Nature category: 119170 books
Future Nature
A Vision for Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
The countryside is changing faster than ever. Fifty years of conservation achievements in the UK are now being confronted by a new complexion of economic forces that are driving change in the countryside. At the same time new ideas in conservation are altering the role that conservation is being asked...
Urban Ecology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Urban Ecology: An Introduction seeks to open the reader’s mind and eyes to the way in which nature permeates everyday urban living, and how it has to be understood, cared for, and managed in order to make our towns and cities healthier places to visit and in which to live and work. The authors examine...
Complete Nature Politics (Illustrated)
Walden,On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Walking, Excursions, Cape Cod, Plea for Captain John Brown, Slavery in Massachusetts, Wild Apples, Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Canoeing in the wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
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Walden
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The Trouble with Nature
Sex in Science and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exposé of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay gene. Lancaster links...
Building for Life
Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005
Sustainable design has made great strides in recyears; unfortunately, it still falls short of fully integrating nature into our built environment. Through a groundbreaking new paradigm of "restorative environmental design," award-winning author Stephen R. Kellert proposes a new architectural model...
by Sandy Cole, Richard Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
For more than the first twenty-five years of its time span, this book focuses on the interaction between Dick and nature. It took more than two and a half decades, plus the development of the Internet, for Dick to find Sandy. For the past fifteen they have been partners in life.The subtitle...
Against(the)nature
Why nature is neither kind, nor fair nor beautiful
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Against the belief that everything is beneficial is natural. Nature is a powerful machine that produces life and death. It gives us life and death. Everything: from the smallest (bacteria) to the biggest (galaxies), all things are born and all things die, it’s only a matter of time. Whilst using...
La nature, lautre «frontière»
Fronts écologiques au Sud (Afrique du Sud, Argentine, Chili)
Language: French
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Cet ouvrage a pour ambition de proposer une lecture territoriale des rapports de pouvoir et de domination des sociétés dans leur rapport à la nature. Sylvain Guyot propose ici une formulation approfondie du concept de front écologique, désignant les (re)conquêtes territoriales réalisées au...
The Healing Code of Nature
Discovering the New Science of Eco-Psychosomatics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Human beings are inseparable from the natural world, co-evolving with all of life. In order to thrive, we need to nourish this bond. In The Healing Code of Nature, biologist Clemens G. Arvay illuminates the miraculous ways that the human body interprets the living “code” of plants, animals, and...
by Colin M. Coates, Graeme Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Intended to delight and provoke, these short, beautifully crafted essays, enlivened with photos and illustrations, explore how humans have engaged with the Canadian environment and what those interactions say about the nature of Canada. Tracing a path from the Ice Age to the Anthropocene, some of...
L'horloge de la nature
Prévoir le temps • Comprendre les saisons, les animaux et les plantes
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Laissez-vous guider par vos sens
Vous aimeriez apprendre à prévoir la météo en vous appuyant sur les signaux que la nature nous lance ? Ou comprendre les animaux et les plantes qui nous entourent ?
Peter Wohlleben nous invite à éduquer nos sens de manière à percevoir les signaux...
Le sourire de Prométhée
L'homme et la nature au Moyen Âge
Language: French
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Quels rapports les hommes du Moyen Âge entretenaient-ils avec la nature ? Loin du cliché d'un Moyen Âge immobile et livré aux calamités naturelles, cet ouvrage riche en apports archéologiques atteste qu'il s'agit d'un thème central des réflexions, traversant les siècles et les évolutions...
by Magnus Vinding
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This project aims to explore the nature of mathematics given a physicalist ontology. In particular, it seeks to explore whether and in what way mathematics can be accommodated within, and as nothing over and above, the physical world. The project takes point of departure in a physicalist account of...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective presents 20 essays which explore diverse cultural interpretations of the earth's surface. Contrasted with each other and with the potentially cosmopolitan culture of science, these detailed studies of ways in which different cultures conceptualise...