Be Fruitful and Multiply
How Fertility and Innovation Have Changed Humankind and the Earth
ISBN: HB: 9780300278972,
Yale University Press,
January 2026
288 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
288 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
A groundbreaking history that explores how human desires have affected our relationship with the natural world, and why this is a cause for hope.
Donald Worster looks back over 200,000 years of Homo sapiens sapiens to show how human nature, especia...
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25.00 GBP
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Science of Saving Venice
ISBN: PB: 9788842213109,
Yale University Press,
Paul Holberton Publishing,
October 2025
94 pp., 25,4x21,5 cm
94 pp., 25,4x21,5 cm
This essential book, produced for the Venice in Peril fund, provides an informative introduction to the problems of Venice's flooding, sinking and pollution. Both the city and the lagoon in which it rises are under threat from human intervention, cli...
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7.99 GBP
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Of Moon and Land, Ice and Strand
Sea Level during Glacial Cycles
ISBN: PB: 9788822263391,
Yale University Press,
Paul Holberton Publishing,
September 2025
88 pp., 23,4x17,1 cm
88 pp., 23,4x17,1 cm
"Of Moon and Land, Ice and Strand" encompasses the four elements constituting the principal directions of Lambeck's research over the past five decades: the Moon and artificial satellites; the Earth's surface, crust and deep interior; the ice sheets...
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15.00 GBP
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Unfrozen
The Fight for the Future of the Arctic
ISBN: HB: 9780300259995,
Yale University Press,
September 2025
352 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 30 colour illus., 3 maps
352 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 30 colour illus., 3 maps
A vital account of the state of the Arctic today - emphasising the twin dangers of climate change and geopolitical competition.
Nowhere is the dual threat of climate change and geopolitical contest felt more strongly than in the Arctic. Sea ice is...
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20.00 GBP
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Feminist Conservation
Politics and Power in Madagascar's Marine Commons
ISBN: PB: 9780300265415,
ISBN: HB: 9780300265422,
Yale University Press,
February 2025
320 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 19 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 19 black&white illus.
How access to and control over marine resources in Madagascar are negotiated, and the inextricable link between equity and sustainability.
As marine conservation becomes an increasingly urgent issue around the world, there is an equally critical ne...
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30.00 GBP
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60.00 GBP
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Born of Fire and Rain
Journey into a Pacific Coastal Forest
ISBN: HB: 9780300275421,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
280 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 79 black&white illus.
280 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 79 black&white illus.
Go beyond the scenery of the Pacific temperate rainforest to witness how complex ecosystems survive in a world of upheavals.
If you live on a rapidly changing planet, you'd be wise to learn how it works. The giant old forests on a skinny stretch of...
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25.00 GBP
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Speaking with Nature
The Origins of Indian Environmentalism
ISBN: HB: 9780300278538,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
440 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
440 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
From one of the world's leading historians comes the first substantial study of environmentalism set in any country outside the Euro-American world.
By the canons of orthodox social science, countries like India are not supposed to have an environm...
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30.00 GBP
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Storm Cloud
Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis
ISBN: HB: 9780300276145,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
176 pp., 27,9x22,2 cm, 96 colour illus.
176 pp., 27,9x22,2 cm, 96 colour illus.
A revealing exploration of how prescient nineteenth-century artists, writers, and scientists began to sound the alarm on climate crisis.
Against a backdrop of industrialization and scientific development that reshaped humanity's relationship to the...
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40.00 GBP
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Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World
Conservation and Displacement in the Global Tropics
ISBN: PB: 9780300272482,
ISBN: HB: 9780300272505,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
312 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
312 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
An unflinching investigation of the false promises of land sparing, exposing how its illusory successes mask the failures of green capitalism.
For two decades, the concept of land sparing, the claim that agricultural intensification can spare land...
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40.00 GBP
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90.00 GBP
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Life
A Journey through Science and Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780300276701,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
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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16.99 GBP
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