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A Dance with Hermes by Lindsay Clarke

Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Web Exclusives > Review > The Trickster

Among the Summer Snows by Christopher Nicholson

Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > A Touch of Winter in August

Cool Cities: Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming by Benjamin R Barber

Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Within City Limits

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

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

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

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

Reviews from the past year

A Farewell to Ice: A Report From The Arctic by Peter Wadhams

Issue 300 • January/February 2017 > Reviews > An Iceman Turns Up The Heat

A Sea of Glass: Searching For the Blaschkas' Fragile Legacy in an Ocean of Risk by Drew Harvell

Issue 301 • March/April 2017 > Reviews > Through Glass, Brightly

A Utopia Like Any Other: Inside the Swedish Model by Dominic Hinde

Issue 299 • November/December 2016 > Web Exclusives > Review > Between Fiction and Reality

Action! A Cleric off the Leash by Colin Hodgetts

Issue 301 • March/April 2017 > Reviews > A Nonviolent Fighter For Rights

Adam Curle: Radical Peacemaker by Tom Woodhouse & John Paul Lederach (eds)

Issue 302 • May/June 2017 > Reviews > A Pioneering Professor For Peace

Ancient Futures by Helena Norberg-Hodge

Issue 300 • January/February 2017 > Reviews > Distant Voices Still Live, Warn and Inspire

Ancient Futures by Helena Norberg-Hodge

Issue 300 • January/February 2017 > Web Exclusives > Review > When Economic Growth Means Impoverishment

Animal (De)liberation: Should the Consumption of Animal Products Be Banned? by Jan Deckers

Issue 301 • March/April 2017 > Web Exclusives > Review > Be Kind To Our Kind

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

Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love by Simran Sethi

Issue 299 • November/December 2016 > Reviews > Wake Up and Smell the Food Fraud

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

Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically with Society by John Browne, Robin Nuttall & Tommy Stadlen

Issue 299 • November/December 2016 > Reviews > Still Spinning

Driftfish: A Zoomorphic Anthology by Susan Richardon & James Roberts (eds)

Issue 302 • May/June 2017 > Web Exclusives > Review > Tides of Thought and Feeling

Eco-Homes: People, Place and Politics by Jenny Pickerill

Issue 301 • March/April 2017 > Reviews > Home Sweet Eco-Home

Elemental: An Arts and Ecology Reader by James Brady

Issue 300 • January/February 2017 > Reviews > A Book of Parts

Existence: A Story by David Hinton

Issue 304 • September/October 2017 > Reviews > Landscape With A Vision

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

From the Deep Well : The Diaries of Pratale Farm by Etain Addey

Issue 304 • September/October 2017 > Reviews > Digging In

Grass-Fed Nation: Getting Back the Food We Deserve by Graham Harvey

Issue 300 • January/February 2017 > Reviews > Evangelist of Grass

Greenpeace Captain: Bizarre Wanderings on the Rainbow Warrior by Peter Wilcox

Issue 302 • May/June 2017 > Reviews > Making Waves

Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight For Life by Edward O Wilson

Issue 299 • November/December 2016 > Reviews > Seeing the World Half Empty

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 Ecology: How Nature and Culture Shaped Our World by Frederick Steiner

Issue 301 • March/April 2017 > Reviews > Our Place in Space and Time

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

Ladders to Heaven: How Fig Trees Shaped Our History, Fed Our Imaginations and Can Enrich Our Future by Mike Shanahan

Issue 300 • January/February 2017 > Reviews > Why We Should Give A Fig

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

Peace Beyond Borders: How the EU Brought Peace to Europe and How Exporting it Would End Conflicts Around the World by Vijay Mehta

Issue 300 • January/February 2017 > Reviews > How Europe Turned From War

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

Poacher's Pilgrimage: An Island Journey by Alastair McIntosh

Issue 301 • March/April 2017 > Reviews > A Walk, and Talk, On The Wild Side

Postcapitalism: A Guide To Our Future by Paul Mason

Issue 301 • March/April 2017 > Reviews > The System is Broken. What's Next?

Progressive Protectionism: Taking Back Control by Colin Hines

Issue 302 • May/June 2017 > Reviews > Trading Places

Quentin Blake: In the Theatre of the Imagination - An Artist at Work by Ghislaine Kenyon

Issue 299 • November/December 2016 > Reviews > Journeys With a Magical Healer

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

Six Facets of Light by Ann Wroe

Issue 299 • November/December 2016 > Reviews > Walking Into Illumination

Sorting the Beef from the Bull : The Science of Food Fraud Forensics by Richard Evershed & Nicola Temple

Issue 299 • November/December 2016 > Reviews > Wake Up and Smell the Food Fraud

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 Abundance by Annie Dillard

Issue 299 • November/December 2016 > Reviews > Living to the Full

The Alternative: Towards a New progressive Politics by Lisa Nandy, Caroline Lucas and Chris Bowers (eds)

Issue 301 • March/April 2017 > Reviews > Better Together?

The Apple Orchard: The Story of Our Most English Fruit by Pete Brown

Issue 300 • January/February 2017 > Reviews > A Chronicler To The Core

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 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

What Have Plants Ever Done For Us? Western Civilization in Fifty Plants by Stephen Harris

Issue 301 • March/April 2017 > Reviews > Without Them, We're Dead