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From the swirl of a wisp of smoke to eddies in rivers, and the huge persistent storm system that is the Great Spot on Jupiter, we see similar forms and patterns wherever there is flow - whether the movement of wind, water, sand, or flocks of birds. It is the complex...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-06-11
ePub
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This is the only field guide to provide comprehensive coverage of the mammals of Central America and southeast Mexico. The fully revised second edition includes 21 new species, as well as updated illustrations and distribution maps. Each species account provides...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-06-09
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In the mid-nineteenth century, the Isle Derniere was emerging as an exclusive summer resort on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. About one hundred miles from New Orleans, it attracted the most prominent members of antebellum Louisiana society. Hundreds of affluent...
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PublicAffairs
Parution :
2009-06-02
ePub
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Achieving genuine self-sufficiency of the kind described in John Seymour's classic guide is sadly beyond the vast reach of the urban majority today. Few have the space, and for those few there are comprehensive guidebooks. But where do the rest of us look for the...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2009-05-27
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Mit Agrarholz in die Zukunft: Der Anbau von Bäumen als Nutzpflanzen ist nicht nur klimafreundlich, sondern auch profitabel! Die Intensivnutzung von Bäumen in der Landwirtschaft gewinnt immer mehr an Bedeutung. Steigende Öl- und Gaspreise machen Holz als Energieträger...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2009-05-13
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Large predators are among the most threatened species on the planet and ways of conserving them in the face of increasing human populations and associated resource requirements are becoming critical. This book draws upon the experiences of some of the world’s foremost...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-05-06
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The intriguing theory of a land bridge periodically linking Siberia and Alaska during the coldest pulsations of the Ice Ages had been much debated since Jose de Acosta, a Spanish missionary working in Mexico and Peru, first proposed the idea of a connection between the...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-04-29
ePub
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The countryside is filled with beauty and wonder in these imaginative, idiosyncratic writings, but also cruelty and hardship. They describe the texture of an owl's feather, the colours of autumn and the sound of rooks' wings sweeping across the sky. Yet here too is the...
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Penguin
Parution :
2009-04-02
ePub
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From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea where the sea blazes with oil flares, across two continents and fourteen countries - this epic journey is nothing to swallows, they do it...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-04-02
ePub
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The letters of the eminent naturalist Gilbert White are full of precise, unaffected and delightful observations of the wildlife of his beloved village of Selborne, describing the habits, colours and songs of birds from lapwings to barn-owls, wrens to house-martins. Here...
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Penguin
Parution :
2009-04-02
ePub
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Patterns are everywhere in nature - in the ranks of clouds in the sky, the stripes of an angelfish, the arrangement of petals in flowers. Where does this order and regularity come from? It creates itself. The patterns we see come from self-organization. Whether living...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-03-12
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James Lovelock described his previous book, The Revenge of Gaia, as 'a wake-up call for humanity'. Stark though it was in many respects, in The Vanishing Face of Gaia Lovelock says that even though the weather seems cooler and pollution lessens as the recession bites,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-02-26
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The ocean is a huge reservoir of renewable energy sources, such as wind, currents, tides, waves, marine biomass, thermal energy, osmotic power, and so on. Like other maritime nations in Europe, France enjoys significant potential to develop these energy sources,...
Editeur :
QUAE
Parution :
2009-02-12
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Every year we each absorb an estimated 2 kilograms of chemicals through beauty and cosmetic products. Chemicals found in lipsticks, skin lotions and hair dyes have been linked with tumours, cell mutation, allergies, reproductive complications, endocrine disruption and...
Editeur :
Gaia
Parution :
2009-02-02
ePub
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Alex Horne is not a birdwatcher. But his dad is, so with the prospect of fatherhood looming on his own horizon,Alex decided there was no better time to really get to know both his father and his father's favourite hobby. So he challenged his dad to a Big Year: from 1...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2009-01-29
ePub
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With the exception of climate change, biological invasions have probably received more attention during the past ten years than any other ecological topic. Yet this is the first synthetic, single-authored overview of the field since Williamson's 1996 book. Written fifty...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-01-29
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Today there are over a billion vehicles in the world, and within twenty years, the number will double, largely a consequence of China's and India's explosive growth. Given that greenhouse gases are already creating havoc with our climate and that violent conflict in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-01-13
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Today there are over a billion vehicles in the world, and within twenty years, the number will double, largely a consequence of China's and India's explosive growth. Given that greenhouse gases are already creating havoc with our climate and that violent conflict in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-01-13
ePub
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Against the background of a projected doubling of world greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, this book explores feasible ways to abate them at least cost.
Editeur :
Editions de l'O.C.D.E.
Parution :
2009
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Naturalist Craig Childs's "utterly memorable and fantastic" study of the desert's dangerous beauty is based on years of adventures in the deserts of the American West (Washington Post). Like the highest mountain peaks, deserts are environments...
Editeur :
Back Bay Books
Parution :
2008-12-14
ePub
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