Harold L. Drimmer Library Research Guides: Faculty Senate Environmental Committee Guide: Books at WCC

Books

The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior / Stefano Mancuso
Call Number: Circulating Collection QK711.2 .M35813 2018
ISBN: 9781501187858
Publication Date: 2018
Neurobiologist Mancuso reveals the ability of plants to innovate, to remember, and to learn. Plants perceive their surroundings with a greater sensitivity than animals. They efficiently explore and react promptly to potentially damaging external events and can remember prior catastrophic events and actively adapt to new ones.
The private life of plants : a natural history of plant behaviour / David Attenborough
Call Number: Circulating Collection QK50 .A77 1995
ISBN: 0691006393
Publication Date: 1995
Based on the six-part BBC program by writer and filmmaker David Attenborough, this book delivers an intimate view of the plant world where multitudes of miniature dramas unfold.
The New York Botanical Garden : an illustrated chronicle of plants and people / Ogden Tanner and Adele Auchincloss
Call Number: Circulating Collection QK73.U62 N497 1991
ISBN: 0802711413
Publication Date: 1991

Books (cont.)

Junkyard planet : travels in the billion-dollar trash trade / Adam Minter
Call Number: Circulating Collection HD9975 .A2 M495 2013
ISBN: 9781608197910
Publication Date: 2013
Journalist Adam Minter travels into a vast multibillion-dollar industry that is transforming our economy and environment. Minter traces the export of America's recyclables and the massive profits that China and other rising nations earn from it. Junkyard Planet reveals how "going green" usually means making money, and why that's often the most sustainable choice.
Green technology : an A-to-Z guide / Dustin Mulvaney (Editor)
Call Number: Circulating Collection TA170 .G75 2011
ISBN: 9781412996921
Publication Date: 2011
This tenth volume in the SAGE Series on Green Society explores the essential role of technology and its most recent developments toward a sustainable environment. With a primary focus on waste management, the volume presents over 150 articles in A-to-Z format.
Energy : what everyone needs to know / Jose Goldemberg
Call Number: Circulating Collection TJ163.3 .G65 2012
ISBN: 9780199812929
Publication Date: 2012
Nuclear physicist Goldemberg takes readers through the basics of the world energy system, its problems, and the technical as well as non-technical solutions to the most pressing energy problems.
Problem-solving exercises in green and sustainable chemistry / Albert S. Matlack; Andrew P. Dicks
Call Number: Circulating Collection TP155.2 .E58 M39 2016
ISBN: 9781482252576
Publication Date: 2015
Teaches students how to analyze and solve green and sustainable chemistry problems that occur in an environmental context, and encourages creativity in developing solutions to situations based on actual events. The final chapter contains proposed solutions and provides commentaries and references to relevant literature.
Why ecology matters / Charles J. Krebs
Call Number: Circulating Collection QH541 .K677 2016
ISBN: 9780226318011
Publication Date: 2016
Highlights key principles in ecology from species extinction to the sun's role in powering ecosystems. Each chapter introduces a question and links it to pressing ecological issues in which humans play a central role, such as the spread of invasive species, climate change, overfishing, and biodiversity conservation.

Reference Books

Field guide to edible wild plants. Jacket and book plant illus. by Arthur J. Anderson. by Bradford, Angier
Call Number: Circulating Collection QK98.5.A1 A53
ISBN: 0811706168
Publication Date: 1974
The trees of North America / Alan Mitchell ; illustrated by David More
Call Number: Circulating Collection QK481 .M5 1987
ISBN: 0816018065
Publication Date: 1987
Ferns / Robert H. Mohlenbrock
Call Number: Circulating Collection QK525.5.I4 M6 1999
ISBN: 0809322552
Publication Date: 1999
Plants of the world [by] H. C. D. de Wit. Translated by A. J. Pomerans
Call Number: Circulating Collection QK98 .W7213
Publication Date: 1966
2 vols.
The Facts On File dictionary of botany / edited by Jill Bailey
Call Number: Circulating Collection QK9 .F33 2002
ISBN: 0816049106
Publication Date: 2002
Essential atlas of botany / [authors, Parramón Editorial Team ; text, Josep Cuerda ; translation from Spanish, Eric A. Bye]
Call Number: Circulating Collection QK49 .A8513 2004
ISBN: 0764127098
Publication Date: 2004

Books on Reserve at WCC

These books are for use in the library only, and may be checked out for two hours with your student ID card. They are located at the Circulation Desk.

Firefly Encyclopedia of trees / edited by Stephen Cafferty.
Call Number: Reference Collection, 1st Floor QK474.87 .F57 2005
ISBN: 1554070511
Publication Date: 2005
This encyclopedia is a comprehensive guide to trees of the world organized as an A-Z directory. Information for each tree includes a concise taxonomic description with detailed captions describing the dimensions and characteristics of each tree.
Color photographs and illustrations depict each tree family in summer and fall, with descriptions of trunk structure, bark texture, root systems, leaf shapes and functions, flowers, fruit, seeds and nuts.
The Audubon Society book of wildflowers / by Les Line and Walter Henricks Hodge
Call Number: Reserve Collection, Circ Desk QK98 .L75 1978/CIRC DESK
ISBN: 0810906716
Publication Date: 1978

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