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'I loved this novel's brain and heart'DAVID MITCHELL, AUTHOR OF CLOUD ATLAS'A first-rate speculative thriller, by turns fascinating, brutal, powerful, and redemptive'JEFF VANDERMEER, AUTHOR OF ANNIHILATIONThere are creatures in the water of Con Dao. To the locals, they're monsters. To the corporate owners of the island, an opportunity. To the team of three sent to study them, a revelation. Their minds are unlike ours. Their bodies are malleable, transformable, shifting. They can communicate. And they want us to leave.When pioneering marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen is offered the chance to travel to the remote Con Dao Archipelago to investigate a highly intelligent, dangerous octopus species, she doesn't pause long enough to look at the fine print. DIANIMA- a transnational tech corporation best known for its groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence - has purchased the islands, evacuated their population and sealed the archipelago off from the world so that Nguyen can focus on her research.But the stakes are high: the octopuses hold the key to unprecedented breakthroughs in extrahuman intelligence and there are vast fortunes to be made by whoever can take advantage of their advancements. And no one has yet asked the octopuses what they think. And what they might do about it.

‘Kristian på sporet af..’ er en helt fantastisk faktaserie for børn. Hver bog i serien omhandler forskellige temaer som kan være alt lige fra det ydre rum til oldtidens dinosauere. I denne opgavebog handler det om at lære ved at gøre. I bogen tager hovedpersonen Kristian dig med på udforskning. Han er både sjov og nysgerrig og vil med glæde tage dig under armen på denne rejse. Bogen er spækket med små og store opgaver, som er tilegnet børn. Mens du udfører bogens opgaver, lærer du undervejs om en bred vifte af emner, men hælder mest til det naturfaglige. Opgavebøger er en super sjov og effektiv måde for børn at suge ny viden til sig. Bogens opgaver indebærer blandt andet quiz, kryds og tværs, sæt halen på, spil og meget mere. Vær dog opmærksom på, at denne bog har mest fokus på opgaver hvor de andre bøger i ‘Kristian på sporet af..’ serien dykker ned i de enkelte emner.

Almost everyone agrees on the need to transition the global economy to net zero. But how do we do it? And how do we do it faster? If you feel demoralized, depressed or confused about the climate crisis this book will provide some answers - and ones that don't involve punishing lifestyle changes, the end of capitalism, or a much higher tax bill. Supercharge Me is grounded in relentless realism about how governments, businesses and individuals actually behave. It draws lessons from what has worked so far: positive incentives and smart regulations. Through a series of fast-paced dialogues, the authors introduce practical ideas for change that will embolden activists, reinvigorate the disheartened, and reframe the climate crisis as an opportunity.

He passionately argues that we must all learn to love, respect and care for our six-legged friends. Eye-opening, inspiring and riveting, Silent Earth is part love letter to the insect world, part elegy, part rousing manifesto for a greener planet.

A pragmatic pathway for managing the convergent threats of ecological overshoot and civilization collapse.

Growing flowers to cut and enjoy at home can sharpen our awareness of the world around us and make us more attuned to nature. We find it impossible to walk anywhere without spotting a prized rose in a front garden, a brassica gone to seed on a neighbouring allotment plot or a weedy verge in a carpark and considering its potential for cutting.

'An original, wide-ranging and carefully researched book ... contains important lessons for humanity.' Mark Cocker, The SpectatorA fascinating insight into climate change biology around the globe, as well as in our own backyards.Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid is the first major book by a biologist to focus on the fascinating story of how the natural world is adjusting, adapting, and sometimes measurably evolving in response to climate change. Lyrical and thought-provoking, this book broadens the climate focus from humans to the wider lattice of life.Bestselling nature writer Thor Hanson - author of Buzz (a Radio 4 'Book of the Week') - shows us how Caribbean lizards have grown larger toe pads to grip trees more tightly during frequent hurricanes; and how the 'plasticity' of squid has allowed them to change their body size and breeding habits to cope with altered sea temperatures.Plants and animals have a great deal to teach us about the nature of what comes next, because for many of them, and also for many of us, that world is already here.

A Best Floristry Book of 2022, Gardens Illustrated A contemporary, beautifully illustrated book on flowers, flower pressing and arranging. 'A delight, packed with stories about the flowers JamJar Flowers work with, as well as practical information' House & Garden

Powerful feminist nature writing by the pioneer of women's big-wave surfing in Ireland. Easkey Britton provides a rare female perspective on surfing, exploring the mental skills it fosters, and the need to recognize the value of the ocean and of nature's cycles in our lives.

