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La vida interior de los animales: amor, duelo, compasión : asombrosas miradas a un mundo oculto
By Peter Wohlleben. 2017
Author of La vida secreta de los árboles (DB 84982) provides his observations of animal behavior. Examines the emotions perceived…
in mammals, birds, insects, and other creatures. Translated from the original 2016 German-language edition. Spanish language. 2017Alimentamos una isla: una historia verdadera sobre la reconstrucción de Puerto Rico
By Richard Wolffe, José Andrés. 2018
El chef hispano-estadounidense José Andrés reflexiona sobre sus esfuerzos de socorro en Puerto Rico después del huracán María en 2017.…
Acreditado con la mitigación de una crisis humanitaria, Andrés y su organización benéfica supervisaron la preparación de 100,000 comidas diarias para el pueblo puertorriqueño. Prólogo por Lin-Manuel Miranda y Luis A. Miranda, Jr. Traducido del inglésForester shares his observations as well as research by others into the networked nature of trees and forests. Discusses communication…
between trees, the life cycle of an organic forest versus one planted, and the interaction of trees with their greater environment. Translated from the original German edition. Spanish language. 2016El clima está en nuestras manos: historia del calentamiento global (Taurus minor)
By Tim Flannery, Tim F Flannery, Damian Alou. 2008
Conservationist presents evidence that humans are responsible for climate change through increasing fossil-fuel use and other environmentally unsound activities. Flannery…
points to phenomena such as melting glaciers, rising sea levels, and frequent extremes of weather, and predicts their future effects on global climate. Spanish language. 2006Feng shui para el éxito y la felicidad (Spanish Feng Shui Series #2)
By Edgar Rojas, Richard Webster. 2003
Explains the Chinese art of living in harmony with the earth. Describes activating the energies of the chi to improve…
one's environment and gain success and happiness in life. Discusses the application of feng shui in ordering personal lives and structuring living spaces. Spanish language. 2000Grayson
By Lynne Cox. 2007
Author recalls an encounter from her teenage years when a baby gray whale followed her during a long-distance training swim…
along the California coast. Describes communicating with the calf she called Grayson and battling fatigue, fifty-five-degree water, and dehydration to protect him until he was reunited with his mother. Spanish language. 2007Tierra de murmullos
By Gerald Durrell. 1988
The British naturalist undertook an eight-month-long expedition to Argentina to search out rare animal species. He describes with humor and…
insight the curious animals and interesting people he encountered along the way. Spanish languageEl pulgar del panda: ensayos sobre evolucion (Ciencias de la naturaleza)
By Stephen Jay Gould. 1983
Essays on issues in evolution theory. Includes such controversial topics as the size of women's brains, the Piltdown Man hoax,…
the theory of mongolism, and a defense of marsupial equality with placental mammals. Spanish languageBiologia hoy (Aula abierta)
By Juan Ramón Medina Precioso. 1981
Introduction to the life sciences. Discusses what life is, biological development, the fight against disease and aging, sexuality, animal and…
human behavior, and man against the environmental crisis. For adult and young adult readers. Spanish languagePillastre: mi tremendo mapache (Coleccion cuartro vientos)
By Sterling North. 1966
While exploring the woods one night, a Wisconsin farm boy, his dog, and a friend capture a baby raccoon. The…
author retells the true story of their friendship and comic adventures. Spanish languageHarvard astronomer presents controversial theory regarding possible evidence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Describes the 2017 discovery of…
an object flying through our inner solar system, but not conforming to any traits of known interstellar and interplanetary objects such as comets or asteroids. Spanish language. 2021En busca del árbol madre: descubre la sabiduría del bosque
By S Simard. 2021
Ecologist presents trees as part of the cycle of life and their participation in the social communication network of forests.…
Topics include tree evolution, perception of other trees, announcing warnings and providing defense, and the concept of Mother Trees. Some strong language. Spanish language. 2021La boca más hambrienta del mar
By Peter Walters. 2015
