Catálogo de libros: Conservación del medioambiente

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  • Runaway
    Anthony Chaney
    The anthropologist Gregory Bateson has been called a lost giant of twentieth-century thought. In the years following World War II, Bateson was among the group of mathematicians, engineers, and social scientists who laid the theoretical foundations of the information age. In Palo Alto in 1956, he introduced the double-bind theory of schizophrenia. By the sixties, he was in Hawai...
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    35,28 €

  • American Roadkill
    Don H Corrigan / Don H. Corrigan
    Slaughtered along our highways, roadkill may be observed regularly, but aren’t likely to be given much thought. Research scientists, animal rights activists, roadkill artists, writers, ethicists and lyricists, however, are increasingly sounding the alarm. They report that we are killing the very animals we love, and are driving many of them to the brink of extinction. Detai...
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    49,97 €

  • Escape from Southern Rhodesia before Zimbabwe
    Peter Hardy
    A student place at Cape Town University was an opportunity to escape from my lonely laboratory technician post and army service in Southern Rhodesia.   A two-thousand-mile circuitous hitchhike route through South Africa including a veterinary caravan across Bechuanaland, now Botswana, bought me to Cape Town.  Unlikely student accommodation was in an attractive Edwardian hotel a...
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    14,99 €

  • Saving the Wild South
    Georgann Eubanks
    The American South is famous for its astonishingly rich biodiversity. In this book, Georgann Eubanks takes a wondrous trek from Alabama to North Carolina to search out native plants that are endangered and wavering on the edge of erasure. Even as she reveals the intricate beauty and biology of the South’s plant life, she also shows how local development and global climate chang...
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    38,41 €

  • Ecolibrium
    Al-Hafiz B.A. Masri / Al-Hafiz B.AMasri / Mehran Banaei / Nadeem Haque
    Ecolibrium: The Sacred Balance in Islam presents the precepts and applications of a totally rational belief system where the distinction between religion and secularism is meaningless. The book demonstrates that the optimal solution to our mounting socio-environmental problems is achievable if only we were to return to an integrated way of thinking and living-of indeed organizi...
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    39,40 €

  • Facility 3 - 2014 Crisis - Toledo Water Poisoned !
    Lynn D. Sherman / Lynn DSherman
    Facility 3 build by the Government is designed to leak. Government agencies have mis-managed the 500 acres of property given to it. Mis-management has resulted in continuous environmental damage. When will it stop. ...
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    54,22 €

  • A STEADFAST HEART
    GILLIAN OGILVIE
    Modern light romance with old-fashioned values. Sally Fletcher put her own life on hold to help her father raise her step-brother and sister. Having once been let down by a man who swore he loved her, she wasn’t looking for romance. But when her quick sympathy for a stranger in trouble turned into a far stronger emotion, she wondered if she could she trust him? ...
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    15,25 €

  • Solid Air
    Daniel Klem
    Birds behave as if sheet glass is invisible to them. They kill themselves striking clear and reflective panes in all types and sizes of human-built structures the world over. The killing is indiscriminate, taking the fit and unfit species, of any age category- both common and of conservation concern. Window-kills occur in the billions worldwide annually. The victims are always ...
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    30,05 €

  • Solid Air
    Daniel Klem
    Birds behave as if sheet glass is invisible to them. They kill themselves striking clear and reflective panes in all types and sizes of human-built structures the world over. The killing is indiscriminate, taking the fit and unfit species, of any age category- both common and of conservation concern. Window-kills occur in the billions worldwide annually. The victims are always ...
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    45,18 €

  • ’African Potentials’ for Wildlife Conservation and Natural Resource Management
    This book focuses on two specific areas: wildlife conservation policies and projects, and the interaction between local societies and the surrounding environment in Africa. Against the internationally dominant approach that regards Africa as being a state of ’deficiency’, this book demonstrates, based on fieldwork concerning various natural resources (e.g. wildlife, forests, fr...
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    86,27 €

  • The Monday After Father’s Day
    Pete Fortenbaugh
    Eight-year-old Charles Thomas has a mission: He’s lookin’ to find Jesus on Johnsontown, a tiny, fast-eroding Chesapeake island that’s home to 400-plus souls. He’s been hearing about Jesus forever, but it wasn’t until that Visitin’ Preacher came to the New Believers’ Church on Father’s Day that Charles Thomas thought he might could find Him right there on the island, just the wa...
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    14,63 €

  • Warden Force
    Terry Hodges
    This is not a novel. This book, like the other eight books of the WARDEN FORCE series, is a collection of short stories, all true, the fascinating and often harrowing experiences of real game wardens pursuing armed violators in wild and remote places. TV shows such as WILD JUSTICE (National Geographic), NORTH WOODS LAW (Animal Planet) and LONE STAR LAW (Animal Planet) introduce...
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    13,04 €

  • My First Summer in the Sierra (Warbler Classics)
    John Muir
    My First Summer in the Sierra is perhaps the most lyrical, joyous, and engaging of all John Muir’s many works. In the summer of 1869 Muir took work as a sheepherder in order to explore the headwaters of the Merced and Tuolomne Rivers. Keeping notes in the form of a diary, Muir describes his fellow companions-human and otherwise-with exquisite compassion, interest, awe, and even...
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    9,02 €

  • Farming In Prairie Image
    Keith F. Johnson / Keith FJohnson
    This book explains how you can profitably raise grain and livestock while regenerating your Prairie Soil back to Natural Health and Productivity.Chapter 1: Prairie HistoryLocations, Origins, Settlement.Chapter 2: Prairie EcologyRules of Nature, Developing a Farm Plan.Chapter 3: Plants for a Prairie FarmRotate Mixtures of Companion Grains and Forages.Chapter 4: Animals for a Pra...
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    16,46 €

