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  • Every Living Thing
    Jenell Johnson
    Explores the question of what is life, and how invocations of life itself can join and divide, horrify and amaze, and may have the potential to inspire a future politics in a world beset by crises. ...
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    151,13 €

  • 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 €

  • Pássaros Encantados
    Carlos Araujo Carujo
    Os pássaros, para os povos antigos, pertencem ao mundo intermediário entre o céu e a terra, o horizonte e o mar.A Mitologia da Amazônia possui sentido destacadamente místico, profundamente filosófico. Exemplo disso é a Cosmogênese contida nos contos tupi-guarani da Criação. No principio de tudo a Noite dominava os seres e o mundo. O Sol e a Lua Kuát e Iaê eram os irmãos que h...
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    18,61 €

  • Climate Change and the Economic Importance and Damages of Insects
    Ahmed Karmaoui
    Insects are considered the largest group of animals on earth, as they represent more than one million documented species and about half of all species on a global scale. This makes this group of animals essential for global functioning and survival. Climate change is disrupting the distribution and abundance of insects and will have serious repercussions for human well-being. C...
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    226,55 €

  • Converging Boundaries
    The diverse narratives brought to the reader through this book illustrate how power, conflict, and plurality come together in the practice of biodiversity conservation in multiple Latin American localities. The editors of this book attempted here to confront older conservation paradigms, which rest, problematically, upon self-evident conceptions of Nature as being radically 'ot...
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    45,96 €

  • Systemic Evolutions
    Chris Handrahan
    As a history, human reality is choiceless mimic to nature’s reality by its placement, inventiveness, creativity, and the compression of its localized space and time within a much broader system of existence. This collection of essays creatively elaborates topics such as evolution, environmental diversity, the nature of time, the finite and infinite worlds, instinctive awareness...
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    15,22 €

  • Poems to Save Our Planet
    Anson Primary School
    The children at Anson Primary School care deeply about the planet and the creatures who freely roam across the rainforests, deserts and tundra. This book contains poems inspired by the world around us. It is a call to action for us all to try and help save the beautiful planet on which we live. ...
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    14,41 €

  • The Dao of Civilization
    Freya Mathews
    The book sets out a prospectus for a new form of civilization patterned at every level to serve and sustain the biosphere. It calls on China to lead the world towards this new era by re-crafting its own civilization in accordance with its indigenous tap-root: Dao. ...
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    36,05 €

  • Wrong Tree
    Jeff Wilson
    During his 30+ year career in wildlife management, Jeff Wilson found himself atopeagle nests, deep in bear dens, tracking furbearers on snow covered forest roads, andspending nights under the stars banding loons. His adventures (or misadventures) inwildlife biology, are incredibly informative, entertaining, and occasionally hilarious.These stories communicate a deep passion for...
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    23,35 €

  • GRASS
    David C Callender
    I have no idea what started me on this book. But I’m glad I did and hope you will be too.It’s true that I’d been walking on grass and seeing it and touching it just about every day of my life. But I had just never thought about it - about how it is everywhere, grows back whatever you do, delights us - even in a way holds our beautiful planet together, a foundation for nature an...
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    11,39 €

  • Asian Economic Integration Report 2023
    Asian Development Bank
    This report shows how smart trade and investment policies, and regulatory cooperation in the Asia and Pacific region can help economies tackle climate change, recover from the pandemic, and support resilient and sustainable development. Analyzing topics including global value chains, investment, the movement of people, and regional cooperation initiatives, it outlines the econo...
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    71,88 €

  • High School Biology
    Sterling Education
    Thousands of students use Sterling to achieve academic success!Master high school organismal biology with questions and detailed explanations.  This book provides practice questions covering organismal biology topics for comprehensive high school biology preparation. The detailed explanations describe why one answer is correct and why another attractive choice is wrong. They pr...
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    52,06 €

  • Mundo de água
    Simone Malacrida
    O livro insere-se na tendência de ir delineando as características do "planeta água", mas assumindo uma visão diferente do todo. Ao invés de aprofundar apenas um aspecto particular (o científico-tecnológico ou o social, por exemplo), preferiu-se considerar todos os vínculos que a água tem com o homem e a sociedade, passando a delinear uma série de "viagens", cada uma correspond...
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    10,83 €

  • Wasserwelt
    Simone Malacrida
    Das Buch folgt dem Trend, die Eigenschaften des 'Wasserplaneten' zu skizzieren, aber eine andere Vision des Ganzen anzunehmen. Anstatt nur einen bestimmten Aspekt zu vertiefen (z. B. den wissenschaftlich-technischen oder den sozialen), betrachtete man lieber alle Bindungen, die das Wasser an Mensch und Gesellschaft hat, und skizzierte dann eine Reihe von 'Reisen', die jeweils e...
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    10,76 €

  • flood
    Nicole Kooyman
    In November 2021, disaster struck the Sumas Prairie in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. A massive, heavy rainfall made land causing floods and mudslides - destroying homes, livelihoods and lives. Flood is a firsthand account of one woman’s experience on her family’s chicken farm, before, during and after the flood. The events unfold moment-to-moment through journal entrie...
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    17,74 €

