• The best books on Responsible Business - The Six New Rules of Business: Creating Real Value in a Changing World by Judy Samuelson
  • The best books on Responsible Business - The Sustainability Scorecard: How to Implement and Profit from Unexpected Solutions by Paul Anastas & Urvashi Bhatnagar
  • The best books on Responsible Business - Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
  • The best books on Responsible Business - Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben
  • The best books on Responsible Business - The Value of Everything: Making & Taking in the Global Economy by Mariana Mazzucato

The best books on Responsible Business, recommended by Vincent Stanley

The long-term interests of business often coincide with the long-term interests of nature and society but the short-term interests are a different story, says Vincent Stanley of Patagonia, a multi-billion dollar apparel company owned by a non-profit trust. He recommends five books on sustainable, ethical business, showing that a stock price needn’t be a company’s primary product.

  • The best books on Environmental History - The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail by W. Jeffrey Bolster
  • The best books on Environmental History - Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters by Kate Brown
  • The best books on Environmental History - Ecological Imperialism by Alfred Crosby
  • The best books on Environmental History - The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World by John F. Richards
  • The best books on Environmental History - The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938 by Myrna I. Santiago

The best books on Environmental History, recommended by John R McNeill

Environmental history is the study of the relationship between society and the natural world—both in terms of human impacts on the environment, and the constraints placed upon cultures by the landscapes they live in. Here, John R. McNeill, a pioneer of the field, recommends five of the best environmental history books with ambition, engaging prose, and heft.

  • The Best Conservation Books of 2021 - A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough & Jonnie Hughes
  • The Best Conservation Books of 2021 - Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
  • The Best Conservation Books of 2021 - Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
  • The Best Conservation Books of 2021 - Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
  • The Best Conservation Books of 2021 - Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change by Dieter Helm
  • The Best Conservation Books of 2021 - Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Best Conservation Books of 2021, recommended by Charlotte Smith

Many of us are increasingly alarmed at the damage human beings have done—and continue to do—to the natural world and would love to be better informed about what we need to do to protect our precious environment. Fortunately, every year, the Wainwright Prize picks out the best writing on global conservation—books that are not only informative but highly readable. Here, British journalist Charlotte Smith, chair of the judging panel, talks us through the books that made the 2021 shortlist and why it’s worth reading all of them.

  • Best Books on the Periodic Table - The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
  • Best Books on the Periodic Table - The Story of N: A Social History of the Nitrogen Cycle and the Challenge of Sustainability by Hugh Gorman
  • Best Books on the Periodic Table - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
  • Best Books on the Periodic Table - Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes by Julie Klinger
  • Best Books on the Periodic Table - The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another by Ainissa Ramirez

Best Books on the Periodic Table, recommended by Henrik Selin & Noelle Eckley Selin

The periodic table of the elements has been described as “one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind”. Here, Noelle Eckley Selin of MIT and Henrik Selin of Boston University talk us through some of their favourite books about various chemical elements and explain why they’re vital to understanding the world around us.