50 de mest populära böckerna i Sverige●Geovetenskap

Hösten 2016 sammanträder världens ledande geologer i Kapstaden. En grupp experter lägger fram de slutliga bevisen för att världen behöver ett nytt namn för en ny tid. Ett av bevisen är resterna av radioaktivitet från provsprängningarna efter andra världskriget, ett annat spridningen av plast och sot. Efter 12000 år under Holocen är det dags för Antropocen, människans tidsålder. En stor händelse i planetens historia. Ska vi glädjas åt eller förskräckas av att människan nu b...

Releasedatum: 2017-04-20 129,00 kr

Från författaren till succén "Galen i humlor" "Jag vill få dig att betrakta vår värld med nya ögon, förmå dig att gå ut i din trädgård eller i en park och ställa dig på knä och titta. Det finns så mycket att se. Om du tittar tillräckligt nära kan du inte undgå att uppskatta den dyrbara, outforskade prakt som livet på planeten jorden är. Om vi lär oss att sätta värde på det vi har, kanske vi kan hitta ett sätt att behålla det." "Galen i insekter" är berättelsen om hur...

Releasedatum: 2016-03-31 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 25,00 kr

If the world as we know it ended tomorrow, how would you survive? A nuclear war, viral pandemic or asteroid strike. The world as we know it has ended. You and the other survivors must start again. What knowledge would you need to start rebuilding civilisation from scratch? How do you grow food, generate power, prepare medicines, or get metal out of rocks? Could you avert another Dark Ages, or take shortcuts to accelerate redevelopment? Living in the modern world, we have become disconnected from...

Releasedatum: 2014-04-03 115,00 kr

»Glöm växlande molnighet och svaga vindar. Nu är det ångande heta värmeböljor och våldsamma känslostormar i prognoserna. Åtminstone när Nils Holmqvist presenterar vädret.« - Aftonbladet Att under sin livstid uppleva stormar, värmeböljor, skyfall, otaliga lågtryck och högtrycksryggar utan att förstå hur de blir till är inget sätt att leva. Men låt oss inte stanna vid att förstå, låt oss också uppskatta vädret, himlen och molnens ständigt föränderliga skönhet. »Himl...

Releasedatum: 2016-05-04 25,00 kr

" Unsettled is a remarkable book—probably the best book on climate change for the intelligent layperson—that achieves the feat of conveying complex information clearly and in depth."  — Claremont Review of Books "Surging sea levels are inundating the coasts." "Hurricanes and tornadoes are becoming fiercer and more frequent." "Climate change will be an economic disaster." You've heard all this presented as fact. But according to science, all of these statements are profoundly misleadin...

Releasedatum: 2021-04-27 139,00 kr

People rely on reason to think about and navigate the abstract world of human relations in much the same way they rely on maps to study and traverse the physical world. Starting from that simple observation, renowned geographer Gunnar Olsson offers in Abysmal an astonishingly erudite critique of the way human thought and action have become deeply immersed in the rhetoric of cartography and how this cartographic reasoning allows the powerful to map out other people’s lives. A spectacular r...

Releasedatum: 2010-03-15 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 529,00 kr

När vi talar om mänsklighetens historia handlar det alltid om stora ledare, folkvandringar och omvälvande krig. Men hur har själva jorden avgjort människans öde? Hur har planeten vi bor på skapat oss? Hur hänger Himalayas berg ihop med jordens bana och med de brittiska öarnas form? Lewis Dartnell tar oss miljarder år tillbaka i jordens utveckling för att berätta historien om vårt verkliga ursprung. Som art har vi människor alltid formats av vår miljö. Det var geologiska krafter s...

Releasedatum: 2021-02-26 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 179,00 kr

"This is, for my money, the best single-source primer on the state of climate change." - New York Magazine "The right book at the right time: accessible, comprehensive, unflinching, humane." - The Daily Beast "A must-read." - The Guardian The essential primer on what will be the defining issue of our time, Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a clear-eyed overview of the science, conflicts, and implications of our warming planet. From Joseph Romm, Chief Science Advisor for National G...

Releasedatum: 2018-04-02 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 139,00 kr

A Harvard psychiatrist, the author of A Prince of Our Disorder , presents accounts of alien abduction taken from the more than sixty cases he has investigated and examines the implications for our identity as a species. These mesmerizing and thought-provoking stories of alien encounters from a Harvard professor take you through actual case studies of people from all walks of life and ages who have had challenging, sometimes disturbing, and in every case, life changing experiences of alien abduct...

