Nature & the Environment Book Summaries

Wintering

Katherine May

Wintering

The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

Salt

A World History

The Comfort Crisis

Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self

Losing Eden

Why Our Minds Need the Wild

On the Origin of Species

By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

2030

How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything

Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Sighted World

Jim Brumm

Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Sighted World

Restoring happiness, balance, and sanity to our lives and our planet

The Laws of Human Nature

What affects your day-to-day life

The Biological Mind

Alan Jasanoff

The Biological Mind

How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are

Novacene

The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

Chernobyl

The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

Adventures in the Anthropocene

A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made

The Fate of Rome

Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire

The Uninhabitable Earth

A Story of the Future

Other Minds

The Octopus And The Evolution Of Intelligent Life

How Bad Are Bananas?

The Carbon Footprint of Everything

Scale

The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies and Companies

Drawdown

The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

A Life on Our Planet

My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

The Hidden Life of Trees

What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World

The Botany of Desire

A Plant’s-Eye View of the World

The Secret World of Weather

Tristan Gooley

The Secret World of Weather

How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop

Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels

How Human Values Evolve

River of the Gods

Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

The Genius of Dogs

Discovering the Unique Intelligence of Man’s Best Friend

The Genius of Birds

Behold the brilliance of birds!

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A Sky Full of Birds

In Search of Murders, Murmurations and Britain’s Great Bird Gatherings

Cat

Katharine M. Rogers

Cat

How humanity fell in love with our feline companions