The Last Tree on Easter Island
By: Jared Diamond
3.98
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
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1. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
By: Naomi Oreskes , Erik M. Conway
4.17
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, en… read more
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- history
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
"An all purpose expert is an oxymoron"-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
"The industry had realized you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions"-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
"After the Cold War, most scientists were relieved to be freed of the burdens of secrecy and misrepresentation, but Seitz, Singer, and Nierenberg continued to act as if the Cold War had not ended."-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
"...and that greater use of pesticides was the key to wiping out world hunger (although most social scientist disagree, pointing out that there is plenty of food in the world; the problem we face is o…"-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
2. Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
By: Michael Pollan
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A DEFINITIVE COMPENDIUM OF FOOD WISDOM Eating doesn't have to be so complicated. In this age of eve… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
3. The Wild Places
By: Robert Macfarlane
3.73
Format: None pages,
"An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature… read more
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4. Decline of the English Murder
By: George Orwell
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good … read more
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5. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
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6. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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7. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
8. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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9. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
By: Greta Thunberg
3.86
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice … read more
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- sustainability
- nonfiction
- essays
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
"The real power belongs to the people."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"...But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of a few."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"Those of us who are still children can’t change what you do now once we’re old enough to do something about it."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
10. The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories
By: Tove Ditlevsen
3.90
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, a terri… read more
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11. 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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- nature
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
"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
12. The Democracy of Species
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.49
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin Classics brings you the ideas that have changed the way we think and… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- essays
- climate change
- environment
- science
"When we rely deeply on other lives, there is an urgency to protect them. Our ancestors, who had so few material possessions, devoted a great of attention to this question, while we are drowning in po…"-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species
"Taking coal buried deep in the earth, for which we must inflict irreparable damage, violates every precept of the code [of honorable harvest]. By no stretch of the imagination is coal 'given to us'. …"-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species
"Cautionary stories of the consequences of taking too much are ubiquitous in Native cultures, but it’s hard to recall a single one in English. Perhaps this helps to explain why we seem to be caught in…"-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species
"We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the…"-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species
13. Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
By: The Secret Barrister
4.20
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who c… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"We deceive ourselves, our cognitive dissonance only resolved by our brains reassuring us that, in spite of what anyone else might think, we know we're in the right."-The Secret Barrister, Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
14. Nothing But The Truth
By: The Secret Barrister
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joinin… read more
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- nonfiction
15. All Art is Ecological
By: Timothy Morton
3.39
Format: 105 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Provocative an… read more
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- sustainability
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
16. The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah
By: Masanobu Fukuoka
3.53
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In The Dragonf… read more
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- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- green
17. The Clan of One-Breasted Women
By: Terry Tempest Williams
3.84
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.With honesty, … read more
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- environment
- nature
- essays
"The power of nature is life in association. Nothing stands alone."-Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-Breasted Women
"A life in association, not a life independent, is the democratic ideal."-Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-Breasted Women
18. We Belong to Gaia
By: James E. Lovelock
3.73
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.James Lovelock… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
"We are interfering with temperature regulation by turning up the heat and then simultaneously removing the natural systems that help to regulate it."-James E. Lovelock, We Belong to Gaia
"It is foolish to think that we can explain science as it evolves, rationally and consciously. We have to use the crude tool of metaphor to translate conscious ideas into unconscious understanding."-James E. Lovelock, We Belong to Gaia
"Over half the Earth's people live in cities, and they hardly ever see, feel or hear the natural world. Therefore our first duty should be to convince them that the real world is the living Earth and …"-James E. Lovelock, We Belong to Gaia
"The Earth System behaves as a single, self-regulating system comprised of physical, chemical, biological and human components.' These words marked an abrupt transition from a previously solid convent…"-James E. Lovelock, We Belong to Gaia
19. The Most Dammed Country in the World
By: Dai Qing
3.52
Format: 89 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.The courageous… read more
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- sustainability
- nonfiction
- essays
- geography
- environment
20. A Warning from the Golden Toad
By: Tim Flannery
3.68
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Taking us on a… read more
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21. The World We Once Lived In
By: Wangari Maathai
3.91
Format: 71 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.From the Congo… read more
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22. What I Stand for Is What I Stand On (Green Ideas)
By: Wendell Berry
4.16
Format: 87 pages, Kindle Edition
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.From the ravag… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
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23. The Last Tree on Easter Island
By: Jared Diamond
3.98
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.This is Jared … read more
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- science
- history
- sustainability
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- essays
- climate change
- geography
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- nature
- green
24. An Idea Can Go Extinct (Green Ideas)
By: Bill McKibben
3.30
Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.An Idea Can Go… read more
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25. Every Species is a Masterpiece
By: Edward O. Wilson
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin Classics brings you the ideas that have changed the way we think and… read more
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- nonfiction
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26. Man's War Against Nature
By: Rachel Carson
3.85
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.With the preci… read more
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- nonfiction
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27. Think Like a Mountain
By: Aldo Leopold
3.86
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In this lyrica… read more
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28. This Can't Be Happening (Green Ideas)
By: George Monbiot
4.31
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In the galvani… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- climate change
- environment
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29. Hot Money
By: Naomi Klein
4.27
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In Hot Money N… read more
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- sustainability
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- climate change
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"when climate change deniers claim that global warming is a plot to redistribute wealth. It's not (only) because they are paranoid. It's also because they are paying attention."-Naomi Klein, Hot Money
"And the real surprise, for all involved, is that we are so much more than we have been told we are - that we long for more and in that longing have more company than we ever imagined."-Naomi Klein, Hot Money
30. There is No Point of No Return
By: Arne Næss
3.43
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by… read more
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31. Uncanny and Improbable Events
By: Amitav Ghosh
3.73
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In this person… read more
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- nature
- sustainability
- nonfiction
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