Catálogo de libros: Conservación del medioambiente

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  • Homo destructus
    Uday Kagal
    This book is my parting gift, so to speak, to 'voiceless' animals and future generations. It comprehensively reviews our gross mistreatment of animals across spheres - stray and pet companion animals, animals on factory farms, and wildlife. It is a small book with a short message: prevent animal cruelty. But it also carries a more ominous lesson for younger and future generat...
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    18,86 €

  • Reconnection
    Miles Richardson
    This book tells the story of how our relationship with nature got broken, why it matters and how to fix it. There is growing recognition that the root cause of wildlife loss and the warming climate is people’s disconnection from nature, yet solutions focus on technical fixes. Reconnection considers the problems scientifically. ...
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    31,97 €

  • The Book of Noah
    Yoni Hammer-Kossoy
    This collection of poems addresses global warming and climate change. The Biblical figure Noah appears in many of the poems, seeming as real and contemporary as your next-door neighbor. The complexity of our love for the world, even as we disregard it, is evident in these nuanced poems. This poetry book is also a book of history and science, spirituality and ecology. ...
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    13,46 €

  • ARA
    Abbirose Adey / Ladey Adey
    Ara, tells the Monkey Puzzle Tree Tale - the Araucaria Tree an Quintessential British Branch. It is a fictional story, surrounded by facts, about the tree’s Chilean origins and journey to Great Britain.Foreword by David Gedye : Author Araucaria The Monkey PuzzleThe story is told through the voice of Ara - the first Araucaria tree. She tells us about Botanists, Molina, Dombey an...
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    22,04 €

  • Notable Moons
    David Gunton
    Life’s forgotten nooks and crannies are lit by the soft but penetrating light of Gunton’s, Notable Moons. His work illuminates these domestic spaces we inhabit as being very strange, fragile, and temporary. In contrast, the natural world is so rich and resilient that even if we damage it to the point where it can no longer support us, it will survive us. Life is vividly portray...
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    18,18 €

  • Man and Nature
    George P. Marsh
    After being appointed the United States Minister Resident to the Ottoman Empire in 1849, George P. Marsh had the opportunity to travel the world and visit the sites of ancient civilizations. Troubled by what he saw, Marsh came to the conclusion that these societies were victims of self-destruction and that the same fate could be in store for the nations of today. Moved to actio...
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    20,52 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Travels in Alaska
    John Muir
    Travels in Alaska, which John Muir was working on at the time of his death, is based on journals Muir wrote during his visits to Alaska in 1879, 1880, 1881, 1890, and 1899. From the moment he embarked from San Francisco in May, 1879, 'off for icy Alaska,' Muir sensed he was on an extraordinary adventure. Venturing on foot, by canoe and dogsled, he experienced equal excitement d...
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    30,48 €

  • Technical Communication for Environmental Action
    Sean D. Williams
    This collection engages scholars and practicioners in a conversation about the ways that Technical Communication has contributed to pragmatic and democratic actions to address climate change. ...
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    121,43 €

  • Climatic and Environmental Significance of Wetlands
    Wetlands provide a key service in an ecosystem such as providing resilience against drought and diverse habitats that support biodiversity. Because of their ephemeral character and their small size, however, these vulnerable ecosystems are declining rapidly as climate change continues to surge and human activities expand. Rational management of wet ecosystems need accompanying ...
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    196,23 €

  • Art Exhibit, Summertime At The Beach
    John Washburn
    The coastland, beach, and shoreline are quite amazing. Here is a book that gives a wonderful flavor of Summertime at the Beach. Hoping to edify the person viewing the art, and experiencing the art, is what this is about.  Also, to help the person experience the beach as much as artwork is capable of displaying, emanating and radiating.  Additionally, to encourage healthy beach ...
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    24,44 €

  • Earth’s Voices ~ Messages for Our Times from Nature’s Guardians
    Laura Newbury
    This book is based on a series of recorded conversations between the author and Nature Guardians of the region surrounding the River Nairn in northern Scotland. The author’s primary conversation is with the deva (landscape angel) who oversees this area.These communications give voice to the spirit of Gaia, explaining the role of nature spirits who inhabit the etheric realm and ...
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    23,60 €

  • Balance on Nature’s Commons
    Mansel Keith Presnell
    Balance on Nature’s Commons is a ’must read’ for anyone aspiring to be an environmental activist, anyone concerned about anthropogenic altercation of environmental balance, and anyone involved in decision-making relevant to those issues. The narrative is written in an easy-to-follow non-academic style that calls the cards as the author sees them. It is intended to be thought-pr...
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    10,84 €

  • WWF and Arctic environmentalism
    Danita Catherine Burke
    This book explores WWF’s approach toward engagement in the Circumpolar North and reasons why it is relatively well-received by key northern audiences. It argues that the foundation of WWF’s success is based on four inter-related strategic pillars: legacy, networks, scientific research and communication style. ...
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    157,64 €

  • I Used to Think Vegans Were Dicks
    E. L. Armstrong
    Ever been bored by ecology? Ever felt vegan curious? Ever thought vegans were dicks?I Used to Think Vegans Were Dicks is the book about the climate emergency for the people who wouldn’t be caught dead reading such bollocks.Earth is dying and it’s our own silly fault. Talking seriously about the end of the world is dangerously ineffective - it’s time we laughed to keep from weep...
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    14,12 €

  • Italy and the Ecological Imagination
    What can Italy teach us about our relationships with the nonhuman world in the current socio-environmental crisis? ’Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices’ focuses on how Italian writers, activists, visual artists, and philosophers engage with real and fictional environments and how their engagements reflect, critique, and animate the approach ...
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    59,32 €

  • The Age of the Soybean
    The soybean is far more than just a versatile crop whose derivatives serve the protein needs of a meatless diet. One of the world’s most important commodities, soy represents the embodiment of mechanised industrial agriculture and is one of the main actors behind the socioeconomic, political and ecological transformations of industrial farming in several world regions. Despite ...
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    52,60 €

  • Harbour Ecology
    With Poole Harbour as its case study, this book examines the question of sustainable development in the coastal estuarine/marine context. Key themes include historical background, ecology, fisheries, water quality, and environmental regulation and legislation. Is it possible to get a balance between the environment and socio-economic benefits? ...
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    164,44 €

  • MOVEMENT MAKERS
    Nick Engelfried
    School strikes for the climate. A bold campaign for a Green New Deal. Fossil fuel divestment. Over the last few years, these and other youth-driven climate initiatives have grabbed the public’s attention and irrevocably altered the dialogue about climate change in the United States. But where did this unprecedented wave of activism come from? Movement Makers tells the behind-th...
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    12,83 €


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