Science and Nature Writing
Our round up of the best science and nature writing books of the year.....
Kirstin Dow and Thomas E Downing
Rigorous in
its science and insightful in its message, this
atlas examines the possible impact of climate
change on our ability to feed the world's people,
avoid water shortages and conserve biodiversity. With more than 50 full-colour
maps and graphics, this is an essential resource
for policy makers, environmentalists, students,
and everyone concerned with this pressing subject.
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softcover | 2006 | #160430 | £12.99
Richard Dawkins
In "The God Delusion" Dawkins presents a
hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of
all types and does so in the lucid and
powerful language for which he is renowned. This book has opened up a huge
amount of debate around the subject of religion and is required reading for anyone interested in
this controversial and important subject.
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hardcover | 2006 | #162926 | £20.00
Edited by Mick O'Hare
Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? is the latest
compilation of readers' answers to the questions
in the `Last Word' column of New Scientist, the
world's best-selling science weekly. Following the
phenomenal success of Does Anything Eat Wasps?
this new collection includes recent answers never
before published in book form, and also old
favourites from the column's early days.
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softcover | 2006 | #162808 | £7.99
Ken Thompson
In this illuminating book, Ken Thompson explains
that encouraging wildlife is actually entirely
compatible with ordinary gardening, costs next to
nothing, and is almost completely effortless.
Packed with helpful hints and tips, the book shows
us how easy it is to fill our gardens with
everything from foxes, frogs and mice to
butterflies, ladybirds and literally thousands of
fascinating creepy-crawlies.
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hardcover | 2006 | #158263 | £10.00
Paul Davies
The Goldilocks Enigma is Paul Davies' eagerly awaited return to cosmology, he tackles some 'big questions' and introduces us to the
latest scientific discoveries.
Why is everything just right for life on earth?
And how have we tried to explain this? How has
belief shaped the scientific debate? What do we
really know about our place in the universe?
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hardcover | 2006 | #162097 | £22.00
Stephen Jay Gould, Paul McGarr and Steven Rose
Gould's written legacy is prodigious - the
unbroken series of 300 essays published in
"Natural History" magazine, a clutch of books
and his
academic papers.
In
"The Richness of Life", Steven Rose and Paul
McGarr have selected from across the full range of
Gould's writing, including some of the most famous
of his essays and extracts from his major books.
An introduction by Steven Rose sets both the
essays, and Gould's life, in context.
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hardcover | 2006 | #157739 | £25.00
Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Humorous introduction to each of the different
characters of the cloud family, by their
staunchest champion. Gavin Pretor-Pinney is the
chairman and founder of The Cloud Appreciation
Society.`Life would be dull if we had to look up at
cloudless monotony day after day.' It points out
which clouds are the harbingers of fine weather,
and which of unsettled. It tells of the clouds
that predict earthquakes, and of the rare Morning
Glory cloud in Australia that glider pilots surf
like a wave. Looking up will never be the same again.
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hardcover | 2006 | #159082 | £12.99
Edited by Alex Steffen
Worldchanging is by leading
new thinkers who believe that the means for
building a better future lie all around us,
Worldchanging is packed with the information,
resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers
the tools they need to make a difference.
Each chapter offers readers new answers to key
questions, such as: Why does buying locally
produced food make sense? and How can I travel, live, work, and
learn in worldchanging ways?
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hardcover | 2006 | #162522 | £24.95
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