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The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,445 ratings — published 2018
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,112 ratings — published 2020
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.75 — 82,018 ratings — published 2002
The New Geopolitics of Natural Gas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.11 — 37 ratings — published
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.44 — 13,375 ratings — published 1991
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,640 ratings — published 2017
The Lorax (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.35 — 377,713 ratings — published 1971
Dear Children of the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.42 — 264 ratings — published 1994
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,127 ratings — published 2010
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.87 — 665 ratings — published 2009
Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.38 — 267 ratings — published 2011
The Mighty Red (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.80 — 36,768 ratings — published 2024
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,571 ratings — published 2023
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,798 ratings — published 2022
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,652 ratings — published 2021
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.01 — 38,459 ratings — published 2018
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,307 ratings — published 2020
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.14 — 19,100 ratings — published 2009
Water: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.66 — 556 ratings — published
The Seven Sisters: The great oil companies & the world they shaped (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.05 — 227 ratings — published 1975
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.32 — 14,890 ratings — published 2021
We Are Water Protectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.48 — 9,282 ratings — published 2020
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,359 ratings — published 2018
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.92 — 26,351 ratings — published 1997
Oil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.82 — 39 ratings — published 2012
Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet (Mit Press)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.06 — 511 ratings — published 2018
The Wages of Oil: Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.04 — 26 ratings — published 2014
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,976 ratings — published 2015
The New Kings of Crude: China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.00 — 43 ratings — published 2014
The Great Kapok Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,070 ratings — published 1990
Recycle It: Once Is Not Enough (We Can Save the Earth)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published 1990
Nature Recycles—How about You? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.03 — 34 ratings — published 2013
Compost Stew: An A to Z Recipe for the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.09 — 644 ratings — published 2010
Recycling (Green Kids)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 2008
Where Does the Garbage Go? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.89 — 196 ratings — published 1974
Trash Trouble (Rookie Choices)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.50 — 8 ratings — published 2003
Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.60 — 177 ratings — published 2008
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,670 ratings — published 2007
Best of All Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.59 — 2,722 ratings — published 2025
Run. Sing. Dream. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.17 — 16 ratings — published
Mountain, Boulder, Pebble, Sand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.92 — 6 ratings — published
Hello, Ocean!: With Wavy Pages Throughout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published
The Green Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.70 — 11 ratings — published
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,676 ratings — published 2023
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,194 ratings — published 2016
Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa: Join the Quest with Peru's Famed Scientist and Potato Expert (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.25 — 408 ratings — published
One Little Fishing Boat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.84 — 20 ratings — published
Could Rainforests Save Planet Earth?: Discover the Science Behind Tropical Biology (The Big Questions Answered)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Anna-Jane and the Endless Summer (Library Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.00 — 370 ratings — published 2026
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,158 ratings — published 2025
“The true wealth of a nation is not their natural resources but their achievements in education.”
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“In families one can’t choose one’s siblings. Within regions one doesn’t choose one’s neighbors. And if you are one of the world’s leading producers of a critical industrial resource like copper, in the end you can’t really choose your customers. China and Zambia will just have to get along.”
― China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
― China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa