Tickets for the Ark: From wasps to whales - how do we choose what to save? by Rebecca Nesbit
37.00 NZD
Category: Environment
A popular science title about conservation. What should we conserve and why in this age of extinctions? Who should get tickets for the ark? Our planet hasn't seen the current rate of extinction since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, and global conservation efforts are failing to halt th ...Show more
The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac
25.00 NZD
Category: Environment
Climate change: it is arguably the most urgent and consequential issue humankind has ever faced. How we address it in the next thirty years will determine the kind of world we will live in and will bequeath to our children and to theirs. In The Future We Choose, Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Ca ...Show more
Ice Rivers by Jemma Wadham
30.00 NZD
Category: Environment
The story of one woman's passion for glaciersAs one of the world's leading glaciologists, Professor Jemma Wadham has devoted her career to the glaciers that cover one-tenth of the Earth's land surface. Today, however, these 'ice rivers' are in peril. High up in the Alps, Andes and Himalaya, once-indomit ...Show more
Light to Life - The Miracle of Photosynthesis and How It Can Save the Planet by Raffael Jovine
28.00 NZD
Category: Environment
Putting the Earth under a microscope, this book shines a light on one of the most powerful and unsung forces of nature... "Read this book and you will learn how photosynthesis was discovered, how it works, and how we can produce more food to feed the world." - PAUL NURSE, Nobel Prize winner and auth ...Show more
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
40.00 NZD
Category: Environment
A stunning account of this century's most intense urban fire, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind In May 2016, Fort McMurray, Alberta, the hub of Canada's oil industry, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster turned entire neigh ...Show more
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
26.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: Penguin Classics
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and ...Show more
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval by Gaia Vince
50.00 NZD
Category: Environment
An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change- how it will force us to change where - and how - we live. We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for t ...Show more
The Last Drop: Solving the World's Water Crisis by Tim Smedley
40.00 NZD
Category: Environment
A gripping, thought-provoking and ultimately optimistic investigation into the world's next great climate crisis - the scarcity of water. Water scarcity is the next big climate crisis. Water stress - not just scarcity, but also water-quality issues caused by pollution - is already driving the first wave ...Show more
Uninhabitable Earth - A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells
26.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: very good
The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today. Ov ...Show more
No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
10.00 NZD
Category: Environment
'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.'In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to go on strike for our planet, ...Show more
Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food by Roanne van Voorst
33.00 NZD
Category: Environment
Combining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissman's bestseller The World Without Us, a thought-provoking, entertaining exploration of a future where animal consumption is a thing of the past.Though increasing numbers of people know that ...Show more
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
27.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: very good
Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal, Braiding Sweetgrass is poised to be a classic of nat ...Show more