Nature category: 119170 books
Farming in the Presence of Nature
A farmer (and gardener's) guide to understanding Gaia
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
“. . . watch with me as a grand and beautiful picture unfolds, of the interconnectedness of all things.”
No endeavor engages so deeply, so personally with nature as farming, whether on a thousand acres or in the gardener’s window box. When farmers delve into nature’s mysteries...
Lessons in Nature
50 Years of Organic Advice from the Southwest's Foremost Composter, Gardener, Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
This amazing collection of essays includes practical and inspirational philosophy and techniques on soil building, planting and growing, pest control and more. Told in a modest and often humorous style by organic farming and composting pioneer Malcolm Beck, Lessons in Nature combines empirical observation...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The natural world has been "humanized": even areas thought to be wilderness bear the marks of human impact. But this human impact is not simply physical. At the emergence of the environmental movement, the focus was on human effects on "nature." More recently, however, the complexity...
Environmental Changes
The Futures of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
This book addresses environmental changes and how they reconfigure society’s relationship to the future. It argues that Man does not build “his future alone: instead, environmental changes are also proof of the future-making capacity of non-human beings.
The author elaborates on the notion...
Nature Helps...
How Plants and Other Organisms Contribute to Solve Health Problems
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Nature helps... of course at first itself by developing measures that give bacteria, fungi, plants and animals a chance to be successful in their struggle for life. As a latecomer on Earth, Homo sapiens was gifted with some droplets of the divine spirit of recognition and thus became able to observe,...
Biomimetics
Bioinspired Hierarchical-Structured Surfaces for Green Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
This book presents an overview of the general field of biomimetics - lessons from nature. It presents various examples of biomimetics, including roughness-induced superomniphobic surfaces which provide functionality of commercial interest. The major focus in the book is on lotus effect, rose petal...
by Peter Wright
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Imagine that you are a raindrop about to land on Scotland. Your destiny, dear raindrop, is that when you do touch-down, you will start on a journey, by bog, burn and river, before finally emptying into either the Atlantic Ocean or the North Sea. Which it is to be will depend upon which side of the...
Contesting Conservation
Shahtoosh Trade and Forest Management in Jammu and Kashmir, India
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2018
This book explores today’s changing intellectual climate, wherein understanding politics at different levels from global to local is considered mandatory in order to appraise the outcome of nature conservation interventions. By carefully examining two such processes – the ban on shahtoosh trade...
by Corbin Harney
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Corbin Harney’s long life encompassed remarkable changes in the lives of Native Americans and in the technological and political development of the world. Born into an impoverished Western Shoshone family on the Nevada-Idaho border and orphaned as a newborn, he was brought up by grandparents who...
Far Beyond the Castle
Stories of travel and growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
"A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our doorstep once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill."
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
This book contains research contributions from leading global scholars in nature-inspired computing. It includes comprehensive coverage of each respective topic, while also highlighting recent and future trends. The contributions provides readers with a snapshot of the state of the art in the field...
Farming with Nature
The Science and Practice of Ecoagriculture
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2007
A growing body of evidence shows that agricultural landscapes can be managed not only to produce crops but also to support biodiversity and promote ecosystem health. Innovative farmers and scientists, as well as indigenous land managers, are developing diverse types of “ecoagriculture” landscapes...
The Nature of Selection
Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
The Nature of Selection is a straightforward, self-contained introduction to philosophical and biological problems in evolutionary theory. It presents a powerful analysis of the evolutionary concepts of natural selection, fitness, and adaptation and clarifies controversial issues concerning altruism,...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
This essay dismisses force at a distance and innate attraction as a force in nature. It picks up where Newton's early critics left off, dismissing force at a distance without any mediating agency as superstition. Einstein is roundly criticized for both his Special Relativity Theory and General Relativity...