Nature category: 119170 books
Nature-Inspired Learning and Leading
Revealing and Applying Nature’S Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Stephen B. Jones, a university president, lifetime champion of nature, and the founder of Great Blue Heron, LLC, explores in this book of essays how individuals and organizations can apply natures wisdom to achieve success.
Expanding on the themes in his first book, Nature Based Leadership:...
The Nature of Soviet Power
An Arctic Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
During the twentieth century, the Soviet Union turned the Kola Peninsula in the northwest corner of the country into one of the most populated, industrialized, militarized, and polluted parts of the Arctic. This transformation suggests, above all, that environmental relations fundamentally shaped...
Work Like Nature
Sustainability lessons from ecosystems for your job or business
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Do you want to take action at work that will benefit you, your job and your community as much as it helps the environment? Lea Elliott’s Work Like Nature presents lessons from nature to help you make sense of sustainability and start making a difference.
These ecosystem ideas are illustrated...
Nature Policies and Landscape Policies
Towards an Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The book focuses on the relationship between nature conservation policies and landscape policies. This is a relevant subject due to the current need of reviving nature conservation policies, which are today affected by a general effectiveness deficiency. To this end, landscape policies can play a...
A Sense of Wonder Towards Nature
Healing the Planet through Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Environmental scientist and writer Haydn Washington argues that we will not solve the environmental crisis unless we change our worldview and ethics, and to do so we must rejuvenate our sense of wonder at nature.
This book focuses on humanity’s relation with nature, and the sense of wonder...
by Francis Edward Younghusband
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This vintage book contains Francis Younghusband's 1921 work, "The Heart Of Nature". In this text Younghusband analyses the meaning of beauty through anecdotal experiences, descriptions of nature, and explorations of the human condition. Highly recommended for lovers of nature and travel...
by R. Bruce Hull
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
You would be hard-pressed to find someone who categorically opposes protecting the environment, yet most people would agree that the environmentalist movement has been ineffectual and even misguided. Some argue that its agenda is misplaced, oppressive, and misanthropic—a precursor to intrusive government,...
by David Dugan
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
With a foreword by Richard Dawkins, and based on the BAFTA award-winning Channel 4 TV series, Inside Nature’s Giants gets under the skin of the largest animals on the planet. See them as you've never seen them before – from the inside out. Inside Nature’s Giants explores the anatomy of the largest...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
The Culture of Nature in the History of Design confronts the dilemma caused by design’s pertinent yet precarious position in environmental discourse through interdisciplinary conversations about the design of nature and the nature of design. Demonstrating that the deep entanglements of design and...
Celebrate Nature!
Activities for Every Season
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Make nature an integral part of the classroom! With rising childhood obesity rates and children’s heavy use of electronics, the need for quality time in nature is greater than ever. Put away gadgets, turn off screens, and discover all that the natural world has to offer.
Celebrate Nature!...
Lifestyle and Nature
Integrating Nature Technology to Sustainable Lifestyles
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Environmental constraints are becoming increasingly severe, and now more than ever it is time that we confront head-on the change from an "underground resources" type of civilization to one with a new way of life and technology that embraces a sense of nature. To do so, we need to understand...
Le quotidien du chercheur
Une chasse aux fantômes ?
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2013
« Un jour, mes enfants ont déclaré que j’étais chercheur et que je “ cherchais des fantômes ”. Après tout, peut-être notre quête de chercheur est-elle vaine ? »
Ainsi l’auteur introduit-il son ouvrage. Car ce sont bien des hantises d’un « chercheur ordinaire » dont nous...
Industrialized Nature
Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
The construction of the Three Gorges Dam on China's Yangtze River. The transformation of the Amazon into a site for huge cattle ranches and aluminum smelters. The developmof Nevada's Yucca Mountain into a repository for nuclear waste. The extensive irrigation networks of the Grand Coulee and Kuibyshev...
by Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
HOW MUCH ELECTRICITY CAN YOU GET FROM AN ELECTRIC EEL?
WHEN CAN MISTLETOE BE THE KISS OF DEATH?
HOW MANY SHEEP DOES IT TAKE TO GET ENOUGH WOOL FOR A SUIT?
WHAT DID BOOK WORMS EAT BEFORE THERE WERE BOOKS?
The mysteries of the natural world are endless, but your trusty manservant, Jeeves, has the answers...