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Raptor
A Journey Through Birds
2024 || Paperback || James Macdonald Lockhart || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Winner of The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction in 2011 and the Authors' Foundation Roger Deakin Award in 2011 A stunning debut in the tradition of Robert Macfarlane and Helen Macdonald
Natural Resource and Environmental Economics / 4th ed
2020 || Paperback || Roger Perman e.a. || Pearson
Now in its fourth edition, Natural Resources and Environmental Economics, provides comprehensive and contemporary analysis of the major areas of natural resource and environmental economics. All chapters have been fully updated in light of new developments and changes in the subject, and provide a balance of theory, applications and examples to give a rigorous grounding in the economic analysis of the resource and environmental issues that are increasingly prominent policy concerns. This text...
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Whale
2024 || Paperback || Joe Roman || Reaktion Books
Whales are the largest animals ever to have lived on the earth; a large Blue Whale's tongue alone can weigh more than an elephant. This title recounts the evolutionary and ecological background, as well as the cultural history, of these extraordinary mammals, long persecuted and now celebrated throughout the world.
Bird Migration
2020 || Paperback || Ian Newton || HarperCollins Publishers
The phenomenon of bird migration has fascinated people from time immemorial. The arrivals and departures of different species marked the seasons, heralding spring and autumn, and providing a reliable calendar long before anything better became available. Migration is shown by many kinds of animals, including butterflies and other insects, mammals, marine turtles and fish, but in none is it as extensively developed as in birds.
The collective travel routes of birds span almost the entire globe...
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King Solomon's Ring
2024 || Paperback || Konrad Lorenz || Taylor & Francis Group Limited
A delightful treasury of observations and insights into the lives of all sorts of creatures, from jackdaws and water-shrews to dogs, cats and even wolves. It is a wonderfully written introduction to the world of our furred and feathered friends!
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The Song of the Dodo
2025 || Paperback || D. Quammen || Simon & Schuster Nederland B.V.
“Compulsively readable—a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism.” —Bill McKibben, Audubon
A brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope and far-reaching in its message, The Song of the Dodo is a crucial book in precarious times. Through personal observation, scientific theory, and history, David Quammen examines the mysteries of evolution and extinction and radically alters our understanding of the natural world and our place within it....
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The Secret Network of Nature
The Delicate Balance of All Living Things
2024 || Paperback || Peter Wohlleben || Vintage Publishing
From the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees Did you know that trees can influence the rotation of the earth?
Climate Change Is Racist
Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice
2021 || Paperback || Jeremy Williams || Icon Books
'Will open the minds of even the most ardent denier of climate change and/or systemic racism. If there's one book that will help you to be an effective activist for climate justice, it's this one.' - Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, author of This is Why I Resist
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Around the World in 80 Trees
|| Paperback || Jonathan Drori || Laurence King Publishing
Bestselling author and environmentalist Jonathan Drori follows in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg as he tells the stories of 80 magnificent trees from all over the globe.
In Around the World in 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori uses plant science to illuminate how trees play a role in every part of human life, from the romantic to the regrettable. From the trees of Britain, to India's sacred banyan tree, they offer us sanctuary and inspiration - not to mention the raw materials for everything from aspir...
Ecology
A Very Short Introduction
2020 || Paperback || Jaboury Ghazoul || Oxford University Press
Understanding how our living environment works is essentially a study of ecological systems. Ecology is the science of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment, and how such interactions create self-organising communities and ecosystems. This science touches us all.
The food we eat, the water we drink, the natural resources we use, our physical and mental health, and much of our cultural heritage are to a large degree products of ecological interactions of organisms a...