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Wilderburbs
Communities on Nature's Edge
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls �wilderburbs� have offered residents both the pleasures of living in nature and the creature comforts of the suburbs. Remote from cities but still within commuting distance, nestled next to lakes and rivers...
by Jules Michelet
Language: French
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Ces pages sur la nature et les animaux sont à la fois très lyriques et d’une grande justesse, en particulier lorsqu’il s’agit de décrire leurs mœurs, à la fois familières et étranges. Ami des bêtes (comme Victor Hugo), il en défendra la cause auprès des hommes de son temps.
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by Ernst Haeckel, Joseph McCabe, Translator
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
This edition features
• illustration
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS
Author’s Preface
Translator’s Preface
CHAPTER I The Nature of the Problem
CHAPTER II Our Bodily Frame
CHAPTER III Our Life
CHAPTER IV Our Embryonic Development
CHAPTER V The History of Our...
Nature's Building Blocks
An A-Z Guide to the Elements
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
John Emsley's Nature's Building Bocks was published in paperback in 2003. In this readable, informative, and fascinating guide to the elements are entries on each of the 100-odd chemical elements, arranged alphabetically from actinium to zirconium. Each entry comprises an explanation of where the...
Chronopoetics
The Temporal Being and Operativity of Technological Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Wolfgang Ernst has demonstrated that the knowledge of time-giving (‘chrono-poetical’) media and their temporal essence enriches the tradition of philosophical inquiry into the nature of ‘time’. This book, a translated and abridged edition of Ernst’s two major volumes, Chronopoetik and Gleichursprünglichkeit,...
Origin(s) of Design in Nature
A Fresh, Interdisciplinary Look at How Design Emerges in Complex Systems, Especially Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Origin(s) of Design in Nature is a collection of over 40 articles from prominent researchers in the life, physical, and social sciences, medicine, and the philosophy of science that all address the philosophical and scientific question of how design emerged in the natural world. The volume offers...
Monarchs and Milkweed
A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
The fascinating and complex evolutionary relationship of the monarch butterfly and the milkweed plant
Monarch butterflies are one of nature's most recognizable creatures, known for their bright colors and epic annual migration from the United States and Canada to Mexico. Yet there is much more...
by Iain Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Did God make us? The answer to this question radically changes how we view ourselves and our life's purpose. This book is an engaging enquiry into these issues beginning with the anatomical evidence of the human body, our own face and our special senses Are our faces and personalities precisely made...
Dazzle Gradually
Reflections on the Nature of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
At the crossroads of philosophy and science, the sometimes-dry topics of evolution and ecology come alive in this new collection of essays--many never before anthologized. Learn how technology may be a sort of second nature, how the systemic human fungus Candida albicans can lead to cravings for carrot...
by Erik Berrevoets
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
While the benefits of Steiners research into agriculture and education are increasingly recognized, his research into the nature of bees has had limited impact on beekeeping practices and on our general understanding of nature. Wisdom of the Bees examines Steiners insights and research into the nature...
by Lucille Bertuccio
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Au Natural is a collection of essays by Lucille Bertuccio, long-time president and co-founder of The Center for Sustainable Living based in Bloomington Indiana. These essays focus not only on the beauty and diversity of the Earth as expressed locally by its myriad flora and fauna but also on living...
by John Monyjok Maluth
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Someone said many years ago, that, "God has written two books". You mean the Bible and the Qur'an? Nope! It's "The Book of Creation", and "The Book of Revelation". In this new year, 2016, Discipleship Press' founder, Br. John Monyjok has prepared a book titled "The...
by Vernon R L Head
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Part detective story, part love affair, and pure adventure storytelling at its best, a celebration of the thrill of exploration and the lure of wild places during the search for the elusive Nechisar Nightjar.
In 1990, a group of Cambridge scientists arrived at the Plains of Nechisar in Ethiopia....
Waterfalls of North Georgia
North Georgia's Wonders of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
“The southern part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Georgia ranges to a height of 4784 feet on Brasstown Bald with several other peaks approaching that height. The average rainfall recorded for the years 1969-1991 in parts of northeast Georgia along the Blue Ridge Mountain crest and into South Carolina...