Global Warming & Climate Change

Thomas Friedman's phenomenal The World is Flat helped millions of people see globalization in a new way. Now he takes a fresh, provocative look at the biggest challenge facing us today - our hot, flat and crowded world.Climate change and rapid population...

A confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest. In lyrical, impassioned prose, Eliane Brum recounts her move from Sao Paulo to Altamira, a city along the Xingu River that has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781545614105Author Gregory WrightstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Wrightstone, GregoryPublisher Wrightstone, GregoryWeight(grams)...

Positively Green is a guide to caring for the planet - and yourself. From journalist and Positive News partnerships editor Sarah LaBrecque, National Trust's Positively Green is an informative and captivating guide to sustainable living. With...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781536100457Author Hilmar HilmarssonFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 382g

The aim of the book is to provide an understanding of the current science underpinning Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) and to provide students and interested researchers with sufficient background on the basics of Chemical Engineering, Material...

100 inspiring visual stories on environmentalism from key figures, charities, activists, and artists With beautiful comic art and stories from writers, environmentalists, and spokespersons from around the world, The Most Important Comic Book On Earth is...

A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we need to join her in protest This is...

'One of the most important books I've read this year. How Are We Going To Explain This? is a crystal clear treatise on where we are, and what we need to do right now. Especially recommended for those who feel hopeless.' Rutger Bregman, author of Utopia...

As featured on CNN's Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4's Start the Week with Andrew Marr One of the Financial Times' best books of 2021 In this compelling journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy traces how the struggle to...

Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland explores the interaction of human populations with the land, waters, forests and wildlife. This volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789590883Author Frances WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Sacristy PressPublisher Sacristy PressWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770414464Author Jean McNeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

'The climate crisis is the biggest issue facing humanity today. . . It is only together that we can make a difference.' Amanda Khozi Mukwashi, Christian Aid Written by members and friends of Christian Climate Action, this stimulating resource book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988877740Author Tim BallFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Stairway PressPublisher Stairway PressWeight(grams) 381g

Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. From river levees to enormous one-crop fields, we continue to try to reshape nature for our purposes - so much so it seems we...

The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang and long-dead stars, at first it was nothing special,...

Climate engineering is a dystopian project. But as the human species hurtles ever faster towards its own extinction, geoengineering as a temporary fix, to buy time for carbon removal, is a seductive idea. We are right to fear that geoengineering will be...

The body as a measuring tool for planetary harm. A nervous system under increasing stress. In this urgent collection that moves from the personal to the political and back again, writer, activist, and migrant Jessica Gaitan Johannesson explores how we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642833263Author Sherri GoodmanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Island PressPublisher Island PressWeight(grams) 454g

'Hope Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet? The Story of More is thoughtful, informative and - above all - essential' Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth ExtinctionHope Jahren is an award-winning...

This book presents a comprehensive, authoritative and independent account of the rules, institutions and procedures governing the international climate change regime. Its detailed yet user-friendly description and analysis covers the UN Framework...

How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient worldHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential...

The little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the worldThe Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was...

Energy Materials: A Short Introduction to Functional Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage provides readers with an accessible overview of the functional materials currently employed or investigated for energy provision, conversion, and storage...

Investigating the relationship between literature and climate, this Companion offers a genealogy of climate representations in literature while showing how literature can help us make sense of climate change. It argues that any discussion of literature...

'Hands-down the best book yet on the Green New Deal' - Jason Hickel The idea of a Green New Deal was launched into popular consciousness by US Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2018. It has become a watchword in the current era of global...

Power Systems is the latest collection of searing insights from intellectual superstar Noam Chomsky. In this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of...

Climate change may well be the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced. Temperatures in some regions of the world could increase by as much as fifteen degrees by the end of the century, causing rising sea levels and severe droughts. But change could also...

This book examines the impact of climate change on eye disease and eye health.Filling a lacuna in the existing literature, Scott Fraser takes a deep dive into the eye diseases that are most affected by the climate crisis and explores the subsequent...

A historian offers a unique look at the pandemic, climate change, and the human versus nonhuman. Climate change represents a deep conundrum for humans. It is difficult for humans to give up the unequal and yet accelerating pursuit of a good life based...

Winner of the Scientific & Medical Network Book Prize 2019!In Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene, Andrew Fellows uniquely connects Earth systems, Jungian and philosophical approaches to the existential threats...

Contemporary Climate Change Debates is an innovative new textbook which tackles some of the difficult questions raised by climate change.For the complex policy challenges surrounding climate migration, adaptation and resilience, structured debates become...

A neurosurgeon explores how our tendency to prioritize short-term consumer pleasures spurs climate change, but also how the brain's amazing capacity for flexibility can-and likely will-enable us to prioritize the long-term survival of humanity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958921524Author Ervin LaszloFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Light on Light PressPublisher Light on Light PressWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm)...

Coal, gas and oil have been capitalism's main fuels since the industrial revolution. And yet, of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burned in the last 50 years. Most alarming of all, fossil fuel consumption has grown fastest in the...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.No One is Too Small to Make a Difference collects Greta Thunberg's history-making speeches, from addresses at climate rallies around the world audiences at the UN, the...

Who will protect our planet from the corporations, governments, and individuals who pollute, destroy, and devastate our natural world? Step forward a fresh new breed of passionately purposeful environmental lawyers, whose client is the Earth itself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925138801Author Ian PlimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Connor Court PublishingPublisher Connor Court Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738623068Author Ken RingFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ken Ring Ltd.Publisher Ken Ring Ltd.Weight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 21mm