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Meet the world's most fascinating sea creatures-see the lives and curiosities of colorful fish and coral reefs-this spectacular volume has more than 300 color photos and extraordinary text from a leading marine biologist and underwater photographer, and the international expert on seahorses.
In this richly informative volume, brimming with new discoveries and more than three hundred colorful images of jaw-dropping fish and coral reefs, you'll swim...
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Grassland ecosystems can be found on nearly every continent. Countless animals and plants live in them. So what difference could the loss of one animal species make? Follow the chain reaction, and discover how important honey bees are.
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En Colombia, décadas de conflicto social y armado enredadas con la política antidroga de los Estados Unidos ha creado una situación insostenible para científicos y comunidades rurales que intentan cuidar selvas y suelos además de buscar alternativas a los cultivos ilícitos. En Descomposición Vital, Kristina Lyons presenta una etnografía de las relaciones humanos-suelos. Ella acompaña a agrólogos y campesinos en laboratorios, invernaderos,...
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Everything You Could Ever Want to Know about Mushrooms!
Mushrooms are an incredibly vast range of species, including all shapes and sizes and colors. This exciting collection includes a wealth of information on two hundred essential mushroom varieties, including their:
• Scientific names.
• Habitats.
• Modes of development.
• Botanical specificities.
• Uses in culinary cuisine.
• And more!
Spread throughout this book are hand-drawn illustrations...
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Earth is teeming with animal and vegetal biodiversity. The planet's capacity to healthily feed its inhabitants is bar none. Our nest-egg's resources are incomparable. But, have we sabotaged our environment beyond the point of no return? Earth supplies us with every breath of air, freely. Water to quench our thirst. The sun for warmth. Seasons for plenteous harvests. Its landscapes for living and leisure. Its beauty for our serenity. Then, along comes...
107) Flowering Earth
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Flowering Earth is an extraordinary work in which Peattie explores the origin and significance of plant life with an unmatched sense of astonishment and reflection. According to The New York Times, his prose in Flowering Earth 'is pervaded by a continuous sense of beauty and illuminative insight, ' and Books hails it as a piece 'for people who are refreshed by any sort of emancipation from the trivial...'
108) Animals Do Housekeeping, Too How Animals Modify Their Environment to Suit Their Needs Ecology B
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Did you know that like people, animals also modify their physical environments in order to meet their needs? This book will tell you how and why animals do housekeeping. You will also come across examples of animals that do this curious task.
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We've always lived on a dangerous planet, but its disasters aren't what they used to be. How the World Breaks gives us a breathtaking new view of crisis and recovery on the unstable landscapes of the Earth's hazard zones. Father and son authors Stan and Paul Cox take us to the explosive fire fronts of overheated Australia, the future lost city of Miami, the fights over whether and how to fortify New York City in the wake of Sandy, the Indonesian mud...
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Mucho se habla de ecología. Videos, mensajes, fotos y textos que se comparten en todas partes. Muy a pesar de ello, pocas son las constumbres que parecemos estar dispuestos a cambiar. ¿Por qué sucede esto? Porque necesitamos iniciarnos, es decir encarnar esos mensajes.
En este libro encontrarás conceptos importantes, consejos ecológicos y por sobre todo muchas razones para arrancar con un cambio que puede reconfigurar toda tu vida. Vivir mejor...
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The essays in this inaugural volume were commissioned from a number of outstanding writers (many of them national prizewinners). Some are professional naturalists; others are poets, filmmakers, dancers, philosophers, activists. All write with passion, originality and humor about the natural world, our place within it, and our impact upon tithe Eye in the Thicket reminds us of the tradition embraced by natural histories, while the authors included...
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Desde una perspectiva en la que confluyen literatura, género y medioambiente, se efectúa un recorrido por la literatura ecofeminista chicana a través de las obras que renombradas autoras de esta ascendencia -Ana Castillo, Lucha Corpi, Helena María Viramontes y Cherríe Moraga- publicaron a lo largo de la última década del siglo XX. Desde un análisis que tiene en cuenta categorías de desigualdad como el género, la clase o la raza, se lleva...
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Explores the ancient and perennial notion of the four elements as environmental ideas.
Bachelard called them "the hormones of the imagination." Hegel observed that, "through the four elements we have the elevation of sensuous ideas into thought." Earth, air, fire, and water are explored as both philosophical ideas and environmental issues associated with their classical and perennial conceptions. David Macauley embarks upon a wide-ranging discussion...
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Este libro constituye un aporte significativo al campo del pensamiento ambiental y la ecología política. Con un estilo ameno y un hilo argumentativo original, coherente, claro y profundo, el texto aborda la dimensión afectiva, sensible, sintiente y estética propia de la crisis ambiental contemporánea, así como las relaciones que requerimos tejer para reorganizar los afectos en sintonía con los ciclos vitales del planeta.
La afectividad ambiental...
115) The Mighty Jungle
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The seas and oceans play a vital role in the earth's climate.
One of the most important services the ocean provides to human society is the provision of food through captured fisheries and farms. This includes fish, invertebrates, plants and, for some cultures, marine mammals and seabirds for direct consumption or as feed in aquaculture or agriculture. These marine food sources have major benefits for human health and nutrition, economic returns...
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An exploration of trees in the Golden Horseshoe and the stories they tell.
Trees define so much of Canadian life, but many people, particularly in the Golden Horseshoe area of Ontario, don't know that much about them. Granted, it is harder here: there are more trees that are native to this area than anywhere else in Canada.
The great storytellers of the landscape, trees are looking glasses into the past. They speak of biology, ecology, and geology,...
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A revolutionary new understanding of the precarious modern human-nature relationship and a path to a healthier, more sustainable world.
Amidst all the wondrous luxuries of the modern world-smartphones, fast intercontinental travel, Internet movies, fully stocked refrigerators-lies an unnerving fact that may be even more disturbing than all the environmental and social costs of our lifestyles.
The fragmentations of our modern lives, our disconnections...
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...understanding how our private heartbreak relates to our large-scale problems is the only way we can unravel the helplessness we feel, claim our voices, and take action in the way we deeply crave. We cannot do any of these things while living with the cognitive dissonance of competing ideas, priorities, solutions, and top-down paternalism.
From racialised police brutality to climate change, #MeToo, trans rights', COVID-19, the prospect of nuclear...
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Expanded new edition of a classic examination of the psychological roots of our ecological crisis.
Personal in its style yet radical in its vision, Radical Eco psychology, Second Edition offers an original introduction to Eco psychology-an emerging field that ties the human mind to the natural world. In order for Eco psychology to be a force for social change, Andy Fisher insists it must become a more comprehensive and critical undertaking. Drawing...
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