Nature category: 119170 books
Mourning Nature
Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change, large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean acidification, and deforestation – challenges that require new vocabularies and new ways to express grief and sorrow over the disappearance,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Nature Based Strategies for Urban and Building Sustainability reviews the current state-of-the-art on the topic. In the introduction, the editors review the fundamental concepts of nature elements in the built environment, along with the strategies that are necessary for their inclusion in buildings...
Nature's Place (Routledge Revivals)
Conservation Sites and Countryside Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Nature conservation has become increasingly important in Britain over the last three decades. This title, first published in 1986, deals with the critical issues surrounding nature conservation and wildlife protection. The book is broad in scope, with a focus on the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act...
Civic Ecology
Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Stories of environmental stewardship in communities from New Orleans to Soweto accompany an interdisciplinary framework for understanding civic ecology as a global phenomenon.
In communities across the country and around the world, people are coming together to rebuild and restore local environments...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Nature provides us with many services seemingly for free: recharged groundwater, fertile soil and plant biomass created by photosynthesis. We human beings draw extensive benefits from these “ecosystem services,” or ES – food, water supply, recreation and protection from natural hazards. Major...
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...
Tide of War
The Impact of Weather on Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The first comprehensive look at nature’s role on military history from the author of A Pestilence on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Halley’s Comet helped to announce the fall of the Shang Dynasty in China, a solar eclipse frightened the Macedonian army enough at Pydna in 168 BC to ensure victory...
The Good in Nature and Humanity
Connecting Science, Religion, and Spirituality with the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Scientists, theologians, and the spiritually inclined, as well as all those concerned with humanity's increasingly widespread environmental impact, are beginning to recognize that our ongoing abuse of the earth diminishes our moral as well as our material condition. Many people are coming to believe...
Australasian Nature Photography 09
ANZANG Ninth Collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
The bioregion of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea possesses a unique natural heritage stretching back over 50 million years since the break-up of the great southern continent of Gondwanaland. The South Australian Museum focuses on enhancing a general knowledge of this extraordinary legacy...
by Eileen Blakeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Bells with Wings presents a poetry collection that seeks to remind us that nature talks to us in simple ways. It shows us vanity in all its beauty, as well as its worst during many mood changes, entertaining us constantly throughout our life. The poems in this collection depict some of the many insights...
by David Y Bevington
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
Nature and Creation is about skies, trees, flowers, cacti, insects, and my other observations in nature. I am fascinated by the diversity of God's creation. Since I live in a more rural area I can full enjoyment of God's out-of-doors, watch the deer and their fawns, tend to my perennials and enjoy life to the fullest. I hope you enjoy the poetry I have written about nature.
Eco-Geography
What We See When We Look at Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Whether you travel across the country, to work, or to your children's soccer games, you pass landscape along your way. What do you see as you look around? Author Andreas Suchantke shows you new ways to see and experience the world around you wherever you go. What do we really see when we look at a landscape?...
A World In Transition: Humankind and Nature
The Green Book of “Einstein Meets Magritte”
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A World in Transition, Humankind and Nature is appropriately entitled after its aim for an intrinsic property of reality: change.
Of major concern, in this era of transformation, is the extensive and profound interaction of humankind with nature. The global-scale social and technological project of...