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Silent Spring

Rachel Carson (1907-64) wanted to be a writer for as long as she could remember. Her first book, Under the Sea Wind, appeared in 1941. Si...

The Uninhabitable Earth - A Story of the Future

**SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'An epoch-defining book' Matt Haig 'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year...

The Democracy of Species

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In The Democracy of Species Robin Wall Kimmerer gui...

What I Stand for Is What I Stand On

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. From the ravages of the global economy to the great...

This Can't Be Happening

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In the galvanising speeches and essays brought toge...

Inheritors of the Earth - How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction

Chris D. Thomas is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of York and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has received t...

We Belong to Gaia

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. James Lovelock's We Belong to Gaia draws on decades...

Cradle to Cradle - (Patterns of Life)

This book proposes a new vision for modern industry. Instead of our current wasteful and polluting methods of manufacturing, we could be ...

The Last Tree on Easter Island

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visitin...

Man's War Against Nature

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. With the precision of a scientist and the simplicit...

Great Derangement - Climate Change and the Unthinkable

"Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our im...

The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah, the celebrate...

The Children of the Anthropocene - Stories from the Young People at the Heart of the Climate Crisis

'An inspirational manifesto for change' Caroline Lucas, former leader of The Green Party 'A remarkable and important book' Steve Backshal...

An Idea Can Go Extinct

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. An Idea Can Go Extinct is Bill McKibben's impassion...

There is No Point of No Return

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. Emphasizing joy in the world, human cooperation and...

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster - The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to ze...

The Most Dammed Country in the World

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings c...

The World We Once Lived In

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. From the Congo Basin to the traditions of the Kikuy...

We are the Weather - Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

A demystification of how and why we are in crisis with climate change, presenting one simple, achievable idea to start fixing it: to stop...

Every Species is a Masterpiece

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. Every Species is a Masterpiece brings together some...

Uncanny and Improbable Events

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In this personal and wide-ranging exploration of ho...

Think Like a Mountain

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In this lyrical meditation on America's wildlands, ...

Wilderness Survival Handbook - Primitive Skills for Short-Term Survival and Long-Term Comfort

An essential guide to everything you need to stay sheltered, fed, healthy, and safe in the backcountry Organized around the six essential...

Silent Earth - Averting the Insect Apocalypse

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Read this book, then look and wonder' Sunday Times *A TLS Book of the Year* We have to learn to live as part...

Earthshot - How to Save Our Planet

The Earthshot concept is simple: Urgency + Optimism = Action. We have ten years to turn the tide on the environmental crisis, but we need...

Sludge Treatment and Disposal: Biological Wastewater Treatment Volume 6 - Biological Wastewater Treatment Volume 6

Sludge treatment and disposal is the sixth volume in the series Biological wastewater treatment. The book covers in a clear and didactic ...

Small World, Big Ideas - Eco-Activists for Change

Hartland, Devon

Regenesis - Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet

The Sunday Times bestseller *Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize* A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year 'This book calls for no...

The End of Nature

One of the earliest warnings about climate change and one of environmentalism's lodestars 'Nature, we believe, takes forever. It moves wi...

Plastiglomerate

Plastiglomerate finds our world in the midst of environmental disaster: from plastic pollution and wrecked shipping to fires in the Amazo...

Beloved Beasts - Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction

In the late nineteenth century, humans came at long last to a devastating realisation: their rapidly industrialising and globalising soci...

Official Guide to Texas State Parks and Historic Sites - New Edition

The essential guide to Texas's state parks and historic sites.

The Stubborn Light of Things - A Nature Diary

A nature diary by award-winning novelist and nature writer Melissa Harrison, following her journey from urban south London to the rural S...

The Language of Water - Ancient Techniques and Community Stories for a Water Secure Future

The Language of Water addresses climate change and the global water crisis by shifting the existing paradigms around our relationship to ...

