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The hidden life of trees: the illustrated edition
“I love this book. I was even thinking about a tour of trees around the world because of this book.”—Oprah WinfreyA visually stunning journey into the diversity and wonders of forests.In his international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben opened readers’ eyes to the amazing pro...
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Revision of fossil sequoia and taxodium in western north america based on the recent discovery of metasequoia
The recently discovered redwood of China, “Metasequoia glyptostroboides” Hu & Cheng, shows close relationship to two North American trees, the coast redwood, “Sequoia sempervirens” Endlicher of the western U.S., & the swamp cypress, “Taxodium distichum” Richard of the Southeastern U.S. Fo...
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Memories of a birch tree
Awarded at the 2022 Moonbeam Children's Awards GOLD medal - Winner of the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Moving to a new city can be a heartbreaking experience, but also an opportunity to grow. This Birch Tree will realize that even in the darkest spots, one can shine brighter than ever....
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Memorias de un abedul (memories of a birch tree)
Awarded at the 2022 Moonbeam Children's Awards GOLD medal - Winner of the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Moving to a new city can be a heartbreaking experience, but also an opportunity to grow. This Birch Tree will realize that even in the darkest spots, one can shine brighter than ever....
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Self-portrait with dogwood
Beloved poet and essayist Christopher Merrill's personal tale of life and tree limb
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One tree
A photographic and scientific ode to a beloved Costa Rican relic tree
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The accidental botanist
Global adventurer Robbie Honey has spent the last ten years searching out and dissecting some of the world’s most exotic flowers.This book features more than 90 rare and commonplace plant specimens collected from as far afield as the Malaysian rainforest, roadsides in Harare, the African veldt, C...
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The social life of water
Addresses impacts of commodification, urbanisation and technology on availability and quality of water supplies Demonstrates ways in which water influences all domains of social life Addresses issue of water as a human right from indigenous and non-indigenous perspectives Outline...
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Designing knowledge economies for disaster resilience
Acknowledging that low economic development and high climate costs do not equitably coexist, this collected volume interrogates the challenge for disaster-prone territories to determine supplemental strategies for restructuring and redesigning their environment.
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Delta life
Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents ‘delta life’ with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities...
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Constructing risk
Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies are trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers.
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A selected guide to the literature of the flowering plants of mexico
This bibliography is a guide to the literature on Mexican flowering plants, beginning with the days of the discovery and conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards in the early sixteenth century.
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The orchid
Queen of the night, Darwin's comet, lady's slipper, little dragon, black chimaera - the otherworldly names of orchid species are as beautiful as these sought-after flowers themselves.From flamboyant and colourful to strange and understated, and from alpine meadows to cloud forests, the orchid's v...
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The botanical bar
A collection of 50 fragrant, floral, fruity and herbal cocktail recipes. From anise to yuzu, the natural world provides an astonishing variety of flavours. Created with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Botanical Bar is an eclectic exploration of 50 seasonal ingredients and the cocktails they ...
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The psychedelic garden
Take a trip into the world of hallucinogenic plants in this latest addition to Kew's Witch's Garden series. From ancient ayahuasca rituals in the Amazon to substance-fuelled partying in the Summer of Love, psychoactive plants have been used for thousands of years for everything from shamanic cere...
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Color with me
Do you want to take your coloring to the next level? Coloring book artist Rachel Reinert shares her secrets in easy-to-follow steps! Special features: Super easy instruction: Every coloring tutorial is two pages: a full-page coloring design in black-and-white is on the right...
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Glitter odyssey
This specially curated coloring book collects 92 of tattoo artist Chris Garver’s illustrations, featuring shiny gold glitter on 24 pages to celebrate 10 years of the Color Odyssey series! Go on a dazzling journey in this special-edition adult coloring book with extra sparkle! ...
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Desert wonderland
Color yourself transported to a desert wonderland of discovery with original artist-created designs Special features: Artist Created, Not AI or Stock: All 45 original coloring images were hand-drawn especially for this book by artist Rachel Reinert, inspired by her travels to America’s Sonoran ...
