Nature category: 119170 books
Convergence with Nature
A Daoist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Exploring our relationship to nature—to animals, to plants, and to natural places—this book asks how that relationship can be shaped into an appropriate one that contributes to the good of people's lives as a whole. Religions and philosophies have much to say about our relationship with nature,...
by Stephen R. Kellert
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Human health and well-being are inextricably linked to nature; our connection to the natural world is part of our biological inheritance. In this engaging book, a pioneer in the field of biophilia—the study of human beings' inherent affinity for nature—sets forth the first full account of nature's...
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...
Nature-Friendly Communities
Habitat Protection And Land Use Planning
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Nature-Friendly Communities presents an authoritative and readable overview of the successful approaches to protecting biodiversity and natural areas in America's growing communities. Addressing the crucial issues of sprawl, open space, and political realities, Chris Duerksen and Cara Snyder explain...
The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory
A Century of Discovering the Nature of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Imagine a place dedicated to the long-term study of nature in nature, a permanent biological field station, a teaching and research laboratory that promotes complete immersion in the natural world. Lakeside Laboratory, founded on the shore of Lake Okoboji in northwestern Iowa in 1909, is just such...
Nature, Love, Medicine
Essays on Wildness and Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
"In Nature, Love, Medicine, nearly two dozen writers, poets, scientists, and healers reflect on what loving and needing nature really means to them. Read it, and you'll be stirred to ask the same of your own reflection-in the clearest, quietest pool you can find." -Alan Weisman, author of...
by Dr. Robert L. Heichberger
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The land of nature all around us has a beauty and charm all on its own. The grandeur of the variety of trees, flowering shrubs, with all shades of green grasses growing in open spaces is a picture to behold. The quiet noise of the babbling and flowing clear brook waters intermingled with the chirping...
Nature's Year
Changing Seasons in Central and Eastern Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Nature's Year is an almanac of key events in nature occurring in Central and Eastern Ontario, a region that extends from the Bruce Peninsula and Georgian Bay in the west to Ottawa and Cornwall in the east. The book is a chronicle of the passing seasons designed to inform cottagers, gardeners, photographers,...
by Steven Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2000
"Full of ideas and well-explained principles that will bring new understanding of everyday things to both scientists and non-scientists alike."—R. McNeill Alexander, Nature
Nature and humans build their devices with the same earthly materials and use them in the same air and water,...
Making "Nature"
The History of a Scientific Journal
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Making "Nature" is the first book to chronicle the foundation and development of Nature, one of the world's most influential scientific institutions. Now nearing its hundred and fiftieth year of publication, Nature is the international benchmark for scientific publication. Its contributors...
Conceiving Nature after Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel
The Philosopher's Guide to the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book defies the reigning dismissal of the philosophy of nature by turning to what Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel have had to say about nature and critically thinking through their arguments to reconstruct a comprehensive account of the universe. Aided by the contributions of more recent thinkers,...
by Saska Petrova
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The role of local people in contemporary nature conservation practices is often poorly understood or neglected. This book, therefore, examines questions of local participation at the nature-society nexus within national parks in the transitional context of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The post-1990...
It's a Jungle Out There!
52 Nature Adventures for City Kids
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Just because you live in the city doesn’t mean you can't enjoy nature. This compact guide offers 52 nature-focused explorations, adventures, observations, and games that can help you and your child connect to nature while living in the city. While it may be hard to see nature through the traffic,...
The pursuit of complexity
the utility of biodiversity from an evolutionary perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
What use is biodiversity, and does it matter if species die out? These controversial questions arouse considerable debate. Most people believe they represent a moral dilemma, but The Pursuit of Complexity shows that it is possible to explore them in a scientific way. Author Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis...