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A beautifully illustrated guide to the marvellous and varied world of trees, and a fascinating introduction to the hidden secrets of 52 British species. Botanist and ecologist Ros Bennett has spent a lifetime helping people understand and identify plants and always...
Editeur :
Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
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2022-09-01
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As the population is growing and urbanization is progressing, higher numbers of people are exposed to disaster risks, especially in the developing countries. Climate change is further worsening the impacts of existing risks and introducing new ones. It is imperative...
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Springer
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2022-09-01
Collection :
Disaster Risk Reduction
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The impact of natural disasters has become an important and ever-growing preoccupation for modern societies. Volcanic eruptions are particularly feared due to their devastating local, regional or global effects. Relevant scientific expertise that aims to evaluate the...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2022-08-29
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'A joy to read ... mind-expanding' Book of the Week, Guardian'A bold and brave paean to our planet's ligneous, leafy kingdom' Telegraph'An impressive exploration and dazzling insight into the lives of plants' Reaction Book Digest What is it like to be a plant?It's not a...
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The Bridge Street Press
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2022-08-25
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This book deals with natural hazards of geophysical, meteorological, hydrological, and biological types that are causing increasing social and economic damage. The development of these hazards and their impact on the living and non-living environment are described in...
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Springer
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2022-08-18
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This bestselling reference guide is essential for any experienced or buddening gardener. All questions about complex plant processes can be found in the Botany for Gardeners. First published in 1990 with more than 260,000 copies sold, it has become the go-to...
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Timber Press
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2022-08-16
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This funny, "extraordinary and thought-provoking" (The Wall Street Journal) book asks whether we are in fact the superior species. As it turns out, the truth is stranger—and far more interesting—than we have been led to believe.If...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2022-08-09
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In April 2016, a series of earthquakes hit the Kumamoto area of Kyushu Island, southwest Japan. The Mj 7.3 (Mw 7.0) mainshock produced extensive and complex surface ruptures in and around the active Futagawa-Hinagu fault zone, including primary right-lateral faulting,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-08-06
Collection :
Advances in Geological Science
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This book deals with the theme of creativity in the animal world, conceived as a basic function for adapting to specific situations and as a source of innovations and inventions. Creativity is a fundamental resource for the individual who always has a leading...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-03
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This book explores innovative approaches to teacher professional learning, examples of teaching enacted in classrooms, and factors affecting the promotion of quality teaching in socio-scientific issues and sustainability contexts. Since educational settings and cultures...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-08-01
Collection :
Learning Sciences for Higher Education
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A landmark text in global biodiversity governance, the Nagoya Protocol was intended to put an end to the uncompensated exploitation of natural resources and knowledge originating in the Global South. Its stated objectives were to establish greater justice and equity...
Editeur :
IRD Éditions
Parution :
2022-07-21
Collection :
Objectifs Suds
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This open access book revises Kant’s ethical thought in one of its most notorious respects: its exclusion of animals from moral consideration. The book gives readers in animal ethics an accessible introduction to Kant’s views on our duties to others, and his view that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-15
Collection :
The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
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AS SEEN ON BBC ONE'S THE ONE SHOW'Nature is a universal resource. For too long Black, Brown and people of colour have felt unwelcome and marginalised in spaces that should be for everyone.' -Flock TogetherNature is a powerful source of creativity, inspiration and...
Editeur :
Gaia
Parution :
2022-07-14
Collection :
Flock Together
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Book of the Month, Countryside magazine‘[this] fascinating new book… provides a detailed insight into the snow-white species’ Waterways WorldA wildlife writer and photographer’s celebration of the mute swan, Britain’s most iconic breed, exploring the bird’s significance...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2022-07-14
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The Little Book of Wild Gardening is a guide for anyone wanting to garden in a more sustainable, natural way. Working with nature benefits not just the garden, but also the gardener, wildlife and the wider environment. Divided into sections for different garden areas -...
Editeur :
Mitchell Beazley
Parution :
2022-07-14
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Discover the fascinating world of mushrooms with this beautiful pocket guide, featuring trivia, history, identification tips, delicious recipes and moreOne of nature's most extraordinary organisms can be found right under your feet: the mushroom. For thousands of years...
Editeur :
Summersdale
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2022-07-14
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This beautiful and inspiring book tells the stories of 80 birds around the world: from the Sociable Weaver Bird in Namibia which constructs huge, multi-nest 'apartment blocks' in the desert, to the Bar-headed Goose of China, one of the highest-flying migrants which...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
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2022-07-13
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An inspirational and beautifully illustrated book that tells the stories of 80 plants from around the globe.In his follow-up to the bestselling Around the World in 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori takes another trip across the globe, bringing to life the science of plants by...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2022-07-13
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A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF 2022 'A landmark book... The Blue Commons is at once a brilliant synthesis, a searing analysis, and an inspiring call to action.' - David Bollier'With remarkable erudition, passion and lyricism, Guy Standing commands the reader...
Editeur :
Pelican
Parution :
2022-07-07
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Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Award 2022Growing up in Shetland with its myriad lochs and burns, Malachy Tallack and his brother would roam the island in search of trout, and in so doing discovered a sense of freedom, of wonder - and an abiding passion.But why is...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
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2022-07-07
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