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Living Through the End of Nature
The Future of American Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
How environmentalism can reinvent itself in a postnature age: a proposal for navigating between naive naturalism and technological arrogance.
Environmentalists have always worked to protect the wildness of nature but now must find a new direction. We have so tamed, colonized, and contaminated...
Nature's Clocks
How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
"Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now...
Branches
Nature's patterns: a tapestry in three parts
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
As part of a trilogy of books exploring the science of patterns in nature, acclaimed science writer Philip Ball here looks at the form and growth of branching networks in the natural world, and what we can learn from them. Many patterns in nature show a branching form - trees, river deltas, blood...
Between Mind and Nature
A History of Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
From William James to Ivan Pavlov, John Dewey to Sigmund Freud, the Würzburg School to the Chicago School, psychology has spanned centuries and continents. Today, the word is an all-encompassing name for a bewildering range of beliefs about what psychologists know and do, and this intrinsic interest...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011
The Best American Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor,...
Nature's Restoration
People and Places on the Front Lines of Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Across America and around the world, people are
working to help nature heal itself. In Bermuda, a man
single-handedly grows thousands of trees on a small
island to restore nesting habitat for a rare seabird. In
Illinois, legions of volunteers replant prairies in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee, a leading cancer physician and researcher, selects the year’s top science and nature writing from journalists who dive into their fields with curiosity and passion, delivering must-read articles from a wide array of fields.
by Claudio Tuniz
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
You cannot hide from radioactivity. Even the book you are holding is slightly radioactive, but there are more serious risks. Radioactivity - the breakdown of unstable atomic nuclei, releasing radiation - is a fundamental process in nature. It is a process that has been harnessed to provide wide and...
by Erwin Schrödinger
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 1996
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 text of two of Schrödinger's...
Arming Mother Nature
The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
When most Americans think of environmentalism, they think of the political left, of vegans dressed in organic-hemp fabric, lofting protest signs. In reality, writes Jacob Darwin Hamblin, the movement--and its dire predictions--owe more to the Pentagon than the counterculture. In Arming Mother Nature,...
On Foundations of Seismology
Bringing Idealizations Down to Earth
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
This remarkable collaboration between a mathematical physicist and a science philosopher concerns foundational and conceptual issues in seismology. Their aim is to present mathematical, physical and philosophical topics in a clear and concise manner. They provide an extensive philosophical discussion...
Beyond Nature's Housekeepers
American Women in Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
From pre-Columbian times to the environmental justice movements of the present, women and men frequently responded to the environment and environmental issues in profoundly different ways. Although both environmental history and women's history are flourishing fields, explorations of the synergy produced...
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....
Ontological Politics in a Disposable World
The New Mastery of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book explores the intertwining of politics and ontology, shedding light on the ways in which, as our ability to investigate, regulate, appropriate, ’enhance’ and destroy material reality have developed, so new social scientific accounts of nature and our relationship with it have emerged,...