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  • 16 Topics On How You Can Help The Planet In Your Everyday Life
    Teya France
    I’m offering this simple handbook to you, full of exceptional ways to make many differences to improve various things on the planet, including Climate Change situations for anyone in the world who wants a reference book of suggestions for anything that can be done to help, regarding all kinds of efforts that many people are trying to make in many places everywhere.After two yea...
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    14,61 €

  • ALL About Insects
    Paul A. Lynch
    Introduction to Insects in North AmericaInsects in North America are incredibly diverse, with over 77,000 species that are either native or introduced to the continent. They can be found in every type of habitat, from the highest mountain peaks to the deepest ocean depths. Insects are the most abundant creatures on the planet and play an incredibly important role in the functio...
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    15,03 €

  • Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism
    Madelaine Moore
    Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism is an important intervention into social reproduction theory and eco-socialist debates. It provides a timely analysis of the role of expropriation in the current global water crisis and makes a persuasive argument for understanding class as an emergent process constituted through struggle. ...
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    157,46 €

  • Finding Balance 2023
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication reviews the financial performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in nine Pacific island economies and looks at how policy makers can help state-owned power utilities address climate risk. It identifies climate-related risks and assesses policy mechanisms that could improve the utilities’ resiliency and sustainability. The publication shows how commercializin...
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    35,59 €

  • The Mighty Jungle
    paul lynch
    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 ...
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    15,52 €

  • The Green Nuclear Option
    William Donald Needham
    We have been hearing it for decades: our planet is riding a deadly wave toward climate devastation. But current actions to reduce carbon emissions are insufficient. In The Green Nuclear Option, William Donald Needham, MIT and Duke graduate, nuclear engineer, and advocate for the Sierra Club, describes what some might consider a radical way to turn the tide but that Needham sees...
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    24,36 €

  • The Green Nuclear Option
    William Donald Needham
    We have been hearing it for decades: our planet is riding a deadly wave toward climate devastation. But current actions to reduce carbon emissions are insufficient. In The Green Nuclear Option, William Donald Needham, MIT and Duke graduate, nuclear engineer, and advocate for the Sierra Club, describes what some might consider a radical way to turn the tide but that Needham sees...
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    27,61 €

  • An Uncharted Progression
    Robert Lee Howard
    I gave very little thought to the direction my early life was taking, yet some people considered me to be successful because I avoided the pitfalls of poverty, drugs, crime, and imprisonment. However, a one-sided junior high school crush motivated me to study. That determination to study strenuously over a three-and-a-half-year period allowed me to build an educational foundat...
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    19,93 €

  • Sojourner
    Marguerite Antonio
    Sojourner by Marguerite Antonio is an eco-conscious science fiction story featuring intergalactic beings, talking dolphins and more. The author’s love for sea creatures, especially dolphins and others that are endangered due to pollution inspired the book.Although a traditional science fiction, some qualities make Sojourner unique:The blend of fictional elements such as, space ...
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    14,22 €

  • A River Avon Year
    Rick Thompson
    This is a book about a river; its wildlife, history and folklore, and the remarkable people who have lived in the communities that have grown up on its banks. The river is the Warwickshire Avon, known as Shakespeare’s Avon, that runs 88 miles from its source in Naseby to Tewkesbury where it joins the Severn. The river flows like an artery through the heart of England, and in da...
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    14,83 €

  • Invisible Friends
    Jake Robinson
    Cutting-edge microbiome research is changing our understanding of reality. It is increasingly evident that microbes are the very glue that holds ecosystems together. This topical and original book counters the prevailing narrative of microbes as the bane of society, along the way providing much-needed clarity on the beneficial role they play. ...
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    32,50 €

  • Anthropocene Days
    John Dargavel
    Is that the nub of the world’s environmental crisis: that in the business of everyday, we pass by with our connections unacknowledged?Anthropocene Days gathers 27 easy-to-read short essays about the environment and climate change in everyday life. While the world and governments are beset by the great woes of changing climate, deforestation, species extinction, air pollution, f...
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    66,93 €

  • Every Living Thing
    Jenell Johnson
    Explores the question of what is life, and how invocations of life itself can join and divide, horrify and amaze, and may have the potential to inspire a future politics in a world beset by crises. ...
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    151,13 €

  • The Mighty Jungle
    Paul A. Lynch
    Wildlife conservation has both monetary and non-monetary benefits, and the success of conservation projects depends on a mix of economic and biological factors.  In Tanzania, the economic benefits of conservation projects have positively impacted the conservation attitudes of local people around the Selous Game Reserve. Option value is a useful tool to measure the potential ben...
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    15,25 €

  • The Mighty Jungle
    Paul A. Lynch
    Africa’s rainforests are rich in fauna; six kilometers (four miles) of land may be home to as many as 400 species of birds, 150 species of butterflies and 60 species of amphibians. Important mammals include the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), the gorilla (Gorilla spp.), the black colobus monkey (Colobus satanas), and the okapi (Okapi johnstoni), a donkey-like rela...
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    15,00 €

  • Food Sustainability, Environmental Awareness, and Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Developing Countries
    Food products are perishable, particularly in tropical countries with high temperature and humidity environments. Therefore, the best mitigation strategies and practices are urgently required in order to minimize losses and solve the sustainable issues that are prevalent in emerging countries. To fulfill the demand of food supply, increase the productivity of food crops, and en...
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    111,59 €

  • Saved to Cloud
    Kate Foley
    Memory, and looking back at a long life from the perspective of giving up on traditional religion - and possibly god - as inadequate to deal with concern for the planet. LGBTQ+ interest ...
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    16,45 €

  • Climate Change and the Economic Importance and Damages of Insects
    Ahmed Karmaoui
    Insects are considered the largest group of animals on earth, as they represent more than one million documented species and about half of all species on a global scale. This makes this group of animals essential for global functioning and survival. Climate change is disrupting the distribution and abundance of insects and will have serious repercussions for human well-being. C...
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    226,55 €

  • Climate Change and the Economic Importance and Damages of Insects
    Ahmed Karmaoui
    Insects are considered the largest group of animals on earth, as they represent more than one million documented species and about half of all species on a global scale. This makes this group of animals essential for global functioning and survival. Climate change is disrupting the distribution and abundance of insects and will have serious repercussions for human well-being. C...
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    292,41 €

  • Systemic Evolutions
    Chris Handrahan
    As a history, human reality is choiceless mimic to nature’s reality by its placement, inventiveness, creativity, and the compression of its localized space and time within a much broader system of existence.This collection of essays creatively elaborates topics such as evolution, environmental diversity, the nature of time, the finite and infinite worlds, instinctive awareness,...
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    15,22 €

  • Poems to Save Our Planet
    Anson Primary School
    The children at Anson Primary School care deeply about the planet and the creatures who freely roam across the rainforests, deserts and tundra. This book contains poems inspired by the world around us. It is a call to action for us all to try and help save the beautiful planet on which we live. ...
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    14,41 €

  • The Dao of Civilization
    Freya Mathews
    The book sets out a prospectus for a new form of civilization patterned at every level to serve and sustain the biosphere. It calls on China to lead the world towards this new era by re-crafting its own civilization in accordance with its indigenous tap-root: Dao. ...
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    36,05 €

  • Wrong Tree
    Jeff Wilson
    During his 30+ year career in wildlife management, Jeff Wilson found himself atopeagle nests, deep in bear dens, tracking furbearers on snow covered forest roads, andspending nights under the stars banding loons. His adventures (or misadventures) inwildlife biology, are incredibly informative, entertaining, and occasionally hilarious.These stories communicate a deep passion for...
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    23,35 €

  • GRASS
    David C Callender
    I have no idea what started me on this book. But I’m glad I did and hope you will be too.It’s true that I’d been walking on grass and seeing it and touching it just about every day of my life. But I had just never thought about it - about how it is everywhere, grows back whatever you do, delights us - even in a way holds our beautiful planet together, a foundation for nature an...
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    11,39 €

  • Asian Economic Integration Report 2023
    Asian Development Bank
    This report shows how smart trade and investment policies, and regulatory cooperation in the Asia and Pacific region can help economies tackle climate change, recover from the pandemic, and support resilient and sustainable development. Analyzing topics including global value chains, investment, the movement of people, and regional cooperation initiatives, it outlines the econo...
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    71,88 €

  • POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
    SWARAN SINGH & REENA MARWAH
    The year 2020 was a watershed event in the history of climate change politics. It marked the end of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol and the beginning of the ambitious Paris Agreement. It was also the year of the pandemic, where the disruption caused severe implications on a global scale. The pandemic also brought before the world the severity and scale of the...
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    117,88 €

  • High School Biology
    Sterling Education
    Thousands of students use Sterling to achieve academic success!Master high school organismal biology with questions and detailed explanations.  This book provides practice questions covering organismal biology topics for comprehensive high school biology preparation. The detailed explanations describe why one answer is correct and why another attractive choice is wrong. They pr...
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    52,06 €

  • flood
    Nicole Kooyman
    In November 2021, disaster struck the Sumas Prairie in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. A massive, heavy rainfall made land causing floods and mudslides - destroying homes, livelihoods and lives. Flood is a firsthand account of one woman’s experience on her family’s chicken farm, before, during and after the flood. The events unfold moment-to-moment through journal entrie...
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    17,74 €

  • flood
    Nicole Kooyman
    In November 2021, disaster struck the Sumas Prairie in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. A massive, heavy rainfall made land causing floods and mudslides - destroying homes, livelihoods and lives. Flood is a firsthand account of one woman’s experience on her family’s chicken farm, before, during and after the flood. The events unfold moment-to-moment through journal entrie...
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    26,35 €

  • Living with water
    This interdisciplinary collection highlights the ways in which water is an irreducible part of the way we live. ...
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    169,48 €


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