(Paperback)

* The first global travel book that combines first-hand observation with a rigorous agenda for environmental action, now shortlisted for the BP Natural World Book Prize

(Paperback)

What if there were a magic bullet to fix our ailing planet What if it meant seizing control of Earth's climate Clive Hamilton investigates the huge risks of reaching for desperate measures to save the planet, explains the science accessibly and uncovers the worrying motives of those promoting them.

(Paperback)

Recounts that improvements in earthquake recording capability in the 1960s and 1970s set the stage for a period of rapid development in earthquake science. Although some enigmas have remained, much has been learned on issues such as earthquake prediction, seismic hazard assessment, and ground motion prediction. This book addresses those issues.

(Hardback)

How many of our efforts to save the environment are effective Learn how our system is simply masking the symptoms of global warming.

(Paperback)

Ecosystems as Models to Restoring Our Economies appeals to a broad range of people across ages, values and political beliefs, and will change the way we pursue a resilient and sustainable economy. Just when you think there are no good paths forward, the knowledge of ecosystems guides the way.

(Hardback)

Ecosystems as Models to Restoring Our Economies appeals to a broad range of people across ages, values and political beliefs, and will change the way we pursue a resilient and sustainable economy. Just when you think there are no good paths forward, the knowledge of ecosystems guides the way.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

This text provides an essential reference handbook for students of geography and related social sciences.

(Hardback)

One of the most versatile and familiar elements in the world, water is also one of the most mysterious.

The 236 entries in this book comprise an A-Z overview of water's manifold roles in human society and the natural world throughout history.

(Hardback)

Covers the range of history from prehistoric times to the present, offering biographical entries on the most famous real and fictional women travellers, explorers, and adventurers from all countries of the world.

(Hardback)

A balanced presentation chronicling both the major events that sparked environmental activism and the nature of that activism in the past century.

(Hardback)

Is stewardship a useful way of regarding our relationship with our environment - or is it a dangerous excuse for plunder Is it possible for us to be effective stewards This book gathers together expositions of stewardship with criticisms of the concept and adds other contributions written especially for this collection.

(Paperback)

Is stewardship a useful way of regarding our relationship with our environment - or is it a dangerous excuse for plunder Is it possible for us to be effective stewards This book gathers together expositions of stewardship with criticisms of the concept and adds other contributions written especially for this collection.

(Paperback)

Renowned author, broadcaster and environmentalist explore the countless challenges facing the world and their interconnected causes.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

This book explores the range of ecocriticism. Purposefully it swerves into advocacy, anthropology, bioregionalism, environmental history, politics, rhetoric, visual arts, and other neglected areas that make for freer theorizing and more original critical designs.

(Paperback)

Provides an account of the three-year Arctic voyage to the North Pole and the team's struggle against snowdrifts, ice floes, polar bears, scurvy, and hunger, and their accomplishment of travelling farther north than any other Western expedition.

(Hardback)

This is the first book to examine the deadly history and potential apocalyptic future of both natural and man-made lethal gases that threaten our world.

(Paperback)

This is a richly illustrated reference book that provides a unique, comprehensive, and up-to-date survey of the rocks and structures of fault and shear zones. These zones are fundamental geologic structures in the Earth's crust. Their rigorous analysis is crucial to understanding the kinematics and dynamics of the continental and oceanic crust, the

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Journalist Jo Chandler sets out on a quest that takes her across the Antarctic ice, under the seas and through the tropical rainforests of far north Queensland. Her mission is to explore one of the defining mysteries of our age - climate change

(Paperback)

This field guide will enable the indentification of a range of invasive plants and animals now found in Britain,

(Paperback)