For thousands of years, earthquakes have terrified human beings—seen first as the footsteps of angry gods, the rage of monstrous serpents beneath the earth, or the punishment of forgotten sins.
Bioanthropology: The Basics offers an engaging and accessible introduction to the science of biological anthropology, exploring human origins, evolution, and the biological dimensions of what it means to be human.
Bioanthropology: The Basics offers an engaging and accessible introduction to the science of biological anthropology, exploring human origins, evolution, and the biological dimensions of what it means to be human.
In the far North, where landscapes seem carved from endurance itself, men of all ages test their limits-against nature, each other, and the quiet within.
Wälder sind weit mehr als nur eine Ansammlung von Bäumen – sie sind komplexe Ökosysteme, Lebensräume für unzählige Tier- und Pflanzenarten, natürliche Klimaregulatoren und lebenswichtige Ressourcen für den Menschen.
WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTIONWINNER OF THE NIB LITERARY AWARDFINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONHIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATIONA SUNDAY INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR There is a kind of hauntedness in wild animals today: a spectre related to environmental change Our fear is that the unseen spirits that move in them are ours.
Zoo Animal Welfare unpacks the different concepts of welfare in the zoo and aquarium, considering how enclosure design, nutrition, conservation activities, visitor engagement and daily husbandry all need to have a welfare focus to be relevant to the species being housed.
Zoo Animal Welfare unpacks the different concepts of welfare in the zoo and aquarium, considering how enclosure design, nutrition, conservation activities, visitor engagement and daily husbandry all need to have a welfare focus to be relevant to the species being housed.
The River's Tale: Ayman's Journey is a heartwarming and philosophical story that follows a young boy, Ayman, and his deep connection with the river that runs through his village.
This edited volume, Smart Technologies for Sustainable Development Goals: Quality Education, explores the transformative role of emerging technologies in advancing SDG 4-Quality Education.
This edited volume, Smart Technologies for Sustainable Development Goals: Quality Education, explores the transformative role of emerging technologies in advancing SDG 4-Quality Education.
The Great Lakes Basin is under severe ecological threat from fracking, bursting pipelines, sulfide mining, abandonment of government environmental regulation, invasive species, warming and lowering of the lakes, etc.
The emergence of scientific data confirming the capacity of nonhuman animals to feel what is happening to them and experience positive and negative emotions has created an uncomfortable moral dilemma for many humans.
The emergence of scientific data confirming the capacity of nonhuman animals to feel what is happening to them and experience positive and negative emotions has created an uncomfortable moral dilemma for many humans.
The Big Sandy River and its two main tributaries, the Tug and Levisa forks, drain nearly two million mountainous acres in the easternmost part of Kentucky.
Nature's Year in the Kawarthas is an almanac of key events occurring in the natural world over the course of a year in the Kawartha Lakes district - and in cottage country in general.
Short-listed for the 2002 Saskatchewan Book Awards for Best Non-Fiction and Best Book The stories in Coming Home are as surprising as the landscape of Saskatchewan itself and as varied as its weather.
Universe, Human Species, Reality: A Physicalist Approach describes the functioning of the material universe with the use of intermediate mathematical language.
