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G. M. Heal, Geoffrey Heal
Nature and the Marketplace: Capturing the Value of Ecosystem Services

— y.
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Description: In recent years, scientists have begun to focus on the idea that healthy, functioning ecosystems provide essential services to human populations, ranging from water purification to food and medicine to climate regulation. Lacking a healthy environment, these services would have to be provided through mechanical means, at a tremendous economic and social cost. Nature and the Marketplace examines the controversial proposition that markets should be designed to capture the value of those services. Written by an economist with a background in business, it evaluates the real prospects for various of nature`s marketable services to `turn profits` at levels that exceed the profits expected from alternative, ecologically destructive, business activities. The author: describes the infrastructure that natural systems provide, how we depend on it, and how we are affecting it explains the market mechanism and how it can lead to more efficient resource use looks at key… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1559637951
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Geoffrey Heal
Nature and the Marketplace: Capturing the Value of the Ecosystem

— y.
Publisher: Island Press
Description: In recent years, scientists have begun to focus on the idea that healthy, functioning ecosystems provide essential services to human populations, ranging from water purification to climate regulation. Nature and the Marketplace examines the real prospects for nature`s marketable services to `turn profits` at levels that exceed the profits expected from alternative, ecologically destructive, business activities. As an accessible but rigorous introduction to market-based conservation, Nature and the Marketplace will be essential reading for professionals, students, and scholars in conservation biology, ecology, environmental economics, environmental policy, and related fields. Geoffrey Heal is Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business in New York and coauthor of Economic Theory and Exhaustible Resources (Cambridge, 1980). [detailed...]

ISBN: 1-55963-796-X
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Nature dan`s l`art. Photo Poche

2007 y.
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ISBN: 978-2-7427-4965-2
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Paul R. Greenough, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia

— y.
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ISBN: 0822331497
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Alan Titchmarsh
Nature of Britain: A Celebration of our Landscape and Wildlife

2008 y.
Publisher: BBC Books
Description: The Nature of Britain is a landmark prime time series in Britain in which Alan Titchmarsh, author of more than 30 gardening books, takes viewers on a journey of discovery through eight different British natural habitats and their unique flora and fauna, piecing together the jigsaw the makes up his homeland. This visually stunning book offers a closer look at the animals and plants of Britain`s landscape, following the structure of the series with chapters ranging from mountains, lakes, forests, and seashores to urban landscapes. Painting a beautiful contemporary portrait of Britain`s wildlife, this survey features fascinating essays on each habitat, followed by identification guides to the species that can be found in each one. Издание на английском языке. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0563493984
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Richard Fawkes
Nature of the Beast (Military Science Fiction Series)

2004 y.
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Description: Book Description The forces of annihilation Throughout the galaxy, the near-invincible armies of the alien Remor have set their sights on one goal: the complete extermination of the human race. Outnumbered and outgunned, The Interstellar Defense League cannot afford to discard any asset -- so a disgraced Sector Commander is being given a chance to redeem himself … by sacrificing his life. The fate of Christoph Stone -- and, perhaps, the destiny of all humankind -- is to be decided on a distant frontier planet nestled deep in enemy-controlled space. Saddled with shockingly green troops, a captain with a checkered past, and a trouble-making civilian expeditionary force, Stone`s mission is clear and clearly suicidal. Because even his superiors are unaware of the weapon the Remor have waiting for the human invaders as they attempt to retake a captive world: an instrument of destruction that is demonic, unstoppable … and obscenely human. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0060536772
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Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty

2008 y.
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ISBN: 0231138873
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TYCHO DE BOER
Nature, Business, and Community in North Carolina`s Green Swamp

2008 y.
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Description: `The nature of scholarship in environmental history is moving away from the activist-oriented approach and toward the awareness that all human interaction changes the landscape in some way. Tycho de Boer`s book contributes meaningfully to the profession`s effort to examine this process of interaction more subtly.`--Stephen Wallace Taylor, Macon State College `De Boer demonstrates an enviable sophistication that should render any reader wary of hasty explication of business vs. natural resources.`--Jack Temple Kirby, Miami (Ohio) University This environmental history underscores the uneasy balance between conservation and commerce. By using North Carolina`s Green Swamp as a case study, Tycho de Boer illustrates the struggle of a rural area trying to preserve its natural environment while encouraging economic growth. De Boer highlights the complex relationship between the swamp, located in the extreme southeast corner of the state, local inhabitants, and outside entrepreneurs. He… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0813032482
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Axel Goodbody
Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature: The Challenge of Ecocriticism (New Perspectives in German Studies)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0230535453
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Nature-based Tourism, Environment and Land Management (Ecotourism Book Series)

