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Walden and Civil Disobedience (Collins Classics) by Henry David Thoreau 9780007925292
RRP: £2.99Booksplease Price: £2.58HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,... -
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.57'Radical, humane, witty' Alain de Botton 'Magisterial' Will Self, Guardian Explore historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers in this profound and diverting modern classic. What does it mean to be out walking in the world,... -
Deep Time: A Literary History by Noah Heringman
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.25How the concept of "deep time" began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesIn this interdisciplinary book, Noah Heringman argues that the concept of "deep time"-most often associated with... -
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson 9780198798743
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.34In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands... -
Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction by David Hinton
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645471479Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
The Hidden World of the Fox by Adele Brand
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.70'A lovely little book ... quietly lyrical, often funny and gently persuasive' Sunday Times 'Succinct, clear, sophisticated. I couldn't stop reading it' Jeff VanderMeer We've all... -
Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere by Stacey Balkan 9780271091594
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £27.30Oil, like other fossil fuels, permeates every aspect of human existence. Yet it has been largely ignored by cultural critics, especially in the context of the Global South. Seeking to make visible not only the pervasiveness of oil in society and culture... -
All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir by Seán Hewitt 9781529114478
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A luminous memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a tender exploration of queer identity.'Beautiful' Colm Toibin'Rapturous' New York Times'Extraordinary' Observer'Stunning' Sunday TimesWhen Sean meets... -
Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Wonderful. A manifesto of horticultural delight' Literary Review 'Beautiful. Perfect for literary garden lovers' Good Housekeeping'Rich and unusual, a book to treasure. Few recent gardening books come anywhere close to its style, intelligence and... -
Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World by Daniel Sherrell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136538Author Daniel SherrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Emile Zola: A Very Short Introduction by Brian Nelson 9780198837565
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.99Emile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as 'naturalism' and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), he explored the social and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth century in ways... -
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare Sally Weintrobe (Psychoanalyst, The Institute of Psychoanalysis , UK) 9781501372865
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.76Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring imagination. It helps us to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics, in culture - for example in the writings of Ayn Rand - and also... -
Ecocriticism and the Sense of Place by Lenka Filipova 9780367754655
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £36.97The book is an investigation into the ways in which ideas of place are negotiated, contested and refigured in environmental writing at the turn of the twenty-first century. It focuses on the notion of place as a way of interrogating the socio-political... -
The Dream Of The Earth Thomas Berry 9781619025325
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619025325Author Thomas BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Puss in Books: Our best-loved writers on their best-loved cats by Paul Magrs 9780008605377
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.57A charming collection of quotes about cats from our favourite authors, accompanied by artwork in the trademark style of Paul Magrs (author of The Panda, the Cat and the Dreadful Teddy). 'I love them, they are so nice and selfish' - L.M... -
Garden Poems by John Hollander
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.69Contents include poems on Paradises, Gardens of Love, Gardens in the Mind, Gardens and Seasons, Flowers, Gardeners, The Work of the Garden, Gardens of the Wild, City Gardens, Public Gardens, Ruined Gardens, and A Garden of Gardens. Contributors include... -
As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Birds & Books by Alex Preston
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £4.96'Delightful . . . an original look at the literature inspired by Britain's birdlife' the Guardian, Best Nature Books of 2017'[The] pages light up with feathered magic' Evening StandardWhen Alex Preston was 15, he stopped being a birdwatcher. Adolescence... -
Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinction by Sarah E. McFarland 9781350202900
Booksplease Price: £30.69This work analyzes 21st-century realistic speculations of human extinction: fictions that imagine future worlds without interventions of as-yet uninvented technology, interplanetary travel, or other science fiction elements that provide hope for rescue... -
The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe in Contemporary Culture by Mark Bould
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.14The art and literature of our time is pregnant with catastrophe, with weather and water, wildness and weirdness. The Anthropocene - the term given to this geological epoch in which humans, anthropos, are wreaking havoc on the earth - is to be found... -
The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad by Emily Thomas
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.06How can we think more deeply about travel? This was the thought that inspired Emily Thomas to journey into the philosophy of travel, to explore the places where philosophy and travel intersect. Part philosophical ramble, part memoir, The Meaning of... -
Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories by Duncan Minshull 9780008414115
