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Un Día De Nieve
by Ezra Jack KeatsTraducción en español del cuento clásico ganador de la Medalla Caldecott, Un día de nieve.Es un día de nieve y Pedro sale a explorar. Mientras pasea entre montones de nieve apilada y observa a los niños grandes jugar a tirarse bolas gigantes--descubre los surcos que dejan sus pies en la nieve espesa y lo divertido que es hacer figuras de ángeles en la nieve."This translation of Keats's original Caldecott Medal winner captures the physical and emotional experiences of Peter and his delight in a snowfall."—School Library Journal
Un Remedio Teológico para la Crisis Ambiental
by Joseph HabamahirweLas conferencias internacionales sobre el medio ambiente, como la de Río en 1992, han hecho buenas políticas ambientales. Desafortunadamente, tales políticas no se han implementado lo suficiente. Esta situación refleja la falta de interés por parte de los países desarrollados, así como la falta de tenacidad por parte de los países en desarrollo. Por lo tanto, dicha tenacidad es necesaria para resolver el problema aparentemente insoluble de la contaminación ambiental. Las Naciones Unidas han establecido un Programa Ambiental (PNUMA) para abordar los problemas ambientales a nivel mundial. Aún así, hay mucho por hacer. Este libro presenta el estado de la actual crisis ambiental global, sus causas y efectos, tanto para los seres humanos como para la naturaleza misma. Hace un llamado a activistas ambientales, científicos, estudiantes, conferenciantes, líderes eclesiásticos y líderes políticos para detener esta crisis que podría persistir durante muchos años y empeorar progresivamente si el mundo no llega a una solución pronto.
Un Tejido Magico: El Bosque Tropical de Isla Barro Colorado (Spanish Edition)
by Christian Ziegler Egbert Giles LeighBarro Colorado Island is the crown jewel of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and the most thoroughly studied tropical rainforest on Earth. This book reveals the extreme interconnections of life in a tropical forest, with lavishly beautiful full-color photographs. It gives an eyewitness view of the fascinating biodiversity, ecology, and evolution of tropical forests. A Magic Web has particular value for scientists and environmentalists, as it offers a comprehensive review of more than 100 years of biological research of a tropical rainforest. It comprises the most important ecological and evolutionary processes that shape life in a tropical forest and contribute to its incredible diversity. Lastly, this beautiful volume clearly shows why the conservation of tropical forests are vital for Earth's future. Isla de Barro Colorado es la joya de la corona del Instituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales, y la selva tropical más estudiado en la Tierra. Este libro revela las interconexiones extremas de la vida en un bosque tropical, con ricamente hermosas fotografías a todo color. Da una vista ocular de la fascinante biodiversidad, la ecología y la evolución de los bosques tropicales. Un Tejido Mágico tiene un valor especial para los científicos y los ecologistas, ya que ofrece una revisión completa de más de 100 años de investigación biológica de la selva tropical. Se compone de los procesos ecológicos y evolutivos más importantes que dan forma a la vida en un bosque tropical y contribuyen a su increíble diversidad. Por último, este hermoso volumen muestra claramente por qué la conservación de los bosques tropicales son vitales para el futuro de la Tierra.
