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What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be?
ISBN: PB: 9780226777436, ISBN: HB: 9780226777269, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
As we face an ever-more-fragmented world, What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? demands a return to the force of lineage – to spiritual, social, and ecological connections across time. It sparks a myriad of ageless-yet-urgent questions: How will I...
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£22,00
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£76,00
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Into the Arctic Ice The Largest Polar Expedition of All Time
ISBN: HB: 9783791386706, Prestel Publishing, October 2020
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 160 colour illus.
Since September 2019, a team of 600 researchers from 19 countries have united in a common mission known as MOSAiC – the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate – whose mission is to chart conditions in the Arctic for on...
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£45,00
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Coast of Scenic Wonders Coastal Geology and Ecology of the Outer Coast of Oregon and Washington and the Strait of Juan de Fuca
ISBN: PB: 9780981661858, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2020
229 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 166 colour plates, 25 halftones
This book will help you explore origins of the coastal features such as wave-cut rocks cliffs, sea stacks, wave cut rock platforms, and the amazing array of beaches, deltas, and tidal flats. It explains the processes that create the diverse coastal l...
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£24,00
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Towards Zero Waste How to Live a Circular Life
ISBN: PB: 9781856233286, Bookport, Permanent Publications, September 2019
176 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Is recycling really the answer to household waste? How do we eliminate microplastics from our wastewater? How do we avoid consumer goods that are designed to break? How do we stop the oceans being trashed? "Towards Zero Waste" offers practical tools...
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£9,95
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Downriver Into the Future of Water in the West
ISBN: HB: 9780226432670, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Over its course it meanders through ranches, cities, national parks, endangered fish habitats, and some...
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£19,00
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Dust Bowls of Empire Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of "Green" Capitalism
ISBN: HB: 9780300230208, Yale University Press, January 2019
256 pp., 21x14 cm
The 1930s witnessed a harrowing social and ecological disaster, defined by the severe nexus of drought, erosion, and economic depression that ravaged the U.S. southern plains. Known as the Dust Bowl, this crisis has become a major referent of the cli...
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£25,00
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Ecologies, Agents, Terrains
ISBN: PB: 9780300233162, Yale University Press, October 2018
300 pp., 24.1x17.8 cm, 150 colour illus.
The newest volume in the acclaimed Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, this collection of essays explores the intrinsic connection between art and the environment. The romance and rejection of "nature" have always occupied places at the heart of...
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£22,50
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Make It Rain State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: PB: 9780226597928, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 4 tables
Weather control. Juxtaposing those two words is enough to raise eyebrows in a world where even the best weather models still fail to nail every forecast, and when the effects of climate change on sea level height, seasonal averages of weather phenome...
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£28,00
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Ground Truth A Guide to Tracking Climate Change at Home
ISBN: PB: 9780226348131, ISBN: HB: 9780226347943, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
Before you read this book, you have homework to do. Grab a notebook, go outside, and find a nearby patch of nature. What do you see, hear, feel, and smell? Are there bugs, birds, squirrels, deer, lizards, frogs, or fish, and what are they doing? What...
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£15,00
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£45,00
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Beasts at Bedtime Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children's Literature
ISBN: HB: 9780226431383, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
256 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
Talking lions, philosophical bears, very hungry caterpillars, wise spiders, altruistic trees, companionable moles, urbane elephants: this is the magnificent menagerie that delights our children at bedtime. Within the entertaining pages of many childr...
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£20,50
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