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Perfect for readers of Jon Krakauer and Douglas Preston, this "authentic and encyclopedic" book examines real-life cases of those who vanish in the wilderness without a trace (Roman Dial)—and those eccentric, determined characters who try to find...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2020-07-07
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"Re-centers and gives voice to a diversity of women naturalists and writers across time." —Cultivating Place In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural...
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Timber Press
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2020-06-23
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A fast-paced, gripping insider account of the entrepreneurs and renegades racing to bring lab-grown meat to the world.The trillion-dollar meat industry is one of our greatest environmental hazards; it pollutes more than all the world's fossil-fuel-powered cars. Global...
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Piatkus
Parution :
2020-06-16
ePub
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'Beautiful, like a muddy journey through time . . . a really important book' RAYNOR WINN, author of The Salt Path Lisa Woollett has spent her life combing beaches and mudlarking, collecting curious fragments of the past: from Roman tiles and Tudor thimbles, to Victorian...
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John Murray
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2020-06-11
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A SUNDAY TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR It's flight and egg and feathers and song. It's the demure plumage of a mountain thornbill and the extravagant tail feathers of an Indian paradise flycatcher, the solo song of a superb lyrebird and the perfectly timed duets of...
Editeur :
Corsair
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2020-06-02
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'If you're not a fan yet, why not?' VAL MCDERMID'A superb storyteller' PETER MAYA BIZARRE DISCOVERYAn unidentified corpse is found in a freezer in the garage of an unoccupied house. DS Alexandra Cupidi is handed a case that is made even colder by no-one seeming to know...
Editeur :
Riverrun
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2020-05-14
Collection :
DS Alexandra Cupidi
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It has long been claimed that addressing biodiversity loss and other environmental problems demands a better understanding of the social dimensions of conservation; nevertheless, the active participation of indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-05-13
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In a world where habitats are constantly changing and the impact of anthropization on the environment is increasingly intense, interactions between human and wildlife are becoming more and more complex. Some species pose problems for human activities while many others...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-05-07
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El hombre se ha interesado por predecir los fenómenos meteorológicos desde la más remota Antigüedad, debido a la importante influencia que dichos fenómenos tienen en el desarrollo de la vida en general; no obstante, la meteorología, como ciencia, es relativamente joven....
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De Vecchi Ediciones
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2020-05-04
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Las mantis religiosas, dotadas de unas temibles patas captoras, dejan pocas oportunidades a sus presas. Campeones del camuflaje, los insectos palo, por su lado, son capaces de parecer un trozo de madera, una corteza, una hoja o, incluso, aparentar que están muertos...
Editeur :
De Vecchi Ediciones
Parution :
2020-05-04
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'a delightful and funny memoir of her family's crazy life in the English countryside. Perfect escapist reading for these locked-down times.' - SALMAN RUSHDIE'A total joy... enchanting, hilarious and vivid... Beautifully written, richly informative...' - LIZ CALDER'A gem...
Editeur :
Coronet
Parution :
2020-04-16
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The Future of Amazonia in Brazil: A Worldwide Tragedy is a study on the importance of protecting Amazonia, constructing its sustainable development and its articulations with worldwide socioeconomic processes. It analyzes the main contemporary polemics from the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-15
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So small, so cute and yet so spiky!With the tiniest little legs, noses and ears and the cutest little faces, these hedgehogs have got us head over heels in love. This gorgeous book guarantees smiles, happiness and a lot of huggable hedgehogs.
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2020-04-09
ePub
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Water Conflicts applies cutting-edge thinking to identify pathways that can transform complex water conflicts. It challenges existing power-blind and politics-lite analysis that is very deeply-held and recurring in debates that suggest causal links between scarcity and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-04-02
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Packed with surprising and fascinating information, London's Lost Rivers uncovers a very different side to London - showing how waterways shaped our principal city and exploring the legacy they leave today. With individual maps to show the course of each river and over...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2020-04-02
ePub
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*Levison Wood's documentary series on WALKING WITH ELEPHANTS is available to watch now on Channel 4*This book comes at a critical time. Fifty years ago, Africa was home to just over 1.3 million elephants, but by 1990 the number had halved. Meanwhile in the span of a...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2020-04-02
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As extreme weather becomes the norm, scientists agree that our climate is changing. But it seems too many of our leaders aren't listening to the science and are failing to act.In On Hope, one of the lead organisers of the Australian Climate strike, 17-year-old Daisy...
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2020-03-31
Collection :
On Series
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The book draws links between colonial and neo-colonial power structures which have sought to maintain hierarchies of dominance, resulting in cruel practices towards people at the bottom of the hierarchy and animals, who, in a colonial mindset, only exist for human gain....
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-30
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This book uses the concept of sustainability in science to address problems afflicting the environment, and to devise measures for improving economies, societies, behaviors, and people. The book pursues a scientific approach, and uses scientific evidence as the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-03-28
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'One of the most influential books about the natural world ever published' Paul Kingsnorth, Guardian'There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot,' begins Aldo Leopold's totemic work of ecological thought. Ranging from lyrical observations of the...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2020-03-26
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