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

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, remember, and learn. Plants perceive their surroundings with greater sensitivity than animals. They efficiently explore and react promptly to potentially damaging external events, 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
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 transforming our economy and environment. Minter traces the export of America's recyclables, and the massive profits 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 R. 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 and non-technical solutions to the most pressing energy problems.
Problem-solving exercises in green and sustainable chemistry / Albert S. Matlack
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 fundamental 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 spreading 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
Firefly encyclopedia of trees / Steve Cafferty (Editor)
Call Number: Circulating Collection 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, describing trunk structure, bark texture, root systems, leaf shapes and functions, flowers, fruit, seeds, and nuts.
The Audubon Society book of wildflowers / Les Line; Walter H. Hodge
Call Number: Circulating Collection QK98 .L75 1978

ISBN: 9780810906716

Publication Date: 1978

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