Author: Anne Leonard
By Constable

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Fantastic, 2010-04-26
This is a well researched, important book. It is very rigorous in its exploration of all aspects of consumer culture and should be compulsory reading! Amazing, eye-opening, life-changing. Please read it.

Author: E.F. Schumacher
By Vintage

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'we are more than the sum of our possessions'.., 2010-01-03
What is wrong with our world? Can one short book contribute a meaningful answer to this question? By looking at the major historical themes in economics, i.e. land, scarcity, man and education, goods, production and energy, housing and development, and looking at the thinking behind our present view, the answer is yes. The book advocates a shift in lifestyle, one that accords material goods a secondary place after a oneness with our planet, putting people ahead of profits, and ensuring a future for both. Although first published in 1973, helping the Alternate Technology movement, the book should be regarded as required reading for many other reasons than the familiar Green agenda.
Much of what we achieve is labelled `economic' or `uneconomic', or simply said, what is profitable in monetary terms. The book highlights how, even in the short term, a full picture of man and his purpose on earth will change our assumptions of what is economic.
Chapter six focuses on education, the greatest of man's resources. The emphasis here is on understanding the driving philosophy of our world and compare with an alternative. At present, man appears lost when contemplating whether his existence has lasting significance. Why? Six leading ideas bear responsibility according to Schumacher, namely, 1. Evolution, 2. Natural selection, 3. Competition, likewise a `survival of the fittest', 4. Freud's interpretation of the subconscious, which reduces the higher manifestations of man's unconscious intelligence to the unfulfilled urgings of childhood, and the idea that these higher manifestations, religion, philosophy and art, for example, are inferior or superfluous compared with material goods and their consumption, 5. Relativism, the idea that knowledge is not absolute, but depends on the relations in which things stand to each other, and limited by the changing conditions of our perceptive faculties, 6. Positivism, the acceptance of only that which can be scientifically proven, or that which can be experienced, all else being regarded as speculative and hence inferior.
These are the ideas that dominate the way the world is interpreted for us. They are also destroying us.
The book argues for a holistic, long-term approach, working in harmony with the environment, a balance between the urban and rural dweller, and the western and third world, avoiding a `small, mean calculating attitude to life, one that refuses to see or value anything that fails to promise an immediate advantage'.

Author: UNESCO
By Collins

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Excellent guide - provides inspiration for numerous journeys to come!, 2010-01-06
I have received it as a Christmas gift and it could not be better! It is a comprehensive compedium of all attractions listed on UNESCO list. Although they are just briefly described, book is an excellent source of inspiration and a starting point to further reading and planning.
The only comment is that some photographs could be a bit better, I have visited many of the places already and some photographs in the book do not do them justice. Nevertheless it is an amazing book and well worth buying.

Author: James Lovelock
By Oxford Paperbacks

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A tremendously life-affirming read., 2010-05-23
After hearing James Lovelock discussing his ideas and his central theme; the Gaia hypothesis, so eloquently on the recent BBC4 series; 'Beautiful Minds', I decided to pursue my interest in the idea with the purchase of this book. I was not disappointed.

This text elucidates in a clear and easy to understand manner the central tenets of Lovelock's 'philosophy', namely that the earth and all life upon and within it represents a single, self regulating system. To me, this idea seems remarkably intuitive and almost logical. However, I think that Lovelock does himself no favours and ,indeed, leaves himself open to attack from evolutionary biologists with the choice of language used in this book. To talk of the purpose of substances produced by life forms brings with it connotations of 'Mother Nature' and her maternal ways that offer an easy route for detractors to criticise what is otherwise an excellent and lucid book.

Author: Mark Carwardine
By Collins

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A must-see!, 2010-02-08
Amazing series! Interesting & amusing, a great series to escape to & Stephen Fry is utterly charming & entertaining!

Author: Henry David Thoreau
By Arc Manor

It helped to open my eyes to the world around me!, 1999-03-14
It is a perfect little book to carry with you for inspiration. It makes me want to take a walk... and the beautiful thing about this book is that it allows me to take a walk in my mind without ever leaving my office or room. I have and will continue to read it over and over.

Author: Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine
By Arrow

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rewarding read, 2010-06-09
I am still reading this book and what a joy it is. Basically it is a travelogue charting a mission to see some of the world's most endangered species. There is no preaching and every page is a pleasure thereby getting the meassage across far more succinctly.

Author: Rachel Carson
By Penguin Classics

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Think twice before you spray, 2009-08-25
Excellent book that is well written. Takes you on a journey through how mankind is wrecking its own home. Why are we poisoning our own planet? Maybe that tractor spraying the wheat field isn't quite so innocent. What price cheap food? Is it corporate greed as usual? Rachel guides you through what we are doing to the earth with clarity and a list of suggestions for a better way to conduct ourselves. Worth a read.

Author: Professor Robert Carter
By Stacey International

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Voice of authority, 2010-07-20
Professor Carter has more than 40 years experience studying ancient climates and environments. His careful evaluation of the arguments for dangerous global warming lead him to conclude that the fears are grossly exaggerated and based on models that have no value as predictive tools. He explains how those warning of climate dangers have corrupted the scientific process. He wrote after Climategate, but before the feeble investigations into it published their exonerations of scientific malpractice, so he hoped that the exposure of groupthink and its manifestations might mark the beginning of the end for climate alarmism.

Author: Malcolm Greenhalgh, Denys Ovenden
By Collins

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Very useful guide, 2010-06-14
This book is great for beginners and more expert pond-lovers! It is well set out and comprehensive. The pictures are good. Some descriptions are a little too short, but a huge number of species is covered.