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by James Constant
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
Man is part of a natural and social environments. The natural environment is structured by nature and the social environment is structured by the state. Man cannot escape from either environment and to survive, during his lifetime and after, must adapt. Man has a better chance of surviving in an advanced...
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...
The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected
A Natural Philosopher’s Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Marcelo Gleiser has had a passion for science and fishing since he was a boy growing up on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. Now a world-famous theoretical physicist with hundreds of scientific articles and several books of popular science to his credit, he felt it was time to connect with nature in...
Facing Gaia
Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world.
The situation...
Mourning Nature
Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change, large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean acidification, and deforestation – challenges that require new vocabularies and new ways to express grief and sorrow over the disappearance,...
by Nepomuk Onderdonk
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
An armchair cosmologist through the three decades of the golden age of astrophysics, I developed my own model little by little, but also with a lot of help from the alternative ideas brought to light by other writers, some of the deeper and harder to sift through writers who nevertheless offer amazingly...
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,...
Civic Ecology
Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Stories of environmental stewardship in communities from New Orleans to Soweto accompany an interdisciplinary framework for understanding civic ecology as a global phenomenon.
In communities across the country and around the world, people are coming together to rebuild and restore local environments...
The Taboo of Subjectivity
Toward a New Science of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
This book takes a bold new look at ways of exploring the nature, origins, and potentials of consciousness within the context of science and religion. Alan Wallace draws careful distinctions between four elements of the scientific tradition: science itself, scientific realism, scientific materialism,...
The Noetics of Nature
Environmental Philosophy and the Holy Beauty of the Visible
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Contemplative or “noetic” knowledge has traditionally been seen as the highest mode of understanding, a view that persists both in many non-Western cultures and in Eastern Christianity, where “theoria physike,” or the illumined understanding of creation that follows the purification of the...
Second Nature
Environmental Enrichment for Captive Animals
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Growing recognition of the complexity of animals' physical, social, and psychological lives in the wild has led both zookeepers and the zoo-going public to call for higher environmental standards for animals in captivity.
Bringing together the work of animal behaviorists, zoo biologists, and...
Catching Nature in the Act
Réaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Natural history in the eighteenth century was many things to many people—diversion, obsession, medically or economically useful knowledge, spectacle, evidence for God’s providence and wisdom, or even the foundation of all natural knowledge. Because natural history was pursued by such a variety...
by Curt Stager
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A fascinating exploration of lakes around the world, from Walden Pond to the Dead Sea.
More than a century and a half have passed since Walden was first published, and the world is now a very different place. Lakes are changing rapidly, not because we are separate from nature but because we...
by Nils Lindahl Elliot
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Mediating Nature provides a history of the present nature of mass mediation. It examines the ways in which a number of discourses, technologies and institutions have historically shaped the current ways of imagining nature in the mass media. Where much of the existing research treats mass mediation...