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A celebration of birding as an inclusive activity for everyone, from organizing members of the Feminist Bird Club. Birding is for everyone. That is the sentiment on which the Feminist Bird Club (FBC) was founded in 2016 and the spirit that is celebrated in this original and timely book. In these...

What is time? Does it exist? Can it be stopped? Can time's arrow be reversed? Can we ever free ourselves from the seemingly inexorable flow of time? Chronos is a mystery, and not only for us: it was a mystery for our distant ancestors too. In this book, Guido Tonelli guides us along the path to...

A New Yorker and an Economist Best Book of the Year In 1818, a curious root arrived in a small English village, tucked―seemingly by accident―in a packing case mailed from Brazil. The amateur botanist who cultivated it soon realized that he had something remarkable on his hands: an...

Struggling to house-train your dog—no matter what you try? If your dog still pees in the house, refuses to go outside, or seems impossible to train, you are not alone—and it’s not your fault. Many dogs face hidden challenges that make traditional house-training frustrating for even the most dedicated owners. House-Training the Difficult Dog delivers fast, effective results using a blend of proven strategies, expert guidance, and compassionate insight. Whether you're working with a stubborn puppy, an anxious rescue, or an adult dog set in his ways, this audiobook gives you the tools to succeed.

Four years after Therese Greenwood and her husband moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta, their new community was shattered by one of the worst wildfires in Canadian history. As the flames approached, they had only minutes to pack, narrowly escaping a fire that would rage for weeks, burn more than 85,000 hectares and force 80,000 people to flee. In this book, she tells her dramatic story, and contemplates mourning, memory, and rebuilding.

A thoughtful, illuminating rumination on the life lessons we can take from those who work the land and the millennia of wisdom they draw upon when they go about their day, 'making a living by turning light and time into money'. As with his previous bestsellers, John Connell skilfully synthesises...

Comment l’État peut-il répondre à la crise environnementale ? Cet essai de Maya Jegen met à l’épreuve les promesses de la croissance verte, retrace l’entrée dans l’Anthropocène et la Grande Accélération qui l’a suivie, et examine les verrous carbone qui contraignent l’action publique. En dialogue avec les travaux sur le passage de l’État-providence à un éco-État et sur l’économie politique du verdissement, il interroge les arbitrages entre protection des moyens de subsistance et ambition climatique.

Interweaving memoir and good old fashioned ice adventure, Kim Stanley Robinson takes readers along on the journeys that have happened before and the journeys that may never happen again. In May of 1911, Robert Scott and the twenty-four men under his command said good-bye to the sun and settled...

With high hopes, three hopeful young ladies enjoy the hot summer day with a tour at Harvard University, their sights set on changing the world and plans for the future. Little did they know, the sun had other plans. When a solar superstorm impacts Earth, producing a Coronal Mass Ejection, with an EMP that fries the power grid. These friends must find their way back to Maine. Dangers test them to their limits, and all hell breaks loose when one has reached the breaking point.

بودكاست مخصص لكشف الحقيقة حول العديد من الألغاز الخفية والمعارف المحظورة، مع معالجتها بأسلوب علمي. مقدم البرنامج، فادي، عالم متخصص في هذا المجال، ويجري تجارب حول دراسات الوعي والنشاط الخارق للطبيعة في مركز أسسه أعضاء سابقون في وكالة ناسا.

feMINisT^n – Der Podcast für Job & Karriere von Frauen in MINT. Du bist brilliant. Du lieferst. Aber irgendwie läuft es trotzdem nicht – und alle sagen: "Du musst nur..." Nein. In diesem Podcast spreche ich mit Frauen in MINT über das, was niemand laut sagt: Wie Systeme funktionieren, die ursprünglich nie für uns gebaut wurden. Keine Girlboss-Rhetorik. Keine leeren Erfolgsversprechen. Stattdessen: Ehrliche Gespräche über Machtdynamiken, berufliche Optionen und die Frage: Was willst DU eigentlich? Firmenwechsel mit Strategie. Gründung mit Realitätscheck. Bleiben, aber anders. Oder ...

**This program is read by Nicholas Ralph, star of the PBS Masterpiece series** "Add in the narration of Nicholas Ralph, and you have a first-rate audio experience. Ralph plays Herriot in the PBS series, but he does not simply bank on his star power. He narrates the stories with empathy and...

This program is read by the author. Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice—and what it takes to find shelter. Lessons for Survival is a probing series of pilgrimages from the...

"[Christopher Skaife's] natural storyteller's charm results in a performance that is conversational, funny, and self-deprecating...Ravenmaster is a joyful listening experience." — AudioFile Magazine This program is read by the author. The first behind-the-scenes account of life with the...

Throughout the centuries, the Amazon has yielded many of its secrets, but it still holds a few great mysteries. In 1996 experts got their first glimpse of one: a lone Indian, a tribe of one, hidden in the forests of southwestern Brazil. Previously uncontacted tribes are extremely rare, but a...

A thrilling tale of encounters with nature’s masters of biochemistry In Venomous, the molecular biologist Christie Wilcox investigates venoms and the animals that use them, revealing how they work, what they do to the human body, and how they can revolutionize biochemistry and medicine today...

“In Fernanda Santos’ expert hands, the story of 19 men and a raging wildfire unfolds as a riveting, pulse-pounding account of an American tragedy; and also as a meditation on manhood, brotherhood and family love. The Fire Line is a great and deeply moving book about courageous men and women...

Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely cold mountains...

In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way...

The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores. In 1904, the brilliant and driven...