Un mar de esperanza: Soluciones ciudadanas para un planeta sostenible
by Andrea Sáenz-ArroyoUn viaje físico e intelectual por distintas sociedades que revela formas de relacionarnos con el planeta más amables e inteligentes. Abundan las historias apocalípticas sobre el desastre ambiental que nuestra forma de vivir ha ocasionado. ¿Cuál es el futuro de la humanidad ante la inminente tragedia de haber dañado profundamente a la Tierra, el único hogar con el que contamos hasta el día de hoy? En Un mar de esperanza, Andrea Sáenz-Arroyo, una bióloga marina con un doctorado en Economía ambiental, nos guía por un viaje personal a través de sociedades e ideas contrastantes, y llega a la siguiente conclusión: el arribo de la era de la comunicación nos revela que degradar nuestro entorno y despojar los recursos de otros para satisfacer nuestras necesidades no sólo es poco inteligente, sino evolutivamente inviable.La buena noticia es que formas distintas al modelo hegemónico que establece cómo relacionarnos conla naturaleza están por todos lados y la información fluye hoy en una especie de red neuronal. La gran característica que nos distingue de las demás especies -nuestra enorme capacidad de aprendizaje social- nos está llevando a adoptar rápidamente esas formas en nuestra vida diaria y, quizá lo más importante, a confrontar colectivamente lo que, gracias a nosotros mismos, amenaza nuestro bienestar: el cambio climático. En un lenguaje sencillo, capaz de captar la atención de un lector preocupado por su mundo, Sáenz-Arroyo nos guía por un viaje físico e intelectual en el que las distintas sociedades revelan una forma menos nociva de relacionarnos con el mundo natural. Cada capítulo relata un viaje a territorios contrastantes, conoceremos de cerca a los indígenas de las islas Fiji, los pescadores de Baja California y las amas de casa de California de la década de los setenta. Este viaje nos revela miradas fuera de lo convencional para vivir en armonía con la naturaleza. Un mar de esperanza es un libro para todas las personas sedientas de soluciones ante la crisis ambiental, un respiro fresco y, como su nombre lo dice, un aire esperanzador en esta tormenta global de desasosiego.
Un mundo de soluciones
by Marc GrañóHay un mundo de soluciones para frenar el cambio climático. Después de haber viajado por el mundo y ver la consecuencias del cambio climático, un zorro del ártico descubrirá algunas de las soluciones que tienen los humanos para reducir las emisiones de dióxido de carbono y, por lo tanto, salvar el planeta. Con la ayuda de una doctora muy especial, el zorro aprenderá que hay muchas herramientas para que entre todos frenemos el cambio climático. Este relato, que forma parte del libro Ahora o nunca de Marc Grañó, presenta de manera muy didáctica y positiva algunas de las posibles soluciones para ayudar al planeta entre todos.
Un remède théologique contre la crise environnementale: À la lumière de Jürgen Moltmann
by Joseph HabamahirweCe livre présente l’état actuel de la crise environnementale et offre des propositions pour l’empêcher. Les conférences internationales concernant l’environnement, comme celle à Rio en 1992, ont fait de bonnes politiques environnementales. Malheureusement, de telles politiques n’ont pas été suffisamment mises en œuvre. Cette situation reflète un manque d’intérêt de la part des pays développés aussi bien qu’un manque de ténacité des pays en voie de développement. Par conséquent, une telle ténacité est nécessaire afin de résoudre le problème apparemment intraitable de la pollution environnementale. Les Nations Unies ont établi un Programme Environnemental (PNUE) pour s’attaquer aux problèmes de l’environnement au niveau mondial. Il y a encore beaucoup à faire. Ce livre présente l’état actuel de la crise environnementale mondiale, ses causes et effets, à la fois pour les êtres humains et la nature elle-même. Il fait appel aux activistes de l’environnement, aux hommes de science, aux étudiants, aux conférenciers, aux chefs de l’Église et aux législateurs pour empêcher cette crise qui perdurerait pour des années à venir et se dégraderait au fur et à mesure si le monde n’arrive pas bientôt à une solution.
Un rimedio teologico alla crisi ambientale: Alla luce di Jürgen Moltmann
by Joseph HabamahirweLe conferenze internazionali sull'ambiente, come quella di Rio del 1992, hanno dato vita a buone politiche ambientali. Purtroppo, tali politiche non sono state attuate a sufficienza. Questa situazione riflette la mancanza di interesse da parte dei Paesi sviluppati e la mancanza di tenacia da parte dei Paesi in via di sviluppo. Per risolvere il problema apparentemente intrattabile dell'inquinamento ambientale è quindi necessaria una certa tenacia. Le Nazioni Unite hanno istituito un programma ambientale (UNEP) per affrontare i problemi ambientali a livello globale. Tuttavia, c'è ancora molto da fare. Questo libro presenta lo stato dell'attuale crisi ambientale globale, le sue cause e i suoi effetti, sia per gli esseri umani che per la natura stessa. Lancia un appello agli attivisti ambientali, agli scienziati, agli studenti, ai docenti, ai leader delle chiese e ai responsabili politici per fermare questa crisi che potrebbe protrarsi per molti anni a venire e peggiorare progressivamente se il mondo non troverà presto una soluzione.
