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A compelling global exploration of nature and survival as seen via a dozen species of trees that represent the challenges facing our planet, and the ways that scientists are working urgently to save our forests and our future.
The world today is undergoing the most rapid environmental transformation in human history—from climate change to deforestation. Scientists, ethnobotanists, indigenous peoples, and collectives of all kinds are closely studying trees and their biology to understand how and why trees function individually and collectively in the ways they do. In Twelve Trees, Daniel Lewis, curator and historian at one of the world’s most renowned research libraries, travels the world to learn about these trees in their habitats.
Lewis takes us on a sweeping journey to plant breeding labs, botanical gardens, research facilities, deep inside museum collections, to the tops of tall trees, underwater, and around the Earth, journeying into the deserts of the American west and the deep jungles of Peru, to offer a globe-spanning perspective on the crucial impact trees have on our entire planet. When a once-common tree goes extinct in the wild but survives in a botanical garden, what happens next? How can scientists reconstruct lost genomes and habitats? How does a tree store thousands of gallons of water, or offer up perfectly preserved insects from millions of years ago, or root itself in muddy swamps and remain standing? How does a 5,000-year-old tree manage to live, and what can we learn from it? And how can science account for the survival of one species at the expense of others? To study the science of trees is to study not just the present, but the story of the world, its past, and its future.
Note—species include
- The Lost Tree of Easter Island (Sophora toromiro)
- The coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)
- Hymenaea protera [a fossil tree]
- The Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris)
- East Indian sandalwood (Santanum album)
- The Bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva)
- West African ebony (Diospyros crassiflora)
- The Tasmanian blue gum eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus)
- Olive tree (Olea europaea)
- Baobab (Adansonia digitata)
- the kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra)
- The bald cypress (Taxodium distichum)
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- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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It’s easy to look at the state of the world around us and feel hopeless. We live in an era marked by war, climate crisis, political polarization, and acute inequality—and yet many of us feel powerless to do anything about these profound issues. We’ve been assured that unfettered capitalism is necessary to ensure our freedom and prosperity, even as we see its corrosive effects proliferating daily. Why, in our age of unchecked corporate power, are most of us living paycheck to paycheck?
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- De Anonymous User en 04-11-24
De: Grace Blakeley
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Kingdom of Play
- What Ball-Bouncing Octopuses, Belly-Flopping Monkeys, and Mud-Sliding Elephants Reveal About Life Itself
- De: David Toomey
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 6 h y 59 m
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Critically acclaimed science writer David Toomey takes us on a fast-paced and entertaining tour of playful animals and the scientists who study them. From octopuses on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to meerkats in the Kalahari Desert to brown bears on Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, we follow adventurous researchers as they design and conduct experiments seeking answers to new, intriguing questions: When did play first appear in animals? How does play develop the brain, and how did it evolve?
De: David Toomey
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Finding the Mother Tree
- Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
- De: Suzanne Simard
- Narrado por: Suzanne Simard
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. In this, her first book, now available in audio, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths—that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life.
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Couldn't finish, will try the hard copy
- De primrose en 07-22-21
De: Suzanne Simard
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The New World on Mars
- What We Can Create on the Red Planet
- De: Robert Zubrin
- Narrado por: Lee Goettl
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
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When Robert Zubrin published his classic book The Case for Mars a quarter century ago, setting foot on the Red Planet seemed a fantasy. Today, manned exploration is certain, and as Zubrin affirms in The New World on Mars, so too is colonization.
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Author's Rendition of Earth on Mars
- De jp en 04-19-24
De: Robert Zubrin
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The Hidden Life of Trees
- What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World
- De: Peter Wohlleben
- Narrado por: Mike Grady
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? Research is now suggesting trees are capable of much more than we have ever known. In The Hidden Life of Trees, forester Peter Wohlleben puts groundbreaking scientific discoveries into a language everyone can relate to.
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Tree Hugger
- De Darwin8u en 04-18-19
De: Peter Wohlleben
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Cultures of Growth
- How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations
- De: Mary C. Murphy PhD, Carol Dweck - foreword
- Narrado por: Mary C. Murphy, Carol Dweck - foreword
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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Carol Dweck’s multi-million-copy bestseller Mindset transformed our view of individual potential, coining the terms “fixed” and “growth” mindset: in a “fixed” mindset, talent and intelligence are viewed as predetermined traits, while in a “growth” mindset, talent and intelligence can be nurtured. In Cultures of Growth, Dweck’s protégé, Mary Murphy, a social psychologist at both Stanford and Indiana University, shows that mindset transcends individuals.
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Wait for the Pamphlet and Poster from HR
- De Matteo en 05-26-24
De: Mary C. Murphy PhD, y otros