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Doug's Big Idea    by Ted Summerfield
Price: $0.99 USD. 820 words. Published on September 15, 2010. .

This story is about a young beaver named Doug who lives in a forest, soon destroyed by fire. Doug comes up with a unique way to rebuild the forest by recycling paper into trees. Suit 2 to 5 year old. This delightful, colorful, picture book for children is filled with fanciful animal pictures, including large size black and white pictures for coloring.
Pocket Writing Tutor's Composing Essays on Climate Change    by Gray Scott
Price: $4.99 USD. 64390 words. Published on September 17, 2010. .

Our guide offers student writers specific advice for essays on climate change and global warming. The book includes topic ideas; sample outlines; profiles of good sources with tips and links to help you find them; and pre-formatted citations for each source in MLA, APA, and Chicago style.
Change of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change    by Nick Cooney
Price: $8.99 USD. 80840 words. Published by Lantern Books on September 20, 2010. .

An easy-to-use psychology primer for anyone wanting to spread progressive social change. Developed so that non-profits, community organizers and others can make science-driven decisions in their advocacy work.
Human-Animal Studies: Ecology    by Margo DeMello
Price: $2.99 USD. 23980 words. Published by Lantern Books on September 22, 2010. .

One in the series of Human-Animal Studies ebooks produced as a result of the (printed) publication of the definitive HAS handbook, Teaching the Animal: Human–Animal Studies across the Disciplines. This chapter focuses on cultural studies, includes two course syllabi, and has a full resources section covering all disciplines. Includes "Putting Society Back in the Wild" by Theresa L. Goedeke
Peak of the Devil: 100 Questions (and answers) About Peak Oil    by Chip Haynes
Price: $9.99 USD. 52110 words. Published by Satya House Publications  on September 27, 2010. .

Long-overdue foundation to critical global issue that is Peak Oil. With a deceptively light-hearted and witty tone, Haynes reveals how deeply connected oil is to virtually everything we buy and use, how looming scarcity will change how we live, and what we can do to prepare. After all, after Peak Oil there is a good chance that 100 years from now will look like 100 years ago, if we are lucky.
Seven Poems and Songs From Spirit Thorn    by Zacharias O'Bryan
Price: Free! 1340 words. Published on October 26, 2010. .

These poems and songs are excerpted from the novel "Spirit Thorn, a Tale of Parallel Worlds." Zacharias O'Bryan invites you to be his guest in a world where music, life and the swirl of atomic particles are one. Molly Greenfingers (the monster), Kestrelle (the young being from another dimension) and Braden Swift (the human teen boy) will be your guides.
The Ultimate Guide to Greening your Home    by Anthony Gilbreath
Price: $9.99 USD. 29360 words. Published on October 26, 2010. .

The Ultimate Guide to Greening your Home is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to green your home. It is perfect for people with home greening experience and for those who are just beginning.  The guide includes information and tips on over 40 different home greening categories.  Also included is a Tax and Appliance Rebate guide which will help you identify government incentives.
21st Century Pocket Guide to Hydropower, Microhydropower and Small Systems, Incentives and Funding, Dams, Turbine Systems, Environmental Impact and Fish Passage, History, Research Projects    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 38300 words. Published on November 2, 2010. .

This ebook provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of hydropower, microhydropower, dams, and turbines, with information on everything from the basics, federal incentives and funding opportunities, environmental impact, fish passage, design concepts, practical small hydropower systems, federal research, and more.
Floating Point: Endlessly Rocking off Silicon Valley    by Shelley Buck
Price: $4.99 USD. 136410 words. Published on November 6, 2010. .

Imagine running away to sea without giving up your day job! In Floating Point, the author and her family seek to shorten a daunting commute to Silicon Valley by moving to a boat. This travel memoir chronicles an adventure lived beneath the radar of suburban life as the new owners of the Egret learn the ropes and are transformed by their life on the water. Published by ePicaro Press.
The Freel of Streel: Part One in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 65650 words. Published on November 19, 2010. .

It is always advisable, when you are a conman, to make sure that the town that you're about to try to con does not have a land such as Streel hidden within it. For if it does, you may find yourself trying to escape your mind in an incomprehensible land with a left-handed scribe, being forced to deal with lexically picky ants, Kweengs, and the Freel on your journey through your fears, God and love.