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by John T. Cacioppo, William Patrick
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
A pioneering neuroscientist reveals the reasons for loneliness and what to do about it.
John T. Cacioppo’s groundbreaking research topples one of the pillars of modern medicine and psychology: the focus on the individual as the unit of inquiry. By employing brain scans, monitoring blood pressure,...
by Maxwell Irvine
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
With the World desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gasses, nuclear power is back on the agenda and in the news, following the increasing cost of fossil fuels and concerns about the security of their future supply. However, the term 'nuclear power' causes anxiety in many people...
Climate Change and the Energy Problem
Physical Science and Economics Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This important compendium deals with the primary world problems of global warming and the coming energy crisis. In alternating chapters, it lays out the nature of the two interrelated problems, and specifies the various economic considerations. Thus, it describes the coming shortfall of fossil fuel...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The diverse nature of environmental problems mankind has encountered within the last decade has developed a new understanding of the nature of environmental processes. Currently, the environment is considered as a continuum of air, soil and water as the vital components for sustaining life on earth....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Improving the dynamic relationship between nature and human well-being is a pressing issue of our time. Landscapes embody this tight interconnectedness and serve as unique sustainability learning hubs, showcased by the global rise of place-based and holistic landscape stewardship initiatives. Incorporating...
Animals as Biotechnology
Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
In Animals as Biotechnology sociologist Richard Twine places the question of human/animal relations at the heart of sustainability and climate change debates. The book is shaped by the emergence of two contradictory trends within our approach to nonhuman animals: the biotechnological turn in animal...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
This book describes the current environmental changes due to global warming in northern Eurasia, especially focusing on eastern Siberia. Spring flooding, ice-jam movements, and monitoring using remote sensing are included. Additionally, current reindeer herding of indigenous peoples in Siberia and...
The Telomerase Revolution
The Enzyme That Holds the Key to Human Aging and Will Soon Lead to Longer, Healthier Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
One of Wall Street Journal’s "Best Books for Science Lovers" in 2015
Science is on the cusp of a revolutionary breakthrough. We now understand more about aging-and how to prevent and reverse it-than ever before.
In recent years, our understanding of the nature of aging has...
by Alan Millard
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
A consistent effort to destroy the natural environment, with a cultural influence that clashed with the Native American way of life, presently continues from European arrival. When we see land "developers," supported by government-funded contracts and zoning laws that accommodate turning...
A Sting in the Tale
My Adventures with Bumblebees
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GREAT NATURE WRITERS SUCH AS E.O. WILSON AND CHARMING MEMOIRS LIKE GERALD DURRELL'S MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS, THIS FASCINATING BOOK WILL ALTER THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT BUMBLEBEES.
Dave Goulson became obsessed with wildlife as a small boy growing up in rural Shropshire,...
People, Plants, and Justice
The Politics of Nature Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2000
In an era of market triumphalism, this book probes the social and environmental consequences of market-linked nature conservation schemes. Rather than supporting a new anti-market orthodoxy, Charles Zerner and colleagues assert that there is no universal entity, "the market." Analysis and...
Italian Historical Rural Landscapes
Cultural Values for the Environment and Rural Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Sustainable development and rural policies have pursued strategies where farming has been often regarded as a factor deteriorating the ecosystem. But the current economic, social and environmental problems of the Earth probably call for examples of a positive integration between human society and...
Social Ecology
Society-Nature Relations across Time and Space
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book presents the current state of the art in Social Ecology as practiced by the Vienna School of Social Ecology, globally one of the main research groups in this field. As a significant contribution to the growing literature on interdisciplinary sustainability studies, the book introduces the...
Rooted in the Earth
Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
With a basis in environmental history, this groundbreaking study challenges the idea that a meaningful attachment to nature and the outdoors is contrary to the black experience. The discussion shows that contemporary African American culture is usually seen as an urban culture, one that arose out...