Un: Helping Teens and Young Adults Flourish in an Age of Anxiety
by Kate O’BrienEvery child is born a physical, emotional and spiritual being. As parents and caregivers, it is our role to nurture these qualities and help young people mature into confident embodied adults and responsible custodians of our communities, economies and the Earth. But as the scaffolding of the old world has crumbled, we know that many members of Gen Z are experiencing anxiety, depression, addiction and even suicidality at epidemic levels. We want our children to grow up in an environment where they feel safe, loved, and can enjoy a deep sense of belonging. The sensitive, the open-hearted and empathetic ones are the most affected and these are the very people we need most in society.With contributions and timely solutions from leading scientists, doctors, inspirational teachers, visionaries and wisdom holders from varying traditions, the stories of hope in UN:Stuck offer guidance that will help our children mature into confident embodied adults packed with empathy, curiosity and a real sense of playfulness. The chapter titles in this book are rungs on a ladder of hope: Awakened Awareness, Emotional/Ethical intelligence, Interrelatedness (Ukama), Ethical Activism, Meaning & Purpose, Resilience/Courage/Curiosity, Creativity and Inclusion/The Whole Being.The result is a truly 360° vision of how we can support our young people, based on storytelling and wisdom in a way that reconnects them at a fundamental level with their world and seeds hope for the future.
Un: Helping Teens and Young Adults Flourish in an Age of Anxiety
by Kate O’BrienEvery child is born a physical, emotional and spiritual being. As parents and caregivers, it is our role to nurture these qualities and help young people mature into confident embodied adults and responsible custodians of our communities, economies and the Earth. But as the scaffolding of the old world has crumbled, we know that many members of Gen Z are experiencing anxiety, depression, addiction and even suicidality at epidemic levels. We want our children to grow up in an environment where they feel safe, loved, and can enjoy a deep sense of belonging. The sensitive, the open-hearted and empathetic ones are the most affected and these are the very people we need most in society.With contributions and timely solutions from leading scientists, doctors, inspirational teachers, visionaries and wisdom holders from varying traditions, the stories of hope in UN:Stuck offer guidance that will help our children mature into confident embodied adults packed with empathy, curiosity and a real sense of playfulness. The chapter titles in this book are rungs on a ladder of hope: Awakened Awareness, Emotional/Ethical intelligence, Interrelatedness (Ukama), Ethical Activism, Meaning & Purpose, Resilience/Courage/Curiosity, Creativity and Inclusion/The Whole Being.The result is a truly 360° vision of how we can support our young people, based on storytelling and wisdom in a way that reconnects them at a fundamental level with their world and seeds hope for the future.
Una belleza vuglar
by Damián TabarovskyUna hoja se desprende de un árbol en una calle concreta de Buenos Aires. Mientras cae y como si la hoja funcionase como un espejo de almas y cuerpos, la narración da cuenta de los habitantes de un edificio: sus expectativas, su realidad, sus sueños, sus deseos... hasta componer un retrato poliédrico de las formas de vida de nuestro tiempo. La narración se presenta así como un intento de gran originalidad que busca atrapar «esa belleza que todavía no ha llegado al mundo», que flota sobre nosotros y que en pocas ocasiones nos atrevemos a reconocer.«Hay que defender esta literatura, y la de Damián Tabarovsky lo es en grado sumo, si queremos evitar que los aduladores de la vacuidad acampen a su antojo.»Ernesto Ayala, Babelia
Una casa para un conejito (Little Golden Book)
by Margaret Wise BrownPor primera vez una edición en español de Home for a Bunny, un clásico Little Golden Book. Una casa para un conejito, la edición en español de Home for a Bunny—la entrañable historia de un conejito en busca de un hogar—brinda la oportunidad a más de 37 millones de hispanohablantes que residen en Estados Unidos de disfrutar de la maravillosa experiencia de leer este clásico Little Golden Book. Traducida al español por Teresa Mlawer, una de las figuras más respetadas del mundo editorial hispano, esta historia clásica será el regalo perfecto, a un precio muy razonable, de Pascua o de bienvenida para el bebé.An all-new Spanish translation of the classic Little Golden Book Home for a Bunny. This Spanish-language translation of Home for a Bunny--the beloved story about a bunny looking for a home--makes the joyful experience of reading this classic Little Golden Book available to the 37 million Americans who speak Spanish! Newly translated by Teresa Mlawer--one of the most respected figures in Hispanic publishing--this classic storybook is the perfect affordable Easter or baby gift.
