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  • Whispers from Celtic Seas

    The True Meanings of Ancient Stories from Northwest Europe

    de Patrick Nunn ...
    What if the legends of submerged cities, land-making witches and sea-crossing bishops are not mere inventions but echoes of real events? Whispers from Celtic Seas revisits coastal traditions from the Celtic fringes of northwest Europe, showing how they preserve memories of dramatic environmental change – floods, land loss and shifting shorelines – carried forward through oral storytelling for ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Worlds in Shadow

    Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth

    de Patrick Nunn ...
    Discover ancient civilizations that have disappeared beneath the ocean's surface and explore how the science of submergence adds to our knowledge of human history.The traces of much of human history – and that which preceded it – lie beneath the ocean surface; broken up, dispersed, often buried and always mysterious. This is fertile ground for speculation, even myth-making, but also a topic on ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Edge of Memory

    Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World

    de Patrick Nunn ...
    How much of the folk tales of our ancestors is rooted in fact, and what can they tell us about the future?In today's society it is the written word that holds the authority. We are more likely to trust the words found in a history textbook over the version of history retold by a friend – after all, human memory is unreliable, and how can you be sure your friend hasn't embellished the facts? But ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Handbook of Traditional Spirituality and Sustainability

    Edición de Johannes M. Luetz, Walter Leal Filho, Patrick D. Nunn ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explores the intersection of indigenous wisdom, spiritual traditions, and ecological sustainability. It brings together diverse perspectives from scholars and practitioners, highlighting how ancient spiritual practices foster environmental stewardship. Covering themes like sacred ecology, ritual-based conservation, and ethical living, this book demonstrates how traditional beliefs can ... Leer más

    $197.99 USD

  • Evolution of Sleep

    Phylogenetic and Functional Perspectives

    Edición de Patrick McNamara, Robert A. Barton, Charles L. Nunn ...
    Research during the past two decades has produced major advances in understanding sleep within particular species. Simultaneously, molecular advances have made it possible to generate phylogenetic trees, while new analytical methods provide the tools to examine macroevolutionary change on these trees. These methods have recently been applied to questions concerning the evolution of distinctive ... Leer más

    $127.99 USD

  • Beyond Belief

    Opportunities for Faith-Engaged Approaches to Climate-Change Adaptation in the Pacific Islands

    Edición de Johannes M. Luetz, Patrick D. Nunn ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This interdisciplinary book explores the science and spirituality nexus in the Pacific Islands Region and as such makes a critical contribution to sustainable climate change adaptation in Oceania. In addition to presenting case studies, literary analyses, field projects, and empirical research, the book describes faith-engaged approaches through the prism of:• Context: past, present, and future ... Leer más

    $134.99 USD

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  • The Statues that Walked

    Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island

    de Terry Hunt, Carl Lipo ...
    T****he monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island’s barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722. How could the ancient people who inhabited this tiny speck of land, the most remote in the vast expanse of the Pacific islands, have ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Madagascar: The Eighth Continent: Life, Death and Discovery in a Lost World

    de Peter Tyson ...
    Madagascar is a land where lizards scream and monkey-like lemurs sing songs of inexpressible beauty. KKnown as the Great Red Island, it is a place where fossa and tenrecs, vangas and aye ayes thrive in a true 'Lost World' alongside bizarre plants like the octopus tree and the three-cornered palm. And where the ancestors of the Malagasy, as the island's 18 tribes are collectively known, come alive ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Wallace Line: Where Worlds Collide

    de Penny van Oosterzee ...
    Why is it that the island of Bali is home to Asian birds such as the weaver bird, and the neighboring island of Lombok, just 24 kilometers away across a narrow strait, echoes to the screams of Australian cockatoos?This extraordinary biological boundary is known today as The Wallace Line. Like his friendly rival and fellow biologist Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace traveled the world ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Voyagers

    The Settlement of the Pacific

    de Nicholas Thomas ...
    An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street JournalThe islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Human Shore

    Seacoasts in History

    de John R. Gillis ...
    Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the sea has begun to take on new and potentially catastrophic dimensions. The latest generation of coastal dwellers lives largely in ignorance of the history of those ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Mirabilis

    A Carnival of Cryptozoology and Unnatural History

    de Karl P.N. Shuker ...
    Welcome to a carnival unlike anything that you have ever read about, visited, or even imagined before. Here, before your very eyes, you will encounter bizarre, anomalous creatures of every conceivable (and inconceivable!) kind—a veritable menagerie of cryptozoological mysteries to dazzle and delight, tantalize and terrify. For this is Mirabilis—a realm of marvels, wonders, miracles...and monsters ... Leer más

    $9.95 USD