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Árvores ao Pé da Porta | Trees at Your Door - Árvores do Centro Histórico de Évora | Trees of the Historic Centre of Évora

by Anabela Belo, Carla Pinto-Cruz, Maria da Conceição Castro e Vasco M. A. Silva

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 «O inventário das árvores do Centro Histórico de Évora decorreu durante Maio de 2021 e consistiu no levantamento da sua localização exacta e na sua identificação taxonómica. Para cada árvore apresenta-se uma ficha da espécie com o nome científico, nome vulgar, família, origem e estatuto em Portugal, uma breve descrição dos caracteres diagnóstico (como folhas, flores ou frutos), o período do ano em que está em floração, o local onde pode ser observada e, nalguns casos, uma nota sobre factos curiosos. Foram identificadas 44 espécies, na sua maioria plantas exóticas introduzidas com propósito ornamental. Este é, evidentemente, um trabalho parcial, uma vez que não contempla todas as árvores presentes no Centro Histórico de Évora. De fora ficam as muitas árvores que existem em pátios e jardins particulares, cujo acesso não é generalizado, e as árvores do Jardim Municipal, cujo acervo se encontra já documentado. É um trabalho destinado aos eborenses que desejem conhecer as árvores das ruas do Centro Histórico de Évora, mas também aos muitos turistas que nos visitam, razão pela qual é bilingue. Foi feito um esforço assinalável para não usar vocabulário técnico, que não é acessível à maioria das pessoas, e por isso dispensámo-nos de incluir o glossário habitual neste tipo de obra.» Anabela Belo
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The Selfish Gene - 40th Anniversary Edition

by Richard Dawkins

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 The 40th anniversary edition of the million copy international bestseller, with a new epilogue from the author. As relevant and influential today as when it was first published, this classic exposition of evolutionary thought, widely hailed for its stylistic brilliance and deep scientific insights, stimulated whole new areas of research.

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Entangled Life - How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds And Shape Our Futures

by Merlin Sheldrake

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 The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself. 'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' Robert MacfarlaneWinner of the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing 2021The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them.

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How Bad Are Bananas? - The Carbon Footprint Of Everything - 2020 New Edition

by Mike Berners-Lee

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 Ten years on from first publication, a new edition of this invaluable and entertaining guide that shows just what effect everything has on carbon emissions, from a Google search to a plastic bag, from a flight to a volcano.
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The Biology Of Belief - Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles

by Bruce H. Lipton e Bruce H., Ph. D. Lipton

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 Using simple language, illustrations, humour and everyday examples, the author demonstrates how the science of epigenetics is revolutionizing our understanding of the link between mind and matter, and the profound effects it has on our personal lives and the collective life of our species.
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Outliers - The Story Of Success

by Malcolm Gladwell

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 Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? In this book, the author looks at everyone from rock stars to professional athletes, software billionaires to scientific geniuses, to show that the story of success is far more surprising, and far more fascinating, than we could ever have imagined.

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On Natural Selection

by Charles Darwin

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 Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.
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Losing Eden - Why Our Minds Need The Wild

by Lucy Jones

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 A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR Today many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet nature remains deeply ingrained in our language, culture and consciousness. For centuries, we have acted on an intuitive sense that we need communion with the wild to feel well. Now, in the moment of our great migration away from the rest of nature, more and more scientific evidence is emerging to confirm its place at the heart of our psychological wellbeing. So what happens, asks acclaimed journalist Lucy Jones, as we lose our bond with the natural world-might we also be losing part of ourselves? Delicately observed and rigorously researched, Losing Eden is an enthralling journey through this new research, exploring how and why connecting with the living world can so drastically affect our health. Travelling from forest schools in East London to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault via primeval woodlands, Californian laboratories and ecotherapists' couches, Jones takes us to the cutting edge of human biology, neuroscience and psychology, and discovers new ways of understanding our increasingly dysfunctional relationship with the earth. Urgent and uplifting, Losing Eden is a rallying cry for a wilder way of life - for finding asylum in the soil and joy in the trees - which might just help us to save the living planet, as well as ourselves.
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Cradle To Cradle

