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Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The first field guide to all of the world's major land habitats-richly illustrated and packed with essential information to help you get the most out of your outdoor adventures. Accurately identifying and understanding habitats in detail is essential to any birder, naturalist, outdoors enthusiast, or ecologist who wants to get the most out of their experiences in the field. Habitats of the World is the first field guide to the world's major land...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"In The Amoeba in the Room, Nicholas Money explores the extraordinary breadth of the microbial world and the vast swathes of biological diversity that can be detected only using molecular methods. Although biologists have achieved a remarkable level of understanding about the way multicellular organisms operate, Money shows that most people continue to ignore the fact that most of life isn't classified as either plant or animal. Significant discoveries...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Entangled Life and The Hidden Life of Trees comes an illuminating account of the "invisible" fungi that share our world: from the air we breathe to the dust beneath our feet. The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi traces the intricate connections between fungi and all life on Earth to show how these remarkable microbes enrich our lives: from releasing the carbon in plants for the benefit of all organisms to transmitting information between trees,...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
To be an environmentalist early in the twenty-first century is always to be defending, arguing, acknowledging the hurdles we face in our efforts to protect wild places and fight climate change. But let's be honest: hedging has never inspired anyone. So what if we stopped hedging? What if we grounded our efforts to solve environmental problems in hope instead, and let nature make our case for us? That's what George Monbiot does in Feral, a lyrical,...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 738
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Biodiversity, the diversity of life, is not only fascinating and beautiful, it is the engine of all the world's natural cycles, and the source of many of the resources on which humanity depends. Biodiversity conservation is, therefore, everyone's concern. In this Very Short Introduction, David W. Macdonald introduces the concept of biodiversity and the basic biological processes that it involves--evolutionary, ecological, and behavioural. He considers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Quarry Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Kitchen Pantry Scientist : Ecology for Kids features biographies of 25 leading ecologists, past and present, accompanied by accessible and engaging experiments and activities to bring the history and principles of ecology alive"--
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Arctic and Antarctic remain the greatest wildernesses on Earth. The scale and beauty of the scenery and the sheer power of the elements, the weather, the rough ocean and the ice, is unmatched anywhere else on our planet. tells the compelling story of animals such as the wandering albatross, the adelie penguin and the polar bear, and paints a portrait that will take your breath away, at a moment when, melting fast, the frozen regions of our planet...
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Great Marsh is the largest continuous stretch of salt marsh in New England, extending from Cape Ann to New Hampshire. Patricia Hanlon and her husband, Robert, built their home and raised their children alongside it. But it is not until the children are grown and they begin to swim the tidal estuary daily that she becomes fully alert to all its elements-animal, botanical, and mineral-and its life cycles. Immersing herself, she experiences, with...
Series
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds, worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. Seed: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. In the last century, 94 percent of our seed varieties have disappeared. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed keepers fight a David and Goliath battle to defend the...
91) Spaceship Earth
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In 1991, a group of countercultural visionaries built an enormous replica of earth's ecosystem called Biosphere 2. When eight 'biospherians' live quarantined inside, they faced ecological calamities and cult accusations. Their epic adventure is a cautionary tale but also a testament to the power of small groups reimagining the world.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic...
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It all started with Nathanael Johnson's decision to teach his daughter the name of every tree they passed on their walk to day care in San Francisco. This project turned into a quest to discover the secrets of the neighborhood's flora and fauna, and yielded more than names and trivia: Johnson developed a relationship with his nonhuman neighbors. Johnson argues that learning to see the world afresh, like a child, shifts the way we think about nature:...
97) Maratus
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When an Australian garbage collector, Stuart Harris, takes a photo of a tiny colourful spider, he has no idea how it will change his life. An epic three-year quest follows in which Stuart discovers much more than just a spider unknown to science. A remarkable story of determination, self-discovery and the power of citizen science to reveal nature's most extraordinary and well hidden wonders.
Author
Language
English
Description
2012 IACP Award Winner in the Food Matters category
Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award-winning article, "The Price of Tomatoes," investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry.
...100) Wild world
Author
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Discover thirteen incredible habitats, from the Arctic's crystal kingdom to the deep sea. A facts and figures section at the back completes this beautiful tribute to the last wildernesses of our world.
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