Global Warming & Climate Change

"Endlessly fascinating, unpretentiously educational, thoughtfully accessible and beautifully presented" - Alex Tattersall, award-winning underwater photographer and the founder of Underwater Visions.The Coral Triangle, straddling the confluence of the...

This System is Killing Us is an insider look at the catastrophic effects that energy infrastructure and mining are having on communities, their land and our planet. Xander Dunlap spent a decade living and working with Indigenous activists and land...

Climate change is one of the most significant and challenging problems we face today, and many organisations have recognised their responsibility in reducing emissions and environmental degradation and regenerating biodiversity. However, conventional...

The Low-Carbon Good Life is about how to reverse and repair four interlocking crises arising from modern material consumption: the climate crisis, growing inequality, biodiversity loss and food-related ill-health.Across the world today and throughout...

The science is overwhelming; the facts are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are everywhere to be seen. Yet, as time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet: energy...

Take a tour of wine and spirit production around the world and how climate change is affecting it at every stage - from cultivation to consumption. Climate change is altering the very nature of wine and spirit production around the world. From the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869547Author Jonathan NealeFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books

From Nobel Prize winner Syukuro Manabe and Anthony Broccoli, a definitive account of how we have come to understand the fundamental processes behind global warmingSyukuro Manabe is perhaps the leading pioneer of modern climate modeling. Beyond Global...

This book reports an approach developed to research and apply methods of assessing patterns of processes in the landscape, and suitability of different types of vegetation to mitigate soil erosion and sediment flux. Practical guidelines on a spatially...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541672390Author Thor HansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 142mm * 33mm

Our Changing Menu unpacks the increasingly complex relationships between food and climate change. Whether you're a chef, baker, distiller, restaurateur, or someone who simply enjoys a good pizza or drink, it's time to come to terms with how climate...

A Guide to Being Sustainable at Home and in Life"Gittemarie is creator that not only provides helpful tips on living a zero-waste and vegan lifestyle, but also articulates it in way that is approachable." -Jhanneu Roberts (@Jhanneu)#1 New Release in...

The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of the...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence The "closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted" (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Under a White Sky) story of climate migration in the United States-the personal stories of...

The old distinctions - between natural and artificial, dystopia and utopia, science fiction and science fact - have blurred, losing all meaning. We inhabit an uncanny landscape of our own creation. From Odds Against Tomorrow to Losing Earth to the film...

A brilliant young environmental journalist argues that we must innovate and adapt to save planet Earth in this enlightening "trip around the world to meet people working out new ways for humanity to live as well as survive" (The New York Times Book...

The field of paleoclimatology relies on physical, chemical, and biological proxies of past climate changes that have been preserved in natural archives such as glacial ice, tree rings, sediments, corals, and speleothems. Paleoclimate archives obtained...

Based on the author's highly successful undergraduate course taught at the University of Chicago, Global Warming presents the processes of climate change and climate stability. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, this Second Edition not only...

Where mountains meet ocean in Alaska's Alexander Archipelago, white skeletons of dead yellow cedar trees stand prominently amidst a verdant landscape of old-growth forests. Researchers spent nearly three decades deciphering the cause of the majestic...

Neel Ahuja tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, politicians, and nongovernmental organizations have often oversimplified climate change and obfuscated the...

This book identifies four key forms of air pollution: indoor, urban, regional and global. It discusses how these four types of pollution are manifest in today's society and examines the scientific and policy challenges that stand in the way of progress...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385546133Author Bill GatesFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 573gDimensions(mm) 243mm * 162mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991030361Author Tina LandisFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Liberation MediaPublisher Liberation MediaWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

With tipping points and extreme global warming looming, the key to understanding our climate future lies in our distant past "If you care at all about our future, you must read Runaway Climate." -Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute, ...

Urban Climates is the first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on urban climates. The book begins with an outline of what constitutes an urban ecosystem. It develops a comprehensive terminology for the subject using scale and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732963108Author Pauline SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Woodthrush ProductionsPublisher Woodthrush ProductionsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666738285Author Stephen Pax LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams)...

Examining the social response to the mounting impacts of climate change, Feeling Climate Change illuminates what the pathways from emotions to social change look like-and how they work-so we can recognize and inform our collective attempts to avert...

When fifteen-year-old Anna begins receiving messages from another time, her parents take her to the doctor. But he can find nothing wrong; in fact he believes there may be some truth to what she is seeing. Anna is haunted by visions of the desolate...

Part memoir, part expert analysis, Disasterology is a passionate and personal account of a country in crisis-one unprepared to deal with the disasters of today and those looming in our future.With temperatures rising and the risk of disasters growing,...

When climate scientist Joelle Gergis set to work on the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, the research she encountered kept her up at night. Through countless hours spent with the world's top...

Explores the photography of climate changePhotographs do not simply speak for themselves. Their meanings are built through interpretive frameworks that shift over time. Today, photographs of receding glaciers are one of the most well recognized...

Nearly everyone accepts as gospel two assumptions: compliance with environmental rules is high, and enforcement is responsible for making compliance happen. Both are wrong. In fact, serious violations of environmental regulations are widespread, and by...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'A gripping work of speculative climate fiction . . . a page-turning feminist mystery-thriller' Observer'A cold, hungry adventure story about the power of choice and the strength of solidarity' SEAN MICHAELSAmerica, 2049:...

Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. From sunny day flooding caused by higher tides to a sewer system on the brink of total collapse,...

Climate change is one of the most complex, multilayered and interdisciplinary intellectual puzzles facing us today. The questions are numerous. What scientific processes underpin climate change? To what extent is human activity a driver of climate...

A practical and comprehensive guide to surviving the greatest disaster of our time, from New York Times bestselling self-help author and beloved CBS Sunday Morning science and technology correspondent David Pogue. You might not realize it, but we're...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666759693Author Andrew D MayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734710052Author Lawrence W NewmanFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint Silver Millennium Publications, Inc.Publisher Silver Millennium Publications, Inc...

In his meticulous notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. If he were to look for the first blueberry flowers in Concord today, mid-May would be too...