A sweeping novel about the transformation of a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabited it across the centuries-a daring, moving tale of memory and fate... Zobraziť viac
This book provides both perspective and detail on the relative merits and state of progress of technologies for utilizing the various 'renewables'. The analysis considers emissions, sustainability, cost implications and energy security, as political... Zobraziť viac
A NEW TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL MORPURGO, AUTHOR OF WAR HORSE. Meet the Little Prince, a young fellow who hails from a tiny, distant planet. He loves to watch sunsets and look after his flower... Zobraziť viac
DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, a little-known public servant in the Venetian government,Giovambattista Ramusio, anonymously published Navigationi et Viaggi (Journeys and Navigations). Containing a wealth of geographical information... Zobraziť viac
*A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF 2021*’GRIPPING, TERRIFYING AND REVEALING IN EQUAL MEASURES.’ – Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World’PERCEPTIVE.’ – The EconomistA sharp vision of our changing world order as Covid and... Zobraziť viac
Rocks and mountains have withstood aeons of life on our planet - gradually eroding, shifting, solidifying, and weathering. We might spend a little less time on earth, but humans are also weathering: evolving and changing as we're transformed by the ... Zobraziť viac
Meet the original Boy Who Fell to Earth. Stranded in the Sahara Desert, an aircraft pilot meets a strange little boy who tells him of his journey from another world. The Little Prince, by the French writer, illustrator, and aviator... Zobraziť viac
In one of his most energetic and enjoyable novels, Charles Dickens tells the life story of David Copperfield, from his birth in Suffolk, through the various struggles of his childhood, to his successful career as a novelist. The early scenes are... Zobraziť viac
How did the USA become a superpower? Why do people go to war? And why are some countries rich while others are so poor? Find the answers to these questions and many more in this eye-opening book, which uses maps to explain how geography has shaped... Zobraziť viac
Deep in the heart of the Amazon, an entire region has lived under the control of one notorious land baron... Zobraziť viac
One of the Financial Times' best books of 2021 In this compelling journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy traces how the struggle to respond to the climate crisis is rapidly reshaping... Zobraziť viac
A radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system, influential 95-year-old James Lovelock, credited as 'the man who conceived the first wholly new way of looking at life on Earth since Charles Darwin' "Independent".... Zobraziť viac
Acclaimed for its thorough presentation of mediation, moderation, and conditional process analysis, this book has been updated to reflect the latest developments in PROCESS for SPSS, SAS, and, new to this edition, R. Using the principles of ordinary... Zobraziť viac
The story of the Earth is written into our landscape: it's there in the curves of hills, the colours of stone, surprising eruptions of vegetation. Wanting a fresh perspective on her own life, the writer Helen Gordon set out to read that epic narrative... Zobraziť viac
Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organisation, leading to a novel kind of 'systemic' thinking. This volume... Zobraziť viac
Global Security in the Twenty-first Century... Zobraziť viac
?Morland predicts the future of humanity in 10 illuminating statistics (could the Japanese and Italians now go the way of the dodo?) and looks back to how ebbs and flows of population have shaped history, such as the Soviet Union's plummeting birth... Zobraziť viac
In January 1912, Britain`s Captain Robert F. Scott reached the South Pole, only to find he had been beaten by Roald Amundsen`s Norwegian expedition. Scott and his companions faced an 850-mile march to safety. All perished on the return. A few months... Zobraziť viac
This highly acclaimed introduction to green political thought is now available in a new edition, having been fully revised and updated to take into account the areas which have grown in importance since the third edition was published. The author... Zobraziť viac
The new edition of this popular textbook, once again, provides an indispensable guide for the next generation of mineralogists. Designed for use on one- or two-semester courses, this second edition has been thoughtfully reorganised, ... Zobraziť viac
