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How the World Works by Beverley Young
RRP: £14.99£10.38How do the ocean currents move? What is a carbon footprint? Why does it rain? This fun, engaging book introduces the Earth's important cycles and offers an exciting way to learn geography and science. Packed with illustrations and novelties for... -
Into the Forest: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness by Dr Qing Li
RRP: £14.99£11.35Humans are increasingly becoming an indoor species. We spend 90 per cent of our life indoors. And, on average, we dedicate eight hours a day looking at screens. Our increasingly domestic lives are having huge consequences to our health. In Into the... -
The Big Book of the Ocean by Sona Books
RRP: £22.50£18.77Covering around 70 per cent of our planet's surface and home to more than 200,000 known species, the world's oceans are vital to life on Earth. However, despite producing around half the world's oxygen and helping to regulate our climate and weather... -
Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way it Does by Philip Ball
RRP: £31.00£25.76Though at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from the hexagons of a honeycomb to the spirals of a seashell and the branching veins of a leaf. Revealing the... -
Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years by Ian Goldin
RRP: £30.00£23.35'Amazing. It would be my desert island choice' Martin Rees'Fascinating, beautiful, alarming and revelatory use of mapping and infographics' Stephen Fry on EarthTime maps'An indispensable read' Arianna Huffington From the global impact of the Coronavirus... -
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence
RRP: £10.99£7.77A ground-breaking and beautifully written investigation into the Arctic Treeline with an urgent environmental message.'Evocative, wise and unflinching' Jay Griffiths, author of WildThe Arctic treeline is the frontline of climate change, where the trees... -
From Field & Forest: An artist's year in paint and pen by Anna Koska
RRP: £14.99£9.70'The beginnings of a bitter-sweet commission: a mistle thrust's egg, heralding a brief but very welcome return to spring... This year has been in such a hurry, at times almost tripping over itself in its keenness to reach autumn, and now... -
Biocivilisations: A New Look at the Science of Life by Predrag B. Slijepčević
RRP: £20.00£13.35'A brilliant book [that] shows a way out of the destructive trap of Anthropocentric arrogance.' Vandana Shiva, from the Foreword 'Read this book if you would like to understand the intelligence of living systems.' Dr Denis Noble, University of Oxford ... -
The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak by Richard Preston
RRP: £10.99£7.77COMING TO NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ON 27 MAY 2019_________In March 2014, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported. By October 2014, it had become the largest and deadliest occurrence of the disease. Over 4,500 people have died. Almost 10,000... -
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate by Mark Kurlansky 9780861541256
RRP: £10.99£7.77WINNER OF THE JOHN AVERY AWARD AT THE ANDRE SIMON AWARDS If we can save the salmon, we can save the world Over the centuries, salmon have been a vital resource, a dietary staple and an irresistible catch. But there is so much more to this... -
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming by Paul N. Edwards 9780262518635
£36.04The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future. Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for... -
North Pole: Nature and Culture by Michael Bravo
RRP: £16.95£12.26In North Pole, Michael Bravo explains how visions of the North Pole have been supremely important to the world's cultures and political leaders, from Alexander the Great to neo-Hindu nationalists. Tracing poles and polarity back to sacred ancient... -
Birds, Beasts and Bedlam: Turning My Farm into an Ark for Lost Species Derek Gow 9781645021339
RRP: £20.00£13.35'A do-er, not a dreamer, Gow has become one of our most outspoken rewilders.' Countryfile Magazine 'In this warm and funny autobiography, [Gow] writes with a whimsical fluency about the moments of humour and pathos in an unusual life.' Country... -
The Little Book of Earth Magic by Sarah Bartlett
RRP: £9.99£6.80Connect to the magic of the world around you for healing, empowerment and self-careNature is filled with hidden, elusive energies: the growth spirals of sunflowers, the electromagnetic spectrum of rainbows, the bio-energy of trees and the sound waves of... -
The Viking Isles: Travels in Orkney and Shetland by Paul Murton
RRP: £17.99£13.20Paul Murton has long had a love of the Viking north - the island groups of Orkney and Shetland and the old counties of Caithness and Sutherland - which, for centuries, were part of the Nordic world as depicted in the great classic the Orkneyinga Saga... -
Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape by Patrick Laurie
RRP: £9.99£6.70A Times Bestseller Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing 2020 'Remarkable, and so profoundly enjoyable to read ... Its importance is huge, setting down a vital marker in the 21st century debate about how we use and abuse the... -
Regeneration: The Rescue of a Wild Land by Andrew Painting 9781780277592
RRP: £10.99£7.32Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of the Cairngorms. Home to over 5,000 species, this vast expanse of Caledonian woodlands, subarctic mountains, bogs, moors, roaring... -
Antarctica by Gabrielle Walker
RRP: £16.99£11.27There have been many books about Antarctica in the past, but all have focused on only one aspect of the continent - its science, its wildlife, the heroic age of exploration, personal experiences or the sheer awesome beauty of the landscape- but none have... -
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard A. Fortey
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Dry Store Room No. 1' is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of scientific endeavour, academic rigour and imagination. Behind the public... -
The Arctic: A Very Short Introduction by Klaus Dodds
RRP: £8.99£6.45Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Arctic is demanding global attention. It is warming, melting, and thawing in a manner that threatens fundamental state-change. For communities that call the Arctic 'home' this is unwelcome. A... -
Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles by Jay Owens 9781529362640
