Nature category: 119170 books
by John Dvorak
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Ranging from Yellowstone in Wyoming to Mount Pelee in the Caribbean, from Bogoslof and Pavlov in Alaska, to Sakurajima in Japan, and, finally, to the massive volcanoes of Kilauea and Mauna Loa in Hawaii—The Last Volcano reveals the incredible journey of a man on a mission to understand the awesome...
John James Audubon
The Nature of the American Woodsman
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
John James Audubon's The Birds of America stands as an unparalleled achievement in American art, a huge book that puts nature dramatically on the page. With that work, Audubon became one of the most adulated artists of his time, and America's first celebrity scientist.
In this fresh approach...
City of Forests, City of Farms
Sustainability Planning for New York City’s Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
City of Forests, City of Farms is a history of recent urban forestry and agriculture policy and programs in New York City. Centered on the 2007 initiative PlaNYC, this account tracks the development of policies that increased sustainability efforts in the city and dedicated more than $400 million...
Science for Sale
How the US Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
When Speaker Newt Gingrich greeted Dr. David Lewis in his office overlooking the National Mall, he looked at Dr. Lewis and said: “You know you’re going to be fired for this, don’t you?” “I know,” Dr. Lewis replied, “I just hope to stay out of prison.” Gingrich had just read Dr. Lewis’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
The Big Bend region of Texas—variously referred to as “El Despoblado” (the uninhabited land), “a land of contrasts,” “Texas’ last frontier,” or simply as part of the Trans-Pecos—enjoys a long, colorful, and eventful history, a history that began before written records were maintained.
With...
by Richard Lighthouse
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
This technical note describes a simple mathematical-geometrical solution for unifying the four fundamental forces in nature. The fundamental forces of gravitation, electromagnetism, strong force, and the weak force are actually different aspects of the same force. In general, the relationship between...
The Guide to Walden Pond
An Exploration of the History, Nature, Landscape, and Literature of One of America's Most Iconic Places
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
An exploration of the history, nature, landscape, and literature of one of America’s most iconic places
This is the first guidebook to Henry David Thoreau’s most defining place, visited by half a million people each year and widely known as the fountainhead of America's environmental consciousness.
Using...
Exploring Southern New Hampshire
History and Nature on Back Roads and Quiet Waters
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Walkers, bikers, paddlers and snowshoers can encounter relics of the past and their incredible tales from Keene to the Seacoast. "Exploring Southern New Hampshire" takes history off the page, out of the car and into the welcoming pine-scented woods and pristine waters of the Granite State. Hike Mount...
by Jared Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
From roots to canopy, a lush, verdant history of the making of California.
California now has more trees than at any time since the late Pleistocene. This green landscape, however, is not the work of nature. It’s the work of history. In the years after the Gold Rush, American settlers remade...
by Robert Piccioni
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This book explores the Micro-World of subatomic particles and forces, including the recently discovered Higgs boson.
The pursuit of nature’s smallest parts is one of mankind’s oldest quests, beginning at least 26 centuries ago. But, just in our lifetimes it seems we’ve finally “hit...
Landscape with Figures
Selected Prose Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Richard Jefferies was the most imaginative and least conventional of nineteenth-century observers of the natural world. Trekking across the English countryside, he recorded his responses to everything from the texture of an owl's feather and 'noises in the air' to the grinding hardship of rural labour....
by E.j.banfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
One of Australia’s most significant (and successful) early nature writers was Edmund James Banfield (1852-1923). Born in England, Banfield followed in his father’s footsteps and became a journalist, initially in Melbourne and Sydney but then in Townsville, where he became sub-editor of the Townsville...
HEGEL FOR TEACHERS
The philosopher of absolute knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
(A5,150 P.)
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Why Hegel for teachers, the so- called philosopher of absolute knowledge?
I say to you:
The philosophy of Hegel (1770-1831) from the 20th century has experienced and still today - Dawn of the 21st century - has...
Feminist Ecocriticism
Environment, Women, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Feminist Ecocriticism examines the interplay of women and nature as seen through literary theory and criticism, drawing on insights from such diverse fields as chaos theory and psychoanalysis, while examining genres ranging from nineteenth-century sentimental literature to contemporary science fiction....