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An unforgettable adventure of love, survival and the call of the wild. For more than fifty years, the enchanting tale of Joy Adamson and Elsa, the lioness, has mesmerized readers across the globe. Rescued as an orphaned cub and raised at Joy's home in Kenya, Elsa found a home and a mother in Joy...

Care-Arbeit ist das unsichtbare Fundament unserer Wirtschaft, und wer sie verrichtet, wird systematisch ausgebeutet. Dieses Buch macht Schluss mit dem Gefühl, selbst schuld zu sein. Denn was politisch geschaffen wurde, lässt sich politisch ändern.

The natural world is burning. Time is running out. You know the story. So what possible role could something as flimsy as fiction play? From the pioneering pen of a continually visionary writer, Burning Snowflake is a rallying cry. Shrug off restrictions. Imagine radically. See fiction for what...

A sweeping account of how the Arctic became the next arena of global conflict as the great powers battle over trade routes, resources, and military dominance from Greenland to Siberia—by award-winning Financial Times journalist Rana Foroohar. As polar ice melts and new sea routes open, the...

In this provocative reimagining of what it is to be a plant, an evolutionary biologist draws on a lifetime of research to offer a beguiling behind-the-scenes perspective on how plants really work—and how we truly depend on leaves for our survival. For readers of Entangled Life and An Immense...

A forest almanac for our time, rooted in a full year observing a rural woodland and its birds. Tapper’s groundbreaking first book How to Love a Forest offered a pragmatic and hopeful vision for our relationship with forests and other ecosystems. His new book, The Forest Year, lives inside the...

Bloomsbury presents Future Build: How Construction Can Heal Our Planet, written and read by Will Arnold Future Build exposes the devastating environmental impact of modern construction while offering a bold vision for change. Construction shapes the world we live in, but also leaves one of the...

In Come Rain or Shine, award-winning TV meteorologist Laura Tobin lifts the lid on the fascinating science behind the forecast, revealing a worldricher and more surprising than you'd ever believe. Blending compelling anecdotes, folklore, and first-hand insights, Laura unpacks how the weather...

A vivid tour into the subterranean that encourages us to look downwards, revealing how the earth's most biodiverse frontier sustains all life above the soil surface. The ground beneath us hums with a staggering abundance of winding roots, interconnecting fungal networks, wriggling creatures, and...

Snow gums are the most beautiful trees on Earth. But they're vanishing quickly. In this stunning new book, bestselling author Anthony Sharwood and climate activist Anna Langford help us view Australia's unique high country with fresh eyes, show us what's being lost, what can be saved - and how...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, it’s also waste—or was, or will be. All that is needed is time or a change of sentiment...

A fun-to-listen-to guide to ecological principles and environmental understanding Ecology For Dummies transforms intimidating concepts into an engaging walkthrough that supports academic success and environmental literacy. This accessible text covers everything from energy flow and nutrient...

Bloomsbury presents Brought to You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy, written and read by Amy Westervelt. Recommended by BILL McKIBBEN on the EZRA KLEIN SHOW "A book that every citizen needs to read." —JILL ABRAMSON, author of Merchants of Truth A...

Kaum etwas hat das Leben der Menschen so stark verändert wie die wissenschaftliche Revolution. Durch sie entdeckten wir unbekannte Territorien, bekämpften Hunger und Krankheiten und erlangten einen nie gekannten Wohlstand. Doch der Fortschritt hat auch negative Seiten: Völker wurden bekämpft, die Umwelt zerstört und die Atombombe bedroht die Menschheit. Mit der Künstlichen Intelligenz kommt ein neuer Player ins Spiel, der der Vorherrschaft der Menschen auf der Erde ein Ende bereiten könnte. Wie kann es uns Menschen gelingen, diese Entwicklungen in die richtigen Bahnen zu lenken?

Bloomsbury presents The Grid by Gretchen Bakke, read by Katherine Fenton One of Bill Gates's Favorite Books of 2016 A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must be completely reimagined for our fast-approaching energy future. America's...

A blistering exposé of the new far-right apocalyptic alliance that's on the move around the globe - and how we resist The far right is on the march again – but this time it’s different from anything we’ve seen before. A new, apocalyptic alliance of religious fundamentalists, billionaire...

A scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist survivalists who increasingly define the contemporary right—and a recipe for how to fight them. This program is read by the authors. As the planet burns and shared reality...

Green energy and renewables are heralded as the only way to mitigate our ever-worsening ecological crisis. But that’s not the whole story. In Bad Energy , award-winning journalist Joshua Frank argues that the green energy transition is driven not by an effort to save the planet but by profit incentives. We must stop burning fossil fuels if we have any hope of saving the planet, but the significant, haphazard expansion of green energy in recent years—from large solar projects to wind energy to mining for renewables—has destroyed communities and ecosystems.

Connecting philosophical meditations with agricultural expertise, Seeding Hope urges us to reassess our relationships with ourselves, each other, and the vast living systems to which we belong—reminding us tht when we nurture the world around us, we nuture ourselves. In Seeding Hope, Jack...

*WITH A FOREWORD WRITTEN AND READ BY MICHAEL SHEEN* 'A book that will wake the world up to forever chemicals' - CHRIS PACKHAM A dead witness. A Hollywood star. The conspiracy that leads to your blood... The threat was anonymous. 'Don't you know...you're the last surviving witness?' In 1967, the...