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by Cortney Cameron, Natalia Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2018
Spending time in nature makes people happier and healthier!
Nature Spirit Walks encourages access to nature through fun and simple sensory activities linked to nature imagery and symbolism. Themed around the twenty-two Major Arcana of the tarot, the Nature Spirit Walks approach provides a fun,...
Industrialized Nature
Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
The construction of the Three Gorges Dam on China's Yangtze River. The transformation of the Amazon into a site for huge cattle ranches and aluminum smelters. The developmof Nevada's Yucca Mountain into a repository for nuclear waste. The extensive irrigation networks of the Grand Coulee and Kuibyshev...
by Amy Stewart, Tim Folger
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten,” notes guest editor Amy Stewart in her introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016. “But at the end of the day, we’re all writers . . . We’re here to play...
Nature as Teacher – New Principles in the Working of Nature
Volume 2 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1999
Today we are standing helpless and perplexed. With no glimmer of improvement anywhere in sight, we feel hopelessly propelled towards a forlorn future. It is understandable therefore than an increasing number of people, sick and tired of this insane activity, are now seeking ways to return to Mother...
by Frank R. Spellman, Joan Price-Bayer
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
The study of nature is a complex science involving many different fields from geology and meteorology to biology, zoology, and botany. This complexity indicates nature’s broad scope of impact. It is at once beautiful and dangerous, displaying power beyond human control. An understanding of the basic...
Biology Under the Influence
Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens for intelligent design, others argue that it is determined by information encoded in DNA. Science serves as an important activity for uncovering the processes and operations of nature, but it is also immersed in a social context where...
Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference
Race in Early Modern Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period. Why and how did this happen? Surveying a range of philosophical and natural-scientific texts, dating from the Spanish Renaissance to the German...
Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada
The 1982 Joanne Goodman Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
Professor Berger aims in this book to ‘explore the rise, expression, and relative decline of the idea of natural history’ in Canada, during the age of Victoria. Science, particularly natural science, was then accessible to the general public in a way scarcely imaginable today. Natural history...
New Trends in Earth-Science Outreach and Engagement
The Nature of Communication
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Perhaps just as perplexing as the biggest issues at the core of Earth science is the nature of communicating about nature itself. New Trends in Earth-Science Outreach and Engagement: The Nature of Communication examines the processes of communication necessary in bridging the chasm between climate...
by Noel Castree
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
Exploring the shifting ways in which geographers have studied nature, this book emphasizes the relationships and differences between human geography, physical geography and resource and hazards geography.
The first to consider the topic of nature in modern geography as a whole, this distinctive...
The Good in Nature and Humanity
Connecting Science, Religion, and Spirituality with the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Scientists, theologians, and the spiritually inclined, as well as all those concerned with humanity's increasingly widespread environmental impact, are beginning to recognize that our ongoing abuse of the earth diminishes our moral as well as our material condition. Many people are coming to believe...
Sharing Nature®
Nature Awareness Activities for All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Sharing Nature with Children sold more than half a million copies and sparked a worldwide revolution in nature education. Now that classic has been rewritten, with added new activities—and combined with Sharing Nature with Children II (a treasury of some of Joseph's best-loved nature games for children...
by Pierre Doucet, Paul Doucet
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
How does a single acorn produce an intricate structure of branches and leaves? How do migrating birds organize into sweeping patterns across the sky? How does a grounded caterpillar acquire wings and the gift of flight? These are just a few of many questions that arise by observing nature with a keen...
The Nature of Scientific Knowledge
An Explanatory Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the epistemology of science. It not only introduces readers to the general epistemological discussion of the nature of knowledge, but also provides key insights into the particular nuances of scientific knowledge. No prior knowledge of...