George David Haskell (318 results)

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An awe-inspiring exploration of the sounds of the living Earth, and the joys and threats of human music, language and noise. 'A symphony, filled with the music of life . . . fascinating, heartbreaking, and beautifully written.'ELIZABETH KOLBERT, author of The Sixth Extinction'Sounds Wild and Broken affirms Haskell as a laureate for the earth, his finely tuned scientific observations made more potent by his deep love for the wild he hopes to save.'NEW YORK TIMES'Wonderful . . . a reminder that the narrow aural spectrum on which most of us operate, and the ways in which human life is led, blocks out the planet's great, orchestral richness.'GUARDIANWe live on a planet alive with song, music, and speech. David George Haskell explores how these wonders came to be. In rainforests shimmering with insect sounds and swamps pulsing with frog calls we learn about evolution's creative powers. From birds in the Rocky Mountains and on the streets of Paris, we discover how animals learn their songs and adapt to new environments. Below the waves, we hear our kinship to beings as different as snapping shrimp, toadfish, and whales. In the startlingly divergent sonic vibes of the animals of different continents, we experience the legacies of plate tectonics, the deep history of animals and their movements around the world, and the quirks of aesthetic evolution.Starting with the origins of animal song and traversing the whole arc of Earth's history, Haskell illuminates and celebrates the emergence of the varied sounds of our world. In mammoth ivory flutes from Paleolithic caves, violins in modern concert halls, and electronic music in earbuds, we learn that human music and language belong within this story of ecology and evolution. Yet we are also destroyers, now silencing or smothering many of the sounds of the living Earth. Haskell takes us to threatened forests, noise-filled oceans, and loud city streets to show that sonic crises are not mere losses of sensory ornament. Sound is a generative force, and so the erasure of sonic diversity makes the world less creative, less beautiful.Sounds Wild and Broken is an invitation to listen, wonder, act.'Absolutely fascinating.'MARIELLA FROSTRUP, TIMES RADIO'Enlightening and sobering.'JINI REDDY, METRO An awe-inspiring exploration of the sounds of the living Earth, and the joys and threats of human music, language and noise. 'A symphony, filled with the music of life . Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Condition: good. Plessy, Valentine (illustrator). Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Condition: Très bon. Plessy, Valentine (illustrator). Merci, votre achat aide à financer des programmes de lutte contre l'illettrisme.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A Pulitzer Prize-nominated author explores the environmental complexity of trees, and their importance in our experience of nature and life itself.The acclaimed author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature's most magnificent networkers - trees.In The Songs of Trees, David George Haskell brings his acute powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. He visits a dozen trees around the world, exploring their connections with webs of fungi, bacterial communities, cooperative and destructive animals, and other plants. An Amazonian ceibo tree reveals the rich ecological turmoil of the tropical forest, along with threats from expanding oilfields. Thousands of miles away, a balsam fir in Canada survives in poor soil only with the help of fungal partners, in links nearly two billion years old.By unearthing charcoal left by Ice Age humans and petrified redwoods in the Rocky Mountains, Haskell shows how the Earth's climate has emerged from exchanges among trees, soil communities and the atmosphere. Now humans have transformed these networks, powering our societies with wood, tending some forests but destroying others.Through his exploration, Haskell shows that this networked view of life enriches our understanding of biology, human nature and ethics. When we listen to trees, nature's great connectors, we learn how to inhabit the relationships that give life its source, substance and beauty. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Condition: As New. Originalverpackt. Die Welt in einer Nussschale: Über ein Jahr hat der amerikanische Biologe David Haskell einen Quadratmeter altgewachsenen Wald immer wieder besucht und bis ins Detail studiert. Ausgerüstet nur mit Objektiv, Lupe und Notizbuch, Zeit und Geduld, richtet der Biologe seinen Blick auf das Allerkleinste: Flechten und Moose, Tierspuren oder einen vorbeihuschenden Salamander, Eiskristalle oder die ersten Frühlingsblüten. Und entfaltet mit dem Wissen des Naturforschers und der Beschreibungskunst eines Dichters ein umfassendes Panorama des Lebens im Wald, des feingewobenen Zusammenlebens in einem jahrhundertealten Ökosystem. Eine Grand Tour zwischen Wissenschaft und Poesie, die die Natur in ihrer ganzen Komplexität und Schönheit erfahrbar macht. »David Haskell führt den Leser zu einer neuen Form der Naturbetrachtung, in der das Unsichtbare zum Vorschein kommt, das Kleine zu großen Fragen führt und die unendliche Komplexität und Schönheit alles Lebendigen sich immer deutlicher entfaltet.« E. O. Wilson.

Condition: Très bon. Plessy, Valentine (illustrator). Merci, votre achat aide à financer des programmes de lutte contre l'illettrisme.

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Festeinband. Condition: Sehr gut. 315 Seiten ; 22 cm sehr guter Zustand, wohl ungelesen Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Lizenzausgabe mit freundlicher Gemehmigung des Verlags Antje Kunstmann.

Condition: As New. Kniha se venuje deni v prirode, priblizuje nam les a jeho obyvatele, popisuje vztahy nejruznejsich organismu mezi sebou a sleduje zmeny v prirode v prubehu celeho roku. Autor ctivym, poetickym a hlavne srozumitelnym jazykem popisuje casto velmi slozite deje v prirode a na zaklade svych konkretnich pozorovani se venuje obecnejsim biologickym a ekologickym problemum. Kniha je velmi originalni, komplexni pohled na prirodu je trend posledni doby. O kvalite knihy svedci i to, ze autor byl za ni nominovan na Pulitzerovu cenu.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine.

Sin especificar. Condition: Nuevo.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Nuevo. 22x14 cm. 304 pp. Los árboles están llenos de música. El viento silba, los insectos zumban, el hielo hace crujir la madera, la gente charla a su alrededor. Otros sonidos nos resultan imperceptibles: la savia circulando por su interior, el balanceo de las ramas y las vibraciones de los pasos cercanos. Bajo la superficie acústica encontramos las canciones ocultas, las historias que surgen cuando seguimos el sonido hasta su origen. Cada canción revela una particularidad del árbol y de su entorno. Haskell nos revela un mundo en tensión entre la cooperación y el conflicto, cuyas normas se renegocian y reformulan continuamente. Un mundo que se ve ahora sometido a más tensión que nunca, a medida que se somete a la urbanización, el cambio climático, el agotamiento de los recursos y los conflictos humanos.

Condition: new.

Condition: Perfetto (Mint). 1058 Haskell, David George Haskell, David George. , and Cavallini, Daria. La foresta nascosta : un anno trascorso a osservare la natura. Torino Einaudi, 2014. , Einaudi 2014 italiano, in ottavo XII, 287 409151058AUTORE PRINCIPALEHaskell, David GeorgeTITOLOLa foresta nascosta : un anno trascorso a osservare la natura / David George Haskell ; traduzione di Daria CavalliniPUBBLICAZIONETorino : Einaudi, 2014DESCRIZIONE FISICAXII, 287 p. ; 24 cm.COLLEZIONESaggi ; 942cartonato con sovracc. Perfetto, ancora nella plastica editoriale. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First printing. Minor shelf wear & small discolorations to binding. Light wear on edges of text block. Text is unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.

Condition: new.

Softcover. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Pictorial cardstock cover with glued; has a one inch scratch wide on front; no bent corners, creases,; seems unread ;; This is an advanced uncorrected copy ; 448 pages Very Good binding underlining or highlightling.