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Narrating Nature

Author : Mara Jill Goldman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816539677
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Narrating Nature written by Mara Jill Goldman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current environmental crises demand that we revisit dominant approaches for understanding nature-society relations. Narrating Nature brings together various ways of knowing nature from differently situated Maasai and conservation practitioners and scientists into lively debate. It speaks to the growing movement within the academy and beyond on decolonizing knowledge about and relationships with nature, and debates within the social sciences on how to work across epistemologies and ontologies. It also speaks to a growing need within conservation studies to find ways to manage nature with people. This book employs different storytelling practices, including a traditional Maasai oral meeting—the enkiguena—to decenter conventional scientific ways of communicating about, knowing, and managing nature. Author Mara J. Goldman draws on more than two decades of deep ethnographic and ecological engagements in the semi-arid rangelands of East Africa—in landscapes inhabited by pastoral and agropastoral Maasai people and heavily utilized by wildlife. These iconic landscapes have continuously been subjected to boundary drawing practices by outsiders, separating out places for people (villages) from places for nature (protected areas). Narrating Nature follows the resulting boundary crossings that regularly occur—of people, wildlife, and knowledge—to expose them not as transgressions but as opportunities to complicate the categories themselves and create ontological openings for knowing and being with nature otherwise. Narrating Nature opens up dialogue that counters traditional conservation narratives by providing space for local Maasai inhabitants to share their ways of knowing and being with nature. It moves beyond standard community conservation narratives that see local people as beneficiaries or contributors to conservation, to demonstrate how they are essential knowledgeable members of the conservation landscape itself.

Nature As Teacher

Author : Viktor Schauberger
Publisher : Gill Books
ISBN 13 : 9781858600567
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Nature As Teacher written by Viktor Schauberger and published by Gill Books. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature as teacher details Schauberger's thinking about environmental catastrophe.

Patterns in Nature

Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022633256X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Patterns in Nature written by Philip Ball and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed science writer “curates a visually striking, riotously colorful photographic display…of physical patterns in the natural world” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Though at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from the hexagons of a honeycomb to the spirals of a seashell and the branching veins of a leaf. Revealing the order at the foundation of the seemingly chaotic natural world, Patterns in Nature explores not only the math and science but also the beauty and artistry behind nature’s awe-inspiring designs. Unlike the patterns we create, natural patterns are formed spontaneously from the forces that act in the physical world. Very often the same types of pattern and form—such as spirals, stripes, branches, and fractals—recur in places that seem to have nothing in common, as when the markings of a zebra mimic the ripples in windblown sand. But many of these patterns can be described using the same mathematical and physical principles, giving a surprising unity to the kaleidoscope of the natural world. Richly illustrated with 250 color photographs and anchored by accessible and insightful chapters by esteemed science writer Philip Ball, Patterns in Nature reveals the organization at work in vast and ancient forests, powerful rivers, massing clouds, and coastlines carved out by the sea. By exploring similarities such as the branches of a tree and those of a river network, this spectacular visual tour conveys the wonder, beauty, and richness of natural pattern formation.

Fresh as a Daisy

Author : Diane Costa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781951787080
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Fresh as a Daisy written by Diane Costa and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-25 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multicultural book that teaches English idioms about nature. Includes popular idioms, idiom meanings, example sentences, and colorful illustrations of characters and settings from around the world. This book also provides an English audio recording and links to teaching resources. This is a great resource for diverse classrooms!

As in Nature

Author : Alexandra Schwartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300229288
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book As in Nature written by Alexandra Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book engage with Helen Frankenthaler's profound interest in the beauty and structure of the natural landscape, an interest present throughout the artist's long and celebrated career. The book's essays provide a rare chance to consider the breadth of the artist's work, organizing the book around her well-known works from the 1950s and 60s as well as the increasingly experimental paintings made during the four subsequent decades of her career"--

Reading the Book of Nature

Author : Jonathan R. Topham
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226815765
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Book of Nature written by Jonathan R. Topham and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-10-12 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Darwin returned to Britain from the Beagle voyage in 1836, the most talked-about scientific books were the Bridgewater Treatises. This series of eight books was funded by a bequest of the last Earl of Bridgewater, and they were authored by leading men of science, appointed by the President of the Royal Society, and intended to explore "the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation." Securing public attention beyond all expectations, the series gave Darwin's generation a range of approaches to one of the great questions of the age: how to incorporate the newly emerging disciplinary sciences into Britain's overwhelmingly Christian culture. Drawing on a wealth of archival and published sources, including many unexplored by historians, Jonathan R. Topham examines how and to what extent the series contributed to a sense of congruence between Christianity and the sciences in the generation before the infamous Victorian "conflict between science and religion." He does so by drawing on the distinctive insights of book history, using close attention to the production, circulation, and use of the books to open up new perspectives not only on aspects of early Victorian science but also on the whole subject of science and religion. Its innovative focus on practices of authorship, publishing, and reading helps us to understand the everyday considerations and activities through which the religious culture of early Victorian science was fashioned. And in doing so, Reading the Book of Nature powerfully reimagines the world in which a young Charles Darwin learned how to think about the implications of his theory"--

Nature as Spiritual Practice

Author : Steven Chase
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802840108
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Nature as Spiritual Practice written by Steven Chase and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chase's innovative work uses a compelling blend of theological, scriptural, historical, and cultural discussions to reclaim the role of nature in the formation of Christian spiritual and moral identity.

