Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Books

Book SynopsisA colourful visual journey from the shoreline to the ocean's depths to celebrate the sheer diversity of life beneath the waves. Three quarters of the ocean has never been seen by humans. Drawing on the recent success of Trees, this companion book explores our oceans, taking readers on a deep dive through the different depth zones from the shoreline and surface, via the sunlight zone, the twilight and midnight zones and into the great abyss to chart the richness and diversity of life found in our seas. Each chapter, centred on a different depth zone, begins with a comprehensive introduction, before exploring 1525 visual themes, from the smallest living things to the largest and the familiar to the little-known. A final chapter on the oceans and us reveals the visual history of human interaction with the deep blue, from discovery and mapping to current issues of the environment and preservation. Stunning photographic content from microscopic images of tiny individual critters to corals of every hue and the abstract patterns of fish scales is shown along with a wide range of stunning archival illustrations and specially commissioned infographics that convey complex data in a simple and elegant way. With frequent news stories about the threat to marine life posed by climate change and human behaviours, the oceans are an important subject, and the preservation of biodiversity is crucial for the future of our planet. This book draws attention to the importance of life in our oceans to provide a positive message about the need to preserve it.

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Book SynopsisFrom Scafell's towering volcanic crags to the deep lake-filled glacial valleys of Wasdale and Buttermere, the Lake District possesses an extraordinary variety of scenery in a relatively small area. This dramatic landscape has inspired writers, climbers, painters, and all who seek the solitude and beauty of the high fells and wish to understand the forces that have shaped this unique place. With over 230 illustrations including maps and superb photographs with unique aerial views and panoramas, it includes: easy-to-understand explanations of how the rocks formed; how the geology affects the landscape and an exploration of the long human story of Lakeland landscapes. There are guided excursions to seven easily accessible geological locations and a dedicated website, with a Google Earth photographic guide to all the main localities mentioned in the book: lakedistrictgeology.co.uk This book will enable you to read' the landscape, understand how the region's rocks were formed, how glaTrade ReviewIf you are visiting the Lake District and are interested in its geology, this guide is a great place to start. -- Jon Trevelyan, reviewer Deposits * Deposits magazine *This is probably the best book I have read on the geology of the Lake District, so easy to understand, not full of jargon and explains in layman’s terms how the landscape of the Lakes was formed and shaped. -- Warren Allison reviewer * Newsletter of the Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society *It's accessible style and lack of jargon provides a fascinating insight into how the Lake District was formed and shaped. For the novice or experienced fell walker, this edition will add depth to your adventure. -- Christopher James, Conserving Lakeland Magazine * Conserving Lakeland Magazine *The stated aim, one that is admirably fulfilled, is to provide an accessible text that can be understood and enjoyed by non-experts. This is a book that can be recommended wholeheartedly, for expert and non-expert alike. -- David Bridgland, Earth Heritage Magazine * Earth Heritage Magazine *A delight to read. The authors, by following Einstein’s razor, commonly stated as: Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler, keep their text tight and economical, and yet by no means superficial. With its straightforward descriptions of how Lakeland rocks formed and how they have affected the landscape, along with 230 illustrations including magnificent aerial photographs and well-chosen maps, the book will appeal to a wide audience. Additionally, a splendid companion website is made freely available. Its varied supplementary materials are well worth visiting. Clicking on the coloured placemarks reveals photographs and descriptions of key locations mentioned in the book. Very impressive! It is impossible to close this review without singling out the illustrations for special praise. All are closely allied to the text to make a telling point about the geology or landscape. Stuart Holmes’s aerial shots, many taken from his paraglider, have won numerous awards. It is easy to see how wild and mountainous landscapes are his passion. -- Roy Thompson, The Edinburgh Geologist * The Edinburgh Geologist *Combining erudite but accessible commentaries with stunning landscape photographs, informative maps and the occasional graph or chart, Ian and his fellow authors detail the processes that have contributed to, conditioned and, in some cases, threatened the Lake District's environment. This overview then gives way to a series of excursions that conduct the reader on a tour of seven of the region's characteristic localities, including the Seathwaite Valley and Coniston copper mines. The addition of these excursions adds to the value of this attractive and well-produced study, which will be especially interesting for readers wishing to venue outdoors. -- Christopher Donaldson, Cumberland & westmorland Antiquarian & Arch Society newsletter * Cumberland & westmorland Antiquarian & Arch Society newsletter *

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 About This Book 2 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 3 Beyond the Book 4 Where to Go from Here 4 Part 1: Getting Grounded: The Geographic Basics 5 Chapter 1: Geography: The Why of Where and Why You Should Care 7 Geography: Making Sense of it All 8 From ancient roots 8 To modern discipline 9 Exposing Misconceptions: More Than Maps and Trivia 11 The Geographic Advantage 11 What is the capital city of Indonesia? 12 Why is Jakarta the capital of Indonesia? 12 Getting to the Essentials 13 Where things are in the world: The world in spatial terms 14 What locations are like: Places and regions 15 Why things are the way they are: Physical systems 16 Giving that human touch: Human systems 16 Interacting with the world around us: Environment and society 17 Putting geography to use: Uses of geography 18 Chapter 2: Thinking Like a Geographer 19 Changing the Way You Think — Geographically 20 Case Study #1: Where Something is Located 21 A fraction of its former self 22 Where lions hang out 23 What gives with grasslands? 23 Extinction made easy 24 Fewer lions? So what? 25 Summing up 26 Case Study #2: Where Something Should be Located 26 Summing up 27 Looking ahead 28 Chapter 3: Lining Up Locations 29 Welcome to Gridville 29 Feeling Kind of Square 30 Telling Someone Where to Go 31 Relative location 31 Absolute location 32 The best location to use 32 The Global Grid: Hip, Hip, Hipparchus! 32 Avoiding gridlock 33 The naming game 34 Getting Lined Up 36 Latitude 36 Longitude 38 Graticule 39 Minutes and seconds that don’t tick away 40 Chapter 4: Truthiness in Mapping 41 Seeing the Light: Map Projections 42 Realizing Exactly How Flat Maps Lie 44 Singapore, please And step on it! 45 Wading through lies in search of the truth 47 Isn’t there a truthful map anywhere? 48 The one and only honest map: The globe! 49 Honesty is the best policy, except 49 Telling the truth, but telling it skewed 50 Different Strokes for Different Folks: A World of Projections 51 All in the (map) family 52 Five noteworthy liars 53 Mapping a Cartographic Controversy! 57 Chapter 5: Telling a Spatial Story 59 Why We Need Tal(l) Dogs 60 Taking It to Scale 61 Going the distance 61 Comparing Earth at different scales 62 Showing the Ups and Downs: Topography 65 Spot heights 65 Contour lines 66 Shading or Color 66 Using Symbols to Tell the Story 67 Point symbols 68 Line symbols 68 Area symbols 70 New Ways of Seeing: How Technology has Changed How we Make and Use Maps 72 Geographic Information Systems 72 Global Positioning Systems 74 Remote sensing 75 Making Maps Yourself! 77 Part 2: Let’s Get Physical: Land, Water, and Air 79 Chapter 6: Shape-shifting Earth 81 Starting at the Bottom: Inside Earth 82 Moving Continents: Big Pieces of a Big Puzzle 84 Where have you gone, Gondwanaland? 85 Alfred Wegener, mover and shaker 85 Puzzle solved! 86 Getting Down to Theory 86 Making Mountains Out of Molehills 88 Folding the crust 88 Whose “fault” is it? 90 Plate tectonics: A four-letter word! 91 Experiencing Earthquakes: Shake, Rattle and Roll! 92 Splitsville in California 92 People at risk 93 How earthquakes kill and maim 94 A matter of magnitude 96 Subducting Plates: Volcano Makers 98 “The Ring of Fire” 98 Subduction: Another four-letter word? 99 Categorizing Tectonic Processes 102 Chapter 7: A Nip and a Tuck: Giving Earth a Facelift 103 Getting Carried Away 104 Weathering Earth 105 Wasting away 108 Changing the Landscape 109 Staying grounded: Gravity transfer 109 Going with the flow: Water 110 The chill factor: Glaciers 115 Making a deposit: Wind 117 Chapter 8: Making a Splash on Earth 119 Taking the Plunge: Global Water Supply 120 Those ice caps are really cool! 121 Getting out: Oceans, seas, gulfs, and bays 122 Coming inland: Lakes 123 Shaping Our World: Oceans 124 Going where the action is: The continental shelves 124 Claiming ocean ownership 126 Getting a rise out of oceans 128 Getting Fresh with Water 129 The stages of the water cycle 131 Run-off: Going with the flow 132 Infiltration: Out of sight, not out of mind 132 Good to the very last drop 134 Chapter 9: Warming Up and Chilling Out: Why Climates Happen 137 Getting a Grip on Climate 138 Playing the Angles 139 Making hot and cold 139 Making rain and snow 140 Tilt-a-World: The Reasons for the Seasons 141 Special lines of latitude 141 Defining the seasons 142 Special lines of latitude revisited 144 Hot or Cold? Adjust Your Altitude 145 Warming the atmosphere 145 Weighty matter 145 Seeing (and feeling) is believing 145 The lapse rate 146 Windward slope, leeward slope 147 Gaining Heat, Losing Heat 148 Afternoon versus evening 148 Summer versus winter 149 Oh, How the Wind Blows 150 Going with the Flow: Ocean Currents 150 Warm currents, cold currents 151 Going against the norm: El Niño and La Niña 152 Living Under Pressure 154 Pressure belts 155 Monsoons 155 Chapter 10: Connecting Climates and Vegetation 159 Giving Class to Climates 160 Mixing Sun and Rain: Humid Tropical Climates 162 Tropical rainforest 163 Tropical monsoon 165 Savanna (tropical wet and dry) 165 Going to Extremes: Dry Climates 167 Desert 168 Semi-desert (steppe) 169 Enjoying the In-between: Humid Mesothermal Climates 172 Humid subtropical 172 Mediterranean 172 Marine west coast 173 Cooling Off: Humid Microthermal Climates 174 Humid continental 175 Subarctic 175 Dropping Below Freezing: Polar Climates 176 Tundra 176 Ice cap 178 Part 3: Peopling the Planet 179 Chapter 11: Nobody Here But A Few Billion Friends 181 Going by the Numbers 182 Opportunity for livelihood 183 Urban growth 185 Going Ballistic: Population Growth 185 Checking Behind the Curve: Population Change 187 Dealing with births and deaths: Natural increase 187 Increasing for a reason: The demographic transition model 189 Making connections 193 Considering “Overpopulation” 196 Neo-Malthusians 197 Cornucopians 199 Chapter 12: Shift Happens: Migration 203 Populating the Planet 204 Bridging the oceans 204 Voyaging afar 205 Making colonial connections 206 Forcing involuntary migration 207 Choosing to Migrate 207 Coming to America 208 Migrating at home 210 Relocating within America 211 Giving a Good Impression 214 Playing the mental game 214 Getting an image adjustment 216 Putting your best image forward 216 Chapter 13: Culture: The Way We Live 219 Being Different Thousands of Times Over 220 Counting cultural diversity 221 Isolating people 222 Adapting to new surroundings 222 Spreading the Word on Culture 223 Relocating one’s culture 224 Coming down with culture 224 Doing what the big boys do 226 Calling a Halt: Barrier Effects 226 Getting physical 227 Socializing effects 229 Getting Religion: How It Moves and Grows 230 Putting diffusion to work 231 Getting effects into action 232 Creating local character 232 Getting in a Word about Language 234 Diffusing languages 235 Checking the physical effects 236 Playing the landscape naming game 236 Creating a Single Global Culture 237 Promoting cultural divergence 238 Promoting cultural convergence 238 Chapter 14: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors 239 Drawing and Re-Drawing the Boundaries of the World 240 Typecasting Boundary Lines 241 Ethnic boundaries 242 Natural (physical) boundaries 243 Geometric boundaries 244 Living with the Consequences 245 Ethnic intrigues 245 Positional disputes 248 Functional disputes 250 Resource disputes 251 Land-locked states 252 Questions of size and shape 254 Drawing Electoral District Boundaries 256 Gerrymandering: Rigging the outcome 257 Meeting the letter and spirit of the law 259 Part 4: Putting the Planet to Use 261 Chapter 15: Takin’ Care of Business 263 Categorizing Economic Activity 264 Primary activities 264 Secondary activities 265 Tertiary activities 265 Quaternary activities 266 Activity distribution around the world 266 Putting Economic Systems into Place 267 Subsistence economies 267 Commercial economies 268 Understanding Location Factors 269 Proximity to raw material(s) 272 Proximity to market(s) 272 Cost of labor 274 Accessibility 275 Cost of land/rent 279 Taxes 279 Climate 280 Chapter 16: Earth’s Resources: Always Hungry for More 283 Defining Resources and Assessing Their Importance 284 The central role of culture 284 Culture change, resource change 285 Resources and power 286 Resources and wealth 287 Differing Life Spans: Which Resources Are Here Today or Gone Tomorrow 288 Non-renewable resources 289 Renewable resources 294 Perennial resources 295 Trading-off Resources: The Consequences of Resource Use 298 Chapter 17: Downtown to the ‘Burbs: Urban Geography 301 Studying the Urban Scene 302 Getting a Global Perspective 303 Getting Started: Urban Hearths 305 Finding Sites for Cities 306 Confluence 307 Protected harbor 307 Head of navigation 308 Defensive sites 308 Getting Big: Urban Growth 309 Rural-to-urban migration 309 Changing means of transportation 310 Automobile ownership 311 Low-cost fuel 311 Home mortgage deductibility 312 Looking Inside the City 312 The central business district (CBD) 313 Residential areas 314 Leaving Downtown, Living Downtown 317 Moving out of downtown 317 Moving back downtown 319 Facing up to Environmental Issues 320 Chapter 18: Only One Home: Impacts on the Environment 323 Grasping the Basics — Environmentally Speaking 325 Contributing Factors: Pollution on the Move 326 Making an impact 326 Spreading the mess 326 Focusing on food chains 329 Going Global: Environmental Issues Affecting Us All 332 Deforestation 333 Biodiversity loss 333 Soil degradation 333 Ocean acidification 334 Overfishing 335 Acid precipitation 335 Climate change 339 Taking on the Challenges of Tomorrow 342 Part 5: The Part of Tens 343 Chapter 19: Ten Organizations for Geography in Action 345 American Association of Geographers (AAG) 345 American Geographical Society (AGS) 346 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 346 National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) 347 National Geographic Society (NGS) 347 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 348 Population Reference Bureau (PRB) 348 Royal Geographical Society (RGS) 349 United States Census Bureau 349 United States Geological Survey (USGS) 350 Chapter 20: Ten Interesting Career Paths for Geographers 351 Area Specialist 351 Educator 352 Environmental Manager 352 GIS Technician 353 Health Services Planner 353 Location Analyst 353 Market Analyst 354 Remote Sensing Analyst 354 Transportation Planner 355 Urban Planner 355 Chapter 21: Ten Things You Can Forget 357 The Bermuda Triangle 357 Cold Canadian Air 358 “Coming Out of Nowhere” 359 “The Continent” 359 The Democratic Republic of 360 The Flat Earth Society 360 Land of the Midnight Sun 361 “The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly on the Plain” 361 The Seven Seas 362 Tropical Paradise 362 Chapter 22: Ten Great Places for Online Geography 365 Any County/Local GIS Department 365 Geocaching 366 Geoguessr 366 Geoinquiries 367 Google Earth 367 Google Lit Trips 368 Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection 368 World Bank Open Data 369 World Factbook 369 Your State’s Geographic Alliance 369 Index 371

