Book reviews
We present a selection of our reviews covering significant, groundbreaking books and films that are often ignored by the mainstream media. The reviews include those that have been published in the magazine and additional reviews that for reasons of space we were unable to publish in the magazine.
Reviews from the past year are shown below. Older reviews are listed separately. Reviews can also be located through our article archive search facility.
Latest Reviews
Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Biocultural Diversity by Michel P Pimbert
Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > There is Another Way
Is Racism an Environmental Threat? by Ghassan Hage
Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > Nature, Race and an Idea of Home
Matter & Desire: An Erotic Ecology by Andreas Webber
Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > The Biological Power of Love
Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity by Sandra Postel
Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > Hope For A Watershed Moment
Science and Spiritual Practices by Rupert Sheldrake
Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > The Science Behind Spirituality?
The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World Without Water by Scilla Elworthy
Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > A Costed Plan for Peace
Voices For Peace: War, Resistance and America's Quest for Full-Spectrum Dominance: War, Resistance and America's Quest for Full-Spectrum Dominance by TJ Coles
Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > War and Order
Reviews from the past year
A Dance with Hermes by Lindsay Clarke
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Web Exclusives > Review > The Trickster
A rich selection of books on topics as diverse as futurology, Nature writing, politics and poetry by Various Authors
Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > Books of the Year
Adam Curle: Radical Peacemaker by Tom Woodhouse & John Paul Lederach (eds)
Issue 302 • May/June 2017 > Reviews > A Pioneering Professor For Peace
Among the Summer Snows by Christopher Nicholson
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > A Touch of Winter in August
As in the Heart, So in the Earth: Reversing the Desertification of the Soul and the Soil by Pierre Rabhi
Issue 303 • July/August 2017 > Web Exclusives > Article > A Parable For Modern Life
Awake : A Dream From Standing Rock by Josh Fox, James Spione, Myron Dewey
Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > Joining Hands at Standing Rock
Bike Boom: The Unexpected Resurgence of Cycling by Carlton Reid
Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > Pedalling on a Bumpy Road
Chagos: History – Exploration, Exploitation, Expulsion by Nigel Wenban-Smith and Marina Carter
Issue 304 • September/October 2017 > Web Exclusives > Review > Cast Away
Chickenizing Farms & Food: Chickenizing Farms & Food: How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, and Consumers by Ellen K Silbergeld
Issue 303 • July/August 2017 > Reviews > The True Cost of a Cheap Meal
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist by Paul Kingsnorth
Issue 304 • September/October 2017 > Reviews > In the Ending Are the Words
Cool Cities: Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming by Benjamin R Barber
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Within City Limits
Driftfish: A Zoomorphic Anthology by Susan Richardon & James Roberts (eds)
Issue 302 • May/June 2017 > Web Exclusives > Review > Tides of Thought and Feeling
Existence: A Story by David Hinton
Issue 304 • September/October 2017 > Reviews > Landscape With A Vision
Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science 1500-1630 by Florike Egmond
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Up Close and Beautiful
Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks by Philip M Coupland
Issue 303 • July/August 2017 > Reviews > On the Dark Side of the Land
Fertile Edges: Regenerating Land, Culture and Hope by Maddy Harland
Issue 307 • March/April 2018 > Reviews > A Nourishing Read
From Global to Local: the Making of Things and the End of Globalization by Finbarr Livesey
Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > A 3D Future is Missing a Dimension
From the Deep Well : The Diaries of Pratale Farm by Etain Addey
Issue 304 • September/October 2017 > Reviews > Digging In
Generation Zapped by Sabine El Gemayel
Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > A CALL FOR SCREEN PROTECTION
Greenpeace Captain: Bizarre Wanderings on the Rainbow Warrior by Peter Wilcox
Issue 302 • May/June 2017 > Reviews > Making Waves
How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow's World Today by Ed Mayo
Issue 303 • July/August 2017 > Reviews > Collector of Hope
Human Scale Revisited : A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future by Kirkpatrick Sale
Issue 304 • September/October 2017 > Reviews > Still Thinking Small
Humankind: Solidarity with Non-human people by Timothy Morton
Issue 307 • March/April 2018 > Reviews > Planetary Communism
Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature by Jairam Ramesh
Issue 307 • March/April 2018 > Reviews > A Premier and A Conservationist
Islander : A Journey Around Our Archipelago by Patrick Barkham
Issue 307 • March/April 2018 > Reviews > Worlds Unto Themselves
Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey by Madeleine Bunting
Issue 303 • July/August 2017 > Reviews > Living on the Edge
Missed Information: Better Information for Building a Wealthier, More Sustainable Future by David Sarokin | Jay Schulkin
Issue 303 • July/August 2017 > Reviews > The Facts That Matter
Nature's Temples: The Complex World of Old-growth Forests by Joan Maloof
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Branching Out
No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Playing The Trump Card
Oak and Ash and Thorn: The Ancient Woods and New Forests of Britain by Peter Fiennes
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Branching Out
Oaks and the Apennines: Truffle Cultivation, Heritage Foods, Sustainability and Well-Being in Italy by Tamara J Griffiths
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Digging for Black Gold
Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot
Issue 307 • March/April 2018 > Reviews > The Alternative? We Need New Stories
Personalities on the Plate: The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat by Barbara J King
Issue 304 • September/October 2017 > Reviews > Sins and Omissions of the Flesh
Progressive Protectionism: Taking Back Control by Colin Hines
Issue 302 • May/June 2017 > Reviews > Trading Places
Religion and Sustainable Agriculture: World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics by Todd LeVasseur, Pramod Parajuli, Norman Wirzba (eds)
Issue 304 • September/October 2017 > Reviews > Keeping Faith In Farming
Remarkable Birds by Michael McCarthy
Issue 303 • July/August 2017 > Reviews > Beauty on the Wing
Risingtidefallenstar by Philip Hoare
Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > Drawn by the Wind and the Waves
Senses of Mystery: Engaging with Nature and the Meaning of Life: Engaging with Nature and the Meaning of Life by David E Cooper
Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > Beyond Words
Thank You For Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations by Thomas L Friedman
Issue 304 • September/October 2017 > Reviews > Time To Take Stock
The Great Climate Robbery: How the Food System Drives Climate Change and What We Can Do about It by Henk Hobbelink
Issue 303 • July/August 2017 > Reviews > Our Food is Cooking the Planet
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
Issue 302 • May/June 2017 > Reviews > Wanted: A True Climate Fiction
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane | Jacki Morris
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Casting Nature's Spells
The Songs of the Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors by Haskell David George
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Branching Out
The Switch: How Solar, Storage and New Tech Means Cheap Power for All by Chris Goodall
Issue 302 • May/June 2017 > Web Exclusives > Review > A Shiny Green Future
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry
Issue 302 • May/June 2017 > Reviews > A Prophet In His Own Place
Water in Plain Sight Hope for a Thirsty World by Judith D Schwartz
Issue 302 • May/June 2017 > Reviews > Down To The Last Drop
Where the Wild Winds Are: Walking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to Provence by Nick Hunt
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Under Pressure
Youth Unemployment by Tish Murtha
Issue 307 • March/April 2018 > Reviews > A Visual Tale of Society, Politics and Prophecy
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