In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. James Lovelock's We Belong to Gaia draws on decades of wisdom to lay out t

Gaia, in which James Lovelock puts forward his inspirational and controversial idea that the Earth functions as a single organism, with life influencing planeta

This classic work is reissued with a new preface by the author. Written for non-scientists the idea is put forward that life on Earth functions as a single orga

James Lovelock proposes that all living species are components of that organism, as cells are components of the human body.

With over fifty patents to his name and innumerable awards and accolades, James Lovelock was a distinguished and original thinker, widely recognized by the inte