Novedades del último mes en eBooks de Ecología. Medio ambiente

Este libro es una versión remozada, y actualizada, de una obra que, con el título El decrecimiento explicado con sencillez, ha disfrutado de seis ediciones. En sus páginas se recuerda que los límites medioambientales y de recursos del planeta invitan a concluir que, ante un colapso general que se antoja cada vez mas probable, en el Norte rico tenemos la obligacion de reducir con urgencia los niveles de produccion y de consumo. Desde la perspectiva del decrecimiento, que reclama salir del capitalismo, de la explotacion y de la desigualdad que este impone, tenemos que asumir, con todo, varias tareas adicionales: recuperar la vida social que hemos ido perdiendo, desarrollar formas de ocio creativo, repartir los trabajos, reducir el tamaño de muchas de las infraestructuras que hoy empleamos, restaurar el vigor de la vida local y, en fin, apostar por la sobriedad y la sencillez voluntarias. ¿Que es el decrecimiento? ofrece una introduccion breve y comprensible a la perspectiva del decrecimiento.Carlos Taibo ha sido durante treinta años profesor de Ciencia Politica en la Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Entre sus obras sobre decrecimiento y materias afines se cuentan En defensa del decrecimiento, Colapso. Capitalismo terminal, transicion ecosocial, ecofascismo, Ante el colapso y Decrecimiento: una propuesta razonada.

Energy is Life: Why Environmentalism Went Nuclear follows Zion Lightss personal and powerful journey: from grassroots green activism to becoming one of the UKs leading advocates for nuclear energy. In a time of climate crisis, energy poverty and growing demand for clean power, she examines why long-established environmentalists like herself once feared nuclear energy, why many have since come to embrace it, and makes a compelling case for why nuclear energy must be part of the solution. Accessible, evidence-based, and deeply human, this book challenges common myths and invites readers to rethink what it really means to care for people and planet alike. If you believe in a greener, fairer future, this book just might change your mind and give you hope.

A coletânea Ciências em Sintonia: Explorando Conexões entre Exatas e Naturais – Volume 8 reúne pesquisas que evidenciam o diálogo entre diferentes campos do conhecimento científico, destacando como a

Esta tese investiga os potenciais socioeconômicos e ambientais da exploração comercial da paina da árvore Munguba, espécie típica das várzeas amazônicas. O trabalho integra análises ecológicas, produ

O livro reúne lições sobre os sistemas alimentares urbanos e seus desafios, propondo caminhos para tornar a alimentação mais justa, sustentável e inclusiva, em diálogo entre academia, gestão pública

A Coleção Vizinhos Indesejados – Ameaças ao Equilíbrio Ambiental apresenta seu primeiro volume: Há extranhos na nossa turma: Moluscos Não Nativos (Exóticos e Invasores) na região dos Campos Gerais, P

Em um contexto de acelerada degradação ambiental – visível nos incêndios que devastam florestas, nos rios adoecidos, na poluição do ar e nos demais eventos climáticos extremos – o Direito é chamado a

Transformar resíduos em soluções sustentáveis é o desafio do nosso tempo. Em "Biotecnologia e Sustentabilidade: o poder do soro lácteo na bioprodução de etanol – convertendo problemas ambientais em e

O que nos permite afirmar que a Mooca é um típico bairro paulistano? Quais elementos são necessários para que essa qualificação se pronuncie?A cidade de São Paulo é uma composição de várias narrativa

Submerged Forests distills coastal observation into a rigorous synthesis, tracing drowned tree stumps and peat beds that fringe Britains shores. From case studies of rooted stumps in situ within peat and estuarine silts, Reid reconstructs post-glacial shoreline migration and sea-level change, using stratigraphic sections, plant macrofossils, and occasional artefacts to date phases from late Pleistocene to early Holocene. Written in measured, lucid field prose, it situates coastal peats within debates on eustasy, isostasy, and marine erosion. Clement Reid, geologist and palaeobotanist with the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, brought a rare synthesis of botanical acuity and coastal mapping to the subject. Collaboration with Eleanor Mary Reid on fossil seeds honed his capacity to read peat deposits as time-series. Years on the Cromer Forest-bed and receding shores supplied the empirical foundation, and his interest in Britains former land connections framed the books broader inferences. This classic rewards geologists, archaeologists, and environmental historians seeking a clear, data-rich account of Holocene shoreline change. It remains an exemplary model of how to build large narratives from humble evidence. Read it for its method: a concise, lucid lesson in making landscapes speak across deep time.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Micrographia (1665) opens a vast new world by recording, in crystalline prose and sumptuous copperplates, the textures and structures of minute bodiesflea and louse, bee-sting and feather, mold, needle point, and the honeycombed cork in which Hooke first named the cells. Organized as a sequence of observations with reflective Inquiries, the book marries measurement with speculation, and sets the Baconian ideal of experiment within the visual rhetoric of the Scientific Revolution. Its dramatic fold-out plates and patient, calibrated descriptions forged a language and iconography for early microscopy. Robert Hooke, polymath Curator of Experiments to the nascent Royal Society and longtime collaborator of Robert Boyle, brought to this work a craftsmans intimacy with instruments and a philosophers appetite for causes. His refinements in lenses and illumination, his habit of daily experiments, and his duty to stage public demonstrations all fed the project; so too did his draughtsmans hand, which translated observation into authoritative image and argument. Readers of science, art, and intellectual history will find Micrographia indispensable: a foundational statement of modern empiricism and a gallery of the unseen. Approach it to witness method at work, to savor disciplined wonder, and to grasp how tools and images re-make knowledge.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

