile American environmentalist in the postwar decades and of the many battles he and the Sierra Club fought. He makes clear the multiple layers of Brower's personality: passion, commitment, aggressiveness, and, at times, recklessness. Readers will come away with a clear and compelling portrait of this cutting–edge environmental activist."—Mark Harvey, author of Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act $35.00 / £27.95 cloth 978-0-231-16446-7 2016 400 pages / 20 illus.
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