Nature category: 119170 books
A Sanctuary of Trees
Beechnuts, Birdsongs, Baseball Bats, and Benedictions
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
As author Gene Logsdon puts it, "We are all tree huggers." But not just for sentimental or even environmental reasons. Humans have always depended on trees for our food, shelter, livelihood, and safety. In many ways, despite the Grimm's fairy-tale version of the dark, menacing forest, most...
On the Integration of Nature
Post-9/11 Biopolitical Notes
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
This collage-like book is an inquiry into the nature of life and of existence itself. Simultaneously philosophical, spiritual, and literary, it pushes the boundaries of this area of thought beyond the strictures of science, religion, and all other forms of ideology. Author Richard Grossinger dazzlingly...
by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Language: French
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: July 4, 2016
« Un homme qui naît dans un monde déjà occupé, si sa famille n’a pas le moyen de le nourrir, ou si la société n’a pas besoin de son travail, cet homme, dis-je, n’a pas le moindre droit à réclamer une portion quelconque de nourriture : il est réellement de trop sur la terre. Au grand...
Unearthed
Love, Acceptance, and Other Lessons from an Abandoned Garden
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
“A generous, poignant memoir” of loss, family secrets, and a quest to shape something beautiful out of the chaos of nature (Kirkus Reviews).
Just as Alex and her husband buy a house in Toronto, set atop an acre of wilderness that extends into a natural gorge in the middle of the city, she learns...
The Bill McKibben Reader
Pieces from an Active Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Powerful, impassioned essays on living and being in the world, from the bestselling author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy
For a generation, Bill McKibben has been among America's most impassioned and beloved writers on our relationship to our world and our environment. His groundbreaking...
Second Nature
The Inner Lives of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
For centuries we believed that humans were the only ones that mattered. The idea that animals had feelings was either dismissed or considered heresy. Today, that's all changing. New scientific studies of animal behavior reveal perceptions, intelligences, awareness and social skills that would have...
Passion for This Earth, A
"Writers, Scientists, and Activists Explore Our Relationship with Nature and the Environment"
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Twenty influential writers and scientists contribute personal, practical, and political essays celebrating our planet.
In this powerful collection of original essays, twenty of the world's most influential journalists, writers, scientists, and environmentalists lend their voices to inform and...
The Flight of the Iguana
A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
From the award-winning author of The Song of the Dodo comes a collection of essays in which various weird and wonderful aspects of nature are examined. This book contains tales of vegetarian piranha fish, voiceless dogs, and a scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah.
Culture and the Question of Rights
Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2003
This collection of ethnographic and interpretive essays fundamentally alters the debate over indigenous land claims in Southeast Asia and beyond. Based on fieldwork conducted in Malaysia and Indonesia during the 1980s and 1990s, these studies explore new terrain at the intersection of environmental...
by Francis Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and...
Flat Earth
The One
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
Would you like to learn the truth about Earth, about its shape, nature, meaning, and characteristics? Then get ready to embark in the study of one of the most restricted and controversial topics, the Flat Earth Theory. ...Yes, the Flat Earth is back and it has always been around since it has always...
Physique de l’amour
Essai sur l’instinct sexuel ( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: January 26, 2019
A première vue il s’agit d’un essai très savant et documenté de science naturelle, dans le goût de Buffon ou de Fabre, sur la sexualité dans la nature. Mais cette étude est aussi empreinte de poésie et de drôlerie. Elle nous enseigne que ” vue à cette lumière des mœurs animales, la...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil--to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
In Walking, Henry David Thoreau talks about the importance of nature to mankind, and how people cannot survive without nature, physically, mentally, and spiritually, yet we seem to be spending more and more time entrenched by society. For Thoreau walking is a self-reflective spiritual act that occurs...