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This book provides reflection on the increasingly blurry boundaries that characterize the human-animal relationship. In the Anthropocene humans and animals have come closer together and this asks fo……続きを見る

For a long time, the dynamics of urban and coastal areas have been the focus of administrators and decision makers in charge of public policy in order to better take into account anthropogenic press……続きを見る

This book shows how our new-found ability to observe the Earth from “the necessary distance” has wide and profound cultural and ethical implications. First of all, it is the outcome of speculations ……続きを見る

Romances innumerable have been woven around the flaming guardians of the coast, but it is doubtful whether any purely imaginative work is so fascinating and absorbing as the plain unvarnished narrat……続きを見る

Trees have held an important place in man's way of life since he has been on the earth. Trees provided early man with weapons to defend himself and helped provide him with food, shelter and fuel. Tr……続きを見る

Max Swanson presents a clear, concise and comprehensive description of communication, from primitive pheromones to sophisticated social networks to future breakthroughs. He answers many questions ab……続きを見る

The relationship between humans and domestic animals has changed in dramatic ways over the ages, and those transitions have had profound consequences for all parties involved. As societies evolve, t……続きを見る

Winner of the John Burroughs Association’s John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing and a Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association To the untrained eye, a desert is ……続きを見る

When you lose your parents just as you have left home for graduate schoolーglad to finally be away from a life and place you found stiflingーhow do you make your way in a world with no home to go ba……続きを見る

Arizona is renowned as a premier birding state, a place where many species rarely seen anywhere else in the country reach the northern end of their migratory range. Jim Burns’ Arizona Birds is a liv……続きを見る

This book presents a persuasive argument in favour of evolutionary naturalism and outlines what such a stance means for our capacity of observation and understanding reality. The author discusses ho……続きを見る

Przewalski’s Horses in Eurasia draws on more than two years of ethnographic research to examine the reintroduction of Prezewalski’s horsesーa highly endangered breed that is a genetically distinct a……続きを見る

In honor of the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau’s birth, this edition of Walden features an introduction and annotations by renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben "Bill McKibben gives us Thorea……続きを見る

'Wonderfully warm and funny' Cathy Woodman, bestselling author of Trust Me I'm A Vet Will is a Yorkshire lad, through and through. He's in his element when he's outside in the country air, not stuck……続きを見る

Extrait : L’histoire d’un ruisseau, même de celui qui naît et se perd dans la mousse, est l’histoire de l’infini. Ces gouttelettes qui scintillent ont traversé le granit, le calcaire et l’argile ; e……続きを見る

'When herons are spooked they have a habit of vomiting as a defence. Half-digested pieces of eel and water vole skull on your head is not a good look. Just so you know.' Bill Bailey's Remarkable Gui……続きを見る

The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017 The Arctic seabed, with its vast quantities of undiscovered resources, is the twenty-first century’s frontier. In Breaking the Ice: Canada, Sovereignty and the Arc……続きを見る

Since antiquity, on every continent, human beings in search of attractive landscapes and economic prosperity have made a Faustian bargain with the risk of devastation by an earthquake. Today, around……続きを見る

Well-managed ranch lands or rangeland in Texas capture the rain that permeates our soils, sustains creeks and rivers, and replenishes aquifers, which, in turn, water our cities. The stewardship of t……続きを見る

Hoy, la crisis del ambiente requiere de un cambio radical en el comportamiento humano. Los enfoques tradicionales en educación ambiental, basados en la mera transmisión de conocimientos o en experie……続きを見る

We live in an age of unprecedented environmental change: global, interconnected and universal. Yet though our lives are inextricably connected to global processes, and increasingly mobile, we still ……続きを見る

As biological diversity continues to shrink at an alarming rate, the loss of plant species poses a threat seemingly less visible than the loss of animals but in many ways more critical. In this book……続きを見る

Author's Message A while back my cousin Francie e-mailed me, "You post a lot of Arizona wildflowers online. Why don't you put them in a book?" I had never thought of doing such a thing, but once pla……続きを見る

How did we get here? All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of ……続きを見る

The American Southwest is not usually thought of as a habitat for mushrooms, yet its various life zones are home to a surprising number of fungi and related species. This first book on the region's ……続きを見る

C'est par la voie d'un quotidien que je découvris cette nouvelle ébouriffante : Depuis le vote définitif du Parlement le 28 janvier 2015, l'animal est enfin reconnu dans le Code civil comme un " êtr……続きを見る

Imkern Abrakadabra Simsalabien! Hier geraten Sie ins Schwärmen Sie möchten Ihre eigenen Bienen halten und selbst leckeren Honig produzieren, wissen aber nicht, wie Sie das bewerkstelligen können? Ke……続きを見る

"A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our doorstep once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory c……続きを見る

Considered a classic at the time of its publication in 1910, A Shepherd's Life is a rare account of the lives of those who lived on and worked the land in nineteenth-century rural Britain. A masterf……続きを見る

Antworten auf Fragen, die Sie sich vermutlich noch nie gestellt haben Wenn man eine zufällige Nummer wählt und »Gesundheit« sagt, wie hoch ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass der Angerufene gerade geni……続きを見る