RRP: £25.00£16.78'Dust is a book with an extraordinary global story to tell, but - and - also with an ethical argument to advance. Robert Macfarlane'Superb' Telegraph'Brilliant' Sunday Times'Eye-opening . . . impressive' Guardian 'Powerful' Nature 'Like a detective... -
In Six Days by Ashton John 9780890513415
£13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890513415Author Ashton JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Master BooksPublisher Master BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 23mm -
A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences by Michael Allaby
RRP: £17.49£12.61This new edition includes 10,000 entries which cover all areas of geoscience, including planetary science, oceanography, palaeontology, mineralogy and volcanology. In this edition, 675 new entries have been added, and include expanded coverage of... -
The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain by Christopher Somerville
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Evocatively written and charming' - Countryfile'The January Man is a book that makes you want to pull on your boots, grab a map and get out there' - Country LifeThe January Man is the story of a year of walks that was inspired by a song, Dave Goulder's... -
Llyfr Natur Iolo by Paul Sterry 9781845271312 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.50£6.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845271312Author Paul SterryFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch -
A Year of Garden Bees and Bugs: 52 stories of intriguing insects by Dominic Couzens 9781849947954
RRP: £20.00£13.58A fascinating journey into the secret life of insects, with QR codes linked to videos that bring every creature to life.Just as birds have yearly rhythms, so do bees, beetles, butterflies and other insects. Wildlife experts Dominic Couzens and Gail... -
Plate Tectonics: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Molnar
RRP: £8.99£6.45The 1960s revealed a new and revolutionary idea in geological thought: that the continents drift with respect to one another. After having been dismissed for decades as absurd, the concept gradually became part of geology's basic principles. We now know... -
A Perfect Planet by Huw Cordey
RRP: £25.00£19.22There is no place like home.The conditions of Earth are not just good for life, they are perfect. Everything about our planet - its size, its distance from the Sun, its spin and tilt, its moon - is perfectly suited to our existence, and our planet's... -
Geology of Ireland by Ivor MacCarthy
RRP: £17.99£16.01Studying geology in the field will draw anyone curious about how our planet works into the field time and time again. Ireland is endowed with a spectacular variety of geology. The rocks that make up the island of Ireland offer a unique window into a... -
The Great British Tree Biography by Mark Hooper
RRP: £16.99£11.87Inspired by the history of Britain, from the tree under which the first trade union was formed to the branches from which outlaws were hanged, The Great British Tree Biography details the fascinating stories associated with trees throughout... -
The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light by Paul Bogard 9780007428212
RRP: £10.99£8.29Streetlamps, neon signs - an ever-present glow that has changed the natural world and adversely affected our health; Paul Bogard illuminates the problems caused by a lack of darkness. We live awash in artificial light. But night's natural... -
No. More. Plastic.: What you can do to make a difference - the #2minutesolution Martin Dorey 9781785039874
RRP: £7.99£5.31Discover what you can do to save the planet from plastic. Start now. All it takes is 2 minutes of your time.'I read this book yesterday and I've done three things today and that is testament to Martin's brilliant vision and ideas. Now it's your turn!'... -
The Astrophotography Manual: A Practical Approach to Deep Sky Imaging by Chris Woodhouse 9781032601236
RRP: £48.99£41.37The Astrophotography Manual's Third Edition is the most up to date and authoritative guide for enthusiasts who want to create beautiful images of nebulas, galaxies, clusters, and the stars with the latest professional tools and techniques.The book has... -
Weather For Dummies by John D. Cox
RRP: £17.99£12.14What in the world is going on up there? Look up! It's a bird; it's a plane; it's a Polar mesospheric cloud! When you look to the sky, do you wonder why the Sun is so bright or why the clouds are white or why the sky is blue? Then, Weather For Dummies is... -
Wild Words: How language engages with nature: A collection of international words that describe a natural phenomenon by Kate Hodges
RRP: £9.99£6.64The book showcases 75 beautiful words evocative of the wild, from all around the world, that describe natural happenings in nature. It includes words that describe weather, or a feeling you have when in nature as well as sensory words that explain the... -
The Unexpected Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos and Other Wild Tales Lucy Cooke 9781784161903
RRP: £10.99£7.77Shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize'Endlessly fascinating.' - Bill Bryson 'Eye-opening, informative and very funny!' - Chris Packham'Well-informed and downright funny' - Richard DawkinsHistory is full of strange animal... -
Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland
RRP: £12.99£9.09Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars, beached whales and a perfect cup from a Cunard liner. This... -
The Fresh and the Salt: The Story of the Solway by Ann Lingard
RRP: £25.00£16.59Shortlisted for the Lakeland Book of the Year Firths and estuaries are liminal places, where land meets sea and tides meet freshwater. Their unique ecosystems support a huge range of marine and other wildlife: human activity too is profoundly... -
The Trees that Made Britain Archie Miles 9781785946998
RRP: £14.99£9.53As the oldest living inhabitants on the planet, trees have played a major part in the way we live today, providing both the daily oxygen we breathe and the foundation of our nations heritage. Every native tree in Britain, whether its part of a grand... -
The Earth: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Redfern
RRP: £8.99£6.45For generations, the ground beneath the feet of our ancestors seemed solid and unchanging. Around 30 years ago, two things happened that were to revolutionize the understanding of our home planet. First, geologists realized that the continents themselves...