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Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Mans Quest to Rewild
"Derek Gow might be the most colorful character in all of Beaverdom."--Ben Goldfarb, author of Eager Read the 2021 Profile of Derek on NewYorker.com: An Ark for Vanished Wildlife Bringing...
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to switch...
Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences...
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
A myth-busting book about how the world produces and consumes its food and how to do so without killing the planet In this ambitious, myth-busting book, leading scientist and internationally...
Boom, Bust, Boom: A Story about Copper, the Metal That Runs the World
For most of recorded history, copper has proven invaluable: not only did the ancient Romans build their empire on mining copper but Christopher Columbus protected his ships from rot by...
Fight for the Tiger: One Man's Fight to Save the Wild Tiger from
The book titled Fight for the Tiger: One Man's Fight to Save the Wild Tiger from by the author Michael Day. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
Ernest Hodgkin's Swanland: The Estuaries and Coastal Lagoons of
Based on, and inspired by, the life and work of a man intrigued by the natural world. It is a synthesis of the results of many years of research on...
The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside?
WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025 A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER 'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES ________________________________ The lie...
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present
Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of...
Food or War
Ours is the Age of Food. Food is a central obsession in all cultures, nations, the media, and society. Our future supply of food is filled with risk, and history...
The Greenpeace Book of Antarctica: A New View of the Seventh Continent
The book titled The Greenpeace Book of Antarctica: A New View of the Seventh Continent by the author John May. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret: Volume 1
Discover the biggest issue in conservation today. This companion to the documentary Cowspiracy explores the impacts of the most environmentally destructive industry on the planet: animal agriculture. The award-winning documentary...
The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees - and the Fight to
For millennia, elms shaped our landscape and our folklore; then they started dying. Few young people have seen a mature elm tree. They once covered great swathes of Europe and...
Horn of Darkness: Rhinos on the Edge
The black rhino is nature's tank, feared by all animals. Even lions will break off a hunt to detour around one. And yet the black rhino is on the edge...
Listen Our Land is Crying
This book presents the big picture of land-use, the degradation of land and water resources, and some of the wonders of this amazing continent, and provides a prescription for ensuring...
Water: A Turbulent History
During the Industrial Revolution, the growth of commerce placed intolerable pressures on an inadequate road system. A new means of cheap and rapid transportation was needed, marking the beginning of...
Jamey Stillings: ATACAMA: Renewable Energy and Mining in the High
With ATACAMA, Jamey Stillings again shares his distinctive aerial perspective to examine dramatic large-scale renewable energy projects, the visual dynamic of enormous mining operations and the stark beauty of the...
Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions / "An
A THE TIMES BEST SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF PROSPECT 'S TOP THINKERS 2024 'INCREDIBLE STORIES OF CLIMATE INNOVATIONS WE DON'T HEAR ENOUGH ABOUT ' BILL...
Weather: A Force of Nature
Weather collects some of the most breathtaking images from Weather Photographer of the Year, the annual competition held by The Royal Meteorological Society. Each image has been selected by a...
Coral Reefs of Australia: Perspectives from Beyond the Water's Edge
Australia's coral reefs stretch far and wide, covering 50 000 square kilometres from the Indian Ocean in the West to the Pacific Ocean in the East. They have been viewed...
Beachcombing: A guide to seashores of the Southern Hemisphere
If you've ever walked along a beach or rocky shore and peered, poked or wondered at the things cast upon it by the waves, this book is for you. Beaches...
Shark Attacks: Myths, Misunderstandings and Human Fear
Humans spend more time in or on the water than ever before; we love the beach. But for many people, getting in the water provokes a moment's hesitation. Shark attacks...
The Water Book
Water is the most every day of substances. It pours from our taps and falls from the sky. We drink it, wash with it, and couldn't live without it. Yet,...
The Hawkesbury River: A Social and Natural History
The Hawkesbury River is the longest coastal river in New South Wales. A vital source of water and food, it has a long Aboriginal history and was critical for the...
