Livros mais populares no Brasil●Meio ambiente

“A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday . . . It's a delight.”— The New York Times Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends—and their amazing links to recent discoveries.  “How can I persuade every intelligent person to read this important and elegant book? ...

Data de lançamento: 1977-04-12 R$ 29,90

A obra clássica sobre pensamento sistêmico, fundamental para a resolução de problemas de qualquer escala. Uma leitura essencial para líderes, executivos e dirigentes, mas também para todos que se preocupam com o futuro da humanidade e do planeta. Alguns dos maiores desafios que o mundo enfrenta – guerra, fome, pobreza e degradação ambiental – são, em essência, falhas do sistema. Não é possível resolvê-los ajustando uma peça isolada, porque mesmo os menores detalhes podem minar...

Data de lançamento: 2022-09-08 Gênero:Ciência e natureza R$ 39,90

Este eBook resume, de forma clara e objetiva, as principais informações técnicas, necessárias ao entendimento deste Mercado, assim como informa sobre os projetos que devem ser elaborados para a obtenção destes créditos. Projetos aprovados tornam-se aptos para emissão dos créditos de carbono gerados.

Data de lançamento: 2021-01-21 Gênero:Ciência e natureza R$ 27,90

Estamos apenas começando a compreender as conseqüências da contaminação provocada pelo uso indiscriminado de agrotóxicos e outros agentes. (...) Hoje, relatos nas principais revistas médicas apontam acusadoramente para os efeitos das alterações hormonais provocadas por agentes químicos sobre nossa fertilidade – e sobre os nossos filhos. Futuro roubado oferece uma descrição realista e fácil de ler sobre a pesquisa científica emergente que investiga de que maneira uma ampla varieda...

Data de lançamento: 1997-08-11 R$ 22,90

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? RECOMMENDED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND BILL GATES • SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, Esquire, Smithsonian Magazine, Vulture, Publishers Wee...

Data de lançamento: 2021-02-09 R$ 54,90

Aviation Weather is an indispensable resource to anyone wanting to learn the in's and out's of weather. Specifically designed for pilots and flight operations personnel, this manual will provide you with valuable insights into the meteorology involved within the realm of sound aeronautical decision making.

Data de lançamento: 2016-06-15 R$ 37,90

Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-effective approaches (such as massively increasing our commitment to green energy R&D) that will allow us to deal n...

Data de lançamento: 2007-09-04 R$ 29,90

A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why ...

Data de lançamento: 2007-07-10 R$ 72,90

A experiência da pandemia e do confinamento atingiu duramente a todas e a todos, tanto no nível individual quanto no coletivo. Os Estados, assim como os indivíduos, esperam avidamente o retorno do "mundo de antes". Há, no entanto, uma outra maneira de encarar esse desafio global e tirar dele importantes lições, ao menos para aqueles que podemos chamar "terrestres", que entendem que a crise sanitária faz parte de uma outra crise, ainda mais grave, e que há uma chance a ser...

Data de lançamento: 2021-09-17 R$ 47,90

Named a  Financial Times  Best Book of 2021 An energy expert shows why hydrogen can fight climate change and become the fuel of the future     We’re constantly told that our planet is in crisis; that to save it, we must stop traveling, stop eating meat, even stop having children. But in  The Hydrogen Revolution , Marco Alverà argues that we don’t need to upend our lives. We just need a new kind of fuel: hydrogen...

Data de lançamento: 2021-11-16 R$ 94,90

En este libro tan necesario y riguroso, Bill Gates expone un plan amplio, funcional y, sobre todo, asequible, para reducir a cero las emisiones de los gases causantes del efecto invernadero y evitar a tiempo una catástrofe medioambiental. Bill Gates ha dedicado una década a investigar el cambio climático. Con la orientación de expertos en física, química, biología, ingeniería, ciencias políticas y finanzas, se ha centrado en determinar qué medidas debemos tomar para detener la carrera ...

Data de lançamento: 2021-02-16 Gênero:Ciência e natureza R$ 57,90

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery “ Finding the Mother Tree reminds us that the world is a web of stories, connecting us to one another. [The book] carries the stories of trees, fungi, soil and bears--and of a human being listening in on the conversation. The interplay of personal narrativ...

Data de lançamento: 2021-05-04 R$ 19,90

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493 --an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions...

Data de lançamento: 2018-01-23 R$ 54,90

A Série Universitária foi desenvolvida pelo Senac São Paulo com o intuito de preparar profissionais para o mercado de trabalho. Os títulos abrangem diversas áreas, abordando desde conhecimentos teóricos e práticos adequados às exigências profissionais até a formação ética e sólida. Gestão ambiental: caminhos para a sustentabilidade traça um panorama de vários aspectos da gestão ambiental frente aos desafios da sustentabilidade, apresentando a relação entre a humanidade e o am...

Data de lançamento: 2022-06-20 R$ 32,90

An interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistoric hunting to modern energy production. The biosphere—the Earth's thin layer of life—dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, but none has transformed the Earth in so many ways and on such a scale as Homo sapiens . In Harvesting the Biospher...

Data de lançamento: 2012-12-21 R$ 94,90

United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling “optimistic view on why collective action is still possible—and how it can be realized” ( The New York Times ). Called “one of the nation’s most effective communicators on climate change” by The New York Times , Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of the conversation on our changing planet. A C...

Data de lançamento: 2021-09-21 Gênero:Ciência e natureza R$ 67,90

What can we really do about the climate emergency?    The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing – or even just slowing – it will affect all of us. But it can be done. In Net Zero the economist Professor Dieter Helm addresses the action we would all need to take, whether personal, local, national or global, if we really wanted to stop causing climate change. Net Zero is Professor Dieter Helm’s measured, ba...

Data de lançamento: 2020-09-03 Gênero:Ciência e natureza R$ 82,90

O que traz de novo o debate ambiental? O novo está na incorporação do ambiente como categoria estratégica para se discutir os estilos de vida e a estrutura social no planeta, pela primeira vez visto com limites naturais. O livro aborda essa e outras inquietantes questões, associando-as a duas temáticas prioritárias nos tempos atuais: sustentabilidade e educação.

Data de lançamento: 2014-06-01 R$ 47,90

Rich with detail, bold and original, Mike Davis's Ecology of Fear is a gripping reconnaissance into the urban future, an essential portrait of America at the millennium. Los Angeles has become a magnet for the American apocalyptic imagination. Riot, fire, flood, earthquake...only locusts are missing from the almost biblical list of disasters that have struck the city in the 1990s. From Ventura to Laguna, more than one million Southern Californians have been directly touched by disaster-related d...

Data de lançamento: 2014-01-14 R$ 67,90

How do I get this stuff out of me? Bruce Lourie and Rick Smith, two of North America's environmental leaders, have been asked this question on an almost daily basis since the publication of their runaway international bestseller, Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects our Health . Their answer? It's not as simple as we'd like, and it's not as easy as we'd hope. But it's too important to ignore. In Toxin Toxout , Lourie and Smith give practical and often surpr...

Data de lançamento: 2014-05-06 R$ 67,90

In this fresh and gutsy analysis, Amanda Little lays bare America’s energy past, present and future and shows how the innovatory designs that got it to its current energy crisis will actually save it from ruin. 'We're about to see a revolution in the way we live, fundamental changes to the way our homes work, the way our cars move, the way we grow our food, distribute our products, the way we make and recycle plastics.' - Amanda Little In this adventurous, jargon free, optimistic book, Amanda ...

Data de lançamento: 2010-01-21 Gênero:Ciência e natureza R$ 52,90