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by Charles Watts
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Taking a retrospective view of the dark and unenlightened past, when the mighty forces of nature were almost entirely hidden from the human gaze; contemplating the sad spectacle of our forefathers being sunken in gross superstition, ere the light of to-day had arisen above the horizon of mental ignorance,...
Ignoring Nature No More
The Case for Compassionate Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
For far too long humans have been ignoring nature. As the most dominant, overproducing, overconsuming, big-brained, big-footed, arrogant, and invasive species ever known, we are wrecking the planet at an unprecedented rate. And while science is important to our understanding of the impact we have...
Moral Materialism
A Semantic Theory of Ethical Naturalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Modern science describes the physical effects of material causes, but not the moral consequences of conscious choices. Is nature merely a rational place, or is it also a moral place? The question of morality has always been important for economists, sociologists, political theorists, and lawmakers....
The Eye of the Sandpiper
Stories from the Living World
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
In The Eye of the Sandpiper, Brandon Keim pairs cutting-edge science with a deep love of nature, conveying his insights in prose that is both accessible and beautiful. In an elegant, thoughtful tour of nature in the twenty-first century, Keim continues in the tradition of Lewis Thomas, Stephen Jay...
Interpreting Nature
The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns—“wilderness” and “nature” among them—are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity to history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.
Nature's Fabric
Leaves in Science and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Leaves are all around us—in backyards, cascading from window boxes, even emerging from small cracks in city sidewalks given the slightest glint of sunlight. Perhaps because they are everywhere, it’s easy to overlook the humble leaf, but a close look at them provides one of the most enjoyable ways...
The Eight Master Lessons of Nature
What Nature Teaches Us About Living Well in the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
A riveting manifesto for the millions of people who long to forge a more vital, meaningful connection to the natural world to live a better, more fulfilling life
Looking around at the world today—a world of skyscrapers, super highways, melting ice caps, and rampant deforestation—it is easy...
Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics
The Physical World
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Explore the nature of our material world in a unique sourcebook, conceived by the Dalai Lama, collecting the scientific observations found in classical Buddhist treatises.
Under the visionary supervision of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics...
Time of Nature and the Nature of Time
Philosophical Perspectives of Time in Natural Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
This volume addresses the question of time from the perspective of the time of nature. Its aim is to provide some insights about the nature of time on the basis of the different uses of the concept of time in natural sciences. Presenting a dialogue between philosophy and science, it features a collection...
The Found and the Made
Science, Reason, and the Reality of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book critically examines how mathematical modelling shapes and limits a scientific approach to the natural world and affects how society views nature. It questions concepts such as determinism, reversibility, equilibrium, and the isolated system, and challenges the view of physical reality as...
Conceiving Nature after Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel
The Philosopher's Guide to the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book defies the reigning dismissal of the philosophy of nature by turning to what Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel have had to say about nature and critically thinking through their arguments to reconstruct a comprehensive account of the universe. Aided by the contributions of more recent thinkers,...
Women and Nature?
Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Women and Nature? Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment provides a historical context for understanding the contested relationships between women and nature, and it articulates strategies for moving beyond the dualistic theories and practices that often frame those relationships.
In...
Bioinspiration and Biomimicry in Chemistry
Reverse-Engineering Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Can we emulate nature's technology in chemistry?
Through billions of years of evolution, Nature has generated some remarkable systems and substances that have made life on earth what it is today. Increasingly, scientists are seeking to mimic Nature's systems and processes in the lab in order...
by Andrew Holden
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
The global demand for tourism continues to increase as economic growth creates opportunities for its consumption as a lifestyle option across cultures. The spatial reach of recreational tourism into remoter environments reflects a desire to reconnect to nature that is partially created by the global...