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Cartoon Guide to the Environment
ISBN: 9780062732743 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you think that the Ozone Hole is a grunge rock club? Or that the Food Web is an on-line restaurant guide? Or that the Green Revolution happened in Greenland? Then you need The Cartoon Guide to the Environment to put you on the road to environmental literacy. The Cartoon Guide to the Environment covers the main topics of environmental science: chemical cycles, life communities, food webs, agriculture, human population growth, sources of energy and raw materials, waste disposal and recycling, cities, pollution, deforestation, ozone depletion, and global warming--and puts... Do you think that the Ozone Hole is a grunge rock club? Or that the Food Web is an on-line restaurant guide? Or that the Green Revolution happened ... |
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Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology
ISBN: 9781603586979 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Originally published in German as Lebendigkeit: Eine erotishe eOkologie by Keosel Verlag, a division of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH, Meunchen, Germany, copyright 2014.
"Originally published in German as Lebendigkeit: Eine erotishe eOkologie by Keosel Verlag, a division of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH, Meunchen, Ge...
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Air Age Blueprint
ISBN: 9781838003951 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Land Trusts and Biodiversity
ISBN: 9781419662614 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Land trusts are a new and growing phenomenon and are not yet much studied by academics. This book provides an entry point into the world of land trusts and biodiversity for anyone (i) doing academic work in the conservation sciences, (ii) taking their first job with a land trust and in need of an overview of the topic, or (iii) who has a general interest in land conservation and the protection of biological resources. The book sets out an intellectual framework for thinking about land trusts and biodiversity conservation, one that blends the critical edge of the academic and pragmatic...
Land trusts are a new and growing phenomenon and are not yet much studied by academics. This book provides an entry point into the world of land trust...
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Rights of Nature Rights of Nature Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics a History of Environmental Ethics a History of Environmental Eth
ISBN: 9780299118440 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tracing the history of ethical extension over two thousand years, this book focuses on the American experience where natural rights ideology expanded to encompass the rights of nature. It deals primarily with intellectual history, but also considers groups that have put their ideas into action.
Tracing the history of ethical extension over two thousand years, this book focuses on the American experience where natural rights ideology expanded ...
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The Everglades: An Environmental History
ISBN: 9780813018270 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. " A] detailed and lively environmental history of the Everglades. Those interested in anthropology, geology, and American history will also find much to fascinate them as McCally traces the ecosystem's development from its geologic origins through the first human habitation to today's threats by development and agriculture."-- Library Journal "Admirable . . . an interesting and informative historical account of the Everglades."--Journal of Economic History "A powerful book that might disturb some and energize others." -- St. Petersburg Times "An... " A] detailed and lively environmental history of the Everglades. Those interested in anthropology, geology, and American history will also find mu... |
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Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse
ISBN: 9780815603658 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text examines the doctrine of Earth First , the environmental movement whose tactics include unorthodox activities. The background, economic status and members of the organization of the movement are included here, along with details of the F.B.I. investigation which occurred.
This text examines the doctrine of Earth First , the environmental movement whose tactics include unorthodox activities. The background, economic stat...
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The Change Agents: Whispers in the Wind
ISBN: 9798985075632 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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How Much Is Enough?: The Consumer Society and the Future of the Earth
ISBN: 9780393308914 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It discusses the use of resources, pollution, and the distortions created in the economies of both wealthy industrialized nations and Third World countries.
It discusses the use of resources, pollution, and the distortions created in the economies of both wealthy industrialized nations and Third World coun...
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Michigan Trees: A Guide to the Trees of the Great Lakes Region
ISBN: 9780472089215 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now in its tenth decade of publication, Michigan Trees has been, since it was first introduced in 1913, the must-have reference book for anyone who wants to know about the trees of this unique North American region. In this new and updated edition, several new species have been added to the lineup, as well as sections on tree ecology and fall color. Written and illustrated in a style that appeals at once to academic botanists and armchair arborphiles alike, Michigan Trees gives readers everything they need to know for identifying trees in the Great Lakes state.... Now in its tenth decade of publication, Michigan Trees has been, since it was first introduced in 1913, the must-have reference book ... |
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Woodland Ecology: Environmental Forestry for the Small Owner, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780815601548 / Angielski / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Living a Land Ethic: A History of Cooperative Conservation on the Leopold Memorial Reserve
ISBN: 9780299298746 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1935, in the midst of relentless drought, Aldo Leopold purchased an abandoned farm along the Wisconsin River near Baraboo, Wisconsin. An old chicken coop, later to become famous as the Leopold "Shack," was the property's only intact structure. The Leopold family embraced this spent farm as a new kind of laboratory-a place to experiment on restoring health to an ailing piece of land. Here, Leopold found inspiration for writing A Sand County Almanac, his influential book of essays on conservation and ethics.