Releasedatum: 2009-12-15 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 199,00 kr

The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and—finally—the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. Writing from the Second People's Republic of China on the 300th anniversary of the Great Collapse, a senior sc...

Releasedatum: 2014-07-01 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 79,00 kr

This book contains 4 best collections of Charles Robert Darwin: 1. The Voyage of the Beagle 2. The Descent of Man 3. The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants 4. The Origin of Species About the Author Charles Robert Darwin Charles Robert Darwin, FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a proc...

Releasedatum: 2012-11-06 5,00 kr

With a new afterword, Why You Are Here: A speech on the opening of the COP26 climate summit As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day - the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity. I have been witness to this decline. A Life on Our Planet contains my witness statement, and my vision for the future - the story of how we...

Releasedatum: 2020-10-01 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 115,00 kr

'Excellent . . . analyses clearly and authoritatively how the coronavirus pandemic played out, what governments should have done, and what we need to do when it happens again - as it undoubtedly will' Financial Times 'You could not hope for a better guide to the pandemic world order than Debora MacKenzie, who's been on this story from the start. This is an authoritative yet readable explanation of how this catastrophe happened - and more important, how it will happen again if we don't change' Ti...

Releasedatum: 2020-06-05 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 49,00 kr

David Norman discusses some of the most fascinating and iconic creatures to walk our Earth. Introducing the different famillies of dinosaurs, he discusses how they were first discovered and interpreted, and looks at how scientific break-throughs have changed our understanding of dinosaurs over the years.

Releasedatum: 2017-09-21 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 119,00 kr

The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water. The extent to which water remains a scientific mystery is extraordinary, despite its prevalence and central importance on Earth. Whether one considers its role in biology, its place in the physical world (where it refuses to obey the usual rules of liquids) or its deceptively simple structure, there is still no complete answer to the question: what is water? ...

Releasedatum: 2015-04-30 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 49,00 kr

"A unique collection of essays written by somebody with passion and understanding!" - Dr Ilona Kemeling, Kemeling Consulting @IlonaKeCo "Quirky but useful" - Prof Chris Merchant, Reading University @ChrisJMerchant This is a different kind of remote sensing book. Unlike the usual text books you might be used to, this is a concepts book – it is meant to make you think about the "why" more than the "how". You might consider it a companion reader, or perhaps in some cases, an antidote to some of t...

Releasedatum: 2014-08-21 49,00 kr

Oxygen is the engine of life and evolution. This book explores the impact that oxygen has had on Earth, tracing the history of life from the very beginning. It explains the rise of animals and plants, the origin of two sexes, and the evolution of ageing and death. Above all, Oxygen offers fresh perspectives on our own lives, explaining why we age and what we can do about it.

Releasedatum: 2002-09-26 129,00 kr

A Global Catastrophic Risk is one that has the potential to inflict serious damage to human well-being on a global scale. This book focuses on such risks arising from natural catastrophes (Earth-based or beyond), nuclear war, terrorism, biological weapons, totalitarianism, advanced nanotechnology, artificial intelligence and social collapse.

Releasedatum: 2008-07-03 269,00 kr

‘Steve Brusatte, the author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs , brings mammals out from the shadow of their more showy predecessors in a beautifully written book that . . . makes the case for them as creatures who are just as engaging as dinosaurs.’ – The Sunday Times , ‘Best Books For Summer’ 'In this terrific new book, Steve Brusatte . . . brings well-known extinct species, the sabre-toothed tigers and the woolly mammoths, thrillingly back to life' – The Times The passing of th...

Releasedatum: 2022-06-09 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 95,00 kr

One of The Observer’s ‘Thirty books to help us understand the world’ Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the ways that we’ve been told we can save the planet. But are individuals really to blame for the climate crisis? Seventy-one per cent of global emissions come from the same hundred companies, but fossil-fuel companies have taken no responsibility themselves. Instead, they have waged a thirty-year campaign to blame individuals for climate change. The result has been di...

Releasedatum: 2021-02-02 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 169,00 kr

Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet. Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the ways that we've been told can slow climate change. But the inordinate emphasis on individual behavior is the result of a marketing campaign that has succeed...

