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.
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Animal Welfare in World Religion: Teaching and Practice by Joyce D’Silva
Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > A Fundamental Failure?
Black Earth Podcast by Marion Atieno Osieyo
Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > Rooted in Science and the Black Experience
Drinkable Rivers: How the River Became My Teacher by Becca Blease
Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > Streams of Connectivity
Mothers of Invention: Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art by Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal & Sue Scott
Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > Mothers of Invention
Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from the Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis by Michael Mann
Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > On the Brink
The Next Supercontinent: TSolving the Puzzle of a Future Pangea by Ross Mitchell
Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > Shape of the Future
The Wisdom of Sheep & Other Animals: Observations from a Family Farm by Rosamund Young
Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > Don't Judge a Sheep by its Flock
Reviews from the past year
Between the Chalk and the Sea by
Issue 340 • September/October 2023 > Reviews > Setting out on the Path
Breathe: Tackling the Climate Emergency by
Issue 340 • September/October 2023 > Reviews > Hard to Breathe
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine
Issue 339 • July/August 2023 > Reviews > Debunking the myths
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World by Barry Lopez
Issue 341 • November/December 2023 > Reviews > A Lifetime of Observations
Environmental Thought: A Short History by Robin Attfield
Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > A Cry From the Heart
Fevered Planet: How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature by John Vidal
Issue 342 • January/February 2024 > Reviews > The Connections that Kill and that Cure
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
Issue 342 • January/February 2024 > Reviews > The Legacy of Oil
Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change by Ed Davey
Issue 339 • July/August 2023 > Reviews > Why there's still hope
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Issue 338 • May/June 2023 > Reviews > Connecting plant threads
God is an Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature by
Issue 340 • September/October 2023 > Reviews > Putting Nature Back in Charge
Grounded: A Journey into the Landscapes of Our Ancestors by James Canton
Issue 338 • May/June 2023 > Reviews > Exploring the spiritual nature of environment
Hoofprints on the Land: How Traditional Herding and Grazing Can Restore the Soil and Bring Animal Agriculture Back in Balance with the Earth by Ilse Köhler-Rollefson
Issue 338 • May/June 2023 > Reviews > The dignity of traditional herding
Hot Take by Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt
Issue 338 • May/June 2023 > Reviews > A focus on the ongoing injustices
It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World by Mikaela Loach
Issue 341 • November/December 2023 > Reviews > Active Hope
It’s Not Just You: How to Navigate Eco-Anxiety and the Climate Crisis by Tori Tsui
Issue 342 • January/February 2024 > Reviews > We're in this Together
Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic by Hugh Brody
Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > The Ties That Bind
Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care by Lynne Segal
Issue 342 • January/February 2024 > Reviews > Centering Care
Nature Tales for Winter Nights by Nancy Campbell (ed.)
Issue 342 • January/February 2024 > Reviews > Since the Great Frost
Nightwalking: Four Journeys into Britain After Dark by John Lewis-Stempel
Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Untameable Night
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval by Gaia Vince
Issue 338 • May/June 2023 > Reviews > An urgent call to action
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility by Rebecca Sonit & Thelma Young Lutunatabua
Issue 341 • November/December 2023 > Reviews > Change is More than Possible
On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation by Kim Samuel
Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Humans Long to Connect
Once Upon a Raven’s Nest: A Life on Exmoor in an Epoch of Change by Catrina Davies
Issue 342 • January/February 2024 > Reviews > A Real Portrait of Rural Life
Radical Love: From Separation to Connection with the Earth, Each Other, and Ourselves by Satish Kumar
Issue 341 • November/December 2023 > Reviews > An Ecology of Love
Ravenous: How to Get Ourselves and our Planet into Shape by Henry Dimbleby & Jemima Lewis
Issue 341 • November/December 2023 > Reviews > Remodelling Our Food System
Sarn Helen: A Journey through Wales, Past, Present and Future by
Issue 340 • September/October 2023 > Reviews > Setting out on the Path
Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future by Chris Smaje
Issue 342 • January/February 2024 > Reviews > Back into the hands of the 'small'
Speculative Futures:: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need by Johanna Hoffman
Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Reimagining Our Future
Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing by Lev Parikian
Issue 339 • July/August 2023 > Reviews > The miracle of flight
Thanks for Sharing by Eleanor Tucker
Issue 338 • May/June 2023 > Reviews > The power of sharing
The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding Big by
Issue 340 • September/October 2023 > Reviews > Putting Nature Back in Charge
The Dao of Civilization: A Letter to China by Freya Mathews
Issue 341 • November/December 2023 > Reviews > Ancient Earth Philosophies
The Darkness Manifesto: How Light Pollution Threatens the Ancient Rhythms of Life by Johan Eklöf
Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Untameable Night
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
Issue 339 • July/August 2023 > Reviews > Unravelling the history of people and planet
The Gathering Place: A Winter Pilgrimage Through Changing Times by Mary Colwell
Issue 341 • November/December 2023 > Reviews > Step by Step, Thought by Thought
The Jay, the Beech and the Limpetshell: Finding Wild Things with My Kids by
Issue 340 • September/October 2023 > Reviews > Finding the Wonder
The Seasoned Gardener: Exploring the Rhythm of the Gardening Year by
Issue 340 • September/October 2023 > Reviews > Holistic Gardening
The Wheel of the Year: Your Nurturing Guide to Discovering Nature's Seasons and Cycles by Rebecca Beattie
Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Nurturing With Nature
Tree Stories: How Trees Plant Our World and Connect Our Lives by Stefano Mancuso
Issue 341 • November/December 2023 > Reviews > The Case for Sylvan Cities
Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky by Caro Giles
Issue 338 • May/June 2023 > Reviews > Honest, powerful and raw
What We Owe the Future: A Million-year View by William MacAskill
Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > A Shaky Moral Framework
Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction by David Hinton
Issue 339 • July/August 2023 > Reviews > The sorrow of separation
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