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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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

System Change Not Climate Change - A Revolutionary Response to Environmental Crisis

We are in the midst of the greatest environmental crisis humanity has ever seen. Yet despite politicians'' rhetoric, repeated warnings fr...

The Future We Choose - The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis

Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac--who led negotiations for the United Nations during the historic Paris Agreement of 2015--have ...

Small World, Big Ideas - Eco-Activists for Change

Hartland, Devon

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...

Plastiglomerate

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

On Time and Water

A Guardian 'Top 10 Nature Memoirs' pick 'Poetic and heartful' Guardian Icelandic author and activist Andri Snær Magnason's 'Letter to the...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Underland - A Deep Time Journey

A new literary blockbuster from the author of "The Old Ways", with Macfarlane exploring the underground landscapes of the man-made and na...

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...

Fevered Planet - How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature

A timely and urgent investigation from John Vidal, Environment Editor of the Guardian for nearly thirty years, into how the destruction o...

The Green Lifestyle Journal - Action for Conservation and Wellbeing

Living well shouldn't cost the earth. An essential eco-conscious journal to help the environment and make your every day that little bit ...

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...

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 Last Drop - Solving the World's Water Crisis

A gripping, thought-provoking and ultimately optimistic investigation into the world's next great climate crisis - the scarcity of water.

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...

The Psychology of Climate Change

This book offers a psychological perspective on the current thinking on climate change, an issue of major global importance. The authors ...

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...

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...

Movement - How to Take Back our Streets and Transform Our Lives

There has been a biking boom due to COVID-19, and cycling is more popular than ever. This book will appeal to readers of Why The Dutch ar...

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 ...

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...

Active Hope (Revised) - How to Face the Mess We're in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power

Practical tools for coping with despair over climate change and environmental crisis from a legendary ecophilosopher and a sustainability...

The Laccoliths of the Black Hills

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Future Practice - Conversations from the Edge of Architecture

Interviews with innovators who define seventeen new architectural practice types including community enabler, management thinker, and civ...

Packrat Middens: The Last 40,000 Years of Biotic Change

Brings together the most recent findings and views of many of the researchers now investigating fossil middens in the United States, Mexi...

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 ...

Mining Haul Roads - Theory and Practice

This book is a complete practical reference for mining operations, contractors and mine planners alike, as well as civil engineering prac...

Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams - Ecology and Management

Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams: Ecology and Management takes an internationally broad approach, seeking to compare and contras...

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

Sapling and Wood

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...

Rewilding Africa - Restoring the Wilderness on a War-ravaged Continent

A vivid account of conservationist Grant Fowlds's ongoing efforts to conserve and restore Africa's iconic wildlife and its wildernesses, ...