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Vascular flora of pennsylvania
The PA Flora Database (PFD) has its roots in the work of Edgar Wherry, John Fogg, Jr., and Herbert Wahl, the “Atlas of the Flora of PA”, pub. by the Morris Arboretum of the Univ. of PA. Over a period of 40 years, Wherry and his colleagues gathered data from the major PA herbaria and manually plac...
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Conservation of renewable natural resources
Contributors: Raphael Zon, William S. Cooper, Gustaf A. Pearson, Homer L. Shantz, A. E. Douglas, Charles G. Abbot, Paul B. Sears, Ellsworth Huntington, Morris L. Cooke, Samuel T. Dana, Milton S. Eisenhower, Julian F. McGowin.
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Disastrous times
Across contemporary Asia, each day dawns with a new story about living in an era of profound environmental change. Rapid transformations in the landscape, society, and technology produce new conflicts that are experienced at nearly every scale of life in the region. Environmental change is marked...
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The still-burning bush
Long a fire continent, Australia now finds itself on the leading edge of a fire epoch.
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The language of flowers coloring book
The Language of Flowers showcases the world’s most beautiful flowering plants with 46 show-stopping designs to color.Colorists can immerse themselves in this enchanting botanical coloring book, filled with intricate artworks inspired by traditional botanical prints and the ancient art of floriogr...
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Peaceful places los angeles
During her 1930s screenwriting days in Hollywood, wordsmith Dorothy Parker famously pegged Los Angeles as "72 suburbs in search of a city." Today even more communities radiate from the downtown core, creating a metropolitan universe of noise, speed,
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Cobalt
Finalist for the 2023 Trillium Book Award The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this “demon metal” has a horrific present and a troubled history. The modern search for cobalt has brought investors back to a small town in Northern Ca...
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Pitfall
A harrowing journey through the past, present, and future of mining, this expertly-researched account ends on a vision for how industry can better serve the needs of humanity.A race is on to exploit the last bonanzas of gold, silver, and industrial metals left on Earth. These metals are not only ...
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The summer canada burned
With over one hundred full-color photographs comes a harrowing portrait of Canada’s most devastating wildfire season ever, the effects of which could be felt and seen across the world.“All hell has broken loose.” That’s the phrase some fire officials use to describe the unprecedented 2023 wildfir...
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Wisdom of flowers
Wisdom of Flowers reveals the unique symbolism, characteristics, and strengths of sixty of the world’s most amazing flowers and flowering plants.Through beautiful illustrations, discover the: Chocolate cosmos from Mexico Pohutukawa tree from New Zealand Skeleton flower from Japan Jade vine from t...
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Flower embroidery
Flower Embroidery is a delightful collection of 20 easy-to-follow embroidered projects and over 80 different floral designs featuring flowers found in the garden and beyond.From delightful daffodils to cheerful cherry blossoms, this book introduces readers to a range of fundamental embroidery tec...
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Antes que llegue la luz
Puerto Rico, 2017. Apenas una semana después de restablecida la electricidad, las noticias alertan de la llegada de un segundo huracán, más potente que el anterior. Propensos a la inexactitud y la exageración, los reportes meteorológicos esta vez parecen ser reales. Han pasado muchos años desde q...
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Almaguin chronicles
Almaguin Chronicles explores the relationship between lumbering and settlement in the Parry Sound District the last frontier of this part of Ontario.
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Temagami
A balanced perspective on the issue of who owns the land is coupled with the views of various interest groups.
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Guarding the goldfields
Canada's gold rush of the late 1890s attracted dreamers and schemers from all over North America. Guarding the Goldfields is the story of the men sent to guard the Yukon and maintain order.
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The tale of a city
In an age of blackouts and overburdened highways, this book helps us understand and improve our relationships with our engineered and natural environments.
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The time traveller's herbal
A practical guide to making over 25 recipes used by traditional European herbalists throughout the ages, with the history and stories of the skills and crafts woven through.