2004 y.
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Description: Tourism based on natural environments is a huge international industry, requiring access to land with scenery, native plants, and wildlife. In turn, land managers need money to maintain the land and all its resources. Looking at the economic, social and nvironmental consequences of nature-based tourism, this book discusses the importance of links and partnerships, as well as the conflicts between commercial tourism interests and land management agencies. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0851997325
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Geerat J. Vermeij
Nature: An Economic History

2004 y.
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Description: From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bodies of thought--economics, evolution, and history--that have developed largely in mutual isolation. Here, Geerat Vermeij undertakes a groundbreaking and provocative exploration of the facts and theories of biology, economics, and geology to show how processes common to all economic systems--competition, cooperation, adaptation, and feedback--govern evolution as surely as they do the human economy, and how historical patterns in both human and nonhuman evolution follow from this principle. Using a wealth of examples of evolutionary innovations, Vermeij argues that evolution and economics are one. Powerful consumers and producers exercise disproportionate controls on the characteristics, activities, and distribution of all life forms. Competition-driven demand by consumers, when coupled with supply-side conditions permitting economic… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0691115273
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Geerat J. Vermeij
Nature: An Economic History

2006 y.
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Description: From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bodies of thought--economics, evolution, and history--that have developed largely in mutual isolation. Here, Geerat Vermeij undertakes a groundbreaking and provocative exploration of the facts and theories of biology, economics, and geology to show how processes common to all economic systems--competition, cooperation, adaptation, and feedback--govern evolution as surely as they do the human economy, and how historical patterns in both human and nonhuman evolution follow from this principle. Using a wealth of examples of evolutionary innovations, Vermeij argues that evolution and economics are one. Powerful consumers and producers exercise disproportionate controls on the characteristics, activities, and distribution of all life forms. Competition-driven demand by consumers, when coupled with supply-side conditions permitting economic… [detailed...]

ISBN: 069112793X
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Adrian Davies
Nature: Digital Photographers Handbook (Digital Photographers Handbook)

2004 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionNATURE is the fifth book in THE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHERS HANDBOOK series. The images are demystified into four processes: Shoot it, Scan it, Manipulate it, and Print it. The book covers specific digital technologies--from cameras, scanners and printers to image processing software--as well as the different types of subject matter and the appropriate techniques specific to them. A quick reference glossary completes the package, giving readers the know-how to use their digital equipment to its full capacity while composing and processing professional-quality nature shots. NATURE is the ultimate reference guide for the amateur, semi-professional and professional photographers and students, as well as biologists and other professionals working in nature-related fields, wanting to switch to or maximize their digital potential. [detailed...]

ISBN: 2880467802
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Paul Mason
Nature`s Armor and Defenses (Raintree Atomic)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 1410929655
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Dan Hooper
Nature`s Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force

2008 y.
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Description: The first accessible book on a theory of physics that explains the relationship between the particles and forces that make up our universe. For decades, physicists have been fascinated with the possibility that two seemingly independent aspects of ou world—matter and force—may in fact be intimately connected and inseparable facets of nature. This idea, known as supersymmetry, is considered by many physicists to be one of the most beautiful and elegant theories ever conceived. According to this theory however, there is much more to our universe than we have witnessed thus far. In particular, supersymmetry predicts that for each type of particle there must also exist others, called superpartners. To the frustration of many particle physicists, no such uperpartner particles have ever been observed. As the world`s most powerful particle accelerator—the Large Hadron Collider—begins operating in 2008, this may be about to change. By discovering the forms of matter predicted by… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0061558362
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Richard Firn
Nature`s Chemicals: The Natural Products that shaped our world (Oxford Biology)

2010 y.
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Description: Natural Products (NPs) is the term used to describe the hundreds of thousands of chemical compounds or substances that are continually produced by living organisms (plants and microbes). Hundreds of millions of tons of these chemicals are generated annually, and the trade in just a few of these has dominated human economic activity for thousands of years. Indeed the current world geopolitical map has been shaped by attempts to control the supply of a few of these compounds. Every day of our lives each human spends time and money trying to procure the NPs of their choice. However, despite their overwhelming influence on human culture, they remain poorly understood. Yet a knowledge of NPs can help in our search for new drugs, further the debate about GM manipulation, help us address environmental pollution, and enable a better understanding of drug trafficking. Nature`s Chemicals is the first book to describe Natural Products (NPs) in an evolutionary context, distilling the few simple… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0199566836
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Brian Goodwin
Nature`s Due: Healing Our Fragmented Culture