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Book Synopsis_______________''As an advocate for the hungry and the hunted, the forgotten and the ignored, Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for our world'' BARACK OBAMASHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2018Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into. Before his fiftieth birthday, he would share the planet with more than nine billion people people battling for food, water, and shelter in an increasingly volatile climate. The faceless, shadowy menace of climate change had become, in an instant, deeply personal.Mary Robinson's mission would lead her all over the world, from Malawi to Mongolia, and to a heartening revelation: that an irrepressible driving force in the battle for climate justice could be found at the grassroots level, mainly among women, many of them mothers and grandmothersTrade ReviewRobinson’s lucid, direct style works because it gives a voice to those who have taken it upon themselves to tackle Earth’s most pressing problems. The book’s central message is a mantra worth repeating: individual local action can grow into a global idea, producing positive change * Observer *Robinson’s humility and compassion resonates through her story-telling … Climate Justice inspires through its portrayals of resilience ... Robinson’s stories provide a window into our own future, and her legacy on climate justice is a point of light in Ireland’s otherwise dark record on climate change * Irish Times *If there is one thing Mary Robinson’s book demonstrates, it is the power of personal experience to change the world … Presenting narratives in this way makes clear the issue at the heart of climate justice: it is consistently the least well-off who bear the brunt of global warming, and are the least well-equipped to deal with its consequences * Times Literary Supplement *As an advocate for the hungry and the hunted, the forgotten and the ignored, Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for our world -- President Barack ObamaAddressing climate phenomena is the way to ensure justice for humanity. Mary Robinson, as UN Special Envoy on climate change & as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has been a global champion to bring justice for all. Her book inspires & guides us on what to do to protect humanity and our only world -- Ban Ki-moon, 8th UN Secretary General, Member of the EldersThe most dramatic symptoms of our changing global climate – rising sea levels, extreme weather events, increasing desertification, and water scarcity – disproportionately affect vulnerable communities that are often far removed from the causes of human greenhouse gas emissions. Mary Robinson has been their champion for many years, and Climate Justice gives them a voice that we all should hear. Robinson makes a powerful and compelling case that the climate crisis is a crisis of humanity, requiring far more than mitigation and adaptation, but a renewed sense of shared destiny. Simply put, climate action must work for the good of all, or it won’t work for anyone -- Richard BransonThis is a book about people: farmers and activists in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, people whose livelihood is ruined by climate change and climate injustice. Yet it is also a celebration of their fight back. I was moved by Mary Robinson’s account of amazing women leading the fight for their communities -- Mo IbrahimSustainable development is at the heart of climate justice – protecting the planet, now and for generations to come. The stories in this book reveal the lived experience of people doing just that, adapting and strengthening their resilience in the face of climate change. They are courageous men and women whose lessons we all should heed -- Gro Harlem BrundtlandMary Robinson brings the power of the voice of those heavily affected by climate change - particularly women - to the centre of the consciousness of decision-makers to propel collective action -- Graça Machel

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Book Synopsis''A funny, achievable guide'' Observer''Lauren Bravo is one of my favourite writers'' Dolly Alderton''Bravo will inspire you to repair, recycle and give old items a new lease of life'' StylistYou probably know the statistics: global clothing production has roughly doubled in just 15 years, and every year an estimated 300,000 tonnes of used clothing ends up in UK landfill.Fast fashion is the ultimate toxic relationship. It''s bad news for the planet, our brains and our bank balances. We can''t go on like this; our shopping habits need an overhaul.Journalist Lauren Bravo loves clothes more than anything, but she''s called time on her affair with fast fashion in search of a slower, saner way of dressing. In this book, she''ll help you do the same.How To Break Up With Fast Fashion will help you to change your mindset, fall back in love with your wardrobe and embrace more sustainable wTrade ReviewOffers honest and realistic advice . . . Bravo will inspire you to repair, recycle and give old items a new lease of life, all without sacrificing your style, and the planet * Stylist Magazine *One of my most anticipated books of 2020 . . .as well as being full of brilliant advice, it's an honest, compassionate celebration of style and creativity. This what to read if you love clothes, women and the planet and you want to be inspired to do right by all of them. * Daisy Buchanan *As someone who has been trying to consciously change her shopping habits for years, this book made me realise that in a lot of ways I've been missing the point. However, it never talks down to you, or puts you on any more of guilt trip than most of us are all already on. It's just the facts, pure and simple, with a really clear guide on how we can do better and a relatable narrator to remind you that we're all human. For anyone wanting to change up their fashion ways, this book is invaluable. * Katherine Ormerod *Lauren is an important voice. A fashion lover, committed to reducing landfill and fashion's impact on the environment, she makes her clothes last longer and her purchases count. In this fun and enjoyable read, she encourages us all to see a future full of exciting styled looks no matter what our budget. * Caryn Franklin *A funny, achievable guide to reducing our fabric footprint, and covers swapping, mending, washing less and, most importantly, resisting the urge to shop. * Observer Magazine *Lauren Bravo shares her style secrets, from secondhand shopping to a good-luck dress * Telegraph *brilliant tips * Who What Wear *A guilt-free guide that will change the way you think about clothing for the better. It will inspire you to repair, recycle, and spruce up old items, as well as embrace more sustainable habits when it comes to shopping. * Independent *How To Break Up With Fast Fashion offers realistic advice on repairing and recycling your wardrobe, encouraging readers to embrace more sustainable ways of shopping. * Country & Town House *For a more accessible read, I'd recommend Lauren Bravo's How to Break Up with Fast Fashion. * Venetia La Manna, Marie Claire *Refreshingly honest and never patronising, overflowing with fabulous tips for repairing, recycling and buying clothes that last, even on a budget. * Independent, 10 Best Books to Help You Live More Sustainably *This book will educate you as well as make you laugh * Stellar *

