Nature category: 119170 books
Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada
The 1982 Joanne Goodman Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
Professor Berger aims in this book to ‘explore the rise, expression, and relative decline of the idea of natural history’ in Canada, during the age of Victoria. Science, particularly natural science, was then accessible to the general public in a way scarcely imaginable today. Natural history...
New Trends in Earth-Science Outreach and Engagement
The Nature of Communication
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Perhaps just as perplexing as the biggest issues at the core of Earth science is the nature of communicating about nature itself. New Trends in Earth-Science Outreach and Engagement: The Nature of Communication examines the processes of communication necessary in bridging the chasm between climate...
by Christopher Camuto
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Camuto delivers insights on Mount Desert Island, a place of stunning beauty and natural wonders.
Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park have been described as the climax of the coast of Maine. Millions are drawn every year to the stunning beauty of this rocky landscape of spruce-fir forest...
The Noetics of Nature
Environmental Philosophy and the Holy Beauty of the Visible
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Contemplative or “noetic” knowledge has traditionally been seen as the highest mode of understanding, a view that persists both in many non-Western cultures and in Eastern Christianity, where “theoria physike,” or the illumined understanding of creation that follows the purification of the...
Reordering the Natural World
Humans and Animals in the City
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
In Reordering the Natural World, Annabelle Sabloff argues that the everyday practices of contemporary capitalist society reinforce the conviction that we are profoundly alienated from the rest of nature. At the same time, she reveals the often disguised affinities and sense of connection urban Canadians...
Second Nature
Environmental Enrichment for Captive Animals
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Growing recognition of the complexity of animals' physical, social, and psychological lives in the wild has led both zookeepers and the zoo-going public to call for higher environmental standards for animals in captivity.
Bringing together the work of animal behaviorists, zoo biologists, and...
by David Goode
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
The latest in the New Naturalist series documents the parks and green spaces unique to Britain's cities – and the wildlife that has flourished in these habitats. Not since Richard Fitter’s landmark publication in 1945, ‘London’s Natural History’ – volume 3 in the New Naturalist series...
by Laurence Evans
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 1999
In the association of the bee and the flower is a very advanced reflection of the process of evolution through natural selection. Nature's Holism explores the coevolution of long associated species arriving at a holistic view of nature where the compatibility between species is significant. In nature...
The Mountains of California
An enthusiastic nature diary from the founder of national parks
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
‘How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over.’
John Muir is known internationally for his dedication to protecting the environment and for founding The Sierra Club in 1892. His first book, as Muir authority...
The Green Light
A Self-Critique of the Ecological Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
The Green Light ('Le Feu Vert') offers an original and profound exploration of the roots of environmental philosophy and the Anthropocene. Bernard Charbonneau situates the wellspring of the ecological movement in the dialectics of Nature and Freedom, and their needful but uneasy joining against the...
by Eugene H. Ware
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2004
The Moods of Presque Isle is a book of photography, poetry, and prose which provides a visual treat for your mind and eyes. The poetry and photography blend to produce reflections and emotions within the reader. The setting is an eight mile long sand peninsula jutting out into Lake Erie. Formed over...
Nature's Housekeeper
An Eco-Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
We've all read books that changed our lives but one college professor gets more than he bargains for when he picks up a dusty, dog-eared copy of the American classic Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
Proud postmodern consumer and card-carrying member of the I Hate Nature Club, Michael Gurnow is...
Nature's State
Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
An engaging blend of environmental theory and literary studies, Nature's State looks behind the myth of Alaska as America's "last frontier," a pristine and wild place on the fringes of our geographical imagination. Susan Kollin traces how this seemingly marginal space in American culture has in fact...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
It is clear that nature is undergoing rapid changes as a result of human activities such as industry, agriculture, travel, fisheries and urbanisation. What effects do these activities have? Are they disturbing equilibria in ecological populations and communities, thus upsetting the balance of nature,...