Resultados para "2" en Naturaleza y ecología

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran river runners boldly proclaimed that the motley crew would never make it out alive. But for Clover and Jotter, the expedition held a tantalizing appeal: no one had yet surveyed the plant life of the Grand Canyon, and they were determined to be the first.

The Monarch Butterfly 2.0: 101 Reasons to Love Our Favorite Orange and Black Butterfly from A to Z is the second edition on the monarch butterflies that will expand your knowledge and admiration of the favorite and most loved butterfly in the history of man.

This is the story of Miss White, a woman who lived in the author’s village 80 years ago, a pioneer who realised her ambition to become a farmer during the Second World War, and how she worked to become accepted within this community. Nicola Chester, too, dreamed of becoming a farmer but working with horses was the only path open to her. Was it easier for women to become farmers in the 1940s than it is now?

50 Things to Know About the Birds in California by author Jessica Dumas offers an elegant approach to finding the most beautiful and varied species of birds on the continent. Most books on birding tell you to travel to specific locations and hotspots for one or two prize species on your life list. Although there's nothing wrong with that, this book takes another approach. Here we present you with the regional view of the state and help you to locate the habitats and special locations near your travel destination.

Do you want to learn how to transform your household waste into black gold-dust? Do you feel the need to be more environmentally responsible? Listen to this audiobook for more.

O cuidado com o planeta é uma responsabilidade compartilhada dos seres humanos diante do reconhecimento da interdependência entre a saúde das espécies de seres vivos e do planeta como um todo. O cuidado responsável inclui o amor, a solidariedade, o respeito por todas as formas de vida da Terra acompanhada de uma reflexão crítica sobre a prática social individual e coletiva.

La place accordée à l'animal dans une société révèle comment l'homme veut vivre au monde. L'expérimentation animale, l'anti-spécisme ou encore la tauromachie nourrissent des débats aux ramifications complexes pour la définition de l'homme en tant qu'espèce et en tant qu'être doué de morale. Dans ce troisième volume de Cosmos, Michel Onfray aborde les enjeux philosophiques profonds que pose notre approche de l'animal, et notamment de sa souffrance.

Walks in the desert and journeys through Ch’an (Zen) enlightenment. Meditations on the nature of perception and on the nature of ruins. Topographies of mind and of space-time. Poetry and prose. This talismanic book is all of these and more. It is the culmination of Hinton’s philosophical adventure, deeply informed by his nearly forty years of translating and contemplating China’s ancient poets, Taoist sages, and Ch’an masters. Like Henry David Thoreau and other great literary walkers, Hinton joins philosophical meditations with a keen eye for the slightest of nature’s details.

La complejidad del reciclaje y todo lo que hay alrededor de esto, nos hace ver las diferencias entre comprar productos reciclables y en verdad poder reciclar, como parte de la conciencia individual hacia la mejora del medio ambiente...

Explore the transformative world of sustainable transportation with the Driving the Future Bundle, a comprehensive 2-in-1 collection that delves into the revolutionary advancements in electric and hybrid vehicles. Perfect for enthusiasts, innovators, and anyone interested in the future of eco-friendly mobility, this bundle provides valuable insights into the technologies shaping a cleaner, greener tomorrow.

2020년 코로나 19라는 초유의 사태로, 일찍이 경험해 보지 못한 일들이 잇달아 일어나고 있다. 모든 것이 그 이전과는 다른, 우리가 경험해보지 못한 '달라진 세계'에 대한 전망과 담론장이 폭발하고 있다. 하지만 그런 담론의 범람 속에서 고민의 '방향'을 함께 질문하려는 시도가 드문 것이 사실이다.

When the struggle to save oil-soaked birds and restore blackened beaches left him feeling frustrated and helpless, John Francis decided to take a more fundamental and personal stand: He stopped using all forms of motorized transportation. Soon after embarking on this quest that would span two decades and two continents, the young man took a vow of silence that endured for 17 years.

Inspired by America's beloved national parks, Campfire Stories Volume II is a collection of modern prose, poetry, folklore, and more, featuring commissioned, new, and existing works from a diverse group of writers who share a deep appreciation of the natural world. While the original Campfire Stories captured many historic tales reflecting the first 100 years of the National Park Service, this completely new collection, focused on five different parks (plus two long-distance trails), depicts the parks as we know and experience them today.

Following the release of his best-selling series, Living Among Bigfoot, author Tom Lyons was contacted by several individuals who were eager to discuss their own encounters with the mysterious sasquatch species. This second issue contains eight chilling reports from campers, a bus driver, a police officer, and others.

This captivating book brings together two birds of a feather: Jean and Johnny, boys from very different worlds growing up in a small village in France. Jean is the genteel pharmacist’s son, dressed in his Sunday best; Johnny’s father is a rough, working-class sheep herder, always with the odor of animals clinging to him. Each year, over three hundred bird species visit their village, which intersects a major migratory flyway. The two boys’ stories converge when Jean enters a bird-calling contest.

On a clear May afternoon at the end of his junior year at Harvard, Howard Axelrod played a pick-up game of basketball. In a skirmish for a loose ball, a boy's finger hooked behind Axelrod's eyeball and left him permanently blinded in his right eye. A week later, he returned to the same dorm room, but to a different world. A world where nothing looked solid, where the distance between how people saw him and how he saw had widened into a gulf.

The Druid Peak Pack was the most famous wolf pack in Yellowstone National Park, and maybe even in the world. This is the dramatic true story of its remarkable leader, Wolf 21 - whose compassion and loyalty challenges commonly held beliefs about alpha males.

知れば知るほど面白い生き物の世界をユーモアたっぷりに解説！不思議にあふれた生き物の世界。それはジャングルやサバンナでなくても、ごく身近な場所、例えば学校の校庭・

Wie kann ein Umzug dafür sorgen, dass ich mich umweltbewusster verhalte? Warum ist Onlineshopping manchmal besser für das Klima als lokal einzukaufen? Und was haben Singvögel mit Menschen in der Disko gleich? Mit diesen und vielen weiteren Fragen macht sich Journalistin Isabelle Rogge auch in der zweiten Staffel von "Planet A" für mehr Nachhaltigkeit stark. Wöchentlich interviewt sie Expert*innen und Wissenschaftler*innen zu harten Fakten und gibt praktische Einstiegstipps. Denn die Umwelt zu schützen ist nicht schwer. Ganz im Gegenteil, es macht ziemlich viel Spaß.

I’ll admit I’m a romantic and heroic. But to be honest, it’s not my fault: it’s the fault of all the horses I’ve ever known. In my romantic struggle for beauty in an unromantic mechanical age, my horses, simply by how they were, and how we looked, and how we were together, although no more than a tiny broadside against the ghost ship of mediocrity of this crazy age, were some kind of victory just by the fact that we still existed. Horses inspire courage against hopeless odds just by their courage and beauty.