Nature category: 119170 books
Curious by Nature
One Woman's Exploration of the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Curious by Nature showcases Candace Savage's exploration of the varied ways we relate to wildlife, from our retelling of fairytales about the big, bad wolf to our struggles to find a balance between harvesting trees and allowing grizzly bears the space to roam. Creating a livable future for ourselves...
by Richard Jefferies, Terry Tempest Williams, Brooke Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
"[Terry and Brooke]'s quest to understand Jefferies' ideas of a 'soul-life' has brought the British writer's ideas alive
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-THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
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an oustanding new book
a firstrate tribute to an author who now has been rescued from obscurity."
-THE UTAH REVIEW
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by Derrick Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In this impassioned polemic, radical environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen debunks the near-universal belief in a hierarchy of nature and the superiority of humans. Vast and underappreciated complexities of nonhuman life are explored in detail—from the cultures of pigs and prairie dogs, to the...
Animal Internet
Nature and the Digital Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
"Animal Internet is a most important book. This excellent work could be a strong catalyst for people to rewild, to reconnect and become re-enchanted with all sorts of mysterious and fascinating animals, both local and distant. By shrinking the world it will bring humans and other animals together in...
Saving Creation
Nature and Faith in the Life of Holmes Rolston III
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Holmes Rolston III has long been recognized as the father of environmental ethics.” Internationally renowned for the synthesis he has found in evolutionary biology and Christianity, Rolston has followed an immensely interesting life course. In this compelling biography, Rolston’s story is traced...
by David Hume
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
The Natural History of Religion
by David Hume
The only point of theology, in which we shall find a consent of mankind almost universal, is, that there is invisible, intelligent power in the world: But whether this power be supreme or subordinate, whether confined to one being; or distributed...
Priest of Nature
The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
After Sir Isaac Newton revealed his discovery that white light was compounded of more basic colored rays, he was hailed as a genius and became an instant international celebrity. An interdisciplinary enthusiast and intellectual giant in a number of disciplines, Newton published revolutionary, field-defining...
Visionary Plant Consciousness
The Shamanic Teachings of the Plant World
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2007
23 leading experts reveal the ways that psychoactive plants allow nature’s “voice” to speak to humans and what this communication means for our future
• Presents the specific “human-plant interconnection” revealed by visionary plants
• Explores the relevance of plant-induced...
Snowstruck
In the Grip of Avalanches
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2007
Every year around the globe, people cross paths with avalanches-some massive, some no deeper than a pizza box-often with deadly results. Avalanche expert Jill Fredston stalks these so-called freaks of nature, forecasting where and when they will strike, deliberately triggering them with explosives,...
Out of the Blue
A History of Lightning: Science, Superstition, and Amazing Stories of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
The odds of being hit by lightning each year are only about 1 in 750,000 in the U.S. And yet this rare phenomenon has inspired both fear and fascination for thousands of years. In this groundbreaking, brilliantly researched book, journalist John S. Friedman probes lightning’s scientific, spiritual,...
The Good Book of Human Nature
An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
How reading the Bible as a work of cultural and scientific evolution can reveal new truths about how our species conquered the Earth
The Bible is the bestselling book of all time. It has been venerated--;or excoriated--as God's word, but so far no one has read the Bible for what it is: humanity's...
Birds as Useful Indicators of High Nature Value Farmlands
Using Species Distribution Models as a Tool for Monitoring the Health of Agro-ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This book helps to establish a simple framework to identify and use bird species as a bioindicator for high nature value (HNV) farmlands.
This book focuses on suitable methods for monitoring the HNV areas, and presents the results of several case studies. The chapters put forward ways to integrate...
by Michael Green
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
This book is a collection of the finest mystical writings of the great physicists of the 20th Century. They are Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, James Jeans, Arthur Eddington, Eugene Wigner, David Bohm, and Freeman Dyson. The essays are...
by A.N. Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
THE ABSTRACT NATURE OF MATHEMATICS
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. The important applications of the science, the theoretical interest of its ideas, and the logical rigor of its methods, all generate the expectation of a speedy introduction to processes of...