Science Nature category: 119003 books
Nature's State
Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
An engaging blend of environmental theory and literary studies, Nature's State looks behind the myth of Alaska as America's "last frontier," a pristine and wild place on the fringes of our geographical imagination. Susan Kollin traces how this seemingly marginal space in American culture has in fact...
Rethinking Order
After the Laws of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book presents a radical new picture of natural order. The Newtonian idea of a cosmos ruled by universal and exceptionless laws has been superseded; replaced by a conception of nature as a realm of diverse powers, potencies, and dispositions, a 'dappled world'. There is order in nature, but it...
by Erwin Schrödinger
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger was one of the most distinguished scientists of the twentieth century; his lectures on the history and philosophy of science are legendary. 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' makes available for the first time in many years the texts of two of Schrödinger's...
by John Polkinghorne
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Reality is multi-layered, asserts the Reverend John Polkinghorne, and in this insightful book he explores various dimensions of the human encounter with reality. Through a well-reasoned and logical process, Polkinghorne argues that reality consists not only of the scientific processes of the natural...
Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry
5th ed. (English Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Example in this ebook
An hundred and fifty years are scarce elapsed since the clouds of prejudice, which had long overspread the world, began to clear up, and men were convinced, by cultivating the Sciences, and attending to Nature, that no fanciful hypotheses would ever lead...
Justice, Society and Nature
An Exploration of Political Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Justice, Society and Nature examines the moral response which the world must make to the ecological crisis if there is to be real change in the global society and economy to favour ecological integrity. From its base in the idea of the self, through principles of political justice, to the justice...
Nature and Experience
Phenomenology and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
What do we mean when we speak about and advocate for ‘nature’? Do inanimate beings possess agency, and if so what is its structure? What role does metaphor play in our understanding of and relation to the environment? How does nature contribute to human well-being?
By bringing the concerns...
Nature Exposed
Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
In Nature Exposed, Jennifer Tucker studies the intersecting trajectories of photography and modern science in late Victorian Britain. She examines the role of photograph as witness in scientific investigation and explores the interplay between photography and scientific authority.
Almost immediately...
Sacred Bovines
The Ironies of Misplaced Assumptions in Biology
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Some assumptions about biology are so deeply rooted in our thinking that they seem beyond question. These concepts - expressed in playful jargon - are our sacred bovines. With a light-hearted spirit, Douglas Allchin sets out to challenge many of these common beliefs about science and life. Allchin...
The Nature and Use of Ecotoxicological Evidence
Natural Science, Statistics, Psychology, and Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
The Nature and Use of Ecotoxicological Evidence: Natural Science, Statistics, Psychology, and Sociology examines how toxicologists and environmental professionals come to understand and make decisions about possible harm from pollutants. Drawing on concepts and techniques from the natural, social...
The pursuit of complexity
the utility of biodiversity from an evolutionary perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
What use is biodiversity, and does it matter if species die out? These controversial questions arouse considerable debate. Most people believe they represent a moral dilemma, but The Pursuit of Complexity shows that it is possible to explore them in a scientific way. Author Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis...
On Human Nature
Biology, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
On Human Nature: Biology, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, and Religion covers the present state of knowledge on human diversity and its adaptative significance through a broad and eclectic selection of representative chapters. This transdisciplinary work brings together specialists from various fields...
Vital Forces, Teleology and Organization
Philosophy of Nature and the Rise of Biology in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive account of vitalism and the Romantic philosophy of nature. The author explores the rise of biology as a unified science in Germany by reconstructing the history of the notion of “vital force,” starting from the mid-eighteenth through the early nineteenth century....
Niko's Nature
The Life of Niko Tinbergen and his Science of Animal Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
A charismatic naturalist, bird-watcher, teacher, artist, photographer, film-maker, and winner of the Nobel Prize, Niko Tinbergen was a prominent and influential scientist. Jointly with Konrad Lorenz, he laid the foundation for a new science, the biological study of animal behaviour. 'Ethology', and...