Nature's Web
Title | Nature's Web PDF eBook |
Author | Peter H. Marshall |
Publisher | M.E. Sharpe |
Pages | 532 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9781563248641 |
Providing an overview of the intellectual roots of the worldwide environmental movement - from ancient religions and philosophies to modern science and ethics - this book synthesises them into a new philosophy of nature in which to ground our moral values and social action.
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
Title | The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative PDF eBook |
Author | Florence Williams |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2017-02-07 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0393242722 |
"Highly informative and remarkably entertaining." —Elle From forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to eucalyptus groves in California, Florence Williams investigates the science behind nature’s positive effects on the brain. Delving into brand-new research, she uncovers the powers of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection and innovation, and strengthen our relationships. As our modern lives shift dramatically indoors, these ideas—and the answers they yield—are more urgent than ever.
Web of Nature
Title | Web of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Marie Roos |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 499 |
Release | 2011-07-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9004207031 |
This first full-length biography of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712), vice-president of the Royal Society, Royal Physician, and the first arachnologist and conchologist, provides an unprecedented picture of a seventeenth-century virtuoso. Lister is recognized for his discovery of ballooning spiders and as the father of conchology, but it is less well known that he invented the histogram, provided Newton with alloys, and donated the first significant natural history collections to the Ashmolean Museum. Just as Lister was the first to make a systematic study of spiders and their webs, this biography is the first to analyze the significant webs of knowledge, patronage, and familial and gender relationships that governed his life as a scientist and physician.
Fragile Web
Title | Fragile Web PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan W. Silvertown |
Publisher | |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
Jonathan Silvertown is professor of ecology at the Open University, Milton Keynes, and the author of An Orchard Invisible and Demons in Eden and editor of 99% Ape, all published by the University of Chicago Press. --Book Jacket.
Nature's Web
Title | Nature's Web PDF eBook |
Author | Peter H. Marshall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 532 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Ecology |
ISBN | 9780671710651 |
This book places the contemporary debate over green issues in its historical context and illuminates what is loosely called 'earth wisdom'. The book traces the development of ecological thought from its origins in ancient religions, and philosophies to modern science and ethics, covering the Taoists, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Celts and North American indians, as well as alchemy, the Enlightenment, Romantics, Darwinism and Gaia. - blurb.
Capitalism in the Web of Life
Title | Capitalism in the Web of Life PDF eBook |
Author | Jason W. Moore |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2015-08-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1781689024 |
Integrating both social and historical factors, this radical analysis of the development of capitalism reveals the ever-deepening relationship between capital and ecology Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today’s global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing nature, including human nature. Drawing on environmentalist, feminist, and Marxist thought, Moore offers a groundbreaking new synthesis: capitalism as a “world-ecology” of wealth, power, and nature. Capitalism’s greatest strength—and the source of its problems—is its capacity to create Cheap Natures: labor, food, energy, and raw materials. That capacity is now in question. Rethinking capitalism through the pulsing and renewing dialectic of humanity-in-nature, Moore takes readers on a journey from the rise of capitalism to the modern mosaic of crisis. Capitalism in the Web of Life shows how the critique of capitalism-in-nature—rather than capitalism and nature—is key to understanding our predicament, and to pursuing the politics of liberation in the century ahead.
Responsive Typography
Title | Responsive Typography PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Pamental |
Publisher | "O'Reilly Media, Inc." |
Pages | 110 |
Release | 2014-09-10 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 149191629X |
Annotation Get the most out of typography in your web applications, and understand why typography is a critical component of Responsive Web Design. With this practical book, designers and developers alike will learn the nuts and bolts of implementing web fonts well, especially how to get the best appearance from type without sacrificing performance. For typography to be truly responsive, it must be Performant, Progressive, Proportional, and Polished. This book will show you how to get there.