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Author : Andrew Denny Rodgers
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book American Botany, 1873-1892 written by Andrew Denny Rodgers and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Denny Rodgers III
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Total Pages : 366 pages
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Download or read book American Botany 1873-1892: Decades of Transition written by Andrew Denny Rodgers III and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sharon E. Kingsland
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801881718
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (817 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000 written by Sharon E. Kingsland and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1890s, several initiatives in American botany converged. The creation of new institutions, such as the New York Botanical Garden, coincided with radical reforms in taxonomic practice and the emergence of an experimental program of research on evolutionary problems. Sharon Kingsland explores how these changes gave impetus to the new field of ecology that was defined at exactly this time. She argues that the creation of institutions and research laboratories, coupled with new intellectual directions in science, were crucial to the development of ecology as a discipline in the United States. The main concern of ecology - the relationship between organisms and environment - was central to scientific studies aimed at understanding and controlling the evolutionary process. Kingsland considers the evolutionary context in which ecology arose, especially neo-Lamarckian ideas and the new mutation theory, and explores the relationship between scientific research and broader theories about social progress and the evolution of human civilization. By midcentury, American ecologists were leading the rapid development of ecosystem ecology. and society in the postwar context, foreshadowing the environmental critiques of the 1960s. As the ecosystem concept evolved, so too did debates about how human ecology should be incorporated into the biological sciences. Kingsland concludes with an examination of ecology in the modern urban environment, reflecting on how scientists are now being challenged to produce innovative responses to pressing problems. The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000 offers an innovative study not only of the scientific landscape in turn-of-the-century America, but of current questions in ecological science.
Author : Wynne Brown
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496229479
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The Forgotten Botanist written by Wynne Brown and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forgotten Botanist is the account of an extraordinary woman who, in 1870, was driven by ill health to leave the East Coast for a new life in the West—alone. At thirty-three, Sara Plummer relocated to Santa Barbara, where she taught herself botany and established the town’s first library. Ten years later she married botanist John Gill Lemmon, and together the two discovered hundreds of new plant species, many of them illustrated by Sara, an accomplished artist. Although she became an acknowledged botanical expert and lecturer, Sara’s considerable contributions to scientific knowledge were credited merely as “J.G. Lemmon & wife.” The Forgotten Botanist chronicles Sara’s remarkable life, in which she and JG found new plant species in Arizona, California, Oregon, and Mexico and traveled throughout the Southwest with such friends as John Muir and Clara Barton. Sara also found time to work as a journalist and as an activist in women’s suffrage and forest conservation. The Forgotten Botanist is a timeless tale about a woman who discovered who she was by leaving everything behind. Her inspiring story is one of resilience, determination, and courage—and is as relevant to our nation today as it was in her own time.
Author : Duane Isely
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557532831
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (328 download)
Download or read book One Hundred and One Botanists written by Duane Isely and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great collection of the lives of important botanists throughout time, this book is part biography and part vignette.
Author : Elizabeth B. Keeney
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807862398
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Botanizers written by Elizabeth B. Keeney and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeney examines the role of botany in the lives of nineteenth-century 'botanizers,' amateur scientists who collected, identified, and preserved plant specimens as a pastime. Using popular magazines, fiction, and autobiographies of the day, she explores the popular culture of this avocation, which attracted both men and women by the thousands.
Author : Roger Lawrence Williams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1570983976
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (79 download)
Download or read book "A Region of Astonishing Beauty" written by Roger Lawrence Williams and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we approach the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 2004, attention will inevitably turn to the nineteenth century explorers who risked life and limb to interpret the natural history of the American West.
Author : Peter F. Stevens
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231515085
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Development of Biological Systematics written by Peter F. Stevens and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994-12-01 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reevaluation of the history of biological systematics that discusses the formative years of the so-called natural system of classification in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Shows how classifications came to be treated as conventions; systematic practice was not linked to clearly articulated theory; there was general confusion over the "shape" of nature; botany, elements of natural history, and systematics were conflated; and systematics took a position near the bottom of the hierarchy of sciences.