Una mirada a los insectos (¡Arriba la Lectura!, Level E #29)
by Cheryl JakabLos insectos tienen cabeza, torso y estómago. ¡También tienen seis patas! NIMAC-sourced textbook
Una nación de parques (¡Arriba la Lectura! Level O #15)
by Kristin CashoreNIMAC-sourced textbook <p><p> Lee sobre el Servicio de Parques Nacionales y los parques que están bajo su cuidado. Descubre cuántos hay, dónde están y por qué son especiales. ¡Haz planes para el primero que deseas visitar!
Una tribu
by Antonio Malpica"Cada quién lleva un tatuaje distinto al de todos los demás en su interior. Y eso, a fin de cuentas, es su mayor fortaleza". "A veces siento que todo lo que impide al ser humano caminar descalzo por la hierba es una gran mentira." El gran jefe Tenaya y su pueblo habitan plácidamente el valle prohibido de Yosemite, a los pies del Capitán, el monolito preferido que hoy en día escalan los montañistas más atrevidos. Pero en 1850, aquella tribu tuvo que enfrentar una persecución sin tregua, una partida de ajedrez con los invasores del territorio piel roja. Petirrojo, hijo de Tenaya, sabe que su gente es de espíritu despreocupado, pero en su interior bullen las tribulaciones: la inseguridad frente a los talentos de sus hermanos, carismáticos y decididos; el temor de defraudar a su padre, y la vacilación ante el amor de Luz de Día, su amada desde niños. ¿Quién no ha temido quedar mal conquienes más le importan? A Tenaya le basta una vida simple y feliz para que su paso por la tierra sea provechoso, pero en ocasiones se necesita demostrar algo, a sí mismo y a los demás. Hasta ahora, Petirrojo no sabe para qué está en el mundo y se lo reprocha, pero se dará cuenta de que se necesita algo más que fuerza y astucia para vencer al enemigo, y poder así ser digno y libre. ¿Acaso una persona o una nación entera dejaría de existir si no alcanzara un sitio en la memoria del mundo? ¿Qué audacia tan grande se necesitará intentar en esta vida para que los demás te recuerden?
Unbottled: The Fight against Plastic Water and for Water Justice
by Daniel JaffeeAn exploration of bottled water's impact on social justice and sustainability, and how diverse movements are fighting back. In just four decades, bottled water has transformed from a luxury niche item into a ubiquitous consumer product, representing a $300 billion market dominated by global corporations. It sits at the convergence of a mounting ecological crisis of single-use plastic waste and climate change, a social crisis of affordable access to safe drinking water, and a struggle over the fate of public water systems. Unbottled examines the vibrant movements that have emerged to question the need for bottled water and challenge its growth in North America and worldwide. Drawing on extensive interviews with activists, residents, public officials, and other participants in controversies ranging from bottled water's role in unsafe tap water crises to groundwater extraction for bottling in rural communities, Daniel Jaffee asks what this commodity's meteoric growth means for social inequality, sustainability, and the human right to water. Unbottled profiles campaigns to reclaim the tap and addresses the challenges of ending dependence on packaged water in places where safe water is not widely accessible. Clear and compelling, it assesses the prospects for the movements fighting plastic water and working to ensure water justice for all.
