Showing titles in Nature & Ecology

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Remarkable. If only every endangered species had a guardian angel as impassioned, courageous and pragmatic as Jonathan Slaght' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding 'Gripping' Dave Goulson, author of A Sting in the Tale Primorye, a remote forested region near to where...

The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa. The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the...

This "valuable and entertaining" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems. Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and...

Though it remains by far the world's most famous mountain, in recent years, Everest's reputation has changed radically, with long queues of climbers on the Lhotse Face, lurid tales of frozen corpses and piles of high altitude trash. It wasn't always like this though. Once Everest was remote and inaccessible, a mysterious place, where only the bravest and most heroic dared to tread. The first attempt on Everest in 1922 by George Leigh Mallory and a British team is an extraordinary story full of controversy, drama and incident, populated by a set of larger-than-life characters.

Brought to you by Penguin. In this paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of the expansion of human freedom and its costs. Drawing on an...

Brought to you by Penguin. The trailblazing scientist returns with a book that centres nature’s cycles of renewal in the future vision of our forests When the forest breathes out, we breathe in. When the forest thrives, we thrive. The world-renowned forest ecologist Suzanne Simard has...

Brought to you by Penguin. Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate, calm, or completely alter the qualities of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants, Michael Pollan explores three very...

Now in audio - a fascinating work of popular science from a world-renowned expert on mosquitoes and a prize-winning reporter. In this lively and comprehensive portrait of the mosquito, its role in history, and its threat to mankind, Spielman and D'Antonio take a mosquito's-eye view of nature and man. They show us how mosquitoes breed, live, mate, and die and introduce us to their enemies, both natural and man-made. 

How did we get here? All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago, Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first simple life form and its descendants. In How Evolution Explains Everything About Life, leading biologists and New Scientist take you on a journey of a lifetime, exploring the questions of whether life is inevitable or a one-off fluke and how it got kick-started.

A collection of transcendent, lyrical essays on life in the American West, the classic companion to Gretel Ehrlich’s new book, Unsolaced “Wyoming has found its Whitman.” —Annie Dillard Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of...

Most gardeners realize that plants need to be fed but know little to nothing about the nature of the nutrients involved or how they get into plants. Teaming with Nutrients explains how nutrients move into plants and what both macro-nutrients and micro-nutrients do once inside. It shows organic gardeners how to provide these essentials.

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices.

A Sunday Times 'Must Read' book 'This study of rivers, lakes, puddles and seas brims over with astonishing facts...His observational skills can be breathtaking' The Sunday Times A must-have book for walkers, sailors, swimmers, anglers and everyone interested in the natural world, in How To Read...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane, read by Roy McMillan SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS 'Few books give such a...

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Herzlich willkommen zur eSchorle, dem E-Health Tech-Talk für alle, die das digitale Gesundheitswesen aktiv mitgestalten wollen! Die Gastgeber Tobi und Fred liefern euch echtes Praxiswissen rund um die Telematikinfrastruktur (TI), neue Gesetzeslagen und technologische Sprünge in Kliniken und Praxen. Ihre Mission: Die Brücke schlagen zwischen hochkomplexen regulatorischen Anforderungen und dem, was am Ende bei den Nutzern wirklich ankommt. Das Ganze servieren wir euch „frisch eingeschenkt“ – auf Augenhöhe, direkt aus der Praxis und ganz ohne trockenes IT-Sprech. Wir betrachten die ...

Tout ce que nous mangeons, buvons, fabriquons, vient d'abord d'une matière. D'un caillou, d'une feuille, d'un grain, d'un feu. Terra Fabula raconte ce qu'il y a derrière. Terra Fabula est un podcast de gastronomie, de terroirs et d'artisanat. Un podcast documentaire solo, où chaque épisode prend un ingrédient, un produit ou un savoir-faire, et le regarde sous toutes ses faces : histoire, anthropologie, géographie, technique, cuisine, symbolique. Le sel et ses routes commerciales. La cendre et ses utilisations oubliées. Le miso et la patience japonaise. Des ingrédients familiers ou ...

Este podcast faz parte da Semana de Conscientização Ambiental (SCA) do Intellectus, um projeto desenvolvido pelos alunos do Ensino Médio e Ensino Fundamental 2 com o objetivo de refletir sobre questões ambientais contemporâneas. A partir do tema “Pequenos gestos, grandes impactos”, os episódios exploram diferentes problemas socioambientais, relacionando-os ao cotidiano e propondo soluções em múltiplas escalas — da ação individual às transformações coletivas. Os conteúdos são resultado de pesquisa, trabalho interdisciplinar e uso crítico de tecnologias, promovendo a ...

What happens when curious minds, conscious leaders, and soul-led innovators come together to explore the questions humanity is finally ready to ask?Welcome to The Soul Professional Global Conversation Series — a podcast where curiosity leads, consciousness expands, and science meets soul.This show opens a space for global dialogue at the intersection of human potential, reinvention, leadership, metaphysics, science, spirituality, culture, and the unseen forces shaping our world.At the heart of these conversations is the Soul Professional — the bridge-builder.The one who stands ...

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