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Rain forests represent the world's richest repository of terrestrial biodiversity, and play a major role in regulating the global climate. They support the livelihoods of a substantial proportion of the world's population and are the source of many internationally...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-03-14
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The incredible story of one man's obsession to find and protect the world's largest flowers As a child, Chris Thorogood dreamed of seeing Rafflesia - the plant with the world's largest flowers. He crafted life-size replicas in an abandoned cemetery, carefully bringing...
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Penguin
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2024-03-07
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This book focuses on integrated disaster risk reduction arising out of climate change and shows how communities build resilience through adaptive and transformative strategies at the local and global levels. It integrates disaster risk, uncertainty, and maladaptation to...
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Springer
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2024-02-16
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A comprehensive guide to the most common weeds of the Pacific Northwest, with essential information on their management and eradication Winner of the 2025 Award of Excellence: Horticulture from The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Weeds are...
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Timber Press
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2024-02-13
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Essential to human life and activity, freshwater is increasingly becoming a concern of international law. Its regulation, initially focused on rivers shared by several States, has gradually shifted to other sources of water. Today, its scarcity, the need for sustainable...
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Collège de France
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2024-02-13
Collection :
Leçons inaugurales
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From Arthurian legend to tales of ancient China, horses have traversed the world alongside humans for centuries, and their heroic adventures are gathered here in this one-of-a-kind little encyclopedia . . . Beloved for their grace, strength, and untamed beauty,...
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Running Press Adult
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2024-02-06
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The Little Encyclopedias of Mythological Creatures
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This book discusses the issue of riverbank erosion and its associated causes, risks and social challenges in the Bengal Delta. The book covers the physical processes and indicators of riverbank erosion such as sediment flux and channel morphology, the anthropogenic and...
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Springer
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2024-02-05
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This volume gives a comprehensive review on dromedary camel handling and management by respecting its welfare, which is a global first. Beyond that, it provides a new welfare assessment tool.Expert authors lay the groundwork for understanding the animals by covering...
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Springer
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2024-01-20
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Gaia
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2024-01-18
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This "eye-opening and essential" book (Bill Gates) will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems—and explains how we can solve them. It’s become common to tell kids that they’re going to die from climate change. We are...
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Little, Brown Spark
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2024-01-09
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Composing Worlds with Elephants is an interdisciplinary dialogue exploring the historical, social, and ecological entanglement of humans and elephants, a thousands of years old interspecies connection that is multi-dimensional, ambivalent, and always changing. Focusing...
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IRD Éditions
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2024-01-05
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Mondes vivants
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This book presents the case for legal protection for animals based on humanity’s shared interests and destinies with the animal kingdom. To underscore the urgent need for legal reform, the book documents how animals are in crisis, with separate discussions on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-22
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The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
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Could the race to de-carbonize our energy systems be leading us closer to environmental disaster?
Why did biology choose carbon, in a variety of compounds, as its energy carrier and storage substance? From the smallest life forms, through multicellular organisms, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2023-12-05
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The million-copy bestseller now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing this wondrous and wildly various lifeform as never before'Astonishing ... it seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down' Observer'Completely mind-blowing ......
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Vintage Digital
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2023-11-09
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This collection of essays investigates the notions of life, living organisms, and human nature in Classical German Philosophy from a historical and conceptual perspective. Its 19 chapters move from the peculiarities of organic life to the peculiarities of the distinctly...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-11-09
Collection :
Studies in German Idealism
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Editeur :
Radar
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2023-11-07
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It's time to let go of disenchanted thinking and embrace enchanted living. . .In a world full of demands and obligations, it is easy to get stuck in the same tiring routines - but what if instead we chose to embrace a life full of joy and enchantment? Nature offers the...
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Piatkus
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2023-11-03
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Discover the fascinating stories behind some 300 species of fungi and understand the world of mushrooms like never before!Did you know that fungi put the fizz in champagne and the flavour in chocolate? Fungi is everywhere we look: in a forest, under the sea, and in the...
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Dk
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2023-11-02
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Discover the wonders at the centre of our planet's ecosystem.In ten short and accessible essays, science and nature writer Carolyn Fry takes us on an awe-inspiring journey of the Earth's lungs. From what makes a plant a tree and the incredible impact of forests, to how...
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Seven Dials
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2023-10-26
Collection :
10 Things You Should Know
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