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What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be?
ISBN: PB: 9780226777436, ISBN: HB: 9780226777269, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
As we face an ever-more-fragmented world, What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? demands a return to the force of lineage – to spiritual, social, and ecological connections across time. It sparks a myriad of ageless-yet-urgent questions: How will I...
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£22,00
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£76,00
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We Alone How Humans Have Conquered the Planet and Can Also Save It
ISBN: HB: 9780300251166, Yale University Press, January 2021
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
This personal and thoughtful book by renowned Kenya conservationist David Western traces our global conquest from Maasai herders battling droughts in Africa to the technological frontiers of California. Western draws on a half century of research...
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£25,00
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Worst Cases Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780226790107, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
326 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain of bird flu jumps to humans in Thailand, sweeps across Asia, and claims more than fifty million lives. A...
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£15,00
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Wading Right In Discovering the Nature of Wetlands
ISBN: PB: 9780226554358, ISBN: HB: 9780226554211, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 line drawings
Where can you find mosses that change landscapes, salamanders with algae in their skin, and carnivorous plants containing whole ecosystems in their furled leaves? Where can you find swamp-trompers, wildlife watchers, marsh managers, and mud-mad scien...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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Wild Sea A History of the Southern Ocean
ISBN: HB: 9780226622385, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 maps
"The Southern Ocean is a wild and elusive place, an ocean like no other. With its waters lying between the Antarctic continent and the southern coastlines of Australia, New Zealand, South America, and South Africa, it is the most remote and inaccessi...
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£21,00
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Water Paradox Overcoming the Global Crisis in Water Management
ISBN: HB: 9780300224436, Yale University Press, January 2019
296 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 34 figures
Water is essential to life, yet humankind's relationship with water is complex. For millennia, we have perceived it as abundant and easily accessible. But water shortages are fast becoming a persistent reality for all nations, rich and poor. With dem...
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£20,00
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Way of Coyote Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds
ISBN: HB: 9780226441580, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
A hiking trail through majestic mountains. A raw, unpeopled wilderness stretching as far as the eye can see. These are the settings we associate with our most famous books about nature. But Gavin Van Horn isn't most nature writers. He lives and works...
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£19,00
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Why Materials Matter Responsible Design for a Better World
ISBN: HB: 9783791384719, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 250 colour illus.
This visually stunning investigation of natural and man-made materials will change the way you look at the world around you, while offering hope for the future of our planet. What does it mean to live in a material world, and how do materials of the...
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£39,99
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Weather: An Illustrated History From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change
ISBN: HB: 9781454921400, GMC Group, Sterling, June 2018
224 pp., 22.2x17.2 cm, illus.
Colourful and captivating, "Weather: An Illustrated History" traces the history of weather and meteorology from prehistory to today's headlines in accessible, bite-sized stories. The descriptions touch on such varied topics as Earth's first atmospher...
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£20,00
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Wildness Relations of People and Place
ISBN: PB: 9780226444833, ISBN: HB: 9780226444666, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 26 halftones
Whether referring to a place, a nonhuman animal or plant, or a state of mind, wild indicates autonomy and agency, a will to be, a unique expression of life. Yet two contrasting ideas about wild nature permeate contemporary discussions: either that na...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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