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Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. This created the healthiest, most sustainable, and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology.

In Europe: A Natural History, world-renowned scientist, explorer, and conservationist Tim Flannery applies the eloquent interdisciplinary approach he used in his ecological histories of Australia and North America to the story of Europe. He begins 100 million years ago, when the continents of Asia, North America, and Africa interacted to create an island archipelago that would later become the Europe we know today. It was on these ancient tropical lands that the first distinctly European organisms evolved.

Dans "L'Intelligence des plantes", Stefano Mancuso prouvait que les plantes sont des êtres hors normes qui, bien qu’elles n'aient ni cerveau ni système nerveux central, sont capables de comprendre, de réagir et de s'adapter à leur environnement. Dans "La révolution des plantes", Mancuso pousse son analyse en révélant les capacités essentielles des plantes à innover, à se souvenir et à apprendre, capacités qui pourraient nous aider à trouver des solutions créatives aux problèmes technologiques et écologiques actuels.

When you think of evolution, the picture that most likely comes to mind is a straight-forward progression, the iconic illustration of a primate morphing into a proud, upright human being. But in reality, random events have played huge roles in determining the evolutionary histories of everything from lions to lobsters to humans. However, random genetic novelties are most likely to become fixed in small populations. It is mathematically unlikely that this will happen in large ones.

Sarah Wiener, Köchin, Nachhaltigkeitsikone, Biobäuerin, Imkerin entführt uns in die faszinierende Welt der Bienen, die ein maßgeblicher Indikator für die Gesundheit unseres Lebensraumes sind. Ihr Credo: Bienenvölker sind komplexe Persönlichkeiten, sie verfügen über spezifische Charaktere und Eigenschaften, und sie können uns lehren, wie ein funktionierendes Gemeinwesen mit Werten wie Solidarität, Vertrauen, Arbeitsteilung und Demokratie entsteht.

En moins de dix ans, la révolution épigénétique a bouleversé la biologie : l'environnement où nous évoluons, les aliments que nous consommons, les comportements et croyances que nous adoptons, les relations affectives et sociales que nous tissons sont autant de facteurs qui modulent, réveillent ou bloquent l'activité de nos gènes. Autrement dit, la "dictature" des gènes n'existe pas. Si nous avons bien hérité des chromosomes de nos parents, cela ne représente plus la fatalité que nous imaginions.

Beginning with his interactions with Dr Salim Ali, the legendary ornithologist - who was also his grand-uncle - wildlife biologist Rauf Ali takes the listener on a journey through India’s natural history and the beginning of ecological studies in India. Rauf was one of the first Indians to complete a PhD in wildlife biology - he researched the social behaviour of bonnet macaques in the forests of Mundanthurai region in Tamil Nadu. In the late 1980s, he was instrumental in setting up one of India’s first master's programmes in ecology.

Why are we the way we are? Why do some of us find it impossible to calm a quick temper or to shake anxiety? The debate has always been divided between nature and nurture, but as psychology professor Daniel P. Keating demonstrates in Born Anxious, new DNA science points to a third factor that allows us to inherit both the nature and the nurture of previous generations - with significant consequences.

Birds of a Feather is ultimately a love story between veterans and the birds they nurse back to health and between Dr. Lindner and her husband, a veteran with PTSD, who healed at Serenity Park. Full of remarkable people and colorful birds, this audiobook reminds us that we all have the power to make a difference.

La medicina acompaña al hombre desde el inicio de los tiempos, siempre hemos conocido la enfermedad y la muerte y siempre hemos luchado, con todos nuestros medios, contra ellas. Desde la Prehistoria, en la que la curación estaba ligada a la magia, hasta la actualidad, en la que existen máquinas nanotecnológicas o píldoras capaces de regular casi todos nuestros procesos, la historia de la medicina es una aventura apasionante llena de hombres que sacrificaron todo por acabar con las enfermedades principales de sus comunidades.

Désormais légal au Canada, le cannabis sort de l’ombre pour devenir un produit dont on peut (et doit!) discuter. Le hic, c’est que cette drogue, beaucoup plus complexe que l’alcool, demeure largement méconnue et entourée de mythes et de préjugés. Ce petit guide vise à informer les Canadiens sur les aspects pratiques, scientifiques et économiques du cannabis. Sans le dramatiser ni le banaliser, il cherche à donner l’heure juste en fonction des meilleures connaissances actuelles.