Lawns Into Meadows, 2nd Edition - Growing a Regenerative Landscape

Landscape designer Owen Wormser explains how to replace the deadscape we call lawn with low-maintenance, eco-friendly meadows. This award...

Working Watersheds - Water and Energy in the Lackawanna Valley

Forthcoming Fall 2024

Risky Futures - Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North

The volume examines complex intersections of environmental conditions, geopolitical tensions and local innovative reactions characterisin...

All Through the Night - Why Our Lives Depend on Dark Skies

Best New Books on Space 2024 - Forbes 'Rarely is a non-fiction book about science this engaging' - Forbes

Fire Weather - A True Story from a Hotter World - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

***AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*** *Shortlisted for the BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* 'Astounding on every page. John Vaillant is...

No Impact Man - Saving the planet one family at a time

In the growing debate over eco-friendly living, it seems that everything is as bad as everything else. Do you do more harm by living in t...

Rewilding the Sea - How to Save our Oceans

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE** 'Desperately needed' - Isabella Tree 'I doubt any more important book will published this y...

Beautiful Beasts, Beautiful Lands - The Fall and Rise of an African National Park

Beautiful Beasts, Beautiful Lands provides a commentary on nature conservation, casting light on its failures, and explaining why protect...

What Are Zoos For?

Are zoos an anachronism in the 21st century when we can watch animals from our couches in close-up in their natural habitat without worry...

Soil, Soul, Society - A New Trinity for Our Time

In the first US edition of Satish Kumar's classic book, we rediscover how our spiritual and social well-being connects to that of our pla...

Long Island State Parks - A History from Jones Beach to Montauk

Discover the History Behind the Beauty of Long Island's Most Cherished Parks Each year nearly thirty million people visit Long Island's s...

Solving The Climate Crisis - Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth

"Solving the Climate Crisis is a critical resource that makes a believable and detailed case that there is a path forward to save our env...

Falling in Love with Nature - The Values of Latinx Catholic Environmentalism

Explores the contours of Latinx Catholic environmentalism Home-based conservationist measures such as cultivating backyard gardens, avoid...

Tenacious Beasts - Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals

"Conventional wisdom is that wild animals are being wiped out. But conventional wisdom skips some important details. Wildlife is reboundi...

A World in a Shell - Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions

Following the trails of Hawai‘i’s snails to explore the simultaneously biological and cultural significance of extinction. In this time o...

Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World - Restoring Our Place in the Natural World

The environmental "tipping point" we approach is more palpable each day, and people are seeing it in ways they can no longer ignore-we ne...

A Natural History Guide to Great Smoky Mountains National Park

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of America's most beautiful and popular national parks. Located in the southern Appalachia...

Loving the North Maine Woods - 25 Years of Historic Conservation

Loving the North Woods is a chronicle of the difficult challenges that led to tremendous conservation achievements in the great North Woo...

Roots and Resilience - California Ranchers in Their Own Words

"An edited collection of essays and poems, Roots and Resilience provides a first-hand account of ranching and ranchers in California. Ref...

Becoming a Good Relative - Calling White Settlers Toward Truth, Healing, and Repair

Becoming a Good Relative weaves the author's personal story of transformation with historical research, spiritual teachings, and an appen...

The Laccoliths of the Black Hills

Letters to the Earth - Writing to a Planet in Crisis

A profound, powerful and moving collection of 100 letters from around the world responding to the climate crisis, introduced by Emma Thom...

1,001 Voices on Climate Change - Everyday Stories of Flood, Fire, Drought, and Displacement from Around the World

A journalist travels across all seven continents, mostly by bicycle, to gather personal stories about the impacts of climate change from ...

The Climate Casino - Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World

The world's leading economic thinker on climate change analyzes the economics and politics of the central environmental issue of today an...

Net Zero - How We Stop Causing Climate Change

What can we really do about the climate emergency? The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon inten...

Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age

Natural disasters repeatedly beset the Dutch Republic during the eighteenth century and coincided with environmental, political, economic...