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Ether pur
projet écologique mondial de la Nation Essénienne
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Avant que les hommes ne tissent la trame d'un réseau mondial de communication artificiel, les montagnes et les grands arbres formaient déjà un vaste réseau de communication subtil qui entourait la Terre. A travers ce réseau, les hommes savaient communiquer entre eux et avec les êtres de la nature,...
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Wealth of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's...
The Big Thirst
The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Praised as “an entertaining and torrential flow of a book**” by Nature magazine, The Big Thirst** is a startling examination of the passing of the golden age of water and the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor in our lives.
The water coming out of your kitchen...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Young people in sub-Saharan Africa are growing up in rapidly changing social and economic environments which produce high levels of un- and underemployment. Job creation through entrepreneurship is currently being promoted by international organizations, governments and NGOs as a key solution, despite...
The Countryside Book
101 Ways To Play, Watch Wildlife, Be Creative And Have Adventures In The Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Britain's countryside offers a host of varied habitats for the walker, the amateur naturalist and the family in search of entertainment for children. This brand new collection of reflections on and activities to do in the countryside from an author passionate about reconnecting both children and adults...
by Morgan Dix Wheelock
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Dancing with Nature is a monograph of gardens and sculpture created by Morgan Dix Wheelock, landscape architect, during his forty-five years of professional practice as a landscape architect. He began his professional career as a three-year apprentice to Japans master architect and landscape architect...
The Songs of Trees
Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature’s most magnificent networkers — trees
“Both a love song to trees, an exploration of their biology, and a wonderfully philosophical analysis of their role they play in human history and in modern culture.”...
by John Burroughs
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
First published in 1907, this is an account of the author's time spent travelling and observing nature with U.S. President Roosevelt. This volume offers both an authentic glimpse of U.S. wildlife and a unique insight into the mind of Theodore Roosevelt, and it is not to be missed by lovers of nature...
by Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2001
"Thought-provoking.... A lovely testament to horses and women from all walks of life."—Karen Stone, Chicago Tribune
In a phenomenon too prevalent to be mere chance, little girls all over the Western world wake one day to find themselves completely taken over by the love of all things...
No Place Like Home
Notes from a Western Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2010
In No Place Like Home, Linda Hasselstrom ponders the changing nature of community in the modern West, where old family ranches are being turned into subdivisions and historic towns are evolving into mean, congested cities. Her scrutiny, like her life, moves back and forth between her ranch on the...
by Vladimir Rubtsov
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
The purpose of the book is a dual one: to detail the nature and results of Tunguska investigations in the former USSR and present-day CIS, and to destroy two long-standing myths still held in the West. The first concerns alleged “final solutions” that have ostensibly been found in Russia or elsewhere....
The Stuff of Thought
Language as a Window into Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2007
**This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and Enlightenment Now.
"Curious, inventive, fearless, naughty."
--The New York Times Book Review**
Bestselling author...
The Angel on My Shoulder
My Life with an American Pit Bull Terrier
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Jolene writes with great heart and passion about a dog breed disenfranchised not because of what they are, but because of what we imagine them to be. I love stories that support the underdog, and Jolenes tale of her beloved pit bull terrier is exactly that. It is also a delight to read, and a worthy...
Galileo's Finger : The Ten Great Ideas of Science
The Ten Great Ideas of Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2003
Any literate person should be familiar with the central ideas of modern science. In his sparkling new book, Peter Atkins introduces his choice of the ten great ideas of science. With wit, charm, patience, and astonishing insights, he leads the reader through the emergence of the concepts, and then...