Nature & Ecology

In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog’s behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition, are driven by our emotion....

Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate, calm, or completely alter the qualities of our mental experience....

Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and civilisations falling. Of ancient hunger, modern sicknesses and gastronomic delight....

A forester's fascinating stories backed by the latest scientific research illustrate how trees nurture and talk to each other....

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....

Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies....

A new fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, Living Planet....

Sacred Nature is a book about 'deep ecology': it is about the most profound connections between humans and the natural world....

A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....

People talk a lot about the problems with intensive farming. But the problem isn't the adjective. It's the noun....

Discover traditional Maori philosophy through 52 whakatauki - simple, powerful life lessons, one for every week.... 

In Light to Life, biologist Raffael Jovine takes us on a journey of discovery into the intricate, beautiful and often surprising processes that convert energy from the sun into life and how all-important these are to our survival....

Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a thirdhand Land Rover and drove deep into the Kalahari Desert....

Anika Molesworth fell in love with her family's farm, at an early age. She formed a bond with the land as though it were a member of her family. When the Millennium Drought hit, though, the future she'd always imagined for herself began to seem impossible....

The world needs a manifesto of hope now more than ever. This profound book from a legendary figure in the fight against climate change shows that even in the face of great adversity, we can find hope in human nature and in nature itself....

An Immense World will take us on an insider's tour of the natural world by describing the biology, physics and chemistry animals use to perceive it....

What does it mean to be female? Mother, carer, the weaker sex? Think again....

Be More Human is the ultimate guide to boosting your mental and physical health by reconnecting with the way we, as humans, were supposed to live, eat, sleep, breathe and move....

The problem of agriculture is as old as civilization. Throughout history, great societies that abused their land withered into poverty or disappeared entirely....

This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time....

It dawned on me one day that most of the scare stories in the media today are based on things that are either invisible, like CO2 and radiation, or very remote, like polar bears and coral reefs. Thus, the average person cannot observe and verify the truth of these claims for themselves....