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Vápence Slovenska 1. časť
Vápence sú takou bohatou a rozmanitou skupinou, že ich bolo potrebné rozdeliť. Tento zväzok "Vápence Slovenska - I. časť" obsahuje biohermné, krinoidové, sladkovodné, ooidové a onkoidové vápence. Zväzok "Vápence Slovenska - II. časť" bude zahrňova
ť plytkovodné mikritové vápence, pelagické mikritové vápence a červené hľuznaté vápence.
Milan Mišík, Daniela Reháková
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Bez lesů jsi v háji, člověče!
Kniha se zabývá hlavními ekologickými problémy světa, které rozebírá populárním stylem. Velká pozornost je věnována lesům, ať už našim, nebo tropickým. Autor pracoval a cestoval po celém světě, lesnictví se věnuje už 70 let, z toho 60 let pedagogicky působil na lesnické fakultě. Patřil také k prvním v Československu, kteří se zabývali tropickým lesnictvím. V průběhu 26 let pracoval v tropech celkem 9 let na projektech bilaterálních (Tanzanie, Afrika) a na čtyřech projektech multilaterálních pro FAO OSN (Bangladéš, Vietnam, Laos).
Kniha pojednává nejdříve o českých lesnících, kteří spolu s rakouskými a německými kolegy prakticky založili lesnictví jako obor i jako resort, který se pak šířil do celého světa.
Autor vychází z toho, že naše středoškolská mládež se nedozvídá nic o našem lesnictví, které začalo už v 60. letech pronikat do světa, a to především tropického, kde se už řešily významné problémy světové ekologie a lesnictví.
Otevřeně hodnotí masové ubývání tropických deštných lesů v Africe, Asii i Jižní Americe.
Zcela jednoznačně také odsuzuje situace, kdy se svolávají světové summity, které nic nikdy nevyřešily, ale zato trpěly rabování světových tropických lesů.
Kniha dokazuje, že i o velkých a světových ekologických a lesnických problémech se dá psát prostými slovy. Autor věří, že publikace pomůže otevřít oči mnoha lidem, kterým matou hlavu světoví politici, byznysmeni a média, hlavní opory ničení lesů na světě.
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12,95 €
13,63 €
Rewilding the Sea
In this indispensable follow up to his acclaimed The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World, Charles Clover chronicles how determined individuals are proving that the crisis in our oceans can be reversed, with benefits for both local communities and entire ecosystems. Rewilding the Sea celebrates what happens when we step aside and let nature repair the damage: whether it is the overfishing of bluefin tuna across the Atlantic, the destruction of coral gardens by dredgers in Lyme Bay or the restoration of oysters on the East Coast of America.
The latest scientific research shows that trawling and dredging create more CO2 than the aviation industry and damage vast areas of our continental shelves, stopping them soaking up carbon. We need to fish in different ways, where we fish at all. We can store carbon and have more fish by stepping aside more often and trusting nature.
Essential and revelatory, Rewilding the Sea propels us to rethink our relationship with nature and reveals that saving our oceans is easier than we think.
Fungi
Discover the fascinating stories behind some 300 species of fungi and understand the world of mushrooms like never before!
Did you know that fungi put the fizz in champagne and the flavour in chocolate? Fungi is everywhere we look: in a forest, under the sea, and in the kitchen. In this beautiful book, leading fungal biologists Professor Lynne Boddy and Dr Ali Ashby bring you closer to 300 species of mushrooms and lichens through fascinating facts, mushroom datasets, and detailed illustrations. Discover some of the fastest speeds in nature, specimens that glow in the dark, and fungi that clean up oil spills.
Humans have had a close relationship with mushrooms for thousands of years. Bringing together technology, medicine, food, culture, and nature, this fascinating book will open your eyes to the wonders of the hidden kingdom all around us.
One Midsummer's Day
It takes a whole universe to make one small black bird.
The bestselling author of Crow Country and writer of The Guardian's Counrtry Diary tells the story of all life on Earth through a single day spent in the company of swifts.
Swifts are among the most extraordinary of all birds. Their migrations span continents and their twelve-week stopover, when they pause to breed in European rooftops, is the very definition of summer. They may nest in our homes but much about their lives passes over our heads. No birds are more wreathed in mystery. Captivated, Mark Cocker sets out to capture their essence.
Over the course of one day in midsummer he devotes himself to his beloved black birds as they spiral overhead. Yet this is also a book about so much more. Swifts are a prism through which Cocker explores the profound interconnections of the whole biosphere.
From the deep-sea thermal vents where life was born to the 15 million degrees at the core of our Sun, he shows that life is a singular and glorious continuum. These birds without borders are a perfect symbol to express the unity of the living planet. But they also illuminate how no creature, least of all ourselves, can be said to be alive in isolation. We are all inextricably connected.
Drawing deeply on science, history, literature and a lifetime of close observation, One Midsummer's Day is a dazzling and wide-ranging celebration of all life on Earth by one of our greatest nature writers.
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25,95 €
Ice
The curious and vanishing world of ice in Greenland, told through 24 hours in the life of a polar scientist.
