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Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture Bruce King 9781642832112
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.85"Net Zero" has been an effective rallying cry for the green building movement, signalling a goal of having every building generate at least as much energy as it uses. Enormous strides have been made... -
Modern Poisons: A Brief Introduction to Contemporary Toxicology Alan Kolok 9781610913829
Booksplease Price: £21.40Traditional toxicology textbooks tend to be doorstops: tomes filled with important but seemingly abstract chemistry and biology. Meanwhile, magazine and journal articles introduce students to timely... -
A Critique of Silviculture: Managing for Complexity by Klaus J. Puettmann 9781597261463
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.16New ideas in ecology have implications for managing forest ecosystems. The discipline of silviculture is at a crossroads. Silviculturists are under increasing pressure to develop practices that... -
Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive By Investing in Nature Mark R. Tercek 9781610916950
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.78In Nature's Fortune, Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and former investment banker, and science writer Jonathan Adams argue that nature is not only the foundation of human well-being, but... -
Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water Peter H. Gleick 9781597265287
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation 'genius', and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. And he drinks from the tap. Why don't... -
The Green Building Revolution Jerry Yudelson 9781597261791
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55The "green building revolution" is happening right now. This book is its chronicle and its manifesto. Written by industry insider Jerry Yudelson, "The Green Building Revolution" introduces readers to... -
State of the Wild 2008-2009: A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wildlands, and Oceans by Wildlife Conservation Society 9781597261357
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.98"State of the Wild" is a biennial series that brings together international conservation experts and writers to discuss emerging issues in the conservation of wildlife and wild places.Each volume in... -
Climate and Conservation: Landscape and Seascape Science, Planning, and Action by Charles C. Chester 9781610911719
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.60"Climate and Conservation" presents case studies from around the world of leading-edge projects focused on climate change adaptation - regional-scale endeavours where scientists, managers, and... -
Energy Sprawl Solutions: Balancing Global Development and Conservation Joseph M Kiesecker 9781610917223
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.93Over the next several decades, as human populations grow and developing countries become more affluent, the demand for energy will soar. Parts of the energy sector are preparing to meet this demand... -
Transit Street Design Guide National Association of City Transportation Officials 9781610917476
Booksplease Price: £37.43Transit and cities grow together. As cities work to become more compact, sustainable, and healthy, their work is paying dividends: in 2014, Americans took 10.8 billion trips on public transit, the... -
Five Rules for Tomorrow's Cities: Design in an Age of Urban Migration, Demographic Change, and a Disappearing Middle Class Patrick M Condon 9781610919609
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.30How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue to spill excessive greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, we will run out of time to keep our global... -
Naturalist 25th Anniversary Edition by Edward O Wilson 9781642830217
Booksplease Price: £31.30Edward O. Wilson--winner of two Pulitzer prizes, champion of biodiversity, and Faculty Emeritus at Harvard University--is arguably one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. Yet his... -
Sprawl Repair Manual by Galina Tachieva 9781597267328
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £44.60Sprawl Repair Manual demonstrates a step-by-step design process for the re-balancing and re-urbanization of suburbia into more sustainable, economical, energy- and resource-efficient patterns. As... -
Handbook of Biophilic City Planning & Design by Timothy Beatley 9781610916202
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £35.38What if, even in the heart of a densely developed city, people could have meaningful encounters with nature? While parks, street trees, and green roofs are increasingly appreciated for their... -
The Kingdom of Rarities: The Story of America's Eastern National Forests Eric Dinerstein 9781610911962
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.80The Kingdom of Rarities presents a new context for understanding rarity and its implications, both for our understanding of how the natural world works and for what it can teach us about protecting... -
The Heart of the City: Creating Vibrant Downtowns for a New Century by Alexander Garvin 9781610919494
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55Downtowns are more than economic engines: they are repositories of knowledge and culture and generators of new ideas, technology, and ventures. They are the heart of the city that drives its future... -
Chasing the Red Queen: The Evolutionary Race Between Agricultural Pests and Poisons Andy Dyer 9781610915199
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55This book presents key concepts for students to understand chemical resistance in agriculture and apply that knowledge to achieving global food security. In the race to feed the world's seven billion... -
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit by Steven Higashide 9781642830149
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.55Imagine a bus system that is fast, frequent, and reliable, what would that change about where you live? Buses can and should be the cornerstone of urban transportation. They offer affordable... -
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry by Austin Frerick 9781642832693
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £21.18Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyone else. Take Mike McCloskey, Chairman of Fair Oaks Farms. In a few short decades, he went from... -
Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation by Danielle Arigoni 9781642832976
