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by adam smith
Language: French
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations
Extrait : Les plus grandes améliorations dans la puissance productive du travail, et la plus grande partie de l’habileté, de l’adresse, de l’intelligence avec laquelle il est dirigé ou appliqué, sont dues,...
Trail Guide to the South Fork
With a Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Here it is! The first comprehensive guide to trails of the South Fork. For more than ten years the Group for the South Fork has been working with the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society and the Southampton Trails Preservation Society to preserve and define the trails, ancient and new, of the...
by Almo Farina, Carlo Brentari, Katharine Dow
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
The term “Anthropocene”, the era of mankind, is increasingly being used as a scientific designation for the current geological epoch. This is because the human species now dominates ecosystems worldwide, and affects nature in a way that rivals natural forces in magnitude and scale. Thinking about...
by Stefan Engel
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
An ever increasing number of local and regional ecological catastrophes plague humanity. They are symptoms of an environmental crisis which is in the process of transforming at an accelerated pace into a global environmental catastrophe. As their chief causes are to be found in the capitalist profit...
Chernobyl
A Policy Response Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This series is dedicated to serving the growing community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the principles and applications of environmental management. Each volume is a thorough treatment of a specific topic of importance for proper management practices. A fundamental objective of these...
First World Petro-Politics
The Political Ecology and Governance of Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
First World Petro-Politics examines the vital yet understudied case of a first world petro-state facing related social, ecological, and economic crises in the context of recent critical work on fossil capitalism.
A wide-ranging and richly documented study of Alberta’s political ecology –...
Seismic City
An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its elements — earthquake, fires, and recovery — profoundly disrupted the urban order and challenged San Francisco’s perceived permanence.
The crisis...
Making a Living
Work and Environment in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, Making a Living examines work as a central part of Americans' evolving relationship with nature, revealing the unexpected connections between the fight for workers' rights and the rise of the modern environmental movement.
Chad Montrie...
Of Woods and Waters
A Kentucky Outdoors Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
From the moment Daniel Boone first "gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and...beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below," generations of Kentuckians have developed rich and enduring relationships with the land that surrounds them. Of Woods & Waters: A Kentucky Outdoors...
Bug Music
How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
In the spring of 2013 the cicadas in the Northeastern United States will yet again emerge from their seventeen-year cycle—the longest gestation period of any animal. Those who experience this great sonic invasion compare their sense of wonder to the arrival of a comet or a solar eclipse. This unending...
by Kurt Sundermeyer
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Over the course of the last century it has become clear that both elementary particle physics and relativity theories are based on the notion of symmetries. These symmetries become manifest in that the "laws of nature" are invariant under spacetime transformations and/or gauge transformations....
Gravity from the Ground Up
An Introductory Guide to Gravity and General Relativity
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
This book invites the reader to understand our Universe, not just marvel at it. From the clock-like motions of the planets to the catastrophic collapse of a star into a black hole, gravity controls the Universe. Gravity is central to modern physics, helping to answer the deepest questions about the...
The Story of Collapsing Stars
Black Holes, Naked Singularities, and the Cosmic Play of Quantum Gravity
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
This book journeys into one of the most fascinating intellectual adventures of recent decades - understanding and exploring the final fate of massive collapsing stars in the universe. The issue is of great interest in fundamental physics and cosmology today, from both the perspective of gravitation...
Thomas Berry, Dreamer of the Earth
The Spiritual Ecology of the Father of Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
A tribute to the visionary contributions and prophetic writings of Thomas Berry, spiritual ecologist and father of environmentalism
• Contains 10 essays by eminent philosophers, thinkers, and scientists in the field of ecology and sustainability, including Matthew Fox, Joanna Macy, Duane...