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Social DNA

M. Kay Martin

Social DNA

What set our ancestors off on a separate evolutionary trajectory was the ability to flex their reproductive and social strategies in response to changing environmental conditions. Exploring new cross-disciplinary research that links this capacity to critical changes in the organization of the primate brain, Social DNA presents a new synthesis of ideas on human social origins – challenging models that trace our beginnings to traits shaped by ancient hunting economies, or to genetic platforms...

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M. Kay Martin

Hope Against Hope

Out of the Woods

Hope Against Hope

We are told we are living in the middle of a climate crisis of unprecedented proportions. As doomsday scenarios mount, hope collapses. Even as more and more people around the planet experience climate disaster as immediate and urgent, our imagination and programs for transformation lag. The disasters are already here, and the crises, longstanding, are ongoing. In Hope Against Hope , the Out of the Woods collective investigates the critical relation between climate change and capitalism and...

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Out of the Woods

Lectures on Quantum Field Theory

Ashok Das

Lectures on Quantum Field Theory

This book comprises the lectures of a two-semester course on quantum field theory, presented in a quite informal and personal manner. The course starts with relativistic one-particle systems, and develops the basics of quantum field theory with an analysis on the representations of the Poincaré group. Canonical quantization is carried out for scalar, fermion, Abelian and non-Abelian gauge theories. Covariant quantization of gauge theories is also carried out with a detailed description...

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Ashok Das

Birds Nesting and Egg Collecting

J. G. Black

Birds Nesting and Egg Collecting

Originally published in 1920 when collecting bird's egss was a legal and accepted pastime for young and old. The author was a true countryman and sporting gentleman with a great knowledge and much experience of British birds and their ways.Contents Include: Where and when to look equipment climbing egg collections records the birds, their nests and eggs, and their breeding habits observation haunts nesting calendar many illustrations of of eggs and nests etc. Many of the earliest books,...

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J. G. Black

Tasting Qualities

Sarah Besky

Tasting Qualities

What is the role of quality in contemporary capitalism? How is a product as ordinary as a bag of tea judged for its quality? In her innovative study, Sarah Besky addresses these questions by going inside an Indian auction house where experts taste and appraise mass-market black tea, one of the world’s most recognized commodities. Pairing rich historical data with ethnographic research among agronomists, professional tea tasters and traders, and tea plantation workers, Besky shows how...

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Sarah Besky

Reversing Climate Change: How Carbo...

Graciela Chichilnisky

Reversing Climate Change: How Carbon Removals Can Resolve Climate Change And Fix The Economy

'The genius of Graciela Chichilnisky is recognized by economists and with this book she has focused that talent to the dire problem facing mankind. To survive we must do more than stave off a further rise of CO₂ in the atmosphere. We need to reverse it if the planet is to be viable. Professor Chichilnisky's achievement along with her co-author Peter Bal is to show us the way to rescue our future.'<div style='text-align: right;'>Professor Edmund...

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Graciela Chichilnisky

geode

Susan Barba

geode

geode is rich with shining interiors and tactile relationships, delicate human to delicate earth, small delusions of ownership against wider backdrops of loss and time. Poems acting as guides, helping us navigate and remember, create an intricate overlay of worlds, humans and trees. —Naomi Shihab Nye, New York Times Magazine Susan Barba's new collection of poems resembles the spheroid stone of its name; when cracked open, a glittering and fascinating crystalline structure is revealed...

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Susan Barba

Australian Good Birding Guide: Nort...

Ted Wnorowski

Australian Good Birding Guide: Northern Queensland

This is our fifth book in the series of comprehensive travel guidebooks to birdwatching destinations in Australia.<br /> <br />The Northern Queensland guide describes the most interesting and reasonably accessible birding spots located in the northern half of the vast Queensland State.<br /> <br />Description of each birding site includes, at a minimum, habitat description, site facilities and key avifauna. The authors have cross-checked and supplemented their findings...

