In 2000 the dynamic Rhizome Collective transformed an abandoned warehouse in Austin, Texas, into a sustainability training center. The group's first book provides city dwellers with step-by-step instructions for producing food, collecting water, managing waste, reclaiming land, and generating energy.
Green Fire doesn't just pose the question of why are we here; it dares to answer it: humans are the thinking incarnation of nature. Along the way, the authors, two of Europe's most celebrated and original thinkers, freewheel through history, touching on the work of Charles Darwin, Rudyard Kipling, Francis Bacon, and even Baron von Munchausen to ...
Is modern man the logical conclusion of a long evolutionary journey? Or are humans merely an evolutionary accident? "The Chosen Species" answers these and many other questions about our origins. Authors Juan Luis Arsuaga and Ignacio Martinez are world-renowned paleoanthropologists and co-directors of the excavations at Atapuerca - a World Heritage ...
Modelos, Prentice Hall's newest composition book is designed to enhance students' critical thinking and interpretive skills. Taking a highly motivational approach, Modelos asks learners to comprehend and produce Spanish in a way in which they assume responsibility and accountability for their own work. At each juncture, Modelos strives to ...
William A. Dyrness, Veli-Matti Krkkinen, Juan F. Martinez and Simon Chan edit approximately 250 articles written by over 100 contributors representing the global spectrum of theological perspectives.
Achieving global sustainability will require the development of three elements: a shared vision of what a sustainable society is; new methods of analysis and modelling to understand and describe that vision; and new institutions and instruments that can make the vision a reality. This book examines these three elements and the importance of their ...
The strong and cohesive artistic avant-garde that emerged in Havana in the '20s was seminal in the evolution of the modern Cuban identity. Born around the turn of the century, the vanguardia painters shared the heady sense of confidence and nationalism that characterised progressive Cuban intellectuals of the time. This book, lavishly illustrated ...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is an area of huge research interest, attracting substantial attention from industry and academia for its enormous potential and its inherent challenges. This book delivers a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art related to the most important technological issues in WSN. This wide-ranging, reader-friendly text ...
Mexican Protestantism was born in the encounter between Mexican Catholics and Anglo American Protestants, after the United States ventured into the Southwest and wrested territory from Mexico in the early nineteenth century. "Sea la Luz" tells the story of Mexican converts and the churches they developed through the records of Protestant ...
Various generalizations of convex functions have been introduced in areas such as mathematical programming, economics, management science, engineering, stochastics and applied sciences, for example. Such functions preserve one or more properties of convex functions and give rise to models which are more adaptable to real-world situations than ...
The geometrical structure induced by convexity in mathematical programming has many useful properties: continuity and differentiability of the functions, separability and optimality conditions, duality, sensibility of the optimal solutions, and so on. Several of the most interesting ones are preserved when convexity is relaxed in quasiconvexity or ...
Esta micologa econmica escrita e ilustrada por el propio autor se presenta al pblico despus de ms de 40 aos de permanecer indita desde que fue pergeada y puesta a disposicin de la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, de la que Tablada era miembro de nmero.
Presents instructions for making dragons, a wooly mammoth, prehistoric fish, and other creatures from materials such as plasticine, clay, plaster of paris, and cardboard.
Provides instructions for creating such creatures as gnomes, ogres, giants, witches, skeletons, and even a haunted castle, using a variety of materials.
This text has the explicit intention of helping to establish two emerging fields of study - political ecology and ecological economics - whilst also investigating the relations between them. The book analyses several manifestations of the growing "environmental justice system", and also of "popular environmentalism" and the "environmentalism of ...
Presents step-by-step instructions for making several dinosaurs from clay, plasticine, papier-maché, and other materials. Includes basic facts about each dinosaur.
This text analyses several manifestations of the growing "environmental justice movement", and also of "popular environmentalism" and the "environmentalism of the poor", which will be seen in the coming decades as driving forces in the process to achieve an ecologically sustainable society. The author studies, in detail, many ecological ...
This book, explores a subject of growing significance. Acknowledging that the use of monetary value as a measuring rod is of limited applicability in assessing environmental and resource questions, "Ecological Economics" focuses instead on the crucial role played by the flows of energy and materials in the economy. Despite the dramatic increase in ...
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