by Michael Braungart e William Mcdonough

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 In this visionary book, chemist Michael Braungart and architect William McDonough challenge this status quo and put forward a manifesto for an intriguing and radically different philosophy of environmentalism. "Reduce, reuse, recycleâ€.
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The Blank Slate - The Modern Denial Of Human Nature

by Steven Pinker

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 Recently many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by upbringing and culture, with innate abilities playing little part. This title shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature.
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The Rescue Effect - The Key To Saving Life On Earth

by Michael Mehta Webster

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 By exploring the regenerative systems that help nature survive in the face of environmental change and stress, The Rescue Effect optimistically reveals how we can use this natural resiliency to help reverse the effects of climate change.
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In Search Of One Last Song - Britainâ€™S Disappearing Birds And The People Trying To Save Them

by Patrick Galbraith

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 â€˜Wonderful and enrichingâ€™ Adam Nicolson â€˜The best book on conservation and the countryside I have read in yearsâ€™ John Lewis-Stempel â€˜A modern pastoral written with intelligence, wit and lyricismâ€™ Cal Flyn
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The Reality Bubble - Blind Spots, Hidden Truths And The Dangerous Illusions That Shape Our World

by Ziya Tong

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 A groundbreaking look at the hidden things that shape our lives in unexpected and sometimes dangerous ways, from the Vice Chair of WWF Canada
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The Self-Sufficiency Bible - 100s Of Ways To Live More Sustainably Â€“ Wherever You Are

by Simon Dawson

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 A fully revised and updated edition of the self-sufficiency classic.Â Packed with practical information and expert advice on everything from gardening to cooking, and from health and beauty to raising livestock, this is the indispensable guide to living more sustainably, whether you live in a city apartment block or on a rural smallholding.
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The Whole Fish Cookbook - New Ways To Cook, Eat And Think

by Josh Niland

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 More than 60 exciting recipe ideas for sustainable ways to eat fish

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Figuring It Out - Entertaining Encounters With Everyday Math

by Nuno Crato

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 This is a book of mathematical stories â€" funny and puzzling mathematical stories.
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Topology Optimization - Theory, Methods, And Applications

by Martin Philip Bendsoe e Ole Sigmund

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 "The art of structure is where to put the holes" Robert Le Ricolais, 1894-1977 This is a completely revised, updated and expanded version of the book titled "Optimization of Structural Topology, Shape and Material" (Bends0e 1995).
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Handbook Of Bird Biology

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 Selected by Forbes.
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Meadowland - The Private Life Of An English Field

by John Lewis-Stempel

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 _________________'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMESWINNER OF THE THWAITES WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2015What really goes on in the long grass?Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an English meadowâ€™s life from January to December, together with its biography.
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Biochemistry - Essential Concepts

by Charles (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, North Carolina State University) Hardin e James (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, North Carolina State University) Knopp

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 One-semester biochemistry courses are notorious for overwhelming students with the magnitude of material covered in their texts and lectures. Biochemistry: Essential Concepts distills the basic ideas covered in a one-semester course without the extraneous details that burden most texts.
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In Defence Of Dogs - Why Dogs Need Our Understanding

by John Bradshaw

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 Overturning the most common myths about dogs' emotions and behaviour, this book shows how we should really treat our pets, and stands up for dogdom: not the wolf in canine clothes, not the small furry child, not the trophy-winner, but the real dog, who wants to be part of the family and enjoy life - mankind's closest friend.

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An Introduction To Behavioural Ecology

by John R. (University Of Oxford, Uk) Krebs, Nicholas B. (University Of Cambridge, Uk) Davies e Stuart A. (University Of Oxford, Uk) West

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 * Covers the influence of natural selection on behaviour an animal s struggle to survive and reproduce by exploiting and competing for resources, avoiding predators, selecting mates and caring for offspring, and how animal societies reflect both cooperation and conflict among individuals.
Collapse - How Societies Choose To Fail Or Survive

by Jared Diamond

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 What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island? What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat? This book deals with these questions.
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The Descent Of Man - Selection In Relation To Sex

by Charles Darwin

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 Named by Sigmund Freud as 'one of the ten most significant books' ever written, Darwin's "Descent of Man" continues to shape the way we think about what it is that makes us uniquely human. In this book, the authors call for a radical re-assessment of the book, arguing that its core ideas on race were fired by Darwin's hatred of slavery.
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