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Book SynopsisWritten by a leader in event sustainability management, this book is a practical, step-by-step guide taking readers through the key aspects of how to identify, evaluate and manage event sustainability issues and impacts and to use the event for good â events of any style and scale, anywhere in the world.Each year events of every shape and size are held globally: from community events, school fairs and local business functions through to the largest festivals, music concerts, conferences and sporting events. As well as encouraging celebration and giving voice to issues, these public parties can use up resources, send out emissions and generate mountains of waste. But events also have the power to showcase sustainability in action, and every sustainably produced event can inspire and motivate others to action. Thoroughly updated in its fourth edition, this book reflects what event sustainability best practice looks like in this new era of the discipline: circular and net-zero,

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Book Synopsis''This novel is genius . . . strange and superb . . . radiant and exhilarating'' THE TELEGRAPH''A magnificent attempt to help us understand the mixture of optimism, self-defense, hope and delusion[needed] to make the monumental choice of whether or not to leave home'' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'' A sobering reminder'' WASHINGTON POST''Leaping, chattering, dancing atop this conundrum [of global migration] comes the hero of Celina Baljeet Basra''s debut novel, Happy Singh Soni, his head bursting with ideas, his heart set on gargantuan dreams'' NEW YORK TIMESA starry-eyed young cinephile leaves his rural village in India with big dreams, only to find himself trapped in menial jobs and forced to work off a debt he may never repay. In a small farming village in Punjab, India, a boy crouches over his brother''s phone in a rapeseed field watching clips of Godard''s Bande à part on YouTube. His name is Happy Singh Soni and when he''s not sleeping among the cabbages and eating sugary rotis, Happy dreams of becoming an actor, one who plays the melancholy roles; the sad, pretty boys, rare in Indian cinema. He plans a clandestine journey to Europe, where he''ll finally land a breakout role. After a nightmarish passage to Italy, Happy still manages to find relief in food and fantasy, even as he is forced into ever-worsening work conditions on a radish farm by the syndicate involved in smuggling him to Europe to pay off the supposed debt they claim he has accrued. While disillusionment amongst the farm workers rise, Happy will find the love - and tragedy - that his favourite films always promised. At turns funny and heart-breaking, sunny and tragic, Happy is a formally ambitious novel about the psychic fissures produced by the splintering of nations, and the lovely, generative, artful coping mechanisms created by generations of diasporic people. With this ingenious, daringly cinematic debut, Celina Baljeet Basra argues for the things that are basic to human survival: food, water, shelter, but also pleasure, romance, art, and the right to a vivid inner life.More praise for HAPPY:''A MIRACULOUS NOVEL'' MEGHA MAJUMDAR ''PLAYFUL AND PROFOUND . . . USING WRY HUMOUR TO DELIVER A DEAD SERIOUS MESSAGE'' MELISSA FU''A BONKERS STORY THAT READS LIKE A FINE TEN-COURSE MEAL'' GARY SHTEYNGART''A FANTASTIC LITTLE GEM OF A BOOK'' CHIKODILI EMELUMADU

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Book SynopsisThis book explains the mechanisms and impacts of global heating, the reasons behind the lack of serious effort to combat climate change, and explores actions that there is still time to take. It is an excellent resource for students and researchers on the climate crisis and current blocks to progress.Trade Review'The Climate Crisis is exceptional for covering the wide range of complex issues involved in climate change. Aron's description of the physical climate system is one of the clearest I've read. He also informs us about impacts, and about the political, economic and psychological obstacles to addressing the crisis. In considering solutions, he draws on both the research literature and the recent efforts of social movements to create change. The Climate Crisis lays the groundwork for thinking carefully about this crucial problem and for taking action.' Thomas Dietz, Michigan State University; author of Decisions for Sustainability: Facts and Values'The Climate Crisis does a great job of connecting the climate science … with the evolving scholarship on how we approach - and could change our approach - to systemic risks and dread of climate change, which is arguably the greatest challenge we face as a species.' Daniel Kammen, University of California, Berkeley; and Former Science Envoy, Department of State in the Obama-Biden Administration'This is a tremendous book on the climate crisis, what it consists of, and why we are finding it so difficult to tackle. The insights on social and psychological dynamics are designed to make it much more than just information: this is a how-to manual on how you can become an effective climate activist and advocate. A perfect book for our difficult times. I have already recommended it to everyone I've met since reading it.' Julia K. Steinberger, University of Lausanne'This book is a tour de force for anyone interested in understanding climate change and how to overcome barriers to action. With unparalleled clarity, Aron explains the history of the climate change debate, the complex psychology of why we have failed to act and what cutting-edge social and behavioral science research has to say about how to engender the large-scale societal change needed to manage the most existential crisis of our time. Aron's new book offers essential reading for anyone interested in the future of our planet.' Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge and former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environmental PsychologyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The History of Human-Caused Global Heating; 2. Climate Science; 3. Climate Impacts; 4. Capitalism and the Climate Crisis; 5. Skepticism, Misinformation, and Motivated Cognition; 6. Science Communication: Countering Skepticism and Delivering Information Clearly; 7. Elevating Risk Perceptions About Global Heating; 8. Principles for Just and Effective Action; 9. A Technical and Social Framework to Guide Climate Action; 10. Building and Taking Collective Action; Conclusion; Glossary; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisEffective use of today's powerful GIS technology requires an understanding of the science of problem-solving that underpins it. Since the first edition published over a decade ago, this book has led the way, with its focus on the scientific principles that support GIS usage. It has also provided thorough, upto- date coverage of GIS procedures, techniques and public policy applications. This unique combination of science, technology and practical problem solving has made this book a best-seller across a broad spectrum of disciplines. This fully updated 4th edition continues to deliver on these strengths.Table of ContentsFOREWORD x DEDICATION xi PREFACE xii LIST OF ACRONYMS xiv Introduction 1 Geographic Information: Science, Systems, and Society 1 1.1 Introduction: What Are GI Science and Systems, and Why Do They Matter? 1 1.2 Data, Information, Evidence, Knowledge, and Wisdom 9 1.3 GI Science and Systems 11 1.4 The Technology of Problem Solving 14 1.5 The Disciplinary Setting of GI Science and Systems (GISS) 16 1.6 GI Science and Spatial Thinking 30 1.7 GI Systems and Science in Society 31 Questions for Further Study 32 Further Reading 32 1 Principles 2 The Nature of Geographic Data 33 2.1 Introduction 33 2.2 The Fundamental Problem 34 2.3 Spatial Autocorrelation and Scale 37 2.4 Spatial Sampling 39 2.5 Sampling and VGI 42 2.6 Distance Decay 43 2.7 Measuring Distance Effects as Spatial Autocorrelation 48 2.8 Taming Geographic Monsters 51 2.9 Induction and Deduction and How It All Comes Together 53 Questions for Further Study 54 Further Reading 54 3 Representing Geography 55 3.1 Introduction 55 3.2 Digital Representation 57 3.3 Representation of What and for Whom? 58 3.4 The Fundamental Problem 61 3.5 Discrete Objects and Continuous Fields 62 3.6 Rasters and Vectors 66 3.7 The Paper Map 69 3.8 Generalization 71 3.9 Conclusion 76 Questions for Further Study 76 Further Reading 76 4 Georeferencing 77 4.1 Introduction 77 4.2 Place-Names and Points of Interest 80 4.3 Postal Addresses and Postal Codes 82 4.4 IP Addresses 84 4.5 Linear Referencing Systems 84 4.6 Cadasters and the U.S. Public Land Survey System 85 4.7 Measuring the Earth: Latitude and Longitude 86 4.8 Projections and Coordinates 88 4.9 Measuring Latitude, Longitude, and Elevation: GPS 94 4.10 Converting Georeferences 95 4.11 Geotagging and Mashups 96 4.12 Georegistration 96 4.13 Summary 98 Questions for Further Study 98 Further Reading 98 5 Uncertainty 99 5.1 Introduction 99 5.2 U1: Uncertainty in the Conception of Geographic Phenomena 101 5.3 U2: Further Uncertainty in the Representation of Geographic Phenomena 111 5.4 U3: Further Uncertainty in the Analysis of Geographic Phenomena 117 5.5 Consolidation 126 Questions for Further Study 127 Further Reading 127 2 Techniques 6 GI System Software 128 6.1 Introduction 128 6.2 The Evolution of GI System Software 129 6.3 Architecture of GI System Software 131 6.4 Building GI Software Systems 136 6.5 GI Software Vendors 137 6.6 Types of GI Systems 140 6.7 Conclusion 150 Questions for Further Study 151 Further Reading 151 7 Geographic Data Modeling 152 7.1 Introduction 152 7.2 GI Data Models 154 7.3 Example of a Water-Facility Object Data Model 168 7.4 Geographic Data Modeling in Practice 170 Questions for Further Study 172 Further Reading 172 8 Data Collection 173 8.1 Introduction 173 8.2 Primary Geographic Data Capture 175 8.3 Secondary Geographic Data Capture 181 8.4 Obtaining Data from External Sources (Data Transfer) 187 8.5 Capturing Attribute Data 190 8.6 Citizen-Centric Web-Based Data Collection 190 8.7 Managing a Data Collection Project 191 Questions for Further Study 193 Further Reading 193 9 Creating and Maintaining Geographic Databases 194 9.1 Introduction 194 9.2 Database Management Systems 195 9.3 Storing Data in DBMS Tables 198 9.4 SQL 201 9.5 Geographic Database Types and Functions 202 9.6 Geographic Database Design 205 9.7 Structuring Geographic Information 206 9.8 Editing and Data Maintenance 212 9.9 Multiuser Editing of Continuous Databases 213 9.10 Conclusion 214 Questions for Further Study 216 Further Reading 216 10 The GeoWeb 217 10.1 Introduction 217 10.2 Distributing the Data 222 10.3 The Mobile User 227 10.4 Distributing the Software: GI Services 233 10.5 Prospects 235 Questions for Further Study 236 Further Reading 236 3 Analysis 11 Cartography and Map Production 237 11.1 Introduction 237 11.2 Maps and Cartography 241 11.3 Principles of Map Design 246 11.4 Map Series 257 11.5 Applications 261 11.6 Conclusion 265 Questions for Further Study 265 Further Reading 265 12 Geovisualization 266 12.1 Introduction: Uses, Users, Messages, and Media 266 12.2 Geovisualization, Spatial Query, and User Interaction 268 12.3 Geovisualization and Transformation 274 12.4 Participation, Interaction, Augmentation, and Dynamic Representation 280 12.5 Consolidation 288 Questions for Further Study 289 Further Reading 289 13 Spatial Data Analysis 290 13.1 Introduction: What Is Spatial Analysis? 290 13.2 Analysis Based on Location 295 13.3 Analysis Based on Distance 304 13.4 Conclusion 317 Questions for Further Study 318 Further Reading 318 14 Spatial Analysis and Inference 319 14.1 The Purpose of Area-Based Analyses 319 14.2 Centrality 321 14.3 Analysis of Surfaces 324 14.4 Design 329 14.5 Hypothesis Testing 334 14.6 Conclusion 337 Questions for Further Study 338 Further Reading 338 15 Spatial Modeling with GI Systems 339 15.1 Introduction 339 15.2 Types of Models 343 15.3 Technology for Modeling 351 15.4 Multicriteria Methods 352 15.5 Accuracy and Validity: Testing the Model 354 15.6 Conclusion 356 Questions for Further Study 357 Further Reading 357 4 Policy, Management, and Action 16 Managing GI Systems 358 16.1 Introduction 359 16.2 Managing Risk 359 16.3 The Case for the GI System: ROI 360 16.4 The Process of Developing a Sustainable GI System 366 16.5 Sustaining a GI System—The People and Their Competences 378 16.6 Conclusions 380 Questions for Further Study 380 Further Reading 380 17 Information and Decision Making 381 17.1 Why We Need Information 381 17.2 Information as Infrastructure 386 17.3 Different Forms of GI 391 17.4 Open Data and Open Government 404 17.5 Example of an Information Infrastructure: The Military 406 17.6 Conclusions 409 Questions for Further Study 410 Further Reading 410 18 Navigating the Risks 411 18.1 Clashes Between Scientists and the Judiciary 412 18.2 Business Models for GI-Related Enterprises 412 18.3 Legal and Regulatory Constraints 414 18.4 Privacy and GI Systems 421 18.5 Public Trust, Ethics, and Coping with the Media 424 18.6 Partnerships, Up-Scaling Activities, and Risk Mitigation 426 18.7 Coping with Spatial Stupidity 432 18.8 Conclusions 433 Questions for Further Study 434 Further Reading 434 19 Epilog: GISS in the Service of Humanity 435 19.1 GISS, the Active Citizen, and Citizen Scientists 435 19.2 Context: Our Differentiated World 437 19.3 Context: Our Interdependent World 440 19.4 The Process 441 19.5 The Grand Challenges 443 19.6 Grand Challenges Whose Effects We Can Help to Ameliorate 445 19.7 Conclusions 459 Questions For Further Study 460 Further Reading 460 INDEX 461

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Book SynopsisPractical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology, Second Edition, provides an invaluable and vastly updated overview of geoarchaeology and how it can be used effectively in the study of archaeological sites and contexts. Taking a pragmatic and functional approach, this book presents: a fundamental, broad-based perspective of the essentials of modern geoarchaeology in order to demonstrate the breadth of the approaches and the depth of the problems that it can tackle. the rapid advances made in the area in recent years, but also gives the reader a firm grasp of conventional approaches. covers traditional topics with the emphasis on landscapes, as well as anthropogenic deposits and site formation processes and their investigation. provides guidelines for the presentation of field and laboratory methods and the reporting of geoarchaeological results. essential reading for archaeology undergraduate and graduate students, practicing archaeologists and geoscientists who need to understand andTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - Sediments Chapter 3 - Stratigraphy Chapter 4 - Soils Chapter 5 - Slopes and slope deposits Chapter 6 – Rivers (Y. Zhuang, Goldberg, P and Macphail, R. I.) Chapter 7 – Lakes (Y. Zhuang, Goldberg, P and Macphail, R. I.) Chapter 8 – Aeolian settings (C. Carey, Goldberg, P and Macphail, R. I.) Chapter 9 – Marine Coasts Chapter 10 – Caves and Rock shelters Chapter 11 – Human impact: Changes to the Landscape on landscape Chapter 12 – Human Use of materials Chapter 13 – Anthropogenic Deposits Chapter 14 – Experimental and Ethno- Geoarchaeology Chapter 15 – Geoarchaeology in Forensic Science and Mortuary Archaeology Chapter 16 – Field-based methods: Documenting Context (C. Carey, Goldberg, P and Macphail, R. I.) Chapter 17 – Laboratory Techniques Chapter 18 – Reporting and publishing Chapter 19 – Concluding remarks and the geoarchaeological future Appendices Index

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to the most important issues facing an increasingly globalized world with this thoroughly updated and revised sixth edition. Global Issues is an accessible, wide-ranging introduction to the major environmental and development issues confronting the modern world. Spanning disciplines such as political science, economics, sociology, ecology, international relations, and development studies, this popular textbook enables students to develop a broad perspective on the relationships between nations, society, corporations, and the environment in various contexts. Exploring issues surrounding wealth, poverty, inequality, climate change, natural resources, pollution, technology, and others, the text illustrates the importance of global solutions to the issues facing increasingly interdependent nations around the world. This sixth edition has been extensively revised to ensure contemporary relevance, featuring updated case studies and compelling reTable of ContentsList of Plates xiii List of Figures, Maps, and Tables xv Acknowledgements xix Introduction 1 The Creation of Global Issues 1 1 What is Development? 3 Developing Toward What? 3 Twentieth‐Century Approach: Development as Economic Growth 4 Twenty‐First‐Century Approach: Developing towards Sustainability 6 Wave of Hope: The Millennium Development Goals (2000–2015) 7 Sustainable Development Goals (2015–2030) 8 Development Assistance and Foreign Aid 10 Culture and Development 14 Conclusion 16 Notes 18 Further Reading 19 2 Wealth and Poverty 21 Can We Eradicate Poverty? 23 Mainstreaming Sustainable Development 27 A Pessimistic View: The Persistence of Poverty 29 Systematic Approaches 33 A Market Approach 33 The State as Economic Actor 36 A Blended Approach 40 Trade and Global Economic Interdependence 41 Global Interdependence 43 Positive aspects 43 Negative aspects 44 Geography and Wealth, Geography and Poverty 45 Conclusions 46 Notes 48 Further Reading 52 3 Population 55 The Changing Population of the World 56 Shifting Demographics: Rural to Urban 61 Causes of the Population Explosion 67 Demographic transitions: population and development 68 How Population Growth Affects Development 74 Rapid growth 74 Slow growth 76 An aging population and low birth rates 76 How Development Affects Population Growth 79 Factors lowering birth rates 80 International Conferences on Population 82 Governmental Population Policies 84 Managing growth 84 Mexico 86 India 88 China 88 Promoting growth 89 The Future 92 The growth of the world’s population 92 The carrying capacity of the Earth 92 “Optimum” size of the Earth’s population 94 Population‐related challenges in our future 96 Conclusions 98 Notes 99 Further Reading 105 4 Food 108 How Many Are Hungry? 109 World Food Production 110 Arable land 111 Climate 112 How Development Affects Food 113 United States: Industrial Agriculture and Farm Consolidation 114 Brazil: Becoming a Food Exporter by Expanding the Agricultural Frontier 116 Contents ix China: Limited Land to Grow, Many Mouths to Feed 116 Feeding a Growing Population 118 The “Green” Revolution 119 Fertilizers 120 Pesticides 121 Energy 121 Irrigation 122 Biotechnology 122 Fishing and aquaculture 125 Traditional/sustainable/organic agriculture 126 Causes of World Hunger 128 How Food Affects Development 132 The type of food 134 What’s your Footprint? 138 Food Waste and Food Loss 139 The Future 140 Governmental Food Policies 141 Future Food Supplies 143 Conclusions 145 Notes 146 Further Reading 156 5 Energy 158 The Relationship between Energy Use and Development 159 Nonrenewable Energy Sources 161 Oil 162 Global Oil Supplies and Price Shocks 163 Coal 165 Natural Gas 166 The Energy Transition 167 Renewable Energy Sources 169 Solar Power 169 Wind 171 Hydroelectric Power 172 Wood, Agricultural/Forestry Residues, and Animal Dung 173 Geothermal Energy 174 Hydrogen‐Powered Fuel Cells 175 Energy and Development: Critical Challenges and Opportunities 176 National Approaches to Energy and Development 177 China 179 The United States 180 Western Europe 183 Japan 184 The Decoupling of Energy Consumption and Economic Growth 185 Conservation/Energy Efficiency 186 x Contents Nuclear Power: A Case Study 188 The potential and the peril 188 The choice 192 Withdraw support for nuclear power 192 Continue to support nuclear power 194 Conclusions 195 Notes 196 Further Reading 201 6 Climate Change 203 An Unprecedented Global Challenge 204 How Increased Temperatures Impact the Earth 206 Regional impacts 206 Africa 207 Asia 207 Low‐lying islands 207 Europe 207 Latin America 207 North America 207 Polar regions 207 Types of impacts 209 Monster storms 209 Extreme heat 210 Infectious diseases 210 Agriculture 210 Melting ice 212 Sea level rise 212 Disruption of natural ecosystems 213 How Bad Will It Get? 213 Planet at a crossroads: high stakes choices 215 Air pollution 215 Uncertainties 216 Abrupt climate change 216 Slower Atlantic currents 216 Clouds 216 Other positive and negative feedbacks 216 Global Agreement for a Global Problem 217 What More Can Be Done? 218 Conclusion 221 Notes 221 Further Reading 223 7 The Environment: Natural Resources 225 The Awakening 225 Water 228 Contents xi Land 229 Minerals 229 Deforestation 230 Governing the Commons 235 The Extinction of Species 236 Responsible Use 240 Resource efficiency 240 Recycling 241 Substitution 243 Reducing needs 243 Conclusion 244 Notes 244 Recommended Readings 248 8 The Environment: Pollution 249 Air Pollution 250 Acid rain 254 Ozone depletion 258 Climate change (global warming) 260 Water Pollution 261 The Workplace and the Home 263 Cancer 263 Chemicals 264 Pesticides 265 Managing Waste 267 Solid wastes 267 Toxic wastes 269 Governmental and industrial responses to the waste problem 270 Environmental Politics 271 Conclusion 274 Notes 275 Further Reading 282 9 Technology 283 Benefits of Technology 284 Unanticipated Consequences of the Use of Technology 285 DDT 287 Factory farms 288 Inappropriate Uses of Technology 289 Limits to the “Technological Fix” 294 War 296 The Threat of Nuclear Weapons: A Case Study 298 The threat 298 New dangers 301 Nuclear proliferation 301 The cleanup 303 The threat of nuclear terrorism 303 xii Contents Conclusions 304 Notes 305 Further Reading 308 10 Alternative Futures 310 Development Pathways: Evaluating Our Current Situation 311 Current Outlook: Business as Usual 312 Collapse and Sustainable Development 314 Choices 318 Improve production 318 Reduce demand 319 Governance: Deciding How to Act on the Choices We Make 320 Conclusion 324 Notes 326 Further Reading 330 Appendix 1: Studying and Teaching Global Issues 332 Appendix 2: Relevant Videos 340 Glossary 349 Index 355

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface to Second Edition vi 1 Introduction 1 2 Early Geographies 13 3 The Emergence of Modern Geography 33 4 Thinking About Regions 57 5 Spatial Science and the Quantitative Revolution 77 6 Humanistic Geographies 101 7 Marxist Geographies 122 8 Feminist Geographies 147 9 Postmodernism and Beyond 170 10 Toward Poststructuralist Geographies 193 11 Relational Geographies 212 12 More- than- Human Geographies 232 13 More- than- Physical Geographies 251 14 Postcolonial, Decolonial, and Anticolonial Geographies 269 15 Black Geographies 287 Glossary 306 Index 313

