Newsletter, Nature
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Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Conservation of natural resources |
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Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Conservation of natural resources |
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Author | : Florence Williams |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total 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.
Author | : John McPhee |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0374708495 |
While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where words etched in limestone said: "Strive on--the control of Nature is won, not given." In the morning sunlight, that central phrase--"the control of nature"--seemed to sparkle with unintended ambiguity. Bilateral, symmetrical, it could with equal speed travel in opposite directions. For some years, he had been planning a book about places in the world where people have been engaged in all-out battles with nature, about (in the words of the book itself) "any struggle against natural forces--heroic or venal, rash or well advised--when human beings conscript themselves to fight against the earth, to take what is not given, to rout the destroying enemy, to surround the base of Mt. Olympus demanding and expecting the surrender of the gods." His interest had first been sparked when he went into the Atchafalaya--the largest river swamp in North America--and had learned that virtually all of its waters were metered and rationed by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' project called Old River Control. In the natural cycles of the Mississippi's deltaic plain, the time had come for the Mississippi to change course, to shift its mouth more than a hundred miles and go down the Atchafalaya, one of its distributary branches. The United States could not afford that--for New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and all the industries that lie between would be cut off from river commerce with the rest of the nation. At a place called Old River, the Corps therefore had built a great fortress--part dam, part valve--to restrain the flow of the Atchafalaya and compel the Mississippi to stay where it is. In Iceland, in 1973, an island split open without warning and huge volumes of lava began moving in the direction of a harbor scarcely half a mile away. It was not only Iceland's premier fishing port (accounting for a large percentage of Iceland's export economy) but it was also the only harbor along the nation's southern coast. As the lava threatened to fill the harbor and wipe it out, a physicist named Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson suggested a way to fight against the flowing red rock--initiating an all-out endeavor unique in human history. On the big island of Hawaii, one of the world's two must eruptive hot spots, people are not unmindful of the Icelandic example. McPhee went to Hawaii to talk with them and to walk beside the edges of a molten lake and incandescent rivers. Some of the more expensive real estate in Los Angeles is up against mountains that are rising and disintegrating as rapidly as any in the world. After a complex coincidence of natural events, boulders will flow out of these mountains like fish eggs, mixed with mud, sand, and smaller rocks in a cascading mass known as debris flow. Plucking up trees and cars, bursting through doors and windows, filling up houses to their eaves, debris flows threaten the lives of people living in and near Los Angeles' famous canyons. At extraordinary expense the city has built a hundred and fifty stadium-like basins in a daring effort to catch the debris. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters.
Author | : Thomas S. Edwards |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781584650980 |
A collection of new essays establishes women's voices as a powerful presence in US nature writing.
Author | : Doris Lessing |
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Total Pages | : 1286 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Science fiction, English |
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Author | : Elizabeth Rush |
Publisher | : Milkweed Editions |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2018-06-12 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1571319700 |
A Pulitzer Prize Finalist, this powerful elegy for our disappearing coast “captures nature with precise words that almost amount to poetry” (The New York Times). Hailed as “the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing” (Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love. With every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant—and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In Rising, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through these dramatic changes, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish. Rush sheds light on the unfolding crises through firsthand testimonials—a Staten Islander who lost her father during Sandy, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles, a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago—woven together with profiles of wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of these vulnerable communities. A Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal Best Book Of 2018 Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award A Chicago Tribune Top Ten Book of 2018
Author | : Henry Gee |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2007-11-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0765318059 |
Appearing in book form for the first time, these 100 short stories, originally published in the science journal "Nature," speculate on the state of the future and what it might be like.
Author | : Abdul Jamil Urf |
Publisher | : Universities Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biodiversity |
ISBN | : 9788173714856 |
Seeks To Acquiant Bird Watchers, Nature Lovers And Students Both From A Zoology And Non-Zoology Background With Ecology, Conservation Issues, Bird Study Principles And Methods Of Observing And Recording. Has 8 Chapters, A Glossary And Appendices. A Number Of Colour Illustrations And Line Drawings.
Author | : Melinda Baldwin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2015-08-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022626159X |
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.
Author | : International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Animals |
ISBN | : 9780853010036 |