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Environment & nature
Drawn from Paradise
By David Attenborough
Hardback
Published 30-Aug-2012
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Drawn from Paradise is David Attenborough's journey through the cultural history of the birds of paradise, one of the most exquisite and extravagant, colourful and intriguing families of birds.
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Silent Spring Revisited
By Conor Mark Jameson
Hardback
Published 10-May-2012
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Fifty years after the publication of the seminal Silent Spring, Silent Spring Revisited reflects on Carson's legacy in Britain, the US and beyond, and asks the question - are we still silencing the spring?
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My Family and Other Animals
By Gerald Durrell
Paperback
Published 03-Aug-2006
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Sometimes it's pretty hard to tell them apart - my family and the animals, that is. I don't know why my brothers and sisters complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on the lunch table, our house, on the island of Corfu, is a bit like a circus. So they should feel right at home.
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Malay Archipelago
By Alfred Russel Wallace
Paperback
Published 01-Jul-2010
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ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE'S The Malay Archipelago is a work of astounding breadth and originality that chronicles the British naturalist's scientific exploration of Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and New Guinea between 1854 and 1862.
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Salt
By Mark Kurlansky
Paperback
Published 06-Mar-2003
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Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. From the rural Sichuan province where the last home-made soya sauce is made to the Cheshire brine springs that supplied salt around the globe, the author blends political, commercial, scientific, religious and culinary records into a tale.
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Extinct Boids
By Ralph Steadman
Hardback
Published 25-Oct-2012
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Cartoonist and national treasure Ralph Steadman's unique take on a variety of extinct birds ...
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Planet in a Pebble
By Jan Zalasiewicz
Paperback
Published 22-Mar-2012
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In this narrative of the Earth's long and dramatic history, Jan Zalasiewicz shows how many events in the Earth's ancient past can be deciphered from a single pebble. He explores how geologists reach deep into the past by forensic analysis of even the tiniest amounts of mineral matter, demonstrating and revealing Earth's extraordinary story.
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Land
By Jacquetta Hawkes
Hardback
Published 07-Jun-2012
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The Collins Nature Library is a new series of classic British nature writing - reissues of long-lost seminal works. The titles have been chosen by one of Britain's best known and highly-acclaimed nature writers, Robert Macfarlane, who has also written new introductions that put these classics into a modern context.
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Weeds
By Richard Mabey Mabey Richard
Paperback
Published 08-Mar-2012
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Ever since the first human settlements 10,000 years ago, weeds have dogged our footsteps. They are there as the punishment of 'thorns and thistles' in "Genesis" and, two millennia later, as a symbol of "Flanders Field". The author examines how we have tried to define them, explain their persistence, and draw moral lessons from them.
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Emerald Planet
By David Beerling
Paperback
Published 25-Sep-2008
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The Emerald Planet is the tale of our world's past - and future - as revealed by plants. Over the immensity of geological time, plants have been powerful agents of change, shaping the climate, the planet, and affecting the evolutionary path of all life. Here, David Beerling tells how.
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