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 About This Book 2 Foolish Assumptions 3 Icons Used in This Book 4 How This Book Is Organized 4 Part 1: Linear Is Out, Circular Is In: An Economic Revolution 4 Part 2: Rethinking Business for a Circular Economy 5 Part 3: Rethinking Material Lifecycles — The Circular Perspective 5 Part 4: Redesigning the Future to Be Circular 5 Part 5: Creating a Circular Economy for All 6 Part 6: The Part of Tens 6 Beyond the Book 6 Where to Go from Here 7 Part 1: Linear Is Out, Circular Is In: An Economic Revolution 9 Chapter 1: Rejecting Waste, Rethinking Materials, and Redesigning the World 11 Rejecting the Idea of Waste 12 Waste as a driver of the economy 13 Waste as a resource 13 Rethinking Material Lifecycles 16 Take, make, and waste 17 Making technical materials circular 17 Making biological materials circular 18 Upcycling versus downcycling 19 Redesigning the Future to Be Circular 19 Food production 20 Circular businesses, products, and clothing 20 A circular economy for all 22 Chapter 2: What’s Wrong with Being Linear, Anyway? 23 We’re Taking the Wrong Stuff 25 We’re not importing this stuff from space 27 Everyone keeps having kids 28 We don’t have as much as we thought 30 It all revolves around oil 31 We’re Making the Wrong Stuff 31 You’re buying trash 32 Even kids can build with blocks 33 Trying to recycle the unrecyclable 33 We’re using materials that are bad for us 34 We’re Wasting the Wrong Stuff 34 It all comes at a big cost 34 We’re running out of room 35 It’s expensive to throw things away 35 The debt collector is knocking at the door 35 Change Is Really Hard, We Know 36 If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it 36 Taking risks 37 Chapter 3: A Growing Demand for a Circular Economy 41 The Drive to Make Money 44 Redefining risk and liability 44 Innovating to attract new customers 46 The Drive to Be Healthier 46 Lifestyles that foster health and sustainability 46 Wellness as a priority 47 The Drive to Be in Compliance 47 Environmental, social, and corporate governance 48 Corporate social responsibility (CSR) 49 Climate and shareholders 50 A Larger Drive Toward Deep Sustainability 50 This has been brewing for a while 51 Precedents 51 Looking to the future 54 Chapter 4: From Linear To Circular: What You Need To Know 57 So Much Chaos: Understanding Entropy 58 Externalized costs 59 Linear versus circular: A hilarious-yet-depressing comparison 60 Borrow from nature, not from the future 64 Waste = Food: Redefining Disposal 66 All materials have another use 68 Product stewardship 69 Building Resilience Through Diversity: Redefining Strength 71 Responding to disruption 72 Takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’ 73 Durability and reparability policies 74 Part 2: Rethinking Business For a Circular Economy 77 Chapter 5: Identifying Your Business Opportunities 79 Exploring the Benefits of Going Circular 79 Exploiting the profit opportunities 80 Reducing volatility and ensuring greater supply chain security 81 Managing the new demand for business services 81 Improving customer interaction and loyalty 83 Rethinking the Business Model 85 Building new types of capital 86 Rethinking money as the only medium of exchange 87 Reflecting the true cost of products 87 Embracing diversity 89 Rethinking your supply chain 89 Designing for the future 90 Examining Business from a Global Perspective 91 Chapter 6: Rethinking the Conventional Business Model 95 Rethinking How We Look at Cost 98 The hidden cost of procurement 100 The hidden impact of transportation 104 The hidden burden of inventory 104 The hidden secrets of quality 105 Maximizing Your Value Proposition to Customers 105 Becoming a mission-driven company 106 Safeguarding your workers 107 Greenwashing 107 Turning Obstacles into Opportunities 108 Listening to customers 109 Creating unspoken demand 110 Rethinking old assumptions 110 Bending linear into loops 111 Thinking of businesses as a system 112 Chapter 7: Exploring the Essentials of a Circular Business Model 113 The Six Rs: Your New Circularity Mantra 114 Refuse: Say no to what you don’t need 114 Reduce: Use less for longer 115 Reuse and remanufacture: Extend product life 116 Repurpose: Find other uses 116 Recycle: Return materials for rebirth 116 Rot: Return it to the soil 117 Developing a Circular Business Structure: The Bones of the Operation 117 Identifying potential material loops 118 Considering innovative business models 118 Who’s at the table? Engaging your stakeholders 120 Developing a message 121 Benchmarking and improvement 122 Chapter 8: ’Round and ’Round: Making Your Products Circular 127 Managing Material Lifecycle Performance 128 Designing products for reuse 129 Designing products to be remanufactured 130 Designing products for recycling 130 Making Your Product Lifecycle Smarter 131 Creating effective and serviceable products 132 Being flexible 132 Seeking collaborators and partners 133 How It All Comes Together 134 Everything is circular first 134 Everything is transparent 135 Chapter 9: From Trash to Treasure: Converting Waste into Products 139 Seeing Why the Circular Economy Is All About Retaining Value 140 Stop Being Linear: It’s a Waste of Time 144 Why Buy Waste When You Can Sell It? 145 Selling your old stuff 147 Starting your own business 149 Troubleshooting a Wasteful Product Lifecycle 152 Where the wild things are 153 Signed, sealed, delivered 153 Waste not, want not 154 Being a sustainable shopper 154 Finding value in the ugly 155 Part 3: Rethinking Material Lifecycles: The Circular Perspective 163 Chapter 10: Understanding the Circular Material Lifecycle 165 Viewing the Entire Spectrum of Environmental Impact 166 Defining degenerative lifecycles 167 Defining sustainable lifecycles 167 Defining regenerative lifecycles 168 Understanding the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Butterfly Diagram 169 Examining the circular economy’s structure: The bones of the operation 169 Renewables flow management: Harnessing biological cycles 171 Stock management: Optimizing technical cycles 172 Promoting environmental restoration: Investing now to obtain even more later 175 Chapter 11: Analyzing Material Lifecycle Processes 179 Looking at Material Processes 181 Fostering transparency 183 Instituting chemical management 183 Rewarding innovation 184 The Lifecycle Principles: Identifying Where Change Can Happen 184 Preserving natural capital 185 Enhancing the usefulness of products, components, and raw materials 186 Developing effective systems that minimize negative externalities 187 Looking at Opportunities for Optimization 187 Refusing the new: Reusing the old 188 Employing the remaining factor: Remanufacturing 189 Biochemical extraction for the win 190 Chapter 12: Improving the Material Lifecycle 195 Improving How Material Lifecycles Function 196 Looking at Materials in a New Way 198 Getting to know your lifecycle 199 Refuse before you reduce, reuse, and recycle 200 Examining Operations in a New Way 201 Looking at human capital 201 You can be everywhere 201 Connecting Sourcing, Suppliers, and Customers 202 Chapter 13: It All Comes Down to Selecting the Right Materials 207 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Exploring Materials 208 Oil or Plastics — They’re Really Much the Same Thing 208 What’s Harder than Rock? Metals 212 Paper Products and Cardboard 214 Through the Looking Glass 217 And Everything In-Between 218 Identifying Hazardous Materials 219 Red list materials 220 Red list material alternatives 221 Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) 221 Sourcing, Ethics, and Standards 222 Understanding strategic sourcing 222 Establishing ethics 223 Exploring certifications and standards 223 Chapter 14: Circular Materials, Products, and Packaging 227 Redesigning Materials and Products: The Transition from Linear to Circular 228 “Less bad” does not equal “good” 228 Planning for material reincarnation 230 How To Keep Materials In Use Forever 231 Why things break 232 From planned obsolescence to planned permanence 232 Shipping Global versus Producing Local 234 Building a regional economy: A shipping substitute 235 You’ve got to be shipping me 238 Permanent packaging 239 Part 4: Redesigning the Future to Be Circular 245 Chapter 15: The Circular Economy of Food Production 247 Examining the Two Ways of Producing Food 248 Investigating the Hidden Costs of Agriculture 249 Food waste: Expending money, time, and resources unnecessarily 250 Environmental degeneration: Damaging the planet with increasing speed 252 Permaculture to the Rescue 252 Following nature’s lead: Permaculture design principles 253 Taking a look at permaculture management zones 256 Chapter 16: Circularity for Design 259 Redesigning Design 260 Understanding circular design 260 Designing out waste 263 Keeping products and materials in use 264 Regenerating natural systems 264 Recognizing the Problems Designers Face 265 We’re being overtaken by trash 265 We’re running out of materials 265 We’re choking on carbon 266 Creating a Framework for Circular Design 267 Applying the ReSOLVE framework to buildings 268 Layers of useful life 269 Putting the pieces together 271 Chapter 17: Circular Economy for Builders, Makers, and Manufacturers 275 Assessing a Building’s Lifecycle 276 Defining construction and demolition debris 276 Gauging the economic opportunities of C&D waste 277 Measuring C&D waste impact 277 Defining lifecycle impacts 279 Identifying human health hazards and promoting transparency 280 People, planet and profit 280 Selecting Appropriate Building Products 283 Sourcing responsibly 284 Something stinks 285 We All Embody Carbon 287 The human’s relationship to carbon 288 The building’s relationship to carbon 290 Operational carbon 290 Embodied carbon 291 Carbon influences on building design 293 Straight from the Open Source 294 Recognizing the benefit 294 Looking at open source in action 295 Chapter 18: The Circular Economy for Fashion and Clothing 297 Sewing Together the Issue: Where Fashion Is and Where It’s Headed 298 Fashion = Waste + Pollution 299 The current trajectory to catastrophe 302 Making It Circular: A Future Forecast for Fashion 303 The Phase Out phase 304 Redesigning how clothes are used 305 Optimizing collection and recycling 306 Relying on renewable resources 307 Comparing Common Fashion Fabrics 310 Plastic 311 Plants 313 Animals 314 Part 5: Creating A Circular Economy For All 317 Chapter 19: Understanding an Individual’s Circular Opportunities 319 Looking at the Food You Eat 320 Sourcing 320 Managing food waste 321 Sizing Up the Products You Buy 327 Recycling: The last resort 327 Selecting products with reuse potential 328 Evaluating the House You Live In 328 Considering lifecycle costs 329 Building better 329 Thinking About the Way You Commute 331 Be car-less for once 331 Choose more efficient options 332 Revisiting the Way You Work 332 Promoting telecommuting and teleconferencing 332 Managing office supplies 333 Chapter 20: Creating a Career in the Circular Economy 335 Looking at the Future of Jobs 336 Jobs that are central to the circular economy 338 Jobs that are enabling the circular economy 338 Jobs that are indirectly related to the circular economy 339 Skills required for a circular economy 341 Where to Go for More Education 341 Earning certifications 341 Earning degrees and diplomas 342 Chapter 21: A Global Vision of a Circular Economy 345 Seeing What a Circular Community Looks Like 346 Sourcing community resources and aid 347 Looking at food management 348 Eyeing transportation 349 Seeing What a Circular University Looks Like 350 Learning from living laboratories 351 Insisting on data visibility 352 Seeing What a Circular Restaurant and Brewery Look Like 353 Fostering effective and efficient sourcing and prep 354 Revising service standards 355 Viewing waste as a resource 356 Part 6: The Part of Tens 359 Chapter 22: Ten Questions to Ask About Your Material Lifecycle 361 Where Did This Material Come From? 362 What Are the By-Products of Harvesting This Material? 362 What Are the By-Products of Manufacturing This Material? 362 How Is the Material Delivered? 363 How Is the Material Installed? 364 How Is the Material Maintained, Powered, or Operated? 364 How Healthy Are the Materials? 364 What Can We Do with These Materials After We’re Done with Them? 365 What Can Be Done to Extend, Prolong, or Maintain the Material? 366 What Can We Do to Encourage the Reuse, Refurbishment, Redistribution, or Remanufacture of the Material? 366 Chapter 23: Ten Questions to Foster Innovative Thinking 367 How Can We Make This Product Redundant? 368 How Can We Rethink How This Product Is Used? 369 How Can We Reduce the Resources or Materials Used? 369 In What Ways Can This Product Be Reused by Another Consumer? 369 In What Ways Can This Product Be More Easily Maintained and Repaired? 370 In What Ways Can This Product Be Restored or Kept Up-to-Date? 370 How Can Discarded Parts Be Remade into a New Version of the Same Product? 370 How Can Discarded Parts Be Remade Into a New Product? 371 In What Ways Can We Recycle These Materials into Quality Products? 371 How Can We Dispose of This Material in a Manner That Recovers Energy? 371 Chapter 24: Ten Questions to Ask about Your Supply Chain 373 What Drives Your Product Design? 374 What Are Your Users’ Needs? 374 Will Your Customers Access or Will They Own Your Product? 375 Who Are Your Partners? 376 What Materials Are Required? 377 How Will You Produce Your Product? 377 How Will Users Receive Your Product? 378 How Will You Support the Repair and Maintenance of Your Product? 379 What Refurbishment Options Will You Offer for Your Product? 379 How Will You Reclaim Your Product at Its End of Life? 380 Chapter 25: Ten Questions That Reveal How Much Your Waste Is Costing You 381 What Labor Costs Are Tied to Waste Disposal? 382 What Is the Real Cost of Waste Disposal? 382 What Is the Impact on Human Health? 383 How Does Waste Impact Ecosystem Services? 383 What Is the Innate Value of Waste? 384 How Much Raw Material Is Required to Offset Waste? 385 What Are the Indirect Costs of Waste? 385 How Much Does Poor Efficiency Cost? 386 What Natural Resources Are Required for Waste? 386 What Waste Remediation Will Be Required? 387 Index 389