  • flood
    Nicole Kooyman
    In November 2021, disaster struck the Sumas Prairie in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. A massive, heavy rainfall made land causing floods and mudslides - destroying homes, livelihoods and lives. Flood is a firsthand account of one woman’s experience on her family’s chicken farm, before, during and after the flood. The events unfold moment-to-moment through journal entrie...
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    26,35 €

  • Cuentos Cinegéticos Vol I
    Luis G. Castillo Vargas
    Cuentos Cinegéticos, a través de la gran inspiracion de su escritor, relata las historias de las aventuras y los emocionantes lances de Luis Gerardo Castillo Vargas, cazador empedernido, miembro fundador del Safari Club Internacional Central Peru Chapter y Presidente de la Asociación Cinegética del Perú, a lo largo y ancho de nuestra escarpada geografía.Luis Gerardo Castillo Va...
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    32,50 €

  • Living with water
    This interdisciplinary collection highlights the ways in which water is an irreducible part of the way we live. ...
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    169,48 €

  • Politics of Climate Change
    The year 2020 was a watershed event in the history of climate change politics. It marked the end of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol and the beginning of the ambitious Paris Agreement. It was also the year of the pandemic, where the disruption caused severe implications on a global scale. The pandemic also brought before the world the severity and scale of the...
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    117,88 €

  • Travels in Alaska
    John Muir
    Travels in Alaska, which John Muir was working on at the time of his death, is based on journals Muir wrote during his visits to Alaska in 1879, 1880, 1881, 1890, and 1899. From the moment he embarked from San Francisco in May, 1879, 'off for icy Alaska,' Muir sensed he was on an extraordinary adventure. Venturing on foot, by canoe and dogsled, he experienced equal excitement d...
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    30,48 €

  • Well Connected
    Tessa Farmer
    How a community in Cairo, Egypt, has adapted the many systems required for clean water.Who is responsible for ensuring access to clean potable water? In an urbanizing planet beset by climate change, cities are facing increasingly arid conditions and a precarious water future. In Well Connected, anthropologist Tessa Farmer details how one community in Cairo, Egypt, has worked co...
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    64,56 €

  • Mundo del agua
    Simone Malacrida
    El libro va en la línea de ir esbozando las características del "planeta agua" pero teniendo una visión diferente del conjunto. En lugar de profundizar en un solo aspecto particular (el científico-tecnológico o el social, por ejemplo), se prefirió considerar todos los vínculos que el agua tiene con el hombre y la sociedad, pasando a esbozar una serie de "viajes", cada uno corre...
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    10,81 €

  • Monde de l’eau
    Simone Malacrida
    L’ouvrage est dans la veine d’aller esquisser les caractéristiques de la "planète eau" tout en portant un regard différent sur l’ensemble. Au lieu de n’aborder qu’un seul aspect particulier (scientifique-technologique ou social par exemple), on a préféré considérer tous les liens que l’eau entretient avec l’homme et la société, en esquissant ensuite une série de "voyages", chac...
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    10,81 €

  • It’s a Bugs World
    Mia Mansfield / Trevor Blake
    Welcome to the world of bugs!These fascinating insects are often misunderstood and squashed at the earliest opportunity, meeting their end under a rolled-up newspaper or choking to death on a poisonous insecticide that man has created.Here’s a good way of judging how the insect population is rapidly dwindling. Do you remember when you would drive along a road in the sunshine an...
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    14,37 €

  • Asia’s Progress Toward Greater Sustainable Finance Market Efficiency and Integrity
    Asian Development Bank
    This report summarizes insights on transparency and integrity in sustainable finance markets shared at a series of webinars hosted by the Asian Development Bank and State Street Global Advisors. The report provides an overview of policy and market practice to enhance transparency, integrity, and efficiency in sustainable finance and to foster the market’s development. It discus...
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    30,90 €

  • ALLEGORY
    Michael Solomon
    Finalist--Best Cover Design--Next Generation Indie Book AwardsNominated for a Pulitzer PrizeAllegory is the story of how one man has created a narrative that has gaslighted the world into believing, unless drastic measures are taken, the world will be destroyed within ten years by greedy industrialists. However, his solution will put planet Earth on a path to suicide. His narr...
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    25,12 €

  • Intelligent Solutions for Optimizing Agriculture and Tackling Climate Change
    Ahmed Karmaoui
    The interactions between climate change, agriculture, and technology are of increasing concern to academicians, educators, and planners. After the publication of the first report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), studies of the impact of climate change on productive systems such as agriculture have multiplied. The best solution can be found in new technol...
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    226,25 €

  • Vanguard Of Nature Book One of the Series Nature Against Humanity
    T William Pleasant
    Vanguard Of Nature Book One Of Nature Against HumanityLet No Beast Stand In Their WayT WILLIAM PLEASANTJuly 5th, 2021ISBN 978-1-7365598-3-3Copyright © 2021 By T. William Pleasant ...
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    25,40 €