Nature category: 119170 books
Nature Modern
The Place of Landscape in the Modern Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Nature is not simply "green” or the "opposite of culture.” Essentially, it is an intellectual construct. The relationship between man and Nature, for instance, articulates itself architectonically. Now what could one see as the possible role of Nature in projects of architects representative...
Sœurs en écologie
Des femmes, de la nature et du réenchantement du monde
Language: French
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Un féminisme réconciliateur et une écologie plus vivante !
De la grande déesse aux justicières de la Terre, de Hildegarde de Bingen, Rosa Luxembourg à Vandana Shiva et Rachel Carson, les femmes ont un lien particulier à la nature. Sorcières, scientifiques, économistes, juristes, pionnières...
Nature Calls
Nature spotter series
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
A yearly nature spotting guide.
Do you know what is in your garden? who slinks around your park? which animals leave footprints in the snow? and what noises they make? Nature Calls gives you a sneaky peak into the lives of animals and birds that live in Britain all year round and some, that...
by Frank Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
A Natural History of Nature Writing is a penetrating overview of the origins and developmof a uniquely American literature. Essayist and poet Frank Stewart describes in rich and compelling prose the lives and works of the mprominAmerican nature writers of the19th and 20th centuries, including:
•Henry...
Nature's Allies
Eight Conservationists Who Changed Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
It's easy to feel powerless in the face of big environmental challenges—but we need inspiration more than ever. With political leaders who deny climate change, species that are fighting for their very survival, and the planet's last places of wilderness growing smaller and smaller, what can a single...
Thinking like a Mall
Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the built environment.
Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached “the end of nature,”...
by Edward O. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Perhaps more than any other scientist of our century, Edward O. Wilson has scrutinized animals in their natural settings, tweezing out the dynamics of their social organization, their relationship with their environments, and their behavior, not only for what it tells us about the animals themselves,...
Nature All Around Us
A Guide to Urban Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
It’s easy to stand in awe of a city’s impressive skyline, marveling at its buildings reaching for the clouds and its vast network of roadways and train lines crisscrossing in every direction. It can often seem like everything in a city is man-made, all concrete, steel, and glass. But even the...
Decolonizing Nature
Strategies for Conservation in a Post-colonial Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
British imperialism was almost unparalleled in its historical and geographical reach, leaving a legacy of entrenched social transformation in nations and cultures in every part of the globe. Colonial annexation and government were based on an all-encompassing system that integrated and controlled...
Living Through the End of Nature
The Future of American Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
How environmentalism can reinvent itself in a postnature age: a proposal for navigating between naive naturalism and technological arrogance.
Environmentalists have always worked to protect the wildness of nature but now must find a new direction. We have so tamed, colonized, and contaminated...
Adapt: How Humans Are Tapping into Nature's Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future
How Humans Are Tapping into Nature's Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money. Humans are animals too, and animals are incredibly good...
Greening Berlin
The Co-Production of Science, Politics, and Urban Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
How plant and animal species conservation became part of urban planning in Berlin, and how the science of ecology contributed to this change.
Although nature conservation has traditionally focused on the countryside, issues of biodiversity protection also appear on the political agendas of...
Nature Across Cultures
Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal...
by Nina Smiley, David Harp
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Mindfulness in Nature helps readers separate themselves from their busy lives, and allows them to engage in a deeper, more fulfilling relationship with the natural world around them through meditative practice.
Now more than ever, with the constant distractions that abound in modern life—from...