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Book SynopsisNow in its second edition, Water Resources: An Integrated Approach provides students with a comprehensive overview of natural processes associated with water and the modifications of these processes by humans through climate change and land management, water-related health issues, engineering approaches to water and socio-economic processes of huge importance to water resources. The book contains chapters written by 24 specialist contributors, providing expert depth of coverage to topics. The text introduces the basic properties of water and its importance to society and the nature of the different regional imbalances between water resource availability and demand. It guides the reader through the changing water cycle impacted by climate and land management, water flows in river basins, surface water quality, groundwater and aquatic ecosystems, and covers the role of water in human health and associated hazards before turning to engineering solutioTable of ContentsList of contributors Preface Acknowledgements 1. Water basics 2. The changing water cycle 3. Surface water hydrology 4. Surface water quality 5. Groundwater 6. Aquatic ecosystems 7. Water and health 8. Potable water and wastewater treatment 9. Water demand planning and management 10. Water economics 11. Water conflict, law and governance 12. Virtual water 13. The future of water Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) is an important and often obligatory part of proposing or launching any development project. Delivering a successful ESIA needs not only an understanding of the theory but also a detailed knowledge of the methods for carrying out the processes required. Riki Therivel and Graham Wood bring together the latest advice on best practicefrom experienced practitioners to ensure an ESIA is carried out effectively and efficiently. This new edition: explains how an ESIA works and how it should be carried out demonstrates the links between socio-economic, cultural, environmentaland ecological systems and assessments incorporates the World Bank's IFC performance standards, and best practice examples from developing as well as developed countries includes new chapters on emerging ESIA topics such as climate change, ecosystem services, cultural impacts, resource efficiency, land acquisition and invoTrade Review“This book is a blockbuster reference work. It is a one-stop shop for all you need to know on the concepts, issues, steps and methods of ESIA across an array of themes. It will be an essential source for practitioners, decision-makers and academics around the world.”Barry Dalal-Clayton, Director, Environment and Development Services (EDS) – International“Written by top experts in the field, this book constitutes an important resource for people who need to understand the process and products of environmental impact assessment. Both technical approaches and conceptual challenges are described in a way that novice readers can understand, but that experienced practitioners will also appreciate.” Marla Orenstein, President, IAIA “This is the ultimate cross-cutting international resource to understand how to design and carry out impact assessment for virtually any environmental or social component.”Angus Morrison-Saunders, Associate Professor in Environmental Assessment, Murdoch University, AustraliaTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 Water 3 Soils, land and geology 4 Air 5 Climate and climate change 6 Ecology 7 Coastal ecology and geomorphology 8 Ecosystem services 9 Noise 10 Transport 11 Landscape and visual 12 Cultural heritage 13 Socio-economic impacts 1: Overview and economic impacts 14 Socio-economic impacts 2: Social impacts 15 Land acquisition, resettlement and livelihoods 16 Health 17 Resource efficiency 18 Risk and risk assessment 19 Cumulative effects 20 Environmental and social management plans

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Book SynopsisThis is a reprint of ISBN 978-0-901-35743-4Widely acknowledged as the one stop summary of health and safety fundamentals, Principles covers law, safety technology, occupational health and hygiene and safety management techniques. Originally written by the late international health and safety expert Allan St John Holt, this new edition has been comprehensively updated by Allan's colleague Jim Allen. The book is designed as a concise, accessible introduction to health and safety basics and includes revision notes and a wide range of references. It is a first class resource for NEBOSH Certificate students. Table of Contents1. Safety management techniques, 2. Workplaces and work equipment, 3. Occupational health and hygiene, 4. Law

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Book SynopsisThis is the most comprehensive guide ever written on renewables technology and engineering, intended to cater for the rapidly growing numbers of present and future engineers who are keen to lead the revolution. All the main sectors are covered - photovoltaics, solar thermal, wind, bioenergy, hydro, wave/tidal, geothermal - progressing from the fundamental physical principles, through resource assessment and site evaluation to in-depth examination of the characteristics and employment of the various technologies. The authors are all experienced practitioners, and as such recognise the cross-cutting importance of system sizing and integration. Clear diagrams, photos, tables and equations make this in invaluable reference tool, while worked examples mean the explanations are well-grounded and easy to follow - essential for students and professionals alike.Table of ContentsPreface * Energy and development * Renewable energy utilization * Review of basic scientific and engineering principles * The solar energy resource * Solar photovoltaic technology * Solar thermal engineering * Elements of passive solar architecture * Wind energy resources * Introduction to wind turbine technology * Small hydro: resource and technology * Geothermal energy, tidal energy, wave energy, and ocean thermal energy * Bio-energy resources * Thermochemical conversion of biomass * Biochemical methods of conversion * Liquid fuels from biomass: fundamentals, process chemistry, and technologies * Index

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Book SynopsisGreenhouse gas (GHG) offsets have long been promoted as an important element of a comprehensive climate policy approach. Offset programs can reduce the overall cost of achieving a given emission goal by enabling emission reductions to occur where costs are lower. Offsets have the potential to deliver sustainability co-benefits, through technology development and transfer. They can also develop human and institutional capacity for reducing emissions in sectors and locations not included in a cap and trade or a mandatory government policy. However, offsets can pose a risk to the environmental integrity of climate actions, especially if issues surrounding additionality, permanence, leakage, quantification and verification are not adequately addressed. The challenge is to design offset programs and policies that can maximize their potential benefits while minimizing their potential risks. This handbook provides a systematic and comprehensive review of existing offset programs. ItTrade Review'The most comprehensive guide available to carbon offset programs around the world.' Derik Broekhoff, Vice President, Policy, Climate Action Reserve 'This handbook is the most comprehensive guide available to carbon offset programs around the world. An invaluable aid for anyone seeking to make sense of the global thicket of offset standards, rules, and systems, both voluntary and regulatory.' Derik Broekhoff, Vice President, Policy, Climate Action Reserve 'This reference work provides a uniquely comprehensive collection of facts and analysis on the numerous offset mechanisms in play across the world. I recommend it to anyone interested in the issue of offsets.' Jean-Jacques Becker, Assistant Director, French Ministry of Energy, Ecology and Sustainable Development 'A must-have resource for state and local policymakers interested in developing offset policies and programs.' Janice Adair, Special Assistant, Washington State Department of Ecology 'SEI is establishing itself as the 'go-to' source for comprehensive, unbiased information about the rapidly changing field of greenhouse gas offsets. This book will be an extremely valuable reference in a field where the lack of reliable data is a continual challenge.' Alexia Kelly, Senior Associate, Climate and Energy Program, World Resources Institute 'A uniquely comprehensive compendium on greenhouse gas offset programs throughout the world. And a wonderful reference for anyone from project developers to treaty negotiators.' Michael Gillenwater, Dean, Greenhouse Gas Management Institute 'This book provides a comprehensive overview of existing greenhouse gas offset programs with a keen eye to issues, options and alternatives. Policy makers, stakeholders and those interested in the development of a comprehensive market for greenhouse gas emission reductions, will find it a useful reference.' Janet Peace, Vice President for Markets and Business Strategy, Pew Center on Global Climate Change 'This book provides an excellent overview of the rules for offsetting projects in different programs around the globe. It should be a definitive reference for anyone who wants to understand the key issues and differences in the various offsetting schemes.' Lambert Schneider, Oeko-InstitutTable of ContentsIntroduction A Comparison of Offset Programs International Offset Mechanisms Offset Features of Cap and Trade Systems Offset Features of Other GHG Systems Greenhouse Gas Accounting Protocols Voluntary GHG Standards Carbon Offset Funds Glossary References

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTable of Contents 1: Introduction to Earth ScienceUnit 1 Earth Minerals2: Matter and Minerals3: Rocks: Materials of the Solid EarthUnit 2 Sculpturing Earth’s Surface4: Weathering, Soil, and Mass Wasting5: Running Water and Ground Water6: Glaciers, Deserts, and WindUnit 3 Forces Within7: Plate Tectonics: A Scientific Revolution Unfolds8: Earthquakes and Earth’s Interior9: Volcanoes and Other Igneous Activity10: Crustal Deformation and Mountain Building Unit 4 Deciphering Earth’s History11: Geologic Time12: Earth’s Evolution Through Geologic TimeUnit 5 The Global Ocean13: The Ocean Floor14: Ocean Water and Ocean Life15: The Dynamic OceanUnit 6 Earth’s Dynamic Atmosphere16: The Atmosphere: Composition, Structure, and Temperature17: Moisture, Clouds, and Precipitation18: Air Pressure and Wind19: Weather Patterns and Severe Storms20: World Climates and Global Climate ChangeUnit 7 Earth’s Place in the Universe21: Origins of Modern Astronomy22: Touring Our Solar System23: Light, Astronomical Observations, and The Sun24: Beyond Our Solar System:

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Book SynopsisHelp your students catch up, keep up and make expected progress in Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this new series of intervention workbooks. Target workbooks are available for the schools' price of only £2.49 (RRP £4.99) when you quote 568OTHR at checkout.

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Book SynopsisWhich exam? Edexcel GCSE (9-1) German First teaching: September 2016 First assessment: June 2018 A targeted way to build key skills for the new Edexcel GCSE (9-1) German specification (assessment from 2018).   To create this workbook, we identified the most common barriers students face when you''re aiming for grades 7-9 at GCSE. Target''s unique approach develops the key skills you need to overcome these obstacles and work towards your expected grade. Our Target workbooks identify the key barriers to achieving your potential, then helps you address them step by step. Full of ready-to-use examples and activities. See your progress easily, with step-by-step exercises and exam-style questions that focus on building key skills. Use the workbooks in class or at home - the exercises are easy to use independently.  See also: Our Target

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Book SynopsisCatch up, keep up and make expected progress with our Target intervention workbooks.

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Book SynopsisRooted in feminist political thought, She City illuminates how gender shapes our urban spaces and city design. Through three sections: ''Resisting Sexist Cities'', ''Designing Feminist Cities'', and ''Prioritizing Safer Cities'', Kalms examines barriers to women''s public participation and focuses on the practical strategies, policies and actions to overcome them.Addressing significant themes such as violence against women and gender-sensitive design, She City not only provides direction for practitioners but also inspires confidence to pursue new paths towards women-centered urban environments. This book is an essential resource for architects, urban designers, planners and the plethora of built environment specialists committed to building cities that truly meet the diverse needs of women and girls.Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Acknowledgments 1. Women in Cities: An Introduction 2. Don't Stand So Close to Me: Sexist Street Harassment and Women's 'Safety Work' 3. Fake Happy: Hypersexual Cities and Women's Inequity 4. Missing Women: Smart Women in the Data Gap 5. Girls to the Front: Mainstreaming Women's Needs 6. Not Neutral: Designing Cities for Women 7. Expanding Expertise: Women's Safety Audits 8. Train Wreck: Public Transport and Women's Safety 9. Eyes on the Street: Women and Urban Crime Prevention 10. On the Edge of the Night: Women and the Nighttime Economy 11. Run the World: Co-design in a Feminist Framework References Index

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive, single source of information on the plants and animals that live alongside us. This updated edition features new material on climate change, recycling and wild spaces in gardens.This friendly handbook is full of practical advice on attracting wildlife to your garden and encouraging creatures to stick around. A helpful introductory section includes expert tips on green gardening, seasonal planting, how to deal with garden predators and how to get children involved in gardening. A DIY chapter, with a step-by-step guide on creating projects for your garden from building nest, bat and hedgehog boxes to making your own pond is also included. From foxes to finches and from lizards to ladybirds, colour photographs illustrate almost 400 garden species, including mammals, birds, insects, invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians, flowers, trees, shrubs and fungi, while the comprehensive text explains everything you need to cultivate a haven for nature.Trade ReviewNature lovers will find this handbook full of great advice, from seasonal planting through to recycling, with lots of information on climate change, too. * People's Friend *Remarkably comprehensive... This is a great book and one that should be on the shelves of all green-fingered naturalists – whether you’ve a few acres or a window box! -- Steve Willis * British Trust for Ornithology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword The RSPB Introduction Species Accounts DIY in the Garden Glossary Index Image Credits

