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Walking on Lava: Selected Works for Uncivilised Times by Dougald Hine 9781603587419
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.20The Dark Mountain Project began with a manifesto published in 2009 by two English writers-Dougald Hine and Paul Kingsnorth-who felt that literature was not responding honestly to the crises of our... -
The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests by Amy Marie Hay
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.95Examines the domestic and international use of phenoxy herbicides by the United States in the mid-twentieth century.In The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests, Amy... -
The Book of Gutsy Women: Favourite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62Now an eight-part docuseries on Apple TV+ featuring Kim Kardashian, Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson, Wanda Sykes, Megan Thee Stallion and more She couldn't have been more than seven or eight... -
A Cultural History of the Soul: Europe and North America from 1870 to the Present by Kocku von Stuckrad
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08The soul, which dominated many intellectual debates at the beginning of the twentieth century, has virtually disappeared from the sciences and the humanities. Yet it is everywhere in popular... -
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019 by Shoshana Zuboff
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S TOP BOOKS OF THE YEAR Shortlisted for The Orwell Prize 2020 Shortlisted for the FT Business... -
Plastic Inc: Big Oil, Big Money and The Plan To Trash Our Future by Beth Gardiner 9781800962538
Booksplease Price: £13.65'Gripping and essential reading' - TIM SPECTOR'A compelling true crime story' - THE NEW YORK TIMES'Strips away the lies to show what's really happening in the world' - OLIVER BULLOUGH'Totally... -
Scientists as Writers by James Harrison 9781138981478
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94In the endless debate about the Two Cultures no book until this attempted to provide a selection of scientific writing on specific themes to stimulate students of arts subjects into discussion and... -
The Story of Stuff: The Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health--And How We Can Make It Better by Annie Leonard 9781451610291
Booksplease Price: £13.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451610291Author Annie LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon... -
The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne'er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction Lee Gutkind 9780300281910
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55An account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the "godfather" of the genre "When [Gutkind] stops to look back on his own evolving perspective . . . [and] reflects upon his writing... -
The Myth of Silent Spring: Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism by Chad Montrie 9780520291348
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.64Since its publication in 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring has often been celebrated as the catalyst that sparked an American environmental movement. Yet environmental consciousness and... -
Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir by Callum Roberts
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.54Reef Life is the story of how Callum Roberts, Britain's pre-eminent marine conservation scientist, fell in love with coral reefs and embarked on a thirty-year career. He began as a young university... -
Wonder: From Emotion to Spirituality by Robert C. Fuller 9780807859612
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48This book tells how one human emotion shapes our lives. Briding science and spirituality, Robert Fuller makes the convincing case that a sense of wonder is a principal source of humanity's belief in... -
The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine Matthew C. Ehrlich 9780252088117
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91The brainchild of an obscure Yugoslav physician, Krebiozen emerged in 1951 as an alleged cancer treatment. Andrew Ivy, a University of Illinois vice president and a famed physiologist dubbed "the... -
The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine Matthew C. Ehrlich 9780252046018
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14The brainchild of an obscure Yugoslav physician, Krebiozen emerged in 1951 as an alleged cancer treatment. Andrew Ivy, a University of Illinois vice president and a famed physiologist dubbed "the... -
Think Big!: The Greatest Ideas in Conservation by Izzi Howell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Discover the big ideas in conservation that have transformed the world around us.From the first national parks, through ambitious schemes such as tackling the ozone hole, and recent global movements... -
Desert Solitaire by Abbey 9780671695880
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £13.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671695880Author AbbeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon &... -
Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science Carey Gillam 9781642830422
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £26.10Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, First Place (2018) IPPY Outstanding Book of the Year: Most Likely to Save the Planet (2018) Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award (2018) ... -
The Porch: Meditations on the Edge of Nature by Charlie Hailey
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.45Come with us for a moment out onto the porch. Just like that, we've entered another world without leaving home. In this liminal space, an endless array of absorbing philosophical questions arises:... -
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference: Illustrated Edition Greta Thunberg 9780241453445
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A new expanded and illustrated edition of the history-making speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation'We are the change and change is coming' In August... -
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95One of the earliest warnings about climate change and one of environmentalism's lodestars'Nature, we believe, takes forever. It moves with infinite slowness,' begins the first book to bring climate... -
Waiting for Wovoka: Envoys of Good Cheer and Liberty by Gerald Vizenor 9780819500434
Booksplease Price: £12.69Native puppeteers from the White Earth Reservation travel to the 1962 World's Fair. In the summer of 1962, a group of young Native American puppeteers travel in a converted school bus from... -
Seeds of the Sixties by Andrew Jamison 9780520203419
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £26.98'The Sixties'. The powerful images conveyed by those two words have become an enduring part of American cultural and political history. But where did Sixties radicalism come from? Who planted the... -
A Warning from the Golden Toad by Tim Flannery
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.11In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Taking us on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, from coral reefs to the North Pole,... -
The Bird-Friendly City: Creating Safe Urban Habitats Timothy Beatley 9781642830477
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.08How does a bird experience a city? A backyard? A park? As the world has become more urban, noisier from increased traffic, and brighter from streetlights and office buildings, it has also become more... -
The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science John MacNeill Miller 9780813951782
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92Unraveling the surprising history of the concept of ecologyThe Ecological Plot traces the roots of this most mainstream branch of science back to an unexpected source: narrative storytelling. Weaving... -
The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science John MacNeill Miller 9780813951775
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £70.50Unraveling the surprising history of the concept of ecologyThe Ecological Plot traces the roots of this most mainstream branch of science back to an unexpected source: narrative storytelling. Weaving... -
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong by Paul A. Offit 9781426217982
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.09What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrongdirection? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating--and... -
The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James Lovelock
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23James Lovelock's The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning is a prophetic message for mankind from one of the most influential scientists of our age. James Lovelock's Gaia theory, the idea that... -
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made by Gaia Vince
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46** Winner of Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015 **We live in epoch-making times. The changes we humans have made in recent decades have altered our world beyond anything it has... -
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'One of the most influential books about the natural world ever published' Paul Kingsnorth, Guardian'There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot,' begins Aldo Leopold's... -
Walks in the Wild: A guide through the forest with Peter Wohlleben by Peter Wohlleben
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Can you tell which plants are safe to eat?Which trees are best to shelter under a storm?How do you tell a deciduous and coniferous tree apart?In his charming new book, bestselling author of The... -
Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment by Karl Kusserow
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.77A groundbreaking ecocritical exploration of American art that examines the complex and evolving relationship between art and the environment Public awareness of environmental issues has never been... -
Amazing Activists Who Are Changing Our World: People Power series Rebecca Schiller 9781529513318
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.50Discover the stories of 20 amazing activists who are caring for our planet and its people. Fascinating facts about each activist's life and times are accompanied by bright and accessible... -
We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.84'Read this book. Saving Planet Earth starts right here, right now' Stella McCartneyFrom the bestselling author of Eating Animals, a brilliantly fresh and accessible take on climate change - and what... -
The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah by Masanobu Fukuoka
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah, the celebrated pioneer of the 'do-nothing' farming method reflects on global... -
The Fifties: An Underground History James R. Gaines 9781439101643
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78An "exciting and enlightening revisionist history" (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity and celebrates a few solitary,... -
There is No Point of No Return by Arne Naess
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.11In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Emphasizing joy in the world, human cooperation and the value of all living things, this selection of Arne Naess'... -
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference: Illustrated Edition by Greta Thunberg
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.11The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018 a... -
An Idea Can Go Extinct by Bill McKibben
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.11In 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... -
Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The fascinating, often surprising story of how a simple black rock altered the course of history, perfect for fans of Mark Kurlansky's Salt and Jeremy Paxman's Black Gold. 'A passionate plea for a...