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  • Inferno Unleashed
    Mike L
    "Inferno Unleashed: Exploring the Global Collapse Amidst Wildfires" is a groundbreaking exploration of the devastating impacts of wildfires and the urgent need for comprehensive fire management strategies. From the scorching flames that consume vast landscapes to the far-reaching consequences on ecosystems, communities, and economies, this book delves deep into the complex web ...
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    25,64 €

  • Intersex Diversity
    Megan Dennis
    'Intersex Diversity' by Megan Dennis is a comprehensive exploration of intersex conditions and their various manifestations. The book delves into the definition of intersex and highlights the wide diversity of intersex variations. It provides detailed insights into chromosomal intersex conditions, such as Klinefelter Syndrome, Turner Syndrome, Triple X Syndrome, and XYY Syndrom...
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    24,67 €

  • Convivial Conservation
    Global biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate, leading to calls for urgent change in how humans govern, conserve, and live with non-human species. It is argued that this change must be radical and transformative, and must challenge the structures and systems that shape biodiversity conservation. This book brings together a diverse group of authors to explore the potentia...
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    29,11 €

  • Eco-Emancipation
    Sharon R. Krause
    The case for an eco-emancipatory politics to release the Earth from human domination and free us all from lives that are both exploitative and exploitedHuman domination of nature shapes every aspect of our lives today, even as it remains virtually invisible to us. Because human beings are a part of nature, the human domination of nature circles back to confine and exploit peopl...
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    43,83 €

  • Pharmaceuticals
    Simon Von Wolfie
    Pharmaceuticals is a book about how to create and find natural occurring medicines from natural plants, mushrooms, herbs, bark, and other plant material. The book is meant to be used as a reference guide for those interested in what medicinal plants could be used in a variety of different ways. We do not recommend you use this book as a recipe book and please do not ingest plan...
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    63,88 €

  • Industrialism - Our Commitment to Impermanence
    Christopher O. Clugston
    The REAL Inconvenient Truth! By choosing to industrialize, we Homo sapiens unwittingly made a commitment to impermanence. We adopted a terminally unsustainable way of life, in which the finite and non-replenishing NNRs (nonrenewable natural resources) that enable our industrial existence, would inevitably become insufficient to do so.Unfortunately, 'inevitably' is 'now' - Natur...
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    39,69 €

  • One Finch Singing
    Emily Ransdell
    Winner of the 2022 Concrete Wolf Louis Award’'Sometimes you have to tell a story / your entire life to get it right,'’ Emily Ransdell says in this exquisite debut volume of poems. Though richly different, the stories-about family, about our fragile planet, about the ways loss takes its inevitable toll-together relate a single human story. When I read good poems, I may learn abo...
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    13,60 €

  • Why Human Society Will Collapse Before 2100
    Ross E. Goodrich
    Our dream to reach higher states of civility, equity, security, peace, and good health fades with each passing day. A wealth of information shows resource depletion, overcrowding, environmental degradation, economic disruptions, and all their attendant crises are irreversible and intensifying. Soon, much too soon, we will face an experience we understand in the abstract but ign...
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    17,20 €

  • Concepts of Biology (paperback, b&w)
    James Wise / Rebecca Roush / Samantha Fowler
    Black & white print.Concepts of Biology is designed for the typical introductory biology course for nonmajors, covering standard scope and sequence requirements. The text includes interesting applications and conveys the major themes of biology, with content that is meaningful and easy to understand. The book is designed to demonstrate biology concepts and to promote scientifi...
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    35,95 €

  • Concepts of Biology (hardcover, full color)
    James Wise / Rebecca Roush / Samantha Fowler
    Color print.Concepts of Biology is designed for the typical introductory biology course for nonmajors, covering standard scope and sequence requirements. The text includes interesting applications and conveys the major themes of biology, with content that is meaningful and easy to understand. The book is designed to demonstrate biology concepts and to promote scientific litera...
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    91,06 €

  • Reclaiming the Sacred
    Jeff Golden
    Reclaiming the Sacred draws on the work of thousands of psychologists and economists, cosmologists and activists, saints and poets, to ground us in our inherent joy, purpose, and belonging-both for our own sakes and the sake of the world.The journey begins with a look at what science reveals about the things that most nourish human well-being-and some that do not, most notably ...
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    14,31 €

  • Teoria Da Dependência E Direito : Uma Investigação Sobre A (des)regulamentação Dos Agrotóxicos No Brasil
    Mariana Letícia Rosa Brito
    Produto de sua pesquisa na graduação no curso de direito da Universidade Estadual de Londrina, a obra apresenta a contribuição da autora para o campo das teorias críticas do direito, relacionando o Direito e a Teoria da Dependência desde a perspectiva latinoamericana. A (des)regulamentação dos agrotóxicos aqui é vista como repercussão de um movimento de subordinação do desenvol...
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    11,91 €

  • Charged
    James Morton Turner
    Winner of the 24th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book PrizeFinalist for the 2023 Cundill History PrizeGold Medal Recipient, Nautilus Book Awards, SustainabilityThe dirty work essential to a clean energy transitionTo achieve fossil fuel independence, few technologies are more important than batteries. Used for powering zero-emission vehicles, storing electricity from so...
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    27,77 €

  • Abriendo Camino
    Pedro Pozas Terrados
    Leer Abriendo camino es, ante todo, una aventura emocional que podemos disfrutar desde la primera a la última página.[...] En este libro Pedro recorre con agilidad y destreza muchas de las múltiples tragedias que asolan a la humanidad y a nuestro planeta, poniendo esa enorme cuota de humanismo que lo caracteriza.Francisco Tamarit. Ex Rector de la Universidad de Córdoba (Argenti...
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    30,00 €

