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  • Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Historical Ecology Investigation
    Alison Whipple / Robin Grossinger / San Francisco Estuary Institute
    This report describes the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Historical Ecology Study, which was conducted to provide foundation information to develop sound large-scale restoration efforts in the Delta. The report documents early 1800s pattern and process in the Delta. Historical habitat type extent and distribution are described, the landscape context explored, and driving hydrolog...
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    57,41 €

  • Reflections on Mountaineering
    Alan V. Goldman
    In the Fifth Edition of Reflections on Mountaineering, A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains, Alan V. Goldman presents a collection of 148 narrative-style poems. These poems, written in various forms including rhyming, prose, and blank verse, encapsulate the author’s wisdom gained from over 30 years of climbing and learning from fellow mountaineers. The poems d...
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    12,65 €

  • The Science of Strategic Conservation
    Kent D. Messer / Kent DMesser / William L. Allen III / William LAllen III
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    85,95 €

  • Beekeeping for Beginners
    Gerard Carter
    Learn the art and science of beekeeping with this comprehensive guide for beginners. Whether you want to start your own honey business, help the environment, or simply enjoy the wonder of bees, Beekeeping for Beginners has everything you need to get started.This Book for Beginners is the perfect guide for anyone interested in this rewarding and fascinating hobby. ...
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    27,82 €

  • Aves de Colombia: Libro de colorear (para adultos)
    Miguel Martínez
    ¿Sabías que Colombia tiene la mayor variedad de especies de aves en el mundo? ¿Te atreves a colorearlas?En este libro podrás colorear tus aves colombianas favoritas, con distintos niveles de dificultad para cada una, y leer información sobre ellas; además, encontrarás unos códigos QR con los cuales podrás hallar información más detallada sobre dichas aves y escuchar piezas musi...
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    19,24 €

  • You Can Call It Beautiful
    Debra Elisa
    'In You Can Call It Beautiful by Debra Elisa, readers encounter a unique style as idiosyncratic as Emily Dickinson’s with poems flaunting ’breath and tiptoe glory and Clover.’ Elisa celebrates a world of simple pleasures, kind acts, and fertile moments, moments when ’deadheads/take their own sweet time to fall and reseed the garden.’ In this hefty array of resonant poems examin...
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    14,75 €

  • Loose on the Landscape
    Joel Everett Harding
         Ever wonder what it’s like alone at midnight in the depths of a vast marsh, or thought of stumbling into a roiling geyser field in the dark? What happens when you get swept along for miles in a flooded river without an exit—or explore a prehistoric swamp with predators left over from the Cretaceous? How can you sense an Amazon rainforest breathing? Have you watched a great...
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    29,08 €

  • High School Environmental Science
    Sterling Education
    Thousands of students use Sterling to achieve academic success!Comprehensive content book to master high school chemistry topics. This book provides thorough coverage of high school environmental science topics, teaching the foundational ideas and concepts necessary to master the core content. The material is clearly presented and systematically organized for learning importan...
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    53,57 €

  • Non Conventional Energy
    Rahul Basu
    Real time weather events and other disasters are now commonly seen live on the news. One is led to ask why this is happening so often? Is it because of a desperate need to utilise fossil fuel before it runs dry?  Or is it the blatant disregard of Nature and universal warnings about climate change? Can the Technology of today limit warming below 2 deg C? On these and other topic...
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    57,73 €

  • Our Better Nature
    Philip J. Dreyfus
    A historical approach to reintegrating the city with its natural environmentFew cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco-the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends. In Our ...
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    24,37 €

  • Clear Creek
    Erik Reece
    Acclaimed author Erik Reece spends a year beside a rural Kentucky stream, in close observation of the natural world’s cycles, revelations, and redemptions. A critic once wrote that Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon was about two things: Yugoslavia and everything else. Something similar might be said about Clear Creek. In this boundary-defying work, Erik Reece spends a ...
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    19,18 €

  • Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America
    E. Lucy Braun
    Use This Seminal Woodland Study in Exploring and Understanding Deciduous ForestsIn her major work Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America, noted botanist, ecologist, and conservationist Dr. Emily Lucy Braun traces the overarching history of the eastern North American woodlands from antediluvian times to the relatively recent (in geologic terms) arrival of European settlers, ...
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    51,26 €

