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“Everything looked perfect. Sand – unique Baltic sand, the best in the world – and the calm sea. But wait. Something was amiss. Something was wrong”

It starts with a day at the beach. A single white sock that somehow spoils everything. It’s enough to send writer and ornithologist Stanislaw Lubienski on a quest to understand what we throw away, where it goes and whether it will be our legacy.

By analysing items he unearths on his trips into nature – a plastic bottle, a tube of Russian penis-enlargement cream, a cigarette butt, an empty aerosol can – tracing their origins and explaining the harm they can do, he shows how consumer society has developed out of control, to the point of environmental catastrophe.

He also looks with a birdwatcher’s eye at how various animals have come to adapt to and even rely on our rubbish, and interrogates the cultural significance of waste and the origins of our throw-away lifestyles. Finally, he adds a personal touch by examining his own “environmental neurosis” and by going out with refuse crews to watch them work.

While Lubienski never hectors his readers, nor shames them, his clear-eyed, persuasive and humble polemic reminds us what we, as individuals, can and cannot do to address an apocalyptic issue while there’s still something worth saving.

Translated from the Polish by Zosia Krasodomska-Jones

‘Beautiful, like a muddy journey through time . . . a really important book’ RAYNOR WINN, author of The Salt Path

Lisa Woollett has spent her life combing beaches and mudlarking, collecting curious fragments of the past: from Roman tiles and Tudor thimbles, to Victorian buttons and plastic soldiers.

In a series of walks from the Thames, out to the Kentish estuary and eventually to Cornwall, she traces the history of our rubbish and, through it, reveals the surprising story of our changing consumer culture.

Timely and beautifully written, Rag and Bone shows what we can learn from what we’ve thrown away and urges us to think more about what we leave behind.

Your horses deserve a comfortable and well-kept stable. In this easy-to-use guide, Cherry Hill shows you how to design and maintain an efficient and safe stable environment. With clear instructions and more than 250 photographs, Hill provides in-depth advice on every aspect of stable management, including stalls, tack rooms, work and storage areas, sanitation, safety considerations, and more. Good stablekeeping is an essential element of every successfully equine operation; it ensures a pleasant workplace and creates a healthy and happy environment for your horses.

These new edition Workbooks have been fully updated for 2021 and focused to help students practise their skills and improve their subject knowledge both inside and outside the classroom.

– Develop and consolidate understanding using practice questions to check knowledge
– Build key skills with worked examples
– Prepare for assessment using exam-style questions
– Study independently with answers available online

Questions cover Human Geography topics global systems and global governance, changing places, contemporary urban environments, population and the environment, resource security.

Bring social studies to life with lively, detailed and clear coverage and plenty of photographs, drawings and activities, with an exciting pan-Caribbean perspective.

– Cover the topics Our Land and People, Changing Environment and The Wider World in a course for mixed ability classes of 11-14 year olds, Caribbean wide.

Exam Board: WJEC, Eduqas
Level: A-level
Subject: Biology
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: Summer 2017

Reinforce students’ understanding throughout their course with clear topic summaries and sample questions and answers to help your students target higher grades.

Written by experienced teacher Andy Clarke, our Student Guides are divided into two key sections, content guidance and sample questions and answers.

Content guidance will:
– Develop students’ understanding of key concepts and terminology; this guide covers WJEC A-level Unit 3; Eduqas A-level Component 1 and Component 3.
– Consolidate students’ knowledge with ‘knowledge check questions’ at the end of each topic and answers in the back of the book.

Sample questions and answers will:
– Build students’ understanding of the different question types, so they can approach each question with confidence.
– Enable students to target top grades with sample answers and commentary explaining exactly why marks have been awarded.

Rainforests are one of the most amazing environments on Earth and many plants, people and animals have made rainforests their home and are adapted to living there. They have to be tough to survive in the dense jungle, whether they live on the forest floor or high up in the canopy, what they eat and how they are adapted to survive in this hot and humid place, and of course avoiding the variety of predators that live there. Read on to find out how they do it!