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Book SynopsisBritain''s lynx are missing, and they have been for more than a thousand years. Why have they gone? And might they come back?Britain was a very different place 15,000 years ago home to lions, lynx, bears, wolves, bison and many more megafauna. But as its climate changed and human populations expanded, most of early Britain''s largest mammals disappeared. Will advances in science and technology mean that we can one day bring these mammals back? And should we?In The Missing Lynx, palaeontologist Ross Barnett uses case studies, new fossil discoveries and biomolecular evidence to paint a picture of these lost species and to explore the ecological significance of their disappearance. He discusses how the Britons these animals shared their lives with might have viewed them and investigates why some species survived while others vanished.Barnett also looks in detail at the realistic potential of reintroductions, rewilding and even of resurrection in Britain and overseas, from tTrade ReviewAs elegies go, The Missing Lynx is an awful lot of fun. -- Tom Chivers * The Times *Rewilding is certainly romantic but is it practical or even desirable? It all needs thinking through, and Barnett, who makes a compelling case in favour of the idea, can help. -- Stuart Blackman * BBC Wildlife *The Missing Lynx is a joyous rabbit-hole to venture down. -- Jacob Dykes * Geographical *Barnett's writing is clear and unobtrusively witty ... And the book is full of cheery, Terry Pratchett-esque footnotes. -- Tom Chivers * The Times *Fresh and assured ... An often moving tribute to lost marvels. -- Barbara Kiser * Nature *A cracking read and rather heartbreaking to think about all those megafauna we pushed over the edge. Highly recommended! -- Professor Paul Barrett * @NHMdinolab *In short, I absolutely loved this book. It … weaves together stories of incredible natural history (the amazing ways in which species live or lived), cutting-edge scientific research, and tales from museum storerooms, as well as positive insight into environmental conservation. Never have I seen footnotes so well utilised to add real story, detail and humour. -- Jack Ashby * Natural Sciences Collections Association *His writing is full of admiration for the resourcefulness of Palaeolithic tribespeople – his descriptions of an Ice Age economy that ran on mammoths, and of the mammoth hunts themselves, are evocative. -- Tom Chivers * The Times *The Missing Lynx is one of those rare popular science books that manages to serve up a hearty plate of captivating science with a delicious side of escapism. -- Dr Emma Dunne * The Palaeontological Association *A wonderful and haunting book: so rich in detail that the mammals of Britain's past seem brought to life again, and yet so unflinching in its portrayal of the brute facts of extinction that readers will ache for all that has been lost. -- Tom Holland, author and historianWith his fast-paced and amusing tales of some of the most awe-inspiring species lost within geologically recent times, The Missing Lynx brings Britain's Ice Age back to life. -- Professor Beth Shapiro, author of How to Clone a MammothA fascinating account of the large herbivores and predators that have disappeared from Britain since humans reached our islands. This should be essential reading for those who advocate rewilding. -- Professor Richard Fortey, palaeontologist and authorThe story of Britain's Ice Age bestiary, told with bittersweet humour, and a clarion call to us all to step up and fight future extinctions. -- Dr Victoria Herridge, evolutionary biologist and presenterBarnett's writing is clear and accessible, and often amusing. -- Megan Shersby * BBC Countryfile *The Missing Lynx, with its copious amounts of information about the lives and extinctions of its subject, leavened with sufficiently frequent witticisms, flippant off-hand remarks, and bits of gallows humor to make such serious subjects sufficiently psychologically palatable so as to allow them to sink in to the minds of its readers and be remembered ... It is most whole-heartedly an enthusiastically recommended to all. -- Johannes E. Riutta * The Well-read Naturalist *The Missing Lynx … is a fascinating publication by a specialist in analysing and interpreting ancient DNA. … Packed full of scientific data and detail of fossil discoveries … it is written with great humour, even cunningly weaving in snatches from literature and film. -- Professor Keith Somerville * talkinghumanities *Table of ContentsPrologue Chapter 1: The Past Chapter 2: Cave Hyena Chapter 3: Sabretooth Cat Chapter 4: Cave Lion Chapter 5: Woollies Chapter 6: Irish Elk Chapter 7: Bovids Chapter 8: Bears Chapter 9: Northern Lynx Chapter 10: Grey Wolf Chapter 11: Eurasian Beaver Chapter 12: The Future Afterword Appendix Acknowledgements Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisEasy, do-able, down to earth ideas and suggestions for everyone to help save the planet.If you want to save the planet, but your to-do list is already pretty long and remembering your re-usable coffee cup feels like a Herculean task, then this is the book for you. Covering every aspect of our lives from the stuff we buy and the food we eat to how we travel, work, and celebrate, this book provides stacks of practical, down to earth ideas to slot into your daily life, alongside a gentle kick up the butt to put your newfound knowledge into action. Practical tips include unsubscribing from all the tempting emails that drop into your inbox with details of the newest clothing range or the latest sale, and keeping a mug next to your kettle to work out how much water you actually need to boil each time, as over-filling kettles costs British households 68 million on energy bills each year.Find out how to fit sustainable living into your life, in a way that works for you. Change your imTrade ReviewI loved this book - a non judgemental, fun, inspiring approach to how we can do our bit for the planet, whilst acknowledging that we are all human! Full of practical tips and advice - this is a brilliant book for anyone with climate anxiety. * Thomasina Miers OBE - Masterchef winner, writer, environmentalist, television presenter, cook and co-founder of the Wahaca chain of Mexican street food restaurants. *The most family friendly way to start doing your bit * The Sunday Times *This user-friendly book offers plenty of practical guidelines about how we can live more sustainable lives — and save money at the same time ... From turning off our household products — devices on standby cost UK households £227m per annum — to being mindful of all the food we waste, a more sustainable way of life seems to be easy to attain. * Irish Independent *How do you throw a sustainable party? How do you integrate sustainability into family life? In her practical guide, Gale answers these questions and so many more * Red *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Conscious consumption 2 Zero waste(ish) 3 Plastic free(ish) 4 Sustainable(ish) food 5 Sustainable(ish) fashion 6 Sustainable(ish) family 7 Sustainable(ish) home 8 Sustainable(ish) work 9 Sustainable(ish) school 10 Sustainable(ish) travel and transport 11 Sustainable(ish) celebrations 12 Activism(ish) Conclusion Acknowledgements References Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics Capitalism is broken. The relentless pursuit of more has delivered climate catastrophe, social inequality and financial instability – and left us ill-prepared for life in a global pandemic. Tim Jackson’s passionate and provocative book dares us to imagine a world beyond capitalism – a place where relationship and meaning take precedence over profits and power. Post Growth is both a manifesto for system change and an invitation to rekindle a deeper conversation about the nature of the human condition.Now available as an audiobook narrated by the author.Trade Review‘A Reminder that judging political success and national prosperity by the entirely faulty measure of GDP is short-changing the present and the future.’Natalie Bennett, The House Magazine‘fascinating’The BMJ Opinion‘With great sensitivity and wonderful insight, Tim Jackson shows us that there is life after the growth imperative – and it’s a richer, more humane form of life. With its blend of science, history and biographical detail, Post Growth was a delight to read and gave me much to think about.’Svend Brinkmann – Author of The Joy of Missing Out ‘Through the window of our pandemic lockdown Jackson sees both the sins of capitalism and the renewal of hope. An instructive and stimulating read!’Herman Daly – Author of Steady State Economics ‘Tim Jackson’s compelling postgrowth vision strikes at the heart of today’s greatest existential challenge and human predicament: either we continue to propagate a capitalistic growth paradigm that fosters inequality, climate and health crises or we build our lives and livelihoods around a holistic system providing what is truly meaningful.’Sandrine Dixson-Declève – Co-President, The Club of Rome‘Joyous… Post Growth is one of the best written economic tomes I have read in a long while.’Dollars and Sense‘Post Growth is perhaps the most imaginative book I’ve read on the topic of economic growth, a lyrical and thoughtful account of where capitalism fails and the many ways that things could be done better.’The Earthbound Project‘Written almost as much in poetry as in prose, it is offered as a string of vignettes and parables giving us insights into what’s wrong with the way our economy works and what we can do to change it.’Ecologist ‘This book demonstrates that changing the current economic paradigm is not a crazy dream, but a real – and absolutely essential – possibility. For all of us. Right now. Taking the world towards the sustainable development we need is a revolution waiting to happen, if we only allow it.’Enrico Giovannini – Former Chief Statistician, OECD ‘Tim Jackson appeals to humanity's incredible ingenuity by replacing the tunnel vision of mainstream economics with a tour d'horizon of how good lives for all are perfectly possible without costing the Earth.’Maja Göpel, The New Institute‘Post Growth can be read as a playbook of how to turn the categorical imperative back on its feet again, how to build a world where equal rights to production and consumption do not ruin the planet, and how to subordinate the economy to a broader reflection on its purpose.’Green European Journal‘Jackson writes beautifully’Green House‘Abounds with prescriptions for the “economy of tomorrow” that challenge the orthodoxies of today… intriguing.’The Guardian ‘Post growth is one of the most important ideas of the 21st century, and Tim Jackson one of its most powerful proponents. Don’t miss this brilliant new book.’Jason Hickel – Author of Less is More ‘An unapologetic, clear-eyed vision.’Kerry Kennedy – President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights ‘A thrilling intellectual journey towards a post growth world.’Roman Krznaric – Author of The Good Ancestor ‘Some call Tim Jackson’s thesis about capitalism’s flaws, and proposed remedies, provocative. After two decades as a successful capitalist (or so they tell me) I don’t find it provocative at all, rather an existential imperative.’Jeremy Leggett – Founder of Solarcentury and SolarAid ‘Utterly inspiring … an urgent and eloquent plea for radical change.’Caroline Lucas – MP, Green Party ‘A tour de force, sinuous, disruptive – and a masterpiece of measured rage and love.’Jonathon Porritt – Author of Hope in Hell ‘Extraordinary, powerful and beautifully written – difficult to put down.’Mamphela Ramphele – Co-President, The Club of Rome ‘Economic wisdom wrapped up in poetry … A beautiful read.’Kate Raworth – Author of Doughnut Economics ‘Razor-sharp analysis and powerful storytelling’Johan Rockström – Professor of Earth Systems Science ‘An expansive, wise and uplifting work that will reorient the conversation. Highly recommended.’Juliet Schor – Author of After the Gig ‘Jackson is the great storyteller of economics – of what economies can and should be. In this book he draws on the stories of original thinkers near and far to show that post growth – a future beyond capitalism – is not just necessary for our planet, but also to sustain our human spirit.’Julia Steinberger – University of Lausanne ‘This is an important and urgent book. Tim Jackson exposes the cult of growth which is leading us down a path of human misery and destruction of the natural world. A book of questions, interwoven with stories and philosophy: our collective challenge is to create the answers.’Jo Swinson – Director, Partners for a New Economy ‘Tim Jackson offers us a book that is both honest and hopeful. It gently lets its stark messages unfold through writing that is often more like poetry than political prose. As rich in imagery as it is grounded with examples and clear explanations of why our economy is in urgent need of recalibration, this is a book that future generations will be glad was written.’Katherine Trebeck – Author of The Economics of Arrival ‘It is harder and harder to deny that we in the “developed” world are collectively prisoners of an addictive delusion – the myth of constantly increasing economic growth. In this brief but weighty book, Tim Jackson exposes this myth with unambiguous clarity, and asks whether we are able to seize the opportunities for tough self-questioning prompted by the current global crisis.’Rowan Williams – 104th Archbishop of Canterbury ‘Empowering and elegiac’Yanis Varoufakis – Author of Another NowTable of ContentsPrologue Chapter 1. The Myth of Growth Chapter 2. Who Killed Capitalism? Chapter 3. The Limited and the Limitless Chapter 4. The Nature of Prosperity Chapter 5. Of Love and Entropy Chapter 6. Economics as Storytelling Chapter 7. The Return to Work Chapter 8. A Canopy of Hope Chapter 9. The Art of Power Chapter 10. Dolphins in Venice Acknowledgements References Notes

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Book Synopsis''An immersive and lyrically personal journey through deep-time and modern tides'' RAYNOR WINN''Wondrous, elegant and haunting, Lost to the Sea is a fascinating alternative history of the fractured, flooded and eroded edges of Britain and Ireland'' PHILIP HOARE''Beautiful . . . Woollett paints vividly the da-to-day lives of past peoples'' TLSMedieval kingdoms. Notorious pirate towns. Drowned churches. Crocodile-infested swamps.On a series of coastal walks, Lisa Woollett takes us on an illuminating journey, bringing to life the places where mythology and reality meet at the very edges of Britain and Ireland.From Bronze Age settlements on the Isles of Scilly and submerged prehistoric forests in Wales, to a Victorian amusement park on the Isle of Wight and castles in the air off County Clare, Lisa draws together archaeology, meetings with locals and tales from folklore to reveal how the sea has for

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Book Synopsis'It's a paradox but this was one of the most chilling books I've read this year. It's the definitive guide to where we're heading' ANTHONY HOROWITZ'The Earth is already in a dangerous phase of heating. Many scientists admit privately to actually being "scared" by recent weather extremes. But the public doesn't like pessimism, so we environment journalists hint at future optimism. This book provides a more steely-eyed view on how we can cope with a hothouse world.' - ROGER HARRABIN, former BBC Environment Analyst'This accessible and authoritative book is a must-read for anyone who still thinks it could be OK to carry on as we are for a little bit longer, or that climate chaos might not affect them or their kids too badly.' MIKE BERNERS-LEE is a professor at Lancaster University, founder of Small World Consultancy and author of There is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years'If you read just one book about the menace of climate breakdown, make it this one.' - TIM RADFORD, Climate News NetworkWe inhabit a planet in peril. Our once temperate world is locked on course to become a hothouse entirely of our own making.Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide provides a post-COP26 perspective on the climate emergency, acknowledging that it is now practically impossible to keep this side of the 1.5°C dangerous climate change guardrail. The upshot is that we can no longer dodge the arrival of disastrous, all-pervasive, climate breakdown that will come as a hammer blow to global society and economy.Bill McGuire, Professor of Geophysical and Climate Hazards, explains the science behind the climate crisis and for the first time presents a blunt but authentic picture of the sort of world our children will grow old in, and our grandchildren grow up in; a world that we catch only glimpses of in today's blistering heatwaves, calamitous wildfires and ruinous floods and droughts. Bleak though it is, the picture is one we must all face up to, if only to spur genuine action - even at this late stage - to stop a harrowing future becoming a truly cataclysmic one.Trade ReviewIt's a paradox but this was one of the most chilling books I've read this year. It's the definitive guide to where we're heading ... * Anthony Horowitz *The publication of Bill McGuire's latest book, Hothouse Earth, could not be more timely. Appearing in the shops this week, it will be perused by sweltering customers who have just endured record high temperatures across the UK and now face the prospect of weeks of drought to add to their discomfort. * Robin McKie, The Observer *[A] courageous antidote to [the] problems of climate science communication. Here is someone who is not afraid to tell it as it is. Hothouse Earth provides a no punches pulled exposition of what climate breakdown actually means ... excellent. * John Sweeney, Society *Volcanologist McGuire zeroes in on 'the core issues at the heart of the climate emergency' in this urgent survey. ... This blunt and sobering look at climate change packs a punch. * Publishers Weekly *Ironically, it's never been harder telling the full truth about the climate emergency. That truth is so shocking. So painful. It invites rejection. But there can be no authentic hope for a better world without that truth being unflinchingly spelled out. Thanks then to Bill McGuire for doing exactly that in Hothouse Earth - and for still leaving us with plenty of reasons to be hopeful - just so long as we get our shit sorted without any further delay. -- Jonathon Porritt, environmental campaigner and author of Hope in Hell: A Decade to Confront the Climate EmergencyThere's a climate emergency on and our leaders haven't understood just how serious it is. In this concise book, Professor Bill McGuire expertly lays out the scale of the threat in very clear terms ­­- including how much damage we have already done. He points out just how little time we have left to stop the climate crisis engulfing human civilisation. Every decision maker in government, business and wider society should read this book - and then act as fast as possible to reduce carbon pollution to zero. -- Dr Stuart Parkinson, executive director, Scientists for Global ResponsibilityHothouse Earth might accurately be described as a bit of a grim read, but there is no hyperbole here. Everything in Prof. McGuire's book is solidly based upon peer-reviewed research and current observations. McGuire wants us to face up to the facts; when one does so, then one has no choice any longer. Then, grim is the point; and actually, grim is the way. For, only if we get people to feel less shy and embarrassed about talking and hearing grim do we stand a chance ... For, only if we are ready to be real about our predicament have we any hope of measuring up to it. If you are after light reading, or just want to put on a happy face, don't buy this book. Only those ready for a strict diet of truth should dare open it. Hothouse Earth is an easy to understand and authoritative reference source for all things climate science. It is a very, very, sobering read. If our so-called leaders were to read it, they would adapt. They would change (or else we must change them for others up to the job). Why not buy them a copy? -- Rupert Read, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and former spokesperson and strategist for Extinction Rebellion. His new book, Why Climate Breakdown Matters is published in August 2022It is rare indeed, for a top scientist to spell out with blunt honesty the hell that we are heading into. Bill McGuire is one of the very few. -- Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and co-author of This is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion HandbookProfessor Bill McGuire has a rare talent for presenting authoritative and complex information in writing that is both accessible and enjoyably fluid. His book is convincing and passionate - an invaluable guide for those who are relatively new to the issue of climate breakdown and a useful revisor for those of us who have been reading the science for many years. -- Brendan Montague, editor of the EcologistTaut, calmly told and truly terrifying - and there's no arguing with the science. If you read just one book about the menace of climate breakdown, make it this one. -- Tim Radford, Climate News NetworkA compelling clarion call for a planet in peril. If the searing science of Hothouse Earth doesn't set alarm bells ringing, then it is difficult to see what else will. -- Professor Iain Stewart, geologist and broadcasterA comprehensive tour of climate breakdown, the trouble we are heading for and the many forms it might take. This accessible and authoritative book is a must-read for anyone who still thinks it could be OK to carry on as we are for a little bit longer, or that climate chaos might not affect them or their kids too badly. -- Mike Berners-Lee is a professor at Lancaster University, founder of Small World Consultancy and author of There is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break YearsThe Earth is already in a dangerous phase of heating. Many scientists admit privately to actually being "scared" by recent weather extremes. But the public doesn't like pessimism, so we environment journalists hint at future optimism. This book provides a more steely-eyed view on how we can cope with a hothouse world. -- Roger Harrabin, former BBC Environment AnalystFull of lively everyday images to bring the science to life ... stands out for its accessible style and for the attention that it pays to a less well-known problem: how climate change could trigger earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. * TLS *

