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Mountain Republic: A Lake District Parish - Eighteen Men, The Lake Poets and the National Trust by Philippa Harrison
RRP: £12.00£8.44An affectionate but meticulously researched history of one of the most beautiful and best-loved corners of England - Crosthwaite Parish, nestling deep within the mountains and valleys of the Lake District. 'A unique contribution to English history'... -
Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons by David Bollier
RRP: £14.99£9.88The biggest "tragedy of the commons" is the misconception that commons are failures-relics from another era rendered unnecessary by the market and state. Think Like a Commoner dispels such prejudices by explaining the rich history and promising future of... -
An Idea Can Go Extinct by Bill McKibben
RRP: £4.99£3.80In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.An Idea Can Go Extinct is Bill McKibben's impassioned, groundbreaking account of how, by changing the earth's entire atmosphere, the weather and the most basic forces... -
Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won't Work by Richard Oppenlander 9781626524354
RRP: £26.99£24.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626524354Author Richard OppenlanderFormat HardbackPage Count 470Imprint Langdon Street PressPublisher Langdon Street PressWeight(grams)... -
Pesky Plastic: An Environmental Story by Leticia Colon de Mejias 9780989336413
RRP: £6.65£6.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989336413Author Leticia Colon de MejiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Great Books 4 KidsPublisher Great Books 4 KidsWeight(grams) 92gDimensions(mm)... -
A Conservationist Manifesto by Scott Russell Sanders
RRP: £20.99£18.37As an antidote to the destructive culture of consumption dominating American life today, Scott Russell Sanders calls for a culture of conservation that allows us to savor and preserve the world, instead of devouring it. How might we shift to a more... -
The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, c.1500-1870 by Paul Warde
RRP: £24.99£21.58The issue of sustainability, and the idea that economic growth and development might destroy its own foundations, is one of the defining political problems of our era. This groundbreaking study traces the emergence of this idea, and demonstrates how... -
Ladders to Heaven by Mike Shanahan
RRP: £8.99£6.22"Irresistible" - Literary ReviewFig trees have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways: they are wish-fulfillers, rainforest royalty, more precious than gold. Ladders to Heaven tells their incredible story.They fed our pre-human ancestors,... -
You can save the planet by Lucy Bell
RRP: £7.99£5.41The ideal gift to help kids learn brilliant new hobbies Get reducing, get reusing and get resourceful! The how-to book for kids who want to make a difference. It's easy to understand and explains exactly what you need to know. ... -
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate by Paolo Giordano
RRP: £2.99£2.60'Lucid, calm, informed, directly helpful in trying to think about where we are now... The literature of the time after begins here' Evening Standard'Taking a breather from bewildering statistics and terrible tales of contagion to read Giordano's book was... -
The Little Book of Trees by Orange Hippo
RRP: £5.99£4.40Appreciating the trees of yesterday and today.You don't need to be a tree hugger to love trees. Whether they grow in cities or form part of a huge rainforest canopy, learn interesting facts about trees, why we need them and how we've lived with them... -
The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods Matter by John Miller 9780712354561
RRP: £25.00£16.78With a foreword by Kathleen Jamie. Trees can evoke powerful feelings. For Henry David Thoreau, the woods are places beyond civilisation; for Ursula Le Guin and J. R. R. Tolkien, they are loaded with otherworldly potential; and for those fleeing... -
Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry by Richard Flanagan
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761044373Author Richard FlanaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia -
Biodiversity and Climate Change: Transforming the Biosphere by Thomas E. Lovejoy
RRP: £30.00£25.25An essential, up-to-date look at the critical interactions between biological diversity and climate change that will serve as an immediate call to action The physical and biological impacts of climate change are dramatic and broad-ranging. People who... -
E. O. Wilson: Biophilia, the Diversity of Life, Naturalist (Loa #340) by Edward O Wilson
RRP: £42.99£28.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536799Author Edward O. WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 1150Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
Saving the Last Rhinos: The Life of a Frontline Conservationist by Grant Fowlds
RRP: £18.99£14.01'A terrific read . . . an outstanding book!'Gary Player and Vivienne Player'A truly heart-wrenching story, but a must-read for all who value our wild animals and their right to roam free. Grant Fowlds is a Zulu in a white skin and loves the people who... -
Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants by Jacob Shell
RRP: £13.99£12.25For more than a thousand years, people in the rainforests of India and Burma have worked with elephants to log these otherwise impassable forests and move people and goods (often illicitly) under cover of the forest canopy. Jacob Shell takes us deep into... -
Essential Ornithology by Graham Scott
RRP: £45.49£42.69Essential Ornithology provides the reader with a concise but comprehensive introduction to the biology of birds, one of the most widely studied taxonomic groups. The book begins by considering the dinosaur origins of birds and their subsequent evolution... -
Nemesis, My Friend: Journeys Through the Turning Times by Jay Griffiths 9781915068019
RRP: £18.00£12.96This new book of essays from the author of Wild tracks the turning light of the day and seasons, an almanac of the turning times. Beginning in night and winter, it moves to dawn and spring, then noon and summer and finally evening and autumn. Set partly... -
A Song of Gladness: A story of hope for us and our planet by Michael Morpurgo
RRP: £7.99£5.94Travel the globe on an inspiring journey through the animal kingdom. A Song of Gladness is a timely reminder of the beauty and importance of the natural world from two of today's most celebrated children's book creators.From a blackbird in a Devon garden... -
Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers and a Coward in London's Great Forest by Will Ashon 9781783783458
RRP: £9.99£6.70In litter-strewn Epping Forest on the edge of London, might a writer find that magical moment of transcendence? He will certainly discover filthy graffiti and frightening dogs, as well as world-renowned artists and fading celebrities, robbers, lovers,... -
Endgame Vol.1: The Problem of Civilization by Derrick Jensen 9781583227305
RRP: £12.99£9.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583227305Author Derrick JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 561g -
The Wonderful Circles of Oz: A Circular Economy Story by Ken Webster
RRP: £32.99£29.16With the world's economies impacted by coronavirus, billions are feeling social, environmental, and economic injustices. The call for a new, more just, more distributive economic story and system is louder and more urgent than ever. The Wonderful Circles... -
The Most Dammed Country in the World by Dai Qing
RRP: £4.99£3.80In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected in The Most Dammed Country in the World detail the devastating human and environmental cost of China's... -
Mystical Activism: Transforming a World In Crisis by John C. Robinson 9781789044188
RRP: £11.99£10.15In Mystical Activism, we each hold the power to change the world right where we are. To call these "end times" is not hyperbole. We are in trouble and the signs are everywhere: extreme political divisions; xenophobic violence; enormous wealth inequity;... -
Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World by Linda Hogan
RRP: £11.99£9.25"We want to live as if there is no other place," Hogan tells us, "as if we will always be here. We want to live with devotion to the world of waters and the universe of life." In offering praise to sky, earth, water, and animals, she calls us to witness... -
The Rights Of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World by David R. Boyd
RRP: £15.99£15.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770412392Author David R. BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada -
Addressing the Grand Challenges of Planetary Governance: The Future of the Global Political Order by Oran R. Young
RRP: £17.00£14.72The world today confronts unprecedented needs for governance having profound implications for human well-being that are difficult - perhaps impossible - to address effectively within the prevailing global political order. This makes it pertinent to ask... -
Black Lion: Teachings from the Wilderness by Sicelo Mbatha
RRP: £12.99£8.56Wilderness guide Sicelo Mbatha shares lessons learnt from a lifetime's intimate association with Africa's wildest nature.Black Lion begins in rural South Africa where a deeply traumatic childhood experience - a cousin being dragged away by a crocodile -... -
The Most Dammed Country in the World by Dai Qing 9780241514597 [USED COPY]
RRP: £4.99£3.00In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected in The Most Dammed Country in the World detail the devastating human and environmental cost of China's... -
The Green Web: A Union for World Conservation by Martin Holdgate
RRP: £39.99£37.15This text is a history of the world's oldest global conservation body - the World Conservation Union, established in 1948 as a forum for governments, non-governmental organizations and individual conservationists. The author draws on unpublished archives... -
Fortress Conservation - The Preservation of the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania by Dan Brockington
RRP: £19.99£19.39Challenges the myth of an African wilderness, and the conflict between conservation policies and the livelihoods of rural people. Many conservationists insist that conservation that ignores local costs cannot be sustained. For if conservation is... -
Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis by Erica Cirino
RRP: £20.99£19.07Much of what you've heard about plastic pollution may be wrong. Instead of a great island of trash, the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of manmade debris spread over hundreds of miles of sea-more like a soup than a floating garbage dump... -
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change by William R. Catton
RRP: £25.99£22.49Our day-to-day experiences over the past decade have taught us that there must be limits to our tremendous appetite for energy, natural resources, and consumer goods. Even utility and oil companies now promote conservation in the face of demands for... -
Client Earth by James Thornton
RRP: £12.99£8.56Who 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... -
Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future by Philip Lymbery 9781526619327
RRP: £25.00£19.55'A book of urgency but also of hope, as Lymbery shares solutions to save us' Chris Packham 'Philip Lymbery pulls no punches in cataloguing the calamitous mistakes we've made in our food system, but he has bold and inspiring solutions to offer, too'... -
Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food by Bob Quinn
RRP: £26.00£21.70"A compelling agricultural story skillfully told; environmentalists will eat it up." - Kirkus Reviews When Bob Quinn was a kid, a stranger at a county fair gave him a few kernels of an unusual grain. Little did he know, that grain would change his life... -
Planet-Friendly Hacks: Simple Tips and Budget-Friendly Advice for Sustainable Living by Elizabeth Ajao
RRP: £9.99£6.80This handy guide is brimming with quick tips, life hacks and budget-friendly tricks to help you reduce your carbon footprint and live more sustainably An eco-friendly lifestyle is expensive and time-consuming, right? Wrong! There are countless ways to... -
A Shadow Above: The Fall and Rise of the Raven by Joe Shute
RRP: £11.99£9.08For millennia, we have tried to explain ourselves using the raven as a symbol. It occupies a unique place in British history and has left an indelible mark on our cultural landscape. The raven's hulking black shape has come to represent many things:... -
Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for Conservation in a Post-colonial Era by William M. Adams 9781853837494
RRP: £39.99£36.75British imperialism was almost unparalleled in its historical and geographical reach, leaving a legacy of entrenched social transformation in nations and cultures in every part of the globe. Colonial annexation and government were based on an...