A New Nature
Title | A New Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Anders Abraham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9788787136884 |
The New Nature
Title | The New Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Low |
Publisher | Penguin Group Australia |
Pages | 429 |
Release | 2017-01-03 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1760143456 |
Winner of the NIB Waverley Award for Literature. Forget about wilderness, Tim Low says, nature lives in our cities and gardens, exploiting everything we do. Many endangered species now live in industrial zones and cities. In our forests, native creatures have become pests. Fifteen years on, The New Nature continues to challenge the way we view the interactions between human beings and nature, and pushes us to review our relationship with Australia's wilderness.
The New Nature
Title | The New Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Renald E. Showers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 562 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Bible |
ISBN |
Nature in the New World
Title | Nature in the New World PDF eBook |
Author | Antonello Gerbi |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Pages | 481 |
Release | 2010-06-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822973812 |
Translated by Jeremy Moyle In Nature in the New World (translated into English in 1985), Antonello Gerbi examines the fascinating reports of the first Europeans to see the Americas. These accounts provided the basis for the images of strange and new flora, fauna, and human creatures that filled European imaginations.Initial chapters are devoted to the writings of Columbus, Vespucci, Cortes, Verrazzano, and others. The second portion of the book concerns the Historia general y natural de las Indias of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo, a work commissioned by Charles V of Spain in 1532 but not published in its entirety until the 1850s. Antonello Gerbi contends that Oviedo, a Spanish administrator who lived in Santo Domingo, has been unjustly neglected as a historian. Gerbi shows that Oviedo was a major authority on the culture, history, and conquest of the New World.
The New Nature Writing
Title | The New Nature Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Jos Smith |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2017-05-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 147427501X |
"In the last decade, the proliferation and popularity of landscape writing in Britain and Ireland -- often referred to as "the new nature writing' -- has unearthed an intricate labyrinth of horizons to contemporary writing about place. The New Nature Writing: Rethinking Place in Contemporary Literature offers the first critical study of the genre. Drawing on original interviews with authors, archival research, and the latest scholarly work in the fields of literary geographies, critical localism and archipelagic criticism, the book covers the work of such writers as Robert MacFarlane, Richard Mabey and Alice Oswald. Examining the ways in which these writers have engaged with a wide range of different environments, from the edgelands to island spaces, Jos Smith reveals how they recreate a resourceful and dynamic sense of localism in rebellion against the homogenising growth of 'clone town Britain.'"--
Without Nature?
Title | Without Nature? PDF eBook |
Author | David Albertson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 469 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780823230709 |
Does "nature" still exist? Common wisdom now acknowledges the malleability of nature, the complex reality that circumscribes and constitutes the human. Weather patterns, topographical contours, animal populations, and even our own genetic composition--all of which previously marked the boundary of human agency--now appear subject to our intervention. Some thinkers have suggested that nature has disappeared entirely and that we have entered a postnatural era; others note that nature is an ineradicable context for life. Christian theology, in particular, finds itself in an awkward position. Its Western traditions have long relied upon a static "nature" to express the dynamism of "grace," making nature a foundational category within theology itself. This means that any theological inquiry into the changing face of nature must be reflexive and radically interdisciplinary. This book brings leading natural and social scientists into conversation with prominent Christian theologians and ethicists to wrestle collectively with difficult questions. Is nature undergoing fundamental change? What role does nature play in theological ethics? How might ethical deliberation proceed "without nature" in the future? What does the religious drive to transform human nature have to do with the technological quest to transcend human limits? Would the end of nature make grace less comprehensible?
Natural Communities of New Hampshire
Title | Natural Communities of New Hampshire PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel D. Sperduto |
Publisher | |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |