Throughout his award-winning photographic career, Bourseiller has recorded the splendors of untamed nature, from the immensities of the ice floe to the fury of the volcano. In "365 Ways to Save the Earth," he takes the reader on a daily journey through the planet, revealing its hidden face.
Published to commemorate the International Polar Year, this literary anthology features first-person narratives, cultural histories, nature and science writing, and fiction from such legendary polar explorers and writers as Jon Krakauer, Jack London, Diane Ackerman, Barry Lopez, and Ursula K. LeGuin.
La catAstrofe que viene es el libro de referencia sobre el cambio climAtico, un tema crucial y el mayor desafIo de nuestros tiempos Conocida por su periodismo polItico perspicaz e inquisitivo, Elizabeth Kolbert nos trae un libro clave del ecologismo contemporAneo que muchos han comparado con el mItico "Primavera silenciosa." Uniendo sus vastos ...
Natural disasters, climate change, the exploitation of the world's resources and human development are changing our planet at a relentless pace. Now, using one hundred and fifty stunning images from the air, land and space, "Fragile Earth" brings together the most dramatic natural and man-made events. You can trace, building-by-building, the path ...
In writing that is both clear and unbiased, Kolbert - an acclaimed New Yorker journalist - approaches global warming from every angle. She travels to the Arctic, the North of England, Holland and Puerto Rico, interviews researchers and environmentalists, explains the science and the studies, draws frightening parallels to lost ancient ...
"New York Magazine" writer Kolbert joyously dissects the complicated workings of power in these lucid and riveting profiles of the people--such as Rudolph Giuliani, Boss Tweed and even Regis Philbin--who have taken a bite of the Big Apple.
"The Arctic" features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and works of cultural history, natural science and fiction about the North Pole.The contributors include British, American, Scandinavian and Russian explorers such as John Franklin, Fridtjof Nansen, Salomon August Andree, Knud Rasmussen ...
Kolbert, one of today's leading environmental journalists, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. Bringing together promising new voices and prize-winning favorites, this collection is "a delight for any fan of popular science" ("Publishers Weekly").
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