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Regenesis (eBook, ePUB)

'This book calls for nothing less than a revolution in the future of food' Kate RaworthFrom the bestselling author of Feral, a breathtaking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanityFarming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughed, fenced and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselves. Yet millions still go hungry.Now the food system itself is beginning to falter. But, as George Monbiot shows us in this brilliant, bracingly original new book, we can resolve the biggest of our dilemmas and feed the world without devouring the planet.Regenesis is a breathtaking vision of a new future for food and for humanity. Drawing on astonishing advances in soil ecology, Monbiot reveals how our changing understanding of the world beneath our feet could allow us to grow more food with less farming. He meets the people who are unlocking these methods, from the fruit and vegetable grower revolutionising our understanding of fertility; through breeders of perennial grains, liberating the land from ploughs and poisons; to the scientists pioneering new ways to grow protein and fat. Together, they show how the tiniest life forms could help us make peace with the planet, restore its living systems, and replace the age of extinction with an age of regenesis.

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Regenesis

Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughed, fenced and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselves. Yet millions still go hungry. Now the food system itself is beginning to falter. But, as George Monbiot shows us in this brilliant, bracingly original new book, there is another way.Regenesis is a breathtaking vision of a new future for food and for humanity. Drawing on astonishing advances in soil ecology, Monbiot reveals how new discoveries about the world beneath our feet could allow us to grow more food with less farming, and transform our relationship with the living planet. He meets the people who are unlocking these methods, from the fruit and vegetable grower who is revolutionising our understanding of fertility; through breeders of perennial grains, liberating the land from ploughs and poisons; to the scientists pioneering new ways to grow protein and fat. Together, they show how the tiniest life forms could help us resolve the biggest of our dilemmas: how to feed the world without devouring the planet. Here, for the first time, is a thrilling vision of abundant, cheap and healthy food, which could trigger a shift as profound as the invention of agriculture. Here is a new cuisine that would let us make peace with the planet, restore its living systems, and replace the age of extinction with an age of regenesis.

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Regenesis

'This book calls for nothing less than a revolution in the future of food' Kate Raworth From the bestselling author of Feral, a breathtaking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanity Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughed, fenced and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselves. Yet millions still go hungry. Now the food system itself is beginning to falter. But, as George Monbiot shows us in this brilliant, bracingly original new book, we can resolve the biggest of our dilemmas and feed the world without devouring the planet. Regenesis is a breathtaking vision of a new future for food and for humanity. Drawing on astonishing advances in soil ecology, Monbiot reveals how our changing understanding of the world beneath our feet could allow us to grow more food with less farming. He meets the people who are unlocking these methods, from the fruit and vegetable grower revolutionising our understanding of fertility; through breeders of perennial grains, liberating the land from ploughs and poisons; to the scientists pioneering new ways to grow protein and fat. Together, they show how the tiniest life forms could help us make peace with the planet, restore its living systems, and replace the age of extinction with an age of regenesis.

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Allegiance: Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 844min

Allegiance picks up two days after A Pound of Flesh left off. Outbreak - Day 15. With an estimated 99 percent of the United States' population having already succumbed to the rapidly spreading Omega virus, and countries and cities worldwide teeming with the dead, the struggle to survive the zombie apocalypse continues unabated in the high desert of Colorado. Having just returned from a hastily thrown together secret mission that saw Robert Christian - the self-proclaimed President of his "New America" - snatched from his mountain redoubt and delivered kicking and screaming to the justice awaiting him at Schriever Air Force Base, Cade Grayson, father, husband, and Delta Force operator, is horrified to learn that during his absence the base had been compromised, putting his family in harm's way. Its inhabitants still reeling from Pug's act of terror, and recently rocked by an undead outbreak inside the wire, Schriever no longer seems an island of safety surrounded by a sea of dead, but more like a shadowy prison, danger lurking within its walls. So, with the Z-infested cities of Denver and Aurora to the north and 100,000 flesh eaters inhabiting Pueblo to the south, and all hope of a cure for Omega dwindling faster than the world's population, Cade uses a mandated two-day stand down to fully weigh out his options. With each passing day, he finds himself warming to Brook's stance that they pull up stakes and put the acres of squat buildings and fenced-in concrete in their rearview mirror for good. With his allegiance walking a tightrope between family and flag, will Cade appease Brook and move the family to Logan Winter's compound outside of Eden, Utah? Or will he lobby her to allow the family to stay at Schriever, so that his Delta Team - still recovering from the recent loss of soft-spoken Sergeant Darwin Maddox and the Unit's longtime commander General Mike Desantos - will not find themselves underma ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Patton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/059824/bk_acx0_059824_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Siena, San Gimignano, Montepulciano & Beyond: Travel Adventures , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 374min

