Nature category: 119170 books
by Harun Yahya
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Biomimetics means the imitation of living things in nature. This new study is being spoken of more and more often in technological circles and is opening up important new horizons for mankind.
As biomimetics emerges, imitating the structures of living systems, it presents a major setback for those...
Technical Artefacts: Creations of Mind and Matter
A Philosophy of Engineering Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
This book presents an attempt to understand the nature of technical artefacts and the way they come into being. Its primary focus is the kind of technical artefacts designed and produced by modern engineering. In spite of their pervasive influence on human thinking and doing, and therefore on the...
Nature and Experience
Phenomenology and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
What do we mean when we speak about and advocate for ‘nature’? Do inanimate beings possess agency, and if so what is its structure? What role does metaphor play in our understanding of and relation to the environment? How does nature contribute to human well-being?
By bringing the concerns...
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt
An Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book...
The Everest Effect
Nature, Culture, Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
In The Everest Effect Elizabeth Mazzolini traces a series of ideological shifts in the status of Mount Everest in Western culture over the past century to the present day and links these shifts to technologies used in climbs. By highlighting the intersections of technology and cultural ideologies...
Human and Nature Minding Automation
An Overview of Concepts, Methods, Tools and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Man is the best thing in the World. Nature does nothing uselessly. Aristotle There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more. John Burroughs The...
Nature's Burdens
Conservation and American Politics, The Reagan Era to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Nature’s Burdens is a political and intellectual history of American natural resource conservation from the 1980s into the twenty-first century—a period of intense political turmoil, shifting priorities among federal policymakers, and changing ideas about the goals of conservation. Telling a...
Natures in Translation
Romanticism and Colonial Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
For many critics, Romanticism is synonymous with nature writing, for representations of the natural world appear during this period with a freshness, concreteness, depth, and intensity that have rarely been equaled. Why did nature matter so much to writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth...
by Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey, Fred Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
With a foreword by Sir David Attenborough, this is the striking photographic companion to the groundbreaking NETFLIX original documentary series, presenting never-before-seen visuals of nature's most intriguing animals in action and the environmental change that has to be seen to be believed.
With...
The Understanding of Nature
Essays in the Philosophy of Biology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
No student or colleague of Marjorie Grene will miss her incisive presence in these papers on the study and nature of living nature, and we believe the new reader will quickly join the stimulating discussion and critique which Professor Grene steadily provokes. For years she has worked with equally...
Vital Forces, Teleology and Organization
Philosophy of Nature and the Rise of Biology in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive account of vitalism and the Romantic philosophy of nature. The author explores the rise of biology as a unified science in Germany by reconstructing the history of the notion of “vital force,” starting from the mid-eighteenth through the early nineteenth century....
George Perkins Marsh
Prophet of Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
George Perkins Marsh (1801�1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh�s career and shows his relevance today, in a book which has its roots in but wholly...
Kitaaba Wal-Hikmata
‘Manifested Nature and the Utility of One’S Upright Logic’ Vol 1
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
'Kitaaba Wal-Hikmata' is an inspired sharing at the appointed time. It shares for the First Time in the History of Pen-Paper-Pencil Epistemology those Manifest Truths which are being concealed historically from mankind in general. Due to concealment of Manifest Truth and Projection of Manmade Falsehoods...
The Nature of Diversity
An Evolutionary Voyage of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
All living things on earth—from individual species to entire ecosystems—have evolved through time, and evolution is the acknowledged framework of modern biology. Yet many areas of biology have moved from a focus on evolution to much narrower perspectives.
Daniel R. Brooks and Deborah A....