Nature category: 119170 books
Greening The Lyre
Environmental Poetics And Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
This work covers important and neglected ground—environmental language theory. Gilcrest poses two overarching questions: To what extent does contemporary nature poetry represent a recapitulation of familiar poetics? And, to what extent does contemporary nature poetry engage a poetics that stakes...
by W. A. Bentley, W. J. Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
"Offers valuable material not only to students of crystallography but also to those of the arts." — The New York Times
Did you ever try to photograph a snowflake? The procedure is very tricky. The work must be done rapidly in extreme cold, for even body heat can melt a rare specimen that...
Refining Nature
Standard Oil and the limits of Efficiency
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
The Standard Oil Company emerged out of obscurity in the 1860s to capture 90 percent of the petroleum refining industry in the United States during the Gilded Age. John D. Rockefeller, the company’s founder, organized the company around an almost religious dedication to principles of efficiency....
Our Existence Part 1 : The Nature and Origin of Physical Reality
A straightforward and impartial guide to the science and philosophy of our physical environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
A straightforward and impartial guide to the science and philosophy of our physical environment
What is existence?
Recent scientific findings have shaken traditional theories to their core; undermining long-held beliefs, from the nature of the Big Bang to the very fabric of reality....
by Joan Lowell Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Ranked #11 in American Kennel Club (AKC) registrations, the Rottweiler combines the ideal traits of courage, protectiveness, strength, and friendliness. Not only is the breed energetic by nature, but that nature also includes a playful quality that emerges in puppyhood and continues throughout the dog's...
Bio-Nanomaterials
Designing Materials Inspired by Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Written by authors from different fields to reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the topic, this book guides the reader through new nano-materials processing inspired by nature.
Structured around general principles, each selection and explanation is motivated by particular biological case studies....
Noirot’S Call of the Moose
The Biography of Clark Noirot
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
TO VIEW NATURES MAGNIFICENT BOUNTY, YOU ONLY NEED ONE THING ADVENTURE. BE BOLD, BUT CAUTIOUS AS WELL. CLARK ALWAYS MADE THE BEST OF A SITUATION BY CALMLY AND STRATEGICALLY PLANNING HOW TO ENSURE THAT HE HAD AN EXCELLENT TRIP.
This book is clearly a window into Clark Noirots life as an avid...
by Terry Marsden
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
During modernity metropolitan ruralities have been regarded as land reserves for urban expansion. However, there is a growing insight that there are limits to the urban expansion into rural areas. Signs of a new position are the awakened interest in the nature, the authentic and the simple way of...
Black Faces, White Spaces
Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood,...
Summary & Analysis of The Order of Time
A Guide to the Book by Carlo Rovelli
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2019
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Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli explores the very nature of time, physics, humanity, and philosophy...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Engineered Biomimicry covers a broad range of research topics in the emerging discipline of biomimicry. Biologically inspired science and technology, using the principles of math and physics, has led to the development of products as ubiquitous as Velcro™ (modeled after the spiny hooks on plant...
Green Economy Reader
Lectures in Ecological Economics and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
State of the art in sustainability thinking, inspired by interdisciplinary ideas of ecological economics. This book is focusing on sustainability pathways, new economic theory, democracy and institutions, multidimensional assessment of sustainability, macroeconomic modelling and policies, climate...
Green Metropolis
The Extraordinary Landscapes of New York City as Nature, History, and Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, the woman who launched the restoration of Central Park in the 1980s, now introduces us to seven remarkable green spaces in and around New York City, giving us the history—both natural and human—of how they have been transformed over time.
Here we find: The greenbelt...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See
A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Longleaf forests once covered 92 million acres from Texas to Maryland to Florida. These grand old-growth pines were the "alpha tree" of the largest forest ecosystem in North America and have come to define the southern forest. But logging, suppression of fire, destruction by landowners,...