Most visitors arriving from the hustle and crowds of busy Florence cannot help but fall under the charm of Siena's gracefully winding (and pedestrianized) medieval streets. Laid out on the slopes of three steep hills (the historical terzi or "thirds" of the city), the center of town, geographically and emotionally, is the fan-shaped and gently sloping, redbrick Piazza del Campo, a wonderfully preserved monument to Siena's medieval heyday when merchants, bankers, and artists flocked here and some of the city's greatest monuments were constructed. Overlooked by the Palazzo Pubblico and the Torre del Mangia, it is also the site of the famous bareback horserace, Il Palio and a fitting starting point for the exploration of Siena's other major sights. With curved palazzi, brick arches, bustling caffè-terraces and a vast redbrick sloping square that leads the eye and the feet down to the Palazzo Pubblico (the town hall), prepare to be enamored by Siena's Piazza del Campo. For those lucky enough to arrive in season, 2 July and 16 August (plus four days of pre-race trials) see the outer perimeter of the square fenced off and covered with sand for the famous Palio bareback horserace, a dazzling spectacle of local culture in which 10 of Siena's 17 contrade (neighborhoods) compete to the cries of their impassioned supporters. Built on top of three hills a considerable distance away from the region's main waterways, Siena saw much medieval head scratching when it came to the important question of watering the growing city. Building on existing veins that had survived since Roman and even Etruscan eras, local workmen completed a 16-mile network of underground tunnels and cavities known as the bottini (little barrels), a vast underground aqueduct that to this day serves the Fonte Gaia and all other city fountains. This remarkable guide goes on to explore Siena's surroundings in detail. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Piotrasch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/022827/bk_acx0_022827_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Looker , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 332min

Vogue's "Most Anticipated Books of 2019" Entertainment Weekly's "One of January’s Hottest Reads" Literary Hub's "Most Anticipated Books of 2019" Southern Living’s “Best New Books Coming Out Winter 2019” An Indie Next pick A dazzling, razor-sharp debut novel about a woman whose obsession with the beautiful actress on her block drives her to the edge. I’ve never crossed their little fenced-in garden, of course. I stand on the sidewalk in front of the fern-and-ivy-filled planter that hangs from the fence - placed there as a sort of screen, I’m sure - and have a direct line of view into the kitchen at night. I’m grateful they’ve never thought to install blinds. That’s how confident they are. No one would dare stand in front of our house and watch us, they think. And they’re probably right: except for me. In this taut and thrilling debut, an unraveling woman, unhappily childless and recently separated, becomes fixated on her neighbor - the actress. The unnamed narrator can’t help noticing with wry irony that, though she and the actress live just a few doors apart, a chasm of professional success and personal fulfillment lies between them. The actress, a celebrity with her face on the side of every bus, shares a gleaming brownstone with her handsome husband and their three adorable children, while the narrator, working in a dead-end job, lives in a run-down, three-story walk-up with her ex-husband’s cat. When an interaction with the actress at the annual block party takes a disastrous turn, what began as an innocent preoccupation spirals quickly, and lethally, into a frightening and irretrievable madness. Searing and darkly witty, Looker is enormously entertaining - a psychologically suspenseful and fearlessly original portrait of the perils of envy. Praise for Looker: "In prose that moves between lyrical and caterwauling, the poet Laura Sims has p ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katherine Fenton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008965/bk_sans_008965_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Lagos Noir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 383min

Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Now, West Africa enters the Noir Series arena, meticulously edited by one of Nigeria's best-known authors.Brand-new stories by Chris Abani, Nnedi Okorafor, E.C. Osondu, Jude Dibia, Chika Unigwe, A. Igoni Barrett, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Adebola Rayo, Onyinye Ihezukwu, Uche Okonkwo, Wale Lawal, 'Pemi Aguda, and Leye Adenle.From the introduction by Chris Abani: Lagos has, like many coastal cities, a very checkered and noir past. It is the largest city in Nigeria and its former capital. It is also the largest megacity on the African continent, with a population approximating 21 million, and by itself is the fourth-largest economy in Africa.... It is rumored that there are more canals in Lagos than in Venice. Except in Lagos they are often unintentional. Gutters that have become waterways and lagoons fenced in by stilt homes or full of logs for a timber industry most of us don't know exists. All of it skated by canoes as slick as any dragonfly. There are currently no moonlight or other gondola rides available....The 13 stories that comprise this volume stretch the boundaries of "noir" fiction, but each one of them fully captures the essence of noir, the unsettled darkness that continues to lurk in the city's streets, alleys, and waterways.... Together, these stories create an unchartered path through the center of Lagos and out to its peripheries, revealing so much more truth at the heart of this tremendous city than any guidebook, TV show, film, or book you are likely to find."In the introduction to this excellent anthology, Abani welcomes readers to Lagos, Nigeria, a city of more than 21 million and an amazing amalgam of wealth, poverty, corruption, humor, bravery, and tragedy. Abani and a dozen other contr ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Free, Cary Hite. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/050861/bk_adbl_050861_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Gardens of Now

Betorende Garten als Comeback der wilden Natur Die ursprünglich "wilde" Natur wurde vom Menschen seit jeher als allgegenwartig, üppig, nahrend, aber auch als unberechenbar und bedrohlich empfunden. Der offenkundige Trugschluss des feind- lichen Wilden mündete in die Ausrufung einer 2. Natur, die erstmals im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. als philosophischer Begriff im antiken Griechenland auftauchte. Sicherten diese ummauerten, isolierten (Nutz)raume einerseits das menschliche Uberleben durch Ackerbau, andererseits Kontemplation durch die Erscha ung von romantischen Parkanlagen des Barock, so erzeugte ihre Dominanz in den gebauten, urbanen Landschaften der Industrialisierung eine Entfremdung von der Natur. Als Reaktion auf den schmerzlichen Verlust einer vom Menschen unberührten Natur verschrieb sich die Gartenkultur der Postmoderne dem Hüten von Pflanzensammlungen. Prarien, Steppen, alpine Bepflanzungen sind weitgehend aus der Natur verschwunden. In heutigen Garten und Parks werden sie wiedererschaffen - das Zeitalter der 3. Natur ist durch dieses Comeback des Ursprünglichen, Rohen und Wilden gepragt. Rainer Elstermann (geb. 1965 in Berlin, lebt und arbeitet in der Uckermark und Berlin) ist Landschaftsarchitekt, Fotograf und Kolumnist. In den von ihm geschaffenen Garten beschaftigt er sich mit philosophischen Betrachtungen zur Natur. Er entwirft und inszeniert Landschaften, die den Menschen in ihrer Sehnsucht nach Entschleunigung ein Stück Ursprünglichkeit zurückgeben. In seinem Buch Gardens of Now (Garten der Gegenwart) zeigt er anhand von realisierten und geplanten Projekten betorende zeitgenossische Garten begleitet von kulturwissenschaftlich-philosophischen Essays sowie von ihm eigens geschaffenen fotografischen Arbeiten zur Botanik und Pflanzenkultur des 21. Jahrhunderts.Hauntingly Beautiful Gardens in Which Wild Nature Makes a Comeback Humans have always felt primeval and "wild" nature to be omnipresent, abundant, nourishing, but also unpredictable and menacing. The manifest fallacy of the hostile wilderness gave rise to the proclamation of a 2nd nature, a philosophical concept that first emerged in ancient Greece in the fifth century BCE. If such fenced-in and isolated spaces of (useful) nature helped secure humanity's survival through agriculture and, later, served as settings for contemplation in the romantic parks of the baroque, their dominance in the built urban landscapes of the industrial age alienated man from nature. In response to the painful loss of a nature untouched by human intervention, postmodern garden artists dedicated themselves to tending to plant collections. Prairies, steppes, Alpine vegetation have largely vanished from nature, only to be recreated in today's gardens and parks-the era of 3rd nature is defined by this comeback of the primeval, raw, and wild. Rainer Elstermann (b. Berlin, 1965; lives and works in Uckermark and Berlin) is a landscape architect, photographer, and critic. The gardens he creates are philosophical meditations on nature. He designs and stages landscapes that responds to people's yearning for a less fast-paced life by giving them back a piece of pristine nature. In his book Gardens of Now, he presents realized and planned projects featuring hauntingly beautiful contemporary gardens. Essays in cultural history and philosophy and singular photographic studies into the botany and horticulture of the twenty-first century round out the volume.

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