Nature category: 119170 books
Remaking Reality
Nature at the Millenium
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
This book rejects apocalyptic pronouncements that the end of the millenium represents the 'end' of nature as well. Remaking Reality brings together contributors from across the human sciences who argue that a notion of 'social nature' provides great hope for the future. Applying a variety of theoretical...
Hume’s Science of Human Nature
Scientific Realism, Reason, and Substantial Explanation
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Hume’s Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing what he calls ‘the science of human nature’. It argues that Hume understands scientific explanation as aiming at explaining the inductively-established universal regularities...
Spirituality and the State
Managing Nature and Experience in America's National Parks
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
America’s national parks are some of the most powerful, beautiful, and inspiring spots on the earth. They are often considered “spiritual” places in which one can connect to oneself and to nature. But it takes a lot of work to make nature appear natural. To maintain the apparently pristine landscapes...
Out of Nature
Why Drugs from Plants Matter to the Future of Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
About half of all species under threat of extinction in the world today are plants. The loss of plant biodiversity is disturbing for many reasons, but especially because it is a reflection of the growing disconnect between humans and nature. Plants have been used for millennia in traditional systems...
by Sydney Landon Plum
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
In the fall of 1996 Sydney Plum encountered a solitary Canada goose on a pond near her home in New England. Caring for the animal became a way for her to reconnect with nature. Walks to the pond were daily rituals—reflective times during which Plum thought about the relationships between humans...
A Year with Nature
An Almanac
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2018
A Year with Nature is an almanac like none you’ve ever seen: combining science and aesthetics, it is a daily affirmation of the extraordinary richness of biodiversity and our enduring beguilement by its beauty. With a text by herpetologist and natural history writer Marty Crump and a cornucopia...
by Tim Low
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Winner of the NIB Waverley Award for Literature.
Forget about wilderness, Tim Low says, nature lives in our cities and gardens, exploiting everything we do. Many endangered species now live in industrial zones and cities. In our forests, native creatures have become pests. Fifteen years on, The New...
Digital Nature Photography
The Art and the Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Identifying a beautiful image in nature is easy, but capturing it is often challenging. To truly seize the essence of a photograph shot out of the studio and in the world requires an artistic eye and impeccable set of photographic techniques. John and Barbara Gerlach have been teaching photographers...
A Technology Portfolio of Nature Based Solutions
Innovations in Water Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This book aims to define the concept of Nature Based Solutions (NBS) by using case studies from members of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) Water Action Group - NatureWat. NBS is defined and characterized in terms of water source, contaminants, removal mechanisms and resource recovery potential....
Embracing the Unknown
A Fresh Look at Nature and Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2017
Many of us regularly commune with nature-taking walks in the park, watching waves at the beach, gazing up at the nighttime sky. However, most of us don't realize how little we really know about the wonders of our world. Nature is a living system with intricate mechanisms. Some of its greatest admirers...
by Peter Beamish
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Dancing with Nature offers a logical, innovative merging of twenty-first-century science and spirituality. It explores newly discovered elements of humananimal communications, particularly focusing on whales. Author Peter Beamish shares stories and images of his travels and research, as well as his...
Working with Nature
Saving and Using the World’s Wild Places
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
From cocoa farming in Ghana to the orchards of Kent and the desert badlands of Pakistan, taking a practical approach to sustaining the landscape can mean the difference between prosperity and ruin. Working with Nature is the story of a lifetime of work, often in extreme environments, to harvest nature...
Writing the Earth, Darkly
Globalization, Ecocriticism, and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Why do we find so many references to nature and the environment in the many Caribbean literary texts that try to come to terms with the contemporary age of globalization? Even when these novels and poems do not seem to be concerned with environmental issues at all, they abound with fragrant, creepy...
Hidden Nature
Uncovering the UK's Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks” – John Muir
This is a book about Britain’s wildlife; how to discover it, and the adventures we can have with it. Its aim is to show that you don’t have to travel to the nether reaches of the Arctic or the deepest corners...