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  • Inorganic Pollutants in Wastewater
    This book, 'Inorganic Pollutants in Wastewater: Methods of Analysis, Removal and Treatment' extensively investigates the most recent improvements in the area of inorganic pollutants analysis, removal and treatment of wastewater by utilizing different materials such as natural polymers, husks, graphene and carbon nanotube composites, fruit cortex etc. It covers photocata...
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    144,10 €

  • Warden Force
    Terry Hodges
    A collection of 12 award-winning short stories concerning the true adventures of California Fish and Game Wardens and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue. Season 7 episodes:Skin-Head Fred - Wardens tangle with a murderous, meth-cooking, game-killing, Neo Nazi.Spreaders - Wardens target a highly intelligent, super-wary commercial lobster pirate.Deadly Intent - An alert w...
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    12,00 €

  • I Don’t Believe in Asteroids
    Kevin Kite / Michelle McCauley
    Climate change, income inequality, modern parenting, greed, and materialism-the world is going to hell so you might as well laugh. In I Don’t Believe in Asteroids, Kite and McCauley show you the way. Their irreverent, on-point comics will have you cracking up and crying all at once. Kite’s art is brilliant and bright, even as the text is jarring and penetrating. This is a grea...
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    20,33 €

  • SUN POWER
    NEVILLE WILLIAMS
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    24,27 €

  • DEVOURING DRAGON
    CRAIG SIMONS
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    18,17 €

  • Eco-History. an Introduction to Biodiversity and Conservation.
    D. Rotherham Ian / DRotherham Ian / Ian D. Rotherham / Ian DRotherham
    AN ACCESSIBLE INTRODUCTION TO BIODIVERSITY, CONSERVATION AND THE ECO-CULTURAL NATURE OF LANDSCAPESKey issues are addressed in short, focused chapters, supported by a detailed thousand-year timeline based on the British Isles.Rotherham is convinced that to conserve wildlife or ecology, and to heal the wounds of human impacts, we must understand our own history and how, over coun...
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    50,84 €

  • Animals
    Sarah Johnson
    The fourth volume in the reader series, ’Themes in Environmental History’.Comprising essays selected from Environment and History and Environmental Values, these inexpensive paperbacks address important aspects of environmental history through theoretical essays and case studies. The readers are attracting increasing interest from course-organisers. Animals examines human relat...
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    38,85 €

  • 3D Recording and Modelling in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
    The book derives from the experiences of the authors as lecturers and tutors at different international summer schools on reality-based surveying and 3D modelling in the field of archaeology and cultural heritage. The book is organized in three main sections. The first part aims to introduce and discuss the contribution of geomatic techniques in archaeology and more generally i...
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    88,00 €

  • The Steppe to Europe
    Lajos Racz / Alan Campbell
    This book, a much-augmented translation of the author’s original Hungarian version, is an account of Hungary’s past from the perspective of environmental history, incorporating a wide range of environmentally-relevant research findings. Data on climate, agriculture, mining, hunting, urban development and political administration are synthesised to create a rich account of a peo...
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    112,72 €

  • Conservation Song
    Wapulumuka Oliver Mulwafu
    Conservation Song explores ways in which colonial relations shaped meanings and conflicts over environmental control and management in Malawi. By focusing on soil conservation, which required an integrated approach to the use and management of such natural resources as land, water and forestry, it examines the origins and effects of policies and their legacies in the post-colon...
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    50,75 €

  • Indigenous Knowledge
    Sarah Johnson
    The third volume in the reader series, ’Themes in Environmental History’.Comprising essays selected from our journals, Environment and History and Environmental Values, these inexpensive paperbacks address important aspects of environmental history, by means of theoretical essays and case studies. Indigenous Knowledge investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures in...
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    38,83 €

  • Changing Deserts
    Deserts - vast, empty places where time appears to stand still. The very word conjures images of endless seas of sand, blistering heat and a virtual absence of life. However, deserts encompass a large variety of landscapes and life beyond our stereotypes. As well as magnificent Saharan dunes under blazing sun, the desert concept encompasses the intensely cold winters of the Gob...
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    110,25 €

  • A Rugged Nation
    Marco Armiero
    Landscape, politics and history: the Italian mountains as a crucible of national and natural identity.This book is part of a wider current in environmental history, that explores the links between nature and nation. It uncovers how Italian identity and mountains have constituted one another. It argues that state regimes since unification in 1861 have made mountains into nationa...
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    92,22 €

  • Bio-Invaders
    Sarah Johnson
    We are pleased to announce a new series ofenvironmental history readers, suitable for students.Comprising essays selected from our journals,Environment and History and Environmental Values,each inexpensive paperback volume will address animportant theme in environmental history, combiningunderlying theory and specific case-studies. The firstvolume, Bio-invaders, investigates th...
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    39,21 €

  • Digging Deep in the Garden
    John Walker
    “John Walker is asking the sort of questions you don’t usually find asked in gardening magazines.” A celebrity gardener’s ‘wobble’ over climate chaos… the effect genetically modified crops might have on our gardens and allotments… how adopting a vegan-organic approach can make growing more compassionate… why pesticides must be consigned to the history books.In this diverse, liv...
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    8,09 €

