Skip to main content
Search Button
Estados Unidos Tienda Kobo Tarjetas de regalo Ayuda

Kobo Rakuten

Wishlist

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...


Serie m´´as popular en Estados Unidos

1 - 12 de 12 resultados para “norma j longo”
Skip side bar filters

  • Escaping Nature

    How to Survive Global Climate Change

    de Orrin H. Pilkey, Charles O. Pilkey, Linda P. Pilkey-Jarvis, Norma J. Longo, Keith C. Pilkey, Fred B. Dodson, Hannah L. Hayes ...
    Industrial and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming Earth’s climate, unleashing rising seas, ocean acidification, melting permafrost, powerful storms, wildfires, floods, deadly heat waves, droughts, tsunamis, food shortages, and armed conflict over shrinking water supplies while reducing nutritional levels in crops. Billions of people will become climate refugees. Hotter ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Vanishing Sands

    Losing Beaches to Mining

    de Orrin H. Pilkey, Norma J. Longo, William J. Neal, Nelson G. Rangel-Buitrago, Keith C. Pilkey, Hannah L. Hayes ...
    In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world’s sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand mining is stripping beaches and dunes, destroying environments, and exploiting labor in the process. The authors of Vanishing Sands track the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Living with Florida's Atlantic Beaches

    Coastal Hazards from Amelia Island to Key West

    de William J. Neal, Norma J. Longo, Kenyon C. Lindeman, Deborah F. Pilkey, Luciana S. Esteves, John D. Congleton, David M. Bush, Orrin H. Pilkey ...
    Series series Living with the Shore
    From Amelia Island just south of Georgia to Key West's southern tip, beaches are one of Florida's greatest assets. Yet these beaches are in danger: rapid structural development on a highly erodible coast make them vulnerable to some of nature's greatest storms. The same development that has been driven by the attraction of beautiful beaches and coastal amenities now threatens those very resources. ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

La gente que leyó estos también disfrutó

  • Collapse

    How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

    de Jared Diamond ...
    In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilizationEnvironmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Water Will Come

    Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

    de Jeff Goodell ...
    An eye-opening and essential tour of the vanishing world in the age of climate change and rising tides.What if Atlantis wasn't a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic cities ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The 2084 Report

    A Novel of the Great Warming

    de James Lawrence Powell ...
    For fans of The Drowned World and World War Z**, this “sobering and scary (and fascinating) novel—a look at where we’re going if we don’t quickly get our act together” (Bill McKibben,** New York Times bestselling author) regarding climate change—unveils our potential terrifying future.2084: Global warming has proven worse than even the most dire predictio... ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Animal Investigators

    How the World's First Wildlife Forensics Lab Is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species

    de Laurel A. Neme, Ph.D. ...
    Inside the Clark R. Bavin U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory lies a rarely seen world, a CSI for wildlife, where a walk-in freezer contains carcasses and animal parts awaiting necropsies (animal autopsies); shelves and drawers hold pills, rugs, carvings, and countless other products made from parts of endangered animals; and a dedicated group of forensic scientists is responsible ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Ragged Edge of the World

    Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Meet

    de Eugene Linden ...
    A pioneering work of environmental journalism that vividly depicts the people, animals and landscapes on the front lines of change's inexorable march.A species nearing extinction, a tribe losing centuries of knowledge, a tract of forest facing the first incursion of humans-how can we even begin to assess the cost of losing so much of our natural and cultural legacy?For forty years, environmental ... Leer más

    Antes $13.99 USD Ahora $10.99 USD

  • This Is the Way the World Ends

    How Droughts and Die-Offs, Heat Waves and Hurricanes Are Converging on America

    de Jeff Nesbit ...
    "This is a must-read that lays out the clear and present dangers of climate change—and what we must do to avoid global catastrophe." —Rhea Suh, former president of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)Bustle 's "17 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out in September 2018"The world itself won't end, of course. Only ours will: our livelihoods, our homes, our cultures. And we're squarely at the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Oceana

    Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them

    de Ted Danson, Michael D'Orso ...
    Most people know Ted Danson as the affable bartender Sam Malone in the long-running television series Cheers. But fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a looming global catastrophe—the massive destruction of our planet's oceanic biosystems and the complete collapse of the world's major commercial ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Wild Hope

    On the Front Lines of Conservation Success

    de Andrew Balmford ...
    Tropical deforestation. The collapse of fisheries. Unprecedented levels of species extinction. Faced with the plethora of gloom-and-doom headlines about the natural world, we might think that environmental disaster is inevitable. But is there any good news about the environment? Yes, there is, answers Andrew Balmford in Wild Hope, and he offers several powerful stories of successful conservation ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Endangered

    de Tim Flach ...
    The acclaimed wildlife photographer presents "a powerful visual record of threatened animals and ecosystems facing the harshest of challenges" ( The Guardian, UK).In Endangered, the result of an extraordinary multiyear project to document the lives of threatened species, acclaimed photographer Tim Flach explores one of the most pressing issues of our time. Traveling around the world—to settings ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus