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Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate
Bringing together leaders in the fields of climate change ecology, wildlife population dynamics, and environmental policy, this title examines the impacts of climate change on populations of terrestrial vertebrates. It also includes chapters that assess the details of climate change ecology.
New Geographies
As a metaphor, the island has been a fecund source of inspiration across many domains. Yet the concept seems to contradict trends toward interconnectedness in the geographic and design fields. An "atlas" of islands, New Geographies, 8 explores the new limits of islandness and gathers examples to reassert its relevance for design disciplines.
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid
'An original, wide-ranging and carefully researched book ... contains important lessons for humanity.' Mark Cocker, The Spectator A fascinating insight into climate change biology around the globe, as well as in our own backyards. Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid is the first major book by a biologist to focus on the fascinating story of how the natural world is adjusting, adapting, and sometimes measurably evolving in response to climate change. Lyrical and thought-provoking, this book broadens the climate focus from humans to the wider lattice of life. Bestselling nature writer Thor Hanson - author of Buzz (a Radio 4 'Book of the Week') - shows us how Caribbean lizards have grown larger toe pads to grip trees more tightly during frequent hurricanes; and how the 'plasticity' of squid has allowed them to change their body size and breeding habits to cope with altered sea temperatures. Plants and animals have a great deal to teach us about the nature of what comes next, because for many of them, and also for many of us, that world is already here.
Von schrumpfenden Tintenfischen und windfesten Eidechsen
Das Wissensbuch des Jahres 2023 in der Kategorie ZÜNDSTOFF und die Leseempfehlung der NY Times »Alarmistische Töne und Besserwisserei hat der Biologe nicht nötig. Er beeindruckt durch seine mitreißende, mitfühlende und humorvolle Erzählweise, die Leserinnen und Leser klüger und hoffentlich auch einsichtiger macht.« (Jury zum Wissensbuch des Jahres 2023) Über die faszinierende Wechselbeziehung von Klimakrise und Evolution Wir wissen, die Anpassung an den menschgemachten Klimawandel ist ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit – dabei ist die Natur uns mitunter schon einige große Schritte voraus. Von gefräßigen Borkenkäfern, die dank gestiegener Temperaturen heute ganze Wälder bedrohen, bi...
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Divine Power and Possibility in St. Peter Damian's De divina omnipotentia
Contemporary critics have argued that medieval philosophers have transmitted a concept of divine omnipotence that is unintelligible and self-contradictory: one which defines omnipotence as a power capable of producing any effect whatsoever. This study, concentrating upon the first Latin treatise explicitly devoted to omnipotence, places the concept of divine power in its patristic and early medieval context in order to demonstrate that this "traditional" concept of omnipotence was quite unknown among pre-scholastic figures. This work illuminates the patristic and early medieval background to Damian's seminal text and its theological and philosophical concerns. It explores Damian's central argument that God can, if He wills, even annul the past. This conclusion stems from Damian's insistence that divinity's primary attribute is Goodness and not Being. As such, God's power remains constrained only by divine goodness and is able to do anything whatsoever, even effect a logical contradiction, if it is good to do so.
Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
The world's climate is changing, and it will continue to change throughout the 21st century and beyond. Rising temperatures, new precipitation patterns, and other changes are already affecting many aspects of human society and the natural world. In this book, the National Research Council provides a broad overview of the ecological impacts of climate change, and a series of examples of impacts of different kinds. The book was written as a basis for a forthcoming illustrated booklet, designed to provide the public with accurate scientific information on this important subject.