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Book SynopsisIn The Edge of the Sea Rachel Carson introduces us to the 'strange and beautiful place' where the sea meets the land. She explores a tide pool, an inaccessible cave, and watches a lone crab on the shore at midnight. From these, and other, encounters she offers us not just a scientifically accurate study of the ecology of the seashore, but also a hauntingly beautiful account of the fragile balance of life found at the edge of the sea.The Edge of the Sea, like all her writing, sounds a prophetic alarm for the damage mankind is doing to the natural world, but also offers us inspiration: here is beauty, here is something worth saving.Trade ReviewThe timely reissue of a classic maritime trilogy shows that the "poet of the oceans" was far ahead of her time . . . What's striking is that Carson is a keen observer of the interconnectedness of things . . . Her sea series is not only fascinating for those with an interest in the prehistory of Silent Spring. There is much to marvel at in these pages. The Edge Of The Sea is a book to take down to the beach and rockpools - I will pack it in my own bag for the summer holidays * * Herald * *A brilliantly written argument that changed the course of history -- AL GORECatching the life breath of science on the still glass of poetry * * Time * *Praise for the Sea trilogy: This combination of science and scintillating prose provides fascinating insights into the mysteries of the tides . . . a masterpiece of ecological writing * * Guardian * *Rereading her natural histories, what stands out is how beautiful the writing is. Carson combined a scientist's ability to see with a novelist's ability to imagine * * New Yorker * *[Carson] is the poet laureate of the sea, but also of that "web of life", in which everything is connected to everything else * * London Review of Books * *Rachel Carson was one of the reasons why I became so conscious of the environment and so involved with environmental issues . . . Her picture hangs on my office wall among those of political leaders, presidents and prime ministers. It has been there for years, and it belongs there. Carson has had as much or more an effect on me than any of them, and perhaps all of them together -- AL GOREPraise for Silent Spring: Brilliantly written: clear, controlled and authoritative . . . one of the most effective books ever written . . . the impact is, in all senses, stunning * * Guardian * *Much of what Carson wrote to great controversy is now conventional wisdom. To read Silent Spring now is in part to understand how we got to where we are * * Wall Street Journal * *

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Book SynopsisFirst published in the 1950s, this is a classic account of the discovery in 1911 of the lost city of Machu Picchu.In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to Peru in search of the legendary city of Vilcabamba, capital city of the last Inca ruler, Manco Inca. With a combination of doggedness and good fortune he stumbled on the perfectly preserved ruins of Machu Picchu perched on a cloud-capped ledge 2000 feet above the torrent of the Urubamba River. The buildings were of white granite, exquisitely carved blocks each higher than a man. Bingham had not, as it turned out, found Vilcabamba, but he had nevertheless made an astonishing and memorable discovery, which he describes in his bestselling book LOST CITY OF THE INCAS.

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Book SynopsisPacked with surprising and fascinating information, London's Lost Rivers uncovers a very different side to London - showing how waterways shaped our principal city and exploring the legacy they leave today. With individual maps to show the course of each river and over 100 colour photographs, it's essential browsing for any Londoner and the perfect gift for anyone who loves exploring the past...'An amazing book' -- BBC Radio London'Talling's highly visual, fact-packed, waffle-free account is the freshest take we've yet seen. A must-buy for anyone who enjoys the "hidden" side of London -- Londonist'A fascinating and stylish guide to exploring the capital's forgotten brooks, waterways, canals and ditches ... it's a terrific book' - Walk'Pocket-sized, beautifully designed, illustrated and informative - in short a joy to read, handle and use' -- ***** Reader review'Delightful, informative and beautifully produced' -- ***** Reader review'A small gem. A really great book. I can't put it down' -- ***** Reader review'Fascinating from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review************************************************************************************************From the sources of the Fleet in Hampstead's ponds to the mouth of the Effra in Vauxhall, via the meander of the Westbourne through 'Knight's Bridge' and the Tyburn's curve along Marylebone Lane, London's Lost Rivers unearths the hidden waterways that flow beneath the streets of the capital. Paul Talling investigates how these rivers shaped the city - forming borough boundaries and transport networks, fashionable spas and stagnant slums - and how they all eventually gave way to railways, roads and sewers. Armed with his camera, he traces their routes and reveals their often overlooked remains: riverside pubs on the Old Kent Road, healing wells in King's Cross, 'stink pipes' in Hammersmith and gurgling gutters on streets across the city. Packed with maps and over 100 colour photographs, London's Lost Rivers uncovers the watery history of the city's most famous sights, bringing to life the very different London that lies beneath our feet.Trade ReviewAn amazing book -- BBC Radio LondonPacked with fascinating facts and eye-catching photography * Ham & High *Talling's highly visual, fact-packed, waffle-free account is the freshest take we've yet seen. A must-buy for anyone who enjoys the "hidden" side of London * Londonist *A fascinating and stylish guide to exploring the capital's forgotten brooks, waterways, canals and ditches ... it's a terrific book * Walk *

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Book SynopsisThis is such a great book for primary school age children and a little beyond for finding out about the world, its countries and people customer review- Philip''s atlas, designed specially to use at home and at school with guidance for parents and teachers- Clear maps and fascinating facts bring geography to life for readers aged 7-12- Published by Philip''s in association with the Royal Geographical Society- Quizzes, activity ideas and puzzles to make learning fun- Past winner of the Geographical Association''s award for making a significant contribution to geographyThe atlas is organized spread by spread in the classic sequence: first Europe, then its land neighbour Asia, followed by Africa, Australia and Oceania, North America and South America. Illustrated with captivating full-colour photographs and packed with fact boxes, curiosities, flags, stamps and quiz questions, Philip''s RGS Children''s Atlas

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Book SynopsisThe body as a measuring tool for planetary harm. A nervous system under increasing stress. In this urgent collection that moves from the personal to the political and back again, writer, activist, and migrant Jessica Gaitán Johannesson explores how we respond to crises. She draws parallels between an eating disorder and environmental neurosis, examines the perils of an activist movement built on non-parenthood, dissects the privilege of how we talk about hope, and more. The synapses that spark between these essays connect essential narratives of response and responsibility, community and choice, belonging and bodies. They carry vital signals.Trade Review‘The climate crisis is nerve-racking … Jessica Gaitán Johannesson’s collection of essays offers an expansive constellation of responses … Her writing resists empty answers, striving instead for ethical rigour and nuance. This is a poetic, bodily thinking. Short, fragmented lyric poems appear between each essay, intensifying and expanding the connections … It’s the kind of writing that is as bracing as it is sobering.’ -- Andy Jackson * The Saturday Paper *‘The Nerves and Their Endings is a beautifully written, original collection of essays that explores identity, place, home, and hope. These essays ask how we might not only live in a time of climate collapse, but how we might work towards a better future also — one of community, shared understanding, and tenderness, even in the face of such terrible inequality, cruelty, loss, and disaster. This is a book that’s truly necessary for our moment.’ -- Rebecca Tamás, author of Strangers: essays on the human and nonhuman‘Jessica Gaitán Johannesson “stays with the trouble” of climate, environmental, and social injustice with a searching honesty. Tangled, raw, and sparking with intelligence, The Nerves and Their Endings shows how the personal and the political, the human body and the earth’s body, are knotted together. As living, feeling, thinking beings our nervous system connects with the world’s systems. When the world is sick, we are too. [Gaitán Johannesson] challenges the tunnel vision of fear-based responses to the multiplying crises of our times, while alert to the unevenness of the suffering caused, the cushioning afforded by privilege, and the responsibility to act that this implies. She asks the hard questions and tackles them with integrity and an open heart. There are no trite answers offered here, rather, an honest exploration of what “hope” might look and feel like in these times, and why we need it in order “not to feel responsible but to ably respond”.’ -- Samantha Clark, author of The Clearing‘A pained, dedicated book, which thinks with care about how planetary, personal, and political are inseparable. It seeks out what matters, and where there is most at stake. I found its stories of ecological crisis and intimate experience absorbing, Gaitán Johannessen has a clear analytical voice and a gently deprecating sense of humour.’ -- Daisy Hildyard, author of Emergency‘The Nerves and Their Endings is both important and beautiful. Jessica Gaitán Johannesson writes compellingly about the need to view the climate crisis in a wider context. We should all be listening to her.’ -- Jessie Greengrass, author of The High House‘Through these remarkable personal essays and poetry on crisis and climate, crystal clear and unflinching, Jessica Gaitán Johannesson allows us the space to absorb and respond to our own intimate histories while considering the ways we connect (and can be of use to) to the world around us. Truly a talent, this a powerful, generous, community-minded book, and I feel wiser and more empowered for having read it.’ -- Niven Govinden, author of Diary of a Film‘The Nerves and Their Endings captures the terrifying freefall of the current moment, stripping away the illusory membrane that separates us from each other and from past and future, and showing, with remarkable elegance and intelligence, the transformative effect of that recognition.’ -- James Bradley, author of Ghost Species‘The Nerves and Their Endings beautifully presents the manifest ways our current global crisis intersects with personal experience of crises. Across a broad range of compelling and lyrical essays, Jessica generously gifts us her own narratives and knowledge, of the type that is as bodily as it is metaphysical. She has produced an emotive and detailed map from which we can learn and change, just as we must from the catastrophe itself.’ -- Alice Hattrick, author of Ill Feelings‘The Nerves and Their Endings is a beautiful book full of solidarity, grief, and love. Jessica writes with a soft, ardent touch about the climate crisis, the climate movement, and living across borders. I felt I was being spoken to by a friend and also by a poet.’ -- Yara Rodrigues Fowler, author of there are more things‘The Nerves and Their Endings is a deft, clear-eyed, and deeply felt essay collection that not only articulates the immense loss, complicity, and powerless felt in the capitalist West against the rising waters, but also the hope that enlivens good political writing always: the hope that when we look and think and move together — implicated, entangled — we grow the nerve to align in action. Jessica Gaitán Johannesson is a humane, original, and extremely talented writer, and this collection is a true pleasure to read and think with.’ -- Ellena Savage, author of Blueberries‘I devoured this bold, experimental collection of essays … Moving, funny, and fierce.’ -- Mairi Oliver & Jim Taylor * The Bookseller *‘Each line in this short book bears careful reading … an evolving, lyrical, and unrelenting analysis of the accelerating climate crisis, which in its short pages offers critique of capitalism, racism, colonialism, capitalism, racism, colonialism, patriarchy, and the contradictions within the climate movement itself.’ -- Frieda Klotz * Sunday Independent *‘Bold and deeply affecting.’ * The Skinny *‘In these elliptical, probing essays, Johannesson mines her own life – her experience of anorexia, her mother’s illness and death, her inner conflict over her work as an activist – to wrestle with larger philosophical questions about the illusion of self-sufficiency and control, the social inequities the climate crisis exposes, the ethical responsibilities inherent in bringing children into the world, and finally, what hope might look like in times like this.’ * The Sydney Morning Herald *‘These lyrical essays by bookseller Johannesson contemplate the consequences of impending climate collapse … Johannesson’s prose has a quiet, entrancing pull, and she cleverly structures her pieces to highlight unexpected connections, driving home her vision of interconnectedness. Understated and moving, this ruminative outing resonates.’ * Publishers Weekly *Praise for How We Are Translated: ‘How We Are Translated is the most contemporary of novels; set somehow both in the now and in the distant past; in one city that could be many cities, and in two different languages, though also in defiance of language, with as much focus on the silences between words as the words themselves. It’s a novel that maintains just the right balance of oddity, intimacy, and illumination. It’s a novel that anyone interested in the future of the English novel needs to read!’ -- Sara Baume, author of Spill Simmer Falter WitherPraise for How We Are Translated: ‘A novel brimming with ideas and promise.’ -- Lucy Knight * The Sunday Times *Praise for How We Are Translated: ‘One of the gentlest and most patient, humane, and quirky things I have read in a long time … Hugely original.’ -- Niamh Campbell, author of This Happy

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Book Synopsis'Ignoring water's essential role as the connective tissue of all life on Earth is widespread. Unfortunately, the response to each environmental problem tends to be piecemeal -- addressing one threat rather than responding with complex solutions that will address the underlying problems.' Over the past four decades artist, activist and teacher Betsy Damon has studied virtually every aspect of water, from the essence of water drops to whole water systems and their connections to life on earth. Over the years, she has witnessed the decline in water quality around the world as a result of human actions. In this comprehensive and insightful book, Damon writes about our interdependence with water in every aspect of life. She discusses many of the technical, social, and ethical issues we face and our individual and collective responsibility for addressing the decline in water quality. Damon argues that lasting solutions to this problem depend on a fundamental understanding and empirical knowledge of water and its role for all life on earth. She provides an overview of water as a fundamental human right and describes how that right has been curtailed through pollution and the commercialisation of water supplies. Through inspiring personal stories and projects, scientific and technological studies and solutions, Damon reveals how to better appreciate and approach the problems so that clean water, air and soil can be available for all life.

