Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship with the Natural World, Steven Simpson

Автор: Shivakoti, Ganesh
Название: Redefining Diversity and Dynamics of natural resources management
ISBN: 0128054514 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780128054512
Издательство: Elsevier Science
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Redefining Diversity and Dynamics of Natural Resources Management in Southeast Asia, Volumes 1-4 brings together scientific research and policy issues across various topographical area in Asia to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues facing the region.

Автор: Von Hippel Frank A.
Название: The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth
ISBN: 022669724X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226697246
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: For thousands of years, we've found ways to scorch, scour, and sterilize our surroundings to make them safer. Sometimes these methods are wonderfully effective. Often, however, they come with catastrophic consequences--consequences that aren't typically understood for generations.

The Chemical Age tells the captivating story of the scientists who waged war on famine and disease with chemistry. With depth and verve, Frank A. von Hippel explores humanity's uneasy coexistence with pests, and how their existence, and the battles to exterminate them, have shaped our modern world. Beginning with the potato blight tragedy of the 1840s, which led scientists on an urgent mission to prevent famine using pesticides, von Hippel traces the history of pesticide use to the 1960s, when Rachel Carson's Silent Spring revealed that those same chemicals were insidiously damaging our health and driving species toward extinction. Telling the story of these pesticides in vivid detail, von Hippel showcases the thrills and complex consequences of scientific discovery. He describes the invention of substances that could protect crops, the emergence of our understanding of the way diseases spread, the creation of chemicals used to kill pests and people, and, finally, how scientists turned those wartime chemicals on the landscape at a massive scale, prompting the vital environmental movement that continues today.

The Chemical Age is a dynamic, sweeping history that exposes how humankind's affinity for pesticides made the modern world possible--while also threatening its essential fabric.

Автор: Cory Jessica
Название: Mountains Piled Upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene
ISBN: 1946684902 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781946684905
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Mountains Piled upon Mountains features nearly fifty writers from across Appalachia sharing their place-based fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry. Moving beyond the tradition of transcendental nature writing, much of the work collected here engages current issues facing the region and the planet (such as hydraulic fracturing, water contamination, mountaintop removal, and deforestation), and provides readers with insights on the human-nature relationship in an era of rapid environmental change.This book includes a mix of new and recent creative work by established and emerging authors. The contributors write about experiences from northern Georgia to upstate New York, invite parallels between a watershed in West Virginia and one in North Carolina, and often emphasize connections between Appalachia and more distant locations. In the pages of Mountains Piled upon Mountains are celebration, mourning, confusion, loneliness, admiration, and other emotions and experiences rooted in place but transcending Appalachia's boundaries.

Автор: Henry D. Thoreau
Название: Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays
ISBN: 0820352756 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820352756
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This volume of seven essays and a late lecture by Henry David Thoreau makes available important material written both before and after Walden. First appearing in the 1840s through the 1860s, the essays were written during a time of great change in Thoreau`s environs, as the Massachusetts of his childhood became increasingly urbanized and industrialized.

Автор: Colin M. Coates, Graeme Wynn
Название: The Nature of Canada
ISBN: 0774890363 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774890366
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 25040.00 T
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Описание: Intended to delight and provoke, these short, beautifully crafted essays, enlivened with photos and illustrations, explore how humans have engaged with the Canadian environment and what those interactions say about the nature of Canada. Tracing a path from the Ice Age to the Anthropocene, some of the foremost stars in the field of environmental history reflect on how we, as a nation, have idolized and found inspiration in nature even as fishers, fur traders, farmers, foresters, miners, and city planners have commodified it or tried to tame it. Their insights are just what we need as Canada attempts to reconcile the opposing goals of prosperity and preservation.

Автор: Rick Van Noy
Название: Sudden Spring: Stories of Adaptation in a Climate-Changed South
ISBN: 0820354368 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820354361
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 29570.00 T
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Описание: Like Rachel Carson`s groundbreaking work Silent Spring, Rick Van Noy`s Sudden Spring is a call to action to mitigate our environmental degradation. By highlighting stories of people and places adapting to the impacts of a warmer climate, Van Noy shows us what communities in the South are doing to become more climate resilient.

Автор: Lane, John
Название: Neighborhood hawks
ISBN: 0820354937 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820354934
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 18480.00 T
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Описание: Follows in the tradition of writings from Henry David Thoreau, Terry O`Connor and J.A. Baker, with John Lane using the red-shouldered hawks that live in his neighborhood to explore the concept of "commensalism", the idea that two species can live near each other without harming or benefitting the other.

Автор: Lane, John
Название: Coyote settles the south
ISBN: 0820355410 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820355412
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Tells the story of John Lane`s journey through the Southeast US, as he visits coyote territories: swamps, nature preserves, farm fields, suburbs, a tannery, and even city streets. On his travels he meets, interrogates, and observes those who interact with the animals - trappers, researchers, hunters, pet owners, and even a devoted coyote hugger.

Автор: Crowell Ed
Название: Barton Creek
ISBN: 1623497299 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781623497293
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Following Baron Creek from downtown Austin`s Barton Springs Pool to its source as a cow-pasture trickle, longtime resident and journalist Ed Crowell explores the creek`s contentious political history, its historic and current residents, and the mounting environmental pressures threatening it.

Автор: Contreras Alan L.
Название: Edge of Awe: Experiences of the Malheur-Steens Country
ISBN: 0870719610 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780870719615
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 21250.00 T
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Описание: With a foreword by William Kittredge and line drawings by Ursula K. LeGuin, this literary anthology gathers together personal impressions of the Malheur-Steens region of Oregon, known for its birding opportunities, its natural beauty and remoteness, and, more recently, for the 2016 armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

Автор: Auker Amy Hale
Название: Ordinary Skin: Essays from Willow Springs
ISBN: 1682830063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682830062
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Amy Hale Auker`s first book of essays, Rightful Place, was the story of awoman finding beauty in her place, the Llano Estacado. Her new collection of creative non-fiction, Ordinary Skin, explores her mid-life transition with prose poems and essays that illustrate a new terrain as well as new ways of being in the world.

Автор: Farnsworth John Seibert
Название: Nature Beyond Solitude: Notes from the Field
ISBN: 1501747282 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501747281
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John Seibert Farnsworth's delightful field notes are not only about nature, but from nature as well. In Nature Beyond Solitude, he lets us peer over his shoulder as he takes his notes. We follow him to a series of field stations where he teams up with scientists, citizen scientists, rangers, stewards, and grad students engaged in long-term ecological study, all the while scribbling down what he sees, hears, and feels in the moment. With humor and insight, Farnsworth explores how communal experiences of nature might ultimately provide greater depths of appreciation for the natural world.

In the course of his travels, Farnsworth visits the Hastings Natural History Reservation, the Santa Cruz Island Reserve, the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, the North Cascades Institute's Environmental Learning Center, and more.