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Acid Rain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 168

Acid Rain

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1987
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Deep Jungle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Deep Jungle

Investigates the rain forests and jungles of the world by following past and present explorers and scientists in their travels, and relates the promise these areas hold and the threats they face.

The New Wild
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

The New Wild

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-04-07
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  • Publisher: Beacon Press

Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist A provocative exploration of the “new ecology” and why most of what we think we know about alien species is wrong For a long time, veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce thought in stark terms about invasive species: they were the evil interlopers spoiling pristine “natural” ecosystems. Most conservationists and environmentalists share this view. But what if the traditional view of ecology is wrong—what if true environmentalists should be applauding the invaders? In The New Wild, Pearce goes on a journey across six continents to rediscover what conservation in the twenty-first century should be about. Pearce explores ecosys...

Earth Then and Now
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

Earth Then and Now

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A collection of 250 stunning images showing locations around the world as they were and as they are now, with captions explaining the often breathtaking changes that have occurred in just a short amount of time.

Confessions of an Eco-sinner
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 402

Confessions of an Eco-sinner

'Confessions of an Eco Sinner' describes the author's journey from Liverpool to Alaska, from Dubai to India and the Far East to discover the source of the shirt on his back, his phone, his beer can and Saturday night curry, his wedding ring and the paper he writes on.

The Incredible Scream Machine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

The Incredible Scream Machine

In 1984 America celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the first successful roller coaster device: La Marcus A. Thompson’s switchback railway, erected at Coney Island. Robert Cartmell examines every phase of roller coaster history, from the use of the roller coaster by Albert Einstein to demonstrate his theory of physics, to John Allen’s use of psychology in designing one.

The Land Grabbers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

The Land Grabbers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-05-29
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  • Publisher: Beacon Press

“Raises complex and urgent issues.”—Booklist, starred review How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheiks, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world. An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food shortages or eager to profit from them, the world’s wealthiest and most acquisitive countries, corporations, and individuals have been buying and leasing vast tracts of land around the world. The scale is astounding: parcels the size of small countries are being gobbled up across the plains of Africa, the paddy fields of Southeast Asia, the jungles of South America, and the prairies of Eastern Europe. Veteran science...

Confessions of an Eco-Sinner
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Confessions of an Eco-Sinner

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-10-01
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  • Publisher: Beacon Press

A 2008 Indie Next Pick In Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, Fred Pearce surveys his home and then sets out to track down the people behind the production and distribution of everything in his daily life, from his socks to his computer to the food in his fridge. It’s a fascinating portrait, by turns sobering and hopeful, of the effects the world’s more than six billion inhabitants have on our planet—and of the working and living conditions of the people who produce most of these goods.

Our Planet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Our Planet

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-04-02
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  • Publisher: Bantam Press

This photographic companion to the Netflix original documentary series takes you on a journey across the globe's different biological realms to present visuals of nature's most intriguing animals in action, and environmental change on a scale that must be seen to be believed

Deep Jungle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Deep Jungle

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-02
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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