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Unnatural Selection A Memoir of Adoption and Wilderness
ISBN: PB: 9781933880839, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Adopted at birth, Andrea Ross grew up inhabiting two ecosystems: one was her tangible, adoptive family, the other her birth family, whose mysterious landscape was hidden from her. In this coming-of-age memoir, Ross narrates how in her early twenties,...
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£17,00
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Future Sea How to Rescue and Protect the World's Oceans
ISBN: HB: 9780226542676, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The world's oceans face multiple threats: the effects of climate change, pollution, overfishing, plastic waste, and more. Confronted with the immensity of these challenges and of the oceans themselves, we might wonder what more can be done to stop th...
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£18,00
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Poisonous Skies Acid Rain and the Globalization of Pollution
ISBN: HB: 9780226634715, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
The climate change reckoning looms. As scientists try to discern what the Earth's changing weather patterns mean for our future, Rachel Rothschild seeks to understand the current scientific and political debates surrounding the environment through th...
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£34,00
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Weather: An Illustrated History From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change
ISBN: HB: 9781454921400, GMC Group, Sterling, June 2018
224 pp., 22.2x17.2 cm, illus.
Colourful and captivating, "Weather: An Illustrated History" traces the history of weather and meteorology from prehistory to today's headlines in accessible, bite-sized stories. The descriptions touch on such varied topics as Earth's first atmospher...
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£20,00
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Future of Nature Documents of Global Change
ISBN: PB: 9780300184617, Yale University Press, November 2013
592 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.
This anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the science behind environmental prediction and how, as predictions about environmental change have been taken more seriously and widely, they have affected politics, policy and public perception. T...
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£27,00
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Dawn of Green Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism
ISBN: PB: 9780226720869, ISBN: HB: 9780226720821, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
248 pp., 23x15 cm, 60 halftones
Located in the heart of England's Lake District, the placid waters of Thirlmere seem to be the embodiment of pastoral beauty. But under their calm surface lurks the legacy of a nineteenth-century conflict that pitted industrial progress against natur...
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£13,50
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£21,00
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