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Capitalism in the Web of Life
Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today’s global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing nature, including human nature. Drawing on environmentalist,...
by Orest Bedrij
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
********** BACK COVER TEXT ********** 1: The Ultimate Foundation of Nature may very well be the most important conceptual breakthrough in the prediction, validation, and unification of physics. It provides solutions to challenges posed by the greatest minds of all time. Eugene Wigner of Princeton...
Respect for Nature
A Theory of Environmental Ethics - 25th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth? In Respect for Nature, Paul Taylor draws on biology, moral philosophy, and environmental science to defend a biocentric environmental ethic in which all life has value. Without making claims for...
Natural Encounters
Biking, Hiking, and Birding Through the Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
A twelve-month excursion through nature’s seasons as recounted by a lifetime naturalist
In this “personal encyclopedia of nature’s seasons,” lifetime naturalist Bruce Beehler reflects on his three decades of encountering nature in Washington, D.C. The author takes the reader on a year-long...
Human Nature
A Blueprint for Managing the Earth--by People, for People
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
A radical approach to the environment which argues that by harnessing the power of science for human benefit, we can have a healthier planet
As a prizewinning theoretical physicist and an outspoken advocate for scientific literacy, James Trefil has long been the public's guide to a better understanding...
How to care for your chinchilla?
Small digital guide to take care of your pet
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
How to take good care of your chinchilla, naturally?
Do you love nature, animals and plants?
Your existence seems sometimes too complex and sad?
Life is also made of simple pleasures which can transform into pure happiness easily
Our collection of practical booklets « Nature Passion » will...
by W.H. Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
The Collins Nature Library is a new series of classic British nature writing – reissues of long-lost seminal works. The titles have been chosen by one of Britain’s best known and highly-acclaimed nature writers, Robert Macfarlane, who has also written new introductions that put these classics...
Nature, Environment and Society
Conservation, Governance and Transformation in India
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
The future of humanity lies uncertain as nature falls prey to the loot and plunder initiated in the name of development, growth and progress today. As the vast riches of the earth continue to be endangered, a global consciousness regarding the importance of natural resources, biodiversity, etc. is on...
by John Terborgh
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
For ecologist John Terborgh, Manu National Park in the rainforest of Peru is a second home; he has sphalf of each of the past twenty-five years there conducting research. Like all parks, Manu is assumed to provide inviolate protection to nature. Yet even there, in one of the mremote corners of the...
by John Burroughs
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
First published in 1905, “Ways of Nature” is a collection of essays by American naturalist John Burroughs. Within them, Burroughs explores the idea of bird intelligence, which he maintains had been generally misjudged by his contemporaries due to a “growing tendency to humanize the lower animals”....
by Edward Zimmerli
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
The sweeping nature of the poems in Poems of Nature, Faith, and Life and the richness of their wisdom portrays the beauty and enormity of nature, life, and spirituality. Author Edward Zimmerlis varied life experiences have provided the foundation for his poetry. He has imbued his writing with the...
The Nature of Consciousness
Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
“I’ve gained deeper understanding listening to Rupert Spira than I have from any other exponent of modern spirituality. Reality is sending us a message we desperately need to hear, and at this moment no messenger surpasses Spira and the transformative words in his essays.”
—Deepak Chopra,...
Technobiophilia
Nature and Cyberspace
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Why are there so many nature metaphors - clouds, rivers, streams, viruses, and bugs - in the language of the internet? Why do we adorn our screens with exotic images of forests, waterfalls, animals and beaches? In Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace, Sue Thomas interrogates the prevalence online...
Time of Nature and the Nature of Time
Philosophical Perspectives of Time in Natural Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
This volume addresses the question of time from the perspective of the time of nature. Its aim is to provide some insights about the nature of time on the basis of the different uses of the concept of time in natural sciences. Presenting a dialogue between philosophy and science, it features a collection...