Nature category: 119170 books
Reinventing Nature?
Responses To Postmodern Deconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
How much of science is culturally constructed? How much depends on language and metaphor? How do our ideas about nature connect with reality? Can nature be "reinvented" through theme parks and malls, or through restoration?Reinventing Nature? is an interdisciplinary investigation of how perceptions...
The Eight Master Lessons of Nature
What Nature Teaches Us About Living Well in the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
A riveting manifesto for the millions of people who long to forge a more vital, meaningful connection to the natural world to live a better, more fulfilling life
Looking around at the world today—a world of skyscrapers, super highways, melting ice caps, and rampant deforestation—it is easy...
Look Up!
Birds and Other Natural Wonders Just Outside Your Window
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Look Up! Birds and Other Natural Wonders Just Outside Your Window is a collection of uplifting yet scientifically-informed nature essays about experiencing nature in an affordable, accessible way. It highlights simple, practical ways to tune in to birds, nature, light, peace and weather – often...
Before Nature
Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the “natural world” confronts us all and always has—but Before Nature explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of “nature”—no word, reference, or sense for it.
Before the concept of nature formed...
by Nils Lindahl Elliot
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Mediating Nature provides a history of the present nature of mass mediation. It examines the ways in which a number of discourses, technologies and institutions have historically shaped the current ways of imagining nature in the mass media. Where much of the existing research treats mass mediation...
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction is a much-needed guide that addresses the exciting and significant paradigm shift to the Rights of Nature, as it is occurring both in the United States and internationally in the fields of environmental law and environmental sustainability....
by Pierre Doucet, Paul Doucet
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
How does a single acorn produce an intricate structure of branches and leaves? How do migrating birds organize into sweeping patterns across the sky? How does a grounded caterpillar acquire wings and the gift of flight? These are just a few of many questions that arise by observing nature with a keen...
by Marcus Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
“My Own Nature Log Book” is a book for keeping records and notes relating to nature. It contains a series of decorated calendars forming a unique style of log book for a whole year, suggesting what is to be looked for and what is to be heard week by week. Also included is a key to the main constellations,...
Rethinking Nature
Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Contemporary ideas of nature were largely shaped by schools of thought from Western cultural history and philosophy until the present-day concerns with environmental change and biodiversity conservation. There are many different ways of conceptualising nature in epistemological terms, reflecting the...
Enlivenment
Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature.
We have been told that we are living in the Anthropocene, a geological era shaped by humans rather than by nature. In Enlivenment, German philosopher Andreas Weber presents...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
A groundbreaking new book, Still the Same Hawk: Reflections on Nature and New York brings into conversation diverse and intriguing perspectives on the relationship between nature and America's most prominent city. The volume's title derives from a telling observation in Robert Sullivan's contribution...
New Visions of Nature
Complexity and Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
"New Visions of Nature" focuses on the emergence of these new visions of complex nature in three domains. The first selection of essays reflects public visions of nature, that is, nature as it is experienced, encountered, and instrumentalized by diverse publics. The second selection zooms...
Advances in Nature of Science Research
Concepts and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
This book consolidates contemporary thinking and research efforts in teaching and learning about the nature of science in science education. The term ‘Nature of Science’ (NoS) has appeared in the science education literature for many decades. While there is still a controversy among science educators...
Geographies of Nature
Societies, Environments, Ecologies
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
"An exemplary introduction to cutting edge work on the geographies of nature. Intellectually demanding, clearly written and empirically rich, this is a book that deserves a wide readership within and beyond the geographical discipline."
- Sarah J. Whatmore, Oxford University Centre for the...