In 'The Incredible Travel Tales of John Muir (Illustrated Edition)', readers are taken on a vivid journey through the adventures of the renowned naturalist and conservationist, John Muir.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Food & Wine editor Ray Isle does for wine what Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma did for food—showing readers how to choose more delicious, interesting, and environmentally friendly wines without breaking the bank.
Guide to post-industrial site restoration and re-establishment of rich communities of plant species for the provision of key ecosystem services In line with the UN sustainable development goals, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on Post-Industrial Land is an expert guide to ecological restoration of post-industrial lands, explaining how to re-introduce biodiversity and ecosystem services by implementing natural processes in the rehabilitation of disturbed sites.
Reveals how we can learn from the intelligent communities of trees and plants*; Shares breakthrough research on how tree and plant communities function, revealing a holistic, interconnected, communal, and sentient new world *; Examines the attributes we share with trees and plants and how the behaviors of altruism, cooperation, and community are genetically coded in our beings *; Looks at how to learn to see, think, imagine, and live with holistic eco-centric awareness and the benefits that come from working with our plant allies Breakthrough research is not only revealing a brilliant green world with amazing attributes like dispersed intelligence but also that humanity, like the tree and plant kingdom, thrives on innate cooperation, sharing, altruism, and community.
Riesige, neuartige Wald- und Buschbrände, gigantische Sturzregen, beschleunigte Vernichtung der Wälder, Dürrekatastrophen und Tornados - nahezu täglich Katastrophenmeldungen in Zeitungen und News-Tickern.
'The perfect accompaniment to a year of forest walks'Gardens Illustrated 'Books of the Year'A seductive mix of science, history and culture'Tracy Chevalier'I love this book'Lauren Laverne, as featured on BBC Radio 6 MusicA wondrous seasonal journey through Britain and Ireland's trees.
Obwohl Menschen auf keinen Fall zu den gefährdeten Tierarten auf diesem Planeten gehören, treibt Menschen offensichtlich die Sorge und die Befürchtung um, dass die Menschheit nicht überleben und damit die Tierart Homo sapiens für immer ausgelöscht werden könnte.
'An epic quest - in which the journey is at least as entertaining as the end result' - Stephen Moss, author of Ten Birds That Changed the World'Humorous, touching and refreshingly unsentimental' - Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road'Highly entertaining and gloriously obsessional' - Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan'A wise, rude, hilarious and oddly moving account' - Ed Caesar, author of The Moth and the Mountain~ ~ ~The problem started, as problems often do, with a penguin.
Premi Sunday Times a la millor escriptora de l'anyAlgunes de les zones més desolades, devastades i contaminades de la Terra, contra tot pronòstic, ofereixen les millors oportunitats per a la recuperació del medi ambient.
A classic for our times MONIQUE ROFFEY Haunting, beautiful Anima will live with me for a long time CAL FLYN'A book that mesmerises with its sense of adventure and epic sweep, this is creative non-fiction at its best' GUARDIANOver the course of one summer, Kapka Kassabova lives with perhaps the last true pastoralists in Europe.
In this fresh and gutsy analysis, Amanda Little lays bare America's energy past, present and future and shows how the innovatory designs that got it to its current energy crisis will actually save it from ruin.
Nuestro planeta muestra un claro deterioro ambiental: cambio climático, crisis energética, agotamiento del modelo de consumo… Uno de los primeros pasos que debemos dar para revertir esta situación es reconocer y evitar las ecomentiras o ecomitos: las falsas creencias medioambientales que están instaladas en el imaginario popular como la efectividad de las cuotas en las emisiones de CO2, la exaltación de fuentes de energía alternativas que quizá no son todo lo beneficiosas que parecen o un amplio abanico de medidas que tiene más sustento político que científico.
The official tie-in to the third instalment in the legendary Planet Earth franchiseFew places on Earth remain untouched by humans, creating challenges for the wildlife we share it with.
Die globale Entwaldung ist ein vielschichtiges Problem, das von der Landwirtschaft über Urbanisierung bis hin zum Klimawandel und Bergbau getrieben wird.
An authoritative treatment of the diverse and beautiful anole lizards of mainland Central and South AmericaAnoles are highly visible and aesthetically pleasing lizards that are abundant throughout Central and South America.
Von den Monumenten der Pharaonen über die Klostergärten des Mittelalters bis zu den High-Tech-Labors der Gegenwart verfolgt Aloe Vera eine erstaunliche Erfolgsgeschichte.
