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- Song of the Sky
- Author: Guy Murchie
Description: Published in 1954, this book is about the ‘Ocean of Air’, aviation and navigation
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Description: A collection of essays, exploring the seeds of systems theory, its foundations, development and applications
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- Author: George Monbiot
Description: How can we stop the planet burning? One of the best books out there looking at the reality of climate change and what we can actually do about it
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- Author: David Wasdell
Description: Feedback dynamics and the acceleration of climate change
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- Author: Rachel Carson
Description: First published in 1962, this book draws a tragic picture of what the effects of pesticides & insecticides can have on human life.
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- Author: John A Day
Description: Reintroduces us to the Earth’s great skyscape
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- Author: Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Description: This book helps us enjoy and understand the beauty of clouds
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- Author: Richard Hamblyn
Description: Telling the story of Luke Howard’s life and how he named the clouds for the love of it
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- Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Description: Philosophy of the Organism.
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- Author: C.H.Waddington
Description: Published in 1941 this book honours the awaking of people’s attitudes to science
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- Author: Ian V McHarg
Description: Offers a practical blueprint for new, healthier relationship between the built environment and nature
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- Author: Robert Kunzig and Wallace S. Broecker
Description: How Broecker and his colleagues unravelled Earth’s volatile history and discovered man-made climate change
ISBN: 1846688604 - Bees at the Bottom of the Garden
- Author: Alan Campion
Description: This book aims to take the mystique out of keeping bees
ISBN: 0907908977 - Bees of the World
- Author: Christopher O'Toole and Anthony Raw
Description: A reference book for naturalists and amateurs
ISBN: 0816057125 - Guide to Bees and Honey
- Author: Ted Hooper
Description: A guide to beekeeping
ISBN: 1904846246 - Honeybee Ecology
- Author: Thomas D Seeley
Description: Behavioural biology
ISBN: 0691083924 - Plants and Honeybees: Their Relationship
- Author: David Aston and Sally Bucknall
Description: How the European honey bee utilises the flowers and plants in the British Isles
ISBN: 190484619X - The Biology of the Honeybee
- Author: Mark L Winston
Description: All you need to know about the honey bee
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Description: A Schumacher briefing on contraction and convergence
ISBN: 1870098943
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- Offer solutions to some of the most serious challenges facing our planet and the human race, such as climate change, pollution and the waste of precious resources.
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