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The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation

8 best books like The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation (Fred Pearce): Losing Earth: A Recent History, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, The End of the Ocean, Alone on the Wall, Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling

Losing Earth: A Recent History
AuthorNathaniel Rich
ISBN0374191336
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before...
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
AuthorElisabeth Tova Bailey
ISBN1565126068
In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris —a common woodland snail.

While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that...
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
AuthorJonathan Safran Foer
ISBN0374280002
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish...
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
AuthorKate Raworth
ISBN1847941389
Economics is broken. It has failed to predict, let alone prevent, financial crises that have shaken the foundations of our societies. Its outdated theories have permitted a world in which extreme poverty persists while the wealth of the super-rich grows year on year. And its blind spots have led to...
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN1476776628
Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature.

In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences...
The End of the Ocean
AuthorMaja Lunde
From the author of the #1 international bestseller and Indie Next Pick The History of Bees, a captivating new novel about the threat of a worldwide water shortage as seen through the eyes of a father and daughter.

In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets out on a hazardous voyage to cross an entire...
Alone on the Wall
AuthorAlex Honnold
ISBN0393356140
Including two new chapters on Alex Honnold’s free solo ascent of the iconic 3,000-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.

On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo Yosemite's El Capitan—to scale the wall without rope, a partner, or any protective gear—completing...
Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling
AuthorEmer McLysaght
Aisling is thirty, flirty and frazzled.

But - just when she should finally be feeling all grown-up - she's floundering.

Because when you're recovering from a broken heart as well as struggling to keep your café as sizzling as your award-winning sausages, it's hard to feel you've...
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