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The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.60'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' GuardianIntroduction by Robert Macfarlane. Afterword by Jeanette WintersonIn this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd... -
The Multi-Sided Ethnographer: Living the Field beyond Research by Tim Burger 9783837666779
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £37.68As ethnographic fieldwork blurs the boundaries between >private< and >professional< life, ethnographers always appear to be on duty, looking out for valuable encounters and waiting for the next... -
Character and Environment: A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics by Ronald Sandler 9780231141079
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Virtue ethics is now widely recognized as an alternative to Kantian and consequentialist ethical theories. However, moral philosophers have been slow to bring virtue ethics to bear on topics in... -
Division Street America by Studs Terkel 9781595580726
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Division Street, Studs Terkel's first book of oral history, established his reputation as America's foremost oral historian and as "one of those rare thinkers who is actually willing to go out and... -
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons by Hannah Freed-Thall
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book makes a case for the coastal... -
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons by Hannah Freed-Thall 9780231197083
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book makes a case for the coastal... -
The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude by Andrew Nikiforuk 9781771640107
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.66Ancient civilizations routinely relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities. In the early 19th century, the slave trade became one... -
The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism by Charles T. Rubin
Booksplease Price: £22.93As recently as fifty years ago, the billowing industrial smokestack was a proud symbol of progress and power; today it is an image of unbridled corporate irresponsibility. This change in public... -
Ireland and Ecocriticism: Literature, History and Environmental Justice by Eoin Flannery
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.49This book is the first truly interdisciplinary intervention into the burgeoning field of Irish ecological criticism. Providing original and nuanced readings of Irish cultural texts and personalities... -
The Algal Bowl: Overfertilization of the World's Freshwaters and Estuaries by David W. Schindler
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.54In 1974, John R. Vallentyne predicted that by the year 2000 we would be living in an environmental disaster he called the Algal Bowl. Just as the Dust Bowl of the 1930s was created by misusing... -
Marine Disease Ecology by Donald C. Behringer
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £53.55Whether through loss of habitat or cascading community effects, diseases can shape the very nature of the marine environment. Despite their significant impacts, studies of marine diseases have tended... -
The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment by Pratima Bansal 9780199677436
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £38.79Environmental issues now loom large on the social, political, and business agenda. Over the past four decades, "corporate environmentalism" has emerged and been constantly redefined, from regulatory... -
Radical Human Ecology: Intercultural and Indigenous Approaches by Rose Roberts
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.74Human ecology - the study and practice of relationships between the natural and the social environment - has gained prominence as scholars seek more effectively to engage with pressing global... -
Southern Rivers: Restoring America's Freshwater Biodiversity by R. Scot Duncan 9780817321826
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39Explores the Southeast's imperiled river systems and solutions for preserving them in the face of habitat loss, climate change, and extinctionSouthern Rivers, by award-winning nature writer and... -
Beyond Slash, Burn, and Poison: Transforming Breast Cancer Stories into Action by Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman 9780813534718
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £23.17Depending on one's vantage point, breast cancer can be a very different experience, and indeed, a very different concern. It is, for some, a personal struggle; for others, it is a disease posing... -
Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times by Nancy Koehn
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'A close analysis of five gritty leaders whose extraordinary passion and perseverance changed history . . . a gripping read on a timeless and timely topic!'Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of... -
Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India by Arnab Dey
Booksplease Price: £32.12Arnab Dey examines the intersecting role of law, ecology, and agronomy in shaping the history of tea and its plantations in British east India. He suggests that looking afresh at the legal,... -
Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy by Lars Tragardh 9780857457561
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.46Since the emergence of the dissident "parallel polis" in Eastern Europe, civil society has become a "new superpower," influencing democratic transformations, human rights, and international... -
Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India by Arnab Dey 9781108471305
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14Arnab Dey examines the intersecting role of law, ecology, and agronomy in shaping the history of tea and its plantations in British east India. He suggests that looking afresh at the legal,... -
LBJ's America: The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson by Mark Atwood Lawrence 9781009172530
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.77In innumerable ways, we still live in LBJ's America. More than half a century after his death, Lyndon Baines Johnson continues to exert profound influence on American life. This collection skillfully... -
