Making Eden
Subtitled 'how plants transformed a barren planet' this fascinating book describes the rise and diversification of plant life originating in a certain type of algae…… Read More »
Category: Ecology & Environment
FACING GAIA
This dense and erudite book is an elaboration of the Gifford Lectures on natural religion delivered at the University of Edinburgh. Bruno Latour may be…… Read More »
Ethics for a Full World
This brilliant and concise book is essential reading in facing the global problematique and galvanising the necessary political action. The main title highlights a key…… Read More »
The New Ecology
The author of this important book about rethinking ecology for the Anthropocene is professor of population and community ecology at Yale. One of the significant…… Read More »
Contemporary Perspectives on Ecofeminism
Drawing on insights from ecology, feminism and socialism, eco-feminism analyses the ideology that authorises oppressions based on race, class, gender, sexuality as a parallel to…… Read More »
A World to Live In
This ecologist's vision for a plundered planet draws on 40 years of scientific research and activism to reinforce the prevailing scientific and environmental consensus over…… Read More »
Earth Matters
Subtitled 'how soil underlies civilisation', this highly readable and authoritative book bridges the science of soil into a general readership and as such should be…… Read More »
Eco-logical!
A colourful and lively book aiming to present the key ecological issues in an accessible fashion, with arguments on both sides of controversial questions: so-called…… Read More »
time's up!
The author of this original book in diagnosis our situation as one where 'we have to choose between the short-term greed of Industrial Civilisation over…… Read More »