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The Paris Agreement on Climate Change
Analysis and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
The most important climate agreement in history, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change represents the commitment of the nations of the world to address and curb climate change. Signed in December 2015, it entered into force on 4th November 2016. Countries are moving into implementation, and efforts...
by Thomas Edward Trimbath
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
Twelve months of visits to a mountain lake tells more than twelve tales. The solitude found during a Wednesday in the winter is completely different from the chaos found on a Saturday in the summer. The seasons make one set of changes. We make the other. The combination produces a much more interesting...
Total Harmonic
The Healing Power of Nature's Elements
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Pythagoras, Plato and Ptolemy introduced the concepts of harmonics to the western world some 2000 years ago. Here Dr. Adams, a naturalist, herbalist, and health educator, combines the latest research into the natural world with centuries of scientific exploration and ancient wisdom to illuminate and...
by Derek Bickerton
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than any hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of evolutionary theory, set humans outside normal evolution. Darwin thought use of language might have shaped our sophisticated brains,...
The Ecological Rift
Capitalisms War on the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts...
Dark Banquet
Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes readers on an entertaining voyage into the world of some of nature’s strangest creatures—the sanguivores. Using a sharp...
by Richard Lighthouse
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
If our universe is blinking a trillion times each second, then how does time actually work? And why do we perceive sequential time, where one event follows a seeming cause and effect?
This short ebook describes how time actually works, and what makes it a coherent illusion.
First, all...
Foraging Wild Edible Plants of North America
More than 150 Delicious Recipes Using Nature's Edibles
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Edible wild plants are nature’s natural food source, growing along roadsides, sprouting in backyards, and blooming in country fields. North America’s diverse geography overflows with edible plant species. From alyssum to watercress, chicory to purslane, Foraging Wild Plants of North America provides...
Eating the Enlightenment
Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Eating the Enlightenment offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old Regime France. Embracing a wide range of authors and scientific or medical practitioners—from physicians...
Creativity
The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
What is the nature of human creativity? What are the brain processes behind its mystique? What are the evolutionary roots of creativity? How does culture help shape individual creativity? Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation by Elkhonon Goldberg is arguably the first ever book to address...
The Intelligence Paradox
Why the Intelligent Choice Isn't Always the Smart One
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
A book that challenges common misconceptions about the nature of intelligence
Satoshi Kanazawa's Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters (written with Alan S. Miller) was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "a rollicking bit of pop science that turns the lens of evolutionary psychology...
The Agile Gene
How Nature Turns on Nurture
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Armed with extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley turns his attention to the nature-versus-nurture debate in a thoughtful book about the roots of human behavior.
Ridley recounts the hundred years' war between the partisans of nature and nurture to...
Neither Ghost nor Machine
The Emergence and Nature of Selves
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
If the universe is aimless, how do selves and aims emerge? Why do living beings have aims when inanimate things do not? Current science encourages us to reject the ghost-in-the-machine explanation—that something called spirit, soul, mind, or will was somehow breathed into matter—and instead accept...
by Donald Symons
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 1979
Author Donald Symonds examines the differences between men and women in sexual behavior and attitudes, concluding that these differences are innate and that it is impossible to achieve identical sexualities in males and females. A central theme of this book is that, with respect to sexuality, there...