  • Plastics and Microplastics
    David Newton
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    82,27 €

  • Essays on Harvesting of Ocean Energy by Sensor Networks
    Rahul Basu
    Ocean Energy is witnessed during the terrific typhoons and Tsunamis.  Harvesting the tides to release their energy has been attempted but without serious involvement by Governments who rely largely on fossil fuels. A survey of the technologies with emphasis on using available ocean networks is outliones here. ...
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    35,13 €

  • So God Made A Farmer
    Levi Lyle
    Limited Time Offer. 40% OFF'Paul Harvey would be proud of Levi Lyle. He truly embodies what it means to be a steward of the land. He has shown that working with nature can not only improve the environment but can be financially profitable as well.' ~Dale Hilgenkamp, President, American Aronia Berry Association'With farmers facing climate challenges now more than ever - we need ...
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    19,99 €

  • Mindfulness as Sustainability
    Maria Jaoudi
    Offers practical and personal ways to help mitigate global climate change while sustaining an emotional and spiritual center through mindfulness practice. ...
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    29,11 €

  • Fragments from the History of Loss
    Louise Green
    Examines the theoretical framing of “nature” in South Africa and beyond. Analyzes myths and fantasies that have brought the world to a point of climate catastrophe and continue to shape the narratives through which it is understood. ...
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    42,96 €

  • Morgan Spring
    M. Ralph Browning / MRalph Browning
    Fulfilling a wish to live in a remote location and the great luck of finding Morgan Spring was a dream come true. The author and Linda, his childhood sweetheart, quickly realized Morgan Spring was a perfect place for retirement and an extended honeymoon. Morgan Spring opened its pages to teach about the day-to-day living where mail came three days per week and where the water w...
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    23,84 €

  • Morgan Spring
    M. Ralph Browning / MRalph Browning
    Fulfilling a wish to live in a remote location and the great luck of finding Morgan Spring was a dream come true. The author and Linda, his childhood sweetheart, quickly realized Morgan Spring was a perfect place for retirement and an extended honeymoon. Morgan Spring opened its pages to teach about the day-to-day living where mail came three days per week and where the water w...
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    34,47 €

  • Everyday Creatures
    George James Kenagy
    Everyday Creatures is a collection of thirteen simply and elegantly told nature essays, set in time over the course of a naturalist’s lifetime-from field-trip experiences as a freshman and sophomore in college, through the challenges of producing a dissertation in ecology, and on through the author’s career at a major university. Yet these stories are not the scientific reports...
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    9,50 €

  • Eco-Thinking
    David Zandvliet
    This selection of articles from the first few years of the Eco-thinking journal, is a compendium that describes research with/in environmental learning as a diverse and growing field of inquiry, respondent to a variety of international program developments and contexts. Key to this exercise is that we as educators and researchers are critically informed by a broad range of pers...
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    36,86 €

  • Walking The Line
    Ki Cthuluson
    A collection of poems about activism, community, nature and the damage caused by the HS2 infrastructure project in the UK. ...
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    18,66 €

  • Space Elevators, The Green Road to Space
    Cathy Swan / Jerry Eddy / Peter Swan
    This 18-month study has produced some remarkable results during a time of transition inside the space arena. As the dreams of many describe customer needs and lead to more assets in space (at GEO, the Moon and Mars), the realization grows that a robust permanent transportation infrastructure is desperately needed. Essentially, we (ISEC) must insert the 'positive environmental ...
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    16,89 €

  • Gaia Warnings
    Philip Burton
    Gaia Warnings is a poetry collection about Nature and the threat posed by Climate Change and human activities. Nature is in free fall decline and we have less than a generation to save it. Without an informed and engaged public, inspired by nature and with the will to save it, we may lose what we have left. The arts have a crucial role to play, and Philip Burton’s evocations ar...
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    14,00 €

  • Playing with Fire
    Daniel Elliot Gonzalez / John W. Sutherlin / John WSutherlin
    Playing with Fire chronicles the ongoing struggle facing Louisiana families trying to live and work against the backdrop of corrupt politicians and corporate greed. However, the story presented here is relevant wherever low-income, disenfranchised people are not included in decisions about their health and environment. ...
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    39,98 €

  • The Wayfarer Spring 2021 Issue
    L.M. Browning
    Since 2012, The Wayfarer has been offering literature, interviews, and art with the intention to inspires our readers, enrich their lives, and highlight the power for agency and change-making that each individual holds.By our definition, a wayfarer is one whose inner compass is ever-oriented to truth, wisdom, healing, and beauty in their own wandering. The Wayfarer’s mission as...
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    23,85 €

  • Exile Heart
    Kim Shuck
    The 8th book and 7th poetry collection by San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck tracks tributaries from the Golden Gate Bridge, California to the Neosho River, Oklahoma. Shuck centers this collection around Indigenous bodies, nature, family, land, and memory. It is at once a call towards perseverance and survival while resisting erasure, genocide, and ongoing environmental kins...
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    29,20 €

  • Draining the Swamp, Southern Style
    Bruce D. Epperson
    In 1912, a Congressional committee met to investigate allegations that the Secretary of Agriculture had suppressed a report by J. O. Wright on drainage in the Florida Everglades. The following seven months of committee hearings uncovered a veritable horror-show of corruption, self-dealing, misuse of government personnel and property for private gain, the tarring of reputatio...
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    73,18 €


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