  • Bees of California
    Bees provide food through the simple but essential act of pollination. There are thousands of bee species in North America, but bees are dying. This book is a collaboration between student artists, scientists and writers at the University of California concerned with bee decline. This book is intended for readers with an interest in contemporary poetry, art, nature, and gardeni...
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    15,54 €

  • Horse Ownership Responsible Sustainable Ethical
    Jane Myers / Stuart Myers
    With horse ownership comes great responsibility; we have a responsibility to manage our horses to the best of our ability and to do this sustainably and ethically.Horse keeping has changed dramatically in the last 30 to 40 years and there are many new challenges facing contemporary horse owners. The modern domestic horse is now much more likely to be kept for leisure purposes t...
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    26,71 €

  • Tropical Nature
    Across Africa and South-East Asia, the impulse to protect nature often dovetails with the domination of local people. From mass displacement to severe restrictions on land use and daily acts of violence, conservation work risks reproducing Eurocentric modes of colonialism and worsening the effects of the climate crisis. In this insightful and wide-ranging study of the colonial ...
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    183,98 €

  • Africa’s Threatened Rhinos
    Keith Somerville
    Africa’s surviving rhinos are seriously threatened. This timely book considers all kinds of human interactions with these magnificent and enigmatic animals, offering a significant contribution to our understanding of wildlife in the African continent. ...
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    48,87 €

  • Our Earth, Our Species, Our Selves
    Ellen Moyer
    #1 Winner of the New York Book Festival Award for General Non-Fiction#1 Winner of the Green Book Festival Award for General Non-Fiction#1 Winner of the Annual National Indie Excellence Award for EnvironmentOur current health and environmental crises call on us to upgrade to a new way of life that will sustain us and our world far into the future.When you read this timely, acces...
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    12,54 €

  • Biodiversity and Business
    This book addresses the climate risk influencing biodiversity globally and discusses the sustainable use of biological diversity and its legal implications. The sustainable bio-prospecting will help conservation regarding the resources and livelihood support of those who conserve it from the UN CBD perspective. In mega bio-diverse countries, biodiversity provides a number of ec...
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    288,14 €

  • Technological Advancements for Deep Sea Ecosystem Conservation and Exploration
    The deep sea, a vast and largely unexplored frontier, harbors intricate ecosystems that play a critical role in maintaining the health of our planet. However, deep sea mining and climate change pose significant threats to these fragile ecosystems. Through interdisciplinary research and advocacy, scientists and environmentalists are working to better understand the complexities ...
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    347,53 €

  • Technological Advancements for Deep Sea Ecosystem Conservation and Exploration
    The deep sea, a vast and largely unexplored frontier, harbors intricate ecosystems that play a critical role in maintaining the health of our planet. However, deep sea mining and climate change pose significant threats to these fragile ecosystems. Through interdisciplinary research and advocacy, scientists and environmentalists are working to better understand the complexities ...
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    262,07 €

  • Risky Futures
    The volume examines complex intersections of environmental conditions, geopolitical tensions and local innovative reactions characterising ’the Arctic’ in the early twenty-first century. What happens in the region (such as permafrost thaw or methane release) not only sweeps rapidly through local ecosystems but also has profound global implications. Bringing together a unique co...
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    26,54 €

  • FOREST BATHING in the ADIRONDACKS
    Holly Chorba
    Read about what Forest Bathing is NOT, and what it is.Follow the Invitations to immerse yourself in a photographic tour in the Adirondack Woods comfortably seated in your house, or venture out to a park or woodlands to be guided by those Invitations.Learn about the Adirondack Region of New York State and how from the 1800’s until the present day it has been a place of restorati...
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    18,61 €

  • FOREST BATHING in the ADIRONDACKS
    Holly Chorba
    Read about what Forest Bathing is NOT, and what it is.Follow the Invitations to immerse yourself in a photographic tour in the Adirondack Woods comfortably seated in your house, or venture out to a park or woodlands to be guided by those Invitations.Learn about the Adirondack Region of New York State and how from the 1800’s until the present day it has been a place of restorati...
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    25,10 €

  • The Glitter Guys
    J. R. Pius
    Will you accept, and participate to help Pete and John in their quest to spread the word about how to heal the world, and save our planet? You just might have a few ideas of your own to help them out! ...
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    18,45 €

  • The Glitter Guys
    J. R. Pius
    Will you accept, and participate to help Pete and John in their quest to spread the word about how to heal the world, and save our planet? You just might have a few ideas of your own to help them out! ...
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    10,85 €

  • The Basic Economic Framework of Sustainability
    Imre Major
    The number of questions related to climate, pollution, mass extinction, threats from technology, are on a rise. How to understand our place within the environment, how to create a link between our economy and the environment, how to evaluate natural resources compared to market values?This book is seeking answers to the questions what sustainability means, what happens when our...
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    6,56 €

  • Protected Species and Biodiversity
    Tim Reed
    This book looks at the need for properly collected protected species surveys data to accompany planning applications. In the detailed tables that fill half of the book, it provides a single source of guidance suitable for use by planners, householders and ecological consultants alike. ...
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    110,56 €