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A Spotter's Guide to the Countryside : Uncovering the wonders of Britain's woods, fields and seashores
Discover the answers behind the mysteries of the countryside in all their fascination and beauty... Ever wondered about the masses of twigs in bare-branched trees that look like abandoned nests?Seen fuzzy red balls on roses? A stranded pond on a hilltop? Or even considered...- £12.99 GBP
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Wild Isles
This beautifully illustrated overview of the wildlife of the British Isles showcases the diversity of our plant and animal life. Wild Isles is a celebration of the wildlife found on a relatively modest collection of islands positioned at a latitude so northerly to be...- £25.00 GBP
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The Pocket Cloud Book Updated Edition : How to Understand the Skies in Association with the Met Office
Learn how to understand the skies with this comprehensive pocket guide to cloudspotting. Clouds have been the object of fascination throughout history, their fleeting magnificence and endless variability providing food for thought for scientists and daydreamers alike. Clouds may have many individual shapes, but...- £9.99 GBP
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Guide to the butterflies of Britain and Ireland
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Let My People Go Surfing : The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Including 10 More Years of Business as Usual
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The Graphic Design Idea Book : Inspiration from 50 Masters
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The Power of Art
* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and...- £30.00 GBP
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How to Paint Like Turner
J.M.W. Turner is one of the most influential and important British artists of all time. His watercolours, with their extraordinary effects of shifting light and dramatic cloudscapes, are especially highly regarded. This book reveals the secrets of his technique for the first time, allowing...- £14.99 GBP
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David Hockney. A Chronology. 40th Ed.
Pop artist, painter of modern life, landscape painter, master of color, explorer of image and perception-for six decades, David Hockney has been known as an artist who always finds new ways of exploring the world and its representational possibilities. He has consistently created unforgettable...- £25.00 GBP
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Wild Light : A printmaker's day and night
With over 70 original illustrations, printmaker Angela Harding invites you to look at how the light changes the world around us, and how that changes us in its turn. "I, like many other people, find great inspiration in the way mornings, evenings or bright...- £25.00 GBP
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Arboretum
This next instalment in the bestselling Welcome to the Museum collection in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, is about the incredible life of trees. Trees are some of nature's most majestic and beguiling life forms. Arboretum is a beautifully illustrated celebration of...- £25.00 GBP
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One Midsummer's Day : Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth
It takes a whole universe to make one small black birdThe bestselling author of Crow Country and writer of the Guardian's Country Diary tells the story of all life on Earth through a single day spent in the company of swifts'A jewel of a...- £20.00 GBP
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John Betjeman
Sir John Betjeman (1906-84) was born in Highgate, the son of a manufacturer of Dutch descent. His poetry enjoyed immense popularity, as did his personality, and his knighthood in 1969 and appointment as Poet Laureate in 1972 were universally welcomed. Other volumes in this...- £12.99 GBP
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Selected Poems
Kathleen Jamie's Selected Poems gathers together some of the finest work by one of the foremost poets currently writing in English. Although Jamie is perhaps best known for her writing on nature, landscape, and place, Selected Poems shows the full and remarkably diverse range...- £14.99 GBP
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The Earth Transformed : An Untold History
THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT AND FINANCIAL TIMESA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK | AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan...- £30.00 GBP
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Salt
Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind. Wars...- £12.99 GBP
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Party Lines : Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain
A Guardian Guide Cultural Book of the Year 2023An Irish Times Music Book of the Year 2023'A deep, engrossing history' The Observer'A fascinating deep dive' Jeremy DellerFrom the illicit reggae blues dances and acid-rock free festivals of the 1970s, through the ecstasy-fuelled Second Summer...- £20.00 GBP
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Architecture : From Prehistory to Climate Emergency
A groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energyThe story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in, from the humblest pre-historic huts to today's skyscrapers, reveal our priorities and ambitions, our family structures and power...- £12.99 GBP
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How Not to Kill Your Houseplant : Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged
You've welcomed a plant into the home: now what?! First job is to keep it alive, then after that help it bloom and thrive. Learn all the tips and tricks you need to become a proud plant parent - of more than 100 different...- £12.99 GBP
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Eating for Pleasure, People & Planet
If we could all live and eat a little more like Tom the world and the food chain would be in much better shape.' Anna Jones'This book is like a hybrid of Michael Pollan and Anna Jones. It combines serious food politics with flavour-packed...- £30.00 GBP
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Even If Everything Ends
Summer. The climate crisis has escalated beyond our worst nightmares. Raging wildfires sweep through the Swedish countryside - turning vacationers into climate refugees. And yet, against this hellscape, life goes on. Marriages collapse; teenagers fall in love; parents succumb to midlife crises; children rebel....- £18.99 GBP
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NOSH Vegetarian NOSH for Students : a fun student cookbook
This is the 4th edition of Vegetarian NOSH for Students. Originally a sequel to a book inspired by the author's son, Ben, leaving for university, who was clueless in the kitchen. Toasted sandwiches and Mars Bars were his staple diet, but these didn't serve...- £9.99 GBP
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Bold Beans : Recipes to Get your Pulse Racing
AS SEEN ON DRAGON'S DEN!A BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme Book of the Year 2023'With recipes this good you'll wonder why you didn't embrace the bean craze sooner...' - Thomasina Miers'I love having beans as a base to make a hearty delicious dinner.'...- £22.00 GBP
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The New Climate War : the fight to take back our planet
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, and one of The Observer's `Thirty books to help us understand the world'. Are we really to blame for the climate crisis? Over 70 per cent of global emissions come from...- £10.99 GBP
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The Future We Choose : 'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG'One of the most inspiring books I have ever read' YUVAL NOAH HARARI'Inspirational, compassionate and clear. The time to read this is NOW' MARK RUFFALO'Figueres and Rivett-Carnac dare to tell us how our response can...- £12.99 GBP
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Regeneration : Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation
The NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist and creator of Drawdown, Paul Hawken The dangers of climate change and a warming world have been in the public eye for fifty years. For three...- £20.00 GBP
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Losing Earth : The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change
�_~Nathaniel Rich�_Ts account starts in Washington in the 1990s and tells the story of how climate change could have been stopped back then, if only the powerful had acted. But they didn�_Tt want to.�_T �_" Observer By 1979, we knew all that we know...- £9.99 GBP
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Being Ecological
To read Being Ecological is to be caught up in a brilliant display of intellectual pyrotechnics' P.D.Smith, GuardianWhy is everything we think we know about ecology wrong?Is there really any difference between 'humans' and 'nature'?Does this mean we even have a future?Don't care about...- £10.99 GBP
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