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Book SynopsisVoyages of Discovery is a mesmerising visual record of ten of the world’s most significant natural history expeditions.Trade Review'It's difficult to resist attacking this book with a pair of scissors. Not because it's bad – far from it – but because so many of the illustrations whisper 'Cut me out and stick me on the wall over the mantelpiece.'' Royal Geographical Society 'Nature lovers should enjoy Voyages of Discovery with hundreds of naturalist drawings.' USA Today

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Book SynopsisThis book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning.Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. And it's only looking worse.We are living in a climate emergency. But how much worse could it get? Will civilisation collapse? Are we already past the point of no return? What kind of future can our children expect? Rigorously cataloguing the very latest climate science, Mark Lynas explores the course we have set for Earth over the next century and beyond. Degree by terrifying degree, he charts the likely consequences of global heating and the ensuing climate catastrophe. At one degree the world we are already living in vast wildfires scorch California and Australia, while monster hurricanes devastate coastal cities. At two degrees the Arctic ice cap melts away, and coral reefs disappear from the tropics. At three, the world begins to run out of food, threatening millions with starvation. At fouTrade Review‘Mark Lynas…has time-travelled into our terrifying collective future…Go with him on this breathtaking, beautifully told journey…I promise that you will come back…determined to alter the course of history.’ Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything ‘Scientists predict that global temperatures will rise by between one and six degrees over the course of this century and Mark Lynas paints a chilling, degree-by-degree picture of the devastation likely to ensue unless we act now … a rousing and vivid plea to choose a different future' Daily Mail 'Buy this book for everyone you know: if it makes them join the fight to stop the seemingly inexorable six degrees of warming and mass death, it might just save their lives' New Statesman 'An apocalyptic primer of what to expect as the world heats up…it's sobering stuff and shaming too. Despite its sound scientific background, the book resembles one of those vivid medieval paintings depicting sinners getting their just desserts' Financial Times 'The saga of how, in the world as imagined by thousands of computer-modelling studies, global warming kicks in degree by degree. Six Degrees, I tell you now, is terrifying' Sunday Times ‘Those looking for more clarity would do well to read Our Final Warning by Mark Lynas, a campaigner controversial among his fellow environmentalists for supporting nuclear power and GM crops. This book is the clearest account I have come across of what climate change will look like, depending on what we do about it.’ The Times 'A chilling read’ Socialist Review

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Book SynopsisAn exciting exploration of the new frontier of finance, to value the planet and protect what has too long been treated as free and taken for granted--the natural assets we need and love most In Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets, renowned environmental strategist, speaker, world traveler and author Paula DiPerna brings a unique voice and optic to de-mystify and unveil today's most fascinating financial disruptionpricing the priceless to flip conventional ideas of how we value natural assets and why. She asks the provocative question long ignored: Why do we value the indispensable atmosphere at zero, but dispensable production in the trillions? She digs into alternatives, with real-life examples from around the globe of fascinating and pioneering financial innovationscontroversial and paradoxical, but essential. In the book, you'll travel from rainforests to Wall Street, Board Rooms to the Vatican, coral reefs to mangroves to China's carbon markets. Timely, adventurous, eclectic, and accessible, Pricing the Priceless brings alive the critical financial transformation that will determine future planetary health and social stability. With power, clarity and real-world experience, the author also examines: Fascinating new financial inventions and experimentsinsurance, bonds, markets, investment fundsall aimed at pricing what is precious and vital to human well-beingHow the great current intergenerational shift in wealth and attitudes is redefining investment trends and the idea of what constitutes wealth and returnHow climate change and other urgent environmental problems now require entirely new financial thinking to trigger solutionsHow once-radical ideas about measuring economic progress are now re-imagining the very purpose of capitalismWhy finance needs critical re-invention to remain credible in the face of increasing public skepticism of business-as-usual economic practice A can't-miss read for thought leaders, business executives, investors, activists, and entrepreneurs, Pricing the Priceless is a landmark that will shape the world and future, bridging the tangible and intangible to answer a critical question of rising economic and social inspiration: What is money for?Table of ContentsPreface vii 1 Michelangelo’s Finger: The Pope and the Atmosphere 1 2 Marooned: The Island of Wrong Things Measured 15 3 One of a Kind: The Gamble of Rarity and Price 31 4 Art in a Box: Pricelessness Saves Detroit 39 5 Mangroves and Money: All of Nature Is an Economic Machine 55 6 The Cosmic Penthouse: Carbon Pricing, Carbon Markets 69 7 Dare to Surmount: China Joins the Marathon 103 8 Wall Street to the Rescue? Nauru May Answer 121 9 Never Another Drop: The Flow of Water Markets 151 10 Wildlife and Wonderment: The Rhino Bond 177 11 Premiums to the Coral: Coral Reef Insurance 189 12 Forests as Infrastructure: The Forest Resilience Bond 197 13 Off Limits: The Value of Do Not Touch 213 14 Infinite Value: Return to Rome 241 References 247 Acknowledgments 253 Index 255

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Book Synopsis'A fizzingly entertaining and enlightening book' Daily Telegraph 'Mesmerising' Geographical Magazine 'A fascinating delve into uncharted, forgotten lost places. But it's not just a trivia-tastic anthology of remote destinations but a nifty piece of psycho-geography, explaining our human need for these cartographical conundrums.' Wanderlust In a world of Google Earth, in which it is easy to believe that every discovery has been made and every adventure already had, Off the Map is a stunning testament to how mysterious our planet still is. From forgotten enclaves to floating islands, from hidden villages to New York gutter spaces, Off the Map charts the hidden corners of our planet. And while these are not necessarily places you would choose to visit on holiday - Hobyo, the pirate capital of Somalia, or Zheleznogorsk, a secret military town in Russia - they each carry a story about the strangeness of place and our need for a geography that understands our hunger for the fantastic and the unexpected. But it also shows us that topophilia, the love of place, is a fundamental part of what it is to be human. Whether you are an urban explorer or an armchair traveller, Off the Map will inspire and enchant. You'll never look at a map in quite the same way again. Trade Review'An absorbing book packed with remarkable facts… a joy to read’‘Alastair Bonnett’s high-speed world tour of places and non-places whose stories would bring the most somnolent class to life. Bonnett zooms effortlessly around far-off spots – sometimes in person, more often via the internet – but he does not ignore those closer to home. Fizzingly entertaining and enlightening book.’ "Bonnett dares us to rethink exploration in a world that has been fully charted, taking us from micronation Sealand - a forsaken sea fort claimed by a Brit as his own sovereign nation - to Arne, a Second World War decoy city that saved thousands of lives. Forty-seven fascinating essays prove why "our topophilia can never be extinguished or sated" and how these locations over insights into our history and society." "A fascinating delve into uncharted, forgotten and lost places. But it’ s not just a trivia-tastic anthology of remote destinations but a nifty piece of psycho-geography, explaining our human need for these cartographical conundrums." "Bonnett dares us to rethink exploration in a world that has been fully charted, taking us from micronation Sealand - a forsaken sea fort claimed by a Brit as his own sovereign nation - to Arne, a Second World War decoy city that saved thousands of lives. Forty-seven fascinating essays prove why "our topophilia can never be extinguished or sated" and how these locations over insights into our history and society." ‘ Alastair Bonnett’ s high-speed world tour of places and non-places whose stories would bring the most somnolent class to life. Bonnett zooms effortlessly around far-off spots – sometimes in person, more often via the internet – but he does not ignore those closer to home. Fizzingly entertaining and enlightening book.’ ‘ Fearlessly explores the dark side of humanity while constantly challenging our conceptions of place, borders and boundaries, and how we as humans use locations and geography to define ourselves and the world around us. Importantly, Bonnett’ s careful research and fascinating theories are complemented with passages of wonderfully written prose. A thought provoking triumph.’ ‘ A mesmerising study of ambiguous temporary places.’ 'An absorbing book packed with remarkable facts… a joy to read’

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Book SynopsisTwo Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet'Does the earth’s finite carrying capacity mean economic growth has to stop? That momentous question is the subject of Charles Mann’s brilliant book.' Wall Street JournalIn forty years, the population of the Earth will reach ten billion. Can our world support so many people? What kind of world will it be? In this unique, original and important book, Charles C. Mann illuminates the four great challenges we face – food, water, energy, climate change – through an exploration of the crucial work and wide-ranging influence of two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt.Vogt (the Prophet) was the intellectual forefather of the environmental movement, and believed that in our using more than the planet has to give, our prosperity will bring us to ruin. Borlaug’s research in the 1950s led to the development of modern high-yield crops that have saved millions from starvation. The Wizard of Mann’s title, he believed that science will continue to rise to the challenges we face.Mann tells the stories of these scientists and their crucial influence on today’s debates as his story ranges from Mexico to India, across continents and oceans and from the past and the present to the future. Brilliantly original in concept, wryly observant and deeply researched, The Wizard and the Prophet is essential reading for readers of Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens or Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel, for anyone interested in how we got here and in the future of our species.Trade ReviewMann’s storytelling skills are unmatched . . . [He] provides detail enough, and simplicity enough, that anyone who is struggling with these puzzles will be enlightened and informed. And entertained, which, given the subject matter, is no small feat. * New York Times *Does the earth’s finite carrying capacity mean economic growth has to stop? That momentous question is the subject of Charles Mann’s brilliant book . . . A treasure house of knowledge . . . Indispensable. * Wall Street Journal *Prophets say we must reduce consumption, Wizards say we must find more efficient means of production. This intense and carefully-researched book presents a balanced, scholarly and calm exploration of society’s most pressing problems. -- Ten Of The Best Books About Climate Change, Conservation And The Environment of 2018 * Forbes *Masterful . . . Mann’s most spectacular accomplishment is to take no sides . . . An insightful, highly significant account that makes no predictions but lays out the critical environmental problems already us. * Kirkus starred review *This unique, encompassing, clarifying, engrossing, inquisitive, and caring work of multifaceted research, synthesis and analysis humanizes the challenges and contradictions of modern environmentalism and and our struggle towards a viable future. * Booklist starred review *Fascinating . . . Mann offers a sympathetic, nuanced way to understand one of the fundamental debates of our time: How will 10 billion humans live sustainably on Earth, when our demands for energy and food are growing? -- Annalee Newitz, editor, Ars Technica11 Fantastic Science Books to Binge Over the Holidays. -- The Year in Review, 2018 * Wired *

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Book SynopsisIn March 1971, Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis and a small gypsy-like band of friends set off for the Colombian Amazonas. Along the surreal way, they encounter a cast of remarkable characters - including a mushroom, a flying saucer, pirates from outer space, and James Joyce in the guise of poultry.One result of their adventures was McKenna's theory that psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in the stropharia cubensis mushroom, is the missing link in the development of human consciousness and languaTrade ReviewA rollicking intellectual adventure yarn of the highest order. . . -- Tony Stevens, author of STORMING HEAVEN: LSD AND THE AMERICAN DREAMTruly amazing -- THE VILLAGE VOICE

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Book SynopsisA great, rhapsodic, urgent book full of joy, grief, rage and love . . . A must-read'' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for HawkNature has many gifts for us, but perhaps the greatest of them all is joy; the intense delight we can take in the natural world, in its beauty, in the wonder it can offer us, in the peace it can provide - feelings stemming ultimately from our own unbreakable links to nature, which mean that we cannot be fully human if we are separate from it. In The Moth Snowstorm Michael McCarthy, one of Britain''s leading writers on the environment, proposes this joy as a defence of a natural world which is ever more threatened, and which, he argues, is inadequately served by the two defences put forward hitherto: sustainable development and the recognition of ecosystem services.Drawing on a wealth of memorable experiences from a lifetime of watching and thinking about wildlife and natural landscapes, The Moth Snowstorm noTrade ReviewA great, rhapsodic, urgent book full of joy, grief, rage and love. The Moth Snowstorm is at once a deeply affecting memoir and a heartbreaking account of ecological impoverishment. It fights against indifference, shines with the deep magic and beauty of the non-human lives around us, and shows how their loss lessens us all. A must-read * Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk *An important book about an important subject - the loss of biodiversity locally, nationally and internationally, what this means for humanity and how it could possibly be avoided . . . The main argument is that we all have in us the capacity to experience joy and wonder from nature . . . Michael McCarthy is a professional journalist and an accomplished and experienced writer who handles his themes skilfully * Irish Examiner *Impassioned, polemical and personal . . . In the autobiographical passages nature is a marvel and a solace. [McCarthy's] descriptions of the night-time clouds of moths - the moth snowstorms of the title - that we saw in the days before farming ruined so much natural habitat are unforgettable, and his recollections of boyhood bird-watching on the River Dee Bay a delight . . . At its heart, this is a book aiming to persuade those who are broadly sympathetic to think in a different way, and in that it is surely a success - and a joy * Independent *A fascinating and very readable book . . . full of joy and wonder and luminous moments . . . McCarthy is a man who remembers not only the Observer's Book of Birds but the set of Brooke Bond tea cards featuring Charles Tunnicliffe's beautiful bird pictures. But you don't have to be of a similar vintage to enjoy this expansive celebration of a subject too often overlooked in the ongoing discourse about man and nature - sheer joy * Dabbler *McCarthy has for years been the doyen of environmental correspondents . . . he is conversant with the hard facts, the political realities and the moral complexities of the conservation world. But he writes also as a man inspired by the beauty, diversity and abundance of the natural world that we are destroying. This combination of worldly wisdom and deeply felt personal experience makes this a highly original and refreshing account of our current predicament * TLS *Deserves to be widely read * Scotsman *Environmental correspondent Michael McCarthy makes an impassioned plea on behalf of the natural world in this inspiring book * Sunday Express *The natural world, whether birdsong, butterflies or wild flowers, can give us joy. It can bring us peace. The ability of nature to do this, through a sense of awe, is articulated beautifully in a book by Michael McCarthy, The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy. His quest to track down every British butterfly as a tribute to his dead mother brought me to tears * Sunday Times *A deeply troubling book by one of Britain's foremost journalists on the politics of nature. The case he lays bare in the opening chapters is compelling stuff. Essentially he argues that the world of wild creatures, plants, trees and whole habitats - you name it - is going to Hell in a handcart . . . powerful, heartfelt and compelling * The Spectator *As much as joy, it's a beautiful book about love, damage, and the possibility of redemption * Press Association *You could do worse to catch up than to read a single chapter in Michael McCarthy's new book, The Moth Snowstorm . . . the one entitled 'The Great Thinning' . . . powerfully and succinctly summarises the unfolding national story * New Statesman *More than a simple paean to the glories of the wild world. It is also an impassioned protest against its destruction * Daily Mail *In his beautiful book . . . Michael McCarthy suggests that a capacity to love the natural world, rather than merely to exist within it, might be a uniquely human trait * Guardian *A mixture of memoir, elegy to nature, and a call to arms . . . this is a profound urgent book, among its strength an appreciation of the small things - the common precious treasures of birdsong, butterflies and moths that we all, whatever our stance, stand to lose * Country Life *I found joy following McCarthy's stories, particularly those of the futile attempts to return salmon to the Thames and the tragic loss of sparrows from London . . . His personal revelations are moving, and The Moth Snowstorm left me as grief-stricken as any environmental journalist must be after a career digesting facts such as that, by 2020, the volume of urban rubbish generated in China is expected to reach 400m tonnes - equivalent to the entire world's trash in 1997 * Guardian *A bold new defence of a natural world under great threat * BBC Countryfile Magazine *[A] moving memoir * New Statesman *Unquestionably my nature book of the year - an intensely moving and intelligent plea for 'joy' to be counted the most powerful reason for valuing the natural world. McCarthy's starting point is the vivid recollection of a veritable snowstorm of moths in car headlights when he was young. With glorious originality, he makes an unanswerable case for us to start proclaiming 'a new kind of love' from the rooftops. Can you attach a cost-benefit analysis to what a walk in fields listening to birdsong can do for the human spirit? No. That's why everybody should read this angry, beautiful and passionate book * Daily Mail *This is a book about the joy the natural world can engender - even in the face of its decline. McCarthy synthesises the two main literary reposnses to the current crisis, provoking shock at the scale of Britain's recent loss of abundance and a sense of awe and (most importantly) love that may prove nature's best defence. If you read one book from this selection make it The Moth Snowstorm * The Times, Books of the Year *Elegiac * Guardian *Offers a necessary corrective * Irish Times, Books of the Year *Compelling . . . The Moth Snowstorm is an inspiring book * New York Times Book Review *McCarthy's words ring out as a rallying cry which is not only a delight to hear but one we should all seek to follow * Conversation *

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Book Synopsis'Always the leader and always the best' Bear Grylls 'Fiennes has so much to fit in, it's a wonder to grasp the full breadth of a lifetime of adventuring' - Compass Magazine'Even readers with a broadly low tolerance for macho heroism will find themselves gripped . . . compelling' - Time OutSir Ranulph Fiennes has travelled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on Earth, almost died countless times, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, raised millions of pounds for charity and been awarded a polar medal and an OBE. He has been an elite soldier, an athlete, a mountaineer, an explorer, a bestselling author and nearly replaced Sean Connery as James Bond.In his bestselling autobiography, Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know, he describes how he led expeditions all over the world and became the first person to travel to both Poles on land. He tells of how he discovered the lost city of Ubar in Oman and attempted to walk solo and unsupported to the North Pole - the expedition that cost him several fingers, and very nearly his life.And now the extraordinary life story of the world's greatest living explorer is re-published to celebrate his 75th birthday, with two new chapters to bring his story up to date - telling of more mountains climbed, including his ascent to the top of Mount Everest, and even more extraordinary and risky adventures.Trade ReviewRip-roaringly readable * Guardian *Even readers with a broadly low tolerance for macho heroism will find themselves gripped . . . compelling * Time Out *It's exhausting just reading about his exploits, so it is a perfect bedtime book. It's delightful to plump up one's duck-down pillows while vicariously enduring Fiennes's successive plunges into the deadly waters of the Artcic, and his festering crotch-rot. * Helena Drysdale, New Statesman Books of the Year *It is lively and vivid, and often exciting as we anticipate each plunge into deadly Arctic waters. There are some wonderful throwaway lines . . . So, not an alien species after all but - as they say - a national treasure. * Spectator *enthralling * Independent *

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Book Synopsis''To read Being Ecological is to be caught up in a brilliant display of intellectual pyrotechnics'' P.D.Smith, GuardianWhy is everything we think we know about ecology wrong?Is there really any difference between ''humans'' and ''nature''?Does this mean we even have a future?Don''t care about ecology? This book is for you. Timothy Morton, who has been called ''Our most popular guide to the new epoch'' (Guardian), sets out to show us that whether we know it or not, we already have the capacity and the will to change the way we understand the place of humans in the world, and our very understanding of the term ''ecology''. A cross-disciplinarian who has collaborated with everyone from Björk to Hans Ulrich Obrist, Morton is also a member of the object-oriented philosophy movement, a group of forward-looking thinkers who are grappling with modern-day notions of subjectivity and objectivity, while also offering fascinating new un

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Book SynopsisGerald Durrell, director and owner of Jersey Zoo, was internationally famous for his amusing books about collecting wild animals. The Overloaded Ark, his first, remains his funniest book. It describes an expedition to the remote territory of the Cameroons in West Africa, before independence.''A delightful book . . . You can feel his bush-shirt sticking to his back . . . Bagging a monitor, smoking out a Pangolin (scaly anteater), celebrating the capture of the rare Angwantibo (small lemur), bird liming for Giant Kingfishers on the warm, milky waters of Lake Soden: he communicates every detail of his experiences with just the right degree of zest.'' New Statesman

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Book SynopsisOxygen has had extraordinary effects on life. Three hundred million years ago, in Carboniferous times, dragonflies grew as big as seagulls, with wingspans ofnearly a metre. Researchers claim they could have flown only if the air had contained more oxygen than today -probably as much as 35 per cent. Giant spiders, tree-ferns, marine rock formations and fossil charcoalsall tell the same story. High oxygen levels may also explain the global firestorm that contributed to thedemise of the dinosaurs after the asteroid impact. The strange and profound effects that oxygen has had on the evolution of life pose a riddle, which this booksets out to answer. Oxygen is a toxic gas. Divers breathing pure oxygen at depth suffer from convulsionsand lung injury. Fruit flies raised at twice normal atmospheric levels of oxygen live half as long as theirsiblings. Reactive forms of oxygen, known as free radicals, are thought to cause ageing in people. Yet ifatmospheric oxygen reached 35 per cent in the Carboniferous, why did it promote exuberant growth,instead of rapid ageing and death? Oxygen takes the reader on an enthralling journey, as gripping as a thriller, as it unravels the unexpectedways in which oxygen spurred the evolution of life and death. The book explains far more than the size ofancient insects: it shows how oxygen underpins the origin of biological complexity, the birth of photosynthesis, the sudden evolution of animals, the need for two sexes, the accelerated ageing of cloned animals like Dolly the sheep, and the surprisingly long lives of bats and birds. Drawing on this grand evolutionary canvas, Oxygen offers fresh perspectives on our own lives and deaths,explaining modern killer diseases, why we age, and what we can do about it. Advancing revelatory new ideas,following chains of evidence, the book ranges through many disciplines, from environmental sciences tomolecular medicine. The result is a captivating vision of contemporary science and a humane synthesis of ourplace in nature. This remarkable book might just redefine the way we think about the world.Oxford Landmark Science books are ''must-read'' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.Trade Review'. . . popular science writing at its very best - clear yet challenging, speculative yet rigorous. The book is a tour de force which orchestrates a seamless story out of both venerable ideas and very recent discoveries in several disparate fields.' * Bernard Dixon *'. . . a breathtaking, broad vision of the role of a single gas in our life, from the origin of organisms, through the emergence of creatures, and to their deaths . . . packed full of interesting life-and-death stories...A wonderful read.' * Peter Atkins *'. . . one of the most thought-provoking books I have ever read.' * John Emsley *Nick Lane's chapters are dispatches from the frontiers of research into Earth and life history, but they contain nothing that will lose the patient reader and much that will reward. * The Guardian Review *a brisk revelatory study * Christopher Hirst, The Independent *. . . Nick Lane marshals an impressive array of evidence - [an] ambitious narrative . . . This is science writing at its best. * Jerome Burne, The Financial Times *Table of Contents1: Introduction: Elixir of Life - and Death 2: In the Beginning: The Origins and Importance of Oxygen 3: Silence of the Aeons: Three Billion Years of Microbial Evolution 4: Fuse to the Cambrian Explosion: Snowball Earth, Environmental Change and the First Animals 5: The Bolsover Dragonfly: Oxygen and the Rise of the Giants 6: Treachery in the Air: Oxygen Poisoning and X-Irradiation: A Mechanism in Common 7: Green Planet: Radiation and the Beginnings of Photosynthesis 8: Looking for LUCA: Last Ancestor in the Age Before Oxygen 9: Portrait of a Paradox: Vitamin C and the Many Faces of an Antioxidant 10: The Antioxidant Machine: A Hundred and One Ways of Living with Oxygen 11: Sex and the Art of Bodily Maintenance: Trade-offs in the Evolution of Ageing 12: Eat! Or You'll Live Forever: The Triangle of Food, Sex, and Longevity 13: Gender Bender: The Rate of Living and the Need for Sexes 14: Beyond Genes and Destiny: The Double Agent Theory of Ageing and Disease 15: Life, Death and Oxygen: Lessons From Evolution on the Future of Ageing Further Reading Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisEndorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education for full syllabus coverage.Rely on a course with international focus and examples and case studies from around the world, which has been especially written to cover the Cambridge International AS & A Level Geography syllabus for examination from 2018 (9696).- Build geographical skills with clear guidance and practice, including advice on fieldwork- Ensure complete coverage with the core syllabus and all the human and physical geography options included- Provide an international focus with examples and case studies from around the world

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Book SynopsisFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city.'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York TimesThe story of the city is the story of civilisation. From Uruk and Babylon to Baghdad and Venice, and on to London, New York, Shanghai and Lagos, Ben Wilson takes us through millennia on a thrilling global tour of the key urban centres of history.Rich with individual characters, scenes and snapshots of daily life, Metropolis is at once the story of these extraordinary places and of the vital role they have played in making us who we are.'Panoramic...entertaining and rich in wondrous detail' Tom Holland'A towering achievement... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time' Wall Street JournalTrade ReviewBrilliant... Enchanting... This is a history of the world told through its most buccaneering units... And it is full of quirky facts about London. -- Arjun Neil Alim * Evening Standard *Compendious and fascinating... Metropolis is crammed with local colour; and what gives the historical schema its real flavour is the deviations it allows... It makes you understand why we opted for cities in the first place, and why, despite the doom and gloom, I doubt we will be quitting them any time soon. -- Tim Smith-Laing * Daily Telegraph *Wilson [is] an erudite, creative guide to the history of civilization through its great urban areas... He broadens the book's focus beyond the usual Western suspects... An excellent account. -- Eben Shapiro * Time Magazine *Wilson sets out to match Mumford's sweep in Metropolis, and he brilliantly synthesises the forces that make cities hum. -- John Gapper * Financial Times *Capacious, entertaining and rich in wondrous detail, this is a work of history that pulls off the startling feat of measuring up to the immensity of its subject matter. -- Tom Holland * Literary Review *

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Book SynopsisCurrowan is a portrait of tragedy, survival and the power of community. Bronwyn tells her story and those of many others - what they saw, thought and felt as they battled the most ferocious fire Australia has ever seen.