"From the author of The Humanure Handbook, an expert guide to compost toilets you can build yourself. The Compost Toilet Handbook is an illustrated instructional manual explaining how to make, use, and manage compost toilets, which are waste-free toilets that rely on the biological process of composting to recycle toilet material. It is based on the author's 40+ years of first-hand experience with "composting as a sanitation alternative." The 254-page indexed book has 161 pages of color photos including 203 photos or illustrations from 13 countries where compost toilet systems are in use. The 2nd half of the book includes case study reviews of compost toilet projects in African prisons and schools; Haitian schools, orphanages, and villages; schools in Mozambique; neighborhoods in Mongolia; a school and village in Nicaragua; and an ecovillage in the US. Along with the nuts and bolts of compost toilet construction, use, and management, the book covers emergency preparedness, cold weather composting, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, health, and safety."--Amazon.com.

Simplify and planet-proof your beauty routine and dresser with Sustainable Beauty. Featuring all the eco-friendly practical information and guidance you need, plus over 20 step-by-step projects and tutorials to start making your own zero-waste beauty products. Written by leading authority and make up artist to the stars Justine Jenkins.

Uncover the Incredible World of Health and Nutrients, and Discover How to Prevent or Cure Ailments With Medicinal Mushrooms!Did you know that mushrooms have been used and consumed worldwide for thousands of years, both as a food and medicine? Most cultures in the Western world have not come to appreciate and understand mushrooms in the same way that people in many other parts of the world do. Would you like to learn how?Would you like to:Enhance your health and prolong your life expectancy?Use natural healing properties of mushrooms?Cure your existing ailments and prevent future ones?Consuming mushrooms for food is generally a healthy habit, as they have a small amount of unsaturated fats while providing necessary nutrients such as protein and carbohydrates. But there are more than 800 different mushrooms that have proven medicinal properties.With this comprehensive guide to using medicinal mushrooms, you will discover the untapped power that will improve your health and prolong your life. You will learn how to use different types of mushrooms to heal existing diseases and prevent future ones.This book will show you everything you need to know about medicinal mushrooms, so you can immediately start to live a better and healthier life.

Connect to the magic of the world around you for healing, empowerment and self-careNature is filled with hidden, elusive energies: the growth spirals of sunflowers, the electromagnetic spectrum of rainbows, the bio-energy of trees and the sound waves of thunder. Working with the potent energy of nature's bounty, you will learn to nurture and embrace your inner guardian witch through spell work.Brimming with rituals, wishes and enchantments to encourage spiritual growth, abundance and prosperity, and featuring beautiful illustrations from the author, this book is an illuminating guide to harnessing the earth's power for personal reflection. It reveals how magic can be used as a reciprocal force for good that protects and promotes our well-being, as well as that of our planet.The Little Book of Earth Magic is for those who seek to form a meaningful connection with nature and take their spiritual practice to a new level.

2020 upended every aspect of our lives. But where is our world heading next? Will pandemic, protests, economic instability, and social distance lead to deeper inequalities, more nationalism, and further erosion of democracies around the world? Or are we moving toward a global re-awakening to the importance of community, mutual support, and the natural world? In our lifetimes, the future has never been so up for grabs. The New Possible offers twenty-eight unique visions of what can be, if instead of choosing to go back to normal, we choose to go forward to something far better. Assembled from global leaders on six continents, these essays are not simply speculation. They are an inspiration and a roadmap for action.With essays by:Kim Stanley Robinson, Michael Pollan, Varshini Prakash, Vandana Shiva, Jack Kornfield, Mamphela Ramphele, Justin Rosenstein, Jack Kornfield, Helena Nordberg-Hodge, David Korten, Tristan Harris, Eileen Crist, Francis Deng, Riane Eisler, Arturo Escobar, Rebecca Kiddle, Mike Joy, Natalie Foster, Jess Rimington, Jeremy Lent, Atossa Soltani, Mark Anielski, Ellen Brown, John Restakis, Zak Stein, Oren Slozberg, Anisa Nanavati, and Fr. Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam

'No writer asks more interesting questions about food than Carolyn Steel because no one takes more seriously the profound role of food at the heart of human life...destined to become a modern classic' BEE WILSONWe live in a world shaped by food, a Sitopia (sitos - food;

