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The Ecology of Modernism
American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
In The Ecology of Modernism, Joshua Schuster examines the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution. He posits that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent...
Nature, Environment and Poetry
Ecocriticism and the poetics of Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
The environmental challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century are not only acute and grave, they are also unprecedented in kind, complexity and scope. Nonetheless, or therefore, the political response to problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss and widespread pollution continues...
Nature's Saviours
Celebrity Conservationists in the Television Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Today's celebrity conservationists, many of whom made their reputations through television and other visual media, play a major role in drawing public attention to an increasingly threatened world. This book, one of the first to address this contribution, focuses on five key figures: the English naturalist...
by Jules Girard
Language: French
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Oeuvres parue dans La Nature Jules Girard, explorateur, géologue, géographe français (1839–1921)
Ce livre numérique présente «Oeuvres parue dans La Nature», de Jules Girard, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières...
by J. A. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing Despite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is set on the flat marshes of the Essex coast, where J A Baker spent a long winter looking and writing about the visitors from the...
by L. A. Harvey, D. St. Leger Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Dartmoor explores the complex and fascinating history of one of southern England's greatest National Parks, an area of enormous interest to naturalists and tourists alike. The loneliest wilderness in England. This has been said more often of Dartmoor than any other part of our country. Traditionally...
by Nepomuk Onderdonk
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
An armchair cosmologist through the three decades of the golden age of astrophysics, I developed my own model little by little, but also with a lot of help from the alternative ideas brought to light by other writers, some of the deeper and harder to sift through writers who nevertheless offer amazingly...
The Perfume of Life: Book Two
The Perfume of Life, #2
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
The Perfume of Life comprises an unparalleled series of conversations in the matter of storytelling vapors of Nature, on distillation and extraction technologies, the science of drawing out or intercepting the chemical communications of vital beings, and including also classes presented to baristas...
Singing Whales and Flying Squid
The Discovery Of Marine Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Two-thirds of this planet is covered by water inhabited by an incredible variety of living organisms, ranging in size from microbe to whale, and in abundance from scarce to uncountable. Whales and dolphins must surface to breathe, and some fishes occupy surface waters and can easily be seen from boats...
by Mark Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Take a moment to think about a special, quiet,, untouched and perfect moment that has occurred in your life. This book of essays is about those moments as they have occurred in the life of the author. He is an author who is passionate about the outdoors, nature, education, music, creativity and alternative...
Wild by Nature
Selected Prose, Poetry and Essays by an Alaskan Woman
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
A womans passion for wilderness, family, and faith leads her to a land of harsh realities and great fulfillment - a celebrated perspective on the Alaskan experience. This prose is a vibrant celebration, both sensual and poetic, of the familiar and unobserved nature of simple truths that abound around...
The Nature of the Mechanical Bond
From Molecules to Machines
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
“The story is told by THE inventor-pioneer-master in the field and is accompanied by amazing illustrations… [it] will become an absolute reference and a best seller in chemistry!” Alberto Credi
“… the great opus on the mechanical bond. A most impressive undertaking!” Jean-Marie...
Nature's Steward
A History of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Nature's Steward chronicles the development of southwest Florida using the modern-day Conservancy of Southwest Florida as the lens through which to examine environmental history. A parallel track exists alongside the Conservancy's story, and that is the evolution of land acquisition practices and...
by Isaac Newton
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
The book has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter of the following books:
1. THE MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY – Isaac Newton
2. The History of the Ancient Physics - Adam Smith
3. The History of the Ancient Logics and Metaphysics...