The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting: Techniques for Rendering Sky, Terrain, Trees, and Water
ISBN: 9780804137553 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A landscape painting guide for oil painters that breaks landscapes down into component elements from nature, and showcases tools and techniques used by classic and modern oil painters for bringing these scenes to life.
Landscape painting is one of the most popular subjects for painters working in the medium of oils--from classic masters to contemporary artists. In The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting, established Watson-Guptill author and noted instructor/painter Suzanne Brooker presents the fundamentals necessary for mastering landscape oil painting, breaking landscapes... A landscape painting guide for oil painters that breaks landscapes down into component elements from nature, and showcases tools and techniques use...
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150,68 zł |
Land Change Science, Political Ecology, and Sustainability: Synergies and Divergences
ISBN: 9781138680074 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent claims regarding convergence and divergence between land change science and political ecology as approaches to the study of human-environment relationships and sustainability science are examined and analyzed in this innovative volume. Comprised of 11 commissioned chapters as well as introductory and concluding/synthesis chapters, it advances the two fields by proposing new conceptual and methodological approaches toward integrating land change science and political ecology. The book also identifies areas of fundamental difference and disagreement between fields. These... Recent claims regarding convergence and divergence between land change science and political ecology as approaches to the study of human-environmen... |
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216,55 zł |
Histoire d'un ruisseau
ISBN: 9781508986973 / Francuski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Le ruisseau decrit par Reclus est autant celui, ceux de sa jeunesse que ceux que nous avons frequentes. Grace a la magie des mots, le ruisseau se transforme en un concept. Depuis, la goutte d'eau jusqu'a la rencontre du fleuve avec l'ocean, il se passe tellement d'evenements, neige, glace, infiltration, rivieres souterraines, sources, baignades, utilisation de l'eau comme force motrice, comme moyen de transport, irrigation, frontiere, inondations, epanchement de la soif des plantes, des animaux et des hommes, necessite d'assainir les rivieres transformees en egouts, autant de chapitres qui...
Le ruisseau decrit par Reclus est autant celui, ceux de sa jeunesse que ceux que nous avons frequentes. Grace a la magie des mots, le ruisseau se tran...
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46,11 zł |
Birds of Botswana
ISBN: 9780691157177 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is the ultimate field guide to Botswana's stunningly diverse birdlife. Covering all 597 species recorded to date, Birds of Botswana features more than 1,200 superb color illustrations, detailed species accounts, seasonality and breeding bars, and a color distribution map for each species. Drawing on the latest regional and national data, the book highlights the best birding areas in Botswana, provides helpful tips on where and when to see key species, and depicts special races and morphs specific to Botswana. This is the first birding guide written by a Botswana-based... Here is the ultimate field guide to Botswana's stunningly diverse birdlife. Covering all 597 species recorded to date, Birds of Botswana fea... |
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137,76 zł |
How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature
ISBN: 9780544705296 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This timely, significant work carries a far-reaching message for families and the planet."--Publishers Weekly
"In a time when the connection between humans and the rest of nature is most vulnerable, Scott offers parents and teachers a book of encouragement and knowledge, and to children, the priceless gift of wonder."--Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods and The Nature Principle The average North American child now spends about seven hours a day staring at screens and mere minutes engaged in unstructured play outdoors. Yet recent... "This timely, significant work carries a far-reaching message for families and the planet."--Publishers Weekly
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81,75 zł |
A Guide to Natural Areas of Southern Indiana: 119 Unique Places to Explore
ISBN: 9780253020901 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first comprehensive and fully illustrated guidebook for nature lovers who want to explore the wild and natural areas of southern Indiana by trail, water, or road. Featuring 95 beautiful color photos and 5 maps, A Guide to Natural Areas of Southern Indiana provides ideas for a lifetime of fun and exploration, and makes planning easy by including directions to the areas, offering suggestions on what to do when you arrive, and what you will find when you explore. Steven Higgs highlights each site's unique natural characteristics and history with additional facts, anecdotes, and... This is the first comprehensive and fully illustrated guidebook for nature lovers who want to explore the wild and natural areas of southern Indian... |
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120,84 zł |
100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive
ISBN: 9781612127019 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The international bee crisis is threatening our global food supply, but this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our pollinators. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation offers browsable profiles of 100 common flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that attract bees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds. The recommendations are simple: sow seeds for some plants -- such as basil, rhododendron, and blueberries -- and simply don't mow down abundant native species, including aster, goldenrod, and milkweed. 100 Plants to Feed the Bees will empower homeowners,...
The international bee crisis is threatening our global food supply, but this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our polli...
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72,98 zł |
The Natural Heritage of Illinois: Essays on Its Lands, Waters, Flora, and Fauna
ISBN: 9780809334841 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Natural Heritage of Illinois is an engaging collection of ninety-three essays on the lands, waters, plants, and animals found in Illinois. Written in lively, accessible prose, the book discusses how wind, water, glaciers, earthquakes, fire, and people have shaped Illinois' landforms, natural habitats, rivers and streams, and the ways in which native plants and animals, from individual species to entire ecosystems, have thrived, survived, or died out. Author John E. Schwegman looks at the state's early natural history, including its prehistoric vegetation and wildlife....
The Natural Heritage of Illinois is an engaging collection of ninety-three essays on the lands, waters, plants, and animals found in Ill...