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Book Synopsis*A Times, Financial Times, Observer and Nature Book of the Year*We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world''s leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it''s an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before it''s too late.In The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts - geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and indigenous leaders - to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster. Alongside them, she shares her own stories of demonstrating and uncovering greenwashing around the world, revealing how much we have been kept in the dark. This is one of our biggest challenges, she shows, buTrade ReviewWith The Climate Book, a stunning and essential new work, Greta Thunberg takes her mission to the next level ... [It is] an incredible and moving resource. There are chapters on almost everything you might need to know about ... the book is a curated, portable library of knowledge, full of classics. Everyone will get something different from reading this book ... It is an extraordinary body of work and I can't recommend it highly enough. You feel the passion as well as the intellectual heft of the authors, and that is what is so moving about it. It is time for all of us to rise up -- Rowan Hooper * New Scientist *I would hope it is the kind of book everyone feels they should buy, read and act on: if you've tried to recycle a coffee pod, bought an electric car or started using a reusable water bottle, this book knows the combination of fear, hope and duty that made you do it and has a million more suggestions. It should be a bookcase staple, like Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time or Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens -- Caitlin Moran * The Times *Spectacular ... The scope of this work is planetary in scale. It is a massive undertaking in which Greta Thunberg calls on the best people possible to help her make sense of the rapid trashing of the natural world and the ecosystems life depends on ... Ultimately, this is an unexpectedly uplifting volume, fizzing with the world's best science and analysis, and what we can now do with it -- Harry Cockburn * Independent *This book is superb at explaining the urgency and importance of preventing climate change... its writers weave messages with skill and beauty... this is a campaigning book of course, but much more than that -- Gaia Vince * Guardian *A compelling read... Thunberg has called upon some of the brightest minds in the fight against global warming * Herald *Important and stunningly handsome... this is a superb vademecum -- Steven Poole * Telegraph *Most of us don't know very much about climate science. More than a rallying call, what we need is a crash course. So [Thunberg] has gathered together an anthology of essays from more than a hundred scientists, journalists and activists-a kind of beginner's guide to global warming ... [It] looks fantastic, with beautifully rendered charts and haunting photographs... My copy is dotted with annotated exclamation marks -- Rhys Blakeley * The Times *As brave as it is accomplished and succeeds well beyond any reasonable expectation -- John Gibbons * Business Post *An admirable and monumental effort...[Thunberg] is a truly exceptional figure, fluent way beyond her years in grasping and communicating the complexity and connectedness of these crises * Irish Times *A valuable resource for anyone who wants an ironclad summary of the problems, combined with some credible remedies -- Dorian Lynskey * Observer *A compendious introduction to climate change's impacts and solutions by more than 100 writers, activists, and academics. Together, they break down the sometimes overwhelming complexity of climate change into manageable chunks -- Ben Cooke * The Times Books of the Year *I'll be giving Greta Thunberg's The Climate Book to everyone: for the way it urges us to refuse to acquiesce in the destruction of the living world. It offers real, rich hope: but only if that hope is active -- Katherine Rundell * Observer Books of the Year *Impressive... the cumulative impact on my understanding of the [climate] crisis through its data, cross-cultural reflections, and paths for step-by-step change became mesmerizing -- Barbara J. King * NPR *The Climate Book makes for sobering but compelling reading - the kind of book that, once you've finished, you cannot forget * Elle *

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Book SynopsisKatie has been writing non-fiction children's books for almost half her life and loves questioning the world from a child's point of view. She's developed some of Usborne's bestselling series, including the See Inside books and Lift-the-flap Questions & Answers. When she's not writing, she likes drinking coffee, walking on the moors and playing competitive board games with her children.Trade ReviewI love the mix of positivity and information, and the myriad ways the children start to make change happen. * Juno Magazine *This book was brilliant in using age-appropriate language to explain climate change and our impact on the earth to younger children. We highly recommended this book! * The Green Parent *

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Book SynopsisBorders harm all of us: they must be abolished.Borders divide workers and families, fuel racial division, and reinforce global disparities. They encourage the expansion of technologies of surveillance and control, which impact migrants and citizens both.Bradley and de Noronha tell what should by now be a simple truth: borders are not only at the edges of national territory, in airports, or at border walls. Borders are everyday and everywhere; they follow people around and get between us, and disrupt our collective safety, freedom and flourishing. is a passionate manifesto for border abolition, arguing that we must transform society and our relationships to one another, and build a world in which everyone has the freedom to move and to stay.Trade ReviewAgainst Borders demonstrates the clarifying power of applying abolitionist politics to the issue of borders. In doing so, it achieves a rare unity of theory and practice, combining profound analysis with pointers to radical action. -- Arun KundnaniThe arguments in this elegant and powerful book are entirely reasonable and pragmatic and yet utterly revolutionary, proposing an abolitionist political imagination and a horizon of liberation. -- Michael HardtA book that invites us to dream of a reconfigured world where the borders between nation states no longer control and define us. -- Stella DadzieA refreshing, well-argued and moving proposal for 'non-reformist reforms' that would demolish one of the cruellest components of the capitalist state, written with a non-sectarian openness and a utopian imagination -- Owen HatherleyAn accessible, detailed examination of how borders function. A must read for anyone who wants to get to grips with the case for border abolition. -- Maya Goodfellow, author of Hostile EnvironmentAn incisive exploration of how borders operate in the 21st century. -- Emily Kenway * openDemocracy *Against Borders: The Case for Abolition is a compelling and much-needed primer on abolishing borders. By de-bunking common myths, presenting historical analysis, and guiding readers through contemporary social movements, Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke de Noronha passionately and accessibly lay out the vision and necessity for a world without borders. -- Harsha Walia, author Border and Rule & Undoing Border Imperialism

