Category: Nature Ecology

By Andréa Aparecida Zacharias

A obra trata do tema da representação gráfica aplicada ao mapeamento e análise das unidades de paisagem como instrumento para execução de zoneamento ambiental, adotando como área geográfica do estudo o município de Ourinhos, no estado de São Paulo. Aborda os desafios vigentes sobre a problemática ambiental, em especial no que concerne ao desenvolvimento de teorias e metodologias de aplicação para obtenção de diagnósticos e prognósticos a respeito da situação ambiental de certos espaços geográficos, tendo em vista a obtenção de uma gestão mais eqüitativa do ambiente para o desenvolvimento sustentável.

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By Erle C. Donaldson,Professor Djebbar Tiab

The petroleum geologist and engineer should have a operating wisdom of petrophysics with the intention to locate oil reservoirs, devise the simplest plan for buying it out of the floor, then begin drilling. This e-book deals the engineer and geologist a handbook to complete those pursuits, supplying much-needed calculations and formulation on fluid move, rock houses, and plenty of different subject matters which are encountered on a daily basis. New up to date fabric covers themes that experience emerged within the petrochemical for the reason that 1997.

* includes info and calculations that the engineer or geologist needs to use in day-by-day actions to discover oil and devise a plan to get it out of the ground
* jam-packed with difficulties and ideas, ideal to be used in undergraduate, graduate, or expert courses
* Covers real-life difficulties and situations for the working towards engineer

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By Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson,Jochen Winter

Ein Buch, das den Blick auf unsere Nutztiere grundlegend verändert

In den Ställen und auf den Weiden findet guy die erstaunlichsten Dinge: Kühe, die in Schwermut verfallen, wenn guy ihnen die Kälbchen wegnimmt, selbstbewusste Schweine, die Musik lieben, mutige Ziegen und lachende Hühner mit einem unverbesserlichem Sinn für Humor. Der renommierte Tierverhaltensforscher und Bestsellerautor Jeffrey Masson präsentiert bewegende Geschichten rund um das komplexe Seelenleben unserer Hof- und Nutztiere, die so viel feinfühliger, klüger und empfindsamer sind, als wir gemeinhin glauben. Ein bewegender Einblick in eine verborgene Welt und zugleich ein leidenschaftlicher Appel für mehr Respekt vor den Hoftieren.

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By Ernst Peter Fischer

Unzerstörbar – mit diesem Ausdruck lässt sich am besten beschreiben, was once das Wesen der Energie ausmacht, um deren Verfügbarkeit sich in jüngster Zeit immer mehr Menschen Sorgen machen und bemühen, und dies ist auch dringend nötig. Das Schicksal moderner Zivilisationen und ihrer Kultur hängt von der zuverlässigen und bezahlbaren Zufuhr an Energie ab. Sie tritt seit dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert in shape fossiler Brennstoffe in das Leben von Menschen ein, used to be aber in Zukunft nicht aufrechterhalten werden kann und eine Neuorientierung erfordert, die derzeit als Energiewende probiert wird.

In Ernst Peter Fischers neuem Buch wird die Ansicht vertreten und ausgeführt, dass die Energie in aller Munde ist, weil sie zwei Seiten zeigt – auf der einen die Fähigkeit zur realen Arbeit, die Maschinen übernehmen, und auf der anderen die romantisch zu verstehende Möglichkeit, die es jedem Menschen erlaubt, sein Leben kreativ zu entwerfen. Menschen brauchen beide Formen der Energie, die physikalische und die romantische. Ein Glück, dass sie unzerstörbar ist, wie es der Satz von ihrer Erhaltung verspricht.

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By Karl Blossfeldt

Using leading edge ideas, photographer Blossfeldt produced arresting pictures of seed pods, buds, stems, and different botanical goods. This miraculous assortment good points ratings of his awesome pictures of vegetation, delivering artists and craftspeople a treasury of royalty-free photos and layout inspirations. a hundred and twenty full-page black-and-white plates.

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By Doug Scott

Winner: Himalayan membership Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature

‘A complete and engaging portrait of 1 of the nice figures of mountaineering.’ – Michael Palin

‘As good as relaying the literal ups and downs of the largest partitions and optimum mountains on this planet, Scott writes with honesty in regards to the emotional and private peaks and troughs of a existence the place relatives relationships are positioned lower than pressure and existence itself is so frequently at risk.’ – The Westmorland Gazette

At nightfall on 24 September 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal Haston grew to become the first Britons to arrive the summit of Everest as lead climbers on Chris Bonington’s epic day trip to the mountain’s giant south-west face.

As darkness fell, Scott and Haston scraped a small collapse the snow a hundred metres less than the summit and survived the top bivouac ever – with out bottled oxygen, dozing baggage and, because it grew to become out, frostbite. For Doug Scott, it used to be the fulfilment of a fortune-teller’s prophecy given to his mom: that her eldest son will be at risk in a excessive position with the full global watching.

Scott and Haston again domestic nationwide heroes with their photograph splashed around the entrance pages. Scott went directly to turn into certainly one of Britain’s maximum ever mountaineers, pioneering new climbs within the remotest corners of the globe. His profession spans the golden age of British hiking from the Nineteen Sixties growth in open air experience to the recent wave of light-weight alpinism through the Seventies and 1980s.

In Up and About, the 1st quantity of his autobiography, Scott tells his tale from his start in Nottingham through the darkest days of struggle to the summit of the realm. Surviving the unplanned bivouac with out oxygen close to the summit of Everest widened the variety of what and the way he might climb sooner or later. in reality, Scott demonstrated extra climbs at the excessive mountains of the area after his ascent of Everest than earlier than. these climbs could be coated within the moment quantity of his existence and times.

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By Hans H. Landsberg,Joseph M. Dukert

High strength costs have an effect on approximately the complete of the yank inhabitants, arguably affecting a few purchaser teams greater than others. even supposing initially released in 1981, the problems explored during this examine similar to who's affected such a lot by way of strength expense raises, local transformations and what can or could be performed within the usa with regard to power charges are nonetheless as correct this day as they have been then. those papers try and at once tackle those matters within the wake of the 1979-80 cost surprise in the US and to propose what motion should be taken to allay those matters. This name might be of curiosity to scholars of environmental stories and economics.

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By Paul Lyle

Geologists are between that staff of scientists who needs to issue the passage of time into their investigations they usually hence have a viewpoint on time that units them except many different researchers. The proposition that geological time is titanic, encompassing millions of hundreds of thousands of years, is comparatively fresh. it's a idea that is still arguable and unacceptable to many of us at the present time who nonetheless give some thought to the Earth to were made to a timetable masking not more than 10000 years. Paul Lyle examines how our fascination with time has constructed from our earliest ancestors' popularity of the cycles of the solar and the moon. It considers the passage of time as a sequence of non-repeatable occasions, Time's Arrow, not like time as a sequence of repeated procedures, Time's Cycle, either one of which might be used to give an explanation for geological gains at the Earth's floor. the writer argues for a better realizing of geological or ‘deep time’ as society turns into extra conscious of the vulnerability of the Earth's assets to over-exploitation by way of an increasing purchaser society. This debate and the talk surrounding worldwide warming emphasises the significance of geological time to the method of financial and political decision-making. it's a booklet for these drawn to the highbrow problem awarded by means of the level of geological time. it really is written for environmentalists and policy-makers who desire to higher position their issues and judgements in right context yet, specifically, it's a booklet that gives to percentage a geologist’s appreciation of time with the widest attainable viewers. Winner of the ASE technological know-how booklet of the 12 months Award 2016.

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By Monty Cox,Sian Comora,Margaret Comora

From his afflicted adolescence to the spontaneous and funny creation to lions, tigers, bears, and jaguars, Monty Cox, has develop into a 'legend' within the Animal leisure box.
stay Animal paintings is an "Art." within the leisure box, it has turn into a "Lost Art." It takes extreme commitment, a deeply compassionate, loving bond with the animals, and an excessive fearless to deal with any demanding situations that could evolve.
via a set of news, in his personal passionate and charismatic phrases, Monty Cox takes you thru his international of primal tooth and claws: How unique Animals - lions, tigers, bears, and extra - are proficient for movie, tv, and stay Acts.
This number of "TRUE" tales - virtually surreal - may have you feeling such as you have been correct via the Animals' facets, operating head to head with them. you'll event the pleasant strength of making the Bear's personality in mild BEN, you'll accompany Monty in the course of his funny commute to the Philippines and event the suspenseful depth and sheer fantastic thing about the tiger in APOCALYPSE NOW. you'll proportion within the funny and enjoyable personalities of the tigers who have been the 'branding stars' of the EXXON ads, and suppose such as you have expert and are then on level with the lovely, noble, and gorgeous White Lions and Tigers in SIEGFRIED & ROY'S reside Las Vegas SHOWS.
those tales current the reader with vicarious reports that have by no means been imagined or learned and feature by no means been informed till now.

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The Cairn Terrier - a whole Anthology of the puppy gathers jointly all of the most sensible early writing at the breed from our library of scarce, out-of-print antiquarian books and records and reprints it in a high quality, sleek variation. This anthology contains chapters taken from a complete diversity of books, a lot of them now infrequent and lots more and plenty sought-after works, them all written by means of well known breed specialists in their day. those books are treasure troves of knowledge concerning the breed - The actual issues, temperaments, and precise skills are given; celebrated canines are mentioned and pictured; and the background of the breed and pedigrees of recognized champions also are supplied. The contents have been good illustrated with a variety of pictures of prime and well-known canine of that period and those are all reproduced to the best quality. Books used comprise: The Kennel Encyclopaedia through J. Sidney Turner (1910) , canine Of the area by means of Arthur Craven (1931), Hutchinson's puppy Encyclopaedia by way of Walter Hutchinson (1935) and plenty of others.

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