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  • Ireland Weather Almanac 2024 (Hardback)
    Ken Ring
    Need to plan for the next La Nina?Need to know when floods are returning? Need to know when to rest and when to invest?Ken Ring’s weather predictions have been relied on by people around Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand for over 20 years, and his annual weather almanacs are always eagerly anticipated. The 2024 Ireland Almanac allows you to calculate the weather for any day o...
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    116,96 €

  • Future Imperfect
    Babette Gallard
    IT’S 2050, A CHANGED WORLD, and the River Rhone has flooded the town of Arles in France. Helen and Isha leave to join their daughter and eleven-month-old granddaughter, Ayo, in England.In Calais, Isha, who has Ugandan-Asian ancestry, is told that new rules mean she will be immediately deported if she crosses the Channel. Faced with a terrible dilemma, Helen chooses to stay with...
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    20,07 €

  • Shoreline of Infinity 36
    Tania Chen
    Climate Change SpecialGuest Editor: Lyndsey CroalNew Stories Gessica Sakamoto Martini - The Fox, the Hen, and the Green HillsRhiannon A Grist - A Change of DirectionAndrew Knighton - Shelter From the StormSara Kate Ellis - If Cooler HeadsChristopher R. Muscato - The Best Taco in San AntonioTania Chen - Pure White, Ocean GlassGreta Colombani - AmaranthineMarisca Pichette - The L...
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    9,52 €

  • Reclaiming the Sacred
    Jeff Golden
    GRAND PRIZEWINNER -- 2023 Nautilus Book Award"This book is profound... A must-read... Five stars." --Reader’s Favorite'Masterful… uplifting…' –Self Publishing Review'Many books promise to change a person’s life. This one actually might.' –IndieReaderOne of the essential books of our time, Reclaiming the Sacred draws on the work of thousands of psychologists and economists, cosm...
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    19,02 €

  • Climate Conundrum - The Agendas and Forces at Play
    Balvinder Ruby
    This book delves into the subject of climate change from multiple perspectives, covering controversies, beliefs, history, politics, science, business, agendas, and the future. It starts with the chapter titled 'The Hype,' which focuses on conspiracy theories and influential organisations that shape public opinion. The chapter called 'Cult' examines the psychological dimension o...
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    22,94 €

  • Earth and Energy, Power and Pollution
    Patrick Simmons
    Freedom of choice is what brings health and happiness to all humankind. In freedom there is love, life and light. Love has in it, discipline or it is not true love. Life has to be moving in a direction of health or it is not true life. Light has to have peace, perfection, balance and harmony or it is not true light. Knowing the above will help the present generation to choose m...
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    13,33 €

  • Bodies on the Line
    Sue Parfitt
    Central London, October 2022: Sue Parfitt, an 80-year-old Anglican priest, is arrested for sitting in the road. It’s not her first time, nor the last; and she isn’t alone. Christians are waking up to the existential scale of the climate crisis. They are rediscovering the radical nature of Jesus’s teaching. They are asking what God needs them to do, and putting their bodies on t...
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    10,09 €

  • Science in Society
    Hans Von Storch / Nico Stehr
    Hans von Storch and Nico Stehr, the authors of this anthology, reflect on the popular and scientific perception and construction of the phenomenon of climate, climate change, climate policy and the impact of climate on society. In the early 1990s, the authors encountered notable resistance to the idea of climate change, especially as they wrote about the urgent need for societa...
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    154,56 €

  • An Inconvenient Future
    Robert Byrum
    As humans our time frames are too short. We live in terms of today, tomorrow, next week or possibly next year. We cannot fathom how our actions or non-actions may affect the future in fifty, a hundred or two hundred years. We are nor wired for that. We will not be here, so why be concerned about something so far in the future? But Mother Earth will still be around. She is not g...
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    10,88 €

  • Climate Finance Landscape of Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    This report assesses climate finance in Asia and the Pacific and analyzes how it can be harnessed by developing member countries to expand climate action and spur low-carbon, resilient growth. Designed to help governments and development partners identify and address barriers, it offers a subregional breakdown and underscores the need for equitable access to funds to help count...
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    37,65 €

  • Financing Regions Toward Sustainability in the Midst of Climate Change Risks and Uncertainty
    Financing Regions Toward Sustainability in the Midst of Climate Change Risks and Uncertainty is a groundbreaking book edited by Beata Zofia Filipiak, Dominika Kordela, and Izabela Nawrolska from the University of Szczecin, Poland. The book provides a comprehensive guide to financing regions towards sustainability in the midst of climate change risks and uncertainty. With a focu...
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    222,86 €

  • A User’s Guide for Planet Earth
    Dork Sahagian
    A User’s Guide for Planet Earth: Fundamentals of Environmental Science provides students with an exploration of the fundamental components of Earth’s environmental systems, their interactions, and the way society affects and is affected by alterations in climate, ecosystems, hydrology, and various additional factors. The text distills essential environmental science concepts in...
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    101,57 €

  • I Trust You to Kill Me
    J. A. Howe
    Late December 2119, world population is down to six billion. The great cities, capitals, and ports have been eaten by sea water. Catastrophic death is an everyday occurrence.Alena Rivera’s husband and daughter have died in Beirut. To survive her grief, she has transferred back to Bogata. A drug expert in CIMI, she is tagged to head the station. Now she is lying grievously wound...
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    28,83 €

  • New Zealand Weather Almanac 2024 (Paperback)
    Ken Ring
    Need to plan for the next La Nina?Need to know when floods are returning? Need to know when to rest and when to invest?Ken Ring’s weather predictions have been relied on by people around Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand for over 20 years, and his annual weather almanacs are always eagerly anticipated. The 2024 New Zealand Almanac allows you to calculate the weather for any d...
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    131,89 €

