Victoria: TouchWood, 2016. Third Edition. Trade Paperback. Originally published in 1998, this updated edition has a brand-new cover and interior design, with a new foreword by Alexandra Morton. Billy Proctor was born in 1934 and has spent his entire life in a remote coastal community called Echo Bay, BC..... More
Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018. Ann Boavida (cover design). First Edition. Paperback. Now that Trump has turned the United States into a global climate outcast, will China take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe? Many signs point to yes. China, the world's largest carbon emitter, is leading a...... More
Beijing: New Star Publishers, 1992. First edition (presumed). Softcover. Very rare. More
Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1985. Reissue. Trade Paperback. Hose was a noted member of the Brookes' civil service in Sarawak from the end of the 19th to the early 20th century. As with many of his type, he also found time to explore and write about the country and its..... More
London: Earthscan Publications Limited, 1994. First English Edition. Trade Paperback. Rare. An extraordinary collection of interviews, essays, and statements by Chinese scientists, journalists, and intellectuals opposed to the massive Three Gorges dam on China’s Yangtze River. Originally published in 1989 as the democracy movement was gathering momentum, Yangtze! Yangtze! is..... More
Hong Kong: Buddhist Perception of Nature, 1999. Second Edition. Paperback. With a declaration on environmental ethics from His Holiness The Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, and an introduction by Sir Peter Scott. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. A companion book to the PBS television series. More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. David Mann (cover design). New UK Paperback Edition. Second Printing. Paperback. More
UK: Penguin Books, 2019. Reprinted with new material. Fifth Printing. Paperback. The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation 'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg..... More
Bombay: Bombay Natural History Society, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. From dust jacket front flap: "The Bombay Natural History Society was founded in 1883 'for the purpose of exchanging notes and observations on Zoology, exhibiting interesting specimens of animal life and otherwise encouraging each other'. Its funds are devoted to..... More
New York: Abradale Press/ Harry N. Abrams, INC., 1985. First Edition (presumed). Outsize Hardcover. The ocean world - a mysterious realm filled with beauty and drama - is captured in this magnificent and comprehensive volume, a virtual encyclopedia of the undersea world. No better guide to that world can be..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, Inc., 1988. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover (oversized). Signed by Jacques Cousteau. Heavy item; please note additional handling charge. More
Hong Kong: Islanders, 2020. UUendy Lau (illustrator). Autumn 2020. Foldout enclosed in opaque envelope. Issue #02 Peng Chau 坪洲 Nourishing Land 豐饒之地 Walk past the main street, a soft cloak covers the island with a verdant character. In this homogeneous setting, shiny mature fruits attract our..... More
New York: Dial Books for Young Reader, 2015. Richie Chevat (adaptation). Young Readers Edition. Thirteenth Printing. Paperback. The New York Times bestseller that’s changing America’s diet is now perfect for younger readers “What’s for dinner?” seemed like a simple question—until journalist and supermarket detective Michael Pollan delved behind the..... More
Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2000. International Editions. Softcover. More
New York: Basic Books, 2010. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Sea level rise will happen no matter what we do. Even if we stopped all carbon dioxide emissions today, the seas would rise one meter by 2050 and three meters by 2100. This—not drought, species extinction, or excessive heat waves—will..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2000. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Lord Shackleton, a...... More
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Challenging the conventional wisdom conveyed by Western environmental historians about China, this book examines the correlations between economic and environmental changes in the southern Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi from 1400 to 1850, but also provides substantial background from 2CE..... More
Zurich, Switzerland: Lars Müller Publishers, 2017. Softcover. What are the central global issues humanity is facing today? How dire is the future really going to be? And what are possible ways to turn this world into a better one? These are the questions that the book Our World to Change!..... More
Hong Kong: Draco Viridi, 2019. Caroline Lewington (Illustrator). First Edition. Second Printing. Softcover. The Green Dragon is an old, wise character with many friends. When his friends are hurt by the plastic pollution in the ocean he feels anger and despair. A young boy comes to his rescue in more..... More
Hong Kong: Draco Viridi, 2020. Caroline Lewington (Illustrator). First Edition. First Printing. Softcover. SIgned by author on interior of front cover. Join Willy on his second adventure with his friends in Hong Kong, but this time venturing into the beautiful country parks. A story featuring Aiya, the Asian Koel..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2012. Reprint. Paperback. Tim Flannery is here to offer us a change of perspective. And he is here to inspire us. He invites us to consider again our place on earth, what it really means to be alive. Here on Earth is a revolutionary dual biography..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. An international best seller embraced and endorsed by policy makers, scientists, writers and energy industry executives from around the world, Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers contributed in bringing the topic of global warming to national prominence. For the first time, a...... More
London: Fourth Estate, 2002. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. On June 3, 1817, Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix set sail for the New World on an expedition sponsored by the Bavarian Royal Academy of Sciences. What he found in Brazil's thorny caatinga woodlands would one day transform our understanding about..... More
London: Laurence King Publishing, 2019. Manuela Marazzi (illustrations). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. "Humans are very adaptable: We can still fix this. But the opportunity to do so will not last for long. We must start today. We have no more excuses" GRETA THUNBERG Follow in the footsteps of..... More
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