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0863155960
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Stephen Bocking, Rutgers University Press
Nature`s Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment

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Description: It seems self-evident that science plays a central role in environmental affairs. Regulatory agencies, businesses, and public interest groups all draw on scientific research to support their claims. However, some critics describe science not as the solution to environmental problems, but as their source. Moreover, the science itself is often a basis of controversy, as debates over global warming and environmental health risks have shown. Nature`s Experts explores the contributions and challenges presented when scientific authority enters the realm of environmental affairs. Stephen Bocking focuses on four major areas of environmental politics: the formation of environmental values and attitudes, management of natural resources such as forests and fish, efforts to address international environmental issues such as climate change, and decisions relating to environmental and health risks. In each area, practical examples and case studies illustrate that science must fulfill two… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0813533988
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Karl S. Zimmerer, Kenneth R. Young
Nature`s Geography: New Lessons for Conservation in Developing Countries

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Description: `The best hope for protecting and sustaining the earth rests in understanding the way it works, particularly the ways in which human activities shape the natural world. The geographers reporting here bring a special set of skills to their work. They showus how complicated, delicate, and enigmatic the interactions of people and nature can be, and how careful we must be in our tinkering if we want to keep celebrating a planet like this one.`-David R. Brower, Earth Island Institute `This is a substantial and scholarly contribution by geographers to the biological conservation literature.`-Thomas T. Veblen, University of Colorado Developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are increasingly influenced by human-induced environmental changes. It is crucial that sustainable development be based on insights into these expanding processes-conservation as well as deterioration. Nature`s Geography offers a new perspective on the geographical nature of these changes. The book… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0299159108
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Karl S. Zimmerer, Kenneth R. Young
Nature`s Geography: New Lessons for Conservation in Developing Countries

— y.
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Description: `The best hope for protecting and sustaining the earth rests in understanding the way it works, particularly the ways in which human activities shape the natural world. The geographers reporting here bring a special set of skills to their work. They showus how complicated, delicate, and enigmatic the interactions of people and nature can be, and how careful we must be in our tinkering if we want to keep celebrating a planet like this one.`-David R. Brower, Earth Island Institute `This is a substantial and scholarly contribution by geographers to the biological conservation literature.`-Thomas T. Veblen, University of Colorado Developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are increasingly influenced by human-induced environmental changes. It is crucial that sustainable development be based on insights into these expanding processes-conservation as well as deterioration. Nature`s Geography offers a new perspective on the geographical nature of these changes. The book… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0299159140
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Carla Yanni
Nature`s Museums: Victorian Sciences And The Architecture Of Display

2005 y.
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Description: Amazon.comScientists in the medieval and early-modern eras faced many obstacles to sharing their discoveries, among them the lack of organized, comparative collections of specimens. Such assemblages were almost exclusively in the hands of wealthy individuals, and scholars of more modest means had to content themselves with `cabinets of wonder,` potpourris of natural curiosities whose message was often no more profound than `behold, death is near.` One of the signal developments of the Victorian era, observes art historian Carla Yanni, was the building of great museums, accessible to both scholars and the interested public, to house large collections of fossils, minerals, and other relics of the natural world. Some of these museums, such as London`s Pantherion, offered astonishing and sometimes fictitious spectacles: in the Pantherion, for example, `stuffed animals were staged in frightening battles,` while a great artificial swamp filled with sculptures of dinosaurs ringed the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1568984723
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Patricia Thomas
Nature`s Paintbox: A Seasonal Gallery of Art and Verse (Millbrook Picture Books)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0822568071
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Fiona Danks, Jo Schofield
Nature`s Playground: Activities, Crafts, and Games to Encourage Children to Get Outdoors

2007 y.
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ISBN: 1556527233
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Peter Friederici
Nature`s Restoration: People and Places on the Front Lines of Conservation

2006 y.
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Description: With fewer and fewer pristine places on earth left to preserve, restoration is the `new` conservation. Yet the work is anything but easy. Ecology is complex, and restoration projects are often controversial. How do we know what`s natural? What should nature look like? Can we ever really turn back the clock? These debates have real consequences for the land, and for the values people live by. Nature`s Restoration poses intriguing questions about how people can live on the earth without destroying its natural systems. Through detailed reporting and numerous interviews, Friederici`s lyrical writing puts us on the front lines of restoration to learn how this growing movement shapes places and inspires people. Nature`s Restoration relates the passion of ordinary citizens who are changing the way we think about nature. They are restoring animal habitats, reintroducing native plants, bringing back lost species, and gaining a greater intimacy with the natural world. On a planet… [detailed...]