Available Means: An Anthology Of Women's Rhetoric(s) by Joy S. Ritchie 9780822957539
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.43"I say that even later someone will remember us."-Sappho, Fragment 147, sixth century, BC Sappho's prediction came true; fragments of work by the earliest woman writer in Western literate... -
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams 9780393345070
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.17Did you know that breast milk contains substances similar to cannabis? Or that it's sold on the Internet for 262 times the price of oil? Feted and fetishized, the breast is an evolutionary... -
Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies Richard Heinberg 9781905570003
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Without oil, what would you do? How would you travel? How would you eat? What would everyday life be like? The world is about to change dramatically and permanently as a result of oil depletion... -
The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism by KORTEN 9781887208031
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.54This work investigates the growing gap between the promises of new global capitalism and the reality of insecurity, inequality, social breakdown, spiritual emptiness and environmental destruction. It... -
The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands: Literary and Historical Imaginaries by Katie Ritson
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Global seawater levels are rising and the low-lying coasts of the North Sea basin are amongst the most vulnerable in Europe. In our current moment of environmental crisis, the North Sea coasts are... -
A Voyage Across an Ancient Ocean: A Bicycle Journey Through the Northern Dominion of Oil by David Goodrich
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.53In the face of widespread misinformation and misunderstanding, a climate scientist ventures into the vast heart of America's new oil country on just two wheels.Recently recovered from his epic... -
Addressing the Climate Crisis in the Indian Himalayas: Can Traditional Ecological Knowledge Help? by Anwesha Borthakur 9783031500961
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £96.71This book focuses on the traditional ecological knowledge in addressing the current climate crisis in the Indian Himalayas. Local or indigenous people in the Himalayas, through their low-carbon... -
DDT Wars: Rescuing Our National Bird, Preventing Cancer, and Creating EDF by Charles F. Wurster 9780190219413
RRP: £29.49Booksplease Price: £24.69During the 1950s and 60s, scientists began to question the widespread use of DDT, a pesticide used indiscriminately for agricultural purposes because of its efficiency in killing insects. Researchers... -
The Living World: Nan Shepherd and Environmental Thought by Samantha Walton
Booksplease Price: £23.81Harnessing 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... -
Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Life and Work of Robert Angus Smith Peter Reed 9781138247215
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Robert Angus Smith (1817-1884) was a Scottish chemist and a leading investigator into what came to be known as 'acid rain'. This study of his working life, contextualized through discussion of his... -
Strangers in the House: A Prairie Story of Bigotry and Belonging Candace Savage 9781771642040
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.18A renowned author investigates the dark and shocking history of her prairie house. When researching the first occupant of her Saskatoon home, Candace Savage discovers a family more fascinating and... -
Marine Disease Ecology by Donald C. Behringer 9780198821632
Booksplease Price: £110.95Whether through loss of habitat or cascading community effects, diseases can shape the very nature of the marine environment. Despite their significant impacts, studies of marine diseases have tended... -
The Top 50 Sustainability Books Wayne Visser 9781906093327
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £58.39This unique title draws together in one volume some of the best thinking to date on the pressing social and environmental challenges we face as a society. These are the Top 50 Sustainability Books as... -
Building Europe on Expertise: Innovators, Organizers, Networkers by Martin Kohlrausch 9780230308060
Booksplease Price: £24.63Focusing on experts in technology and science, Building Europe on Expertise delivers a new reading of European history. The authors show that modern Europe was built by experts using their unique... -
The Malthusian Moment: Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism by Thomas Robertson 9780813552712
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £89.42Although Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in The Malthusian Moment Thomas Robertson locates the origins of modern American... -
American Culture in the 1960s by Sharon Monteith
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.49This book charts the changing complexion of American culture in one of the most culturally vibrant of twentieth-century decades. It provides a vivid account of the major cultural forms of 1960s... -
Wiring the World: The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks by Simone M. Muller
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.55The successful laying of a transatlantic cable in 1866 remade world communications. A message could travel across the ocean in minutes, shrinking the space between continents, cultures, and nations... -
The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics by Stephen M. Gardiner
RRP: £43.49Booksplease Price: £38.53We live during a crucial period of human history on Earth. Anthropogenic environmental changes are occurring on global scales at unprecedented rates. Despite a long history of environmental... -
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement by John Rawls 9780674005112
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £24.82This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as... -
Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside by Dieter Helm 9780008304478
Booksplease Price: £7.54'One of the most important books of the decade' Country Life Finally, a practical, realistic plan to rescue, preserve and enhance nature. News about...