Author : George A. Cevasco
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313036497
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists written by George A. Cevasco and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-12-09 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casting a wide net, this volume provides personal and professional information on some 445 American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists, who lived from the late 15th century to the late 20th century. It includes explorers who published works on the natural history of North America, conservationists, ecologists, environmentalists, wildlife management specialists, park planners, national park administrators, zoologists, botanists, natural historians, geographers, geologists, academics, museum scientists and administrators, military personnel, travellers, government officials, political figures and writers and artists concerned with the environment. Some of the subjects are well known. The accomplishments of others are little known. Each entry contains a succinct but careful evaluation of the subject's career and contributions. Entries also include up-to-date bibliographies and information concerning manuscript sources.
Author : Elisabeth B. Davis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313078092
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Guide to Information Sources in the Botanical Sciences written by Elisabeth B. Davis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1995-12-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works cited in this useful survey are appropriate for students, librarians, and amateur and professional botanists. These encompass the plant kingdom in all its divisions and aspects, except those of agriculture, horticulture, and gardening. The majority of the annotations are for currently available in-print or electronic reference works. A comprehensive author/title and a separate subject index make locating specific entries simple. With materials ranging from those selected for the informed layperson to those for the specialist, this new edition reflects the momentous transition from print to electronic information resources. It is an appropriate purchase for public, college, university, and professional libraries.
Author : Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674193123
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Darwinism Comes to America written by Ronald L. Numbers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on crucial aspects of the history of Darwinism in America, Numbers gets to the heart of American resistance to Darwin's ideas. He provides a much-needed historical perspective on today's quarrels about creationism and evolution--and illuminates the specifically American nature of this struggle.
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781422372098
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 101, no. 1, 1957) written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roderick Frazier Nash
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299118436
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)
Download or read book The Rights of Nature written by Roderick Frazier Nash and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1989-01-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charting the history of contemporary philosophical and religious beliefs regarding nature, Roderick Nash focuses primarily on changing attitudes toward nature in the United States. His work is the first comprehensive history of the concept that nature has rights and that American liberalism has, in effect, been extended to the nonhuman world. “A splendid book. Roderick Nash has written another classic. This exploration of a new dimension in environmental ethics is both illuminating and overdue.”—Stewart Udall “His account makes history ‘come alive.’”—Sierra “So smoothly written that one almost does not notice the breadth of scholarship that went into this original and important work of environmental history.”—Philip Shabecoff, New York Times Book Review “Clarifying and challenging, this is an essential text for deep ecologists and ecophilosophers.”—Stephanie Mills, Utne Reader
Author : Thomas F. Glick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226299775
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Comparative Reception of Darwinism written by Thomas F. Glick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988-09-24 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The majority of the chapters deal with the reception accorded Darwin's work in specific countries: England, the United States, Germany, France, Russia, the Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, and the Arab countries. Several chapters, however, also investigate the response to Darwinism made by specific social circles--such as social scientists in Russia and the United States
Author : Andrew Denny Rodgers III
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400877946
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book John Merle Coulter written by Andrew Denny Rodgers III and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Merle Coulter contributed tremendously to the rapid advance of botany in North America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. An exploring mind, deeply religious spirit, and scientist's respect for truth, combined with singular personal charm, made of him not only a missionary in science, but a natural leader among the botanists of the United States. He set for his goal the building of a complete structure of the house of botany, and he took the lead in organizing defined branches of study which eliminated the waste of duplicated effort. The thread of this story of his life is maintained largely through excerpts of the correspondence of Coulter and his associates and by means of articles from the Botanical Gazette, which he founded. Originally published in 1944. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Mark D. Hersey
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820338702
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book My Work Is That of Conservation written by Mark D. Hersey and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hersey shows that in the hands of pioneers like Carver, Progressive Era agronomy was actually considerably "greener" than is often thought today. He uses Carver's life story to explore aspects of southern environmental history and to place this important scientist within the early conservation movement.
Author : Ronald C. Tobey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520334205
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Saving the Prairies written by Ronald C. Tobey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