  • The Nonsense of Global Warming and Climate Change
    Dirk van Leenen
    The truth about the earth we live on. Everything we create, consume, build, manufacture and waste comes from the earth and returns to the earth, from dust to dust. Everything that happens on the earth, has a purpose. Man cannot change the earth’s nature! Even pollution, forest fires, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions have a corrective purpose on the earth. ...
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    18,00 €

  • The Nonsense of Global Warming and Climate Change
    Dirk van Leenen
    The truth about the earth we live on. Everything we create, consume, build, manufacture and waste comes from the earth and returns to the earth, from dust to dust. Everything that happens on the earth, has a purpose. Man cannot change the earth’s nature! Even pollution, forest fires, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions have a corrective purpose on the earth. ...
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    25,41 €

  • Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Game Changers in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    Analyzing the potential of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) to secure a low-carbon environment for Asia and the Pacific, this Asian Development Bank (ADB) compendium features 11 CCUS technologies and tools.As ADB strives to facilitate this low-carbon future for the region within the next half of this century, the compendium explores how CCUS can enhance sustainab...
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    29,58 €

  • Carbon Pricing and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Rationalization Tool Kit
    Jacqueline Cottrell / Mikael Skou Andersen / Rachael Jonassen
    This tool kit explores some of the key attributes of potential and existing emission trading systems, carbon taxes, and fossil fuel subsidies rationalization programs in Asia and the Pacific and other emerging countries.It aims to guide policymakers in the Asian Development Bank’s developing member countries to effectively design, implement, and manage the interplay of carbon t...
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    34,20 €

  • The Green Real Deal
    Bill Herrington
    The Energy Wake-Up Call for AmericansThe Russian invasion of Ukraine is a wake-up call to America: Climate change activists are leading our country down the wrong energy path.The obsessive, all-in stance in favor of renewables has rendered Europe’s economy and national security vulnerable to Russian President Vladimir Putin, one of the world’s most vicious leaders. And America ...
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    18,60 €

  • Energy in the 21st Century
    John R Fanchi
    This unique compendium provides a fact-based analysis of the most prominent energy issues of our time. It covers the period when the Covid pandemic swept across the world and substantially altered energy production and consumption. It discusses lessons learned following the reopening of economies around the world, and recognizes that we are in the midst of the energy transition...
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    157,51 €

  • Democratic Management of an Ecosystem Under Threat
    Kelly Dunning
    Using case studies from Florida and the Caribbean, this book summarizes the state of coral reef conservation today, exploring the most effective way to protect vulnerable coral reef ecosystems while ensuring people’s voices are heard. ...
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    158,36 €

  • Eye of the Storm
    Terry LePage
    When Things Fall Apart, You Don’t Have ToCalm is contagious. And courage is contagious. The tools in this book can help you to find calm, purpose, and even joy in hard times. Climate chaos is accelerating, democracy is in peril, species and ecosystems are disappearing, and economic inequality is soaring. These are interconnected parts of a complex and devastating predicament. B...
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    13,72 €

  • The Age of Adaptation How Climate Change is Reshaping Our World and Our Minds
    David Collins
    As our planet continues its relentless journey through climate change, we stand on the precipice of an era unlike any other.'The Age of Adaptation: How Climate Change is Reshaping Our World and Our Minds,' is a compelling book that offers a profound examination of the ways in which climate change is not just transforming our physical world, but also the complex landscape of hum...
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    14,05 €

  • Eco Africa
    Eco Africa: An Anthology of Poems is a magnificent collection of poems from across the African continent (Eastern, Western, Central, and Southern Africa) with various contributions from some African poets in the Diaspora. There are poems on nature such as its beauty and clean air, on potential consequences of climate change, notably global warming, and the potentially devastati...
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    33,28 €

  • Taking on Climate Change Through Green Taxation
    Since environmental issues entered the global agenda, governments have directing businesses towards sustainability. The term 'sustainability' is commonly associated with a firm’s environmental attentiveness, although there are two other areas in which companies should be sustainable: social, to achieve an adequate relationship and fluid communication with their stakeholders, an...
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    216,52 €

  • Urban Energy and Climate
    With the continuous migration of people towards metropolitan areas in search of employment, the demands for core services and energy, coupled with an increasing awareness of the impact of climate change, have placed the management and planning of global urban energy under a lot of pressure. Trends toward urban energy service transformations that offer greater affordability, rel...
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    169,58 €

  • Gateway Framework
    Asian Development Bank
    For tackling complex global challenges, this publication advises how a Gateway Process (GP) can help the Asian Development Bank’s developing member countries channel scarce public resources into viable, sustainable, efficient infrastructure investments.Supporting ministries of finance and related agencies, the publication explains how GPs can enhance the preparation, procuremen...
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    25,95 €

  • Green Finance for Asian State-Owned Enterprises
    Asian Development Bank
    This report reveals how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Asia’s emerging economies can play a key role in helping to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss, by using green bonds to upgrade their economic activities from polluting to green. The report explores how SOEs can develop and deploy sustainable financial instruments, in particular green bonds, to help finance thei...
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    27,94 €

  • Modelling climate change impacts on agricultural systems
    This collection summarises the wealth of research on ways to improve models predicting the impact of climate change on agricultural systems, as well as their application to understanding impacts in particular regions. ...
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    291,71 €

  • A Day of Darkness
    LaFAMCALL Endtime Ministries / Lambert Eze Okafor
    All is not well with the planet. Earth!Unusual events now happening all over the world are eloquent signs - for those who would heed them.Scientists - ancient and modern - all agree that something terrible is due to happen, and that man hasn’t got much time left. The world may come to an end soon - they have said. The period they point to would definitely frighten anyone.Space ...
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    16,39 €