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(0)Jane Billinghurst
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In an era of cell phone addiction and ever-expanding cities, many of us fear we've lost our connection to nature--but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the forest remain alive and intact. Whether we observe it or not, our blood pressure stabilizes near trees, the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses. Drawing on new scientific discoveries, The Heartbeat of Trees reveals the profound interactions humans...
Author
Series
Mysteries of nature trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In The Secret Wisdom of Nature, master storyteller and international sensation Peter Wohlleben takes readers on a thought-provoking exploration of the vast natural systems that make life on Earth possible. In this tour of an almost unfathomable world, Wohlleben describes the fascinating interplay between animals and plants and answers such questions as: How do they influence each other? Do lifeforms communicate across species boundaries? And what...
3) The inner life of animals: love, grief, and compassion : surprising observations of a hidden world
Author
Series
Mysteries of nature trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Through vivid stories of devoted pigs, two-timing magpies, and scheming roosters, The Inner Life of Animals weaves the latest scientific research into how animals interact with the world with Peter Wohlleben's personal experiences in forests and fields. Horses feel shame, deer grieve, and goats discipline their kids. Ravens call their friends by name, rats regret bad choices, and butterflies choose the very best places for their children to grow up....
Author
Series
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As human-caused climate change devastates the planet, forests play a critical role in keeping it habitable. While politicians and business leaders would have us believe that cutting down forests can be offset by mass tree planting, Wohlleben offers a warning: many tree planting campaigns lead to ecological disaster. Not only are these trees more susceptible to disease, flooding, fires, and landslides, we need to understand that forests are more than...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
xii, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Somewhere west of Munich, paleontologist Madelaine B©œhme and her colleagues dig for clues to the origins of humankind. What they discover is beyond anything they ever imagined: the twelve-million-year-old bones of Danuvius guggenmosi make headlines around the world.