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On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54In this bold, fascinating book, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear - fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what may be in your children's air, food, mattresses,... -
Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade by Gabrielle Hecht 9780262526869
Booksplease Price: $56.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Co-winner, 2012 Martin A. Klein Prize in African History, awarded by the American Historical Society. 2012... -
The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) 9781631494123
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $23.37In November 2015, the world powers came together in Paris with the hope of reaching an agreement on the most urgent issue of our time: climate change. While it was an historic moment that brought... -
Beautifully Said: Quotes by remarkable women and girls, designed to make you think by Quotabelle
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $25.92Beautifully Said is a female-forward collection of 21 themed chapters of quotes and stories from brilliant, brave, captivating women and girls. Looking for a quote to inspire your daughter, sister,... -
The Kitchen Pantry Scientist: Chemistry for Kids: Homemade Science Experiments and Activities Inspired by Awesome Chemists, Past and Present by Liz Lee Heinecke
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95* 2021 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in Middle Grade Longlist * 2021 NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book * 2021 EUREKA! Nonfiction Children's Honor BookAspiring young... -
The Environment and the Press: From Adventure Writing to Advocacy by Mark Neuzil
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $32.59This history of environmental journalism looks at how the practice now defines issues and sets the public agenda, evolving from a tradition that includes the works of authors such as Pliny the Elder,... -
What Is Nasa? by Sarah Fabiny
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $10.70Find out all about NASA in this out-of-this-world addition to the What Was? series. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, began in 1958. With its creation, the... -
Where Is Antarctica? Sarah Fabiny 9781524787592
RRP: $9.48Booksplease Price: $8.21Antarctica, the earth's southernmost continent, was virtually untouched by humans until the nineteenth century. Many famous explorers journeyed (and often died) there in the hope of discovering a... -
Who Was Jane Austen? by Sarah Fabiny 9780448488639
Booksplease Price: $9.52Although Jane Austen's works were first published anonymously and brought her little personal recognition, today they are rarely out of print and have inspired movies, television shows and... -
Who Was Ida B. Wells? by Sarah Fabiny 9780593093351
RRP: $13.28Booksplease Price: $9.82The story of how a girl born into slavery became an early leader in the civil rights movement and the most famous Black female journalist in nineteenth-century America. Born into slavery in 1862, Ida... -
The Civil War by Marty Jezer 9780912517506
RRP: $13.21Booksplease Price: $10.55This book covers the pivotal events leading up to, during, and after the war. Beginning with the election of Abraham Lincoln, the secession of southern states from the Union and the bombing of Fort... -
Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military's Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange by Jon Mitchell
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $30.48For decades, the US military has been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances. Thousands of service members, their families, and local residents have been exposed-but the US has hidden... -
Figuring by Maria Popova
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.60Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries - beginning with the... -
Masterminds: Leonardo Da Vinci Stephen White-Thomson 9781526313959
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59Meet the S.T.E.A.M. pioneer - Leonardo da Vinci - and discover his fascinating life story and inspirations.Leonardo da Vinci tells the story of this key scientific figure - covering his whole life's... -
Opening of the Western Frontier by Marty Jezer 9780912517452
RRP: $13.21Booksplease Price: $10.28A remarkable addition to The Making of America Series from Bluewood Books, Opening of the Western Frontier begins after America's victory in the War of 1812 and provides an insightful and compelling... -
Earth Squad: 50 People Who Are Saving the Planet by Alexandra Zissu
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $20.52Learn about -- and join! -- the EARTH SQUAD: fifty inspirational and extraordinary environmental crusaders working to save our planet.Earth Squad is the book activist kids have been searching for... -
Who Was A. A. Milne? by Sarah Fabiny
Booksplease Price: $9.82Find out how stories about his son's stuffed bear, famously known as Winnie the Pooh, made A. A. Milne one of the world's best-known children's authors in this informative biography from the #1 New... -
Masterminds: Nikola Tesla Izzi Howell 9781526312761
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59Meet the S.T.E.A.M. pioneer - Nikola Tesla - and discover his fascinating life story and inspirations.Nikola Tesla tells the story of this key scientific figure - covering his origins and training as... -
Eco Stories for those who Dare to Care Ben Hubbard 9781445171241
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59Celebrate the eco-heroes around the world building a better tomorrow.Eco Stories for those who Dare to Care is the perfect introduction to environmentalism and the world-changing lives that have... -
Masterminds: Frank Lloyd Wright by Izzi Howell 9781526314093
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59Meet the S.T.E.A.M. pioneer - Frank Lloyd Wright - and discover his fascinating life story and inspirations.Frank Lloyd Wright tells the story of this key scientific figure - covering his whole... -
Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy by Alastair Gee
