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THE BURNING QUESTION: We can’t Burn Half the World’s Oil, Coal and Gas. So how do we Quit? by Mike Berners-Lee and Duncan Clark
Mar 01, 2014
Written by
Mick Herron
‘More energy, more technology, more people, more energy’ – this is the feedback loop, whereby an increase in energy supply ramps up demand for energy by allowing for population expansion
THE POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE (Second edition) by Anthony Giddens
Mar 01, 2014
Written by
Matt Law
Lord Giddens is one of the most pre-eminent – and prolific – sociologists of the past 50 years, and the first edition of The Politics of Climate Change, published in 2009, was a must-read for anybody interested in the topic
HAPPY CITY: Transforming our Lives through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
Feb 01, 2014
Written by
Jonathan Wright
When writing about happy cities, the first and most difficult task is to define happiness. Charles Montgomery, for all his forays into philosophy, economics and brain science, never really provides an adequate solution
MAPPING THE FIRST WORLD WAR: The Great War through Maps from 1914 to 1918 by Peter Chasseaud
Feb 01, 2014
Written by
Mick Herron
Maps, in a sense, are what all wars are about. Disputing their accuracy, changing their colours, redrawing their boundaries: these are major causes and consequences of conflict
MERCHANT ADVENTURERS: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England by James Evans
Feb 01, 2014
Written by
Jonathan Wright
In 1553, Hugh Willoughby and Richard Chancellor led an expedition in search of a northeastern passage to Asia. They never achieved their goal, of course, but their voyage still counts as ‘one of the boldest in English history’
THE NOMAD’S PATH: Travels in the Sahel by Alistair Carr
Feb 01, 2014
Written by
Eamonn Gearon
How many books about Niger do you own? Like most of its fellow Sahelian states, although historically, geographically and culturally fascinating, Niger remains largely ignored by outsiders
WHITE BEECH: The Rainforest Years by Germaine Greer
Feb 01, 2014
Written by
Sophie Ibbotson
Far removed from her previous works of feminist discourse, this is best read almost as a travelogue, a lyrical journey of discovery in the rainforests of southern Queensland, and a personal challenge to the supposed inevitability of environmental degradation
PIERDOM by Simon Roberts
Feb 01, 2014
Written by
Mick Herron
This is a lovely publication: a pictorial record of Britain’s remaining pleasure piers; some no more than slumping ruins, others bright and gaudy – little time capsules that preserve sunny weekends from what might be the 1950s
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