When the Rivers Run Dry - The Global Water Crisis and How to Solve It (Pearce Fred)(Paperback / softback)

When the Rivers Run Dry - The Global Water Crisis and How to Solve It (Pearce Fred)(Paperback / softback)

The world is running out of water. Fred Pearce, environmental consultant to the New Scientist, explains why, and what we can do to stop our rivers drying up - before it's too

Troubled Waters: Religion, Ethics, and the Global Water Crisis (Chamberlain Gary)(Paperback)

Water--although it covers more than two-thirds of the earth's surface, clean, potable water is in critically short supply. As more and more people globally show greater interest in what their religious traditions say about our natural world, Troubled Waters: Religion, Ethics, and the Global Water

How to Survive The End Of The World As We Know It - From Financial Crisis to Flu Epidemic (Rawles James Wesley)(Paperback / softback)

Shows how to prepare for the crisis, from global financial collapse to a flu pandemic. This guide shares the essential tools and skills you need for your family to survive, including how to find and build a retreat, store food, supply power, rear animals, administer medicine, barter, and defend

How to be Strategic (Pelard Fred)(Paperback / softback)

FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE MONTH Being strategic is a critical skill. It enables you to solve problems on a day-to-day basis while also keeping an eye on the long term, anticipating opportunities and mitigating threats along the way. Fred Pelard has been teaching strategic thinking to executives at

The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? (Dowling Emma)(Pevná vazba)

An examination of the global economic crisis from the perspective of care Valuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change, we must go further. In this groundbreaking book, Emma Dowling charts the multi-faceted nature of care in

Diversity Illusion - How Immigration Broke Britain and How to Solve it (West Ed)(Paperback / softback)

A bracing analysis of the concept of diversity, and how it is creating

Welsh Rivers - The Complete Guidebook to Canoeing and Kayaking the Rivers of Wales (Sladden Chris)(Paperback / softback)

A guidebook to canoeing and kayaking the rivers of Wales. It covers nearly all the rivers of the principality, mostly from navigable source to sea or confluence. It is simple to navigate with quick reference information, detailed descriptions and area maps of the river

Water Lands - A Vision for the World's Wetlands and Their People (Pearce Fred)(Pevná vazba)

Where water meets land, life abounds. This is the story of the nature and people of the wetlands of the

Fallout - A Journey Through the Nuclear Age, From the Atom Bomb to Radioactive Waste (Pearce Fred)(Paperback / softback)

When Money Destroys Nations: How Hyperinflation Ruined Zimbabwe, How Ordinary People Survived, and Warnings for Nations that Print Money (Haslam Philip)(Paperback)

Since the global financial crisis of 2008, the major governments of the world have resorted to printing vast sums of money to pay national debts and bail out banks. The warning signs are clear, and the collapse of the Zimbabwean dollar in 2009 after years of rampant money printing is a frightening

Home Truths - The UK's chronic housing shortage - how it happened, why it matters and the way to solve it (Halligan Liam)(Paperback / softback)

Informed by deep economic research and political access at the highest level, the book is a no-holds-barred critique of the UK's chronic housing shortage, concluding with eye-catching policy proposals of direct relevance to both Parliament and regional and national

Home Truths - The UK's chronic housing shortage - how it happened, why it matters and the way to solve it (Halligan Liam)(Paperback / softback)

Informed by deep economic research and political access at the highest level, the book is a no-holds-barred critique of the UK's chronic housing shortage, concluding with eye-catching policy proposals of direct relevance to both Parliament and regional and national

Despot's Accomplice - How the West is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy (Klaas Brian)(Paperback / softback)

Why the West is losing the global battle for democracy and how to start winning it

Who Cares Wins - How to Protect the Planet You Love: A thousand ways to solve the climate crisis: from tech-utopia to indigenous wisdom (Cole Lily)(Paperback / softback)

Fallout - A Journey Through the Nuclear Age, From the Atom Bomb to Radioactive Waste (Pearce Fred)(Paperback / softback)

An eye-opening journey through the disasters and triumphs of the nuclear age - and a critical assessment of the nuclear

Futures of Socialism: The Pandemic and the Post-Corbyn Era (Blakeley Grace)(Paperback)

How should the left respond to electoral defeat, the leadership of Keir Starmer and a global crisis? British politics is in an extraordinary place. Grace Blakeley introduces an indispensable collection of analysis and comment. In Futures of Socialism, Sam Gindin and James Meadway reassess

The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence (The Care Collective)(Paperback)

We are in the midst of a global crisis of care. How do we get out of it? The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care--childcare, healthcare, elder care--to care for the natural world. We live in a world where carelessness reigns, but it does

A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World - Fred Pearce

Trees keep our planet cool and breathable. They make the rain and sustain biodiversity. They are essential for nature and for us. And yet, we are cutting and burning them at such a rate that many forests are fast approaching tipping points beyond which they will simply shrivel and die. But there is

Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders (Miller Todd)(Paperback)

Is it possible to create a borderless world? How might it be better equipped to solve the global emergencies threatening our collective survival? Build Bridges, Not Walls is an inspiring, impassioned call to envision-and work toward-a bold new reality.'Todd Miller cuts through the facile media

When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis (McKinney Cynthia)(Paperback)

The 2019 novel Corona Virus, now COVID-19, stole global headlines in the opening months of 2020, and its many impacts are still to play out. The common adage, 'If the US sneezes, the world catches a cold' is now demonstrable in a multiplicity of ways, but it is China that has sneezed. This book

Ecodharma, 1: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis (Loy David)(Paperback)

How can we respond urgently and effectively to the ecological crisis--and stay sane doing it? This landmark work is simultaneously a manifesto, a blueprint, a call to action, and a deep comfort for troubling times. David R. Loy masterfully lays out the principles and perspectives of Ecodharma--the

Famous Problems of Geometry and How to Solve Them (Bold Benjamin)(Paperback)

It took two millennia to prove the impossible; that is, to prove it is not possible to solve some famous Greek problems in the Greek way (using only straight edge and compasses). In the process of trying to square the circle, trisect the angle and duplicate the cube, other mathematical discoveries

Genius and Anxiety - How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 (Lebrecht Norman)(Paperback / softback)

A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed

The Middle East Crisis Factory: Tyranny, Resilience and Resistance (El-Baghdadi Iyad)(Paperback)

Why is the Middle East a crisis factory, and how can it be fixed? What does the future look like for its 500 million people? Should the West strong-arm it towards democracy, or leave it alone to its tyrants and terrorists? Iyad El-Baghdadi and Ahmed Gatnash explore the entrenchment of tyranny,