In Beaver World is Enos A. Millss intimate natural history of Castor canadensis, distilled from years of patient vigils beside mountain streams. Chapter by chapter he unfolds the beavers life cycle, social organization, and architectural craftdams, lodges, canalslinking each to seasonal rhythms and risk. His prose couples anecdote with measurement and plain exposition, situating the beaver as a keystone engineer whose hydrologic works expand wetlands and diversify habitat. The result is a narrative that anticipates ecosystem ecology while remaining rooted in vivid field scenes and the cadence of early twentiethcentury American nature writing. Mills, a Colorado naturalist, guide, and key advocate of Rocky Mountain National Park, wrote from a life embedded in the high country. Managing a lodge and leading expeditions, he kept notebooks on nearby colonies through droughts and wintersexperience that grounds his plea to recognize beavers as conservators of water and soil. Scholars of environmental history, field naturalists, and readers curious about nonhuman engineers will find the book instructive and restorative. It is recommended for those engaged in watershed restoration, rewilding, or climate adaptation, and for general readers seeking lucid, humane science writing with enduring practical relevance.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

THE LAST OF THE PLAINSMEN recounts Zane Greys expedition with the game warden "Buffalo" Jones across the ArizonaUtah plateau, from the Kaibab forests to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. A hybrid of travelogue, natural history, and adventure reportage, it tracks cougar hunts, rare bison, desert storms, and settlements at the edge of empire. Greys vivid, sometimes purple prose is balanced by field observation, placing the book at the hinge between dimenovel romance, documentary realism, and ProgressiveEra conservation. Grey, an Ohioborn dentist turned novelist and ardent outdoorsman, pursued authenticity through direct experience. Traveling with C. J. "Buffalo" Jones gave him access to techniques of roping predators alive and to Rooseveltera ideas about preservation. The journey furnished notebooks and scenes later refined in Riders of the Purple Sage. Readers of Western history, environmental studies, and narrative nonfiction will find this an invaluable, if morally conflicted, document. Approach its portrayals of wildlife and Indigenous peoples critically, yet savor its canyon vistas and kinetic chases. As frontier elegy and genre seedbed, THE LAST OF THE PLAINSMEN remains bracing and essential.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

A Shepherds Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs is Hudsons deeply textured portrait of a shepherding community centered on the figure of Caleb Bawcombe, rendered through episodic scenes of work, festivity, and hardship across the seasons. Combining oral biography with natural history, Hudsons prose is limpid yet exact, attentive to chalkland light, birdsong, and the craft of dogs and men. Set on the Salisbury Plain at the edge of Edwardian change, the book extends the English pastoral from Jefferies and Hardy into an ethnography of a vanishing economy. Born on the Argentine pampas, Hudson brought to England a lifelong habit of watchful wandering and an outsiders sympathy for open country. A self-taught ornithologist and celebrated nature writer, he tramped the Wiltshire downs gathering life histories from shepherds, sedimenting memory with field observation. Alarmed by enclosure, militarization, and mechanization, he shaped these interviews into a conserving art, preserving dialect, custom, and ecological knowledge before modernization effaced them. This book rewards readers of nature writing, social historians, and ecocritical scholars alike. Read it for its patient craft and humane intelligence: a luminous record of pre-mechanized husbandry and a masterclass in listening to place as carefully as to people.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Entre a Lama e as Estrelas, uma Sinfonia da Alma Gaúcha" Neste livro, a poesia é um rio que arrasta consigo histórias de dor e esperança. Das enchentes que engoliram casas e memórias no Vale do Taquari a saga mitologica das almas gemeas em busca de redenço, *Harpa Cosmica* e um mosaico de vozes: mes que protegem filhos em abrigos improvisados, cavalos que resistem em telhados submersos, amores que transcendem seculos. Com versos que ecoam a grandiosidade de Cames e a crueza de Aluisio Azevedo, O autor tece uma narrativa epica sobre a hybris humana e a força da natureza. Aqui, a filosofia estoica dialoga com a espiritualidade de Chico Xavier, e a reconstruço de Porto Alegre torna-se metafora da cura interior.