Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) helps readers to access and navigate the robust system of environmental laws that have emerged to check the deleterious impact of human activity on the natural environment. Using concrete examples to cover historical background as well as contemporary scientific, legal, and economic topics, the book explores hot-button current issues from nanopollution to climate change.

Presents an overview of green science and technology and their essential role in sustainability and sustainable development. This book addresses the roles of the hydrosphere, the atmosphere, the geosphere, and the biosphere on the environment and emphasizes the importance of the anthrosphere as a distinct environmental sphere.

Provides an introduction to the debates, the movements, and the successes and failures of environmentalism. This book focuses on how western people have expressed affinity for, thought about, and advocated on behalf of the non-human environment.

Increasingly, consumers in North America and Europe see their purchasing as a way to express to the commercial world their concerns about trade justice, the environment and similar issues. This ethical consumption has attracted growing attention in the press and among academics.

The dramatic and compelling account of the first attempt to climb Mount Everest, published to coincide with the centenary of the expedition in 2022.

In a friendly and easy-to-digest style, Laura guides us through the simple and often surprising changes we can all make to save our planet.

Thoroughly updated with new content, figures and citations, the third edition addresses major themes in contemporary evolutionary biology - including the history of evolution, evolutionary processes, adaptation, and evolution as an explanatory framework - at levels of biological organization ranging from genomes to ecological communities.

Explodapedia is an exploded encyclopedia - everything you need to know, one book at a time! It's a fresh approach to non-fiction, taking key scientific subjects and presenting them in a way that's hugely entertaining and readable, whilst still presenting reliable, serious, in-depth information that will help readers gain a true and lasting understanding of these crucial topics.

Cartoonist and national treasure Ralph Steadman's unique take on a variety of extinct birds ...

Explains what Fair Trade is and where you can find Fair Trade products. This title discusses who it helps, who it doesn't help, and why. It asks questions, such as "Are you willing to spend more money on an item knowing that the producers of the item have received fair pay?"

A provocative and deeply informative exploration of the Fair Trade phenomenon, suitable for specialists and non-specialists alike.

In 'Falcon', bestselling natural history writer Helen Macdonald ranges across the globe and over many millennia, taking in natural history, myth and legend, falconry, science and conservation, and falcons in the military, in urban settings and the corporate world.

An eye-opening journey through the disasters and triumphs of the nuclear age - and a critical assessment of the nuclear future.

Providing a seasonal tour of a traditional farming year, passionate beef farmer Joe Stanley seeks to inform the reader about the journey their food takes before it gets to the plate, revealing the reality of life for a modern British lowland farmer.

A pen portrait of a farming life in southern England and in western Canada.

John Seymour's book about his, and his family's, life on the land in Suffolk; an optimistic and pragmatic vision of a different sort of life and the precursor to his best-selling Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency.

'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman 'I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald 'One of those rare, enchanted books' Isabella Tree 'I was entranced' Cathy Rentzenbrink

The natural and cultural history of how people, birds, and the feather came together