  • The Carbon Creed
    Walter L. McLeod
    'The ultimate guide to decarbonize your life - personally and professionally.''The Carbon Creed is a powerful and thought-provoking work. Change happens when your heart and mind believes in a cause....for me that’s enabling access to clean energy and digital as a basic human right. This book will help you discover your carbon truth.'- Elizabeth Hackenson, Chief Information Offi...
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    15,10 €

  • Green Living Made Easy
    Terry Campbell
    This world is facing several environmental challenges, such as climate change, pollution, and resource depletion. Adopting sustainable practices has become more important than ever before. This book is a concise, practical, and inspiring resource that provides you with tips on how to reduce your environmental impact, minimize waste, and embrace eco-friendly practices in your da...
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    18,06 €

  • Politics of Turbulent Waters
    For the past 10 years, the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has been on the front line of the struggle for environmental justice, climate justice and food sovereignty in Africa and the globe. It has been a decade of non-stop probing of the exploitation of resources, peoples and nations, which has given rise to numerous environmental and climate injustices. HOMEF has ha...
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    22,29 €

  • Environmental Safeguard Monitoring Field Kit
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication is designed as a field kit to help Nepal’s Kathmandu Upatayaka Khanepani Ltd. (KUKL) follow standard environmental planning, monitoring, and reporting in its work to supply water and sanitation to the Kathmandu Valley.Practical and detailed, the kit will support the Project Implementation Directorate of KUKL as it works to prepare the environmental safeguard do...
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    50,23 €

  • The Return of Malthus
    Björn-Ola Linnér
    The Return of Malthus is the first comprehensive analysis of the post-war fear of scarcity. Linnér traces the development of an international discourse of crisis through the influence of such thinkers as William Vogt, Fairfield Osborn and Georg Börgström, labelled ’neo-Malthusians’ for their emphasis on an impending clash between population growth and resource limits, after the...
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    50,53 €

  • Pragmatic Legal and Policy Implications of Environmental Lawmaking
    Hussein Movahedian / Nima Norouzi
    The publication of environmental degradation statistics worldwide and the announcement of scientific assessments of the process of its destruction have attracted everyone’s attention to the environment. On the world stage, international environmental laws and regulations must be formulated to protect the environment and humanity from further harm. This book provides selective c...
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    215,99 €

  • A Biologist in Paradise
    Roger Gosden
    The author celebrates a love of nature and science in this collection of 40 essays and memoirs. They reveal deep curiosity about biology, including our fellow creatures, and his concern for planetary and human health. Not a science book for scientists nor a nature book for naturalists, it is offered to everyone who shares those cares, and not only for information but also for c...
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    19,36 €

  • Quiet World, The
    Douglas Brinkley
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    16,05 €

  • Wildeor
    On September 19, 2022, Dave Foreman, champion of the wild and Wilderness, passed away at home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, surrounded by friends and family. Activist, conservationist, writer, orator, outdoorsman, historian, and friend to many, Dave leaves an important legacy. The public knows him primarily as the head of the spear for Earth First! in the 1980s, but after those w...
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    20,07 €

  • Asia in the Global Transition to Net Zero
    Asian Development Bank
    This report explores what a global transition to net zero could mean for Asia and the Pacific under a range of climate policy scenarios and provides recommendations. Developing Asia faces a climate policy crossroads. The region is highly vulnerable to climate change, even as it is an increasing contributor to the global climate crisis. This report models emission pathways based...
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    37,48 €

  • One Is Too Many
    T. E. Quinney
    In 1999, fuelled by a multi-million dollar propaganda campaign, Premier Mike Harris, without warning, ignited a firestorm across northern Ontario by terminating the spring bear hunt. One Is Too Many chronicles the twenty-year struggle to restore the hunt, documenting the impacts on thousands of people, their culture, and their way of life. Misinformation trumped science and rat...
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    19,34 €

  • Homo destructus
    Uday Kagal
    This book is my parting gift, so to speak, to 'voiceless' animals and future generations. It comprehensively reviews our gross mistreatment of animals across spheres - stray and pet companion animals, animals on factory farms, and wildlife. It is a small book with a short message: prevent animal cruelty. But it also carries a more ominous lesson for younger and future generat...
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    18,86 €

  • Leadership and Governance for Sustainability
    Neeta Baporikar
    Although the study of governance is not new, it has only been recognized in the last two decades as being a crucial factor for organizational success. Successful implementation and the practice of governance in the public sector improves organizational performance through increased efficiency, productivity, quality, and innovation to support sustainability. Leadership and Gover...
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    248,96 €

  • Fatal Fails
    Earl J. Seeley
    Why This Book? Why Now?The control of the earth’s climate, including the temperature of the earth’s surface and near earth atmosphere, is a complex, intricate, and beautiful system of interactions between a number of forces. These controlling factors, their interactions, and the rate and extent of those interactions, are all variables which contribute to the control of the eart...
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    29,89 €

  • Reconnection
    Miles Richardson
    This book tells the story of how our relationship with nature got broken, why it matters and how to fix it. There is growing recognition that the root cause of wildlife loss and the warming climate is people’s disconnection from nature, yet solutions focus on technical fixes. Reconnection considers the problems scientifically. ...
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    31,97 €

  • The Book of Noah
    Yoni Hammer-Kossoy
    This collection of poems addresses global warming and climate change. The Biblical figure Noah appears in many of the poems, seeming as real and contemporary as your next-door neighbor. The complexity of our love for the world, even as we disregard it, is evident in these nuanced poems. This poetry book is also a book of history and science, spirituality and ecology. ...
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    13,46 €