”Bogen har intellektuel tyngde og dramatisk styrke som en tsunami.” The TimesNår vi taler historie, handler det sjældent om isvintre, tørke eller økosystemer. Peter Frankopan viser i sit ambitiøse og skelsættende værk, at forholdet mellem menneske og det naturlige miljø er en afgørende, hvis ikke definerende, faktor i den globale historie. Fortidens større naturkatastrofer og ekstreme vejrhændelser kan i høj grad kaste lys over de enorme klimamæssige udfordringer, vi dagligt konfronteres med."Den foranderlige klode" giver stemme til en ufortalt historie om menneskehedens usædvanlige evne til at tilpasse sig til og forme de naturlige omgivelser gennem tiden: om hvordan religion og sprog har præget vores syn på natur og miljø, om vikingesamfundets opståen som konsekvensaf flere års mislykket høst, om den nordamerikanske ekspansions forbindelse til et soludbrud i 1700-tallet og om, hvordan et vulkanudbrud på Island blev en vigtig faktor for Osmannerrigets fald. Trangen til at manipulere med vejret er en længere historie om krig og imperalisme.I en tour de force af en fortælling fra Big Bang til vores egen tid foretager forfatteren arkæologiske, meteorologiske, geologiske og demografiske nedslag og udgravninger, som belyser samspillet mellem menneske, natur, miljø og klima. Et samspil i konstant forandring og bevægelse.

Bornholm er enestående på mange måder – øen har en eventyrlig og i dansk sammenhæng helt unik natur med ejendommelige bjerg- og jordarter samt sin helt egen kultur på en mageløs plads i Østersøen.Bornholm er en ø med meget at byde på og er samtidig et øland, der har så godt som alt – for man finder det hele på denne østdanske ø. Bornholms urtid og forhistorie går tilbage til oldtiden, og geologisk fra Jordens tidligste tider med eksempelvis fund af fascinerende dinosaurfossiler, gådefulde solsten og billedskønne guldgubber, frem til spændende middelalderborge og frihedskrige og op til industriens tider, som alt bæres til skue i denne bog.I bogen finder man også de små historier. De, som handler om rene bornholmske begivenheder og tildragelser, der spænder fra folkeeventyr, kunst, personer, kirker, hændelser, almuemål med mere – og de behøver såmænd ikke at være højtravende eller skelsættende. De er stadig en del af den store fortælling og får dermed en vigtig plads i denne udgivelse, så man så at sige kommer hele øen rundt.Bogen vil være god til alle gæster og besøgende, men såmænd også til fastboende – her kan alle blive mere fortrolige med den ø, vi alle sammen elsker.

In 2020, it will have been twenty-five years since one of the greatest wildlife conservation and restoration achievements of the twentieth century took place: the reintroduction of wolves to the world's first national park, Yellowstone. Eradicated after the park was established, then absent for seventy years, these iconic carnivores returned to Yellowstone in 1995 when the US government reversed its century-old policy of extermination and--despite some political and cultural opposition--began the reintroduction of forty-one wild wolves from Canada and northwest Montana. In the intervening decades, scientists have studied their myriad behaviors, from predation to mating to wolf pup play, building a one-of-a-kind field study that has both allowed us to witness how the arrival of top predators can change an entire ecosystem and provided a critical window into impacts on prey, pack composition, and much else. Here, for the first time in a single book, is the incredible story of the wolves' return to Yellowstone National Park as told by the very people responsible for their reintroduction, study, and management. Anchored in what we have learned from Yellowstone, highlighting the unique blend of research techniques that have given us this knowledge, and addressing the major issues that wolves still face today, this book is as wide-ranging and awe-inspiring as the Yellowstone restoration effort itself. We learn about individual wolves, population dynamics, wolf-prey relationships, genetics, disease, management and policy, newly studied behaviors and interactions with other species, and the rippling ecosystem effects wolves have had on Yellowstone's wild and rare landscape. Perhaps most importantly of all, the book also offers solutions to ongoing controversies and debates. Featuring a foreword by Jane Goodall, beautiful images, a companion online documentary by celebrated filmmaker Bob Landis, and contributions from more than seventy wolf and wildlife conservation luminaries from Yellowstone and around the world, Yellowstone Wolves is a gripping, accessible celebration of the extraordinary Yellowstone Wolf Project--and of the park through which these majestic and important creatures once again roam.

Starting with a simple question - 'Which way am I looking?' - Tristan Gooley blends natural science, myth, folklore and the history of travel to introduce you to the rare and ancient art of finding your way using nature's own sign-posts, from the feel of a rock to the look of the moon.In this fully updated edition you'll learn why some trees grow the way they do and how they can help you find your way in the countryside. You'll discover how it's possible to find North simply by looking at a puddle and how natural signs can be used to navigate on the open ocean and in the heart of the city. Wonderfully detailed and full of fascinating stories, this is a glorious exploration of the rediscovered art of natural navigation.