Resultados para "Julia" en Naturaleza y ecología

When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of 35, she didn’t expect that it would change her life. Recently divorced and auditioning hobbies during a stressful career transition, she stumbled into birdwatching, initially out of curiosity. What she never could have predicted was that she would become one of them. Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder follows the peregrinations of a narrator who learns more from birds than she ever anticipated, finding new meaning in midlife.

Learn all about dinosaurs, dogs, marine life and more in The Seeker Animals Collection! Includes Everything You Know About Dinosaurs Might Be Wrong, Why Dogs Are So Amazing, Under the Sea: A World Like No Other.

Explore the world of our favorite furry feline friends in this curated collection from Seeker, available for the first time in audio! All of your important cat questions will be answered.

Does smoking weed actually make you lazy? How does THC replace your brain’s neurotransmitters? From the beginnings of where marijuana came from to the future of what a world with legal pot could look like, listen in as Seeker dives in on the fascinating world of marijuana in this short-form audio collection.

Almir Narayamoga Surui, the Amazonian tribal chieftain of the indigenous Surui people, is a leader in the fight to save the rainforest not only for the preservation of his land and people, but for the Earth's and humanity's survival as well. Joining forces with such high-tech corporations as Apple and Google Earth, Surui has become a guardian of his people and a global activist, despite death threats and million-dollar bounties on his head.

Listen in as Seeker answers some unbe-leaf-able questions like how plants can grow without water, how plants defend themselves, and how they eat animals. You’ll also learn about the future of plants - from growing them in space and how artificial leaf technology will change the world - all in this best-of collection available for the first time in audio.

“Both timeless and timely, this is a book of wisdom and wonder” (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March), a deeply personal exploration of what can sustain us through our darkest moments. “What has fascinated and sustained me over these last few years has been the...

Das Meer ist unser erstaunlichstes und rätselhaftestes Ökosystem. Es waren mehr Menschen auf dem Mond als am Grund des Ozeans. Zu Unrecht, findet Meeresbiologin und Science-Slammerin Julia Schnetzer. Denn in der Unsterblichkeit von Quallen, der Sprache der Delfine und dem Lebensrhythmus von Unterwassermücken verbergen sich nicht nur neueste Erkenntnisse über unsere Umwelt, sondern auch über uns Menschen.

An engaging guide to the art of forest bathing, inspired by the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, for anyone who wants to explore the transformative power of nature in promoting health and happiness. Forest bathing is the art of spending intentional time in nature and is practiced throughout...

Written in a brilliantly engaging style by biologist Jules Howard, this fascinating and highly engaging work covers the how and why of sex on Earth, in all its diversity. From sperm wars to cuckoldry, hermaphrodites and virgin births, spent males, racy harems, clitoral births, hips, breasts and birdsong, penis-percussion, and those riskiest and most elusive of all traits, monogamy and true love, all this and more is discussed in Sex on Earth, as Jules takes us on a voyage of discovery of the ins and outs of animal reproduction.

New York Times Bestseller The remarkable true story of an extraordinary relationship between psychologist Irene M. Pepperberg and Alex, an African Grey parrot who proved scientists and accepted wisdom wrong by demonstrating an astonishing ability to communicate and understand complex ideas...

The majority of Vernon Lee’s work was essays and studies on art and history, but this little-known essay’s sense of places lends itself more to poetry than nonfiction. As Lee guides us through an enchanted wood, it gives us an insight into the inspiration behind Lee’s supernatural stories.

Von den Lagunen in Baja California bis zu den Gletschern des Nordpolarmeers legen Grauwalmütter mit ihren Kälbern jährlich Tausende von Meilen in dem sich aufgrund des Klimawandels erwärmenden Meer zurück. Es ist die längste Wanderung eines Säugetiers auf unserem Planeten. Doreen Cunningham, selbst alleinerziehende Mutter, folgt den Walen auf dieser gefährlichen Reise, zusammen mit ihrem zweijährigen Sohn Max - in Bussen, Zügen und auf Schiffen, allein und auf sich gestellt.