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Book SynopsisOver the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as life''s overlords, but we are instead at its mercy. In the evolution of antibiotic resistance, the power of natural selection to create biodiversity, and even the surprising life of the London Underground, Dunn finds laws of life that no human activity can annul. When we create artificial islands of crops, dump toxic waste, or build communities, we provide new materials for old laws to shape. Life''s future flourishing is not in question. Ours is.A Natural History of the Future sets a new standard for understanding the diversity and destiny of life itself.Trade ReviewRob Dunn sketches an arresting vision of this relentless natural world . . . If we want to know what's coming, then, we would be well advised to familiarize ourselves with them, Dunn argues. To that end, his book functions as a helpful crash course in ecology and, as the title implies, an augur of sorts -- The New York Times Book Review[A] lucid discussion . . . Dunn's absorbing analysis advocates making the most of the few certainties we have -- Scientific AmericanEven if we could halt fossil fuel emissions tomorrow, we would still need to make some big changes. Evolutionary biologist Rob Dunn's timely new book . . . is a guide to this complex problem and offers palatable solutions . . . a clear and important read -- Mary Ellen Hannibal, ScienceA stimulating exploration . . . The author avoids the usual implausible how-to-fix-it conclusion . . . Instead, he offers a book that is less doomsday prophecy and more excellent primer on ecology and evolution. An imaginative, sensible education for those concerned with the fate of the Earth -- Kirkus ReviewsA fascinating, shocking, and inspiring guide to the future by one of the most creative and eloquent biologists of our time. Dunn's book is packed full of insight from the latest scientific discoveries about the wonders and troubles of the living Earth -- David George Haskell, author of The Forest UnseenA timely, thought-provoking analysis, delivered in the affable prose that has become Dunn's hallmark -- Thor Hanson, author of Hurricane Lizards and Plastic SquidSpeciations in weird urban habitats, viruses chasing hosts around the globe, and the greatest challenge life on Earth has faced for two million years: this is the fascinating and sobering ecology of the Anthropocene -- Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of KindredFive stars . . . it makes the reader think, and there are some truly fascinating ideas about the way species interact with their environment . . . A useful and timely book -- Brian Clegg, Popular ScienceRob Dunn steers our attention toward the biota under our noses as part of a broader project to explicate the circumstances that prompt new life forms, and adaptive behaviors, to appear . . . The biodiversity and versatility on display in the animal kingdom of which we are part have lots to teach us. To remain at home in the world, we too will need to change -- The Atlantic[Dunn argues] people can help mitigate the effects of climate change by valuing "the rest of life" outside humanity, as well as heeding the lessons that other life has to teach. Thoughtful and accessible, this deserves a wide readership -- Publishers WeeklyIn forecasting future ecology, Dunn enlists biological laws to predict what likely lies ahead for life on our planet, including us . . . Dunn engagingly explains biogeography, inventive intelligence, and speedy evolutionary reaction to changing conditions -- Tony Miksanek, Booklist

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Book SynopsisWe Are At the Edge, Not the End, of HistoryWhy did Russia invade Ukraine? Why have energy costs and inflation been so high? Why is there is there a cost-of-living crisis? Why does the climate crisis keep getting worse? What causes conflict, socio-economic crises, and climate change and what can you do about it, for your family, your business, and your country?Global events, however long their origins, too often seem out of our control and suddenly to transform the world around us. If we want stability, we need to understand the causes, the scale of the challenges, and how we can deliver big enough solutions in time.So many crises are caused by the same problem: competition for coveted resources. The amount of these same resources that we waste is shocking and the impact devastating. Which is why every society, organisation, business, household, and individual must put efficiency first - not just to save money and carbon and improve resilience, but to mitigateTrade ReviewThe statistics in Maxwell's book are stunning. Energy, like food and water, is in increasingly short supply. But for all of these, we waste most of what we are fighting over. -- Edward Lucas, The TimesThe Edge is the only book you need to make sense of the global energy crisis. -- Reader's DigestA very important contribution. One of the huge comparative advantages of this book is the seriousness and knowledge about energy and efficiency. It explains how critical resource efficiency, relating to energy, but also to other scarce resources such as food, water, minerals, and time will be to managing the enormous geopolitical, economic, and environmental challenges in front of all of us today. -- Lord Stern, Chair of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of EconomicsThe Edge is an eloquent roller coaster ride through the unfolding of the modern climate crisis, well informed, up to date and well articulated, a project that keeps one eye on global energy and resource use growth, and one on energy and resource wastage ... an important and urgent book ... -- Dr Andrew Lee, University of Oxford Climate Alumni NetworkFor years we have been told that the most valuable unit of energy is the unit we don't use. But turning that observation into real flows of finance has proven elusive. Jonathan has a clear vision for how to change that - and more than just a vision, he's got the receipts: he's done it, at scale on five continents. -- Michael Liebreich, Founder of Bloomberg NEF and Host of Cleaning Up

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Book SynopsisWhy we can't afford the rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional mechanisms that allow the top 1% to siphon off wealth produced by others. With an updated Afterword, Andrew Sayer shows how the rich worldwide have increased their ability to hide their wealth, create indebtedness and expand their political influence.Trade Review"The value of Sayer's account lies in his readable and persuasive attack on the idea that the very richest have accumulated their wealth fairly and deserve to be allowed to accumulate more." The London School of Economics and Political Science"massive admiration for the delightful eloquence of the author, who guides readers carefully and enlighteningly through political-economic terms, concepts and theories that can often be, in the hands of other writers, opaque and/or dangerously misleading" Soundings"[This book's] brilliant dissection of where the rich get their wealth from, and how they seek to justify it, ought to be required reading for anyone seeking to understand what is wrong with our problem-filled world." Noel Castree, Progress in Human Geography"Sayer shows compellingly...just how much tolerating grand accumulations of private wealth is costing us." Too Much."A timely and insightful guide to how the rich managed top shape a language and political agenda that suited their purposes just perfectly." Tax Justice Focus"This is a powerful book deserving a wide readership." People, Place and Policy"Why We Can't Afford the Rich presents a nuanced, well-formed vision, which speaks from the perspective of a moral economy." Marx & Philosophy Review of Books."In his book, [Sayer] reveals the crippling and unfair means by which the 1% manage to personally gain wealth that's been created by others' labor." Jewish Currents"Packed with useful information and insights, this is a useful complement to Thomas Pikkety’s Capital in the Twenty First Century, and makes a serious challenge to the many claims propagated by rich people and their minions." Tax Justice Network"This is a quietly angry book, full of facts and figures that show the rich to be a major cause of the inequality that Wilkinson and Pickett revealed in their book The Spirit Level and of the injustice that Danny Dorling described in his book Injustice." Citizen's Income Trust"This timely and important book exposes the pernicious influence of the super rich on our economic and social fabric. It underlines the need for radical action to redistribute wealth, rebalance our economy and tackle inequality. A must read for politicians and policymakers alike" Frances O'Grady, TUC General Secretary"Sayer's penetrating analysis of asset-based unearned income is a powerful case for socialism, supporting as he does land nationalisation and the creation of banks with the remit to lend for productive investment in ethical and environmentally sustainable business." Morning Star"Sayer does an impressive job of bringing home to the reader the scale of the threat capitalism now poses to humanity. As an introduction to critical political economy, the book is one of the best available." Counterfire?"A refreshing antidote to a public discourse that has allowed the perpetrators of the financial crisis to make massive gains, while the full burden of costs falls on those innocent of its causes. A must-read for all those who want to reverse that injustice and a wake-up call for the rich." Ann Pettifor, Director, Prime: Policy research in macroeconomics"Sayer puts forth a cogent and thoroughly convincing argument that will enlighten and inform—and may even help instigate the radical changes he puts forth." Publishers Weekly"Sayer proceeds with arguments that are internally coherent and does not invent economic mechanisms in the way that populists often do, never forgetting that cake-making must come before cake distribution." The Times Literary Supplement"Adds to the growing body of work that challenges mainstream economic thinking and traditional self-justifications for inequality." New Left Project“Unmatched in persuasive argument and compelling illustrations, Andrew Sayer shows how the rich and the super-rich are destroying not just the economy but the planet too. Everyone should read Why we can’t afford the rich and spread the word.” Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley"?Cuts through the hype so often used to defend growing inequality and gets to the core of the problem, with suggestions about where solutions may come from." Danny Dorling, University of OxfordTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: A Guide to Wealth Extraction; Slippery Terms and Vital Distinctions; For rent . . . for what?; Interest . . . for what? or We need to talk about usury; Profit from production: or capitalists and rentiers: what’s the difference?; Other ways to skin a cat; Don’t the Rich Create Jobs? – and other objections; Part II: Putting the Rich in Context: What Determines What People Get?; To what do we owe our wealth?: Our dependence on the commons; So what determines pay?; The myth of the level playing field; Part III: How the Rich Got Richer: Their Part in the Crisis; The roots of the crisis; Key winners; Summing up: the crisis and the return of the rentiers; Part IV: Rule by the Rich, for the Rich; Silent power, pol donations lattice of influence; Hiding it; Illegal? + poachers; What about philanthropy?; Plutonomy; Part V: Ill-gotten and Ill-spent: From Consumption to Ill-Being and CO2; Spending it; Global warming trumps everything; Conclusion: back to basics – what kind of economy do we need?.

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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking and compelling book shows in fine detail the life struggles of those who live on a public housing estate in Dublin. Combining long-term research into residents' lived experience with critical realist theory, it provides a completely fresh perspective on public housing in Ireland and arguably, beyond.Table of Contents1. Introduction PART I: Ethography 2. Should I Stay or Should I Go? 3. Work Ethic 1 4. Work Ethic 2 5. The Food Chain 6. Means Ends 7. What Goes Around Comes Around 8. Fragile Beings 9. The Word PART II: Critical Realism and Public Housing 10. From Manifest Phenomena to Generative Structures 11. Class as The Production of Scarcity: Wage, Price, Debt, Food 12. Women and the Affective Domain of the Bridgetown Estate 13. Class Geography: Part of No Part

