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Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning
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The Genius of Trees : How trees mastered the elements and shaped the world (Paperback)Special Price €12.99 Regular Price €15.99
The extraordinary story of the inventive and astonishing ways trees have shaped our natural world. Over hundreds of millions of years, from the prehistoric forests to those standing tall over us today, trees have evolved to sculpt the environments.
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Your Life Is Manufactured : How the World is Made and How We Can Do it Better€13.99From mega-factory floors, engineering laboratories and seaports to distribution hubs, supermarkets and our own homes, embark on an eye-opening guided tour through the world of manufacturing and its transformational influence on our lives - and the planet.
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The Genius of Trees : How trees mastered the elements and shaped the world€29.99The extraordinary story of the inventive and astonishing ways trees have shaped our natural world. Over hundreds of millions of years, from the prehistoric forests to those standing tall over us today, trees have evolved to sculpt the environments.
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No Straight Road Takes You There : Essays for Uneven Terrain€21.99This book's title, No Straight Road Takes You There, is an evocation and a declaration.
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The City of Today is a Dying Thing : In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow€12.99Cities are bad for us: polluted, noisy and fundamentally unnatural. We need green space, not concrete. Trees, not tower blocks.
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Dust : The Modern World in a Trillion Particles€16.99Dust may seem inconsequential, so tiny and mundane as to slip below the threshold of thought. Yet within the next one hundred years, life on Earth will be profoundly changed by heat and drought - and that means dust.
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Not the End of the World : Surprising facts, dangerous myths and hopeful solutions for our future on planet Earth€14.50We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that we should reconsider having children.
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Friction : An Ethnography of Global Connection€27.50What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around us. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick.
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The Weight of Nature : How a Changing Climate Changes Our Minds, Brains and Bodies€29.99A riveting, revelatory account of how the climate emergency is changing us from the inside outIt is now inarguable that climate change threatens the future of life on Earth.
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Galway: Making a Capital of Culture€17.99This book offers a fresh perspective on contemporary place development, using the unique case of Galway, Ireland. It will be of interest to students and scholars of geography, sociology, planning cultural and Irish studies. While a specific case study, the story of Galway is an international one.
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The Climate Book€31.99We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.
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Fen, Bog and Swamp : A Short History of Peatland Destruction and its Role in the Climate Crisis€20.99From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx - whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth - comes an urgent and riveting history of wetlands, their ecological role and how the loss of them threatens the planet.
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Mini-Forest Revolution : Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World€21.99Are you ready to join the movement to restore biodiversity in our cities and towns by transforming degraded and underused urban land into forests that can help heal the planet?
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Fixing the Planet : An Overview for Optimists€16.99Knowledge is power. Get informed and choose action over despair. Everything you need to know about the earth and the life it supports - right now.
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Rewilding the Sea : How to Save our Oceans (Hardback)€29.99Rewilding the Sea celebrates what happens when we step aside and let nature repair the damage.
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Movement : how to take back our streets and transform our lives€17.99We take it for granted that the streets outside out homes are designed for movement from A to B, nothing more. But what happens if we radically rethink how we use these public spaces?
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Endless Forms€18.99There may be no insect with a worse reputation than the wasp, and none guarding so many undiscovered wonders. (Entomology)
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How to Measure Anything : The Science of Measurement€23.99Learn about scales of measurement used in everything from meteorology to music notation in this comprehensive and informative reference guide.
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Power : Limits and Prospects for Human Survival€22.99Essential reading for everyone who calls planet Earth home.