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.77The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us... -
How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.40An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek "Sumana Roy has written-grown-a radiant and... -
100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder by The Meco Network 9781785420634
Booksplease Price: £19.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785420634Author The Meco NetworkFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Open Humanities Press CICPublisher Open Humanities Press CICWeight(grams)... -
Unearthing the Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett by Marta McDowell
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.02"Affectionate and informative, Unearthing the Secret Garden is not unlike a garden itself, with its smooth lawns of prose and striking shows of illustration and photography." -The Wall Street JournalNew York Times bestselling author Marta McDowell has... -
The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad by Emily Thomas 9780198835400
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.60"This is the finest kind of travel: not just across continents, but through time, space and our infinite minds. The journey is the joy, and Emily Thomas a terrific guide." - Mike Parker How can we think more deeply about travel? This was the... -
The Living World: Nan Shepherd and Environmental Thought by Samantha Walton
Booksplease Price: £21.80Harnessing new enthusiasm for Nan Shepherd's writing, The Living World asks how literature might help us reimagine humanity's place on earth in the midst of our ecological crisis. The first book to examine Shepherd's writing through an ecocritical lens,... -
Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction by David Farrier 9781517906269
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.07How poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time The Anthropocene describes how humanity has radically intruded into deep time, the vast timescales that shape the Earth system... -
Dyke (Geology) by Sabrina Imbler 9781625577160
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625577160Author Sabrina ImblerFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Black Lawrence PressPublisher Black Lawrence PressWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm)... -
The Sea by David Farrell Krell 9781350080539
Booksplease Price: £25.74Humankind has a profound and complex relationship with the sea, a relationship that is extensively reflected in biology, psychology, religion, literature and poetry. The sea cradles and soothes us, we visit it often for solace and inspiration, it is... -
The Love Language of Flowers by Jess Buttermore 9781684811915
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £21.81A Fresh Twist on Vintage Flower Meanings & Arrangements"This book is enchanting to the eyes, inspiring for the mind, and refreshing for the soul." -Maggie Hyde, Petal Back Farm#1 New Release in Plant & Animal Photography, Photograpy Equipment &... -
The concept of nature in Marx by Alfred Schmidt
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.45In The Concept of Nature in Marx, Alfred Schmidt examines humanity's relation to the natural world as understood by the great philosopher-economist Karl Marx, who wrote that human beings are 'part of Nature yet able to stand over against it; and this... -
The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science John MacNeill Miller 9780813951775
Booksplease Price: £95.89Unraveling the surprising history of the concept of ecologyThe Ecological Plot traces the roots of this most mainstream branch of science back to an unexpected source: narrative storytelling. Weaving together the histories of different disciplines, John... -
The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science John MacNeill Miller 9780813951782
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £27.93Unraveling the surprising history of the concept of ecologyThe Ecological Plot traces the roots of this most mainstream branch of science back to an unexpected source: narrative storytelling. Weaving together the histories of different disciplines, John... -
The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities Scott Slovic 9781350304543
Booksplease Price: £41.04Bringing together two parallel and occasionally intersecting disciplines - the environmental and medical humanities - this field-defining handbook reveals our ecological predicament to be a simultaneous threat to human health. The book: · Represents the... -
Media Ecologies of Literature Dr. Susanne Bayerlipp 9781501383915
Booksplease Price: £30.12This book explores the media ecologies of literature - the ways in which a literary text is interwoven in its material, technical, performative, praxeological, affective, and discursive network and which determine how it is experienced and interpreted... -
Notes on Vermin Caroline Hovanec 9780472077205
Booksplease Price: £58.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472077205Author Caroline HovanecFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan... -
Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee Cates Baldridge 9780813951621
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £94.26A critical examination of the 'agricultural trap' in literature For thousands of years, agriculture and civilization were essentially synonymous. The superiority of farming over the unsettled, itinerant life of hunting and gathering appeared, to many,... -
Notes on Vermin Caroline Hovanec 9780472057207
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £19.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472057207Author Caroline HovanecFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan... -
Climate Consciousness and Environmental Activism in Composition: Writing to Save the World by Joseph R. Lease 9781498528849
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.31Now more than ever-in a time when Americans still do not believe that humans are the primary cause of Earth's climate change crisis, the burden on educators to inform, challenge, and motivate students about sustainability is greater than it ever has been... -
Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water by Ursula Kluwick 9780813950976
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £94.56Victorians' views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in people's daily lives. In the nineteenth century, it left its traces on politics, urban reform, and societal...