Nature category: 119170 books
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...
City of Flows
Modernity, Nature, and the City
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2004
Typically, cities and nature are perceived as geographic opposites, cities being manufactured social creations, and nature being outside of human construction. Through a historical geography of water in the modern city, Kaika shows that this is not the case. Rather, nature and the modern city are fully intertwined, with cities integrating nature at
Beneath the Tall Black Door
Four Seasons on River Street
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Learn to hear and see answers from nature. On the front porch of Kathryn and Johns Northwoods home along the river, seven stories join the worlds of home and wild nature beneath the tall black door. Together the stories illustrate the healing touch of nature in our affairs when we learn to imagine...
Explore Texas
A Nature Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
If you are interested in birdwatching, wildlife viewing, or stargazing; flowers, geology, or water; nature centers, festivals, or photography, a destination in Texas awaits you.
From the desert gardens of Big Bend to hawk watching on the Gulf Coast to caving and bat watching in the Hill Country,...
The Curious Nature Guide
Explore the Natural Wonders All Around You
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
With dozens of simple prompts and exercises, best-selling author, naturalist, and artist Clare Walker Leslie invites you to step outside for just a few minutes a day, reignite your sense of wonder about the natural world, and discover the peace and grounding that come from connecting with nature....
by Nick Baker
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
The art of nature tracking is very much like learning to read, but instead of reading words the tracker reads traces. Every animal leaves different traces as it goes about its everyday business. If you learn to read the signs left by footprints, leftover food, droppings and scrapes in the earth, you...
Back to the Garden
Nature and the Mediterranean World from Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
The garden was the cultural foundation of the early Mediterranean peoples; they acknowledged their reliance on and kinship to the land, and they understood nature through the lens of their diversely cultivated landscape. Their image of the garden underwrote the biblical book of Genesis and the region’s...
by Marcus Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
“A Nature Puzzle Book” is a charming volume full of answers to some of nature's 'mysteries', including why birds sing, what actually happens in a bee-hive, and so on. Written by an experienced nature writer, this volume is highly recommended for those with a love of the great outdoors and the...
Nature's Services
Societal Dependence On Natural Ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Life itself as well as the entire human economy depends on goods and services provided by earth's natural systems. The processes of cleansing, recycling, and renewal, along with goods such as seafood, forage, and timber, are worth many trillions of dollars annually, and nothing could live without...
Management Planning for Nature Conservation
A Theoretical Basis & Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
The first edition of Mike Alexander’s Management Planning for Nature Conservation, brought a new dimension to the modern literature on conservation management. This second edition, a significant enhancement of the original, deals with the development both, conceptual and practical, of adaptive management...
Nature, Temporality and Environmental Management
Scandinavian and Australian perspectives on peoples and landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
How are different concepts of nature and time embedded into human practices of landscape and environmental management? And how can temporalities that entwine past, present and future help us deal with challenges on the ground? In a time of uncertainty and climate change, how much can we hold onto...
Natural Heritage
At the Interface of Nature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
It has become more and more accepted that nature conservation is not possible without taking into account human activities. Thus an integrated approach to both the natural and cultural heritage is being encouraged and developed. Gathering a number of distinguished authors with diverse backgrounds...
The Nature of Scientific Knowledge
An Explanatory Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the epistemology of science. It not only introduces readers to the general epistemological discussion of the nature of knowledge, but also provides key insights into the particular nuances of scientific knowledge. No prior knowledge of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
**The SAGE Handbook of Nature **offers an ambitious retrospective and prospective overview of the field that aims to position Nature, the environment and natural processes, at the heart of interdisciplinary social sciences.
The three volumes are divided into the following parts:
INTRODUCTION...