The Routledge Falmer Reader in Science Education
This volume owes its genesis to John Gilbert emailing forty colleagues in 14 countries to ask them what they perceived to be the most important…… Read More »
Book Reviews
Dreaming War - Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
These essays are the sequel to 'Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace', and begin with a penetrating analysis of the issues arising from 9/11 and the…… Read More »
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
The title of this book comes from the historian Charles Beard to characterise the ultimately self-defeating paradox of the current economic and political systems that…… Read More »
World Agriculture: towards 2015/2030, An FAO Perspective
Author: Jelle Bruinsma
Reviewer: David Lorimer
This is an exceptional volume and as comprehensive as one would expect from the FAO. It is an update of the study towards 2010 published…… Read More »
Wild Flowers - An Easy Guide by Habitat and Colour
A very handy pocket reference book to the flowers found in various habitats such as coastal, marsh, heaths, moors, meadows, waste land, paths, walls, woodlands…… Read More »
Politics and the Environment - From Theory to Practice
This is the second edition of a critically acclaimed textbook from which the general reader can learn a great deal. It begins with an account…… Read More »
A Solar World - Climate Change and the Green Energy Revolution
An overview of the current energy situation and the implications of a transfer to renewables both for general supply and transport. Elliott does not claim…… Read More »
Global Warming - The Complete Briefing
For those who do not already know this book (second edition 1997) it is the single best exposition of global warming and its implications by…… Read More »
Civil Society
This book asks the question: is civil society the big idea for the 21st century? Or is this rather confused concept simply another false horizon.…… Read More »
Principles of Environmental Economics
Second edition of this standard textbook which, although aimed at students of economics, is exceptionally readable and informative. The author begins with two fundamental chapters…… Read More »