Releasedatum: 2021-01-12 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 129,00 kr

I Binas hemliga liv väver Thor Hanson ihop populärvetenskap med vår kultur­historia och gör det möjligt för oss att förstå allvaret i hoten mot binas existens, från bekämpningsmedel till klimatförändringar. "Intelligent populärvetenskap när den är som bäst." The Economist "Populärvetenskap i dess mest lättillgängliga form: rolig, fascinerande och full av fängslande porträtt av forskare och bientusiaster som han träffar under sina efterforskningar." The Guardian Binas hemli...

Releasedatum: 2019-05-07 69,00 kr

Climate scientists, geologists, ecologists, and archaeologists recognize the profound effects of human activity on Earth, though whether and how this should be recognized as a formal geological epoch - the Anthropocene - remains under debate, Erle Ellis describes how the Anthropocene concept is affecting the sciences, humanities, and politics.

Releasedatum: 2018-03-12 119,00 kr

Water is the most every day of substances. It pours from our taps and falls from the sky. We drink it, wash with it, and couldn't live without it. Yet, on closer examination it is also a very strange substance (it is one of only a very small number of molecules which expand when cooled). Look closer again and water reveals itself as a key to a scientific story on the biggest of canvases. Water is crucial to our survival - life depends on it - but it was also fundamental in the origins of life on...

Releasedatum: 2015-05-21 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 45,00 kr

** Winner of Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015 ** We live in epoch-making times. The changes we humans have made in recent decades have altered our world beyond anything it has experienced in its 4.6 billion-year history. As a result, our planet is said to be crossing into the Anthropocene – the Age of Humans. Gaia Vince decided to travel the world at the start of this new age to see what life is really like for the people on the frontline of the planet we’ve made. From artif...

Releasedatum: 2014-07-03 129,00 kr

As an acoustic engineer, Trevor Cox has spent his career eradicating unwanted noises – echoes in concert halls, clamour in classrooms. Until the day he heard something so astonishing that he had an epiphany: rather than quashing rare or bizarre sounds, we should be celebrating these sonic treasures. This is the story of his investigation into the mysteries of these Sonic Wonders of the World. In the Mojave Desert he finds sand dunes that sing. In France he discovers an echo that tells jokes. I...

Releasedatum: 2014-01-09 115,00 kr

A vivid forecast of our planet in the year 2050 by a rising star in geoscience, distilling cutting-edge research into four global forces: demographic trends, natural resource demand, climate change, and globalization. The world's population is exploding, wild species are vanishing, our environment is degrading, and the costs of resources from oil to water are going nowhere but up. So what kind of world are we leaving for our children and grandchildren? Geoscientist and Guggenheim fellow Laurence...

Releasedatum: 2010-09-23 109,00 kr

'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk , and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman 'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald 'One of those rare, enchanted books' Isabella Tree 'Beautiful - it made me cry' Simon Amstell 'I was entranced' Cathy Rentzenbrink This is a story about birds and fathers. About the young magpie that fell from its nest in a Bermondsey junkyard into Charlie Gilmour's life - and swiftly changed it. Demanding ...

Releasedatum: 2020-08-27 35,00 kr

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG 'One of the most inspiring books I have ever read' YUVAL NOAH HARARI 'Inspirational, compassionate and clear. The time to read this is NOW' MARK RUFFALO 'Figueres and Rivett-Carnac dare to tell us how our response can create a better, fairer world' NAOMI KLEIN ***** Discover why there's hope for the planet and how we can each make a difference in the climate crisis, starting today. Humanity is not doomed, and we can and will ...

Releasedatum: 2020-02-25 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 65,00 kr

"THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY," hails Scientific American: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. "A masterpiece of science writing." —Washington Post A New York Times Bestseller • Goodreads Choice Awards Winner • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Smithsonian, Science Friday, The Times (London), Popular Mechanics, Science News "This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts ...

Releasedatum: 2018-04-24 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 139,00 kr

If you stepped into an elevator and had 2 minutes to explain some aspect of climate science to someone, could you do it? Most people lack the time to become fully informed on this critical issue. The science is complex and varied. Here are 28 quick pitches to help you better understand this issue which we should all be concerned about. Chapters 01  ancient sunlight 02  radiative gases 03  the greenhouse effect 04  the carbon cycle 05  the climate system 06  condensi...

