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War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring by Edmund Russell
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £23.76War and Nature combines discussion of technology, nature, and warfare to explain the impact of war on nature and vice versa. While cultural and scholarly traditions have led us to think of war and... -
Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape, and the Problem of Belonging by D. Hughes 9780230621428
Booksplease Price: £47.71European settler societies have a long history of establishing a sense of belonging and entitlement outside Europe, but Zimbabwe has proven to be the exception to the rule. Arriving in the 1890s,... -
Raising Healthy Kids: Protecting Your Children from Hidden Chemical Toxins by David Steinman 9781510774391
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.84A must-have book for every parent, from the author of the ground-breaking bestseller Diet for a Poisoned Planet. Every parent wonders: Am I buying products for my child that are filled with chemical... -
The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century: Competition and Convergence by Christof Mauch 9780521145619
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century presents a wide ranging comparison of American and German societies during the late 19th and 20th centuries. The two countries - the world's... -
War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring by Edmund Russell 9780521790031
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99War and Nature combines discussion of technology, nature, and warfare to explain the impact of war on nature and vice versa. While cultural and scholarly traditions have led us to think of war and... -
Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I by Jonathan Reed Winkler 9780674725775
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £24.05In an illuminating study that blends diplomatic, military, technology, and business history, Jonathan Reed Winkler shows how U.S. officials during World War I discovered the enormous value of global... -
If Einstein Ran the Schools: Revitalizing U.S. Education by Thomas Armstrong 9781440869778
Booksplease Price: £37.13Many world-class thinkers and creators have been concerned about the state of education in the United States. Discover their thoughts on how children really learn and what teachers must do to... -
Island Time: An Illustrated History of St. Simons Island, Georgia by Jingle Davis
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £36.20Eighty miles south of Savannah lies St. Simons Island, one of the most beloved seaside destinations in Georgia and home to some twenty thousand year-round residents. In Island Time, Jingle Davis and... -
Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of History by Dorothee Brantz 9780813946429
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £30.79Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical, living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial role in human history. The fascination with animals that leads not only... -
Literature and the Environment by George Hart 9780313321498
Booksplease Price: £56.67The phrase literature and environment only achieved popularity in recent decades, yet writers dating back to the explorers of the 1500s-and later such 19th-century Romanticists as Thoreau-have long... -
Environmental Politics for a Changing World: Power, Perspectives, and Practice by Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Booksplease Price: £66.65This book argues that environmental problems are, first and foremost, political and, therefore, about power. Using a framework of political economy and political ecology, the authors deconstruct... -
Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape, and the Problem of Belonging by D. Hughes 9780230621435
Booksplease Price: £47.39European settler societies have a long history of establishing a sense of belonging and entitlement outside Europe, but Zimbabwe has proven to be the exception to the rule. Arriving in the 1890s,... -
Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of History by Dorothee Brantz 9780813929477
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.75Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical, living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial role in human history. The fascination with animals that leads not only... -
The Global History of Organic Farming by Gregory Allen Barton 9780199642533
Booksplease Price: £48.44Organic farming is a major global movement that is changing land-use and consumer habits around the world. This book tells the untold story of how the organic farming movement nearly faltered after... -
The Highest Tide: Rejacketed by Jim Lynch
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73One unforgettable night, thirteen-year-old Miles goes to the flats near his home in search of shellfish, only to discover something startling and remarkable: a giant squid. Instantly he becomes a... -
Forget 'Having It All': How America Messed Up Motherhood--and How to Fix It by Amy Westervelt
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71After 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... -
Synthetic Planet: Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life by Monica J. Casper 9780415933551
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.25This timely collection of original essays traces the migration of synthetic chemicals from the laboratory to the factory and then into the environment, bodies and communities. Turning our attention... -
A Cultural History of Modern Science in China by Benjamin A. Elman 9780674030428
Booksplease Price: £28.34Historians of science and Sinologists have long needed a unified narrative to describe the Chinese development of modern science, medicine, and technology since 1600. They welcomed the appearance in... -
Muckrakers: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors by Edd C. Applegate 9780810861077
Booksplease Price: £76.51During the 1800s, the United States progressed at a remarkable rate. Commerce gave rise to regional specialization and contributed to the growth of cities. By 1860 the nation had prospered to the... -
Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present by Richard S. Newman
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £20.82In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst-a sixteen-acre site containing... -
Bombay--London--New York by Amitava Kumar 9780415942102
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.80First published in 2003.When Amitava Kumar left Patna, India, he envisioned himself as an up-and-coming citizen of the world, leaving behind the confines of Indian traditions. Yet like the wave of... -
The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico by Joseph Masco
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.93The Nuclear Borderlands explores the sociocultural fallout of twentieth-century America's premier technoscientific project--the atomic bomb. Joseph Masco offers the first anthropological study of the... -
Bombay--London--New York Amitava Kumar 9780415942119
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.26First published in 2003.When Amitava Kumar left Patna, India, he envisioned himself as an up-and-coming citizen of the world, leaving behind the confines of Indian traditions. Yet like the wave of... -
The Holy Land by Maurice Riordan
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67At the heart of Maurice Riordan's third collection is a sequence of eighteen dramatic idylls set in rural Cork in the 1950s, in which the subdued microcosm of farm and smallholding - of boundary,... -
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood: 15th Anniversary Edition by Janisse Ray
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.92From the memories of a childhood marked by extreme poverty, mental illness, and restrictive fundamentalist Christian rules, Janisse Ray crafted a "heartfelt and refreshing" (New York Times) memoir... -
Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals by Christopher J. Preston 9780262548335
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £16.11An 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... -
Province of Reason by Sam Bass Warner 9780674719583
Booksplease Price: £30.96This book is about some of the largest events of the twentieth century, about international war, economic collapse, new science and technologies, and about the transformation of an old mill town... -
Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas by Donald Worster 9780521468343
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £28.24Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past, first published in 1994. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it, and shows how it in turn... -
Roger Tory Peterson: A Biography by Douglas Carlson
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Beginning with his 1934 Field Guide to the Birds, Roger Tory Peterson introduced literally millions of people to the pleasures of observing birds in the wild. His field guide, which has gone through... -
An Introduction to the Blue Humanities by Steve Mentz 9780367763664
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £34.21An Introduction to the Blue Humanities is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water, utilizing literary, cultural, historical, and theoretical connections and ecologies to... -
Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America's Grasslands since 1945 by David D. Vail 9780817319731
Booksplease Price: £36.13An exploration of the elaborate relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals, and the environment. The controversies in the 1960s and 1970s that swirled... -
Mastering Modern United States History by John Traynor
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.82Now in its second edition, this engaging text introduces readers to all the key developments in American history between 1900 and 2000. Combining factual coverage with an analysis of professional... -
American Culture in the 1960s by Sharon Monteith 9780748619474
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.96This 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... -
Birds: An Anthology by Jaqueline Mitchell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.39Thomas 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... -
Muckrakers: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors by Edd C. Applegate 9780810861084
Booksplease Price: £66.58During the 1800s, the United States progressed at a remarkable rate. Commerce gave rise to regional specialization and contributed to the growth of cities. By 1860 the nation had prospered to the... -
The Steppe to Europe: An Environmental History of Hungary in the Traditional Age by Lajos Racz 9781874267768
Booksplease Price: £66.27This book, a much-augmented translation of the author's original Hungarian version, is an account of Hungary's past from the perspective of environmental history, incorporating a wide range of... -
Rebel Girls Climate Warriors: 25 Tales of Women Who Protect the Earth by Rebel Girls
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54A 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... -
The World in Which We Occur: John Dewey, Pragmatist Ecology, and American Ecological Writing in the Twentieth Century by Neil W. Browne
Booksplease Price: £36.44American philosopher John Dewey considered all human endeavors to be continuous with the natural world. In his writings, particularly Art as Experience (1934), Dewey insists on the primacy of the... -
Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook by Predrag Cicovacki 9780195377897
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.60Albert Schweitzer's leading philosophical idea was "reverence for life": good consists in maintaining and perfecting life, evil in destroying and obstructing life. For Schweitzer, all life is sacred,... -
Environment and Society: Socionatural Relations in the Anthropocene by Manuel Arias-Maldonado 9783319159515
Booksplease Price: £46.28This short book sets out to explore the concept of nature in the context of a changing reality, in which the extent of our transformation of the environment has become evident: What is nature and to...