Nature category: 119170 books
A Trip to the Country
Nature in Rhyme
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
A Trip To The Country, a story woven around rhyme, is designed to help children (and some adults) learn about nature. The story answers, through rhyme, questions children might ask, such as What makes rain, wind, thunder, and lightning? Written not only to include a love of rhyme and poetry, but also...
Changing Representations of Nature and the City
The 1960s-1970s and their Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
The turn of the 1960s-70s, characterized by the rapid acceleration of globalization, prompted a radical transformation in the perception of urban and natural environments. The urban revolution and related prospect of the total urbanisation of the planet, in concert with rapid population growth and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2009
The third title in the CSIRO Gardening Guide series, Sustainable Gardens by Roger Spencer and Rob Cross shows how horticulture can contribute towards a more sustainable future. Written for home gardeners, professional horticulturists, landscapers, and all those passionate about cultivated landscapes,...
by Mansoor Niaz, Arelys Maza
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Research in science education has recognized the importance of history and philosophy of science (HPS). Nature of science (NOS) is considered to be an essential part of HPS with important implications for teaching science. The role played by textbooks in developing students’ informed conceptions...
by Yuehao Luo, Eddie Y K Ng
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Through millions of years' natural selection, sharkskin has developed into a kind of drag-reducing surface. This book shows how to investigate, model, fabricate and apply sharkskin's unique surface properties, creating a flexible platform for surface and materials engineers and scientists to readily...
Africa
Wildlife of Kenya and Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Mary Theresa McDonough B.A. B.Ed. OCT is a wildlife photographer who has travelled extensively throughout many wilderness area throughout the world. This time she has captured the essence of the true wilderness habitats of the animals in the African nations of Kenya and Tanzania and has noted their...
by Stuart Glennan
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
The New Mechanical Philosophy argues for a new image of nature and of science—one that understands both natural and social phenomena to be the product of mechanisms, and that casts the work of science as an effort to discover and understand those mechanisms. Drawing on an expanding literature on...
Biology and Neurophysiology of the Conditioned Reflex and Its Role in Adaptive Behavior
International Series of Monographs in Cerebrovisceral and Behavioral Physiology and Conditioned Reflexes, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
International Series of Monographs in Cerebrovisceral and Behavioral Physiology and Conditioned Reflexes, Volume 3: Biology and Neurophysiology of the Conditioned Reflex and its Role in Adaptive Behavior focuses on the biological roots, characteristics, and nature of conditioned reflex and its function...
Revolution on the Range
The Rise of a New Ranch in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
In the final decade of the twentieth century, the American West was at war. Battle lines had hardened, with environmentalists squarely on one side of the fence, and ranchers on the other. By the mid-1990s, debates over the region’s damaged land had devolved into political wrangling, bitter lawsuits,...
by Philippe Chavanne
Language: French
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Plantez dans le respect de la nature !
En jardinier volontaire et responsable, vous avez à cœur d'exploiter votre parcelle en harmonie avec la nature ? La permaculture, qui fait rimer éthique et efficacité, est faite pour vous. Remontez vos manches et suivez le guide.
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by Subhendu Das
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Taken from the back cover page: Every object in the universe, humans included, is continuously and simultaneously, interactive with each other. If anything moves then everything else will move. This simultaneity law creates the global plan of our destiny.A corporation is an example of how destiny...
Not Just Another Theory
A “Single” Complete Theory of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Something is deeply wrong with the field of physics and how it informs our understanding of the natural world. Despite years of effort, the theories of Einstein cannot be reconciled with our current approach to the strange effects we measure at the quantum level. No law of physics can stand alone, and...
Farming, Food and Nature
Respecting Animals, People and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Livestock production and its use of finite resources is devastating biodiversity and pushing wildlife to the brink of extinction. This powerful book examines the massive global impact caused by intensive livestock production and then explores solutions, ranging from moving to agroecological farming...
by Vladimir Shekunov
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Nature and Us: Whether Ants Can Think is the humorous account of a remarkable experiment that demonstrates the ability of ants to communicate via high frequency electromagnetic radio waves and that ants mind abilities can be compared with humans mind abilities.
Performed over thirty years ago...