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  • Adaptation to Climate Change

    From Resilience to Transformation

    de Mark Pelling ...
    The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task – protecting core assets or functions from the risks of climate change. A more profound engagement, which sees climate change risks as a product and driver of social as well as natural ... Leer más

    $79.99 USD

  • The Vulnerability of Cities

    Natural Disasters and Social Resilience

    de Mark Pelling ...
    When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments. But what factors actually determine the vulnerability or resilience of cities? The Vulnerability of Cities fills a vital gap in disaster studies by examining the too-often overlooked impact of disasters on cities, the conditions leading to high losses from urban disasters and why some households and ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Natural Disaster and Development in a Globalizing World

    de Mark Pelling ...
    The number of humanitarian disasters triggered by a natural hazard has doubled every decade since the 1960s. At the same time, the global economic growth rate per capita is twice its 1960s value. Does this mean economic growth is independent of the impacts of natural disaster?Natural Disaster and Development in a Globalizing World is the first book to acknowledge the full implications of ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Disaster Risk Reduction

    Cases from Urban Africa

    de Mark Pelling, Ben Wisner ...
    Published with ProVention Consortium, UNDP and UN-Habitat'This excellent book is essential reading for those concerned with urban risk and its reduction in Africa, the most rapidly urbanizing region of the world.'Professor Jo Beall, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics'At last a book that recognizes the impacts of disasters on Africa's 350 million urban dwellers, including the ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Taming the Tongue

    de Mark Kinzer ...
    Narrado por Timothy Pell ...

    Completo

    3 hora 20 minutos

    The Epistle of James says that anyone who considers him - or herself to be religious yet does not tame his tongue is self-deceived. James says that such a person’s religion is worthless. On the other hand, James refers to the person who tames his or her tongue as a “perfect” person. That's a stark contrast. There's a big difference between being a self-deceived person engaging in worthless ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Fever Dreams

    Horror Short Stories

    de Caolán Mac an Aircinn, Alan Baxter, A.K. Benedict, Clay McLeod Chapman, Kay Chronister, Ryan Cole, Craig DiLouie, Tracy Fahey, Jeffrey Ford, Philip Fracassi, Rob Francis, Christopher Golden, Rebecca Harrison, C.J. Leede, Chad Lutzke, Gary McMahon, Tanya Pell, Priya Sharma, Lucy A. Snyder, Tim Waggoner, Kaaron Warren ...
    Series series The Flame Tree Book of Horror
    A powerful sixth book in the horror anthology series which Booklist called "Highly recommended for longstanding horror fans and those readers who may not think horror is for them. There is something for everyone in this one."Fever Dreams is the sixth volume in the non-themed horror series of original stories, showcasing the very best short fiction that the genre has to offer, and edited by Mark ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • How Not To Get Rich

    The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain

    de Alan Pell Crawford ...
    **A Wealthmanagement.com Best Business Book of 2017An uproarious account of Mark Twain’s endless attempts to strike it rich, all of which served only to empty his pockets**Mark Twain’s lifetime spans America’s era of greatest economic growth. And Twain was an active, even giddy, participant in all the great booms and busts of his time, launching himself into one harebrained get-rich scheme after ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Megacities and the Coast

    Risk, Resilience and Transformation

    Edición de Mark Pelling, Sophie Blackburn ...
    Based on a major international study, this volume provides a synthesis of scientific knowledge on megacity urbanization on the coast, environmental impacts, risks and management choices, including a focus on adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management. It is the primary output of a major international scientific project sponsored by the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme, the Land ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Aphids as Crop Pests

    de Caroline S Awmack, Sebastiano Barbagallo, Chris Bass, James R Bell, A Nicholas Birch, Roger Blackman, Thierry Brévault, Jacques Brodeur, Toby J A Bruce, Mauricio G Chang, Giuseppe Massimino Cocuzza, Rosemary Rosemary, Piero Cravedi, T G Emyr Davies, Charles-Antoine Dedryver, Jean-Philippe Deguine, Ian Denholm, Gregor Devine, Alan Devonshire, Alan M Dewar, Angela E Douglas, Victor Eastop, Owain Edwards, Frédéric Fabre, Alberto Fereres, Linda M Field, Stan Finch, Stephen P Foster, Michael P D Garratt, Robert T Glinwood, Fiona L Goggin, Geoff Gurr, Dr Ann E. Hajek, Thierry Hance, Jim Hardie, Udo Heimbach, Dr George E. Heimpel, Gemma L Hough, Maurice Hullé, Rufus Isaacs, Dr Michael E. Irwin, Dr Gail E. Kampmeier, Fatemeh Kohandani-Tafresh, Shinkichi Komazaki, Christophe Lacomme, Simon R Leather, Samuel G Leigh, Hugh D Loxdale, Dr Manfred Mackauer, Dr Robert R Martin, J P Michaud, Françoise Munaut, Dr Xinzhi Ni, Dr Judith K. Pell, Jan Pettersson, John A. Pickett, Jon Pickup, Jean-Sébastien Pierre, Hans-Michael Poehling, Jeremy Pritchard, Sharron S. Quisenberry, Pierre J. Silvie, John J. Sloggett, Mark Stevens, Denis Tagu, Mark Tatchell, Thomas Thieme, W Fred Tjallingii, Jason M Tylianakis, Laura H Vickers, Christoph Vorburger, Susan E Webb, Martin S Williamson, Steve Wratten, Jing-Jiang Zhou ...
    Aphids are among the major global pest groups, causing serious economic damage to many food and commodity crops in most parts of the world. This revision and update of the well-received first edition published ten years ago reflects the expansion of research in genomics, endosymbionts and semiochemicals, as well as the shift from control of aphids with insecticides to a more integrated approach ... Leer más

    $248.99 USD

  • Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism

    A Chance to Reclaim, Self, Society and Nature

    Edición de Mark Pelling, David Manuel-Navarrete, Michael Redclift ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined crises of climate change and the global economic system? Will falling back on the wisdoms that contributed to the crisis help us to find ways forward or simply reconfigure risk in another guise? This volume argues that the combination of global environmental change and global economic restructuring ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • ''Mark My Words''

    de Pelle Payton ...
    Im enlightened and awed by the environment around me, which ignites my flo-etry which forms my art of writing. If God gives me the ability to play with words and create imagery why not share it with the world? I give you my poetry. Its my heart, my passion and my life. I want you to indulge in it as if you have nowhere to go. Cry as you never cried, and over think and under analyze as if you ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    How Not to Get Rich

    The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain

    de Alan Pell Crawford ...
    Narrado por Peter Berkrot ...

    Completo

    5 hora 43 minutos

    Mark Twain's lifetime spans America's era of greatest economic growth. And Twain was an active, even giddy, participant in all the great booms and busts of his time, launching himself into one harebrained get-rich-quick scheme after another. But far from striking it rich, the man who coined the term "Gilded Age" failed with comical regularity to join the ranks of plutocrats who made this period in ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook