Nature category: 119170 books
After the Death of Nature
Carolyn Merchant and the Future of Human-Nature Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Carolyn Merchant’s foundational 1980 book The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution established her as a pioneering researcher of human-nature relations. Her subsequent groundbreaking writing in a dozen books and over one hundred peer-reviewed articles have only fortified...
Politiques de la nature
Comment faire entrer les sciences en démocratie
Language: French
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Un essai novateur sur les relations entre science et politique.
Comment combler le fossé apparemment infranchissable séparant la science (chargée de comprendre la nature) et la politique (chargée de régler la vie sociale), séparation dont les conséquences - affaires du sang, de l'amiante,...
Conservation Psychology
Understanding and Promoting Human Care for Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
People are inseparable from natural ecosystems, and understanding how people think about, experience, and interact with nature is crucial for promoting environmental sustainability as well as human well-being.
This is the new edition of what is now the leading textbook in conservation psychology,...
by John McPhee
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where words etched in limestone said: "Strive on--the control of Nature is won, not given." In the morning sunlight, that central phrase--"the...
Engineering Eden
The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**The fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to control nature in the national parks. **
When twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions...
Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You
A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
This “fact-filled and amusing trek through nature’s dark side” (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the fascinating, weird, and often perverted ways that Mother Nature fends only for herself.
It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin (host of the Animal Planet’s TV show Monsters Inside Me)...
The Nature of Belonging
Groundings in the Earth of Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Vonnie Roudette has created a seminal work of Caribbean Nature writings revealing creative messages for community transformation through daily observation. Compiled largely from five-minute weekly radio commentaries that were aired in St. Vincent and the Grenadines on the WEFM Radio Viewpoint program...
Placing Nature
Culture And Landscape Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Landscape ecology is a widely influential approach to looking at ecological function at the scale of landscapes, and accepting that human beings powerfully affect landscape pattern and function. It goes beyond investigation of pristine environments to consider ecological questions that are raised...
by Frank R. Spellman, Joan Price-Bayer
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
The study of nature is a complex science involving many different fields from geology and meteorology to biology, zoology, and botany. This complexity indicates nature’s broad scope of impact. It is at once beautiful and dangerous, displaying power beyond human control. An understanding of the basic...
States of Nature
Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The process of nation-building in Latin America transformed the relations between the state, the economy, and nature. Between 1760 and 1940, the economies of most countries in the Spanish Caribbean came to depend heavily on the export of plant products, such as coffee, tobacco, and sugar. After the...
Flourishing Within Limits to Growth
Following nature's way
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Decades of research and discussion have shown that the human population growth and our increased consumption of natural resources cannot continue – there are limits to growth. This volume demonstrates how we might modify and revise our economic systems using nature as a model.
The book...
The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature
Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2000
The Energy Evolution, the final volume in the revolutionary Eco-Technology series, contains radical environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s groundbreaking writings on methods for energy generation that harness the enormous potential of Nature.
Nature produces energy by slow, cool, implosive...
The Sound of Silence
A Book of Opera Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
The sound of silence is a book about nature, love and relationships.Nature has a profound touch or intimacy with man.This "touch" is most significant in all our interactions with it (nature itself).Incidentally, many do not have the time or the consciousness to tap into this refreshing and...
Common Ground
Encounters with Nature at the Edges of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
All too often, we think of nature as something distinct from ourselves, something to go and see, a place that’s separate from the ordinary modern world in which we live and work. But if we take the time to look, we soon find that’s not how nature works. Even in our parceled-out, paved-over urban...