Releasedatum: 2017-01-16 45,00 kr

'Utterly extraordinary ... the starkest book I've read on the impacts of accelerating climate change for a very long time ... if we're not listening to the likes of Peter Wadhams, then we too are in denial' Jonathon Porritt Most of the scientific establishment predict that the North Pole will be free of ice around the middle of this century. As Peter Wadhams, the world's leading expert on sea ice, demonstrates in this book, even this assessment of the future is optimistic. Wadhams has visited th...

Releasedatum: 2016-09-01 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 115,00 kr

Replica of 1893 edition by Macmillan and Co., Limited, London and New York. Oversize maps are available as a free download.  Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He is best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory. Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin and then in...

Releasedatum: 2012-10-12 49,00 kr

In Earth , the acclaimed author of Trilobite! and Life takes us on a grand tour of the earth’s physical past, showing how the history of plate tectonics is etched in the landscape around us.   Beginning with Mt. Vesuvius, whose eruption in Roman times helped spark the science of geology, and ending in a lab in the West of England where mathematical models and lab experiments replace direct observation, Richard Fortey tells us what the present says about ancient geologic processes. He show...

Releasedatum: 2004-11-02 129,00 kr

Framtiden ter sig inte allt för ljus med klimatkris och extremväder, kollapsade ekosystem och massutrotning av arter. Hur ska vi kunna leva i den nya värld som väntar oss? Hur påverkas vi av att veta att vi bara genom att leva våra vardagliga liv förstör livsvillkoren för människor på andra platser i världen och för kommande generationer? Hur ska vi överhuvudtaget förhålla oss till det samhälle vi byggt upp? Människan har i alla tider skapat olika monster som utmanar och ställ...

Releasedatum: 2022-05-19 149,00 kr

En klimathistoria beskriver hur klimatet har förändrats under de senaste dryga 100 åren och hur klimatförändringarna har uppfattats av sin samtid. Den blickar också längre tillbaka i tiden, som till den globala avkylningen för 4 000 år sedan. Boken tar dig med till Antarktis, Newfoundlands fågelberg, skogsbränder i Indonesien och låglänta korallöar, men också till stora FN-konferenser som Rio 1992 och Kairo 1994. Den tar hjälp av naturen, men också av skidåkare och upptäcktsre...

Releasedatum: 2021-11-11 125,00 kr

How to think about the most urgent issue of our day — and what can be done to avoid catastrophe. Athena is a guided learning experience featuring curated reading lists of “must-read” books that span a multitude of topics to help you do everything from turbocharge your health or career, improve your sex life, find inner happiness and even up your chess game. Here, we present the key insights and takeaways from the most insightful books about Climate Change. Falter, by Bill McKibben One of t...

Releasedatum: 2020-11-15 95,00 kr

Mattias Goldmann är en av landets mest inflytelserika klimatprofiler. I sin nya, syndigt optimistiska bok visar han hur vi en gång för alla kan lyckas med utmaningen att rädda klimatet. Under alla år av opinionsbildning har han och andra klimatdebattörer fokuserat på uppoffringar och försakelser, att ”vi måste byta livsstil för att rädda klimatet”. Därmed har de hela tiden skickat en signal att det som är ohållbart och dåligt för klimatet egentligen är roligare och mer attra...

Releasedatum: 2020-05-22 179,00 kr

Given the ubiquity of environmental rhetoric in the modern world, it’s easy to think that the meaning of the terms environment and environmentalism are and always have been self-evident. But in Surroundings , we learn that the environmental past is much more complex than it seems at first glance. In this wide-ranging history of the concept, Etienne S. Benson uncovers the diversity of forms that environmentalism has taken over the last two centuries and opens our eyes to the promising new varie...

Releasedatum: 2020-04-17 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 259,00 kr

The stresses of the digital world mean that it's more important than ever to engage with the natural world. The sky is the most dramatic and evocative aspect of nature and looking up at the clouds is always good for the soul. Ever-changing and ephemeral, clouds reflect the shifting moods of the atmosphere in limitless compositions and combinations. Gavin Pretor-Pinney started the Cloud Appreciation Society in 2005. Since then, he's been encouraging people to 'look up, marvel at the ephemeral bea...