Insects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do it, and what can we learn from them? In How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls, David Hu takes listeners on an accessible, wondrous journey into the world of animal motion. From basement labs at MIT to the rain forests of Panama, Hu shows how animals have adapted and evolved to traverse their environments, taking advantage of physical laws with results that are startling and ingenious.

From the Siberian permafrost to balmy California, scientists across the globe are working to resurrect all kinds of extinct animals, from ones that just left us to those that have been gone for many thousands of years. Their tools in this hunt are both fossils and cutting-edge genetic technologies. Some of these scientists are driven by sheer curiosity; others view the lost species as a powerful weapon in the fight to preserve rapidly changing ecosystems. It seems certain that these animals will walk the earth again, but what world will that give us? And is any of this a good idea?

Il più vecchio albero italiano di cui sia certa l'età è un pino loricato che cresce in Calabria abbarbicato sul Pollino. È nato nel 1026, più giovane quindi di un suo omonimo nato nel Nord della Grecia nel 941 e considerato il più vecchio essere vivente del Mediterraneo. Il più vecchio del mondo invece è un abete rosso (un albero di Natale, per intenderci) che vive in Svezia e che nel 2008 dovrebbe aver compiuto 9550 anni. Ancorati alle radici, gli alberi non si muovono.

In this delightful sequel to Idiot Brain, Dean Burnett explores these questions from a neuroscientific perspective. He combines the latest research and theories about how the brain works with interviews and contributions from relevant individuals, such as relationship experts, psychology professors, comedy writers, celebrities, and pretty much anyone else involved in bringing about happiness in others. Happy Brain elucidates our understanding of what happiness actually is, where it comes from, and what exactly is going on in our brains when we’re in a cheery state.

Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships that bind the human and natural worlds. In Buzz, the beloved Thor Hanson takes us on a journey that begins 125 million years ago, when a wasp first dared to feed pollen to its young. From honeybees and bumbles to lesser-known diggers, miners, leafcutters, and masons, bees have long been central to our harvests, our mythologies, and our very existence. They've given us sweetness and light, the beauty of flowers, and as much as a third of the foodstuffs we eat. And, alarmingly, they are at risk of disappearing.

Für den New Yorker Anwalt David Berger gerät die Welt aus den Fugen: Seit Nächten kann er nicht schlafen, sondern bleibt rund um die Uhr wach. Kurz darauf werden seine Freundin und sein bester Freund ermordet, und für die Polizei steht fest, dass er der Täter ist. Unterstützung auf der Flucht erhält David von der Archäologin Nina, die aus unbekannten Gründen seine Nähe sucht. David wird bald klar: Das, was ihm bislang den Schlaf geraubt hat, kann ihn das Leben kosten. Er ahnt nicht, dass sich hinter seiner plötzlichen Schlaflosigkeit eines der am besten gehüteten Geheimnisse der Menschheit verbirgt.

Al más puro estilo de Stephen Jay Gould (El pulgar del panda, Brontosaurus y la nalga del ministro o La sonrisa del flamenco, entre otros) José Ramón Alonso, que ha sido rector de la Universidad de Salamanca, nos propone La nariz de Charles Darwin y otras historias de la Neurociencia, un fantástico ensayo divulgativo sobre el cerebro y la neurobiología. Riguroso, muy divertido y lo que es más difícil, repleto de ciencia pero salpicado de historias con alma que, en más de una ocasión, llegan a conmover. No te lo puedes perder.

Was geht im Inneren von Tieren vor? Können wir wissen, wie sie fühlen und denken? Carl Safina nimmt uns mit auf abenteuerliche Entdeckungsreisen in die unbekannte Welt der Elefanten, Wölfe und Orcas. Sein spannend zu lesendes Buch erzählt außergewöhnliche Geschichten von Freude, Trauer, Eifersucht, Angst und Liebe und ist voll von erstaunlichen Einsichten in die Persönlichkeiten der Tiere.

In The Rights of Mice, Lawrence Wright, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower and Going Clear, takes listeners inside the war between science and anti-vivisection raging across the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and its great educational institutions, Harvard and MIT. As animal rights activists attempt to push through city council an ordinance restricting the use of animals in laboratory testing, leaders in the science and medical communities brace for a fight.