Nature category: 119170 books
Take a Walk with Me
Illustrated Poetry by Caroline Street, Poet, Artist and Photographer.
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
This is a diverse and inspirational book about fine art and poetry and will appeal to those who love life, nature, and creativity. There are forty-one poems, and each poem is illustrated by the poet by means of art and photography relative to a specific poem. Art overflows into poetry. This book is...
Sponsoring Nature
Environmental Philanthropy for Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Saving the world's flora and fauna, especially high-profile examples such as chimpanzees, whales and the tropical rain forests, is big business. Individuals and companies channel their resources to the preservation of nature through various ways, one of which is the funding of environmental non-governmental...
Rethinking Order
After the Laws of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book presents a radical new picture of natural order. The Newtonian idea of a cosmos ruled by universal and exceptionless laws has been superseded; replaced by a conception of nature as a realm of diverse powers, potencies, and dispositions, a 'dappled world'. There is order in nature, but it...
by Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Sunday Times Bestseller How did life on Earth begin? What is the nature of space and time? What are the chances that we will discover life on other worlds? Think you know our planet?Think again. Forces of Nature takes you from the mid-Atlantic ridge in Iceland, the volcanoes of Indonesia and the precipitous...
The Found and the Made
Science, Reason, and the Reality of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book critically examines how mathematical modelling shapes and limits a scientific approach to the natural world and affects how society views nature. It questions concepts such as determinism, reversibility, equilibrium, and the isolated system, and challenges the view of physical reality as...
by Karolyn Francoise Verville
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
This program is designed to complement the natural sciences. Scientific concepts, while usually can be defined by specific criteria and procedures for classification, tend to look for inert information instead of dynamic information. This dynamism is what we promote here. That blood is red or that...
by Eugène-Melchior Péligot
Language: French
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Recherches sur la nature de l’Éthal Eugène-Melchior Péligot, chimiste français (1811-1890)
Ce livre numérique présente «Recherches sur la nature de l’Éthal», de Eugène-Melchior Péligot, édité en texte...
Spirit of the Earth
Indian Voices on Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Often spoken at the end of a prayer, a well-known Sioux phrase affirms that “we are all related.” Similarly, the Sioux medicine man, Brave Buffalo, came to realize when he was still a boy that “the maker of all was Wakan Tanka (the Great Spirit), and . . . in order to honor him I must honor his...
Ways to Live in Harmony with Nature
Living sustainably and working with passion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Have you ever wondered how you can maintain your current lifestyle, but not exhaust our planet's resources? In modern times, many of us have environmental knowledge but we lack an understanding of how to apply that knowledge to our everyday lives. Bridging this gap is what has motivated ecological...
Making Nature Whole
A History of Ecological Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Making Nature Whole is a seminal volume that presents an in-depth history of the field of ecological restoration as it has developed in the United States over the last three decades. The authors draw from both published and unpublished sources, including archival materials and oral histories from...
Time and Environmental Law
Telling Nature's Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Disciplined by industrial clock time, modern life distances people from nature's biorhythms such as its ecological, evolutionary, and climatic processes. The law is complicit in numerous ways. It compresses time through 'fast-track' legislation and accelerated resource exploitation. It suffers from...
Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy
Nature and Norms in Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Normativity has long been conceived as more properly pertaining to the domain of thought than to the domain of nature. This conception goes back to Kant and still figures prominently in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of mind and ethics. By offering a collection of new essays by leading scholars...
by Kenneth MacLean
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Getting Inside the Mind of Nature: Discover the simple but powerful mathematics of the underlying geometric figures that shape our world
Can geometry be exciting?
It can for those who can appreciate the beauty of numbers and their relationships.
This book contains a...
by Élisée Reclus
Language: French
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: August 2, 2012
« La question de savoir ce qui dans l'œuvre de l’homme sert à embellir ou bien contribue à dégrader la nature extérieure peut sembler futile à des esprits soi-disant positifs : elle n'en a pas moins une importance de premier ordre. Les développements de l'humanité se lient de la manière...