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by Sandy Cole, Richard Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
For more than the first twenty-five years of its time span, this book focuses on the interaction between Dick and nature. It took more than two and a half decades, plus the development of the Internet, for Dick to find Sandy. For the past fifteen they have been partners in life.The subtitle...
La nature, lautre «frontière»
Fronts écologiques au Sud (Afrique du Sud, Argentine, Chili)
Language: French
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Cet ouvrage a pour ambition de proposer une lecture territoriale des rapports de pouvoir et de domination des sociétés dans leur rapport à la nature. Sylvain Guyot propose ici une formulation approfondie du concept de front écologique, désignant les (re)conquêtes territoriales réalisées au...
Indigenous, Modern and Postcolonial Relations to Nature
Negotiating the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Indigenous, Modern and Postcolonial Relations to Nature contributes to the young field of intercultural philosophy by introducing the perspective of critical and postcolonial thinkers who have focused on systematic racism, power relations and the intersection of cultural identity and political struggle.
Angela...
by Georges-Louis Leclerc
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon's The Epochs of Nature, originally published as Les Époques de la Nature in 1778, is one of the first great popular science books, a work of style and insight that was devoured by Catherine the Great of Russia and influenced Humboldt, Darwin, Lyell, Vernadsky,...
Out of the Woods
Seeing Nature in the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
2018 Reading the West Book Awards Nonfiction Winner
Have you ever wondered about society’s desire to cultivate the perfect lawn, why we view some animals as “good” and some as “bad,” or even thought about the bits of nature inside everyday items–toothbrushes, cell phones, and coffee...
Sœurs en écologie
Des femmes, de la nature et du réenchantement du monde
Language: French
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Un féminisme réconciliateur et une écologie plus vivante !
De la grande déesse aux justicières de la Terre, de Hildegarde de Bingen, Rosa Luxembourg à Vandana Shiva et Rachel Carson, les femmes ont un lien particulier à la nature. Sorcières, scientifiques, économistes, juristes, pionnières...
Nature in Translation
Japanese Tourism Encounters the Canadian Rockies
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Nature in Translation is an ethnographic exploration in the cultural politics of the translation of knowledge about nature. Shiho Satsuka follows the Japanese tour guides who lead hikes, nature walks, and sightseeing bus tours for Japanese tourists in Canada's Banff National Park and illustrates how...
Summary of The Invention of Nature
by Andrea Wulf | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Summary of The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf | Includes Analysis Preview: The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf is a biography of Alexander von Humboldt, a Prussian naturalist born in 1769. Humboldt had an older brother, Wilhelm. Their father died when...
The Blank Slate
The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2003
**A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now.
"Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time**
Now updated with a new afterword
One of the world's...
by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
By his theory of relativity Albert Einstein has provoked a revolution of thought in physical science.
The achievement consists essentially in this:|Einstein has succeeded in separating far more completely than hitherto the share of the observer and the share of external nature in the things...
The Forest Unseen
A Year's Watch in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of old-growth forest--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Look out for David Haskell's new book, The Songs of Tree: Stories From Nature's Great Connectors, coming in April...
by Florence Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
"Highly informative and remarkably entertaining." —Elle
From forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to eucalyptus groves in California, Florence Williams investigates the science behind nature’s positive effects on the brain. Delving into brand-new research, she uncovers...
Mind and Cosmos:Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem,...
Rambunctious Garden
Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
"Remarkable . . . Emma Marris explores a paradox that is increasingly vexing the science of ecology, namely that the only way to have a pristine wilderness is to manage it intensively.†? -The Wall Street Journal
A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have...