Books aimed at KS2 readers wanting to find out a bit more about world environments. Amazing Biomes explores six main habitats.

We are a nation that loves its ancient woods and trees. But in the space of just 40 years, more than a third of our ancient woods were destroyed. How and why did this happen? A Tale of Trees is the untold story of how we nearly lost our greatest national treasure.

Examines and visualizes the workings of the internet by deconstructing the elements that make up 60 of the best online environments.

Lay the foundation for a career in the Construction and Building Services Engineering industries with this comprehensive textbook published in association with City & Guilds.

With complete coverage of the Foundation qualification’s six core units, this book will equip you with the skills you need to approach the next step in your career, as you prepare for assessment and choose your trade pathway. Topic coverage includes: an introduction to the built environment, health and safety, employability, emerging technologies and the built environment lifecycle.

– Break down complex topics with summary tables and more than 250 images and artworks.
– Re-cap knowledge and understanding with ‘Key terms’ features and a detailed glossary.
– Get ready for the workplace with ‘Industry tips’, ‘Health and safety’ reminders and ‘Improve your maths/English’ tasks.
– Get to know your local built environment with engaging activities and historical examples.
– Prepare for assessment with end-of-chapter multiple-choice questions and example guided discussion questions.
– Hone core skills with expert author Mike Jones, who draws on his extensive teaching and industry experience.

Uncover what lies at the deepest depths of our oceans…

In ten brief and informative essays, marine biologist and TV science advisor Professor Jon Copley journeys to one of the most mysterious and fascinating environments on Earth, the deep sea. Discover what makes this unique habitat such a challenging environment, the creatures that call it home and how ocean explorers are able to utilise the latest technology to aid their research and travel miles below the ocean surface.

The Deep Sea: 10 things you should know is a brilliant guide to one of the most fascinating and curious places known to humankind.

Trees is a fully illustrated guide to more than 600 trees. The text sparkles with fact and folklore, illuminating the subject with authority and enthusiasm. Fully updated, it includes all th e newest tree varieties and cultivars. The book first looks at the structure and life cycle of trees; their role in the ecosystem, planting and pruning; and the use of trees in garden design. The core of the book is a complete record of coniferous and deciduous trees, grouped by family, in which an authoritative main text is complemented by a comprehensive index of trees, listing and illustrating alphabetically every important family, species and variety by their horticultural name. Finally, a reference section includes a guide to choosing trees for the garden and an A-Z listing of the most important and popular species and varieties of trees.

Already loved and widely acclaimed by the fashion industry, GREEN IS THE NEW BLACK now has even more fantastic tips and ideas that make saving the world with style easy!
From the truth about fast fashion to the best biodegradable shoes, from guilt-free spending sprees to the joys of swishing parties. With fashion secrets from celebrity friends, GREEN IS THE NEW BLACK is the chicest, greenest survival manual around. If you want to change the world, and your wardrobe, don’t go shopping without it!
Also includes:

– High street heroes

– Sustainable style

– Creating your own

– Ethical bling

– Green holidays

and much, much more…

How Bad Are Bananas? was a groundbreaking book when first published in 2009, when most of us were hearing the phrase ‘carbon footprint’ for the first time. Mike Berners-Lee set out to inform us what was important (aviation, heating, swimming pools) and what made very little difference (bananas, naturally packaged, are good!).

This new edition updates all the figures (from data centres to hosting a World Cup) and introduces many areas that have become a regular part of modern life – Twitter, the Cloud, Bitcoin, electric bikes and cars, even space tourism. Berners-Lee runs a considered eye over each area and gives us the figures to manage and reduce our own carbon footprint, as well as to lobby our companies, businesses and government. His findings, presented in clear and even entertaining prose, are often surprising. And they are essential if we are to address climate change.

