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
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£90.00
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Children of the Northern Forest
Wild New England's History from Glaciers to Global Warming
ISBN: HB: 9780300270570,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 35 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 35 black&white illus.
This no-holds-barred narrative of the failure of conservation in northern New England's forests envisions a wilder, more equitable, lower-carbon future for forest-dependent communities.
Jamie Sayen approaches the story of northern New England's und...
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£25.00
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Curious Species
How Animals Made Natural History
ISBN: HB: 9780300266184,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
328 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 14 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.
328 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 14 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.
A compelling and innovative exploration of how animals shaped the field of natural history and its ecological afterlives.
Can corals build worlds? Do rattlesnakes enchant? What is a raccoon, and what might it know? Animals and the questions they ra...
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£30.00
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Water for All
Global Solutions for a Changing Climate
ISBN: HB: 9780300256932,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
440 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 22 black&white illus.
440 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 22 black&white illus.
A fresh look at the world's water crises, and the existing and emerging solutions that can be used to solve them.
It is not your imagination: water crises are more frequent. Our twentieth-century systems for providing the water that grows food, sus...
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£20.00
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Lab for All Seasons
The Laboratory Revolution in Modern Botany and the Rise of Physiological Plant Ecology
ISBN: PB: 9780300267211,
ISBN: HB: 9780300267228,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
The first book to chronicle how innovation in laboratory designs for botanical research energized the emergence of physiological plant ecology as a vibrant subdiscipline.
Laboratory innovation since the mid-twentieth century has powered advances in...
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£30.00
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£65.00
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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