Nature category: 119170 books
Knowing
The Nature of Physical Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
We ask question after question of an indifferent universe that would just as soon remain mute; and slowly, patiently, one sentence at a time, we write our own version of the book of nature. It is called science, from the Latin word for knowledge, and it is a book everybody should read. With simplicity...
Becoming Animal
An Earthly Cosmology
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous has become a classic of environmental literature. Now he returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature.
As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere...
At Home in the Universe
The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1996
A major scientific revolution has begun, a new paradigm that rivals Darwin's theory in importance. At its heart is the discovery of the order that lies deep within the most complex of systems, from the origin of life, to the workings of giant corporations, to the rise and fall of great civilizations....
Little Farm Homegrown
A Memoir of Food-Growing, Midlife and Self-Reliance on a Small Homestead
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
A new gardening book for anyone who's dreamed of going back to the land and living a simpler life...After a city-bred Boomer couple weathers their first, tumultuous year on their rural backyard farm, they foresee smooth sailing for the future…then they discover their homesteading journey has only...
Hunger Mountain
A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Learning to see with the eyes of the ancient Chinese sages can change your view of the universe, as David Hinton demonstrates. He takes us on a series of walks up Hunger Mountain, a wilderness area near his home in Vermont. What he sees and describes about these outings is informed by the cosmos-view...
How on Earth?
Answers to the puzzles of our planet
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
This book addresses some of the puzzles in nature: Why do the coastlines of Africa and South America match? Why is Table Mountain flat? Why is there pumice stone on the beaches of Arniston? What causes a tsunami? How does rock get folded? etc. The simple explanations – geological, mineralogical,...
Dawn of Small Worlds
Dwarf Planets, Asteroids, Comets
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
This book gives a detailed introduction to the thousands and thousands of smaller bodies in the solar system. Written for interested laymen, amateur astronomers and students it describes the nature and origin of asteroids, dwarf planets and comets, and gives detailed information about their role in...
Animal Voices, Animal Guides
Discover Your Deeper Self through Communication with Animals
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
How to connect with animal guides to expand individual and planetary awareness
• Reveals techniques for exploring dreams, shamanic journeys, healing, and shapeshifting with animals
• Presents words of wisdom from cats, dogs, horses, llamas, rabbits, ravens, bears, and even insects
As...
Dark Green Religion
Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
In this innovative and deeply felt work, Bron Taylor examines the evolution of "green religions" in North America and beyond: spiritual practices that hold nature as sacred and have in many cases replaced traditional religions. Tracing a wide range of groups—radical environmental activists,...
Human Natures
Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
The Bell Curve, The Moral Animal, The Selfish Gene -- these and a hof other books and articles have made a seemingly overwhelming case that our genes determine our behavior. Now, in a new book that is sure to stir controversy, one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists shows why mof those...
JAPAN ALPS KAMIKOCHI
Scenic Spots and Hiking Trails with Many Photos
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
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This photo book introduces international tourists to Japan Alps Kamikochi 上高地 in Nagano 長野 prefecture. Kamikochi is one of the most beautiful scenic hiking places in Japan. It is a part of the...
A Wilder Time
Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Book
Kirkus Reviews "Best Book of the Year" selection
"A richly literary account. . . . Anchored by deep reflection and scientific knowledge, A Wilder Time is a portrait of an ancient, nearly untrammeled world...
Mystical Dogs
Animals as Guides to Our Inner Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2002
For many years I have been a student of spirituality and states of consciousness. For many more years than that I've been a student of dogs" says bestselling author Jean Houston whose study of this subject is the basis of Mystical Dogs. Houston has spent a lifetime bridging the worlds of animals...
by Owen Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
This classic book offers the reader advice and instructions on how to best appreciate nature, the countryside, and walking in the Great Outdoors. It aims to enlighten the reader as to what to look out for and how to identify various things ranging from trees to wildlife and beyond. “Going About...