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Book SynopsisREVISED AND UPDATED WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION ‘Brave and unflinching in setting out the reality of the hell towards which we’re headed, but even more urgent, passionate and compelling about the grounds for hope if we change course fast enough, Hope in Hell is a powerful call to arms from one of Britain’s most eloquent and trusted campaigners.’ -- Caroline Lucas, MP'Is there time? Just. Is there hope? Plenty. Hope in Hell is brave, urgent and wise - in fact, one of the most important books any of us may read.'  -- John Vidal Climate change is the defining issue of our time. We know, beyond reasonable doubt, what the science now tells us. Just as climate change is accelerating, so too must we – summoning up a greater sense of urgency, courage and shared endeavour than humankind has ever seen before.  And we don’t get to defer this eTrade Review'Hope in Hell provides a brilliant analysis of humanity’s impact on the Earth. Jonathon Porritt still allows us a little hope, but absolutely no excuses for further delay, urging radical political action. Don’t read this unless you are prepared to strive for the rest of your days in service of future generations; you will be emotionally enlisted, and unable to claim ignorance in your defence.' -- Helen Browning, Soil Association'We teeter, like the coach at the end of The Italian Job, on the brink of irreversible disaster. Pulling back from that peril may be seen as impossible, but Jonathon Porritt’s Hope in Hell shows us how it can be done. It’s so full of wisdom, clarity and inspiration that it should be compulsory reading for every world leader; and, more importantly perhaps, for every young person looking for real hope in today’s encircling gloom.' -- Joanna Lumley'Not for the first time, Jonathon Porritt has put his finger on the pulse - not the flickering pulse of a Covid-19 patient, but the racing pulse of the whole of humanity in extreme danger as a consequence of the existential threat of climate change. And he's absolutely right: the coronavirus pandemic has brought with it a realisation that the social and economic priorities of the past cannot be those of the future.' -- David Puttnam'Hope in Hell will become an indispensable handbook in the pre-eminent planetary struggle of our times. It is truthful, trenchant and yet refreshingly hopeful.' -- Sting'Is there time? Just. Is there hope? Plenty. Hope in Hell is brave, urgent and wise - in fact, one of the most important books any of us may read.' -- John Vidal'Perhaps the greatest strength of this brilliantly vigorous book is its insistence on the interconnection of all the issues that matter most for our future. 'Climate justice' is bound up with all other sorts of justice – with all the challenges of racial, social and gendered inequality; with the fate of democracy itself; with the nature of human intelligence and compassion. Combining urgency and hopefulness with rare clarity, Jonathon Porritt reminds us that we have the information, and we have the technology: what we need is imagination and will, and the trust that allows us to take the brave collective steps that are needed now. It’s a terrific book, and couldn’t be more timely – the post-COVID world will need just this kind of synoptic picture and I hope the book will be recognised as a major tract for the times.' -- Rowan Williams'Jonathon Porritt has produced a book which is a roadmap, a bible and a manual all in one - to fill the very heart of all those supporting progressive politics and today's Green New Deal. Our job has just begun, and in Hope in Hell, we've been given the best piece of ammunition to help us do our duty to the planet. It should be read aloud in every classroom, university and home in the land. Thank you, Jonathon.' -- Gordon Roddick'Jonathon Porritt draws on five decades of experience to present this vital book, one that will change how you think about climate change and transform what you will want to do about it - hopefully, just in time to save our collective future.' -- Tony Juniper, environmentalist'This book offers real hope as to how we might re-set our economies, post the coronavirus crisis. But that hope has to be earned; as Porritt puts it: 'There is no hope whatsoever in another ten years of incremental change.' Radical transformation is needed, including mass civil disobedience - this really is the last chance saloon for avoiding climate-driven societal collapse. When Jonathon Porritt says this, the world has to listen.' -- Prof. Rupert Read, University of East Anglia, author This Civilisation is Finished and national spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion'Despite daunting obstacles, and a rapidly shrinking window of opportunity, Jonathon Porritt argues that the balance of factors at play can still lead to a positive outcome as we grapple to find our balance within the natural world. Will we make it? Not without confronting the status quo and the elites that defend it, with civil disobedience and the solidarity of the engaged young and old offered as crucial ingredients. The decade of the 2020s will be decisive, and Hope in Hell offers a blueprint for determining which fork in the road we will take.' -- Chris Rapley CBE (Professor of Climate Science, University College London)'Hope in Hell provides a brilliant analysis of humanity’s impact on the Earth. Jonathon Porritt still allows us a little hope, but absolutely no excuses for further delay, urging radical political action. Don’t read this unless you are prepared to strive for the rest of your days in service of future generations; you will be emotionally enlisted, and unable to claim ignorance in your defence.' -- Helen Browning, Soil Association'We teeter, like the coach at the end of The Italian Job, on the brink of irreversible disaster. Pulling back from that peril may be seen as impossible, but Jonathon Porritt’s Hope in Hell shows us how it can be done. It’s so full of wisdom, clarity and inspiration that it should be compulsory reading for every world leader; and, more importantly perhaps, for every young person looking for real hope in today’s encircling gloom.' -- Joanna Lumley'Not for the first time, Jonathon Porritt has put his finger on the pulse - not the flickering pulse of a Covid-19 patient, but the racing pulse of the whole of humanity in extreme danger as a consequence of the existential threat of climate change. And he's absolutely right: the coronavirus pandemic has brought with it a realisation that the social and economic priorities of the past cannot be those of the future.' -- David Puttnam'Hope in Hell will become an indispensable handbook in the pre-eminent planetary struggle of our times. It is truthful, trenchant and yet refreshingly hopeful.' -- Sting'Is there time? Just. Is there hope? Plenty. Hope in Hell is brave, urgent and wise - in fact, one of the most important books any of us may read.' -- John Vidal'Perhaps the greatest strength of this brilliantly vigorous book is its insistence on the interconnection of all the issues that matter most for our future. 'Climate justice' is bound up with all other sorts of justice – with all the challenges of racial, social and gendered inequality; with the fate of democracy itself; with the nature of human intelligence and compassion. Combining urgency and hopefulness with rare clarity, Jonathon Porritt reminds us that we have the information, and we have the technology: what we need is imagination and will, and the trust that allows us to take the brave collective steps that are needed now. It’s a terrific book, and couldn’t be more timely – the post-COVID world will need just this kind of synoptic picture and I hope the book will be recognised as a major tract for the times.' -- Rowan Williams'Jonathon Porritt has produced a book which is a roadmap, a bible and a manual all in one - to fill the very heart of all those supporting progressive politics and today's Green New Deal. Our job has just begun, and in Hope in Hell, we've been given the best piece of ammunition to help us do our duty to the planet. It should be read aloud in every classroom, university and home in the land. Thank you, Jonathon.' -- Gordon Roddick'Jonathon Porritt draws on five decades of experience to present this vital book, one that will change how you think about climate change and transform what you will want to do about it - hopefully, just in time to save our collective future.' -- Tony Juniper, environmentalist'This book offers real hope as to how we might re-set our economies, post the coronavirus crisis. But that hope has to be earned; as Porritt puts it: 'There is no hope whatsoever in another ten years of incremental change.' Radical transformation is needed, including mass civil disobedience - this really is the last chance saloon for avoiding climate-driven societal collapse. When Jonathon Porritt says this, the world has to listen.' -- Prof. Rupert Read, University of East Anglia, author This Civilisation is Finished and national spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion'Despite daunting obstacles, and a rapidly shrinking window of opportunity, Jonathon Porritt argues that the balance of factors at play can still lead to a positive outcome as we grapple to find our balance within the natural world. Will we make it? Not without confronting the status quo and the elites that defend it, with civil disobedience and the solidarity of the engaged young and old offered as crucial ingredients. The decade of the 2020s will be decisive, and Hope in Hell offers a blueprint for determining which fork in the road we will take.' -- Chris Rapley CBE (Professor of Climate Science, University College London)'This excellent book does not shy away from the terrifying facts of what is happening to our planet. Porritt lays them out calmly and precisely. Yet he also has hope - hope that the COVID pandemic has helped to kindle. Hope in Hell provides a blueprint of how we can rapidly decrease emissions, lessen inequalities and capitalise on this unique moment for change, ensuring a better world for all. Essential reading.' -- Rosie Boycott'Yet another brilliant book from Jonathon Porritt. An eloquent, thoughtful, and compelling affirmation that we can address the climate crisis if we set our minds to it.' -- Christiana Figueres'Hope in Hell provides a brilliant analysis of humanity’s impact on the Earth. Jonathon Porritt still allows us a little hope, but absolutely no excuses for further delay, urging radical political action. Don’t read this unless you are prepared to strive for the rest of your days in service of future generations; you will be emotionally enlisted, and unable to claim ignorance in your defence.' -- Helen Browning, Soil Association'We teeter, like the coach at the end of The Italian Job, on the brink of irreversible disaster. Pulling back from that peril may be seen as impossible, but Jonathon Porritt’s Hope in Hell shows us how it can be done. It’s so full of wisdom, clarity and inspiration that it should be compulsory reading for every world leader; and, more importantly perhaps, for every young person looking for real hope in today’s encircling gloom.' -- Joanna Lumley'Not for the first time, Jonathon Porritt has put his finger on the pulse - not the flickering pulse of a Covid-19 patient, but the racing pulse of the whole of humanity in extreme danger as a consequence of the existential threat of climate change. And he's absolutely right: the coronavirus pandemic has brought with it a realisation that the social and economic priorities of the past cannot be those of the future.' -- David Puttnam'Hope in Hell will become an indispensable handbook in the pre-eminent planetary struggle of our times. It is truthful, trenchant and yet refreshingly hopeful.' -- Sting'Is there time? Just. Is there hope? Plenty. Hope in Hell is brave, urgent and wise - in fact, one of the most important books any of us may read.' -- John Vidal'Perhaps the greatest strength of this brilliantly vigorous book is its insistence on the interconnection of all the issues that matter most for our future. 'Climate justice' is bound up with all other sorts of justice – with all the challenges of racial, social and gendered inequality; with the fate of democracy itself; with the nature of human intelligence and compassion. Combining urgency and hopefulness with rare clarity, Jonathon Porritt reminds us that we have the information, and we have the technology: what we need is imagination and will, and the trust that allows us to take the brave collective steps that are needed now. It’s a terrific book, and couldn’t be more timely – the post-COVID world will need just this kind of synoptic picture and I hope the book will be recognised as a major tract for the times.' -- Rowan Williams'Jonathon Porritt has produced a book which is a roadmap, a bible and a manual all in one - to fill the very heart of all those supporting progressive politics and today's Green New Deal. Our job has just begun, and in Hope in Hell, we've been given the best piece of ammunition to help us do our duty to the planet. It should be read aloud in every classroom, university and home in the land. Thank you, Jonathon.' -- Gordon Roddick'Jonathon Porritt draws on five decades of experience to present this vital book, one that will change how you think about climate change and transform what you will want to do about it - hopefully, just in time to save our collective future.' -- Tony Juniper, environmentalist'This book offers real hope as to how we might re-set our economies, post the coronavirus crisis. But that hope has to be earned; as Porritt puts it: 'There is no hope whatsoever in another ten years of incremental change.' Radical transformation is needed, including mass civil disobedience - this really is the last chance saloon for avoiding climate-driven societal collapse. When Jonathon Porritt says this, the world has to listen.' -- Prof. Rupert Read, University of East Anglia, author This Civilisation is Finished and national spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion'Despite daunting obstacles, and a rapidly shrinking window of opportunity, Jonathon Porritt argues that the balance of factors at play can still lead to a positive outcome as we grapple to find our balance within the natural world. Will we make it? Not without confronting the status quo and the elites that defend it, with civil disobedience and the solidarity of the engaged young and old offered as crucial ingredients. The decade of the 2020s will be decisive, and Hope in Hell offers a blueprint for determining which fork in the road we will take.' -- Chris Rapley CBE (Professor of Climate Science, University College London)'This excellent book does not shy away from the terrifying facts of what is happening to our planet. Porritt lays them out calmly and precisely. Yet he also has hope - hope that the COVID pandemic has helped to kindle. Hope in Hell provides a blueprint of how we can rapidly decrease emissions, lessen inequalities and capitalise on this unique moment for change, ensuring a better world for all. Essential reading.' -- Rosie Boycott'Yet another brilliant book from Jonathon Porritt. An eloquent, thoughtful, and compelling affirmation that we can address the climate crisis if we set our minds to it.' -- Christiana Figueres'If you wonder how we got where we are, where we’re going, and what to do; if you wonder why your child is willing to be arrested; if you think there must still be a way to change and avoid extinction, then Hope in Hell is the book for you. The text is like the Mississippi river, deep, wide, full of life and fast moving, a terrific read, pulling you towards the delta and gulf we approach: The great awakening, the tipping point, where the ecological disasters are so great that humanity is finally convinced to act. I would rarely say this, but I think you need this book. It is going to help you. It is a vital narrative. An essential resource if you have any hope for the unknown future of yourself, your children and all life on this planet.' -- Mark Rylance“Hope in Hell sits at a pivotal moment in the history of humanity and the planet. It rehearses our most dread fears and rigorously explores the terrors of what is likely to come. But it is threaded through with just enough hope to promise a very different future for our children – if, that is, we take the right actions, right now. This book mixes intellectual acuity, fastidious research, a call to arms and a deeply personal plea. That plea has touched and inspired me. We should all read this important book.” -- Kevin McCloud

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Book SynopsisA biography of the strangest molecule in the universe. Alok Jha takes the most every day of subjects - water - and explodes it into a story that takes us from the Big Bang to the latest developments of modern scienceTrade ReviewIt delights again and again because, as in all the best science writing, the tale is stranger and more curious than one could ever imagine - GuardianOne of the brightest young science writers around . . . He belongs to a select band of science communicators, and knows his science at a deep level and can put it across. - The Independent

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Book SynopsisExplorer and adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes explores the concept of fear, and shows us through his own experiences how we can push our boundaries in everyday life.Sir Ranulph Fiennes has climbed the Eiger and Mount Everest. He''s crossed both Poles on foot. He''s been a member of the SAS and fought a bloody guerrilla war in Oman. And yet he confesses that his fear of heights is so great that he''d rather send his wife up a ladder to clean the gutters than do it himself.In FEAR, the world''s greatest explorer delves into his own experiences to try and explain what fear is, how it happens and how he''s overcome it so successfully. He examines key moments from history where fear played an important part in the outcome of a great event. He shows us how the brain perceives fear, how that manifests itself in us, and how we can transform our perceptions.With an enthralling combination of story-telling, research and personal accounts of his own struggles to overcome fear, Sir Ranulph Fiennes sheds new light on one of humanity''s strongest emotions.

