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Multicellularity origins and evolution
Scholars consider the origins and consequences of the evolution of multicellularity, addressing a range of organisms, experimental protocols, theoretical concepts, and philosophical issues.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262333740
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 302 pages) :illustrations.
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Designing publics
Contemporary computing technologies have thoroughly embedded themselves in every aspect of modern life -- conducting commerce, maintaining and extending our networks of friends, and mobilizing political movements all occur through a growing collection of devices and services designed to keep and hold our attention. Yet what happens when our attention needs to be more local, collective, and focu…
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- 9780262337083
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- 1 online resource (xv, 151 pages).
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Sustainability or Collapse?: An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth
Report of the 96th Dahlem Workshop on Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE) Berlin, June 12-17, 2005."Scholars from a range of disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future.Human history, as written traditionally, leaves out the important ecological and climate context…
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- 9780262270861
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 495 pages) :illustrations.
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Civic Ecology: Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up
Stories of environmental stewardship in communities from New Orleans to Soweto accompany an interdisciplinary framework for understanding civic ecology as a global phenomenon.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262327169
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What Every Woman Should Know about Cervical Cancer Revised and Updated
This book (an updated and extended edition) is about mobilizing women and health care policy makers and providers to unite their efforts in a single strategy for fighting cervical cancer worldwide. The objective of this strategy would be to reverse cervical cancer prevalence and mortality rates among all 2.4 billion women at risk and to achieve this goal within 10-15 years of implementation. Ce…
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- 978-94-017-7560-1
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Wetlands and Water Framework Directive Protection, Management and Climate Ch…
This book compares the lessons learned from a wetland-perspective approach to the changing climate and the requirements of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) with regard to environmental conservation. Examples from Germany and Poland are discussed due to the efficiency of their respective implementations of water conservation policies. Although the general scientific interest in specific issue…
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- 978-3-319-13764-3
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Design for resilience :making the future we leave behind
"Designing for resilience is a critical issue of the 21st century. This is the first book-length work that shows us how to design for a future that lasts, and why we should want to"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262374460
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A Darwinian survival guide :hope for the twenty-first century
"Guided by the Four Laws of Biotics, the book details how technological humanity should interact with the biosphere and each other in accordance with Darwinian principles, which illuminate a middle ground between unacceptable apocalypse or unattainable utopia, with two hopeful options: alter our behavior now at great expense based on Darwinian principles and extend current civilization, or fail…
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- 9780262377478
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Mussolini's nature :an environmental history of Italian Fascism
"Explores how Mussolini's regime developed a political ecology that mobilized nature to legitimize and serve fascist interests"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262372398
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The phoenix complex :a philosophy of nature
An innovative, wide-ranging consideration of the global ecological crisis and its deep philosophical and theological roots. Global crises, from melting Arctic ice to ecosystem collapse and the sixth mass extinction, challenge our age-old belief in nature as a phoenix with an infinite ability to regenerate itself from the ashes of destruction. Moving from antiquity to the present and back, Micha…
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- 9780262374873
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