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  • A Country Pillow Book
    David Kavanagh
    A unique six-year compilation of British rural news, interspersed with the author’s own observations on birds, mammals, fish, and aspects of Britain’s countryside today.Most rural subjects are covered in a comprehensive snapshot of country life at the start of the new Millenium.From December 1999 to February 2006, scores of different issues are compressed into hundreds of bite-...
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    41,77 €

  • The Way into Judaism and the Environment
    PhD Jeremy Benstein
    Explores the relationship Jews have with the natural world and the ways in which Judaism contributes to contemporary social and environmental issues. Shows where Judaism is part of the problem and how it can be part of the solution. ...
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    22,21 €

  • Inspiring Progress
    Gary T Gardner
    The absence of strong spiritual and ethical dimensions in twentieth-century development helped to produce one of the most violent, environmentally impoverished, and economically unequal centuries in human history. Ethical and spiritual contributions in the twenty-first century are needed to rectify these pitfalls. Religions can help societies to wrestle with the bedrock questio...
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    16,47 €

  • Writing Green
    Debra A. Schwartz
    Is investigative reporting about the environment advocacy? Drawing on revealing tales of adventure from their own experience, six reporters who have written about subjects including pollution, health, and ecology discuss how their stories take shape and what they do to ward off challenges to their credibility. Presented in a question and answer format, examples of their scripts...
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    15,25 €

  • Sacramental Commons
    John Hart / Leonardo Boff / Thomas Berry
    The increasing awareness of environmental issues as ultimately moral issues has led to the intersection of religion and environment. Sacramental Commons presents a unique way of looking at this topic by relating the Christian word 'sacrament' (signs of divine presence) to the term 'commons' (shared place and shared goods, among people and between people and the natural world), ...
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    169,09 €

  • Sacramental Commons
    John Hart / Leonardo Boff / Thomas Berry
    The increasing awareness of environmental issues as ultimately moral issues has led to the intersection of religion and environment. Sacramental Commons presents a unique way of looking at this topic by relating the Christian word ’sacrament’ (signs of divine presence) to the term ’commons’ (shared place and shared goods, among people and between people and the natural world), ...
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    55,64 €

  • Shades of Green
    Christof Mauch
    Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. Discussing issues unique to different parts of the world, Shades of Green shows that environmentalism around the globe has been strengthened, weakened, or suppressed by a variety of local, national, and international concerns, politics, ...
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    57,16 €

  • Shades of Green
    Christof Mauch
    Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. Discussing issues unique to different parts of the world, Shades of Green shows that environmentalism around the globe has been strengthened, weakened, or suppressed by a variety of local, national, and international concerns, politics, ...
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    167,85 €

  • Nature and the Environment in Twentieth-Century American Life
    Brian Black
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    77,17 €

  • Large Herbivore Ecology, Ecosystem Dynamics and Conservation
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    121,67 €

  • How to Be Free in Today’s World
    Susan Buck / Trafford Publishing
    This book is a wake-up call to remind us to think about the meaning of life and what is really important in this crazy world. ...
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    9,31 €

  • Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Life
    Brian Black
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    77,15 €

  • Globalization and the World Ocean
    Peter Jacques
    Jacques offers a unique analysis of the connections between global marine and atmospheric conditions to global political phenomena. He shows how human survival is intricately linked to the sustainability of the world ocean, a singular connected body of regional oceans. Jacques suggests how we can synthesize and coordinate global ecological information to avoid current crises in...
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    53,04 €

  • Tropical Deforestation
    This book introduces readers to the important concepts for understanding the environmental challenges and consequences of deforestation. Contributions from scientists and academics in the social sciences and humanities provide readers with an initial ’tool kit’ for understanding the concepts central to their disciplinary perspective and the multi-dimensional aspects of deforest...
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    55,90 €

  • Unsustainable
    Patrick Hossay
    Aimed at an audience, including both budding social activists and young people studying the environment and international development, this book explains how these crises share the same historical roots. Brilliantly combining a huge amount of up-to-date information, visual charts, and clear explanation, Patrick Hossay shows how an historical path of colonialism, capitalist deve...
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    60,21 €

  • Good Neighbor Campaign Handbook
    Paul Ryder
    Neighbors are fighting pollution in a new way: 'For a moment, look through the eyes of the CEO or plant manager. 'He has worked his way into a corner and does not know how to get out. He knows that what he has been doing is wrong. He wants to stop but does not know how. He has been avoiding the matter so completely that he really does not know how bad it is. He has been denying...
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    29,59 €