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Book SynopsisHow has the climate changed in the past? How is it changing now? How do we know?And what kind of a future do we want to create?Trade Review2071 is better than good: it is necessary * Guardian *An engrossing overview of the most urgent issue of the century * The Times *Pretty essential if you want a sensible overview on what is happening to our planet * Time Out *Urgent and accessible. It's also hard to argue with, and scary. Essential reading ahead of December's key UN Climate Change conference * Evening Standard *

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Book SynopsisSandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate how capital reshapes its relation with politics, showing how contemporary capitalism operates through the extraction of mineral resources, data, and cultures; the logistical organization of relations between people, property, and objects; and the penetration of financialization into all realms of economic life.Trade Review"The Politics of Operations is a challenging, highly ambitious work. . . . Ultimately, the reorientation that Mezzadra and Neilson are proposing is a subtle one, indebted to a rich archive of political ideas. But they rework and recombine those ideas into a book that is shrewdly reasoned, superbly written, and thick with insight into the contemporary moment." -- Martin Danyluk * Society and Space *"Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson outline a novel perspective on the startling disjunctive synthesis of homogenization and heterogenization processes that characterize the global expansion of capitalist economy. Their second collaborative, book-length study offers a compelling account of the economic, political, and social relations to which these movements respond." -- Nicolas Schneider * Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. The Space and Time of Capitalist Crisis and Transition 17 2. Operations of Capital 55 3. Capital, State, Empire 94 4. Extraction, Logistics, Finance 133 5. Vistas of Struggle 168 6. The State of Capitalist Globalization 209 References 253 Index 287

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Book SynopsisExam board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: GeographyFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2017 (AS); Summer 2018 (A-level)Covering what you really need to know for OCR A-level Geography - in just 120 pages - this revision guide makes revision easy - whether you're getting started early or you need to do some last-minute cramming.- Find key facts at your fingertips with quick summaries of the content, concepts and terms from the OCR A-level Geography specification- Get better grades in your exams with tips on exam technique, mistakes to avoid and important things to remember- Revise and practise using end-of-topic questions and in-depth questions at the end of each section- Benefit from the knowledge of experienced teacher, author and former senior examiner David RedfernThis book covers the core content from the OCR A-level specification and the optional topics Coastal landscapes, Global migration, Power and borders, Disease dilemmas, and Hazardous earth

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Book SynopsisOne of 'the best new books on eco-living' Sunday TimesLitter on our streets, plastics in our seas, overflowing landfill, fatbergs... Do you know where your rubbish ends up? We are all responsible for the waste we make and we can make simple changes to live more planet-friendly lives.Expert environmental campaigner Martin Dorey looks at what we recycle, what we bin, what we take to the tip - plastics, food, clothing, electricals and furniture - where it goes and what it really does to our planet. Martin offers simple, impactful ways – #2minutesolutions – to cut down your waste and why they make a big difference.You can help save the planet. It only takes 2 minutes.

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Book SynopsisDiscover the wonder of bees (and other stripey insects) and how to help them survive. In this little book of bees, wasps, hoverflies and more, discover the easy ways to make your gardens, window boxes and pots insect havens. Rewild your garden with plants for bees and honeybees - simple acts of kindness to save the planet. Expert Nicola Bradbear, from Bees for Development charity, shows you how and why it's so important.There are lots of fun things you can do to make a big difference.With every book sold, proceeds will be donated to Bees for Development (www.beesfordevelopment.org)

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Book SynopsisWe don't know what we've got until it's gone...This brief, lucid book by the Director of Science at Royal Botanical Gardens takes you on an unforgettable tour of the natural world, showing how biodiversity - the rich variety of life in the world and in our own backyards - provides both the source and the salvation of our existence. Combining inspiration stories and the latest scientific research, Alex Antonelli reveals the wonders of biodiversity at a genetic, species and ecosystem level - what it is, how it works, and why it's the most important tool in our battle against climate change.A deeper understanding of biodiversity has never been more important, as the slow violence of habitat loss has put the fate of almost one-fifth of all species on Earth at risk of extinction in the coming decades. These building blocks of life form a network that underpins almost every aspect of our lives, providing invaluable sources of food, medicine, fibre, clothing, building material and more. With simplicity and clarity, The Hidden Universe shows you not only what's at stake, but what can be done (and is already being done) to protect and restore biodiversity around the world. It marks the arrival of a bold new voice in popular science.Trade Review'Engaging and urgent' * Nature *'The Hidden Universe is a smooth read ... biological facts are leavened by personal stories Antonelli tells of his "adventures" as a botanist traveling the world in search of plants.' * NewCity Lit *'For anyone who still needs winning around to our planet's beauty - and wants to know how we can save it - this is the book they should read.' * The Guardian *

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Book SynopsisA pilot's love letter to the world's greatest cities from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Skyfaring'A journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energised, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives' ALAIN DE BOTTONGrowing up in his small hometown, Mark Vanhoenacker spun the illuminated globe in his bedroom and dreamt of elsewhere - of distant, real cities, and a perfect metropolis that existed only in his imagination.Now, as a commercial airline pilot, Mark has spent more than two decades crossing the skies of our planet and touching down in the cities he'd always longed to see. Imagine a City celebrates the metropolises he has come to know and love through the lens of the hometown his heart has never left. From the sweeping roads of Los Angeles and the old gates of Jeddah to the intricate, dream-inspired plan of Brasília, he shows us with warmth and fresh eyes the extraordinary places that billions of us call home.'Vanhoenacker... has a near-bottomless appetite for fresh sights and guidebook curiosities... Intimate and thoughtful' PICO IYER, AIR MAIL'A love letter to the cities he's returned to again and again... Vanhoenacker captivates when describing the silent beauty of a world glimpsed from above' Washington Post'Eloquent... A love song to cities the world over' Wall Street JournalTrade ReviewImagine a City... will enchant and even move anyone who feared in recent years for the future of both travel and urbanism -- Janan Ganesh * Financial Times, *Summer Reads of 2022* *Vanhoenacker is exceptionally well travelled, and an exceptionally curious and widely read observer... He doesn't waste an hour, and with every return his engagement with each city deepens... Superb -- Jonathan Buckley * Times Literary Supplement *Dreamy and erudite... [Vanhoenacker is] a most likeable, warm-hearted narrator with an original world view -- Melanie Reid * The Times *Imagine a City is really about home... a variation on the Great Expectations narrative, with our young hero feeling uncomfortable where he grows up, flying the nest for a series of transformative experiences but discovering he can never quite leave home nor fully return * Spectator *What makes Mark Vanhoenacker's Imagine a City such a joy, is that this is a travel book entirely rooted in modernity and globalization... but which nonetheless retains the wide-eyed wonder, not so much of a 19th-century explorer as of a medieval pilgrim -- Tim Hannigan * Asian Review of Books *In this new work, Vanhoenacker... plunges deeper into his own past growing up in Pittsfield as a gay man... His autobiographical vignettes are searching and touching, delivered with an affectionate lyricism -- Pico Iyer * Air Mail *More personal [than Skyfaring], but with the same reassuringly precise and perceptive voice -- Tom Robbins * Financial Times, *Summer Reads of 2022* *Mark Vanhoenacker is a beautiful, lyrical writer who uses his experience as a pilot to bring us constantly in touch with the transcendent and the other-worldly -- Alain de BottonA enriching memoir of how a sensitive, introverted boy's yearning for escape and acceptance found its fulfilment in the life of an airline pilot... A touching survey of human dreams and endeavours and a hymn to the quiet pleasures of returning, in the flesh or in memory, to the intimate geography of one's hometown -- Patrick GaleRefreshingly personal and moving... This absorbing modern twist on the age-old story of flying the nest, yet yearning for home, will transport you around the globe and back again without leaving your seat -- Mark Ovenden, author of AIRLINE MAPS and LONDON UNDERGROUND BY DESIGNI absolutely love the way Mark Vanhoenacker writes about the world; he gives you a whole new way of seeing -- Jenny Colgan, author of SUNRISE BY THE SEAAn utterly remarkable and original travel book. Like Jan Morris and Pico Iyer, Vanhoenacker weaves memoir and travelogue, using his unusual perch as a pilot to take us on an incredible journey to dozens of cities around the world. Like Italo Calvino, he somehow weaves it all into one, a painfully beautiful cubist city of memory and dreams that rises out of his warm and lyrical prose -- Andrew Blum, author of TUBES and THE WEATHER MACHINEA tour de force of descriptive power and honesty; I can think of no other book like this one -- Tom Zoellner, winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionQuietly thoughtful without being either self-conscious or -indulgent. Vanhoenacker retains a refreshing sense of good fortune and even amazement that one can step into a cylindrical metal tube and emerge hours later into different air, different sunlight and a different world picture -- Peter Neville-Hadley * South China Morning Post *Mark Vanhoenacker...weaves an account of this hugely gifted writer's small-town gay boyhood through evocations of the cities around the world he has come to love as an airline pilot * Daily Mail, *Books of the Year* *Beautiful, meditative and insightful * Shafik Meghji, author of Crossed off the Map: Travels in Bolivia *Few books nowadays truly break new ground but Mark Vanhoenacker succeeds in doing so with Imagine a City. Sensitive, smart and utterly fascinating, I have recommended it to almost everyone I know * Caroline Eden, journalist and author of Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes Through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland *Mark Vanhoenacker is more than a British Airways pilot with the soul of a poet - he is without doubt the greatest travel writer since Bruce Chatwin * Tony Parsons, award-winning journalist and bestselling author of Your Neighbour’s Wife *You couldn't ask for a more literary pilot to have up at the sharp end of your next flight than Mark Vanhoenacker...[but] flying isn't so front and centre of his book Imagine a City, this time it's about where his flying takes him. * Tony Wheeler, author and co-founder of Lonely Planet *

