Nature category: 119170 books
The Nature of Animal Healing
The Definitive Holistic Medicine Guide to Caring for Your Dog and Cat
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
The Nature of Animal Healing is a groundbreaking, inspirational contribution to animal care. Dr. Martin Goldstein, one of the most successful and best-known holistic veterinarians in the country, offers here, for the first time, invaluable insights into how to give our pets a healthy, happy, and long...
Sowing Seeds in the Desert
Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
The earth is in great peril, due to the corporatization of agriculture, the rising climate crisis, and the ever-increasing levels of global poverty, starvation, and desertification on a massive scale. This present condition of global trauma is not "natural," but a result of humanity's destructive...
by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
By his theory of relativity Albert Einstein has provoked a revolution of thought in physical science.
The achievement consists essentially in this:|Einstein has succeeded in separating far more completely than hitherto the share of the observer and the share of external nature in the things...
Hunting Nature's Fury
A Storm Chaser's Obsession with Tornadoes, Hurricanes, and other Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Each year, at least 1,200 tornadoes batter the United States. While most occur in Tornado Alley--a vast, weather-beaten swath of middle America-in truth, tornadoes can occur almost anywhere. And where there are tornadoes, there are storm chasers. They come in all shapes and sizes, from hobbyists to...
Communicating Nature
How We Create and Understand Environmental Messages
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
A broader and more comprehensive understanding of how we communicate with each other about the natural world and our relationship to it is essential to solving environmental problems. How do individuals develop beliefs and ideologies about the environment? How do we express those beliefs through communication?...
Biomimicry
Innovation Inspired by Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature’s best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems.
If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature – taking advantage...
How to Read Nature
Awaken Your Senses to the Outdoors You've Never Noticed
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
“Equal parts alfresco inspiration, interesting factoids, how-to instructions and self-help advice.”—The Wall Street Journal
When most of us go for a walk, a single sense—sight—tends to dominate our experience. But when New York Times–bestselling author and expert navigator Tristan...
Rambunctious Garden
Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
"Remarkable . . . Emma Marris explores a paradox that is increasingly vexing the science of ecology, namely that the only way to have a pristine wilderness is to manage it intensively.†? -The Wall Street Journal
A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have...
Urban Green
Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that...
by Amy Stewart, Tim Folger
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten,” notes guest editor Amy Stewart in her introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016. “But at the end of the day, we’re all writers . . . We’re here to play...
by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Together in one volume, Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.
by Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Sunday Times Bestseller A breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions. Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet. ‘What is motion?’‘Why is every snowflake different?’‘Why...
Wild by Nature
North American Animals Confront Colonization
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
From the time Europeans first came to the New World until the closing of the frontier, the benefits of abundant wild animals—from beavers and wolves to fish, deer, and bison—appeared as a recurring theme in colonizing discourses. Explorers, travelers, surveyors, naturalists, and other promoters...
Perspectives in Urban Ecology
Ecosystems and Interactions between Humans and Nature in the Metropolis of Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
This book gives an interdisciplinary overview on urban ecology. Basic understanding of urban nature development and its social reception are discussed for the European Metropolitan Area of Berlin. Furthermore, we investigate specific consequences for the environment, nature and the quality of life...