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List Price: £8.99
Our Price: £3.59
Author:
Tamsin Blanchard
By Hodder Paperbacks
 Excellent, 2008-03-14
I bought this book on holiday, and have returned to the UK full of good intentions to start revisting my local charity shops and making more presents for my friends and family. The book is a pleasure to read - it actually manages to shake off the 'knit your own yogurt' reputation often attributed to crafts, and shows the many ways in which approaching fashion from an ethical and sustainable point of view can result in a great degree of personal style.
List Price: £11.99
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Author:
Richard Heinberg
By Clairview Books
Brilliant and incisive, 2008-03-10
Heinberg is the foremost expert of 'peak oil' - the idea that we are more than half way through the world's oil reserves. Here he presents various angles on the problem: everything from how the industrial age influenced design to, yes, parrots. But, unlike the above reviewer, I found it all relevant. Heinberg has a clear mind, and his broad-ranging thoughts are here applied to a wide range of related issues to 'peak oil'. A good read!
List Price: £34.99
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Author:
J. R. Krebs, N. B. Davies
By WileyBlackwell
excellent, very comprehensive, 2001-08-10
For students of behavioural ecology this provides a fantastic review of all major aspects of the subject in an easy to follow layout and a very readable, engaging style. Well organised and full of useful summary graphs, with some lovely colour plates thrown in, it is well worth buying. It is full of references to other literature, so is great as a stepping stone to more detailed study. A very comprehensive text, thoroughly recommended
List Price: £13.50
Our Price: £7.90
Author:
C Moss
By Chicago University Press
Elephants, Africa, Adventure - Enjoy!, 2001-11-04
If you have a passion for things Africa, if you are happy to accept that we as humans are part and parcel of our planet's fragile ecology, and if you can imagine life as an elephant on the plains of Africa then you will love this book. This is probably the best book on elephants that I have ever read. Others have said that "it is perhaps one of the best books on the structure of animal society and the individuals that constitute that society". I would agree. The author portrays the life and times of elephant society in the Amboseli. It is scientific yet touching. I couldn't put the book down - now I wish I could travel to Amboseli and meet these 'friends' for myself. The author demonstrates that like us, elephants have distinct personalities which develop through their lives. They laugh, they cry, and they think. Read the book, you won't regret it.
List Price: £10.99
Our Price: £6.21
Author:
LR Brown
By W. W. Norton & Co.
 A bold plan for a bold future., 2008-10-24
THe world faces what most see as insurmountable challenges, yet here is someone bold enough to say 'lets stop the denial, lets start solving the issues...' An extremely good synopsis of the principle threats to humankind and the planet, followed up by practical and bold solutions. If you give a jot about the future, read this book, lobby your government to have courage, take action yourself and well... pray, pray that we get this right. Highly recommended.
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Our Price: £2.49
Author:
Fred Pearce
By Eden Project Books
essential reading, 2007-07-30
I've had an interest in global warming since I read Kit Pedler's "Quest for Gaia" in the late 70's. That in turn lead me to James Lovelock's books. I've not read much on this topic for a while as I resigned myself years ago that there appears to be no collective global will to change things.
I looked on with a passing cynicism when the press and vote hungry politicians latched onto the "biggest threat facing mankind". I was appalled at the only part of Gore's London pop concert that I viewed to hear the Pussycat Dolls (of all people) telling the viewers (and no doubt the record buying public) how they'd all "researched" the threat of global warming and informing how they've now changed their light bulbs to more energy efficient bulbs.
How fantastic then that Fred Pearce should deliver a calm logical overview of the the impact that human beings have made and continue to inflict on their planet, and the possible/inevitable consequences of burying our collective heads in the sand. Mr Pearce provides a simple to understand (I'm no scientist) concise and devastating analysis of our predicament. No answers are offerred, but anybody reading this book would have to conclude either 1. We're already doomed or 2. We need to act globally now or our race will be wiped out as speedily & effectively as the dinosaurs at the altar of economic growth.
Anybody who paid for tickets/travel to the aforementioned Gore concert that had any concern for our planet would have been far better advised to buy this book,read it and then insist that their friends/family read it. Spreading this information to as many people as possible is the only way we'll ever get a sea change in the way the population of earth think about what their individual actions. The corporate bodies we all make purchases from & the politicians we vote for are already beginning to make lip service to "green" issues. Let's hope that this book becomes another stepping stone in this slow process as The Last Generation makes starkly clear, time is running out!
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