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Here is a completely revised, full-color second edition of the established go-to source for equestrian information. This comprehensive A-to-Z guide covers “everything horse” and bridges gaps in the equestrian universe between English and Western styles. More...
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Storey Publishing, LLC
Parution :
2017-03-21
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Although climate change and pollution make near-daily appearances in the news, humans have not always recognized that the environment needs to be protected. Only after the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 did environmental protection became a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-03-20
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This important new text introduces conservation criminology as the interdisciplinary study of environmental exploitation and risks at the intersection of human and natural systems. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book enhances understanding of the various...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-03-14
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John All has survived encounters with black mamba snakes, run-ins with wild jungle animals, and a brush with death in an icy tomb. No one knows the outer limits of our changing planet quite like him. In May 2014, the mountaineer and scientistJohn All plunged into a...
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PublicAffairs
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2017-03-14
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Stocking a garden with plants can be an expensive business, so there are few things more frustrating than when the prized specimen for which you have paid a king's ransom either online or at a garden centre shrivels up and dies within a year or so of purchase. If you...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2017-03-09
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Im vorliegenden Buch entwickelt Marc Dusseldorp eine gänzlich neue Perspektive auf das Problem des Umgangs mit Zielkonflikten der Nachhaltigkeit. Es wird gezeigt, dass nicht die Anwendung von Entscheidungs- oder Abwägungsverfahren, sondern eine szenarienbasierte ...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-02-08
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'He is unlike anybody else writing today ... After Donald Trump's election, we urgently need to rediscover the best of radical America. An essential part of that story is Wendell Berry. Few of us can live, or even aspire to, his kind of life. But nobody can risk...
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Penguin
Parution :
2017-01-26
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From deciding the best day for a picnic, to the devastating effects of hurricanes and typhoons, the weather impacts our lives on a daily basis. Although new techniques allow us to forecast the weather with increasing accuracy, most people do not realise the vast global...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-01-19
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From deciding the best day for a picnic, to the devastating effects of hurricanes and typhoons, the weather impacts our lives on a daily basis. Although new techniques allow us to forecast the weather with increasing accuracy, most people do not realise the vast global...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-01-19
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Based on more than 12 years of systematic investigation on earthquake disaster simulation of civil infrastructures, this book covers the major research outcomes including a number of novel computational models, high performance computing methods and realistic...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-01-18
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'Evocatively written and charming' - Countryfile'The January Man is a book that makes you want to pull on your boots, grab a map and get out there' - Country LifeThe January Man is the story of a year of walks that was inspired by a song, Dave Goulder's 'The January...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2017-01-12
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Half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for their ivory since 2007. A similar alarming story can be told of the herds in northern Mozambique and across swathes of central Africa, with forest elephants losing almost two-thirds of their numbers to the tusk trade....
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2017-01-01
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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 masterful work of prose, W. H. Hudson focuses on the story of one man, a...
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Penguin
Parution :
2016-12-01
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The international bee crisis is threatening our global food supply, but this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our pollinators.The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation offers browsable profiles of 100 common flowers, herbs, shrubs,...
Editeur :
Storey Publishing, LLC
Parution :
2016-11-29
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Determined dogs from around the world travel vast distances and overcome unbelievable odds.Meet Bonnie, the kelpie-blue heeler cross, who led her owner to safety through one of the deadliest bushfires in Australia's history; Penny, a Hungarian vizsla, who was dognapped...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2016-11-28
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Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events? This book argues that decision-makers in governments, businesses, households, and development agencies tend to focus on avoiding losses from disasters, and perceive the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-25
Collection :
Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance
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Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writingThe natural history of the Western Front during the First World War'If it weren't for the birds, what a hell it would be.'During the Great War, soldiers lived inside the ground, closer to nature than...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2016-11-03
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Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man – surgeon, natural historian, popular lecturer, bestselling writer, museum curator, and a conservationist before the concept even existed. Eccentric, revolutionary, prolific, he was one of the nineteenth century’s most improbable...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2016-11-03
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Equal parts nature guide, adventure story, and coffee table book! People are captivated by wild animals—by their strength and their size and by the things they do to stay alive. In Wildlife Spectacles zoologist Vladimir Dinets dives deep into...
Editeur :
Timber Press
Parution :
2016-10-19
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