'Insightful, lyrical, and personal' - Jon Gertner
'Evokes the ice sheet's magnificence and fragility' - Elizabeth Kolbert
One of the least inhabited and most mysterious parts of the world, Greenland is a singular place on Earth from which to look for the future of our planet and question its history.
Polar scientist Marco Tedesco, a world-leading expert on ice and on climate change, takes us along as he and his fellow researchers conduct all-important measurements to understand the dramatic changes afoot on the immense polar ice cap. Following a day in the life of this disappearing world, Tedesco tells us about improbable 'polar camels', cryoconite holes, gigantic meteorite debris, the epic deeds of great Arctic explorers and the legends of Greenland's earliest populations.
Through these stories, anecdotes and curiosities, Tedesco passionately explains why this continent is something to be treasured and how it could tip the balance of our fate as a species. Blending science and Tedesco's personal journey, ICE is a book full of both wonder and urgency.
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12,95 €
Teológia XX. storočia
Dvadsiate storočie je poznačené prebudeným záujmom o teologické myslenie ako prorockú otázku o Bohu a človekovi a ich vzájomnom vzťahu. Túto teológiu niektorí nazývajú aj "teológiou genitívu", lebo sa v nej po stáročiach objavili nové metodologick
é prístupy a oblasti, ako je antropologický prístup, hermeneutické hľadisko, kategória dejín, politický rozmer evanjelia, alebo je to teológia pestovaná z pohľadu Tretieho sveta, oslobodenia, ekumenizmu, ženy a podobne. Pretože takmer dve tretiny toh
to storočia sme zo známych dôvodov nemohli celkom zreteľne sledovať vývoj tohto myslenia vo svete, je táto publikácia možno prvou po roku 1989, ktorá sa u nás pokúša ukázať hlavné smery teologického uvažovania na prahu tretieho tisícročia. V 16 kapit
olách sa pred nami postupne otvárajú fascinujúce stránky úvah o tom, ako dnes teológia preniká do kultúrneho, politického, sekulárneho, multietnického a postmoderného sveta, aby sa stala nevyhnutnou podmienkou odpovede na otázku, kto je Boh a kde sa
nachádza človek po dvoch tisícročiach kresťanstva (chýba v nich snáď len zmienka o pravoslávnej teológii).
Jozef Leščinský
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15,00 €
Climate Shock
If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you’d take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you’d reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there’s a 10 percent chance this might eventually lead to a catastrophe beyond anything we could imagine, why aren’t we doing more about climate change right now? We insure our lives against an uncertain future—why not our planet?
In Climate Shock, Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman explore in lively, clear terms the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing on and expanding from work previously unavailable to general audiences. They show that the longer we wait to act, the more likely an extreme event will happen. A city might go underwater. A rogue nation might shoot particles into the Earth’s atmosphere, geoengineering cooler temperatures. Zeroing in on the unknown extreme risks that may yet dwarf all else, the authors look at how economic forces that make sensible climate policies difficult to enact, make radical would-be fixes like geoengineering all the more probable. What we know about climate change is alarming enough. What we don’t know about the extreme risks could be far more dangerous. Wagner and Weitzman help readers understand that we need to think about climate change in the same way that we think about insurance—as a risk management problem, only here on a global scale.
With a new preface addressing recent developments Wagner and Weitzman demonstrate that climate change can and should be dealt with—and what could happen if we don’t do so—tackling the defining environmental and public policy issue of our time.
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26,50 €
The Boom
The “best all-around book yet on fracking” (San Francisco Chronicle) from a Pulitzer Prize finalist: “Gold's work is a tour de force of contemporary journalism” (Booklist).
First invented in 1947, hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has not only become a major source of energy, it is changing the way we use energy, and the energy we use. It is both a threat and a godsend for the environment, and it is leading the revival of manufacturing in the United States.
A definitive narrative history, The Boom follows the twists and turns in the development and adoption of this radical technology. It is a thrilling journey filled with colorful characters: the green-minded Texas oilman who created the first modern frack; a bare-knuckled Oklahoman natural gas empire-builder who gave the world an enormous new supply of energy and was brought down by his own success and excesses; an environmental leader whose embrace of fracking brought an end to his public career; and an aging fracking pioneer who is now trying to save the industry from itself.
A fascinating and exciting exploration of one of the most controversial and promising sources of energy, The Boom “brings new clarity to a subject awash in hype from all sides…a thoughtful, well-written, and carefully researched book that provides the best overview yet of the pros and cons of fracking. Gold quietly leads both supporters and critics of drilling to consider other views” (Associated Press).
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Emlősök - Természettudományi enciklopédia 3.
Az utóbbi 65 millió év során az emlősök váltak a Föld domináns állatcsoportjává. A 16 kötetes Természettudományi enciklopédia sorozat harmadik kötetében az olvasó megismerkedhet a mintegy 6500 fajt magában foglaló osztály eredetének és evolúciójának alapkérdéseivel, az emlősök alaki jellegzetességeivel, életmódjával, valamint az emberek és a többi emlősfaj viszonyával.
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6,11 €
6,43 €