‘Gorgeous … a joyful reminder that there are still wonders to be found in Ireland wherever we give nature an inch to flourish’ IRISH INDEPENDENT

‘From moss to moths, Anja Murray has conjured up an ebullient paean to our surrounding ecosystem – a
sensuous celebration of nature.’ MANCHÁN MAGAN

‘A hugely important, and simply delightful, book.’ EOGHAN DALTUN, author of An Irish Atlantic Rainforest

OPEN UP TO A NOURISHING NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH IRELAND’S WILD WORLD.

Wild Embrace is about cultivating curiosity and awe in nature, in a time of eco-anxiety and overwhelm. As ecologist Anja Murray opens our eyes to the hidden bounty of the land, sea and sky around us, we head out on a unique journey through the Irish landscape.

She explores the joy of foraging, the marvels of Irish birds, the roles of our native trees in environmental regeneration, nature at night and in the city, and much more – including fascinating insights into our ecological past.

With beautiful illustrations by Jane Carkill (@lamblittle), Wild Embrace awakens our senses to the everyday environmental wonders within reach, as we set out on a path to empowered change into the future.

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE & SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD

‘One man’s fascinating mission to save the great British orchid’ Mail on Sunday

‘Noble work in a time of great change’ New Statesman

Ben Jacob is the Orchid Outlaw. In the dead of night, armed with a torch and a trowel, he risks everything, climbing into building sites to rescue Britain’s rarest flowers from extinction. At once a memoir, a natural history and an inspiring manifesto for a better future, The Orchid Outlaw shows how we can all save our disappearing natural world, one plant at a time.

‘A vivid love letter to Britain’s orchids . . . Ben Jacob breaks all the rules with enormous success’ FRANCIS PRYOR

‘Unorthodox and precious’ Financial Times

‘Enchanting’ Country Life

‘A fearless battle and a lifelong passion . . . find out why Ben Jacob has risked heavy fines and even prison to save our endangered orchids’ Observer

From the author of the award-winning bestseller An Irish Atlantic Rainforest comes The Magic of An Irish Rainforest: A Visual Journey.

In 2023, environmentalist and rewilder Eoghan Daltun travelled the length and breadth of Ireland photographing areas of temperate rainforest, in a bid to illustrate their beauty and immense ecological value, and to document, in almost all cases, their state of decline.

The resulting collection of stunning images, combined with deeply illuminating nature writing, charts that exploration, beginning with the author’s own thriving wild rainforest on the Beara Peninsula, West Cork, and taking us through the four provinces of Ireland – places such as Killarney National Park, Kerry; The Gearagh, Cork, The Burren, Clare; Old Head Wood, County Mayo; Glenveagh National Park, Donegal; Correl Glen and Cladagh Glen, County Fermanagh; and Wicklow’s beauty spot of Glendalough.

From close-range to wide-lens, luscious forest imagery and landscapes are captured, unimaginably rich in native flora and fauna, offering us a deep insight into rare and priceless ecosystem fragments that we still have but are losing fast, alongside a compelling treatise for how that could so easily be changed for the better.

Praise for An Irish Atlantic Rainforest:
‘The stories are absorbing, the writing charismatic and the ideas thought-provoking’ Irish Independent

‘Daltun writes with passion and purpose of the way we should live now’ RTÉ Guide

‘Wildly inspirational … the most exhilarating account of rewilding yet written’ Caroline Fraser

‘Fascinating … a manifesto for saving our own corner of the planet through letting things be’ The Gloss

A great, rhapsodic, urgent book full of joy, grief, rage and love . . . A must-read’ Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk

Nature has many gifts for us, but perhaps the greatest of them all is joy; the intense delight we can take in the natural world, in its beauty, in the wonder it can offer us, in the peace it can provide – feelings stemming ultimately from our own unbreakable links to nature, which mean that we cannot be fully human if we are separate from it.

In The Moth Snowstorm Michael McCarthy, one of Britain’s leading writers on the environment, proposes this joy as a defence of a natural world which is ever more threatened, and which, he argues, is inadequately served by the two defences put forward hitherto: sustainable development and the recognition of ecosystem services.