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2075 – the future(s) of food tourism
This book explores the future of food tourism in 2075 and beyond. It uses the principles of multiple futures to demonstrate, analyse and examine different paths that food tourism may take using scenario planning. It is timely given the issues of global food supply, climate change and the rise of ...
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Tourism and oil
This book examines oil constraints and tourism and addresses one of the key challenges for the tourism industry in the future. It provides an estimate of how much oil tourism consumes globally and summarises state-of-the-art information on oil resources, oil data and public discourse. It also exp...
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Why women grow
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE INDEPENDENT, STYLIST, RHS, GARDENS ILLUSTRATED and more Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a quest to change that: to understand what encourages women to...
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Natural resources and conflict in africa
The first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa.Conflict over natural resources has made Africa the focus of international attention, particularly during the last decade. From oil in Nigeria and diamonds in the Democratic Republ...
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Wildflowers of michigan field guide
This updated field guide, organized by color, helps readers quickly identify the Michigan wildflowers they see.
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Honey
This honey-themed cookbook features 50 recipes complemented by full-color photographs of each dish.
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Wildflowers of minnesota field guide
This updated field guide, organized by color, helps readers quickly identify the Minnesota wildflowers they see.
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Wildflowers of the carolinas field guide
This updated field guide, organized by color, helps readers quickly identify the wildflowers they see in North Carolina and South Carolina.
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Wildflowers of ohio field guide
This updated field guide, organized by color, helps readers quickly identify the Ohio wildflowers they see.
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Wildflowers of wisconsin field guide
This updated field guide, organized by color, helps readers quickly identify the Wisconsin wildflowers they see.
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Wildflowers of colorado field guide
This updated field guide, organized by color, helps readers quickly identify the Colorado wildflowers they see.
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Wildflowers of the pacific northwest
This tabbed booklet features detailed photographs of wildflowers, organized by color to help readers quickly and easily identify the wildflowers they see.
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Wildflowers of the southeast field guide
This field guide, organized by color and size, features full-color photographs and information to help readers quickly and easily identify the wildflowers of the Southeast they see.
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Cactus of the southwest
Focusing on Southwestern cacti, this tabbed booklet features detailed photographs of cacti, organized by group to help readers quickly and easily identify the cacti they see.
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How does your garden grow?
Cultivate a more meaningful life—one peaceful, beautiful page at a time. We are all gardeners. Whether we till the earth or never plant a seed, we all tend to something: family, friendships, hopes, and dreams. In How Does Your Garden Grow?, best-selling author and illustrator Douglas Wood invites...
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Wildflowers of the midwest
Focusing on Midwestern wildflowers, this tabbed booklet features detailed photographs of wildflowers, organized by color to help readers quickly and easily identify the wildflowers they see.
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Wildflowers of the northeast
This tabbed booklet features detailed photographs of wildflowers, organized by color to help readers quickly and easily identify the wildflowers they see.
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Time and the generations
Time and the Generations blends economics, philosophy, and ecology to offer an original lens on the difficult topic of global population. Partha Dasgupta provides tentative answers to two fundamental questions: What level of economic activity can our planet support over the long run, and what doe...
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Decolonizing african agriculture
In a compelling analysis of the failures of agricultural development in Africa William Moseley advocates for a non-colonial, indigenous agronomy that creates the social innovation needed to support the livelihoods of small-scale farmers.
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The five horsemen of the modern world
A leading bioethicist explores the intractable threats to our well-being that persist despite the multigenerational effort to defeat them.
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Drought
Benjamin I. Cook brings together climate science, hydrology, and ecology to provide a synthetic overview of drought and its environmental and social consequences. Drought is a critical interdisciplinary text that will be essential reading for a broad range of students in earth science and environ...
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Environmental ethics, ecological theology, and natural selection
In the last few decades, religious and secular thinkers have tackled the world's escalating environmental crisis by attempting to develop an ecological ethic that is both scientifically accurate and free of human-centered preconceptions. This groundbreaking study shows that many of these environm...