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $23.37On November 8, 2018, the ferocious Camp Fire laid waste to almost the entire town of Paradise, California, a community of 27,000 people. At least 85 died, images of the fire transfixed viewers across... -
Eco Stories for those who Dare to Care Ben Hubbard 9781445171258
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.06Celebrate the eco-heroes around the world building a better tomorrow.Eco Stories for those who Dare to Care is the perfect introduction to environmentalism and the world-changing lives that have... -
Who Was A. A. Milne? by Sarah Fabiny 9780451532442
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $28.73Find out how stories about his son's stuffed bear, famously known as Winnie the Pooh, made A. A. Milne one of the world's best-known children's authors in this informative biography from the #1 New... -
The Hunt for the Golden Mole: All Creatures Great and Small, and Why They Matter by Richard Girling 9780099571933
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.69This story is a quest for an animal so rare that a sighting has never been recorded. The Somali golden mole was first described in 1964, but the sole evidence for its existence is a tiny fragment of... -
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.09Beatrix Potter's books are adored by millions, but they were just one aspect of an extraordinary life. This captivating biography brings us the passionate, unconventional woman behind the beloved... -
The Nature Principle by Richard Louv
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $25.19For many of us, thinking about the future conjures up images of Cormac McCarthy's The Road: a post-apocalyptic dystopia stripped of nature. Richard Louv, author of the landmark bestseller Last Child... -
The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life by Arthur Firstenberg
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.47'This seminal book...will transform your understanding ...of the environmental and health effects of electricity and radio frequencies' Paradigm Explorer 'Firstenberg is a pioneer in the sense... -
Simplify, Simplify: And Other Quotations from Henry David Thoreau by Kevin Van Anglen 9780231103893
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $26.58Sampling from Walden, "Civil Disobedience," The Maine Woods, and Henry David Thoreau's abolitionist and nature writings, letters, and other texts, Kevin P. Van Anglen distills the intellectual's... -
The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth by Frank A. von Hippel 9780226829562
RRP: $30.40Booksplease Price: $28.03A dynamic and sweeping history that exposes how humankind's affinity for pesticides made the modern world possible-while also threatening its essential fabric. For thousands of years, we've found... -
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.52NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this planet is... -
Places in Knots: Remoteness and Connectivity in the Himalayas and Beyond by Martin Saxer 9781501766893
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $31.29Tracing the experiences of mobile Himalayans across the globe, Places in Knots describes the ways in which Himalayan people relate to the multiple places they inhabit and the work and trouble of... -
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner 9781504032636
RRP: $41.71Booksplease Price: $36.18Nebula Award Finalist: A "brilliantly crafted, engrossing" dystopian novel of environmental disaster by the Hugo Award-winning author of Stand on Zanzibar (The Guardian). In a near future, the air... -
Letters of Note: Cats by Shaun Usher
RRP: $13.28Booksplease Price: $10.24In Letters of Note: Cats, Shaun Usher collects together the most engaging missives that celebrate, eulogise, rail against and analyse the idiosyncratic ways of our feline companions.Nikola Tesla,... -
Forget 'Having It All': How America Messed Up Motherhood--and How to Fix It by Amy Westervelt
RRP: $41.80Booksplease Price: $29.85After filing a story for a journalism assignment only two days after giving birth, Amy Westervelt had a revelation: we treat mothers like crap in this country. From inadequate maternity leave to... -
A Field Guide to Wonder: Plant Folklore & Foraging by Alexa Jeremy 9781806343416
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $19.87This field guide offers a response to the pioneering female conservationist, writer and scientist Rachel Carson, a gentle but powerful voice for nature, who, fifty years ago, wished for the good... -
Birds: An Anthology by Jaqueline Mitchell
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $27.34Thomas Hardy notes the thrush's 'full-hearted evensong of joy illimited', Gilbert White observes how swallows sweep through the air but swifts 'dash round in circles' and Rachel Carson watches... -
Rebel Girls Climate Warriors: 25 Tales of Women Who Protect the Earth by Rebel Girls
RRP: $13.28Booksplease Price: $10.53A COMMON SENSE SELECTION (Common Sense Media)With fairytale-like stories about Greta Thunberg, Autumn Peltier, and Rachel Carson, Rebel Girls Climate Warriors: 25 Tales of Environmental Allies... -
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Rebel Girls Climate Warriors: 25 Tales of Women Who Protect the Earth by Rebel Girls 9781953424211 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.28Booksplease Price: $7.24A COMMON SENSE SELECTION (Common Sense Media)With fairytale-like stories about Greta Thunberg, Autumn Peltier, and Rachel Carson, Rebel Girls Climate Warriors: 25 Tales of Environmental Allies... -
Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have by Tatiana Schlossberg 9781538747070
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95*First Place Winner of the Society of Environmental Journalists' Rachel Carson Environment Book Award*With urgency and wit, Tatiana Schlossberg explains that far from being only a distant problem of... -
Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals by Christopher J. Preston 9780262548335
RRP: $43.70Booksplease Price: $30.61An inspiring look at wildlife species that are defying the odds and teaching important lessons about how to share a planet.First Honorable Mention, The Rachel Carson Environment Book AwardWinner of...