Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
By: Dave Goulson
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world will slowly gri…
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1. Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life
By: George Monbiot
4.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This book explodes with wonder and delight. Making use of remarkable scientific discoveries that tr… read more
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2. The Singing Wilderness
By: Sigurd F. Olson , None
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sigurd F. Olson was for more than thirty years a wilderness guide in the Quetico-Superior country, … read more
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3. Silent Spring
By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more
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4. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
5. The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
By: Adam Nicolson
3.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. In the sea is… read more
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"The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes."-Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
6. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
7. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
8. Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
By: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we—and the pla… read more
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"As far as we know, our planet is the only place in the universe where there is life. Many would say that we humans have a moral duty to rein in our dominance of the Earth and give our millions of fel…"-Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
9. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
10. The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
By: Oliver Milman
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects ar… read more
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11. Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
By: Michelle Nijhuis
4.10
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement—told through the lives and ideas of the peopl… read more
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12. Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
By: Thor Hanson
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
- Треть нашего рациона состоит из «пчелозависимых» продуктов.- Гималайские виды шмелей способны лет… read more
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"In the past, people around the world heard the buzzing of bees as voices of the departed, a murmured conveyance from the spirit world. This belief traces back to the cultures of Egypt and Greece, amo…"-Thor Hanson, Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
13. The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us
By: Meg Lowman
4.05
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Nicknamed the “Real-Life Lorax” by National Geographic, the biologist, botanist, and conservationis… read more
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14. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.30
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more
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"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
15. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
By: George Monbiot
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly … read more
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"Charity is what happens when government fails."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,"-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
16. The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
By: Ben Rawlence
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing acco… read more
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17. Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
By: Dave Goulson
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world will slowly gri… read more
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18. Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening
By: Douglas Brinkley
4.35
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of e… read more
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19. Rewilding the Sea
By: Charles Clover
4.23
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
'A game-changer!' - Margaret Atwood, Twitter'Desperately needed' - Isabella Tree'I doubt any more i… read more
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20. Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors
By: Susanne Foitzik
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Beneath our feet, a fascinating drama unfolds: Ants are waging war and staging rebellions, growing … read more
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21. Tapestries of Life: Uncovering the Lifesaving Secrets of the Natural World
By: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
4.24
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The second book by the bestselling author of Extraordinary Insects Trees clean air and water; ho… read more
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22. The Mind of a Bee
By: Lars Chittka
4.11
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees Most of us are aware of the hive min… read more
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"American writer and biologist Frederick Kenyon (1867-1941) was the first to explore the inner workings of the bee brain. His 1896 study, in which he managed to dye and characterize numerous types of …"-Lars Chittka, The Mind of a Bee
23. Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm
By: Lee Schofield
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In 2015, England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote easter… read more
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24. Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution
By: Sarah Langford
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When Sarah Langford left her city life behind she found herself unexpectedly back in the world of f… read more
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25. Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways
By: Derek Gow
3.97
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously f… read more
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26. Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
By: Seirian Sumner
3.91
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“A book that draws us in to the strange beauty of what we so often run away from.” — Robin Ince, au… read more
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27. The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us - A Diary
By: Emma Mitchell
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Emma Mitchell has suffered with depression - or as she calls it, 'the grey slug' - for twenty-five … read more
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28. Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
By: Michael Taylor
4.24
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
“Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary” (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, page-turning narrative weaves t… read more
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29. Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly
By: John Cardina
4.35
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Lives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eigh… read more
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30. Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: The lost history of wolves in Britain and the myths and stories that surround them
By: Derek Gow
3.50
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"[Derek Gow is] a wry, profane truth teller who is equal parts yeoman farmer, historical ecologist,… read more
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31. The Natural History of Crime
By: Patricia Wiltshire
3.44
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
AS SEEN IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE UK'S NO.1 FORENSIC ECOLOGIST LOOKS AT HER MOST HIGH-PROFILE AND IN… read more
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