  • Diamond
    Steve Lerner
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    26,95 €

  • Electric Earth
    Will Jansen
    The past 50 years of worldwide population growth and construction has changed the way the world works. Global warming, hurricanes and tornadoes are on the rise along with sea levels. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are on the increase. Many say that this is just a natural cycle of the earth. This is not the case. These so called 'natural disasters' are direct results of this...
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    11,43 €

  • The Danish Revolution, 1500 1800
    Thorkild Kj Rgaard / Thorkild Kjaergaard / David Hohnen
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    105,82 €

  • Connectivity Conservation
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    153,35 €

  • Environmental Stewardship
    RJ Sam Berry
    The stimulus for the book came from a conference organized by the John Ray Initiative (JRI) to explore ’the Christian approach to the environment’. A clear conclusion was the need to explore and characterize ’stewardship’. This is a concept widely used by environmentalists and one which has clear biblical roots, but it is repeatedly criticized (even condemned) by those who rega...
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    297,46 €

  • The Ecological Life
    Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
    Written as a series of lectures, The Ecological Life offers a humanistic perspective on environmental philosophy that challenges some of the dogmas of deep ecology and radical environmentalism while speaking for their best desires. The book argues that being human-centered leaves us open to ecological identifications, rather than the opposite. Bendik-Keymer draws on analytic an...
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    169,22 €

  • The Ecological Life
    Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
    Written as a series of lectures, The Ecological Life offers a humanistic perspective on environmental philosophy that challenges some of the dogmas of deep ecology and radical environmentalism while speaking for their best desires. The book argues that being human-centered leaves us open to ecological identifications, rather than the opposite. Bendik-Keymer draws on analytic an...
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    52,99 €

  • A Handbook of Instructions for Taxidermy and Natural History Collectors
    Originally published by the Britsh Museum (Natural History) in 1902 as a series of pamphlets on collecting and preserving specimens in all branches of natural history. These were then combined in book form by popular demand. Contents include: Removing and Preparing Mammal Skins Preservation of Birds Sexing Birds Collecting Reptiles, Batrachians and Fishes Collecting Insects Dip...
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    36,33 €

  • Boiling Frogs
    Barbara Rockwell
    The story goes that if you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water, he will jump out and save himself. If you place the same frog in a pot of cool water and slowly bring it to a boil, he will allow himself to be boiled to death. This is exactly what is happening to millions of people around the world. Industry has introduced tens of thousands of chemical compounds into our hum...
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    20,66 €

  • Southeast Asian Biodiversity in Crisis
    Barry W. Brook / Barry WBrook / Navjot S. Sodhi / Navjot SSodhi
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    233,03 €

  • Getting Through the Wilderness
    Mary Ann Segal
    Dr. Mary Ann Segal came upon warnings of a fuel crisis shortly after 9/11. She was reading the New York Times Magazine and saw the article entitled, '2011', by Niall Ferguson, in which there were predictions that by 2010, due to increasing demands upon peaking oil, there would be a world-wide shortage, and the 'price would become out of reach.' Then on February 24, 2004, anoth...
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    21,81 €

  • Shattered Consensus
    Patrick JMichaels
    Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming convincingly demonstrates the remarkable differences between what we commonly read about global warming and what is really happening. Nine chapters describe major problems with computer simulations of future climate that are the basis for wrenching policies being proposed by world leaders. Anyone who reads this book will com...
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    178,67 €

  • The Ethics of Waste
    Gay Hawkins
    Gay Hawkins explores the ethical significance of waste in everyday life_from the broadest conceptions of waste and loss to how the environmental movement has affected the ways we think about garbage. Do we feel virtuous for reusing plastic bags and disdain those who don’t? At what point does personal waste become public responsibility? How does this ’public conscience’ affect p...
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    157,11 €

  • The Ethics of Waste
    Gay Hawkins
    Gay Hawkins explores the ethical significance of waste in everyday life_from the broadest conceptions of waste and loss to how the environmental movement has affected the ways we think about garbage. Do we feel virtuous for reusing plastic bags and disdain those who don’t? At what point does personal waste become public responsibility? How does this ’public conscience’ affect p...
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    56,10 €