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Greening the Alliance The Diplomacy of NATO's Science and Environmental Initiatives
ISBN: PB: 9780226595795, ISBN: HB: 9780226595658, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones
Following the launch of Sputnik, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization became a prominent sponsor of scientific research in its member countries, a role it retained until the end of the Cold War. As NATO marks sixty years since the establishment of...
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£29,00
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£85,00
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Ground Truth A Guide to Tracking Climate Change at Home
ISBN: PB: 9780226348131, ISBN: HB: 9780226347943, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
Before you read this book, you have homework to do. Grab a notebook, go outside, and find a nearby patch of nature. What do you see, hear, feel, and smell? Are there bugs, birds, squirrels, deer, lizards, frogs, or fish, and what are they doing? What...
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£15,00
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£45,00
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Great Derangement Climate Change and the Unthinkable
ISBN: PB: 9780226526812, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
176 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since "In an Antique Land",...
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£11,50
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Good That Transcends How US Culture Undermines Environmental Reform
ISBN: PB: 9780226326115, ISBN: HB: 9780226326085, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Since the birth of the modern environmental movement in the 1970s, the United States has witnessed dramatic shifts in social equality, ecological viewpoints, and environmental policy. With these changes has also come an increased popular resistance t...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Green State in Africa
ISBN: HB: 9780300215830, Yale University Press, September 2016
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
A provocative reassessment of the relationship between states and environmental politics in Africa From climate-related risks such as crop failure and famine to longer-term concerns about sustainable urbanization, environmental justice, and biodivers...
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£30,00
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Gyre The Plastic Ocean
ISBN: HB: 9781861543554, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, February 2014
200 pp., 21x19.5 cm, fully Illustrated
A flip-flop discarded in Thailand finds its way to Hawaii, and a bottle cast off from Japan's tsunami is soon Alaska's beach litter. With stunning visual impact and an astonishing array of ocean trash, internationally recognized artists create works...
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£19,00
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Gulf Monarchies and Climate Change Abu Dhabi and Qatar in an Era of Natural Unsustainability
ISBN: PB: 9781849042673, Hurst Publishers, January 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! At the heart of Mari Luomi's salutary book is whether oil- and gas-dependent authoritarian monarchies can keep their natural resource use and the environment in balance. She argues that the Gulf monarchies have already reached...
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£40,00
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G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology
ISBN: HB: 9780300161380, Yale University Press, January 2011
448 pp., 23.9x16 cm, 46 black&white illus.
Stephen J. Gould declared Evelyn Hutchinson the most important ecologist of the twentieth century. E. O. Wilson pronounced him "one of the few scientists who could unabashedly be called a genius". In this fascinating book, Nancy Slack presents for th...
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£65,00
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Green Intelligence Creating Environments That Protect Human Health
ISBN: PB: 9780300167900, Yale University Press, October 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
<p>We live in a world awash in manmade chemicals, from the pesticides on our front lawns to the diesel exhaust in the air we breathe. Although experts are beginning to understand the potential dangers of these substances, there are still more than 80...
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£33,00
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