ISBN: 155963085X
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Gretchen C. Daily
Nature`s Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems

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Description: Life itself as well as the entire human economy depends on goods and services provided by earth`s natural systems. The processes of cleansing, recycling, and renewal, along with goods such as seafood, forage, and timber, are worth many trillions of dollars annually, and nothing could live without them. Yet growing human impacts on the environment are profoundly disrupting the functioning of natural systems and imperiling the delivery of these services. Nature`s Services brings together world-renowned scientists from a variety of disciplines to examine the character and value of ecosystem services, the damage that has been done to them, and the consequent implications for human society. Contributors including Paul R. Ehrlich, Donald Kennedy, Pamela A. Matson, Robert Costanza, Gary Paul Nabhan, Jane Lubchenco, Sandra Postel, and Norman Myers present a detailed synthesis of our current understanding of a suite of ecosystem services and a preliminary assessment of their economic… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1559634766
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Samuel Colman
Nature`s harmonic unity: a treatise on its relation to proportional form

2009 y.
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Description: 2009 Reprint of the original 1912 edition. Paperback 327pp. With 302 illustrations by the author. Baumring`s Top Pick for an Understanding of Harmonic Order of Nature. Beautiful Analysis of the Harmonic Structure of All Types of Forms in Nature Clearly Showing the Order of their Form. `A monumental work of great erudition showing the fundamental unity of all design in nature, from the microscopic to the galactic, but most especially the unity of design in architecture, and biology. The original 1912 edition is very rare. This is the only cloth reprint, other reprints lack illustrations. The handful of folding plates in the original edition have here been reduced to fit one page each. It has been interesting to compare this work with that of Thompson`s On Growth and Form (see catalogue 75), and then to compare these two books with Neal`s All Done with Mirrors. Neal, who writes as a Platonist, concentrates on the ancient world, and shows that the ancients knew most if not all that… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1578987911
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Karen Barnes
Naturopathic First Aid: A Guide to Treating Minor First Aid Conditions With Natural Medicines

2004 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionConcise guide to assembling basic and specialized naturopathic first aid kits. Second Revised and Updated Edition. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1897025130
Book size: —; Page extent: 141.

 

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Leon Chaitow
Naturopathic Physical Medicine: Theory and Practice for Manual Therapists and Naturopaths

2008 y.
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Description: Provides a philosophical naturopathic perspective, as well as practical clinical applications, for manual and physical approaches to health care. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0443103909
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Joyce Carol Oates
Naughty Cherie!

2008 y.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Description: Naughty Cherie is the cutest kitten in the litter, but she certainly isn`t the best-behaved one! She tries, but she can`t seem to stay out of trouble. Sitting alone in the corner as punishment, she finds a small crack in the wall that leads to a place called Little Friends Kindercare. But after seeing the naughty behavior of the other baby animals in the kindercare, Little Cherie returns home a changed kitten. This lovable tale from Joyce Carol Oates and Mark Graham includes a valuable message that makes for a purrrfect bedtime story. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0060743581
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Nikol Lohr
Naughty Needles: Sexy, Saucy Knits for the Bedroom and Beyond (Potter Craft)

2006 y.
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Description: Fulfill your sex kitten fantasies and your crafting jones at the same time: knit naughty! Naughty Needles is a fun and feisty knitting adventure filled with designs that can go from bedroom to costume party and back again. Play it sweet in a Fembot babydoll nightie or sex it up in Hootchie Kootchie pasties. When you’re feeling frisky, knit up the Baby Blue-Ball Gag or play dress-up in the naughty nurse cap or the felted Red Riding Hood cape. New and experienced knitters alike will find inventive and easy-to-follow patterns. And since the garments aren’t exactly full-coverage, they don’t take much time to complete. With inspiration from retro icons like surfer Gidget, Mrs. Robinson, and cavegirl Raquel Welch, Nikol Lohr pushes the boundaries of the traditional “wifely” crafts into the age of Sex and the City and cuddle parties. Part how-to guide, part peep show, Naughty Needles is a brash, tongue-in-cheek take on an age-old… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0307337375
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Eric Jerome Dickey
Naughty or Nice

2004 y.
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Description: This winter, the New York Times bestselling author spices things up with something hot. In Naughty or Nice , Eric Jerome Dickey explores the lives of three sisters, each with their own man problems. But this holiday season, Frankie, Livvy, and Tommie McBroom are not only getting together, but finally gettin` it together-and discovering what family, sisterhood, and love are all about. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0451212983
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