A rhythmic story that explores the food chain in the South Sea. Who will be at the top? The swarms…
of krill? Or maybe the barracuda? Or will it be the big shark? Includes activities for children. For preschool-grade 2. Spanish language. 2015Vuelos vespertinos (Colección Argumentos (Editorial Anagrama) #564)
By Helen Macdonald. 2021
"In Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics…
ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing songbirds from the Empire State Building as they migrate through the Tribute of Light, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk's poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds' nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife. By one of this century's most important and insightful nature writers, Vesper Flights is a captivating and foundational book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make sense of the world around us." -- GoodreadsLas guerras globales del agua: privatización y fracking
By Alfredo Jalife-Rahme. 2021
"Just as the 20th century was the era of the "oil/gas wars" that were part of the superpowers' geostrategic games,…
the 21st century is oriented towards the "global water wars" that have already begun in some areas of the planet, full of sea water and, paradoxically, where most humans are thirsty." -- Translation provided by NLSH de halcón
By Helen Macdonald. 2020
"Cambridge lecturer describes the year she spent training a goshawk, a decision she came to after the sudden death of…
her father in 2007. Discusses the field of falconry, which her father avidly practiced, the grieving process, and author T.H. White's book The Goshawk." -- Provided by NLSNacida libre: la historia de la leona Elsa (Especiales (Capitán Swing))
By Joy Adamson. 2019
"The wife of a Kenya game warden recounts the couple's unique relationship with the lioness Elsa. Recalls raising the orphaned…
cub for three years and ingeniously training her to fend for herself. Describes how Elsa recognized her human friends even after she returned to the wild." -- Provided by NLSManual de supervivencia: Chernobil, una guía para el futuro
By Kate Brown. 2020
"Drawing on a decade of archival research and on-the-ground interviews in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, Kate Brown unveils the full…
breadth of the devastation and the whitewash that followed. Her findings make clear the irreversible impact of man-made radioactivity on every living thing; and hauntingly, they force us to confront the untold legacy of decades of weapons-testing and other nuclear incidents, and the fact that we are emerging into a future for which the survival manual has yet to be written." -- GoodreadsLa Atlántida Testigos Presenciales Parte II Los Atlanteanos y Su Legado
By Walter Parks, Cinthia Noemi Mascarell. 2017
Muchos han creído que la Atlántida es una historia de ficción creada por Platón. Bien, pues Platón no fue el…
primero en escribir sobre ella. Hemos encontrado un documento mucho más antiguo. Fue escrito en el año 9619 AC, alrededor de 9250 años antes de los escritos de Platón. Además, hemos reunido evidencias científicas y arqueológicas suficientes para constatar que la Atlántida fue real. Y hemos hallado sus restos. Organizamos la evidencia como respuestas a 3 preguntas básicas: ¿cómo fue creada la Atlántida?, ¿dejó evidencia de su existencia o un legado?, ¿Cómo fue destruida? Este libro electrónico es la parte II.Historia natural de los ricos
By Richard Conniff. 2003
Richard Conniff indaga acerca de si la vieja pregunta ¿son los ricos diferentes del resto de la gente? es cierta…
y concluye que, efectivamente, son unos animales completamente distintos. Observa con mucho sentido del humor esta especie social única, develando sus estrategias de dominación y sumisión, su comportamiento exhibicionista, sus intrincados mecanismos jerárquicos, así como sus poco ortodoxas prácticas de apareamiento. Comparándola con otras especies exóticas, Conniff descubre sorprendentes coincidencias. ¿En qué medida la aduladora actitud de los ricos se parece a la de los babuinos? ¿Cómo logró la aristocracia británica convertirse en la jerarquía animal más perfecta del planeta? ¿Por qué el aislamiento acaba haciendo de los ricos una subespecie? Un cautivador y desternillante análisis sobre la idiosincrásica existencia de los muy ricos, a través de la aguda lente de un naturalista. "Richard Conniff es un escritor espléndido, lleno de frescura, claridad y ninguna condescendencia." The New York Times Book Review