Ecology category: 3266 books
A Climate of Crisis
America in the Age of Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
A provocative history of the environmental movement in America, showing how this rise to political and social prominence produced a culture of alarmism that has often distorted the facts
Few issues today excite more passion or alarm than the specter of climate change. In A Climate of Crisis,...
Flying Blind
One Man's Adventures Battling Buckthorn, Making Peace with Authority, and Creating a Home for Endangered Bats
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
When Middlebury writing professor Don Mitchell was approached by a biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department about tracking endangered Indiana bats on his 150-acre farm in Vermont's picturesque Champlain Valley, Mitchell's relationship with bats—and with government—could be characterized...
by Passerino Editore
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 8, 2018
L'organismo simbiotico per eccellenza, dalle molteplici proprietà curative.
I mini-ebook di Passerino Editore sono guide agili, essenziali e complete, per orientarsi nella storia del mondo.
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Begun in 1837 at the recommendation of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau's Journal covers a period of 25 years until just before his death. The work provided much raw material for his books, and it remains a fascinating record of his thought as it developed over time. The complete Journal comprises 14...
by Michael Garstang
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Elephant Sense and Sensibility is a comprehensive treatment of the full range of elephant behavior. Beginning with chapters on evolution and the elephant’s brain, this book is an integrated presentation of the elephant’s capacity for memory, morality, emotion, empathy, altruism, language, intelligence,...
Türlerin Kökeni
Tam Metin
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
“Hiçbir bilimsel devrim daha önceki alışkanlıklarımızı ve kanaatlerimizi değiştirmek açısından Darwin’in buluşuyla karşılaştırılamaz…
Darwinci evrim çok derin bir biçimde, kendi varlığımız ve özümüze ilişkin algılarımızda ve bilimin işaret ettiği benzer...
Hope on Earth
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Hope on Earth is the thought-provoking result of a lively and wide-ranging conversation between two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary environmental scientists: Paul R. Ehrlich, whose book The Population Bomb shook the world in 1968 (and continues to shake it), and Michael Charles Tobias,...
Nature Wars
The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
This may be hard to believe but it is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals, birds and trees in the eastern United States today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history. For nature lovers, this should be wonderful news -- unless, perhaps, you are one...
Walden Warming
Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In his meticulous notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. If he were to look for the first blueberry flowers in Concord today, mid-May would be too late. In the 160 years since Thoreau’s writings,...
Looking for Longleaf
The Fall and Rise of an American Forest
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Covering 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas, the longleaf pine ecosystem was, in its prime, one of the most extensive and biologically diverse ecosystems in North America. Today these magnificent forests have declined to a fraction of their original extent, threatening such species as the gopher...
Encounters with the Archdruid
Narratives About a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1977
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails,...
Firestorm
How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire "the Beast.” It seemed to be alive with destructive energy, and they hoped never to see anything like it again. Yet it's not a stretch to imagine we will all soon live...
The Fertile Earth – Nature's Energies in Agriculture, Soil Fertilisation and Forestry
Volume 3 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2000
How does nature work? When one looks closely at the enormously complex web of life, it is impossible not to be caught by the wonder of how all living things – including rocks and crystals – are interconnected. Just as there is thought behind action, so there is energy behind matter.
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by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
To Emerson and other New England transcendentalists who knew him best, Thoreau often seemed prickly and antisocial. But in his writings he was (and is) a man anyone would treasure as a friend, sounding board, and spiritual advisor — a man who trafficked in that rarest of commodities, the truth....