Booksplease Price: £21.40Climate change is having an immediate and sometimes life-threatening impact, especially for older adults – generally speaking, people 65 or older. Older adults often face mobility, cognitive, and... -
Green Building Trends: Europe by Jerry Yudelson 9781597264778
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.93This title is the first in a series of essential overviews of green building trends from around the world. The 'green building revolution' is a worldwide movement for energy-efficient,... -
What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees by Stephen L Buchmann 9781642833911
Booksplease Price: £17.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642833911Author Stephen L BuchmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Island PressPublisher... -
Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security by Sherri Goodman 9781642833263
Booksplease Price: £22.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642833263Author Sherri GoodmanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Island PressPublisher Island... -
Smart Power Anniversary Edition: Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future of Electric Utilities by Peter S. Fox-Penner 9781610915892
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.93This pivotal work offers a clear and accessible vision of how we can transform the electric power industry to adapt to twenty-first century challenges. Few industries are as stuck in the past as... -
Distressed by Sandy Krolick 9798991957922
RRP: £6.00Booksplease Price: £5.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798991957922Author Sandy KrolickFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Islands PressPublisher Islands... -
Jaguar: One Man's Struggle to Establish the World's First Jaguar Preserve by Alan Rabinowitz 9781559638029
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £37.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559638029Author Alan RabinowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Island PressPublisher Island... -
New York's Secret Subway: The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit Matthew Algeo 9781642833652
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £22.72In the nineteenth century, Manhattan's streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours. Alfred Beach had the perfect... -
The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution Benjamin Schneider 9781642833539
Booksplease Price: £24.46Consider your surroundings. Maybe you're in a house or in an apartment building. Maybe you're at a desk in an office building, or in a cafe looking out on a lively main street. The urban landscape... -
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It by M Nolan Gray
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £19.30What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing shortages, stunted growth and innovation, persistent racial and economic segregation, and... -
Tibet Wild: A Naturalist's Journeys on the Roof of the World by George B. Schaller
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.23George Schaller has spent much of his life traversing wild and isolated places in his quest to understand and conserve threatened species - from mountain gorillas in the Virunga to snow leopards in... -
Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors by Kim Sorvig
Booksplease Price: £45.05Since the publication of the first edition in 2000, Sustainable Landscape Construction has helped to spur a movement towards resilient outdoor environments, in the U.S. and throughout the world. The... -
Cities for People Jan Gehl 9781597265737
Booksplease Price: £66.58For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use - or could use - the spaces where they live and... -
Blue Urbanism: Exploring Connections Between Cities and Oceans by Timothy Beatley 9781610914055
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.18What would it mean to live in cities designed to foster feelings of connectedness to the ocean? As coastal cities begin planning for climate change and rising sea levels, author Timothy Beatley sees... -
Climate Action Planning: A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities Michael R Boswell 9781610919630
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.23Climate change continues to impact our health and safety, the economy, and natural systems. With climate-related protections and programs under attack at the federal level, it is critical for cities... -
Defying Ocean's End: An Agenda For Action Linda Glover 9781559637558
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £74.85This is the result of an unprecedented effort among the world's largest environmental organizations, scientists, the business community, media, and international governments to address marine issues... -
Community Planning: An Introduction To The Comprehensive Plan by Eric Damian Kelly 9781597265539
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £46.35This book introduces community planning as practiced in the United States, focusing on the comprehensive plan. Sometimes known by other names - especially master plan or general plan - the type of... -
Resilience Practice: Building Capacity to Absorb Disturbance and Maintain Function Brian Walker 9781597268011
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.80In 2006, "Resilience Thinking" addressed an essential question: As the natural systems that sustain us are subjected to shock after shock, how much can they take and still deliver the services we... -
Resilient by Design: Creating Businesses That Adapt and Flourish in a Changing World Joseph Fiksel 9781610915878
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55As managers grapple with the challenges of the effects of climate change in a hyper-connected, global economy, they are paying increasing attention to their organisation's resilience - its capacity... -
The Nature of Urban Design: A New York Perspective on Resilience Alexandros Washburn 9781610916998
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.98The global shift to an urban population comes with an uncomfortable corollary; People who live in cities as they are currently designed produce more greenhouse gasses than their non-urban... -
Urban Street Stormwater Guide National Association of City Transportation Officials 9781610918121
Booksplease Price: £31.30Streets make up more than 80 percent of all public space in cities, yet street space is often underutilised or disproportionately allocated to the movement of private motor vehicles. Excess...