Nature category: 119170 books
by Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Eugène-Melchior Péligot
Language: French
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 17, 2015
EXTRAIT:
Les expériences bien connues de M. Chevreul sur le blanc de baleine et sur les produits de sa saponification ont fait voir qu’il se sépare, pendant que celle-ci s’effectue, un corps de nature neutre qu’il a désigné sous le nom d’Éthal....
by 'Emmanuel Kant
Language: French
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Fondation de la métaphysique des mœurs est une œuvre d'Emmanuel Kant parue en 1785. Le titre allemand d'origine est Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten, traditionnellement traduit par Fondements de la métaphysique des mœurs, titre assez impropre puisqu'il n'y a selon Kant qu'un « fondement...
Rachel Carson and Her Sisters
Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Musil fills the gap by placing Carson's achievements in a wider context, weaving connections from the past through the present. Readers will find new insight into Carson and contemporary figures she influenced...who have historically received less attention. Musil’s...
In the Field, Among the Feathered
A History of Birders and Their Guides
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
America is a nation of ardent, knowledgeable birdwatchers. But how did it become so? And what role did the field guide play in our passion for spotting, watching, and describing birds? In the Field, Among the Feathered tells the history of field guides to birds in America from the Victorian era to...
Ecological Revolutions
Nature, Gender, and Science in New England
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
With the arrival of European explorers and settlers during the seventeenth century, Native American ways of life and the environment itself underwent radical alterations as human relationships to the land and ways of thinking about nature all changed. This colonial ecological revolution held sway...
Raising Wild
Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
2017 Finalist - Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award
2017 Finalist - Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Creative Book Award
2017 Finalist - Evans Biography and Handcart Award
Combining natural history, humor, and personal narrative, Raising Wild is an intimate exploration...
Darwin Among The Machines
The Evolution Of Global Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Darwin Among the Machines tells the story of humankind’s journey into the digital wilderness. Introducing a cast of familiar and not-so-familiar characters, historian of science George B. Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives and work of visionaries—from...
Adventures with Ari
A Puppy, a Leash & Our Year Outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
In this “charming, rich, intelligent” memoir, a woman discovers the natural world by following her dog’s lead (Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, New York Times–bestselling author of When Elephants Weep).
When she adopted Ari, an exotic Jindo dog, Kathryn Miles steeled herself for the usual disruptions...
by Cindy Traisi
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2009
Cindy Traisi has done it again. She has brought me joy with her storytelling abilities and brought this self-perceived, tattooed tough guy to tears with her accounts of the injured wild animals passing through the Fund for Animals Wildlife Center in Southern California.
Cindy's first book,...
by Peter Forbes
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
A cutting-edge science book in the style of ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ and ‘Chaos’ from an exciting and accessible voice in popular science writing. Bio-inspiration is a form of engineering but not in the conventional sense. Extending beyond our established and preconceived notions, scientists,...
by Michael R. Canfield
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
What did George Schaller note when studying the lions of the Serengeti? How does Piotr Naskrecki use relational databases and electronic field notes? In what way is Bernd Heinrich’s approach “truly Thoreauvian,” in E. O. Wilson’s view? Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals...
The Life of the Skies
Birding at the End of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
Aerial delights: A history of America as seen through the eyes of a bird-watcher
John James Audubon arrived in America in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was president, and lived long enough to see his friend Samuel Morse send a telegraphic message from his house in New York City in the 1840s....
by Mark Carwardine
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
A beautiful and fascinating portrait of the world’s most extreme wildlife, from the sexiest beast to the smelliest plant. The world's most devious plant, the largest flock of birds, the biggest drug user, the most dangerous love-life…here is a mind-blowing guide to the weirdest and most remarkable...
Understories
The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Through lively, engaging narrative, Understories demonstrates how volatile politics of race, class, and nation animate the notoriously violent struggles over forests in the southwestern United States. Rather than reproduce traditional understandings of nature and environment, Jake Kosek shifts the...