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  • Climate Change and the Humanities

    Historical, Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Contemporary Environmental Crisis

    Edited by James Cullis, Alexander Elliott, Vinita Damodaran ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume of essays fills a lacunae in the current climate change debate by bringing new perspectives on the role of humanities scholars within this debate. The humanities have historically played an important role in the various debates on environment, climate and society. The past two decades especially have seen a resurfacing of these environmental concerns across humanities disciplines in ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

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  • The Vanishing Face of Gaia

    A Final Warning

    by James Lovelock ...
    The global temperature is rising, the ice caps are melting, and levels of pollution across the world have reached unprecedented heights. According to eminent scientist James Lovelock, in order to survive an assault from her dependents, the Earth is lurching ever closer to a permanent "hot state." Within the next century, we will almost certainly be forced to give up many of the comforts of western ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Why Does It Happen: Tornadoes, Hurricanes and Typhoons

    Natural Disaster Books for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series Book 4 - Why Does It Happen
    Tornadoes, typhoons and hurricanes are weather disturbances that your child may be familiar with based on experience. But does your child know the science behind these events? With this picture book, he/she will! Picture books are informative materials that are shouting to be picked up and read. The illustrations are attention-grabbing and the carefully written quick facts break complex concepts ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Experimenting on a Small Planet

    A Scholarly Entertainment

    by William W. Hay ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the climate of Earth from a time when it was warm and dinosaurs roamed the land, to today's changing climate. Bill Hay takes you on a journey to understand how the climate system works. He explores how humans are unintentionally conducting a grand ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Solar Economy

    Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future

    by Hermann Scheer ...
    The global economy and our way of life are based on the exploitation of fossil fuels, which not only threaten massive environmental and social disruption through global warming but, at present rates of consumption, will run out within decades, causing huge industrial dislocation and economic collapse. Even before then, the conflicts it causes in the Middle East and elsewhere will be frighteningly ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Basics of Marine and Estuarine Ecology

    by Abhijit Mitra, Sufia Zaman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book presents recent research on marine ecology in different parts of the world. It aims to shed light on relevant topics for budding marine ecologists.The “blue soup” of Planet Earth, which comprises both biotic and abiotic components, is essential to keeping the wheel of civilization running. Four major ecosystem service categories have been identified within this context, namely ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Climatic Variability in Sixteenth-Century Europe and Its Social Dimension

    Edited by Christian Pfister, Rudolf Brázdil, Rüdiger Glaser ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    A multidecadal cooling is known to have occurred in Europe in the final decades of the sixteenth-century. It is still open to debate as to what might have caused the underlying shifts in atmospheric circulation and how these changes affected societies. This book is the fruit of interdisciplinary cooperation among 37 scientists including climatologists, hydrologists, glaciologists, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Queen of Green

    A Collection of Contemporary Cautionary Tales from Africa

    by Jacqui Taylor ...
    Author and illustrator Jacqui Taylor has designed The Queen of Green for children, as well as all those involved with children, to teach them what it means to ‘go green’ and how they can assist in taking better care of planet earth. Through the medium of contemporary verses, marvellous illustrations, tips and facts, she goes straight to the heart of the matter – we need to love the earth. She ... Read more

    $4.00 USD

  • Making Climate Compatible Development Happen

    Edited by Fiona Nunan ...
    Making Climate Compatible Development Happen introduces readers to the concept of climate compatible development (CCD) through exploring what it might look like, how it could be achieved in practice and identifying challenges and dilemmas raised by CCD. The book brings together research that explores the assumptions underlying CCD and applies the concept in a range of geographic and sectoral ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Sustainable Rural and Urban Ecosystems: Design, Implementation and Operation

    Manual for Practice and Study

    Edited by Gunther Geller, Detlef Glücklich ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    These days human beings have a profound influence on aspects of the planetary ecosystem, e.g. on climate change and biodiversity, to name only two. This manual is intended to help practitioners, who are dealing with human-based rural and urban settlement-ecosystems, in the key steps towards their realization (design, implementation, and operation) and helpful for all, who are concerned about ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Feasible Planet - A Guide to More Sustainable Living

    by Ken Kroes ...
    B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree !!!Are we doing enough?Are you concerned about the state of our planet and hope that governments and corporations will find a sustainable way for us to live? If you do not think about it too hard, that may work, but will it? Left on their own, with drivers of popularity and profits, I am not too convinced that it will.The missing part of this equation is you and me. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History and Climate

    Memories of the Future?

    Edited by Phil D. Jones, A.E.J. Ogilvie, T.D. Davies, K.R. Briffa ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Most studies of the impacts of climate change consider impacts in the future from anthropogenic climate change. Very few consider what the impacts of past climate change have been. History and Climate: Memories of the Future? contains 13 interdisciplinary chapters which consider impacts of change in different regions of the world, over the last millennium. Initial chapters assess evidence for the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD