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Human Ecology

Author : Frederick R. Steiner
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610917383
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Human Ecology written by Frederick R. Steiner and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans have always been influenced by natural landscapes, and always will be—even as we create ever-larger cities and our developments fundamentally change the nature of the earth around us. In Human Ecology, noted city planner and landscape architect Frederick Steiner encourages us to consider how human cultures have been shaped by natural forces, and how we might use this understanding to contribute to a future where both nature and people thrive. Human ecology is the study of the interrelationships between humans and their environment, drawing on diverse fields from biology and geography to sociology, engineering, and architecture. Steiner admirably synthesizes these perspectives through the lens of landscape architecture, a discipline that requires its practitioners to consciously connect humans and their environments. After laying out eight principles for understanding human ecology, the book’s chapters build from the smallest scale of connection—our homes—and expand to community scales, regions, nations, and, ultimately, examine global relationships between people and nature. In this age of climate change, a new approach to planning and design is required to envision a livable future. Human Ecology provides architects, landscape architects, urban designers, and planners—and students in those fields— with timeless principles for new, creative thinking about how their work can shape a vibrant, resilient future for ourselves and our planet.

After Nature

Author : Jedediah Purdy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674368223
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book After Nature written by Jedediah Purdy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Artforum Best Book of the Year A Legal Theory Bookworm Book of the Year Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions, industrial-scale crop pollens, and the disappearance of species driven to extinction. Climate change is planetary engineering without design. These facts of the Anthropocene are scientific, but its shape and meaning are questions for politics—a politics that does not yet exist. After Nature develops a politics for this post-natural world. “After Nature argues that we will deserve the future only because it will be the one we made. We will live, or die, by our mistakes.” —Christine Smallwood, Harper’s “Dazzling...Purdy hopes that climate change might spur yet another change in how we think about the natural world, but he insists that such a shift will be inescapably political... For a relatively slim volume, this book distills an incredible amount of scholarship—about Americans’ changing attitudes toward the natural world, and about how those attitudes might change in the future.” —Ross Andersen, The Atlantic

Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics

Author : Gisela Striker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521476416
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (764 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics written by Gisela Striker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focuses on key questions debated by Greek and Roman philosophers of the Hellenistic period.

Flourishing Within Limits to Growth

Author : Sven Erik Jørgensen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317552008
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Flourishing Within Limits to Growth written by Sven Erik Jørgensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades of research and discussion have shown that the human population growth and our increased consumption of natural resources cannot continue – there are limits to growth. This volume demonstrates how we might modify and revise our economic systems using nature as a model. The book describes how nature uses three growth forms: biomass, information, and networks, resulting in improved overall ecosystem functioning and co-development. As biomass growth is limited by available resources, nature uses the two other growth forms to achieve higher resource use efficiency. Through a universal application of the three ‘R’s: reduce, reuse, and recycle, nature thus shows us a way forward towards better solutions. However, our current approach, dominated by short-term economic thinking, inhibits full utilization of the three ‘R’s and other successful approaches from nature. Building on ecological principles, the authors present a global model and futures scenario analyses which show that implementation of the proposed changes will lead to a win-win situation. In other words, we can learn from nature how to develop a society that can flourish within the limits to growth with better conditions for prosperity and well-being.

Integrated Landscaping

Author : Lauren Chase-Rowell
Publisher : Unh Non-Series Title
ISBN 13 : 9781611682786
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Integrated Landscaping written by Lauren Chase-Rowell and published by Unh Non-Series Title. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new way of thinking about landscaping home grounds and public spaces, Revised and Expanded

Listening After Nature

Author : Mark Peter Wright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501354523
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Listening After Nature written by Mark Peter Wright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listening After Nature examines the constructions and erasures that haunt field recording practice and discourse. Analyzing archival and contemporary soundworks through a combination of post-colonial, ecological and sound studies scholarship, Mark Peter Wright recodes the Field; troubles conceptions of Nature; expands site-specificity; and unearths hidden technocultures. What exists beyond the signal? How is agency performed and negotiated between humans and nonhumans? What exactly is a field recording and what are its pedagogical potentials? These questions are operated by a methodology of listening that incorporates the spaces of audition, as well as Wright's own practice-based reflections. In doing so, Listening After Nature posits a range of novel interventions. One example is the “Noisy-Nonself,” a conceptual figuration with which to comprehend the presence of reticent recordists. “Contact Zones and Elsewhere Fields” offers another unique contribution by reimagining the relationship between the field and studio. In the final chapter, Wright explores the microphone by tracing its critical and creative connections to natural resource extraction and contemporary practice. Listening After Nature auditions water and waste, infrastructures and animals, technologies and recordists, data and stars. It grapples with the thresholds of sensory perception and anchors itself to the question: what am I not hearing? In doing so, it challenges Western universalisms that code the field whilst offering vibrant practice-based possibilities.

Code International de Nomenclature Zoologique

Author : International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853010036
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Code International de Nomenclature Zoologique written by International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The analogy of religion, natural and revealed, to the constitution and course of nature [&c.]; and select sermons

Author : Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The analogy of religion, natural and revealed, to the constitution and course of nature [&c.]; and select sermons written by Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion

Author : John Zaller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521407861
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion written by John Zaller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-08-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1992 book explains how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences.

Joseph Butler: Fifteen Sermons and other writings on ethics

Author : David McNaughton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191080462
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Joseph Butler: Fifteen Sermons and other writings on ethics by : David McNaughton

Download or read book Joseph Butler: Fifteen Sermons and other writings on ethics written by David McNaughton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Butler's Fifteen Sermons (1729) is a classic work of moral philosophy, which remains widely influential. The topics Butler discusses include the role of conscience in human nature, self-love and egoism, compassion, resentment and forgiveness, and love of our neighbour and of God. The text of the enlarged and corrected second edition is here presented together with a selection of Butler's other ethical writings: A Dissertation of the Nature of Virtue, A Sermon Preached Before the House of Lords, and relevant extracts from his correspondence with Samuel Clarke. While this is a readers' edition that avoids cluttering Butler's text with textual variants and intrusive footnotes, it comes complete with scholarly apparatus intended to aid the reader in studying Butlers work in depth. David McNaughton contributes a substantial historical and philosophical introduction that highlights the continuing importance of these works. In addition, there are extensive notes at the end of the volume, including significant textual variants, and full details of Butler's sources and references, as well as short summaries of Butler's predecessors, and a selective bibliography. This will be the definitive resource for anyone interested in Butler's moral philosophy.

Nature X Nature of Everything

Author : Albert Michelutti
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493134671
Total Pages : 779 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Nature X Nature of Everything written by Albert Michelutti and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Albert Einstein lay on his death bed he asked for his glasses, his writing implements and his latest equations. He knew he was dying, yet he continued to work. In those final hours of his life, while fading in and out of consciousness, he was working on what he hoped would be the greatest work of all. It was a project of monumental complexity. It was a project that he hoped would unlock the mind of God.

Last Child in the Woods

Author : Richard Louv
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 156512586X
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Last Child in the Woods written by Richard Louv and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book That Launched an International Movement Fans of The Anxious Generation will adore Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv's groundbreaking New York Times bestseller. “An absolute must-read for parents.” —The Boston Globe “It rivals Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.” —The Cincinnati Enquirer “I like to play indoors better ’cause that’s where all the electrical outlets are,” reports a fourth grader. But it’s not only computers, television, and video games that are keeping kids inside. It’s also their parents’ fears of traffic, strangers, Lyme disease, and West Nile virus; their schools’ emphasis on more and more homework; their structured schedules; and their lack of access to natural areas. Local governments, neighborhood associations, and even organizations devoted to the outdoors are placing legal and regulatory constraints on many wild spaces, sometimes making natural play a crime. As children’s connections to nature diminish and the social, psychological, and spiritual implications become apparent, new research shows that nature can offer powerful therapy for such maladies as depression, obesity, and attention deficit disorder. Environment-based education dramatically improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages and develops skills in problem solving, critical thinking, and decision making. Anecdotal evidence strongly suggests that childhood experiences in nature stimulate creativity. In Last Child in the Woods, Louv talks with parents, children, teachers, scientists, religious leaders, child-development researchers, and environmentalists who recognize the threat and offer solutions. Louv shows us an alternative future, one in which parents help their kids experience the natural world more deeply—and find the joy of family connectedness in the process. Included in this edition: A Field Guide with 100 Practical Actions We Can Take Discussion Points for Book Groups, Classrooms, and Communities Additional Notes by the Author New and Updated Research from the U.S. and Abroad

The British Novelists

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The British Novelists written by and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Archives of Philosophy ...

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 986 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Archives of Philosophy ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Magazine of Natural History

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magazine of Natural History written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Natural Law in the Spiritual World

Author : Henry Drummond
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Natural Law in the Spiritual World written by Henry Drummond and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Natural Law in the Spiritual World" Henry Drummond deals with those questions by exploring the relation of religion and spirituality with the physical world. He argues that the disconnect between the spiritual and the physical was entirely illusory and that faith was by no means in conflict with science. Contents: Biogenesis Degeneration Growth Death Mortification Eternal Life Environment Conformity to Type Semi-Parasitism Parasitism Classification

Roman Christianity and Roman Stoicism

Author : Runar Thorsteinsson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199578648
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Roman Christianity and Roman Stoicism written by Runar Thorsteinsson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Runar M. Thorsteinsson presents a challenge to the view that Christianity introduced an entirely new, better, and decidedly universal morality into the ancient world. Presenting evidence from Stoic and Christian texts from first century Rome, he emphasizes the similarities between the two belief systems.