Nature category: 119170 books
Nature Technology
Creating a Fresh Approach to Technology and Lifestyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred on March 11, 2011, reminded us that we were just one species within the great cycle of life on earth, that we were allowed to survive only because of nature, and that the idea that we were somehow able to conquer nature was simply an illusion. Now more...
by David L. Witt
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
There is a widely held belief that we are exempt from the laws of nature. And further, that we can treat the living earth without regard to consequences. Our species may endure, but our purposeful environmental destruction threatens the survival of wild nature and the civilization we have built. We...
Food Production and Nature Conservation
Conflicts and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Feeding the world's growing human population is increasingly challenging, especially as more people adopt a western diet and lifestyle. Doing so without causing damage to nature poses an even greater challenge. This book argues that in order to create a sustainable food supply whilst conserving nature,...
by Dennis Goldwater
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
This book introduces a new way to organize human understanding of nature. It reconsiders the commonly accepted yet quite arbitrary and unproven assumption about nature that space is infinite, and instead assumes that space is finite. Following the implications of this change in the most fundamental...
Natura
ou les secrets du livre de la Nature
Language: French
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur la Nature, sans oser le demander !
Vous aimez la Nature ? Vous voulez retrouver la paix avec elle et l’aider à guérir ? Ce livre est votre livre, car il contient le remède !
Si vous souhaitez aller plus loin que...
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...
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....
by Thomas J. Strang
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The word nature is derived from the Latin word natura, or "essential qualities, innate disposition", and in ancient times, literally meant "birth". Natura was a Latin translation of the Greek word physis (φύσις), which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics that...
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
"Nature" is an essay composed by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and published by James Munroe and Company in 1836. In this essay Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Transcendentalism suggests that the...
Frontiers in Nature-based Tourism
Lessons from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Nature has been a key attraction factor for tourism in the Nordic countries for decades. The demand for nature-based tourism has steadily grown and is one of the most rapidly expanding sectors within tourism across Europe and elsewhere. This demand has created opportunities for nature-based tourism...
Vitamin N
The Essential Guide to a Nature-Rich Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
From the author of the New York Times bestseller that defined nature-deficit disorder and launched the international children-and-nature movement, Vitamin N (for “nature”) is a complete prescription for connecting with the power and joy of the natural world right now, with
500 activities...
The Language of Plants
A Guide to the Doctrine of Signatures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
It is only in the age of technology that human beings have lost a sense of nature being alive. Throughout history, people spoke to nature, and nature communicated with them. During the Middle Ages, reading the book of nature was called the doctrine of signatures, which had always been an important part...
Being Animal
Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
For most people, animals are the most significant aspects of the nonhuman world. They symbolize nature in our imaginations, in popular media and culture, and in campaigns to preserve wilderness, yet scholars habitually treat animals and the environment as mutually exclusive objects of concern. Conducting...
Becoming Nature
Learning the Language of Wild Animals and Plants
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
A step-by-step guide to animal communication, connecting with your primal mind, and immersing yourself in Nature
• Includes exercises for learning how to become invisible within Nature, sense hidden animals, and communicate with wild animals and birds
• Explains how to approach wild...