Der Sinn des menschlichen Lebens (German Edition) by Edward O. Wilson,Elsbeth Ranke

Water and Development: 1 (Independent Evaluation Group Studies)

Improvement styles, expanding inhabitants strain, and the call for for larger livelihoods in lots of elements of the globe all give a contribution to a gradually deepening international water challenge. improvement redirects, consumes, and pollutes water. It additionally reasons alterations within the nation of common water reservoirs, at once by means of draining aquifers and not directly via melting glaciers and the polar ice caps.

Incroyables insectes (Nature) (French Edition)

Du plus petit au plus grand, du plus discret au plus voyant, les exploits des insectes, leurs files et leurs originalités sont décrits dans ce livre pour tous publics, avec simplicité et humour, mais sans aucune exagération. Oui, ils sont capables de tout ça ! Et pour le prouver, de nombreuses et superbes photographs, l. a. plupart prises sur le terrain, confirmeront aux incrédules que nos amis les insectes sont vraiment INCROYABLES !

Advances in Irish Quaternary Studies (Atlantis Advances in Quaternary Science)

This booklet offers a brand new synthesis of the broadcast study at the Quaternary of eire. It stories a few major advances within the final 3 a long time at the knowing of the development and chronology of the Irish Quaternary glacial, interglacial, floristic and career files. these using the newest know-how have enabled major advances in geochronology utilizing speeded up mass spectrometry, cosmogenic nuclide extraction and optically motivated luminescence among others.

Local Environmental Politics in China: Challenges and Innovations

Wisdom and perception in nationwide environmental governance in China is common. although, more and more it's been said that the key difficulties in guiding the chinese language economic system and society in the direction of sustainability are to be came upon on the neighborhood point. This booklet illuminates the fast-changing dynamics of neighborhood environmental politics in China, a subject merely marginally addressed within the literature.