Guide to Introduced Pest Animals of Australia
Australia's introduced vertebrate pest species cost at least $1 billion annually in economic, environmental, and social impacts. The Guide to Introduced Pest Animals of Australia is a comprehensive, practical guide...
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking our relationship with the countryside
'A curious-minded and subtle intervention in the politics of the countryside' Sunday Times 'Galbraith spent three years investigating the truth about rural Britain and how we treat it. Uncommon Ground...
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
One of Bill Gates's Favorite Books of 2016 A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must be completely reimagined for our...
Big Pacific: An Incredible Journey of Exploration and Revelation
The Pacific Ocean has been the focus of our fascination for as long as we have lived beside and on it. It covers one-third of Earth's surface - greater than...
The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees - and the Fight to
For millennia, elms shaped our landscape and our folklore; then they started dying. Few young people have seen a mature elm tree. They once covered great swathes of Europe and...
Well Fed: How modern diets are failing us (and what we can do about
What you eat doesn't just impact you - it shapes the world around you. Wonderfully enlightening and engagingly written. Dr Idz If you are looking at ways to combat the...
Stormwater Management for Sustainable Urban Environments
Traditional urbanization has created many environmental problems, among which urban flooding is becoming even more severe due to the dramatic increase in impervious surfaces in the form of rooftops, highways,...
The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Preindustrial Japan
This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totman's widely acclaimed study of Japan's environmental policies over the centuries....
Climate Change:The Real Problem and What We Can Do To Fix It
Facing the challenges of climate change involves all of us. This book offers children truth without despair, hope without deception, and a road map to a better future. After a...
More and More and More: An All-Consuming History
A radical new history of energy and humanity's insatiable need for resources that will alter how we discuss climate change It has become habitual to think of our relationship with...
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa over the last 500 years In this paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has...
Mirage: Power, Politics, And the Hidden History of Arabian Oil
Keating's authoritative narrative is based on years of research in original archives across the world. She explodes many myths, including the widely held notion that oil companies and geological experts...
Deep Water: Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, the Environment
Deep Water offers an incisive, searching, and beautifully written account of the emerging crisis over dams and the world's water. Reporting in the tradition of John McPhee and Peter Matthiessen,...
Ending Hunger: The quest to feed the world without destroying it
"Nutritionists tell you to eat more fish. Environmentalists tell you to eat less fish. Apparently they are both right. It's the same thing with almonds, or quinoa, or a hundred...
Countryside in Trust: Land Management by Conservation, Recreation and
The development of agriculture has caused rapid changes to the rural environment. Today, with growing awareness and concern for environmental issues, there is a movement to stem further damage to...
Energy for Tomorrow's World: The Realities, the Options and the Agenda
This volume is the result of a unique project which set out to reconcile global views on the important energy issues confronting the world at present. All the important factors...
Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage - Revised and Updated
Were the energy concerns of 2000 a preview of everyone's future? Will gas lines in the coming years make those of 1973 look short? Is the present chaos in oil...
Well Fed: How modern diets are failing us (and what we can do about
What you eat doesn't just impact you - it shapes the world around you. Wonderfully enlightening and engagingly written. Dr Idz If you are looking at ways to combat the...
The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside?
WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025 A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER 'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES ________________________________ The lie...
Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to
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'A formidable, brave and important book' Robert Macfarlane Who owns England? Behind this simple question lies this country's oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England's elite...
Groundswell: The Rise of the Greens: Quarterly Essay 8
Who are the Greens, where do they come from and where are they going? In the wake of the Cunningham by-election and the Tasmanian results Amanda Lohrey, novelist and political...
Water Wars: Is the World's Water Running Out?
This is a story of the vainglorious and often brutal attempt to control and harvest the Earth's most precious resource.
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert reveals how climate battles and energy revolutions are mapping our future A new type of Cold War is emerging between China and...
The Cheapest Electricity on Earth
When the barbecue discussion in Bendigo or Brisbane, Adelaide or Alice Springs focuses on how many rooftop solar panels you have and how much money you are saving, you realise...