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Aujourd’hui, les colonies d’abeilles disparaissent à un rythme effarant et on se demande si elles vont survivre. Les abeilles sont ici depuis 20 millions d’années, bien longtemps avant nous. Aurions-nous rompu notre pacte avec les abeilles ? Nous avons le devoir de les préserver et d’assurer leur pérennité. Issue du choc des idées et des expériences de John Forest, apiculteur et de James McInnes, écologiste, cet ouvrage rappelle l’alliance entre l’homme et l’abeille. Ils affirment que l’écologie est la bonne voie pour la préservation de l’abeille.

The climate changes experts predict a drying of 20 to 30 % of the water available in the Great Lakes area in the next century, a forecast already in progress. Environment Canada predicts a 24% flow decreasing. the levels of Lake Huron and Lake Michigan are already two feet lower than normal. Over 18,000 km of shoreline and more than 1,000 sq km of richly diverse wetlands, such as those of Georgian Bay and Lake St.Pierre, are in a deplorable state. Navigation has been adversely affected, as has the drinking water supply of many communittes.

Sous la direction de Georges-Henri Arenstein, André Benoit et Lucie Pétrin évoquent la relation entre l’humain et le cheval. Ils démontrent qu’il est possible de développer un lien unique entre ces deux êtres. Les auteurs veulent distinguer la relation cocréatrice d’une relation utilitaire ou d’une relation affective en spécifiant les éléments qui favorisent les relations harmonieuses entre les animaux et nous. Quant à Laurence Bruder-Sergent, elle aborde dans son chapitre, les mauvais traitements que nous infligeons à nos chiens sans le savoir et sans le vouloir.

À travers l’histoire, notre planète a connu cinq grandes extinctions de masse. Les scientifiques estiment aujourd’hui que nous nous dirigeons vers la sixième et la plus dévastatrice des extinctions depuis la disparition des dinosaures : celle de l’humanité. Le grand responsable de ce fiasco ? L’homme lui-même. Pour saisir l’ampleur de ce moment critique, Elizabeth Kolbert a mené une enquête passionnante sur la grande histoire de la vie terrestre et sur le péril imminent qui la guette.

Vous êtes convaincu qu’on ne bronze pas derrière une vitre, que le chocolat est un antidépresseur, que le palmier est un arbre, que la reine du jeu d’échecs est une femme et que manger des carottes améliore la vision? Détrompez-vous. Toutes ces idées sont FAUSSES! Ce livre déboulonne avec humour et rigueur les fausses vérités solidement ancrées dans nos esprits.

The problem of consciousness may just be a semantic one. The brain absorbs a sea of sensory input, the tiniest fraction of which reaches the shore of our awareness. We pay attention to what is most novel, most necessary at the time. At its most reductive, the word 'consciousness' refers to the synchronized firing of neurons across multiple areas of the brain, the mental experience of attending. But should consciousness be summed up simply by its subsconscious mechanism? I would prefer a more imaginative answer.

Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is a city dominated by water. Recently, the trend of fettering Toronto’s water and putting it underground has been countered by persistent citizen-led efforts to recall and restore the city’s surface water. In HTO: Toronto’s Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets, thirty-four contributors examine the ever-changing interplay between nature and culture, and call into question the city’s past, present and future engagement with water.

The harmful side of even relatively benign technology is plain to see, but is hardly ever discussed. This book is critical of many aspects of technology, but it intends to evaluate each aspect of technology based on a harm/benefit tradeoff, showing that the best technologies are naturelike and are not harmful at all.

How do meteorologists design forecasts for the next day's, the next week's, or the next month's weather' Are some forecasts more likely to be accurate than others, and why' Making Sense of Weather and Climate takes readers through key topics in atmospheric physics and presents a cogent view of how weather relates to climate, particularly climate-change science. It is the perfect book for amateur meteorologists and weather enthusiasts, and for anyone whose livelihood depends on navigating the weather's twists and turns.

Have you ever wondered why levers and pulleys make it easy to lift heavy objects' Or thought about what it is that makes a combustion engine work'The Book of Basic Machines will give you the information you need to understand key concepts, techniques, components, and much more. Designed and prepared by the Naval Education and Training Program Development Center for naval training, and taught widely in technical school across the country, the manual covers the theory and application of many of the most important mechanical ideas. Concepts build effortlessly from one chapter to the next.