Why Life Matters: Fifty Ecosystems of the Heart and Mind (Hardback or Cased Book)

Part One: Nature & Human Economics.- 1) "Technology, Business and Nature: An Economic Primer on Winners and Losers".- 2) "Women, Wall Street and Mitigating Climate Change: The Critical Importance of WOCAN".- 3) "The New Business of Business: Evolution of Culture and the Survival of Humankind".-4) "Wall Street After Rio: A Discussion With Calvert Investments' Senior Sustainability Research Analyst, Ms. Ellen Kennedy".- 5) "Investing in the End-Game: An Earth Day Post-Mortem".- 6) "Just When You Thought You Could Bank On It".- Part Two: The Carbon-Negative Ideal.- 7) "SuperGrid".- 8) "Ecuador's Imperiled Paradise: One of the World's Most Important, If Least Known Battles - A Conversation with Dr. Ivonne Baki".- 9) "Native American Tribes Get a Seat at the Climate Table".- 10) "Climate Shock: UC-Berkeley Scientist Dr. John Harte Puts the World On Notice".- Part Three: Human Health and a Living Earth.- 11) "Occupy Your Diet: A Discussion About Food, Health and Kindness With Dr. Neal Barnard".- 12) "Eating You Alive: Environmental Cancer".- 13) Food That Might Protect Your Brain and Save Your Life: A Discussion About the Ecology of Alzheimers With Dr. Neal Barnard".- 14) "Biological Shock-Treatment: A Discussion With 'Deadly Monopolies' Author Harriet A. Washington".- 15) "Bioeconomics: A New National Blueprint".- Part Four: Ecology and the Human Population Explosion.- 16) "Six Billion or Fifteen Billion People: A Discussion With Environmental Scientist Leon Kolankiewicz".- 17) "A King's Speech That Could Help Save The World: A Discussion With UC-Berkeley's Dr. Malcolm Potts".- 18) "Planet Under Siege: Family Planning Critics Soon to See Global Population Reach 7,000,000,000".- 19) "China's Demographic and Ecological Conundrum".- Part Five: Ecological Heroes.- 20) "One Woman's Remarkable Quest to Save Africa's White Lion".- 21) "A Discussion With UNOPS Luminary Ms. Maria-Noel Vaeza".- 22) "Down To Earth: The World According to Ted Turner".- 23) "How the Life of a Chipmunk in Michigan Came to Save Elephants and a Million Acres in Cambodia".- 24) "Helen Clark: UNDP's Pragmatic Visionary".- 25) "A Jain Leader Addresses the World".- 26) "A Discussion With Jane Goodall".- Part Six: The State of the World.- 27) "China Declares Global State of Emergency: An Urgent Telegram from Taihu".- 28) "Japan's Tragedy: Global Ecological Uncertainty".- 29) "Before the Fall: Syria's Ecosystems".- 30) "Sir Simon Jenkins, England's National Trust, and the Future of Conservation in Great Britain".- 31) "Extinction: Poachers Test the Right to Life".- Part Seven: Animal Rights.- 32) "Compassionate Conservation: A Discussion From the Frontlines with Dr. Marc Bekoff".- 33) "Animal Rights in China".- 35) "Why Insects Sing: A Discussion With David Rothenberg".- 36) "Protecting Bambi With Drones: PETA's Ingrid Newkirk on Hunters, Horsemeat and More".- Part Eight: Why Your Neighbor Is Important: New Strategies for a Bright Future.- 37) "The Heart of Education: A Discussion With Zoe Weil".- 38) "Journey to the Center of the World: An Interview With Dr. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian".- 39) "How A Single National Park Might Help Transform a Nation: Haiti's Pic Macaya".- 40) "Conservation International: Stemming the Tide of Environmental Crises".- 41) "The Future of Life on Earth".- 42) "On Parrots, Eagles and Fighting Species Extinction".- Part Nine: Ecological Paradise?.- 43) "An Ecological Paradise in Southern India: A Discussion About the Todas With Dr. Tarun Chhabra".- 44) "J. P. Morgan, Edward Curtis and Christopher Cardozo: An Inspired Collaboration".- 45) "A New Natural History Blueprint for Universities: A Discussion With Graham Arader".- 46) "God's Country: The New Zealand Factor".- 47) "New Territories: Artist Astrid Preston Celebrates the Earth in a Landmark Nature Exhibition".- 48) "Lenin Moreno 2012 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Reflects on Human Wel

Michael Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison, partners who between them have authored some 50 books and written, directed and produced some 170 films, a prolific body of work that has been read, translated and/or broadcast around the world, have been married for more than a quarter-of-a-century. Their field research across the disciplines of comparative literature, anthropology, the history of science and philosophy, ecology and ethics, in over 80 countries, has served as a telling example of what two people - deeply in love with one another - can accomplish in spreading that same unconditional love to others - of all species.