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Baby Bear loves playing in the leaves in the autumn, but after his winter hibernation the piles of leaves are gone, and his mother explains that the forest needs time to do the work of decomposition--but the piles of leaves will return when autumn comes again. Includes author's note on ecology and the importance of leaf decomposition.
66) Forever our home
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"This gentle picture-book lullaby is a celebration of the plants and animals of the Prairies and a meditation on the sacred, ancestral connections between Indigenous children and their Traditional Territories."--
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Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers
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2023.
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"A fox, grown strong on pepperoni pizza from the dustbins of the East End, dances along a railway track towards Essex, the territory of wild foxes and wilder huntsmen. An orca, mourning the loss of her mother in a valley west of Skye, knows that she must now lead the pod as matriarch. She swims again through her childhood, thinking about the old ways, the old roads, laid down thousands of years ago. But the old roads aren't so easy now. At moonrise...
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Listen to birds sing as you've never listened before, as the world-renowned birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma takes you on personal journeys of discovery and intrigue. Read stories of wrens and robins, thrushes and thrashers, warblers and whip-poor-wills, bluebirds and cardinals, and many more bird. Learn how each acquires its songs, how songs vary from bird to bird and place to place, how some birds' singing is especially beautiful or ceaseless or...
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"Winner of the 2016 BES Marsh Christian Trust Book Award, British Ecological Association" Jordi Bascompte is professor of ecology at the University of Zurich. He is the coauthor of Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems (Princeton). Pedro Jordano is a professor at the Spanish Research Council and honorary professor at the University of Sevilla.
Mutualistic interactions among plants and animals have played a paramount role in shaping biodiversity....
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Andrew P. Hendry is professor in the Department of Biology and the Redpath Museum at McGill University. He is the coeditor of Microevolution: Rate, Pattern, Process and Evolution Illuminated: Salmon and Their Relatives.
In recent years, scientists have realized that evolution can occur on timescales much shorter than the "long lapse of ages" emphasized by Darwin-in fact, evolutionary change is occurring all around us all the time. This book provides...
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In easy to understand language the essential natural processes of the changing colors of leaves, why trees shed leaves, and how a pond can still freeze and still support life are explained. Learn the key star constellation which signals the end of summer and the growing season. Learn why the moon's of autumn loom so large in the night sky.
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In 2011, a tsunami flooded Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing three nuclear meltdowns, the effects of which will spread through generations and have an impact on all living things. In After Fukushima, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy examines the nature of catastrophes in the era of globalization and technology. He argues that in today's interconnected world, the effects of any disaster will spread in the way we currently associate only...
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To translate the journey from a living cow to a glass of milk into tangible terms, Kathryn Gillespie set out to follow the moments in the life cycles of individual animals-animals like the cow with ear tag #1389. She explores how the seemingly benign practice of raising animals for milk is just one link in a chain that affects livestock across the agricultural spectrum. Gillespie takes readers to farms, auction yards, slaughterhouses, and even rendering...
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Tiny ruby-throated hummingbirds weighing less than a nickel fly from the upper Midwest to Costa Rica every fall, crossing the six-hundred-mile Gulf of Mexico without a single stop. One of the many creatures that commute on the Mississippi Flyway as part of an annual migration, they pass along Chicago's lakefront and through midwestern backyards on a path used by their species for millennia. This magnificent migrational dance takes place every year...
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What we eat, where it is from, and how it is produced are vital questions in today's America. We think seriously about food because it is freighted with the hopes, fears, and anxieties of modern life. Yet critiques of food and food systems all too often sprawl into jeremiads against modernity itself, while supporters of the status quo refuse to acknowledge the problems with today's methods of food production and distribution. Food Fights sheds new...
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It may seem absurd to you: The Earth speaking? The geophysics graduate Sten Linnander couldn't believe it either. But even if it was unexplainable, what he "heard" sounded genuine and authentic. In this second book, he poses questions – his own and those of others - to the Earth. Can it be the "Earth" who answers? Read the book and determine for yourself.
78) Apicultura: La Guía Bíblica para Aprender los Secretos de la Apicultura Exitosa, Desde la Instalacio
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¿Siempre te ha fascinado el mundo esotérico y misterioso del Tarot?¿Te gustaría profundizar y aprender más sobre el arte de la adivinación y cómo utilizarla a tu favor para captar anticipadamente señales sobre nuestro futuro? No deje de influir en lo que piensan los demás. Dé a su prójimo una oportunidad para ver si presiona algo.Partiendo de los orígenes históricos del Tarot, de su evolución y de la tarea y significado que asume actualmente,...
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Birdsong made easy to understand, lavishly illustrated with color photos, and accompanied by more than 700 online recordings
From a leading expert, Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist is a basic, how-to guide that teaches anyone-from beginner to advanced birder-how to listen. In understandable and appealing language, Kroodsma explains why and how birds sing, what various calls mean, and what to listen for from the birds around us. The descriptions...
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In this groundbreaking book, the New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Green Book Thomas M. Kostigen reveals the vital missing link in today's environmental crisis: how we as individuals are connected to the most tenuous geography on the planet. Despite the recent prominence of "green" issues in the news, the direct relationship between our actions and the earth is too often ignored. But the seemingly insignificant things we do every day have...