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The Understanding of Nature
Essays in the Philosophy of Biology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
No student or colleague of Marjorie Grene will miss her incisive presence in these papers on the study and nature of living nature, and we believe the new reader will quickly join the stimulating discussion and critique which Professor Grene steadily provokes. For years she has worked with equally...
The Only Sacred Ground
Scientific Materialism and a Sacred View of Nature Within the Framework of Complementarity
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
For the past several centuries, science has been offering us a powerful new way to understand nature, but the accompanying rise of materialistic philosophy threatens to drain the meaning and sacred quality of our experience of nature. The resulting tension represents a fractured and incoherent apprehension...
Nature Policies and Landscape Policies
Towards an Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The book focuses on the relationship between nature conservation policies and landscape policies. This is a relevant subject due to the current need of reviving nature conservation policies, which are today affected by a general effectiveness deficiency. To this end, landscape policies can play a...
Remaking Reality
Nature at the Millenium
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
This book rejects apocalyptic pronouncements that the end of the millenium represents the 'end' of nature as well. Remaking Reality brings together contributors from across the human sciences who argue that a notion of 'social nature' provides great hope for the future. Applying a variety of theoretical...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
A groundbreaking new book, Still the Same Hawk: Reflections on Nature and New York brings into conversation diverse and intriguing perspectives on the relationship between nature and America's most prominent city. The volume's title derives from a telling observation in Robert Sullivan's contribution...
New Visions of Nature
Complexity and Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
"New Visions of Nature" focuses on the emergence of these new visions of complex nature in three domains. The first selection of essays reflects public visions of nature, that is, nature as it is experienced, encountered, and instrumentalized by diverse publics. The second selection zooms...
A Year with Nature
An Almanac
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2018
A Year with Nature is an almanac like none you’ve ever seen: combining science and aesthetics, it is a daily affirmation of the extraordinary richness of biodiversity and our enduring beguilement by its beauty. With a text by herpetologist and natural history writer Marty Crump and a cornucopia...
The Nature of Nature
The Discovery of SuperWaves and How It Changes Everything
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
What is everything made of? How do things change and how do they work? What is life? In The Nature of Nature, visionary scientist Irv Dardik tackles these questions by introducing his discovery of SuperWaves, a singular wave phenomenon whose design generates what we experience as matter, space, time,...
by Mansoor Niaz, Arelys Maza
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Research in science education has recognized the importance of history and philosophy of science (HPS). Nature of science (NOS) is considered to be an essential part of HPS with important implications for teaching science. The role played by textbooks in developing students’ informed conceptions...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
The Culture of Nature in the History of Design confronts the dilemma caused by design’s pertinent yet precarious position in environmental discourse through interdisciplinary conversations about the design of nature and the nature of design. Demonstrating that the deep entanglements of design and...
The Healing Code of Nature
Discovering the New Science of Eco-Psychosomatics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Human beings are inseparable from the natural world, co-evolving with all of life. In order to thrive, we need to nourish this bond. In The Healing Code of Nature, biologist Clemens G. Arvay illuminates the miraculous ways that the human body interprets the living “code” of plants, animals, and...
by P.S.J. (Peet) Schutte
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
How To Swindle by Faking Science then you are going read what is the mother of all the conspiracies in science, which is about how science applies mind control by processing thought control. This is the truth! Science practicing physics about Astronomy, Cosmology and everything to do with Stars, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective presents 20 essays which explore diverse cultural interpretations of the earth's surface. Contrasted with each other and with the potentially cosmopolitan culture of science, these detailed studies of ways in which different cultures conceptualise...
Lifestyle and Nature
Integrating Nature Technology to Sustainable Lifestyles
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Environmental constraints are becoming increasingly severe, and now more than ever it is time that we confront head-on the change from an "underground resources" type of civilization to one with a new way of life and technology that embraces a sense of nature. To do so, we need to understand...