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The life story of the naturalist and renowned writer, the author of the series of animal stories for children. Comments on a wide variety of subjects, including nature study, wildlife conservation, and people.
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2021-11-06
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The Origin of Species is the magnum opus of natural scientist Charles Darwin. In the book Darwin presents the theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through the process of natural selection.The book goes on to present a body of evidence for the...
Editeur :
Big Cheese Books
Parution :
2019-11-28
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I’m especially fond of Charlevoix—one of the favourite haunts of my youth. By walking through this region from one hilltop to the next I realized just how vast the St. Lawrence was. I would gaze at its salty waters and the fine line of the horizon, and a desire would...
Editeur :
Presses de l'Université Laval
Parution :
2018-05-09
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downstream: reimagining water brings together artists, writers, scientists, scholars, environmentalists, and activists who understand that our shared human need for clean water is crucial to building peace and good relationships with one another and the planet. This...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2017-02-24
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Western Canada’s natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most recently the negative effects of global climate change. The complex...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2015-03-31
Collection :
Environmental Humanities
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Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene is a collection of essays about the natural environment in a province rich in natural resources and aggressive in development goals. This is a casebook on Alberta from which emerges a far wider set of...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2014-10-22
Collection :
Environmental Humanities
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In Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, international scholars investigate how films portray human emotional relationships with the more-than-human world and how such films act upon their viewers’ emotions. Emotion and affect are the basic...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2014-10-07
Collection :
Environmental Humanities
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For all curious readers, the Knowledge Guides open the door to a world of complex and captivating phenomena.
Accurate, detailed visual information is all defined in lay language to make it readily accessible to the non-expert. Definitions to scientific terms are given...
Editeur :
Québec Amérique
Parution :
2012-08-09
Collection :
The Visual Guides
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The Visual Dictionary of Universe and Earth takes the reader into a fascinating journey through cosmos to discover celestial bodies, astronomical observation equipment and astronautics, and then provides a complete view of our planet through geography, geology,...
Editeur :
Québec Amérique
Parution :
2012-07-20
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Every day brings new headlines about climate change as politicians debate how to respond, scientists offer new data, and skeptics critique the validity of the research. To step outside these scientific and political debates, Timothy Leduc engages with various Inuit...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2011-02-21
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Every day brings new headlines about climate change as politicians debate how to respond, scientists offer new data, and skeptics critique the validity of the research. To step outside these scientific and political debates, Timothy Leduc engages with various Inuit...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2011-02-21
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There are many things we can choose to do about climate change, including doing nothing at all. All of them have consequences, many of which will be unforeseen. If we could foretell more accurately what would happen to the climate in the future, our choices might be...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-30
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Environmentalism and social sciences appear to be in a period of disorientation and perhaps transition. In this innovative collection, leading international thinkers explore the notion that one explanation for the current malaise of the “politics of ecology” is that we...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-04-05
Collection :
Environmental Humanities
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Universal in scope, yet focusing on recognizable Canadian places, this collection of essays connects individuals’ love of nature to larger social issues, to cultural activities, and to sustainable technology. Subjects include activism in Cape Breton, eco-feminism,...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-08-01
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An overwhelming majority of climatologists believe there will be significant changes in climate during the next century. Although the rate and magnitude of this change are uncertain, it could happen very rapidly. In August 1987, a working group of fifty scientists and...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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A Few years ago the scientific world was startled by the assertion that at no very remote period, geologically speaking, the climate of the northern hemisphere had been very much colder than at present; and that the arctic conditions which now prevail in Greenland—with...
Editeur :
EHS
Parution :
2025-07-09
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Emanuel Aage Petersen (born AageEmanuel Petersen on February 18, 1894 in Copenhagen; died December 27, 1948 in Farum). He was a Danish painter, best known for his Greenlandic motifs.
In 1921 he was in Greenland. Enthusiastic about the island, he returned to Greenland...
Editeur :
BoD - Books on Demand
Parution :
2025-04-04
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Albert Rieger was born in Triest on 6. May 1834 and died in 1905 in Vienna. He also used the pseudonym A. Höbart.
Albert Rieger was a well-known Austrian landscape and marine painter of his time. Already at a young age he was already widely known for his precision and...
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BoD - Books on Demand
Parution :
2024-11-01
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During our research about the Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla (born in Valencia 1863 - died in Cercedilla 1923) we came across a wonderful painting of his wife with a cat and a dog, Clotilde y gato y perro, from 1910.
As animal lovers the idea arose to see, how cats...
Editeur :
Books on Demand
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2024-02-06
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Sorolla was deeply interested in the history and future of Spain. His landscapes can be seen as direct commentary to the subject matter in the landscape paintings. We travel withSorolla generally from North to South
JoaquinSorolla (born in Valencia 1863-died in...
Editeur :
Books on Demand
Parution :
2023-12-20
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