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  • The Edge of Extinction

    Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Lands

    by Jules Pretty ...
    In The Edge of Extinction**, Jules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world, taking us on a series of remarkable journeys through deserts, coasts, mountains, steppes, snowscapes, marshes, and farms to show that there are many different ways to live in cooperation with nature**. From these accounts of people living close to the land and close to the edge ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • This Luminous Coast

    Walking England's Eastern Edge

    by Jules Pretty ...
    Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England, eventually exploring four hundred miles on foot (and another hundred miles by boat). It is a coast and a culture that is about to be lost—not yet, perhaps, but soon—to rising tides and industrial sprawl. This Luminous Coast takes the reader with him on his journey over land and water; over ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The East Country

    Almanac Tales of Valley and Shore

    by Jules Pretty ...
    The East Country is a work of creative nonfiction in which the acclaimed nature writer Jules Pretty integrates memoir, natural history, cultural critique, and spiritual reflection into a single compelling narrative. Pretty frames his book around Aldo Leopold and his classic A Sand County Almanac, bringing Leopold's ethic—that some could live without nature but most should not—into the twenty-first ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Low-Carbon Good Life

    by Jules Pretty ...
    Series series Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption
    The Low-Carbon Good Life is about how to reverse and repair four interlocking crises arising from modern material consumption: the climate crisis, growing inequality, biodiversity loss and food-related ill-health.Across the world today and throughout history, good lives are characterised by healthy food, connections to nature, being active, togetherness, personal growth, a spiritual framework and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Nature and Culture

    Rebuilding Lost Connections

    Edited by Sarah Pilgrim, Jules N. Pretty ...
    There is a growing recognition that the diversity of life comprises both biological and cultural diversity. But this division is not universal and, in many cases, has been deepened by the common disciplinary divide between the natural and social sciences and our apparent need to manage and control nature.This book goes beyond divisive definitions and investigates the bridges linking biological and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Green Exercise

    Linking Nature, Health and Well-being

    Edited by Jo Barton, Rachel Bragg, Carly Wood, Jules Pretty ...
    The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature. This book provides a balanced overview and synthesis text on all aspects of Green Exercise and integrates evidence from many different disciplines including physiology, ecology, psychology, sociology and the environmental sciences, and across a wide range of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Agri-Culture

    Reconnecting People, Land and Nature

    by Jules Pretty OBE ...
    'Refreshingly fluent narrative, brimming full of stories and metaphors'Tim O'Riordan, University of East Anglia, UK'A great balance between storytelling and analysis which points to the critical need for gaining control over resources'Jacqueline Ashby, CIAT, Colombia'Full of supporting evidence and clear arguments'Norman Uphoff, Cornell University, US'A wonderful book, put together with such ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Unwelcome Harvest

    Agriculture and pollution

    by Gordon R. Conway, Jules N. Pretty ...
    Series series Natural Resource Management Set
    Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce the risk of the �blue-baby� syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer in adults. Agriculture produces methane, ammonia, nitrous oxide and the products of burning off, all of which add to the world's ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis

    by Elin Kelsey ...
    “This book comes at just the right moment. It is NOT too late if we get together and take action, NOW.” —Jane GoodallFears about climate change are fueling an epidemic of despair across the world: adults worry about their children’s future; thirty-somethings question whether they should have kids or not; and many young people honestly believe they have no future at all.In the face of extreme eco ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Animal Manifesto

    Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint

    by Marc Bekoff ...
    In this inspirational call to action, Marc Bekoff, the world’s leading expert on animal emotions, gently shows that improving our treatment of animals is a matter of rethinking our many daily decisions and “expanding our compassion footprint.” He demonstrates that animals experience a rich range of emotions, including empathy and compassion, and that they clearly know right from wrong. Driven by ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Science, Soul, and the Spirit of Nature

    Leading Thinkers on the Restoration of Man and Creation

    by Irene van Lippe-Biesterfeld, Rupert Sheldrake, Jane Goodall, Masaru Emoto, Rigoberta Menchú Tum ...
    An exploration of the relationship between humans and nature through conversations with 12 leading scientific and social visionaries• Explores the importance of the unification of humankind and nature as it relates to creation, destruction, diversity, and the spiritual health of the world• Contains interviews with Rupert Sheldrake, Jane Goodall, and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Rigoberta Menchú Tum, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Well-Tempered City

    What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life

    by Jonathan F. P. Rose ...
    "A thorough education in how to move from simply maximizing the economic output of cities to improving the well-being of all urban residents." —Daniel L. Doctoroff, CEO, Sidewalk Labs2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade PublisherCities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity—and the home of eighty percent of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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