Less Heat, More Light
A Guided Tour of Weather, Climate, and Climate Change
ISBN: HB: 9780300259438,
Yale University Press,
July 2023
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 48 black&white illus.
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 48 black&white illus.
A straightforward and fact-based exploration of how weather happens, how it relates to climate, and how science answers major questions about Earth as a system.
Climate change is one of the most hotly contested environmental topics of our day. To a...
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25.00 GBP
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Environment and Ecology in Islamic Art and Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780300267495,
Yale University Press,
June 2023
288 pp., 29,0x23,0 cm, 120 colour and black&white illus.
288 pp., 29,0x23,0 cm, 120 colour and black&white illus.
The Islamic world finds itself increasingly at the epicenter of our escalating climate emergency, both as a locus of the petrochemical industry and as home to extraordinary landscapes in which the effects of environmental transformation are acutely f...
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50.00 GBP
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These Trees Tell a Story
The Art of Reading Landscapes
ISBN: PB: 9780300230895,
Yale University Press,
May 2023
432 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 129 colour illus., 11 black&white illus.
432 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 129 colour illus., 11 black&white illus.
A deeply personal master class on how to read a natural landscape and unravel the clues to its unique ecological history.
Structured as a series of interactive field walks through ten New England ecosystems, this book challenges readers to see the...
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22.00 GBP
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Blue New Deal
Why We Need a New Politics for the Ocean
ISBN: PB: 9780300270402,
Yale University Press,
April 2023
272 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 12 black&white illus., 3 maps
272 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 12 black&white illus., 3 maps
An urgent account of the state of our oceans today – and what we must do to protect them.
The ocean sustains life on our planet, from absorbing carbon to regulating temperatures, and, as we exhaust the resources to be found on land, it is becoming c...
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10.99 GBP
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Women Who Saved the English Countryside
ISBN: PB: 9780300270396,
Yale University Press,
April 2023
400 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 15 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.
400 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 15 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.
A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women.
In Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and guarantees public access to green spaces. Bu...
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10.99 GBP
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Confronting Climate Gridlock
How Diplomacy, Technology, and Policy Can Unlock a Clean Energy Future
ISBN: PB: 9780300271102,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
256 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 8 black&white illus.
256 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 8 black&white illus.
An atmospheric scientist explains why global climate change mitigation and energy decarbonization demand American diplomacy, technology, and policy.
Professor of environmental engineering Daniel Cohan argues that escaping the gravest perils of clim...
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16.99 GBP
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Bushmeat
Culture, Economy and Conservation in Central Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781787388147,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2023
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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A detailed investigation of the environmental, social and economic consequences of wild meat consumption in the Congo Basin.
In much of Central Africa, eating wildlife is seen as a normal, desirable and common-sense practice....
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20.00 GBP
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Life
A Journey through Science and Politics
ISBN: HB: 9780300264548,
Yale University Press,
February 2023
408 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 16 colour illus., 42 black&white illus.
408 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 16 colour illus., 42 black&white illus.
A renowned scientist and environmental advocate looks back on a life that has straddled the worlds of science and politics.
Acclaimed as a public scientist and as a spokesperson on pressing environmental and equity issues, Paul R. Ehrlich reflects o...
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20.00 GBP
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Trees Are Shape Shifters
How Cultivation, Climate Change, and Disaster Create Landscapes
ISBN: PB: 9780300260373,
ISBN: HB: 9780300260380,
Yale University Press,
January 2023
320 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 70 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 70 black&white illus.
An exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Lucca, Italy, and how its people understand social and environmental change through cultivation.
In Italy and around the Mediterranean, almost every stone, every tree, and every hillside show traces...
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30.00 GBP
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65.00 GBP
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Wild Visions
Wilderness as Image and Idea
ISBN: HB: 9780300260724,
Yale University Press,
November 2022
248 pp., 19,0x25,4 cm, 67 colour illus., 55 black&white illus.
248 pp., 19,0x25,4 cm, 67 colour illus., 55 black&white illus.
A stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over time.
Our ideas of wilderness have evolved dramatically over the past one hundred and fifty years, from a view of wild count...
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30.00 GBP
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