Releasedatum: 2019-10-10 179,00 kr

'Amazing. It would be my desert island choice' Martin Rees 'Fascinating, beautiful, alarming and revelatory use of mapping and infographics' Stephen Fry on EarthTime maps 'An indispensable read' Arianna Huffington From the global impact of the Coronavirus to exploring the vast spread of the Australian bushfires, join authors Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah as they trace the ways in which our world has changed and the ways in which it will continue to change over the next hundred years. Map-making i...

Releasedatum: 2020-08-27 239,00 kr

Newsweek and Bloomberg popular science and investigative journalist Bryan Walsh explores the history of extinction and offers a cutting-edge examination of existential risk, the dangerous mistakes we have yet to pay for, and concrete steps we can take to protect ourselves and future-proof our civilization. What is going to cause our extinction? How can we save ourselves and our future? End Times answers the most important questions facing humankind End Times is a compelling work of skilled repor...

Releasedatum: 2019-08-27 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 35,00 kr

Under de senaste åren har biodlare på flera kontinenter lidit svåra förluster, åtskilliga bisamhällen har gått under. Om man systematiskt undersöker orsakerna kan man med rätta fråga sig om dagens biodlingsmetoder har med det hela att göra? Kan den moderna biodlingens olika aspekter: kupornas utseende, ramar, vaxmellanväggar, regelbundna inspektioner, artificiell drottninguppfödning, drönarutskärning, drottninggaller, artificiell fodring, medicinering, vandringsbiodling, överetab...

Releasedatum: 2018-10-05 199,00 kr

In many parts of the world the weather forms a daily topic of conversation, In others it hardly changes from one week to the next. However, human life is governed by the weather which affects much of our activity, from farming to fishing and from shopping to holiday-making. Introducing Meteorology has been written to provide a succinct overview of the science of the weather for students and for interested amateurs wanting a topical guide to this complex science. The initial chapters describe the...

Releasedatum: 2013-02-14 119,00 kr

Geomorphology is the study of the earths landforms and the processes that made the landscape look the way it does today. What we see when we look at a scenic view is the result of the interplay of the forces that shape the earths surface. These operate on many different timescales and involve geological as well as climatic forces. Adrian Harvey introduces the varying geomorphological forces and differing timescales which thus combine: from the global, which shape continents and mountain ranges; ...

Releasedatum: 2012-03-22 119,00 kr

Volcanoes have an endless fascination. Their eruptions are a regular reminder of the power of nature and our vulnerability to this raw geological phenomenon, however volcanic activity, and its plumbing from beneath, is an essential element of the forces that shaped and constantly reshape our planet. Dougal Jerram answers the questions: What are volcanoes? What other volcanic activity is there? How do volcanoes relate to plate tectonics and the movement of continents? What are eruptions and why d...

Releasedatum: 2011-10-17 119,00 kr

There's so much we don't know about what lies deep beneath the ocean's surface - and the time to find out is growing increasingly precious . . . Professor Alex Rogers is one of the world's leading experts in marine biology and oceanology, and has spent his life studying the deep ocean - and in particular the impact of human activity on the ecosystems of the oceans. In this timely, galvanising and fascinating book - replete with stunning photography of strange and beautiful creatures - Professor ...

Releasedatum: 2019-04-18 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 35,00 kr

According to Wikipedia: "Strabo (64/63 BC – c. AD 24), was a Greek geographer, philosopher and historian. Strabo was born to an affluent family from Amaseia in Pontus (modern Amasya, Turkey), a city that he said was situated the approximate equivalent of 75 km from the Black Sea. Pontus had recently fallen to the Roman Republic, and although politically he was a proponent of Roman imperialism, Strabo belonged on his mother's side to a prominent family whose members had held important positions...

Releasedatum: 2018-03-01 9,00 kr

The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is. Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang and long-dead stars, at first it was nothing special, but somehow it evolved to become the most amazing place in the known Universe. The only living planet we know of, it also has a very unusual moon, a remarkably dynamic surface, a complex atmosphere and a deeply mysterious interior. This is Planet ...

Releasedatum: 2018-05-03 49,00 kr

Our oceans are hugely important, as a source of food and mineral wealth, as an environment for a vast variety of wildlife, for the role they play in climate regulation, and as part of the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and other elements critical to life. Dorrik Stow explores what we know about how oceans originate and are maintained.

Releasedatum: 2017-07-20 119,00 kr