Deep Water is a major achievement....Bradleys skills both as novelist and essayist converge here to create this wise, compassionate and urgent book, characterized throughout by a clarity of prose and a bracing moral gaze that searches wa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jun-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Michael Joseph Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780241421260)
*PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY*The enthralling autobiography of cave-diver Rick Stanton, who played a key role in the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue...Loe edasi...
This book presents a comprehensive coverage of the various types of floods, what causes them in different terrains, and the anthropogenic, geographical, hydro-geological, and geomorphological aspects of flood-prone areas. The use of geospatial tec...Loe edasi...
In Wild on Purpose, Sean Gerrity asks us to radically reimagine the future of conservation—and the role each of us can play in making a wilder, more sustainable world. In 2001, a small team of ordinary citizens left their sec...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, ISBN-13: 9783662714058)
This book represents a long-awaited, comprehensive geographical and geoscientific overview of the essential geo- and environmental factors of the African continent. It focuses on rocks, relief, climate, water, soil, and vegetation, which drive lan...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The New Press, ISBN-13: 9781620979839)
A beautiful and engaging guide to global warming’s impact around the worldOur planet is in peril. Seas are rising, oceans are acidifying, ice is melting, coasts are flooding, species are dying, and communities are faltering. Despite these d...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: Island Press, ISBN-13: 9781642833348)
Free-flowing rivers in the United States are an endangered species. With more than 500,000 dams in place, we’ve dammed and diverted almost every major river, straightening curves and blocking passage for fish and other aquatic animals, pushing many t...Loe edasi...
Peatlands – bogs, fens and heaths – are part of the Irish soul. Neither water nor land and yet both, they were once considered gateways to the otherworld. Bleak and beautiful, they are time capsules that hold a record of history going back thousands...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226838793)
The grasslands of the trans-Mississippi west-North Americas most endangered ecosystems-are at a critical moment in their history. The science of prairie restoration is on the verge of unlocking the secrets to rewilding the last fragments of native...Loe edasi...
An inspiring memoir that explores nature’s crucial role in our emotional and mental health, and a poignant meditation on surviving the darkest recesses of human nature (The Marginalian). Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031990168)
This open access book will provide an overview of predominantly geographical and historical discourses connected with mountain landscapes in Montenegro and Slovenia. Very few countries, even considerably larger ones, can boast the mountain landsca...Loe edasi...
When is a weed not a weed? When is a bug not a pest? Science writer Caroline Sutton reveals the secrets of the natural world in this astonishing collection of essays.With this fascinating and eye-opening collection of essay...Loe edasi...
Leafed with illustrations and branching into many realms of human thought, an exploration of the beauty, importance, and precarity of forests. While trees are celebrated as symbols of natural beauty, they are increasingly at risk fro...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9781621909286)
This is a compendium of the best hikes in the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area stemming from the full book on Mount Rogers by Johnny Molloy. The Mount Rogers guidebook is now in its third edition with the press-- Hikers, outdoor enthus...Loe edasi...
Rock Mechanics & Strata Control: Theory, Practice, and Application serves as a handbook that examines many of the fundamental and practical aspects of rock mechanics and strata control needed to help ensure safe and effective surface and underground...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Smith Street Books, ISBN-13: 9781923239388)
A sticker compendium of woodland creatures and lush flora.This deluxe collection of vintage art stickers is the perfect companion for any creative project or surface that needs adornment. Full of carefully curated elements from the for...Loe edasi...
A beginner-friendly guide to the natural history of San Franciscos coast, including watercolors of local creatures-- Provided by publisher. A charmingly illustrated nature guide to Ocean Beach and the coastal ecology of San Francisco...Loe edasi...
This book consists of six chapters. The purpose of the book seeks to address questions regarding the patterns of risks and vulnerabilities in areas vulnerable to riverbank erosion in Bangladesh. This book also analyzes the impact of riverbank erosion...Loe edasi...
Embark on a visual celebration of the hidden, microscopic world of the forest floor. The beauty of the forest goes far beyond trees and wildlife. If you look closely—even closer!—the world beneath your feet holds tiny ecosystems that p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031652400)
The book focuses on the Abbay Basin biophysical setting, the status of natural resources and degradation processes, agricultural practices, environmental resource conservation efforts, and the role of Earth observation and geospatial technologies...Loe edasi...
The Adirondack Forest Preserve, which the New York Constitution guarantees shall be forever kept as wild forest lands, is the largest publicly owned natural area in the eastern United States. But, just what does wilderness mean today and how c...Loe edasi...
This is the untold story of the deserts of Europe. Scattered across the lowlands of this green subcontinent, these sandy, arid and infertile wildernesses are ‘cold deserts’. In existence for millennia and formerly much more extensive, today they p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691272474)
An engaging and thought-provoking introduction to river scienceWhen we look at a river, either up close or while flying over a river valley, what are we really seeing? Following the Bend takes readers on a majestic journey by water to find answers,...Loe edasi...
Master organic vegetable gardening in 4 different low-water conditions—including high and low desert, drought, and voluntary water conservation. Features over 100 photos, maps, and diagrams—perfect for vegetable gardeners i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197799703)
Earth in Flames discusses how the dinosaurs died, and how their deaths parallel what might happen to people after a nuclear war. The book reflects on the odds of future asteroid impacts, how to stop them, and what the readers personally and...Loe edasi...
