15 Best science books like Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet by Colin Butfield

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Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet

By: Colin Butfield

4.13

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

The Earthshot concept is Urgency + Optimism = Action. We have ten years to turn the tide on the en…

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1. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

By: Adam Rutherford

4.03

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"We look to statistics for reassurance in these types of situations. Here is one: 100% of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns. I can guarantee that even if there were a genotype shared …"

-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

"(...) prawo Godwina (tendencja do pojawiania się wzmianki o Hitlerze w przedłużających się dyskusjach w sieci) lub prawo nagłówków Betteridge'a (jeśli nagłówek zawiera pytanie, odpowiedź prawdopodobn…"

-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

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2. Gorillas in the Mist

By: Dian Fossey

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the most important books ever written about our connection to the natural world, Gorillas in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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3. The Man With the Golden Gun (James Bond, #13)

By: Ian Fleming

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

The Man with the Golden Gun is the 13th novel written by Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional Briti… read more

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4. Last Chance to See

By: Douglas Adams , Mark Carwardine

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Very funny and moving...The glimpses of rare fauna seem to have enlarged [Adams'] thinking, enlive… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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5. Adventures of a Young Naturalist: The Zoo Quest Expeditions

By: David Attenborough

3.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In 1954, a young television presenter was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to travel the wor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science

6. Life on Earth

By: David Attenborough

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

In this unique book, David Attenborough has undertaken nothing less than a history of nature, from … read more

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7. Hound of the Sea: Wild Man. Wild Waves. Wild Wisdom.

By: Garrett McNamara

3.00

Format: 468 pages, Hardcover

In this thrilling and candid memoir, world record-holding and controversial Big Wave surfer Garrett… read more

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8. How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint Of Everything

By: Mike Berners-Lee

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

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9. Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback (Vintage Departures)

By: Robyn Davidson

3.87

Format: 334 pages,

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Robyn Davidson's opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1,700 m… read more

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10. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

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12. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

By: David Wallace-Wells

4.01

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears… read more

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  • nature
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"A state of half-ignorance and half-indifference is a much more pervasive climate sickness than true denial or true fatalism."

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

"The last time the earth was four degrees warmer, as Peter Brannen has written, there was no ice at either pole and sea level was 260 feet higher."

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

"The world has, at most, about three decades to completely decarbonize before truly devastating climate horrors begin. You can't halfway your way to a solution to a crisis this large."

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

"Especially those who have imbibed several centuries of Western triumphalism tend to see the story of human civilization as an inevitable conquest of the earth, rather than the saga of an insecure cul…"

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

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13. 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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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"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

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14. Landlines

By: Raynor Winn

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

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15. Showing Up

By: Nedd Brockmann

4.34

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable–the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body ‘throug… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape

By: Henry Dimbleby

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Eve… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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17. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

By: David Attenborough

4.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

See the world. Then make it better. I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that … read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

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18. 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

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19. The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

By: Christiana Figueres

4.07

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

Climate change: it is arguably the most urgent and consequential issue humankind has ever faced. Ho… read more

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  • nature
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"Consumerism traps us into thinking we can purchase personality."

-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

"Denying climate change is tantamount to saying you don't believe in gravity. The science of climate change is not a belief, a religion, or a political ideology. It presents the facts that are measura…"

-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

"Fair allocation of the remaining atmospheric space has proven to be a futile exercise no matter the formula. A fair outcome is not viable as long as we pursue it from a mindset of scarcity and compet…"

-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

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20. We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

By: Jonathan Safran Foer

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming bec… read more

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  • nature
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"Sadness and joy aren't opposites of each other. They are each the opposite of indifference."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

"The important measurement is not the distance from unattainable perfection, but from unforgivable inaction."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

"It is dangerous to pretend that we know more than we do. But it is even more dangerous to pretend that we know less."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

"In the meantime, while I think-while you think, while we think-our actions and inactions create and destroy the world."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

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21. De mens is een plofkip

By: Teun van de Keuken

3.75

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

Echt voedsel met herkenbare ingrediënten heeft de afgelopen decennia grotendeels plaatsgemaakt voor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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22. The Doctor Will See You Now: The highs and lows of my life as an NHS GP

By: Amir Khan

4.43

Format: 288 pages, ebook

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER60 hours a week240 patients 10 minutes to make a diagnosis Welcome to the su… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them by Michelle Elman

23. The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them

By: Michelle Elman

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Is your friendship group constantly filled with drama? Does your boss make constant unreasonable d… read more

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  • nonfiction
"To ask, "Is my anger legitimate?" is similar to asking, "do I have the right to be thirsty?"

-Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them

"There are no right or wrong rules, but which are your rules? It’s your house, they are your boundaries, and you decide."

-Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them

"Your relationship served a purpose at the time and just because it no longer exists doesn’t mean it was a waste of time."

-Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them

"We have romanticized needing another human, when I believe the most romantic thing is not needing someone but wanting them around anyway."

-Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them

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24. The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking

By: Roman Krznaric

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the first seeds sown thousands of years ago, to the construction of the cities we still inhabi… read more

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  • climate change
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • environment
"What might our descendants wish we had done better for them?"

-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking

"We know the Roman Empire fell into oblivion but can scarcely imagine let alone admit that we might face a similar fate."

-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking

"[H]ow can we design an evolutionary learning capability into our political, economic, and social systems so they are not crippled by rigidity in the face of changing circumstance or external shocks."

-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking

"[W]e have colonized the future. We treat the future like a distant colonial outpost devoid of people, where we can freely dump ecological degradation, technological risk, and nuclear waste, and which…"

-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking

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25. Speak Your Truth: Connecting With Your Inner Truth and Learning to Find Your Voice

By: Fearne Cotton

3.77

Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition

Fearne Cotton's voice is familiar to millions, whether that's through television, radio or on her h… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Calm: Working Through Life’s Daily Stresses to Find a Peaceful Centre by Fearne Cotton

26. Calm: Working Through Life’s Daily Stresses to Find a Peaceful Centre

By: Fearne Cotton

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

THE FOLLOW UP TO THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, HAPPY: FINDING JOY IN EVERY DAY AND LETTING GO OF PER… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Sunrise on the Coast (Island Romance, #1) by Lilac Mills

27. Sunrise on the Coast (Island Romance, #1)

By: Lilac Mills

4.22

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

When a holiday becomes something more… Struggling to come to terms with the loss of her mother, So… read more

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28. De macht van het verleden

By: Ivo van de Wijdeven

3.75

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Vladimir Poetin houdt van geschiedenis. Zijn vurige redevoeringen zitten er vol mee. Velen verklare… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. How to Save the World For Free

By: Natalie Fee

3.89

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

There is no greater aspiration than saving the world. Natalie Fee's upbeat and engaging book is a l… read more

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  • nature
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet by Colin Butfield

30. Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet

By: Colin Butfield

4.13

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

The Earthshot concept is Urgency + Optimism = Action. We have ten years to turn the tide on the en… read more

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  • nature
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
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31. De havermelkelite

By: Jonas Kooyman

3.45

Format: 135 pages, Kindle Edition

Ben je twintiger of dertiger (of vooruit, veertiger)? Woon in je in een voormalige volksbuurt in d… read more

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Adam Rutherford

4.03

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Dian Fossey

4.22

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3.71

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3.73

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4.00

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