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 Small, Gritty, and Green The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World【電子書籍】[ Catherine Tumber ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞How small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞America's once-vibrant small-to-midsize citiesーSyracuse, Worcester, Akron, Flint, Rockford, and othersーincreasingly resemble urban wastelands. Gutted by deindustrialization, outsourcing, and middle-class flight, disproportionately devastated by metro freeway systems that laid waste to the urban fabric and displaced the working poor, small industrial cities seem to be part of America's past, not its future. And yet, Catherine Tumber argues in this provocative book, America's gritty Rust Belt cities could play a central role in a greener, low-carbon, relocalized future.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As we wean ourselves from fossil fuels and realize the environmental costs of suburban sprawl, we will see that small cities offer many assets for sustainable living not shared by their big city or small town counterparts, including population density and nearby, fertile farmland available for new environmentally friendly uses.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Tumber traveled to twenty-five cities in the Northeast and Midwestーfrom Buffalo to Peoria to Detroit to Rochesterーinterviewing planners, city officials, and activists, and weaving their stories into this exploration of small-scale urbanism. Smaller cities can be a critical part of a sustainable future and a productive green economy. ＜em＞Small, Gritty, and Green＜/em＞ will help us develop the moral and political imagination we need to realize this.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 2,652円 |
 Microlands The Future of Life on Earth (and Why It’s Smaller Than You Think)【電子書籍】[ J. Craig Venter ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞'An epic travelogue, brimming with the excitement of discovery. With characteristic panache, Venter unveils the teeming array of bacteria, viruses, and eukaryotes that crowd our planet's oceans' - Siddhartha Mukherjee＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'This page-turner gives . . . the thrill of seeing our planet's largest universe through the brilliant, intrepid eyes of the scientist who has done more than anyone to unlock the secrets of life' - Martine Rothblatt＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'A tour de force . . . Venter has expanded biology's horizons. This book explores microbial life on a global scale, providing cutting-edge solutions to problems of environmental change' - Aristides Patrinos＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'A ripping tale . . . to revolutionize our understanding of our bodies, the oceans, and the planet' - Jack Gilbert＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'An exhilarating account of how creative science is accomplished' - Sir Richard J. Roberts＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'[A] fascinating tour of Planet Microbe' - Bill McKibben＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'Venter and Duncan expand our scope of what it means to be alive' - Jamie Metzl＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'Inspiring ... change[s] our ideas of how biology is done' - ＜em＞Telegraph＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Upon completing his historic work on the Human Genome Project in 2002, J. Craig Venter declared that he would sequence the genetic code of all life on earth. Thus began a fifteen-year quest to collect DNA from the world's oldest and most abundant form of life: microbes. Boarding the ＜em＞Sorcerer II＜/em＞, a 100-foot sailboat turned research vessel, Venter travelled over 65,000 miles around the globe to sample ocean water and the microscopic life within.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this book, Venter and science writer David Ewing Duncan tell the remarkable story of these expeditions and of the momentous discoveries that ensued-of plant-like bacteria that get their energy from the sun, proteins that metabolize vast amounts of hydrogen, and microbes whose genes shield them from ultraviolet light. The result was a massive library of millions of unknown genes, thousands of unseen protein families, and new lineages of bacteria that revealed the unimaginable complexity of life on earth. Yet despite this exquisite diversity, Venter encountered sobering reminders of how human activity is disturbing the delicate microbial ecosystem that nurtures life on earth. In the face of unprecedented climate change, Venter and Duncan show how we can harness the microbial genome to develop alternative sources of energy, food, and medicine that might ultimately avert our destruction.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A captivating story of exploration and discovery, this book restores microbes to their rightful place as crucial partners in our evolutionary past and guides to our future.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 1,856円 |
 An Atlas of the Smaller Maps in Orientable and Nonorientable Surfaces【電子書籍】[ David Jackson ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞Maps are beguilingly simple structures with deep and ubiquitous properties. They arise in an essential way in many areas of mathematics and mathematical physics, but require considerable time and computational effort to generate. Few collected drawings are available for reference, and little has been written, in book form, about their enumerative a＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 9,776円 |
 Catalogue of the Smaller Arachnid Orders of the World Amblypygi, Uropygi, Schizomida, Palpigradi, Ricinulei and Solifugae【電子書籍】[ Mark S Harvey ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | This authoritative catalogue will greatly assist readers in finding the correct taxonomic name for any given family, genus or species within each of the six arachnid orders treated. It contains a valuable summary of bibliographic information, enabling readers to access the worldwide literature for these smaller orders. The catalogue presents full bibliographic data on each of the taxa named thus far, treating over 1600 species. It contains the most current classification system for each group, some of which have not been catalogued on a world scale for over 70 years. A summary of taxonomic changes is included. This quality reference will be of immense value to arachnologists, systematists, taxonomists, ecologists and biodiversity professionals, especially those interested in tropical rainforest communities.画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 23,747円 |