Symmetry as a Developmental Principle in Nature and Art

Author : Werner Hahn
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9810223633
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Symmetry as a Developmental Principle in Nature and Art written by Werner Hahn and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking beyond the boundaries of various disciplines, the author demonstrates that symmetry is a fascinating phenomenon which provides endless stimulation and challenges. He explains that it is possible to readapt art to the sciences, and vice versa, by means of an evolutionary concept of symmetry. Many pictorial examples are included to enable the reader to fully understand the issues discussed. Based on the artistic evidence that the author has collected, he proposes that the new ars evolutoria can function as an example for the sciences.The book is divided into three distinct parts, each one focusing on a special issue. In Part I, the phenomenon of symmetry, including its discovery and meaning is reviewed. The author looks closely at how Vitruvius, Polyclitus, Democritus, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Alberti, Leonardo da Vinci and Durer viewed symmetry. This is followed by an explanation on how the concept of symmetry developed. The author further discusses symmetry as it appears in art and science, as well as in the modern age. Later, he expounds the view of symmetry as an evolutionary concept which can lead to a new unity of science. In Part II, he covers the points of contact between the form-developing process in nature and art. He deals with biological questions, in particular evolution.The collection of new and precise data on perception and knowledge with regard to the postulated reality of symmetry leads to further development of the evolutionary theory of symmetry in Part III. The author traces the enormous treasure of observations made in nature and culture back to a few underlying structural principles. He demonstrates symmetry as a far-reaching, leading, structuring, causal element of evolution, as the idea lying behind nature and culture. Numerous controllable reproducible double-mirror experiments on a new stereoscopic vision verify a symmetrization theory of perception.

Crime Against Nature

Author : Gwenn Seemel
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387682504
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Crime Against Nature written by Gwenn Seemel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature

Author : Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature written by Thomas Henry Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Microbial Fermentations in Nature and as Designed Processes

Author : CJ Hurst
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119849977
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Microbial Fermentations in Nature and as Designed Processes written by CJ Hurst and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Science of Beauty, as Developed in Nature and Applied in Art

Author : David Ramsay Hay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Science of Beauty, as Developed in Nature and Applied in Art written by David Ramsay Hay and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Making "Nature"

Author : Melinda Baldwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022626159X
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Making "Nature" written by Melinda Baldwin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making "Nature" is the first book to chronicle the foundation and development of Nature, one of the world's most influential scientific institutions. Now nearing its hundred and fiftieth year of publication, Nature is the international benchmark for scientific publication. Its contributors include Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, and Stephen Hawking, and it has published many of the most important discoveries in the history of science, including articles on the structure of DNA, the discovery of the neutron, the first cloning of a mammal, and the human genome. But how did Nature become such an essential institution? In Making "Nature," Melinda Baldwin charts the rich history of this extraordinary publication from its foundation in 1869 to current debates about online publishing and open access. This pioneering study not only tells Nature's story but also sheds light on much larger questions about the history of science publishing, changes in scientific communication, and shifting notions of "scientific community." Nature, as Baldwin demonstrates, helped define what science is and what it means to be a scientist.

The Principles of Beauty as Manifested in Nature, Art, and Human Character

Author : Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Principles of Beauty as Manifested in Nature, Art, and Human Character written by Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Story of Earth

Author : Robert M. Hazen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143123645
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Earth written by Robert M. Hazen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by The New York Times for writing “with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along,” nationally bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet’s living and nonliving spheres. With an astrobiologist’s imagination, a historian’s perspective, and a naturalist’s eye, Hazen calls upon twenty-first-century discoveries that have revolutionized geology and enabled scientists to envision Earth’s many iterations in vivid detail—from the mile-high lava tides of its infancy to the early organisms responsible for more than two-thirds of the mineral varieties beneath our feet. Lucid, controversial, and on the cutting edge of its field, The Story of Earth is popular science of the highest order. "A sweeping rip-roaring yarn of immense scope, from the birth of the elements in the stars to meditations on the future habitability of our world." -Science "A fascinating story." -Bill McKibben

The Origin and History of the English Language and of the Early Literature it Embodies

Author : George Perkins Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin and History of the English Language and of the Early Literature it Embodies written by George Perkins Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unsettling Nature

Author : Taylor Eggan
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813946859
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Unsettling Nature written by Taylor Eggan and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German poet and mystic Novalis once identified philosophy as a form of homesickness. More than two centuries later, as modernity’s displacements continue to intensify, we feel Novalis’s homesickness more than ever. Yet nowhere has a longing for home flourished more than in contemporary environmental thinking, and particularly in eco-phenomenology. If only we can reestablish our sense of material enmeshment in nature, so the logic goes, we might reverse the degradation we humans have wrought—and in saving the earth we can once again dwell in the nearness of our own being. Unsettling Nature opens with a meditation on the trouble with such ecological homecoming narratives, which bear a close resemblance to narratives of settler colonial homemaking. Taylor Eggan demonstrates that the Heideggerian strain of eco-phenomenology—along with its well-trod categories of home, dwelling, and world—produces uncanny effects in settler colonial contexts. He reads instances of nature’s defamiliarization not merely as psychological phenomena but also as symptoms of the repressed consciousness of coloniality. The book at once critiques Heidegger’s phenomenology and brings it forward through chapters on Willa Cather, D. H. Lawrence, Olive Schreiner, Doris Lessing, and J. M. Coetzee. Suggesting that alienation may in fact be "natural" to the human condition and hence something worth embracing instead of repressing, Unsettling Nature concludes with a speculative proposal to transform eco-phenomenology into "exo-phenomenology"—an experiential mode that engages deeply with the alterity of others and with the self as its own Other.