Nature category: 119170 books
Nature's Blueprint
Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The first accessible book on a theory of physics that explains the relationship between the particles and forces that make up our universe.
For decades, physicists have been fascinated with the possibility that two seemingly independent aspects of our world—matter and force—may in fact...
When the Wild Comes Leaping Up
Personal encounters with nature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
In this eloquent collection, award-winning writers from the United States, Canada, the UK and Australia describe a personal encounter with the natural world that moved them, enhanced their understanding of nature, changed them, or was in some other way of prime importance to them. These essays describe...
The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau's Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature
Walden, Walking, Night and Moonlight, The Highland Light, A Winter Walk, The Maine Woods, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples…
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau's Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Introduction: Thoreau by Ralph Waldo Emerson Books: Walden (Life in the Woods) A Week...
Walking
An Essay by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
"I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright." - Henry David Thoreau, Walking
“Walking" is the text from a lecture by Henry David Thoreau that he first delivered at the Concord Lyceum in April 23, 1851...
The Sacred Earth
Writers on Nature & Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Drawn from the great works of contemporary American nature writing, this profound and beautiful collection celebrates the earth and explores our spiritual relationship with nature. Contributors include: Edward Abbey • David Abram • Diane Ackerman • Rick Bass • Wendell Berry • Rachel Carson...
by W. H. Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
This collection of essays charmingly captures Hudson’s deep love of nature. Classics of nature writing, essays such as “Life in a Pine Wood,” “The Beauty of the Fox,” “The Discontented Squirrel,” “The Toad as Traveller,” and others are invaluable texts for any nature lover.
by Michele Raffin
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
“Michele Raffin has made an important contribution to saving endangered birds, and her book is a fascinating and rarely seen glimpse behind the scenes. The joy she gets from her close relationships with these amazing animals and her outsized commitment to them comes through loud and clear in this...
Woman and Nature
The Roaring Inside Her
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
A seminal work of the eco-feminist movement, connecting patriarchal society’s mistreatment of women with its disregard for the Earth’s ecological well-being
Woman and Nature draws from a vast and enthralling array of literary, scientific, and philosophical texts in order to explore the...
The Tangled Tree
A Radical New History of Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018
Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health...
John Muir: Nature Writings (LOA #92)
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1997
In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir became America's most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness. A crucial figure in the creation of our national parks system and a far-seeing prophet of environmental awareness who founded...
by Francis Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon published in 1620. The title translates as "new instrument". This is a reference to Aristotle's work Organon, which was his treatise on logic and syllogism. In Novum Organum, Bacon details a new system of logic he believes to be superior...
A Lifetime Nature Walk
Always a Babe in the Woods
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2000
This book is a collection of essays and anecdotes about 19 animals, 18 birds, 15 fish, 10 reptiles, 31 insects, 39 plants, 17 trees, and 6 other subjects encountered in nature by the author, mostly in the region from West Virginia to Vermont. Hopefully, it lends personality to these subjects and leaves...
Where the Sky Touched the Earth
The Cosmological Landscapes of the Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The landscapes of the American Southwest—the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, the Sedona red rocks—have long filled humans with wonder about nature. This is the home of Lowell Observatory, where astronomers first discovered evidence that the universe is expanding; Meteor Crater, where Apollo astronauts...
by Ernest Renan
Language: French
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 23, 2015
A M. Marcellin Berthelot Dinard, près Saint-Malo, août 1863. Ici, au bord de la mer, revenant à mes plus anciennes idées, je me suis pris à regretter d’avoir préféré les sciences historiques à celles de la nature, surtout à la...