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UPDATED 2008
Information on How to Order Books
In the sections below, we have linked books to the Amazon.com site where it is available. Other books or reports are available through the institution which publishes them. For more books and information on how to order out of print books, see our Book Ordering Guide.
(OP= Out of Print)
Plan B 3.0 by Lester Brown Amazon
GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL BOOKS
Collapse by Jared Diamond
A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations by Clive Ponting
The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity by James Lovelock
Vital Signs
(Annual)
State of the
World (Annual)
Worldwatch Institute Online Features
UN Human Development Report (Annual)
United Nations Millennium Development Goals
United Nations Population Fund
United Nations Food and Agriculture
Climate Change
IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Gateway to the United Nations System's Work on Climate Change
Pictures of Impact of Climate Change BBC Version
International Monetary Fund- Country Index
International Labor Organization
Defense
Link (U.S. Defense Department)
Defense Link
Publications
CIA National
Intelligence Council (NIC) (Future Projections)
CIA
World Fact Book
CIA Mapping the Global Future 2020 Project
Angus Maddison Home Site Publications
The
World Economy
-Angus Maddison
OECD
Worldwide Statistical Sources
White House Council of
Economic Advisers Publications
U.S. Budget
U.S. Statistical
Abstract
Government
Printing Office
Bureau of
Labor Statistics
Energy Information Administration
FedNet - Broadcast Coverage of
the United States Government
First
Gov
Fedstats Fast Facts
FEDSTATS
LUXEMBURG
INCOME STUDY
One of the most detailed databases on comparative social
statistics.
(OP= Out of Print)
We Can Solve It Al Gore's new energy campaign.
T. Boone Pickens Plan To Save America One of America's leading oil men endorses renewable energy.
Heinz Center -The State of the Nation's Ecosystems
Global Forest Watch Maps Amazing maps of the destruction of the world's forests
Map on Global Forest Destruction
American Society of Civil Engineers Report Card Excellent study of America's decaying infrastructure.
How world youth sees America An interesting Washington Post study Check out a hip hop artist from Beirut (video).
US Debt Report This contains a statistic rarely seen since it is buried in the data put out by the Federal Reserve. It's the ratio of total U.S. debt, public and private, to the economy. It is not pleasant reading. It's at an all-time high.
Laurie Garrett Excellent books on crisis of global public health.
The Good Old Days - They Were Terrible by Otto Bettman. A truly excellent book filled with marvelous pictures. A healthy cure for naive nostalgia about the American past was. Shows America's long-term poverty and crime problems.
The Way We Never Were by Stephanie Coontz. A good antidote for delusions about the lack of government intervention in America's past. Shows how "independent" pioneers received astronomical subsidies from the government in things like land grants (of land stolen from the Native Americans). If today's inner city residents got this kind of cash from the government, poverty would almost vanish.
Poverty and Society by Daniel Devine. (OP) Excellent book on government social programs around the world. Shows history of programs. Excellent weapon to knock down delusions that U.S. government is "too big". (In reality it's the smallest in the developed world as a share of GNP.)