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Alpine flower finder
Identify wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains—above the treeline—with this pocket-size guide. You can appreciate and enjoy nature’s beautiful wildflowers! If you’re curious about the flowers that you encounter in the mountains, then Alpine Flower Finder by Janet L. Wingate, Ph.D., and Loraine Yeatt...
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Firescaping
This practical guide presents simple strategies for reducing the fire hazard of one’s property, including how to minimize the chances that a home will be damaged by wildfire.
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Droughts in asian monsoon region
The Asian monsoon region is one of these areas where consecutive years of droughts are causing severe problems for the lives and livelihoods of the communities. This book outlines the characteristics and challenges of the Asian monsoon drought and highlights innovative solutions and approaches un...
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Ecological economics of sustainable watershed management
Includes papers that illustrate the power of a scientific approach to ecological economics. This volume deals with the complex scientific underpinning of sustainable watershed analysis and management and reveals basic ecological economic knowledge and methodological approaches in this field of re...
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Living on the edge
Wildfires are a fact of life in arid and semi-arid regions, such as the American West. With growing population, human communities begin to reside in so-called urban-wildland interface zones, where severe fire driven ecosystems co-exist with humans and their property. This work offers potential so...
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Water insecurity
This book critically analyses the associated social issues of increasing water scarcity in countries such as India. It documents the social impacts and predicament of water scarcity through topics such as arsenic contamination, the impact of salinity on livelihood and mitigation, and drought resi...
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Integrated lagoon fisheries management
Lagoons are characterized by an essential quality of uncertainty for use in resource management: these are physically vulnerable to various influences from not only the environment but also the adjacent marine and terrestrial areas. This book presents a variety of lessons learned from case studie...
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Recycling and reuse of sewage sludge
This book presents the proceedings of an International Symposium organised by the Concrete Technology Unit, University of Dundee, which brings together some of the worlds leading experts in the field of sewage sludge recycling.
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Community campaigns for sustainable living
"This book is based on research and observations undertaken for the author's PhD thesis at the National University of Ireland, and represents a case study of national and regional campaigns against both the Irish state's Regional Waste Management Plans and the corporate sector's attempts to devel...
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Escaping the resource curse
The wealth derived from natural resources can have a tremendous impact on the economics and politics of producing countries. In the last quarter century, we have seen the surprising and sobering consequences of this wealth, producing what is now known as the "resource curse." Countries with large...
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Prickly pear
An explanation of how an invasive cactus from Mexico became a source of income in AfricaWhile there are many studies of the global influence of crops and plants, this is perhaps the first social history based around a plant in South Africa. Plants are not quite historical actors in their own righ...
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The curanderx toolkit
A practical guide to understanding and using Mexican healing traditions in everyday life.Arranging ofrendas. Brewing pericón into a healing tea. Releasing traumas through baños and limpias. Herbalist and curandera Atava Garcia Swiecicki spent decades gathering this traditional knowledge of curand...
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The plant pharmacy
A beautifully practical guide to using 45 healing herbs to treat everyday ailments. With growing advice, simple recipes, and a seasonal herbal calendar, The Plant Pharmacy is the perfect beginner's companion to natural remedies and botanical wellness.
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New botanical art
A vibrant anthology of contemporary botanical art, showcasing over forty artists through illustrations, paintings, and prints where nature meets artistic expression on an inspiring visual journey. This beautiful anthology brings together the work of more than forty contemporary artists of differe...
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Ethnogeographical study of cochineal and the opuntia cactus
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Medicinal plants
From the beginning of human civilization, people have depended on plants to cure disease, promote healing of injuries, and alleviate pain. In many places that has changed very little. In the West, however, herbal and botanical cures have long been ignored in favor of "scientific medicine." But th...
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The natures of john and william bartram
John Bartram (1699-1777), the first native-born American to devote his entire life to the study of nature, was an eminently practical man, a scientist devoted to the rigorous description of living things. Among his subjects was the Venus flytrap, along with hundreds of species of plants and anima...
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The mammalian fauna of the white river oligocene: part iii. lagomorpha
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Guide to eastern ferns
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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