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Politiques de la nature
Comment faire entrer les sciences en démocratie
Language: French
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Un essai novateur sur les relations entre science et politique.
Comment combler le fossé apparemment infranchissable séparant la science (chargée de comprendre la nature) et la politique (chargée de régler la vie sociale), séparation dont les conséquences - affaires du sang, de l'amiante,...
Conservation Psychology
Understanding and Promoting Human Care for Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
People are inseparable from natural ecosystems, and understanding how people think about, experience, and interact with nature is crucial for promoting environmental sustainability as well as human well-being.
This is the new edition of what is now the leading textbook in conservation psychology,...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This book is not only for the future scientists but also for those who think that science is boring or an impossible subject. Your young ones will definitely have a new perspective about science and nature when they see the many edible science experiments featured in this book. You read it right. Science experiments can be edible, colorful and delicious! Get a copy of this book now!
The Nature Handbook
A Guide to Observing the Great Outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
Nature is full of fascinating stories, stories that attract our attention at a young age and keep us amazed throughout our entire lives. The need to understand nature draws us back to its simple beauty again and again, yet underneath this simplicity lies a complex web of associations and patterns....
Biomimicry
Innovation Inspired by Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature’s best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems.
If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature – taking advantage...
Notebooks from New Guinea
Reflections on life, nature, and science from the depths of the rainforest
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
This is a unique and delightfully engaging account by a leading tropical biologist of doing science at one of the last wild frontiers in the world. Vojtech Novotny is a highly respected Czech scientist. His widely cited work, of profound importance to ecology and evolution, is not done, like much...
by Hope Jahren, Tim Folger
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
**“Undeniably exquisite . . . Reveal[s] not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity.” —Maria Popova
“An excellent introduction to the key issues in science today.” —P. D. Smith, Guardian
“[A] stellar compendium . . . Delightful...
The Romantic Conception of Life
Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
"All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one." Friedrich Schlegel's words perfectly capture the project of the German Romantics, who believed that the aesthetic approaches of art and literature could reveal patterns and meaning in nature that...
The Work of Nature
How The Diversity Of Life Sustains Us
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
"We do not question that flesh and bone and leaf litter will decay to dust, that seeds will sprout season after season and find renewed nourishment in the soil, that rivers can flow endlessly without running dry, that we can breathe a lifetime without depleting the air of oxygen.... What humans have...
Betrayed by Nature
The War on Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Seven million people die from cancer each year around the world, and many more are impacted by this universal scourge. In Betrayed by Nature, research scientist and lecturer Robin Hesketh demystifies the nature of cancer.
Hesketh provides a concise and comprehensive history of both the science...
People, Sheep and Nature Conservation
The Tasmanian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2007
With almost half a million people and more than six times as many sheep, Tasmania has a rich history of wool production. In the drier parts of the island, graziers raise sheep partly using the native vegetation on their extensive runs. People, Sheep and Nature Conservation explores this use of the run...
The Fate of Nature
Rediscovering Our Ability to Rescue the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
"What capacity for good lies in the hidden depths of people?"
Starting with this question, award-winning author Charles Wohlforth sets forth on a wide-ranging exploration of our relationship with the world. In The Fate of Nature, he draws on science, spirituality, history, economics,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
“Undeniably exquisite . . . The essays in the collection [are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity.” — Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
“A stimulating compendium.” — Kirkus Reviews
Pulitzer Prize–winning...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Open the world of birds to your kids with this book. This book features birds that specifically live at the edges of water formations. Add another group of animals to your children’s science and nature vocabulary with this wonderfully illustrated animal book. Grab a copy for your little one today!