Drawing on a wealth of memorable experiences from a lifetime of watching and thinking about wildlife and natural landscapes, The Moth Snowstorm not only presents a new way of looking at the world around us, but effortlessly blends with it a remarkable and moving memoir of childhood trauma from which love of the natural world emerged. It is a powerful, timely, and wholly original book which comes at a time when nature has never needed it more.

‘In this excellent book, Ecott’s evocative telling makes me want to go to this weird and wonderful place.’ – PAUL THEROUX

‘I never want to leave the remote island world so atmospherically, precisely educed between the covers of this book. Ecott’s prose has the power of tides, his perception is as searching as the Atlantic wind, and he has the soul of a natural-born naturalist. A masterpiece.’ – JOHN LEWIS-STEMPLE

Following the natural cycle of the year, The Land of Maybe captures the essence of ‘slow life’ on the 18 remote, mysterious islands which make up the Faroes in the North Atlantic. Closer to the UK than Denmark, this fast disappearing world is home to a close-knit society where just 50,000 people share Viking roots and a language that is unlike any other in Scandinavia.

We follow the arrival of the migratory birds, the over-wintering of the sheep and the way food is gathered and eaten in tune with the seasons. Buffeted by the weather and the demands of a volatile natural environment, people still hunt seabirds and herd pilot whales for a significant portion of their basic food needs.

This is not a travelogue, but a deeper exploration of how ‘to be’ in a tough landscape; a study of a people and a way of life that represents continuity and a deep connection to the past. The Land of Maybe offers not just a refuge from the freneticism of modern life, but lessons about where we come from and how we may find a balance in our lives.

Features 50 simple, practical things which we can do during the working day to make a difference to the world and those around us, regardless of our profession. This book helps us make the most of the time we spend at work and feel good about ourselves.

Provides an easy-to-follow programme for individuals and families to cut down the carbon calories they consume at home, on the road and at play.

‘This is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book’ GEORGE MONBIOT

‘I loved this book’ CLOVER STROUD

Once Upon a Raven’s Nest is the story of a working class man, one Thomas Hedley of Exmoor, and of the planet during the period of its great acceleration towards the current climate emergency.

Born in 1955 to a poor family in Devon Thomas refused to conform. His fierce independence, recklessness and contrariness led not only to scrapes and self-inflicted dangers but to a life enriched by the love of women. Catrina Davies came to know him in his last years and has given his life and times in his own words, creating a rich, pungent language in a knowing, poetic and poignant voice.

We learn of his accumulation of engines, tools and guns, the complexity of his connection to nature, the animals he loved and his desire to hunt them. He recounts the terrible consequences of his fatal attraction to risk and machinery which led to his being paralysed for the last years of his life, confined to a wheelchair, hopelessly dependent but still watching, noticing, recording, loving the world.

The narrative is interwoven with a sequence of factual entries that chart the impending climate catastrophe and the consequences of our collective choices to ignore the warning of an environment on the verge of collapse.

Once Upon A Raven’s Nest is an unforgettable history of a life that is almost lost and an account of the destruction man has wrought on the earth in the time that Hedley worked the land.

‘Stunning. Urgent. Unforgettable’ TANYA SHADRICK

‘This has the unmistakable smell of a classic’ CHARLES FOSTER

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Together.

Imagine a world without trees. A world that is in many ways like our world, but where magnificent canopies, tree climbing and leaves rustling in the breeze are now only distant memories.

Until a young girl comes along, a girl who is brave and spirited and willing to follow where her imagination takes her. Through Olive’s adventures in the world of trees we are reminded of nature’s extraordinary power and beauty, and her actions ultimately sow the seeds of new life in her own world.

From the mind and pen of bestselling author Luke Adam Hawker, The Last Tree is a powerful evocation of the fragility of our natural world and a magnificent celebration of its beauty.

Praise for Together:
“An accurate and thoughtful account of one of the most challenging years in modern history.” -The Guardian

“Hawker’s images always seem to have just the right mixture of gravitas and sly, understated humour.” -The Scotsman