Many readers will remember Daniel Yergin's brilliant history of oil Prize, but that was 30 years ago and things look pretty different now. Here is the backdrop to Marriott & Macalister's sup... read more
Biotechnology is becoming big business, the stuff of both dreams and nightmares. Cobb is an eminently reasonable guide to this strange new world: gene-editing, cloning, GMOs, ethics, etc.
Mastering the art of minimal intervention. We don't know if Mr McGregor would approve but Dowding is THE no-dig guru, pioneering this approach and growing vast and succulent vegetables since... read more
The Scottish Highlands are facing climate chaos too, despite being so far north, and its effects are already being felt. Crumley's meditations on the seasons in one volume.
The Pulitzer-winning novelist is unflinching in her account of mankind's destruction of the environment for commercial gain - from the C16th English fenlands to Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire ... read more
Both a brief history of gardening and a where-do-we-go-from-here manual: Moore shows us not only what we think a garden is but why we think it ought to be thus and so. He's an advocate of a ... read more
How we might stabilise climate change and repair habitats and the environment, in consultation with geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists, engineers, economists, mathematicians, h... read more
Cumbrian farms from the Lake District to the Solway Marches: magnificent photography and compelling conversations about contemporary agricultural issues.