Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsigs unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsigs thought: “Quality”...Loe edasi...
Pan-species listing is a brilliant method to keep track of a lifetime of natural history sightings. A personal list, not just of birds but including every moth, beetle, lichen, sea-spider, liverwort, fungus, slime mould, cetacean… anything and eve...Loe edasi...
The epic, “fascinating” (Wall Street Journal)?story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our ven...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Random House Large Print, ISBN-13: 9798217287925)
One of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer....Loe edasi...
This book is devoted to ecological data analysis with R, with examples created by the developers of the described packages. R software is now an important reality in ecological informatics. Specific packages have been developed to manage, analys...Loe edasi...
This book provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the Andean herpetofauna, covering topics ranging from natural history and thermal ecology to biogeography and conservation....Loe edasi...
In agroecosystems, one of the major ecosystem services provided by nature is the biological control of crop pests. This vital service is being affected by global climate change. This book summarises the effects climate change on agricultural biocont...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Island Press, ISBN-13: 9781642833423)
With their towering, cinnamon-colored trunks and dusky green canopies, ponderosa pine has long been a charismatic icon of the American West. Yet a quiet unraveling has begun: in the past decade, in a vast area from Santa Fe to the Sierras, more than...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300246148)
A lively account of the history of our planet, from its earliest origins to the present day, told through the major geological changes and scientific breakthroughs Where has our planet come from, and what lies beneath its surface? Ho...Loe edasi...
A search for the meaning of one of natures greatest riddles: why do so many creatures transform? “How many creatures walking on this earth / Have their first being in another form?” the Roman poet Ovid asked two thousand years ago. He...Loe edasi...
In the growth rings of every tree are ingrained and encrypted the stories of the tree, its environment and the changes through which it has lived. Growing archives of tree-ring samples allow us to read and decode these natural timelines in ever grea...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250378446)
An awe-inspiring tour of bat world by the worlds leading expert With nearly 1500 species, bats account for more than twenty percent of mammalian species. The most successful and most diverse group of mammals, bats come in different sizes, shapes, a...Loe edasi...
This book explores the latest advancements in sustainable soil and water management for crop production. It also examines the impacts of climate change, strategies for its mitigation, and the role of machine learning in assessing these effects. Ke...Loe edasi...
Fabio Angeoletto, Piotr Tryjanowski, Mark D. E. Fellowes
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031708664)
This contributed volume addresses the global scale of urbanization and its impacts on biodiversity. By adding human capital, cities are incubators for new ideas and technologies, creating the possibility for socially and environmentally sensitive...Loe edasi...
From an insider’s perspective, this book elaborates on the three stages of population policies since the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). As a key policy discussant and drafter, the author incorporates some valuable documentaries...Loe edasi...
