Related categories:
Related booklists: Climate Crisis,
Energy and Renewables,
Environmental Issues,
Pollution, Toxins and Chemicals,
Nuclear Power / Weapons,
Science,
Women and Science,
Trees and Plants,
Conservation,
Wooden Books,
Weather,
Astronomy, Stars and Space,
Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist
£20.00 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241405741 | ISBN 10: 0241405742
This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours. Travelling back in time to the dawn of complex l ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780198725190 | ISBN 10: 0198725191
Rocks, more than anything else, underpin our lives. They make up the solid structure of the Earth and of other rocky planets, and are present at the cores of gas giant planets. We live on the rocky surface of the planet, grow our food on weathered de ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781781255353 | ISBN 10: 1781255350
Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift. What it was really like. And through knowing what it was like he wanted to get down and grapple with the beast in us all.So he tried it out; he ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780755365012 | ISBN 10: 0755365011
A beautifully-written, insightful and urgent enquiry into man's relationship with nature and our impact on the planet. 'Our relationship with nature has changed . . . radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241961414 | ISBN 10: 0241961416
In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock - the great scientific visionary of our age - presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system James Lovelock, who has been hailed as 'the man who concei ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846683572 | ISBN 10: 1846683572
This is one curious man's journey to find out 'what's next?' Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it. His voyage of discovery takes him to Oxford to meet Transhumanis ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141039251 | ISBN 10: 0141039256
James Lovelock described his previous book, The Revenge of Gaia, as 'a wake-up call for humanity'. Stark though it was in many respects, in The Vanishing Face of Gaia Lovelock says that even though the weather seems cooler and pollution lessens as th ... more
View book details£5.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781904263548 | ISBN 10: 1904263542
Why does Nature use the same special patterns over and over again? What are the main families of natural design? How are they formed? Did the ancient Chinese really study this subtle and elegant subject? In this beautiful book, illustrated by D ... more
View book details£30.99 hardback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780192806024 | ISBN 10: 0192806025
Plants have transformed our planet over the last 470 million years as they invaded the land and diversified into the astonishing variety we know today. But their influence has reached even further: they have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and ... more
View book details£5.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904263517 | ISBN 10: 1904263518
Why on earth do cars have the same symmetry as dragonflies? Is there really a beautiful swirling pattern lurking in every dripping tap? What do insect eggs have in common with planets, and why? In this exquisite book, the smallest and most c ... more
View book details£5.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904263470 | ISBN 10: 190426347x
What was the great and golden secret known to Leonardo Da Vinci, Kepler, Plato and the ancient magicians? Why were they forbidden to reveal it? Can there really be a key to nature and life itself? In this small but compact volume divine prop ... more
View book details£5.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904263425 | ISBN 10: 1904263429
Lost in space? Muddling your quasars and your superclusters? Wondering how everything got where it is? Where it's all going to? Travel through a black hole. Discover weird relativistic space-time distortions. Fly to the outer reaches of our knowledge ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781585421398 | ISBN 10: 1585421391
The book that unmasks the sneaky and widespread methods industry uses to influence opinion through bogus experts, doctored data and manufactured facts. "A brilliant piece of investigative journalism and a powerful vaccine against the stupefying effe ... more
View book details© News From Nowhere Co-operative Ltd IP24524R 2004-2024 | Privacy policy | Contact | return to top of page