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Specializing in such vital topics as conservation biology, marine science, land conservation, green building, sustainable agriculture, and climate change, we add about 40 books per year to our over 800 existing titles.

But we are much more than a book publisher. Since our founding in 1984, we have emerged as the nation’s leading publisher of books on environmental issues and a key resource for multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed information.

All of this is possible because Island Press has helped to create a community of teachers, scientists, policymakers, communicators, and citizen activists who are passionate about sharing knowledge and promoting better understanding and stewardship of the natural world.

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Reuters.com: Let's talk about sex to save the planet, author says (interview with Robert Engelman, author of More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want )

US News & World Report: 'We Are Running Out of Environment' (interview with Paul Ehrlich, author of The Dominant Animal )

Newsweek.com: Are Tigers About to Become Extinct? (interview with Alan Rabinowitz, author of Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold and Greed )

The Challenge of Global Warming--commemorating the 20th anniversary of NASA's James E. Hansen's Congressional testimony on the reality of global warming by downloading either both the entire book or Hansen's chapter in "The Challenge of Global Warming"

Citizen's Guide to the IPCC--download the "plain English" guide to the 2007 findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which resulted in a joint Nobel Prize awarded to the IPCC and Al Gore for their work to educate the public on global warming

Island Press Readers--download Island Press' Reader for the Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration Series, with excerpts from titles concerning wildlife and ecosystem conservation, and much more!

Millenium Assessment Toolkit--download the MA Toolkit, a summary of the UN's 2000 five-volume report on the state of Earth's ecosystems

Colorado River Basin Assessment--download a summary of Island Press and the Sonoran Institute's joint report on the future of the dwindling Colorado River Basin Ecosystem

2008 Catalogs--download a copy of our catalogs, featuring descriptions of upcoming and current titles from Island Press

• David Wilcove: New Lessons from Old Europe 11:51am Oct 9
• Paul Ehrlich: 7 Steps Toward a Sustainable Society - #3 11:51am Oct 8
• Terry Tamminen: Bail-out or Build-out? 10:08am Oct 7