Photographs taken from space capture the natural forces that have shaped the planet, and human impact on Earth.
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Planet earth - home sweet home. In the year 2000, world-renowned wildlife photographer, Frans Lanting set out on a personal journey to photograph the evolution of life on earth. He made pilgrimages to true time capsules like a remote lagoon in Western Australia, spent time in research collections photographing forms of microscopic life, and even found ways to create visual parallels between the growth of organs in the human body and the patterns seen on the surface of the earth. The resulting volume is a glorious picture book of planet earth depicting the amazing biodiversity that surrounds us all. Lanting's true gift lies beyond his technical mastery: it is his eye for geometry in the beautiful chaos of nature that allows him to show us the world as it has never been seen before. From crabs to jellyfish, diatoms to vast geological formations, jungles to flowers, monkeys to human embryos, "Life" is a testament to the magical beauty of life in all its forms and is Lanting's most remarkable achievement to date.
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• Toward an eco-economy / Lester Brown -- What does the future hold for the Earth's population / Gilles Pison
• Eco-efficient cities / Konrad Otto-Zimmerman
• Agriculture of the world / Marc Dufumier
• Make peace with water / Riccardo Petrella
• Biodiversity / Jean-Marie Pelt
• The silence of the oceans / Philippe Cury
• Climate change / Nicholas Stern
• Global energy in crisis / Richard Heinberg
• Services provided by the ecosystem: Precious, vital, neglected / Pavan Sukhdev and Florian Eppink
• Microcredit and the future of poverty / Jacques Attali
• Putting the end of a world to good use / Patrick Viveret.

EarthArt: Colours of the Earth is a spectacular large-format collection of breathtaking aerial photographs by world-renowned photographer Bernhard Edmaier. Travelling all over the globe, from the Bahamas to Iceland, New Zealand to Alaska, and the Grand Canyon to Chile, Edmaier captures rarely-seen landscapes from above, such as bubbling mud pools, volcanic eruptions, coral reefs, eroded canyons and arctic glaciers. 150 full-page photographs cover the entire spectrum, and each image is accompanied by an explanation of how, where and why these spectacular colours occur on the earth's surface. EarthArt is the perfect gift book for anyone who loves travel, nature and the environment, as well as photographic art and design, and is inspired by the natural beauty of our planet.
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• Frozen worlds
• Fresh water
• Grasslands
• Deserts
• Forests
• Jungles
• Coastal seas
• High seas.