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Ted Wnorowski

Moral Ground

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Moral Ground

Moral Ground brings together the testimony of over eighty visionariestheologians and religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, naturalists, activists, and writersto present a diverse and compelling call to honor our individual and collective moral responsibility to our planet. In the face of environmental degradation and global climate change, scientific knowledge alone does not tell us what we ought to do. The missing premise of the argument and...

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The Great Global Warming Blunder

Roy W Spencer

The Great Global Warming Blunder

The Great Global Warming Blunder unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and reshape the global warming debate as we know it. Roy W. Spencer, a former senior NASA climatologist, reveals how climate researchers have mistaken cause and effect when analyzing cloud behavior and have been duped by Mother Nature into believing the Earth’s climate system is far more sensitive to human activities and carbon dioxide than it...

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Roy W Spencer

Regulators Gone Wild

Rich Trzupek

Regulators Gone Wild

Environmental regulations aren’t always about environmental protection. Today, more than ever, regulations seem to have been designed by activists, rather than scientists. Regulators Gone Wild is the shocking inside story of how the green movement and big government have united to stifle American productivity and hamstring American innovation, not by design, but as the inevitable consequence of pursuing a utopian vision of environmental purity.As a respected scientist and consultant,...

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Rich Trzupek

The Making of You

Katharina Vestre

The Making of You

A quirky and inspired guide to your very own origin story. This enlightening and irresistible book for adults explains how you were made—not with the standard euphemisms told to us as children, but with vivid, exacting prose that unveils all the complex processes we never knew produced human life. With a brilliant talent for thoughtful, charming science writing, Katharina Vestre takes us from cell to human and shares surprising facts along the way—such as that sperm have a...

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Katharina Vestre

Riding for the Team

United States Equestrian Team Foundation

Riding for the Team

A dazzling, behind-the-scenes look at the incredible equestrian athletes and horses who compete and win for the USA. From playing with plastic ponies and taking their first riding lessons, to finding success in the arena, thousands of horse lovers hope they can one day represent the United States in international competition. Riding for the Team chronicles the lives of those who dreamed about competing for their country and “made it,” sharing inspirational stories from the international...

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United States Equestrian Team Foundation

Scatterbrain

Henning Beck

Scatterbrain

Henning Beck is an engaging public speaker and champion Science Slammer in Germany. Here is a link to a popular TEDx talk he did on how the brain creates ideas https://youtu.be/oJfFMoAgbv8 In Scatterbrain, he explains how the flaws and mistakes of our brains, are actually our secret weapons, enabling us to think more creatively.  He also says our brains are  better  than computers or AI. AI may be able to outperform humans in playing games or recognizing faces – but...

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Henning Beck

Hope Matters

Elin Kelsey

Hope Matters

“This book comes at just the right moment. It is NOT too late if we get together and take action, NOW.” —Jane Goodall Fears about climate change are fueling an epidemic of despair across the world: adults worry about their children’s future; thirty-somethings question whether they should have kids or not; and many young people honestly believe they have no future at all.  In the face of extreme eco-anxiety, scholar and award-winning author...

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Elin Kelsey

The Case for the Green New Deal

Ann Pettifor

The Case for the Green New Deal

The GND has the potential of becoming one of the largest global campaigns of our times, and it started in Ann Pettifor's flat. In 2008, the first Green New Deal was devised by Pettifor and a group of English economist and thinkers, but was ignored within the tumults of the financial crash. A decade later, the ideas was revived within the democratic socialists in the US, forefront by Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. The Green New Deal demands a radical and urgent reversal of the current state of...

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Ann Pettifor

Religious Tourism and the Environme...

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Religious Tourism and the Environment

The remarkable growth in religious tourism across the world has generated considerable interest in the impacts of this type of tourism. Focusing here on environmental issues, this book moves beyond the documentation of environmental impacts to examine in greater depth the intersections between religious tourism and the environment. Beginning with an in-depth introduction that highlights the intersections between religion, tourism, and the environment, the book then focuses on the environment as...

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Top 10 Vaccine Objections

Alex Ramirez

Top 10 Vaccine Objections

This work of narrative non-fiction deals with common questions and doubts people have about vaccines, using very accessible, conversational, non-technical language. If you have ever thought any of the following, “Vaccines are not for me, I'm young and healthy and don't need them”; “I rather develop natural immunity to infections, without vaccination”; “Immunisation is a personal choice, it only affects me, so I'll take the risk” then this book is for you. You would also enjoy...

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Alex Ramirez

Genetik kompakt für Dummies

Tara Rodden Robinson

Genetik kompakt für Dummies

Sie suchen einen schnellen und leicht verständlichen Einstieg in die Genetik? Dann ist dieses Buch genau das richtige für Sie! Tara Rodden Robinson erklärt Ihnen die wichtigsten Grundlagen der Vererbungslehre: Wie die DNA aufgebaut ist, wie sie kopiert und richtig in Proteine übersetzt wird, was es mit den Mendelschen Regeln auf sich hat, wozu Gentechnik gut ist, wie Genmutationen und Erbkrankheiten entstehen und vieles mehr. So ist dies Ihr perfekter Nachhilfelehrer für die Tasche:...

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Tara Rodden Robinson

Post Growth

Tim Jackson

Post Growth

‘Empowering and elegiac’ Yanis Varoufakis, author of Another Now ‘Utterly inspiring’ Caroline Lucas, MP, Green Party ‘A masterpiece of measured rage and love’ Jonathan Porritt, author of Hope in Hell Capitalism is broken. The relentless pursuit of more has delivered climate catastrophe, social inequality and financial instability – and left us ill-prepared for life in a global pandemic. Tim Jackson’s passionate and provocative book dares us to imagine a world beyond capitalism – a place...

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Tim Jackson

Isaga kalale. Kivisilla haug ja tei...

Paavo Kangur

Isaga kalale. Kivisilla haug ja teised lood

See raamat on poistele ja tüdrukutele, kes tahavad minna isaga kalale. See raamat on isadele, kes tahavad lastega minna kalale. See raamat on neile, kes tahavad püüda suure kala. Kalapüük on iidse jahirituaali kordus linnainimesele. Olla merelahel vastamisi mitmekilose haugiga on sama tunne kui ürginimesel, kes valmistub viskama oda mammuti turja. Pealegi vee peal puhastub aju suurepäraselt ja kui sellega kaasneb kala saamine, on see puhas boonus. Küsimus ei ole vaid kalas kuikvaliteetses...

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Paavo Kangur

Der große Hühner-Ratgeber

Kathy Shea Mormino

Der große Hühner-Ratgeber

HÜHNERHALTUNG IM EIGENEN GARTEN LEICHT GEMACHT Schritt für Schritt zum selbstversorger Selbstversorgung und artgerechte Tierhaltung sind wieder in aller Munde. Immer mehr Familien wünschen sich frische Eier von glücklichen Hühnern, die für viele Kinder wiederum schnell zu geliebten Haustieren werden. KATY SHEA MORMINO, international bekannt als The Chicken Chick, ist eine absolute Expertin auf dem Gebiet der privaten Hühnerhaltung. Ihr preisgekrönter Blog ist mittlerweile der Dreh- und...

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Kathy Shea Mormino

Africa's Top Wildlife Countries

Mark W. Nolting

Africa's Top Wildlife Countries

Africa's Top Wildlife Countries highlights and compares wildlife reserves and other major attractions in the continent’s best countries for game viewing  making the planning of the journey of a lifetime easy! African countries, and the wildlife reserves within them, vary greatly as to the types and quality of safari experiences they offer. This is the only guidebook that effectively assists readers in choosing the best destinations for the kind of wildlife experience...

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Mark W. Nolting

100 Ways to Take Better Nature & Wi...

Guy Edwardes

100 Ways to Take Better Nature & Wildlife Photographs

This guide is suitable for all levels of photographers. 100 Ways to Take Better Nature and Wildlife Photographs features 100 practical and inspiring tips on every aspect of the genre. Guy Edwardes' breath-taking pictures accompany his eas-to-follow advice on a wide range of subjects from capturing the actions of large mammals to snapping wild birds and flowers in the garden. With tips on everything from technique to composition, coping with extreme field conditions to Photoshop software...

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Guy Edwardes

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