Nature category: 119170 books
The Shark's Paintbrush
Biomimicry and How Nature is Inspiring Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Why does the bumblebee have better aerodynamics than a 747? What structural design is shared by a tornado and a blood vessel?
Since the Industrial Revolution, manufacturers have built things by a process known as heat, beat, and treat.” They use enormous amounts of energy to heat raw material,...
by John and Barbara Gerlach
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Capturing the grandeur of landscapes or mood of a certain natural light is challenging but often the simple details of a texture or color evade photographers most of all. In Close Up Photography in Nature, best-selling authors and nature photography pros, John and Barbara Gerlach, share the tips...
Nature's Clocks
How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
"Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now...
Branches
Nature's patterns: a tapestry in three parts
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
As part of a trilogy of books exploring the science of patterns in nature, acclaimed science writer Philip Ball here looks at the form and growth of branching networks in the natural world, and what we can learn from them. Many patterns in nature show a branching form - trees, river deltas, blood...
by David Evans
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Our attitudes towards `nature' and the countryside are fickle. The conservation movement, despite enjoying its highest membership ever, has achieved only limited success over the last one hundred years of campaigning. Can conservationists now shake off their insular, disunited and negative image so...
Rhyme and Reason
Poems for Children and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
There is so much power in the written word, but that power is often forgotten or overlooked by young people, so pressured by school, family, and the future. Rhyme and Reason is a collection that creates characters a younger audience can identify with. In so doing, poet Subathra Raman seeks to instill...
Devices of the Soul (Hardcover)
Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2007
"Self-forgetfulness is the reigning temptation of the technological era. This is why we so readily give our assent to the absurd proposition that a computer can add two plus two, despite the obvious fact that it can do nothing of the sort--not if we have in mind anything remotely resembling what...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
“This is one of the most exciting times in the history of science,” New York Times-bestselling author Sam Kean proclaims in his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018. “Things aren’t perfect by any means. But there are more scientists making more discoveries in more...
Freaks of Nature : And what they tell us about evolution and development
What Anomalies Tell Us About Development and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
Two-legged goats conjoined twins 'Cyclops' infants with a single eye in the middle of their forehead double-headed snakes and Laloo a man with a partially formed twin attached to his chest... In Freaks of Nature Mark S. Blumberg turns a scientist's eye on these unusual examples of humans and other...
by Emory Adams Allen
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
Difficulties of the subject—Lesson to be learned—The pursuit of knowledge—Recent Advances—Prehistoric past of the Old World—Of the New—Of Mexico and the South—The Isles of the Pacific—Similar nature of the relics—The wonders of the present age—History of popular Opinion on this...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011
The Best American Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor,...
Crabgrass Crucible
Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late nineteenth century, new suburbanites turned to taming...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee, a leading cancer physician and researcher, selects the year’s top science and nature writing from journalists who dive into their fields with curiosity and passion, delivering must-read articles from a wide array of fields.
Let Dogs Be Dogs
Understanding Canine Nature and Mastering the Art of Living with Your Dog
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
America's foremost authorities on dog care and training distill decades of experience in a comprehensive "foundational" guide for dog owners.
No matter what training method or techniques you use with your dog, the training is unlikely to be optimally successful unless it is predicated...