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Book Synopsis'Amazing. It would be my desert island choice' Martin Rees'Fascinating, beautiful, alarming and revelatory use of mapping and infographics' Stephen Fry on EarthTime maps'An indispensable read' Arianna Huffington From the global impact of the Coronavirus to exploring the vast spread of the Australian bushfires, join authors Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah as they trace the ways in which our world has changed and the ways in which it will continue to change over the next hundred years. Map-making is an ancient impulse. From the moment homo sapiens learnt to communicate we have used them to make sense of our surroundings. But as Albert Einstein once said, 'you can't use old maps to explore a new world.' And now, when the world is changing faster than ever before, our old maps are no longer fit for purpose.Welcome to Terra Incognita. Based on decades of research, and combining mesmerising, state-of-the-art satellite maps with enlightening and passionately argued analysis, Ian and Robert chart humanity's impact on the planet, and the ways in which we can make a real impact to save it, and to thrive as a species.Learn about: fires in the arctic; the impact of sea level rise on cities around the world; the truth about immigration - and why fears in the West are a myth; the counter-intuitive future of population rise; the miracles of health and education that are waiting around the corner, and the reality about inequality, and how we end it. The book traces the paths of peoples, cities, wars, climates and technologies, all on a global scale. Full of facts that will confound you, inform you, and ultimately empower you, Terra Incognita guides readers to a new place of understanding, rather than to a physical location.Trade ReviewAmidst an abundance of global crisis and unrest, it's easy to feel as if there's no prescription for the future. But Terra Incognita provides us with just that, through stunning maps and visual aides that illuminate the most pressing issues of our time. -- Chris Anderson, New York Times Bestselling author of Ted Talks and Head and Curator of TedA completely brilliant guide to global survival * Jon Snow *Terra Incognita take us on an exhilarating journey of the mega-trends that are remaking our world. Using powerful maps and graphics, it provides much-needed guideposts to the incredible shifts and challenges going on all around us. Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah provide a necessary antidote to the paralyzing uncertainty and pessimistic fatalism that threatens to overwhelm us all. This book offers a bold new perspective not just on the challenges we face, but how, armed with the right data and information, we can go about fixing them -- Richard Florida, University of Toronto Professor and author of The Rise of the Creative ClassAmazing . . . it would be my desert island choice! This extraordinary book - with 100 fascinating maps, embedded in a richly informative text - offers a comprehensive perspective on global trends. It is amazing how much analysis the distinguished authors have distilled into a single volume. The book is especially welcome at a time when COVID-19 is disrupting our interconnected planet. It would be hard to imagine a better text to guide and enlighten us as we aim to 'remake' a better world. It deserves a very wide readership. -- Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and author of On the FutureTerra Incognita draws readers into multiple worlds and provides the tools to navigate between them. Goldin and Muggah use powerfully-engaging maps to help understand and confront our biggest challenges - from climate change to inequality. By inviting readers to traverse a vast range of disciplines and ideas, their volume helps each of us better appreciate how our problems are interconnected. This is a must read for everyone striving to make a better world. -- Saskia Sassen, Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, author of Expulsions and The Global CityEvery young person must read this book. Full of mesmerizing maps and powerful story-telling, Terra Incognita is an indispensable guide to change our futures for the better. -- Marvin Rees, Mayor of BristolFascinating, beautiful, alarming and revelatory use of mapping and infographicsA riveting account of humanity´s most pressing challenges and innovative solutions, fusing mesmerizing maps and compelling analysis to help navigate our complex future.An indispensable read. Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah´s hypnotic maps surprise and amaze. This book offers a future-looking guide to navigate our uncertain times. Offering an unflinching account of our challenges and ways to fix them, it willleave you optimistic about the future.A stunning account of our fast-changing world. Earth Time is a wake-up call and blueprint for future change. Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah´s extraordinary maps offer an entirely new perspective on some of our most urgent environmental and geopolitical conundrums.The mapmakers of old wrote "Here Be Dragons" to designated unknown and uncharted areas. Terra Incognita simultaneously shows us how much of our world we can see and map and how many dark places still remain to be explored. Most important, it is a vital tool for teaching students, researchers, and analysts how to change our mental models -- our imagined maps -- of the worlds we think we inhabit. Our future depends on it. -- Anne-Marie SlaughterTerra Incognita is a terrific achievement. It utilises maps as a graphic foil to a wide-ranging and deeply informed argument about our current international challenges and the possibilities for future collective action. The result is both compelling and subtle. Situating the argument within the current pandemic is very powerful and timely. Essential reading-and viewing-for anyone engaged in the global state we are in. -- Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in 12 MapsIt not only charts the mesmerising development of geographical maps, [...] but also contains maps that reveal insights into global cultural developments, including the incredible rise of McDonald's and Netflix. * Mail Online *

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Book SynopsisPortugal has recently achieved a five-fold increase in solar capacity and its National Energy and Climate Plan has set an ambitious future target. This book considers whether this ambition will bear out in practice, and how social justice might be addressed, in a one-stop resource for policy makers, practitioners and scholars.

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Book SynopsisMeteorite tells the fascinating story of the stones from outer space scattered across our planet. From the impact that finished off the dinosaurs to the dagger made of extraterrestrial iron found in Tutankhamun's tomb, this book is packed full of surprising information, unlikely pioneers and eye-opening science. Dr Tim Gregory explains how these rocky fragments offer clues not just to the earliest origins of everything, but also to humanity's survival into the future.'A passionate communicator, Tim Gregory conjures colourful environments and events far outside the human' NATURE 'Meticulous and eminently readable, served with clarity, erudition and humour' WALL STREET JOURNAL 'Tim Gregory gets it. He has an uncanny ability to swiftly understand, to clearly explain, and to be joyful' CHRIS HADFIELD Trade ReviewDrawing on his deep technical education and boundless curiosity, Tim Gregory brings a childlike wonder of discovery to everything he sees. He shows an uncanny ability to swiftly understand, to clearly explain, and to be joyful in the process. His scientific delight is contagious * Chris Hadfield *Meticulously researched and eminently readable . . . [Gregory] writes with aplomb, his sentences backed by hard evidence and served with clarity, erudition and occasionally humour . .. . Meteorite is a treasure for those who enjoy the stepwise narrative of scientific discovery . . . magnificent * Wall Street Journal *A captivating blend of painstaking detective work and dramatic cosmic events. The impact that rocks from space have had on our culture, and on our knowledge of where we come from - and where they come from - may surprise you. As will their impact on the planet of course, should you be lucky enough to see a "fall" * Jon Butterworth *

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Book SynopsisThe Earthshot concept is simple: Urgency + Optimism = Action. We have ten years to turn the tide on the environmental crisis, but we need the world's best solutions and one shared goal - to save our planet.It's not too late, but we need collective action now. The Earthshots are unifying, ambitious goals for our planet which, if achieved by 2030, will improve life for all of us, for the rest of life on Earth, and for generations to come.They are to:· Protect and Restore Nature· Clean our Air· Revive our Oceans· Build a Waste-Free World· Fix our ClimateEARTHSHOT: HOW TO SAVE OUR PLANET is the first definitive book about how these goals can tackle the environmental crisis, from rainforests to coral reefs, via wilderness, cities and in our own homes. It is a critical contribution to the most important story of the decade.

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Book SynopsisARE YOU READY TO CHANGE THE WORLD?365 WAYS TO SAVE THE PLANET is a full year's worth of daily wisdom, carefully selected to inspire you to take the urgent action our very existence desperately needs. You'll find actions and challenges, surprising facts about the climate crisis, templates for writing to political representatives, scientific explanations of important concepts, popular misconceptions about sustainability, and much more. 365 WAYS TO SAVE THE PLANET goes way beyond predictable sustainability advice about how to recycle. Here you'll discover the small stuff you can do every day to change the world. Because when you get the little things right, the big things follow.

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Book SynopsisA stunning collection of portraits of favourite trees from around Britain by photographer Adrian Houston.---'This is a wonderful book: beautiful and important' - Joanna Lumley'A must-read for all conservationists, environmentalists and nature lovers' - Sir Richard Branson'Adrian's stunning photographs capture the majesty of these iconic trees.' - Geraint Richards, Chair of Action Oak---A Portrait of the Tree is a repository of memories, and a testament to the British landscape. Trees are revealed as religious signifiers, historical landmarks, national emblems.Sparked by a simple question: 'What is your favourite tree?', photographer Adrian Houston discovered a wealth of fascinating stories enmeshed with these giants of the natural world - some of miraculous survival, others of sheltering royalty, or witnessing history, or simply of personal grief and renewal. Adrian photographed each nominated tree looking utterly glorious: spotlit by night, bathed in morning sunshine, wreathed in delicate mist or blazing with autumn colour. From the cedars of Highclere Castle to the plane trees of London, ancient pine woods of the Scottish Highlands to veteran oaks that have stood witness to time; from native stalwarts such as the monumental beech to endangered giant redwoods. This stunning celebration bears witness to the might and majesty of the lungs of the earth - the tree. Includes: Joanna Lumley, Tony Kirkham, Dr George McGavin, Antony Gormley, Jasper Conran, Alice Temperley, Alan Titchmarsh, Sir Richard Carew Pole, the Reverend Lucy WinkettTrade ReviewAction Oak is supporting important research into the health of the UK's native oak trees, which are facing numerous threats due to climate change and multiple pests and diseases. Adrian's stunning photographs capture the majesty of these iconic trees. -- Geraint Richards, Chair of Action OakTree have for millennia influences humankind; our traditions, our culture and our way of life. Adrian Houston's photographs capture, like no others, the beauty and mystery of trees and their role in our life. To protect trees against exotic pests and diseases means also protecting our lives and traditions. -- Ralf Lopian, Chairperson of the International Steering Committee for the International Year of Plant HealthAs a tree practitioner and tree lover I enjoy seeing and meeting special trees in gardens and in their natural settings like a woodland, and this is one of the many reasons for spending a lifetime working with them. The next best thing is seeing a good image that captures the natural beauty of a good specimen, old or young, common or rare, and there are few photographers that can do that well. Adrian is one of these photographers that can see the potential and seizes the moment to capture that beauty at any time of day or night. -- Tony Kirkham, MBE VMH, Head of Arboretum at the Royal Botanic Gardens, KewTrees are essential to life on earth, and the protection of the world's trees is crucial in our fight against climate change. A Portrait of the Tree is a stunning testimony to the beauty, endurance and importance of these giants. A must read for all conservationists, environmentalists and nature lovers. -- Sir Richard Branson, entrepreneur and adventurerI believe that trees are our ancestors; many of them have lived for hundreds of years, watching over us, witnessing history, keeping our secrets. Just as they guard us, we must guard them from terrible tree diseases and from our own destructive actions. Adrian has done the most extraordinary job in capturing the characters of separate trees. This is a wonderful book: beautiful and important. -- Joanna Lumley, actress and activist'If your idea of fun on a winter's afternoon is to go to the local park and stare at trees . . . then this is very much the volume for you.' * Daily Mail *

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Book SynopsisStunning photographs of the United Kingdom's most spectacular trees - with a foreword by His Majesty the King.The Queen's Green Canopy is a beautiful photography book showcasing 70 ancient trees and 70 ancient woodlands dedicated by the QGC initiative in honour of Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee.The book features extraordinary photographs of the United Kingdom's best-loved trees, many of which inspired historic figures, artists and writers through the centuries.Alongside these photographs are short written pieces from contributors including Dame Judi Dench, Alan Titchmarsh, Dame Joanna Lumley, Adam Henson, Archbishop Justin Welby and Danny Clarke, as well as conservation experts from the Woodland Trust and the Duchy of Cornwall. In these pieces they reflect on the trees that have made a mark on their lives and the importance of protecting Britain's woodlands for future generations.Selected trees include yews at a Cotswold's church which inspired JRR Tolkien; the apple tree believed to have inspired Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity; the Five Hundred Acre Wood in East Sussex immortalised in AA Milne's Winnie the Pooh books; and the 2,500-year-old tree where Henry VIII may have proposed to Anne Boleyn.So far 3 million trees have been planted by communities, schools and businesses across the country as part of the QGC initiative. Through incredible imagery and joyful pieces of writing, The Queen's Green Canopy celebrates Her Majesty's extraordinary life and the amazing legacy she leaves behind.

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Book SynopsisLauded essayist takes to the high seas in hot pursuit of elusive birds, artistic ghosts, fathers and their memories, and above all, safe harbor."Among nature writers now working, Charles Hood may be my favorite." —Jonathan FranzenCharles Hood is on a boat, wearing at least two life jackets as he scans the sky for seabirds and plumbs the depths of his—and our—relationship with the vast Pacific Ocean. Winner of the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year for his collection of essays A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature, Hood now brings his irrepressible curiosity to the lives of petrels, frigate birds, sea snakes, and flying fish. During our voyage, he resurrects Melville''s storm-tossed journey to San Francisco, takes us into the storm-tossed minds and paintings of J. M. W. Turner and Winslow Homer, and surfaces the trauma—still reverberating—to ocean and family ecologies alike from World War II. As sharp and witty as ever, Hood also turns his scrutiny on a more personal history, navigating murky waters of harm and forgiveness, love and entrapment. Full of wonder, joy, and terror at the shared capacity of the ocean and the humans on its edges to nurture life and damage it irreparably, this book is a vessel, seaworthy and transportive.

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