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127 pages : colour illustrations ; 32 cm.
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"Welcome to the wonderful world of plants. From wet, steamy tropical rainforests to scorching, dry deserts, from freezing mountain screes to lush underwater worlds, plants have adapted to survive almost everywhere. And they do it in incredible ways. Find out why plants look, smell, grow, and live the way they do by journeying across over 40 incredible habitats around the world. Discover the biggest, boldest, and smelliest (!) plants on our planet,...
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First published in 1927, now public domain in the US.
There is no safety in nature. Tarka, an otter cub, grows up with his mother and sisters, learning how to swim and catch fish as well as how to be afraid of the cries of hunters and the flash of metal traps. Gradually, he will have to travel alone, occasionally with the female otters White-tip and Greymuzzle, who are always evading capture. They will journey through rivers, woods, moors, ponds,...
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The Web of Life is a comprehensive guide to the world of ecology. This book delves into the intricate relationships that exist between all living things, from the tiniest microbes to the largest animals, and the impact that humans have on these relationships.The book begins by exploring the basics of ecology, including the different levels of organization within ecosystems, the flow of energy and nutrients, and the complex web of interactions between...
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THE IDEA OF THE AMERICAN SPIRIT has always been rooted inexpansion and abundance- at great cost to the environment. Withthe world burning up, one can't help but wonder: how did we gethere? Wilderness and the American Spirit traces hundreds ofyears of The United States' relationship to the environment starting fromthe initial colonization of Native American land, to the developmentof land use policies, and the creation of resource...
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224 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"¿Te gustaría cultivar tus propias verduras, frutas y hortalizas con coste cero? Huw Richards logró autoabastecerse de la comida de su propio huerto durante todo un año y ¡tú también puedes! Pasa las páginas de este completo manual de horticultura y aprende todo lo que necesitas saber para cultivar y recolectar tus propios alimentos de manera autosuficiente y ecológica."--
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Outsider: My Boyhood with Thoreau is a memoir told in vignettes by the mycologist and author Lawrence Millman. Early on, Millman found in Thoreau a kindred spirit, far outside of the mainstream social, sporting, and educational interests he was expected to be cultivating. And like Thoreau, he would rather be out-of-doors - where he could socialize with mushrooms, insects, or earthworms - than stuck in any indoor locale. Praise for Outsider"Henry David,...
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" "Winner of the PROSE Award in Popular Science and Mathematics, Association of American Publishers" Lixing Sun is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Central Washington University. He is the author of The Fairness Instinct: The Robin Hood Mentality and Our Biological Nature and the coauthor of The Beaver: Natural History of a Wetlands Engineer.
A natural history...
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"Water: The Elixir of Life" is an essential book for anyone interested in understanding the importance of water in our lives and in the future of our planet. The author challenges us to rethink our attitudes towards water and to take concrete action to preserve this vital resource. This book is a call to awareness, collaboration and action to ensure that water continues to flow as the elixir of life for present and future generations.
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Can peace be made with one's ancestors, even after they are dead? Once upon a time my mother's fondest desire was to have a book published. Not just any book, mind you, but a beautiful volume full of wonder and sparkling imagery glittering forth with a message of hope for the world. We had similar goals, my mother and I, but came from very different generations and quite different personal experiences ... what with her being a pale, blonde immigrant...
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Joan Maloof, PhD, is founder and director of the Old-Growth Forest Network, a national organization that works to save threatened forests, and professor emerita of biological sciences at Salisbury University. Her books include Treepedia (Princeton) and Teaching the Trees.
An impassioned case for the importance of ancient forests and their preservation
Standing in an old-growth forest, you can instinctively sense the ways it is different from forests...
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While the world's scientists and many of its inhabitants despair at the impact of climate change, corporate and military leaders see nothing but opportunities. For them, melting ice caps mean newly accessible fossil fuels, borders to be secured from 'climate refugees', social conflicts to be managed and more failed states in which to intervene. They are 'securing' their assets at the expanse of the planet and its inhabitants.
The Secure and the...
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In 2008, as the storms of the financial crash blew, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic jobs, traveling across Europe in search of post-capitalist utopias. They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted.
They arrived at a place French politicians had declared lost to the republic, otherwise know as the zad (the zone to defend): a messy but extraordinary canvas of commoning, illegally occupying...
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Over the past four decades the world has seen a 'green awakening'. Green parties have been elected to parliaments and councils all over the world. A common set of environmental priorities have been promoted by green internationalisation and these parties are playing an increasing role at all levels of political decision-making.
Will this awakening continue or will the greens be corrupted by power? What impact has their politics had? Will green...
16) In the desert
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23 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Find out what a desert is and what kinds of plants and animals call the desert home"--
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"Captivating, mesmerising, and manages to capture so beautifully our true relationship with the natural world." ~ Ben Goldsmith
James Thornton is a lawyer whose client is the Earth. He visits his client. It speaks to him. In Nature, My Teacher he passes on some of those teachings.
Presented in twelve books, each a sequence of intimate essays, James investigates the nature of human consciousness. What is memory? How do you summon compassion? How...
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Weaving together the stories and voices of residents, anglers, community leaders, and environmental workers and researchers, this ethnographic account details the lives and livelihoods impacted by a once-unrivaled Michigan salmon fishery. From the introduction of Chinook salmon to the Great Lakes in the late 1960s, a thriving recreational fishery industry arose in Northern Michigan, attracting thousands of anglers to small towns like Rogers City each...
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xv, 187 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
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"From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens, comes an exciting, brand-new illustrated book for middle-grade readers that looks at the early history of humankind. Even though we'll never outrun a hungry lion or outswim an angry shark, humans are pretty impressive-and we're the most dominant species on the planet. So how exactly did we become "unstoppable"? The answer to that is...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
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"In this poetic picture book, two curious siblings observe the hidden world of a vernal pool: a special kind of puddle habitat that pops up in the spring, dries up by summer, reappears in the fall, freezes over in the winter--only to come back again in the spring. Linda's buoyant text is nothing short of an anthem for these "now-you-see-me, now-you-don't" wetland habitats, encouraging young naturalists and future water stewards to listen, watch and...
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