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153,51 zł |
Native Trees and Shrubs of the Hawaiian Islands: An Extensive Study Guide
ISBN: 9780913270912 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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98,81 zł |
Futures: Imagining Socioecological Transformation
ISBN: 9781138668690 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Futures: Imagining Socioecological Transformation brings together leading scholars to explore how we might know, enact, and struggle for, the conjoined social and ecological transformations we need to achieve just and sustainable futures. The question of transformation, and how it might be achieved, is explored across a variety of topics and geographical sites, and through heterodox analytical and theoretical approaches, in a collective effort to move beyond a form of critique that hands down judgements, to one that brings new ideas and new possibilities to life. Chapters are lively and... Futures: Imagining Socioecological Transformation brings together leading scholars to explore how we might know, enact, and struggle for, the conjo... |
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406,55 zł |
Optimization of Biological Sulphate Reduction to Treat Inorganic Wastewaters: Process Control and Potential Use of Methane as Electron Donor
ISBN: 9781138029507 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work investigated two different approaches to optimize biological sulphate reduction in order to develop a process control strategy to optimize the input of an electron donor and to study how to increase the feasibility of using a cheap carbon source. This work investigated two different approaches to optimize biological sulphate reduction in order to develop a process control strategy to optimiz... |
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201,44 zł |
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They CommunicateA?Discoveries from a Secret World
ISBN: 9781771642484 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement that will make you acknowledge your own entanglement in the ancient and ever-new web of being."--Charles Foster, author of Being a Beast Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those...
"A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement that will make you acknowledge your own entanglement in the ancient and ever-new web of being...
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87,52 zł |
Land Surface Remote Sensing in Urban and Coastal Areas
ISBN: 9781785481604 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For a long time, the dynamics of urban and coastal areas have been the focus of administrators and decision makers in charge of public policy in order to better take into account anthropogenic pressure and the impact of climate change. This volume presents applications of remote sensing in urban environments and coastal zones, including the use of remote sensing in city planning (urban expansion, light pollution, air quality, etc.), observation of the properties of ocean color, the study of coastal dynamics (identifying coastlines and estimating sediment balances, etc.) and analysis of the... For a long time, the dynamics of urban and coastal areas have been the focus of administrators and decision makers in charge of public policy in or... |
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523,89 zł |
River Ecosystem Ecology: A Global Perspective
ISBN: 9780128102138 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A derivative of the Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, River Ecosystem Ecology reviews the function of rivers and streams as ecosystems as well as the varied activities and interactions that occur among their abiotic and biotic components. Because the articles are drawn from an encyclopedia, the articles are easily accessible to interested members of the public, such as conservationists and environmental decision makers.
A derivative of the Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, River Ecosystem Ecology reviews the function of rivers and streams as ecosystems as well as ...
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362,69 zł |
Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780253025937 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global climate change is undeniable. Over the next few decades, as sea levels rise, storms intensify, and drought and desertification run rampant, hundreds of millions of civilians will abandon their homes, cities, and even entire countries. What will happen to these massive numbers of environmental refugees? Where will they go, what rights will they have, and who will take care of them? Over 200 million people in Asian countries live on land that will be affected by rising seas. Picture Pakistan, India, and China--all nuclear powers--skirmishing at their borders over access to... Global climate change is undeniable. Over the next few decades, as sea levels rise, storms intensify, and drought and desertification run rampant, ... |
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272,02 zł |
Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780253025883 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global climate change is undeniable. Over the next few decades, as sea levels rise, storms intensify, and drought and desertification run rampant, hundreds of millions of civilians will abandon their homes, cities, and even entire countries. What will happen to these massive numbers of environmental refugees? Where will they go, what rights will they have, and who will take care of them? Over 200 million people in Asian countries live on land that will be affected by rising seas. Picture Pakistan, India, and China--all nuclear powers--skirmishing at their borders over access to shared...Global climate change is undeniable. Over the next few decades, as sea levels rise, storms intensify, and drought and desertification run rampant, ... |
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85,59 zł |
Nature's Bounty - A Weekly Planner Featuring Beautiful Landscapes
ISBN: 9781683057161 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking at this themed weekly journal, you will already be inspired. But to write on it? You will be motivated. Writing motivates you because you can track your progress and easily spot the areas that you need to improve on. It is an activity that relaxes the mind and the spirit as you express your ideas, emotions and other feelings, too. Grab a copy now
Looking at this themed weekly journal, you will already be inspired. But to write on it? You will be motivated. Writing motivates you because you can ...
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73,14 zł |
Organized Serenity! Weekly Planner for All Nature Lovers
ISBN: 9781683057482 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,14 zł |
Australian Good Birding Guide: Nsw-ACT
ISBN: 9780648010425 / Angielski / Miękka / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Australian Good Birdwatching Guide: NSW-ACT is the first in the planned series of arguably the most comprehensive guidebooks to birdwatching destinations in Australia. The NSW-ACT guide covers not only the established, well-known locations within the State but also interesting places known only to a few or even first discovered by the authors. These sites will not be found in any other publications. Detailed access information is provided, especially for locations that are difficult to find. As a minimum, habitat description, site facilities and key avifauna are addressed for... Australian Good Birdwatching Guide: NSW-ACT is the first in the planned series of arguably the most comprehensive guidebooks to birdwatching destin... |
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289,30 zł |
WA IS WATER An Intimate Portrait: Exploring Washington in Poems, Photos and Facts
ISBN: 9780998407616 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Join award-winning poet and photographer Jennifer Preston Chushcoff as she journeys through Washington's foggy forests, waterfalls, cranberry bogs and nature preserves to gather 48 poems, 103 full-color photographs and hundreds of interesting facts. Join award-winning poet and photographer Jennifer Preston Chushcoff as she journeys through Washington's foggy forests, waterfalls, cranbe... |
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86,74 zł |