  • Mystic Masquerade, An Adoptees’s Search for Truth
    Valerie Naiman
    Mystic Masquerade, An Adoptee’s Search for Truth is an epic story of adoption that weaves together DNA, ancient wisdom, esoteric knowledge, and suppressed information about humanity’s origins. Adopted at birth in Miami, Valerie Naiman healed the trauma of infant separation by embarking on a spiritual journey to discover her roots. Her travels take her across the world including...
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    11,56 €

  • The Darwinian Delusion
    Michael Ebifegha
    Pseudoscience Advocates DarwinismWhereasScience Endorses Anti-Darwinism Darwin’s theory of evolution, which asserts that new species are formed gradually through competition, is being challenged as empirical studies show that new species are, instead, produced rapidly through cooperation. In other words, the mechanism set forth in Darwin’s theory are not the ones that result in...
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    19,10 €

  • Skating Across Thin Ice
    Cristina Salat
    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 differ...
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    33,95 €

  • Wild Apples
    Henry David Thoreau
    This Henry David Thoreau classic is called Wild Apples. It is a venerable Henry David Thoreau work, subtitled 'The History of the Apple Tree,' and it stands as a classic among natural history essays. This Thoreau essay contains the following excerpt:'It is remarkable how closely the history of the Apple-tree is connected with that of man. The geologist tells us that the order o...
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    11,17 €

  • Rhizome Too
    Gwen Diehn
    At the end of summer a friend and I were walking on a trail where the plants seemed to be winding down as the days had become cooler and shorter. Everything in the woods was in shades of brown and grayish tan. Suddenly my friend spotted something bright red, and seemingly out of place, on a rotting log. We bent over this something, trying to figure out what it could possibly...
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    37,21 €

  • Industrialism - Our Commitment to Impermanence
    Christopher O. Clugston
    The REAL Inconvenient Truth! By choosing to industrialize, we Homo sapiens unwittingly made a commitment to impermanence. We adopted a terminally unsustainable way of life, in which the finite and non-replenishing NNRs (nonrenewable natural resources) that enable our industrial existence, would inevitably become insufficient to do so.Unfortunately, 'inevitably' is 'now' - Natur...
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    39,69 €

  • Tight Lines
    Bill Curry
    Bill Curry takes us on the ideal fishing expedition: all across Nova Scotia and further afield. This combination memoir, guidebook, and collection of tall stories is copiously illustrated with photos by the author, who became the first certified Professional Master Guide in Nova Scotia when the professional guide certification program was created. ...
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    21,96 €

  • Ways of Being
    Sati Mookherjee
    'The poems in this award-winning collection reveal a bold voice that brings us on a tour through emotional and literal landscapes as fluid as the tides.'-Rena Priest, Washington State Poet Laureate and American Book Award Winner for Patriarchy Blues (MoonPath Press)'Rhythms, images, and juxtapositions in these poems flow like waves filling and emptying, from past to present to ...
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    17,86 €

  • Ecology and Spirituality
    Jack Hunter
    Ecology is the science of interconnection, the examination of the ways in which everything in the natural world is interdependent.Spirituality is the sense that there is something deeper than, or beyond, the material world. Jack Hunter’s book is an accessible introduction to the ways in which these two areas combine and are compatible. The book ranges across the origins of ecol...
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    20,82 €

  • Ecological Crisis
    Oliver Barrett
    This book is a synthesis of catholic social teaching related to the climate crisis, an examination of the climate debate from a catholic perspective. After looking at the main ecological issues, the root of the problem is identified by the Holy Fathers as a moral crisis within humanity. This moral crisis stems from a misunderstanding of humanities proper place within the cosmos...
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    27,80 €

  • 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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    12,49 €

  • 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 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 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Systemic Evolutions
    Chris Handrahan
    For evolution to properly function, the environment must transform to permit fresh, innovative possibilities to emerge.The first line of the initial essay begins the reconstruction of reality into niched, naturally evolved systems created as match for the universal forces permitting it to occur.The roots of beliefs and ideas are the same as all else pertinent to the survival of...
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    14,38 €

  • L’Horta de Benimaclet
    Pau Giner Bayarri
    L’Horta de Benimaclet va ser un dels vergers més valiosos de l’horta de Valéncia. Situada al Nort de la ciutat de Valéncia s’estenia al voltant del núcleu de població de Benimaclet. La seua extensió ha segut variable en el temps. Des de la mitat del segle XX ha patit grans pèrdues de terreny cultivable, alqueries, barraques i demés patrimoni. El creiximent de la ciutat de Valén...
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    43,88 €