Publications: Books
PEER maintains a selection of books that will be of interest to public employees in the environmental sector, or to anyone concerned about environmental issues. By ordering publications from the PEER books selection you get great books at great prices and help PEER too! Shipping is included on all purchases.
How to Order:
By mail: Make your check or money order payable to PEER and mail to PEER, 2000 P Street NW, Suite 240, Washington, DC 20036.
By phone: Call (202) 265-PEER (7337) between 9am and 6pm EST. Please have your credit card number ready.
The Art of Anonymous Activism: Serving the Public While Surviving Public Service
PEER, the Government Accountability Project and the Project on Government Oversight have joined forces to help public employees who blow the whistle on waste, fraud, or abuse.
This book is a helpful guide for public employees who want to come forward about on-the-job wrongdoing or harassment, while avoiding retaliation from angry agencies seeking to hide their foibles and corruption. Only $10 for members and includes shipping and handling.
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The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right by Daniel Levitas reveals the men behind far right groups like the Posse Comitatus — Latin for "power of the county" — and the ideas that inspired their attempts to bring about a racist revolution in the United States. This book goes well beyond the destruction in Oklahoma City and takes readers deeper and more broadly inside the Posse and other groups that comprise the paramilitary right. Only $20 for members ($7.95 off the cover price) and includes shipping and handling.
Choosing A Conservation Vocation or a Bureaucratic Career: Your Personal Choices and the Environmental Consequences by Richard Kroger explains why government conservation, environmental, and land management agencies do such a poor job of protecting and managing our public natural resources and how this malady can be cured. Kroger uses his professional and private successes and failures to demonstrate how current and future conservation vocationists can survive within government agencies while still effectively combating bureaucratic careerists and providing maximum protection for our natural resources. Only $14 for members, including shipping and handling.
Blue Frontier: Saving America's Living Seas by David Helvarg is a fascinating account of America's oceans and ocean politics. Blue Frontier explores the impact of history, commerce and policy on marine life--and by extension all life on earth. Helvarg profiles the growing number of coastal citizen-activists, local governments, and waterfront communities who are working to protect and restore healthy seas for all of us. Hardcover. Only $22 for members ($2.95 off the cover price) includes shipping and handling.
Beloved of the Sky: Essays and Photographs on Clearcutting edited by John Ellison takes the reader to forests in the Northwest, Hawaii, British Columbia, the Grand Canyon, and other areas where clearcutting has taken place. It will take about 200 years for the next generation of trees to produce as much wood as the ancient forests have already produced. These and other questions are raised and explored in the 20 essays. Only $10 for members ($4.95 off the cover price)and includes shipping and handling.