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Book SynopsisGet a rock-solid grasp on geology Geology For Dummies is ideal reading for anyonewith an interest in the fundamental concepts of geology, whether they''re lifelong learners with a fascination for the subject or college students interested in pursuing geology or earth sciences. Presented in a straightforward, trusted formatand tracking to a typical introductory geology course at the college levelthis book features a thorough introduction to the study of earth, its materials, and its processes. Rock records and geologic time Large-scale motion of tectonic plates Matter, minerals, and rocks The geological processes on earth''s surface Rock that geology class with Geology For Dummies!Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 2 Beyond the Book 3 Where to Go from Here 3 Part 1: Studying The Earth 5 Chapter 1: Rocks for Jocks (and Everybody Else) 7 Finding Your Inner Scientist 8 Making observations every day 8 Jumping to conclusions 8 Focusing on Rock Formation and Transformation 8 Understanding how rocks form 9 Tumbling through the rock cycle 9 Mapping Continental Movements 10 Unifying geology with plate tectonics theory 10 Debating a mechanism for plate movements 11 Moving Rocks around on Earth’s Surface 11 Interpreting a Long History of Life on Earth 12 Using relative versus absolute dating 12 Witnessing evolution in the fossil record 13 Chapter 2: Observing Earth through a Scientific Lens 15 Realizing That Science Is Not Just for Scientists 15 Using a Methodical Approach: The Scientific Method 16 Sensing something new 17 I have a hypothesis! 18 Testing your hypothesis: Experiments 18 Crunching the numbers 19 Interpreting results 21 Sharing the findings 21 Building New Knowledge: A Scientific Theory 21 It’s never “just a theory” 22 Scientific theory versus scientific law 22 The road to paradigms 23 Speaking in Tongues: Why Geologists Seem to Speak a Separate Language 23 Lamination vs foliation: Similar outcomes from different processes 24 Gabbro vs basalt: Different outcomes from similar processes 24 Chapter 3: From Here to Eternity: The Past, Present, and Future of Geologic Thought 27 Catastrophe Strikes Again and Again 28 Early Thoughts on the Origin of Rocks 28 Developing Modern Geologic Understanding 29 Reading the rock layers: Steno’s stratigraphy 29 These things take time! Hutton’s hypothesis 30 What has been will be: Lyell’s principles 31 Uniformi-what? Understanding the Earth through Uniformitarianism 32 Pulling It All Together: The Theory of Plate Tectonics 32 Forging Ahead into New Frontiers 33 Asking how, where, and why: Mountain building and plate boundaries 33 Mysteries of the past: Snowball earth, first life, and mass extinctions 34 Predicting the future: Earthquakes and climate change 35 Out of this world: Planetary geology and the search for life 37 Chapter 4: Home Sweet Home: Planet Earth 39 Earth’s Spheres 39 Examining Earth’s Geosphere 41 Defining Earth’s layers 41 Examining each layer 43 Part 2: Elements, Minerals, And Rocks 49 Chapter 5: It’s Elemental, My Dear: A Very Basic Chemistry of Elements and Compounds 51 The Smallest Matter: Atoms and Atomic Structure 52 Getting to know the periodic table 53 Interpreting isotopes 56 Charging particles: Ions 56 Chemically Bonding 57 Donating electrons (ionic bonds) 57 Sharing electrons (covalent bonds) 57 Migrating electrons (metallic bonds) 58 Formulating Compounds 60 Chapter 6: Minerals: The Building Blocks of Rocks 61 Meeting Mineral Requirements 62 Making Crystals 62 Identifying Minerals Using Physical Characteristics 63 Observing transparency, color, luster, and streak 63 Measuring mineral strength 64 If it tastes like salt, it must be halite: Noting unique mineral properties 68 Measuring properties in the lab 69 Realizing Most Rocks Are Built from Silicate Minerals 70 Finding silicates in many shapes 71 Grouping silicate minerals 74 Remembering the Nonsilicate Minerals 74 Carbonates 74 Sulfides and sulfates 75 Oxides 75 Native elements 76 Evaporites 76 Gemstones 77 Chapter 7: Recognizing Rocks: Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic Types 79 Mama Magma: Birthing Igneous Rocks 80 Remembering how magma is made 80 Classifying melt composition 81 Reacting in sequence: Bowen’s reaction series 81 Evolving magmas 83 Crystallizing one way or another: Igneous rocks 84 Classifying igneous rocks 85 Studying volcanic structures 89 Looking below the surface 92 Merging Many Single Grains of Sand: Sedimentary Rocks 94 Weathering rocks into sediments 95 Changing from sediment into rock 98 Sizing up the grains: Classifying sedimentary rocks 99 Searching for sedimentary basins 102 Telling stories of the past: Sedimentary structures 103 Stuck between a Rock and a Hard Place: Metamorphic Rocks 106 Turning up the heat and pressure: Metamorphism 106 Grading metamorphism with index minerals 107 Between the mineral sheets: Foliation, or maybe not 108 Categorizing metamorphic rocks 110 Tumbling through the Rock Cycle: How Rocks Change from One Type to Another 112 Part 3: One Theory To Explain It All: Plate Tectonics 115 Chapter 8: Adding Up the Evidence for Plate Tectonics 117 Drifting Apart: Wegener’s Idea of Continental Drift 118 Continental puzzle solving 118 Fossil matching 119 Stratigraphic stories 120 Icy cold climates of long ago 122 Meeting at the equator 123 Searching for a mechanism 123 Coming Together: How Technology Sheds Light on Plate Tectonics 124 Mapping the seafloor 124 Flip-flopping magnetic poles: Paleomagnetism and seafloor spreading 125 Measuring plate movements 127 Unifying the theory 127 Chapter 9: When Crustal Plates Meet, It’s All Relative 129 Density Is Key 130 Two of a Kind: Continental and Oceanic Crust 131 Dark and dense: Oceanic crust 131 Thick and fluffy: Continental crust 131 Understanding Why Density Matters: Isostasy 132 Defining Plate Boundaries by Their Relative Motion 133 Driving apart: Divergent plate boundaries 134 Crashing together: Convergent plate boundaries 136 Slip-sliding along: Transform plate boundaries 139 Shaping Topography with Plate Movements 141 Deforming the crust at plate boundaries 141 Compressing rocks into folds 142 Faulting in response to stress 144 Building mountains 146 Chapter 10: Who’s Driving This Thing? Mantle Convection and Plate Movement 149 Running in Circles: Models of Mantle Convection 150 Mantle plumes: Just like the lava in your lamp 152 The slab-pull and ridge-push models 152 Using Convection to Explain Magma, Volcanoes, and Underwater Mountains 153 Plate friction: Melting rock beneath the earth’s crust 154 Creating volcanic arcs and hotspots 154 Birthing new seafloor at mid-ocean ridges 158 Shake, Rattle, and Roll: How Plate Movements Cause Earthquakes 158 Responding elastically 159 Sending waves through the earth 160 Measuring magnitude 160 Part 4: Superficially Speaking: About Surface Processes 163 Chapter 11: Gravity Takes Its Toll: Mass Wasting 165 Holding Steady or Falling Down: Friction versus Gravity 166 Focusing on the Materials Involved 167 Loose materials: Resting at the angle of repose 167 Bedrock: Losing its stability 168 Triggering Mass Movements 168 Adding water to the mix 168 Changing the slope angle 169 Shaking things up: Earthquakes 170 Removing vegetation 170 Moving Massive Amounts of Earth, Quickly 171 Falls 171 Slides and slumps 171 Flows 172 A More Subtle Approach: Creep and Soil Flow (Solifluction) 173 Chapter 12: Water: Above and Below Ground 175 Hydrologic Cycling 176 Driving the cycle with evaporation 176 Traveling across a continent 177 Streams: Moving Sediments toward the Ocean 178 Draining the basin 178 Two types of flow 179 Measuring stream characteristics 180 Carrying a heavy load 180 Measuring what is transported 181 Eroding a Stream Channel to Base Level 182 Seeking Equilibrium after Changes in Base Level 183 Leaving Their Mark: How Streams Create Landforms 184 Draining the basin 184 Meandering along 185 Depositing sediments along the way 187 Reaching the sea 187 Flowing beneath Your Feet: Groundwater 188 Infiltrating tiny spaces underground 188 Measuring porosity and permeability 189 Setting the water table 189 Springing from rocks 190 That sinking feeling: Karst, caves, and sinkholes 192 Chapter 13: Flowing Slowly toward the Sea: Glaciers 195 Identifying Three Types of Glaciers 196 Understanding Ice as a Geologic Force 196 Transforming snow into ice 197 Balancing the glacial budget 197 Flowing solidly down the mountain 198 Eroding at a Snail’s Pace: Landforms Created by Glacial Erosion 199 Plucking and abrading along the way 200 Creating their own valleys 200 Speaking French: Cirques, arêtes, et roche moutonnées 201 Leaving It All Behind: Glacial Deposits 203 Depositing the till 203 Plains, trains, eskers, and kames 204 Behaving erratically: Large boulders in odd places 206 Where Have All the Glaciers Gone? 206 Filling the erosional gaps 206 Cycling through ice ages 207 Rebounding isostatically 209 Chapter 14: Blowing in the Wind: Moving Sediments without Water 211 Lacking Water: Arid Regions of the Earth 212 Transporting Particles by Air 212 Skipping right along: Bed load and saltation 213 Suspending particles in air 214 Deflating and Abrading: Features of Wind Erosion 214 Removing sediments 215 Scratching the surface 215 Just Add Wind: Dunes and Other Depositional Wind Features 216 Migrating piles of sand: Dunes 217 Shaping sand 218 Laying down layers of loess 219 Paving the Desert: Deposition or Erosion? 221 Chapter 15: Catch a Wave: The Evolution of Shorelines 223 Breaking Free: Waves and Wave Motion 223 Dissecting wave anatomy 223 Starting to roll 224 Going with the flow: Currents and tides 226 Shaping Shorelines 228 Carving cliffs and other features 228 Budgeting to build sandbars 228 Categorizing Coastlines 230 Part 5: Long, Long Ago In This Galaxy Right Here 233 Chapter 16: Getting a Grip on Geologic Time 235 The Layer Cake of Time: Stratigraphy and Relative Dating 236 Speaking relatively 236 Sorting out the strata 236 Putting rock layers in the right order 237 Losing time in the layers 238 Show Me the Numbers: Methods of Absolute Dating 240 Measuring radioactive decay 241 Common radioactive isotopes for geological dating 244 Other exacting methods of geological dating 245 Relatively Absolute: Combining Methods for the Best Results 248 Eons, Eras, and Epochs (Oh My!): Structuring the Geologic Timescale 249 Chapter 17: A Record of Life in the Rocks 253 Explaining Change, Not Origins: The Theory of Evolution 254 The Evolution of a Theory 254 Acquiring traits doesn’t do it 254 Naturally, selecting for survival 255 Mendel’s peas please 255 Genetic nuts and bolts 256 Spontaneously mutating genes 256 Speciating right and left 257 Putting Evolution to the Test 258 Against All Odds: The Fossilization of Lifeforms 259 Bones, teeth, and shell: Body fossils 259 Just passing through: Trace fossils 260 Correcting for Bias in the Fossil Record 261 Hypothesizing Relationships: Cladistics 262 Chapter 18: Time before Time Began: The Precambrian 265 In the Beginning Earth’s Creation from a Nebulous Cloud 266 Addressing Archean Rocks 267 Creating continents 267 Revving up the rock cycle 267 Feeling hot, hot, hot: Evidence for extreme temperatures 269 Originating with Orogens: Supercontinents of the Proterozoic Eon 270 Single Cells, Algal Mats, and the Early Atmosphere 271 Hunting early prokaryotes and eukaryotes 271 You know it as pond scum: Cyanobacteria 272 Waiting to inhale: The formation of Earth’s atmosphere 275 Questioning the Earliest Complex Life: The Ediacaran Fauna 278 Chapter 19: Teeming with Life: The Paleozoic Era 281 Exploding with Life: The Cambrian Period 282 Toughen up! Developing shells 282 Ruling arthropods of the seafloor: Trilobites 283 Building Reefs All Over the Place 284 Swimming freely: Ammonoids and nautiloids 285 Exploring freshwater: Eurypterids 287 Spinal Tapping: Animals with Backbones 287 Fish evolve body armor, teeth, and legs? 287 Venturing onto land: Early amphibians 290 Adapting to life on land: The reptiles 290 Planting Roots: Early Plant Evolution 291 Tracking the Geologic Events of the Paleozoic 293 Constructing continents 293 Reading the rocks: Transgressions and regressions 294 Fossilizing carbon fuels 297 Pangaea, the most super of supercontinents 297 Chapter 20: Mesozoic World: When Dinosaurs Dominated 299 Driving Pangaea Apart at the Seams 300 One continent becomes many 300 Influencing global climate 301 Creating the mountains of North America 302 Repopulating the Seas after Extinction 303 The Symbiosis of Flowers 304 Recognizing All the Mesozoic Reptiles 306 Flocking together 308 Climbing the Dinosaur Family Tree 308 Branching out: Ornithischia and Saurischia 308 Horned faces and armor: Ornithischian dinosaurs 309 Long necks and meat eaters: Saurischian dinosaurs 312 Flocking Together: The Evolutionary Road to Birds 313 Laying the Groundwork for Later Dominance: Early Mammal Evolution 314 Chapter 21: The Cenozoic Era: Mammals Take Over 315 Putting Continents in Their Proper (Okay, Current) Places 316 Creating modern geography 316 Consuming the Farallon Plate 317 Carving the Grand Canyon with uplift 319 Icing over northern continents 320 Entering the Age of Mammals 320 Regulating body temperature 322 Filling every niche 323 Living Large: Massive Mammals Then and Now 323 Nosing around elephant evolution 324 Returning to the sea: Whales 325 Larger than life: Giant mammals of the ice ages 326 Right Here, Right Now: The Reign of Homo Sapiens 327 Arguing for the Anthropocene 329 Altering the climate 329 Shaping the landscape 330 Leaving evidence in the rock record 332 Chapter 22: And Then There Were None: Major Extinction Events in Earth’s History 333 Explaining Extinctions 334 Heads up! Astronomical impacts 334 Lava, lava everywhere: Volcanic eruptions and flood basalts 335 Shifting sea levels 337 Changing climate 337 End Times, at Least Five Times 337 Cooling tropical waters 338 Reducing carbon dioxide levels 338 The Great Dying 339 Paving the way for dinosaurs 340 Demolishing dinosaurs: The K/T boundary 340 Modern Extinctions and Biodiversity 342 Hunting the megafauna 342 Reducing biodiversity 343 Part 6: The Part of Tens 345 Chapter 23: Ten Ways You Use Geologic Resources Every Day 347 Burning Fossil Fuels 347 Playing with Plastics 348 Gathering Gemstones 348 Drinking Water 349 Creating Concrete 349 Paving Roads 350 Accessing Geothermal Heat 350 Fertilizing with Phosphate 350 Constructing Computers 351 Building with Beautiful Stone 351 Chapter 24: Ten Geologic Hazards 353 Changing Course: River Flooding 353 Caving In: Sinkholes 354 Sliding Down: Landslides 354 Shaking Things Up: Earthquakes 355 Washing Away Coastal Towns: Tsunamis 355 Destroying Farmland and Coastal Bluffs: Erosion 356 Fiery Explosions of Molten Rock: Volcanic Eruptions 356 Melting Ice with Fire: Jokulhlaups 357 Flowing Rivers of Mud: Lahars 357 Watching the Poles: Geomagnetism 358 Index 359

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A book that is insightful, tangible and practical whilst, I dare to say, quite emotional.; Daisy Narayanan MBE, Head of Placemaking and Mobility, Edinburgh City Council; "This is a very timely book, an effective antidote to the soulless, angular, concrete and glass high-rise city that is designed to serve the interests of capital rather than of ordinary people. Will anybody listen? Yes, I think so. Women-inspired urban 'regenerative development' is now an urgent necessity. This is an important book that should be essential reading for anybody concerned about the future of the human habitat."; Herbert Girardet, Author, Creating Regenerative Cities; "One would not expect to find a masterful tutorial in regenerative thinking and engagement in a book titled What if Women Designed the City? Yet that is exactly what May East delivers... she invites the reader into a journey through a dynamic, multilayered, multidimensional living matrix that requires continually weaving inner and outer worlds."; Pamela Mang, Principal and Co-Founder, Regenesis Institute;Table of ContentsForeword 1 Foreword 2 Preface 1 | The Context 2 | Women and Cities: A Co-Evolving Mutualism Perspective 3 | Systems Thinking for Urban Systems Change 4 | Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System 5 | Regenerative Design Bringing Vitality to Urban Systems 6 | Mapping Women's Presency through Walking Interviews 7 | 33 Leverage Points (LP) to make your city Work Better for Women and Girls 1 - Cultivating Biophilia 2 - Developing Spaces for Gathering and Belonging 3 - Designing Urban Extensions while Evolving the Whole 4 - Shifting from a mentality of maintenance to an attitude of care 5 - Redistributing land use and budget allocation for equality and gendered landscapes 6 - Creating conditions for wildness 7 - Devising a library of women-tailored bike saddles 8 - Growing and foraging for health and well-being 9 - Designing adventurous playgrounds for children and carers 10 - Working with men to redistribute power, balance representation and transform legal and planning systems 11 - Building confidence through easy to access self-defence training and seminars on rights of women and domestic violence 12 - Improving natural surveillance by design 13 - Scheduling regular patrol walks by wardens who belong 14 - Making Practical Cycle Awareness Training mandatory for drivers 15 - Encouraging active travel as a way of life 16 - Rethinking the bus fare system for trip-chaining and redesigning buses for encumbered travel 17 - Designing fresh air routes and low emissions zones from women's and infants perspectives 18 - Promoting earlier interventions and co-creating values-based educational pathways 19 - Expanding the use of public space in the evenings by creating bio-cultural-spatial conditions 20 - Co-developing sympathetic infrastructure enabling a sense of co-ownership and care 21 - Maximising use of available local resources available in urban interventions 22 - Practicing a culture of deep listening in the design and development of local plans 23 - Fostering regenerative tourism that enhances the bio-cultural-spatial uniqueness of place 24 - Adopting 20-Minute neighbourhoods 25 - Co-creating transitional safeguarding public spaces for young women 26 - Combining gender and nature-based approaches as strategy to transform urban environments 27 - Infusing beauty in cities form and function 28 - Reconnecting Broken Links 29 - Promoting schemes on electric bicycles usership 30 - Refurbishing pavements to accommodate high heels 31 - Delineating and flowing through cycling infrastructure 32 - Purpose-building intergenerational housing 33 - Co-designing Places with (not only for) teenage girls 8 | Bridging the Gender Gap in Urban Planning 9 | Afterword: Storylines Glossary of Terms Categorisation of 33 Leverage Points Bibliography

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