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Quantum Perception
Classical Level versus Quantum Level of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2013
Abstract: Reality at the classical level is definite, concrete, and logical. Quantum physics, however, pictures a quite different reality, a multi-factual reality full of uncertainties and classically illogical and unacceptable features. How we reach to a classical reality out of the inherently quantum...
Rights to Nature
Ecological, Economic, Cultural, and Political Principles of Institutions for the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Property rights are a tool humans use in regulating their use of natural resources. Understanding how rights to resources are assigned and how they are controlled is critical to designing and implementing effective strategies for environmental managemand conservation.*Rights to Nature* is a nontechnical,...
Soil Fertility, Animal Health
With "The Loss of Soil Organic Matter and Its Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Nature works and has been working for a billion and a half years—ever since there were living things on earth. This is important. We talk of controlling nature, but any wise farmer or stockman knows that nature makes the rules for us to learn and follow, if we can. In short, the ecologist is in...
Writing Wild
Forming a Creative Partnership with Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Align Your Creative Energy with Nature’s “Everything we know about creating,” writes Tina Welling, “we know intuitively from the natural world.” In Writing Wild, Welling details a three-step “Spirit Walk” process for inviting nature to enliven and inspire our creativity.
Call of Nature
The Secret Life of Dung
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Journey through the digestive systems of humans, farm and wild animals, and meet some of nature’s ultimate recyclers as they eat, breed in and compete for dung. The fall of bodily waste onto the ground is the start of a race against the clock as a multitude of dung-feeders and scavengers consume...
PandaLeaks
The Dark Side of the WWF
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The WWF, renowned global nature conservancy brand, greenwashes the ecological crimes of corporations currently destroying the last remaining rainforests and natural habitats on earth; and it accepts their money. This business model of the famous “eco” organization does more to harm nature than...
by Frederic C. Rich
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
“Regardless of your place on the political spectrum, there is much to admire in this book, which reminds us that the stewardship of nature is an obligation shared by all Americans.”—U.S. Senator Angus S. King Jr.
The Green movement in America has lost its way. Pew polling reveals that...
The Nature of Technology
What It Is and How It Evolves
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
“More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being,” says W. Brian Arthur. Yet despite technology’s irrefutable importance in our daily lives, until now its major questions have gone unanswered. Where do new technologies come from?...
Dreaming the Future
Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Few would deny that we are entering a period of great change. Our environment is collapsing. Social disruption abounds. All around, it seems, we are experiencing breakdown. But out of this chaos comes the opportunity for breakthrough-the opportunity to reimagine our future.
In Dreaming the...
A Thirsty Land
The Making of an American Water Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
“America’s Future Is Texas,” a recent New Yorker article by Lawrence Wright proclaimed. As a changing climate threatens the whole country with deeper droughts and more furious floods that put ever more people and property at risk, Texas has become a bellwether state for water debates. Will there...
From Earth to Oblivion
The Passing of Humankind
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From Earth to Oblivion: The Passing of Humankind is an account that describes the ultimate human predicament” and exposes its inevitable outcome. Dr. Ross E. Goodrich, a geographer, examines evidence that demonstrates why humankind cannot survive much longer on this planet. Our population is growing,...
by Bruno Latour
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of...
Nature's Civil War
Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions--strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow storms, and oppressive heat--which contributed to escalating disease...
Nature, Action and the Future
Political Thought and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Climate change is one of the great challenges of modern politics. In this volume, leading political theorists and historians investigate how the history of political ideas can help us make sense of it. The contributors add a historical perspective to contemporary debates in political theory. They...