Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsigs unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsigs thought: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...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
The epic, fascinating (Wall Street Journal)?story of the planets 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...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Random House Large Print, ISBN-13: 9798217287925)
One of the worlds most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journeyinto the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer....Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the Andean herpetofauna, covering topics ranging from natural history and thermal ecology to biogeography and conservation....Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: 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...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: 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...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: 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...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
From an insiders perspective, this book elaborates on the three stages of population policies since the founding of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). As a key policy discussant and drafter, the author incorporates some valuable documentaries...Lasīt vairāk