Living a Land Ethic chronicles the formation of the 1,600-acre... In 1935, in the midst of relentless drought, Aldo Leopold purchased an abandoned farm along the Wisconsin River near Baraboo, Wisconsin. An old chicke...
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Where Do Camels Belong?: Why Invasive Species Aren't All Bad
ISBN: 9781771640961 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Where do camels belong? In the Arab world is the obvious answer. But they are relative newcomers there. They evolved and lived for tens of millions of years in North America, while today they retain their greatest diversity in South America and have their only wild populations in Australia. This is a classic example of the problems that underlie the issues of natural and invasive species, a hot issue right now, as the flip side of biodiversity. But do we need to fear invaders? And indeed, can we control them, and do we choose the right targets? In Where Do Camels Belong? Ken Thompson...
Where do camels belong? In the Arab world is the obvious answer. But they are relative newcomers there. They evolved and lived for tens of millions of...
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Nuestro Patrimonio Salvaje
ISBN: 9788411722599 / Hiszpański Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile
ISBN: 9781611684889 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Ceremonial time" occurs when past, present, and future can be perceived simultaneously. Experienced only rarely, usually during ritual dance, this escape from linear time is the vehicle for John Mitchell's extraordinary writing. In this, his most magical book, he traces the life of a single square mile in New England, from the last ice age through years of human history, including bear shamans, colonists, witches, local farmers, and encroaching industrial "parks."
"Ceremonial time" occurs when past, present, and future can be perceived simultaneously. Experienced only rarely, usually during ritual dance, this es...
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Nourishing Waters, Comforting Sky: Thirty-Five Years at a Sandhills Oasis
ISBN: 9781496230270 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
ISBN: 9780865713123 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Equipped with useful charts and thought-provoking illustrations, this book introduces a revolutionary new way to determine humanity's impact on the Earth and presents an exciting and powerful tool for measuring and visualizing the resources required to sustain households, communities, regions, and nations.
Equipped with useful charts and thought-provoking illustrations, this book introduces a revolutionary new way to determine humanity's impact on the Ea...
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A Future in Flames
ISBN: 9780648140740 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Seven Clues to the Origin of Life: A Scientific Detective Story
ISBN: 9780521398282 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses the question of how life may have arisen on earth, in the spirit of an intriguing detective story. It relies on the methods of Sherlock Holmes, in particular his principle that one should use the most paradoxical features of a case to crack it. This approach to the essential biological problems is not merely light-hearted, but a fascinating scrutiny of some very fundamental questions. 'I know of no other book that succeeds as well as this one in maintaining the central question in focus throughout. It is a summary of the best evolutionary thinking as applied to the origins...
This book addresses the question of how life may have arisen on earth, in the spirit of an intriguing detective story. It relies on the methods of She...
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Deep Ocean Journeys: Discovering New Life at the Bottom of the Sea
ISBN: 9780201154986 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It is said that the seafloor is a desert, a vast and uniform wasteland, all but devoid of life. Textbooks on the shelf in my laboratory say so. But I know that is not true", writes scientist and submersible pilot Cindy Lee Van Dover in the Introduction to Deep-Ocean Journeys. Van Dover has ventured miles below surface waves to the bottom of the sea, driven by her desire to understand the complex and thriving ecosystems recently discovered near volcanic vents. These ecosystems are models for sites where life might have originated on this planet and where extraterrestrial life is speculated to...
"It is said that the seafloor is a desert, a vast and uniform wasteland, all but devoid of life. Textbooks on the shelf in my laboratory say so. But I...
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