Unbound (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series #59)
by Gabrielle McIntireinside sadness is glory / if you see it right way round, / find the seam, reverse it to perspectivize, / unwind light, joy's unravelling spoolInspired by mystical traditions, birdwatching, tree planting, ethics, neuropsychology, and quantum physics, Gabrielle McIntire's poems draw us in with their passionate attention to what it means to be human in a still-wondrous natural environment.Touching on human frailty, the eternal, and the ecological with a delicate and evocative brush, Unbound enacts an almost prayerful attentiveness to the earth's creatures and landscapes while it offers both mournful and humorous treatments of love and loss. McIntire's finely tuned musical voice – with its incantatory rhythms, rhymes, sound play, and entrancing double meanings – invites us to be courageously open to the unexpected.Unbound stirs us to re-evaluate our place amidst the astonishing beauty and wisdom of an Earth facing the early stages of climate change.
Unbowed: One Woman's Story
by Wangari MaathaiIn Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people's environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa. Persevering through run-ins with the Kenyan government and personal losses, and jailed and beaten on numerous occasions, Maathai continued to fight tirelessly to save Kenya's forests and to restore democracy to her beloved country. Infused with her unique luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai's remarkable story of courage, faith, and the power of persistence is destined to inspire generations to come.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America
by Joseph GiacomelliUncertain Climes looks to the late nineteenth century to reveal how climate anxiety was a crucial element in the emergence of American modernity. Even people who still refuse to accept the reality of human-induced climate change would have to agree that the topic has become inescapable in the United States in recent decades. But as Joseph Giacomelli shows in Uncertain Climes, this is actually nothing new: as far back as Gilded Age America, climate uncertainty has infused major debates on economic growth and national development. In this ambitious examination of late-nineteenth-century understandings of climate, Giacomelli draws on the work of scientists, foresters, surveyors, and settlers to demonstrate how central the subject was to the emergence of American modernity. Amid constant concerns about volatile weather patterns and the use of natural resources, nineteenth-century Americans developed a multilayered discourse on climate and what it might mean for the nation’s future. Although climate science was still in its nascent stages during the Gilded Age, fears and hopes about climate change animated the overarching political struggles of the time, including expansion into the American West. Giacomelli makes clear that uncertainty was the common theme linking concerns about human-induced climate change with cultural worries about the sustainability of capitalist expansionism in an era remarkably similar to the United States’ unsettled present.
Uncertain Path: A Search for the Future of National Parks
by William C. TweedIn this provocative walking meditation, writer and former park ranger William Tweed takes us to California’s spectacular High Sierra to discover a new vision for our national parks as they approach their 100th anniversary. Tweed, who worked among the Sierra Nevada’s big peaks and big trees for more than thirty years, has now hiked more than 200 miles along California’s John Muir Trail in a personal search for answers: How do we address the climate change we are seeing even now—in melting glaciers in Glacier National Park, changing rainy seasons on Mt Rainer, and more fire in the West’s iconic parks. Should we intervene where we can to preserve biodiversity? Should the parks merely become ecosystem museums that exhibit famous landscapes and species? Asking how we can make these magnificent parks relevant for the next generation, Tweed, through his journey, ultimately shows why we must do just that.
Uncertain Peril
by Claire Hope CummingsLife on earth is facing unprecedented challenges from global warming, war, and mass extinctions. The plight of seeds is a less visible but no less fundamental threat to our survival. Seeds are at the heart of the planet's life-support systems. Their power to regenerate and adapt are essential to maintaining our food supply and our ability to cope with a changing climate. In Uncertain Peril, environmental journalist Claire Hope Cummings exposes the stories behind the rise of industrial agriculture and plant biotechnology, the fall of public interest science, and the folly of patenting seeds. She examines how farming communities are coping with declining water, soil, and fossil fuels, as well as with new commercial technologies. Will genetically engineered and "terminator" seeds lead to certain promise, as some have hoped, or are we embarking on a path of uncertain peril? Will the "doomsday vault" under construction in the Arctic, designed to store millions of seeds, save the genetic diversity of the world's agriculture? To answer these questions and others, Cummings takes readers from the Fertile Crescent in Iraq to the island of Kaua'i in Hawai'i; from Oaxaca, Mexico, to the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. She examines the plight of farmers who have planted transgenic seeds and scientists who have been persecuted for revealing the dangers of modified genes. At each turn, Cummings looks deeply into the relationship between people and plants. She examines the possibilities for both scarcity and abundance and tells the stories of local communities that are producing food and fuel sustainably and providing for the future. The choices we make about how we feed ourselves now will determine whether or not seeds will continue as a generous source of sustenance and remain the common heritage of all humanity. It comes down to this: whoever controls the future of seeds controls the future of life on earth. Uncertain Peril is a powerful reminder that what's at stake right now is nothing less than the nature of the future.
Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
by Gabriele Bammer Michael Smithson�This is a major, and deeply thoughtful, contribution to understanding uncertainty and risk. Our world and its unprecedented challenges need such ways of thinking! Much more than a set of contributions from different disciplines, this book leads you to explore your own way of perceiving your own area of work. An outstanding contribution that will stay on my shelves for many years.� Dr Neil T. M. Hamilton, Director, WWF International Arctic Programme �This collection of essays provides a unique and fascinating overview of perspectives on uncertainty and risk across a wide variety of disciplines. It is a valuable and accessible sourcebook for specialists and laypeople alike.� Professor Renate Schubert, Head of the Institute for Environmental Decisions and Chair of Economics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology �This comprehensive collection of disciplinary perspectives on uncertainty is a definitive guide to contemporary insights into this Achilles� heel of modernity and the endemic hubris of institutional science in its role as public authority. It gives firm foundations to the fundamental historic shift now underway in the world, towards normalizing acceptance of the immanent condition of ignorance and of its practical corollaries: contingency, uncontrol, and respect for difference.� Brian Wynne, Professor of Science Studies, Lancaster University �Bammer and Smithson have assembled a fascinating, important collection of papers on uncertainty and its management. The integrative nature of Uncertainty and Risk makes it a landmark in the intellectual history of this vital cross-disciplinary concept.� George Cvetkovich, Director, Center for Cross-Cultural Research, Western Washington University Uncertainty governs our lives. From the unknowns of living with the risks of terrorism to developing policies on genetically modified foods, or disaster planning for catastrophic climate change, how we conceptualize, evaluate and cope with uncertainty drives our actions and deployment of resources, decisions and priorities. In this thorough and wide-ranging volume, theoretical perspectives are drawn from art history, complexity science, economics, futures, history, law, philosophy, physics, psychology, statistics and theology. On a practical level, uncertainty is examined in emergency management, intelligence, law enforcement, music, policy and politics. Key problems that are a subject of focus are environmental management, communicable diseases and illicit drugs. Opening and closing sections of the book provide major conceptual strands in uncertainty thinking and develop an integrated view of the nature of uncertainty, uncertainty as a motivating or de-motivating force, and strategies for coping and managing under uncertainty.
Uncertainty and the Philosophy of Climate Change
by Martin BunzlWhen it comes to climate change, the greatest difficulty we face is that we do not know the likely degree of change or its cost, which means that environmental policy decisions have to be made under uncertainty. This book offers an accessible philosophical treatment of the broad range of ethical and policy challenges posed by climate change uncertainty. Drawing on both the philosophy of science and ethics, Martin Bunzl shows how tackling climate change revolves around weighing up our interests now against those of future generations, which requires that we examine our assumptions about the value of present costs versus future benefits. In an engaging, conversational style, Bunzl looks at questions such as our responsibility towards non-human life, the interests of the developing and developed worlds, and how the circumstances of poverty shape the perception of risk, ultimate developing and defending a view of humanity and its place in the world that makes sense of our duty to Nature without treating it as a rights bearer. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental studies, philosophy, politics and sociology as well as policy makers.
Uncharted Constellations
by John C. BarentineThis book compiles an array of interesting constellations that fell by the wayside before the IAU established the modern canon of constellations. That decision left out lesser known ones whose history is nevertheless interesting, but at last author John Barentine is giving them their due. This book is a companion to "The Lost Constellations", highlighting the more obscure configurations. The 16 constellations found in this volume fall into one or more of three broad categories: asterims, such as the Big Dipper in Ursa Maj∨ single-sourced constellations introduced on surviving charts by a cartographer perhaps currying the favor of sponsors; and re-brands, new figures meant to displace existing constellations, often for an ideological reason. All of them reveal something unique about the development of humanity's map of the sky.