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 Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood---facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf---his casual questioning took on urgency. His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong. Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits. |
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| Pasture Perfect: The Far-Reaching Benefits of Choosing Meat, Eggs, and Dairy Products from Grass-Fed Animals |
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 Jo Robinson
Pasture Perfect uses scientific evidence to explain how products from grass-fed animals are safer and more nutritious than conventional ones. The animals live low-stress, more natural lives, and their meat is higher in Vitamin E, beta-carotene, and omega-3 fatty acids. Eggs and dairy have similar benefits. The book also helps you locate pasture-raised products. |
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| Managing Habitats for Conservation |
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 Edited by William J. Sutherland, David A. Hill
As it becomes ever more expensive to purchase land for conservation purposes, it is becoming increasingly important both to manage existing sites properly, and to create new habitats. This comprehensive volume provides a pragmatic, habitat by habitat guide to conservation management, in which the prescriptions and methods are based upon sound science coupled with practical experience. For each habitat, the book guides the reader through the options and solutions, shows the problems to look out for, and gives good and bad examples of habitat management in the past. This will be a must for all practising ecologists, land managers, wardens, landscape architects and conservationists, and will provide a valuable reference for students of ecology, conservation and environmental science. |
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| Oil: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides) |
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 Vaclav Smil
Packed with fascinating facts and insight, this book will fuel dinner party debate, and provide readers with the science and politics behind the world's most controversial resource. Without oil, there would be no globalisation, no plastic, little transport, and a global political landscape that few would recognise. It is the lifeblood of the modern world, and humanity's dependence upon it looks set to continue for decades to come. In this captivating book, the author of the acclaimed Energy: A Beginner's Guide, Vaclav Smil, explains all matters related to the 'black stuff', from its discovery in the earth, right through to the political maelstrom that surrounds it today. |
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| The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility (Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management) |
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 Edited by Andrew Crane, Abagail McWilliams, Dirk Matten, Jeremy Moon, Donald S. Siegel
Business schools, the media, the corporate sector, governments, and non-governmental organizations have all begun to pay more attention to issues of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in recent years. These issues encompass broad questions about the changing relationship between business, society and government, environmental issues, corporate governance, the social and ethical dimensions of management, globalization, stakeholder debates, shareholder and consumer activism, changing political systems and values, and the ways in which corporations can respond to new social imperatives. This Oxford Handbook is an authoritative review of the academic research that has both prompted, and responded to, these issues. |
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| Collins Photo Guide to Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Ponds of Britain and North-West Europe (Collins Field Guide) [Illustrated] |
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![Collins Photo Guide to Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Ponds of Britain and North-West Europe (Collins Field Guide) [Illustrated]](uploads/greenread/GR-050510-0553-collins_pg.jpg "Collins Photo Guide to Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Ponds of Britain and North-West Europe (Collins Field Guide) [Illustrated]") Richard Sidney Richmond Fitter, Richard Manuel
This photo guide covers the ponds, streams, rivers, lakes, canals and reservoirs of Britain and North-West Europe. It explains how to explore them and describes the wide range of living things which can be found within and around them. A range of organisms from algae, flowering plants, ferns and mosses, to fishes, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals, are described and illustrated. Information on successful waterside observation such as the best equipment to use, the most effective approach and tactics, and even methods of growing your own culture, is also included. |
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