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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World more books like this

by David Abram

This work of ecological philosophy is the first book from David Abram, who holds a doctorate in philosophy from SUNY at Stony Brook and has been the recipient of fellowships from the Watson and Rockefeller foundations. Abram inquires into the fluid and participatory nature of perception and finds profound interdependence between language and the ...

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Ecological Indian: Myth and History

Ecological Indian: Myth and History more books like this

by Shepard Krech, III

This scholarly book studies the reality behind the "ecological Indian" myth, and warns that revisionist historians who perpetuate this false history oversimplify both the positive and negative aspects of the Native American legacy.

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Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World

Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World more books like this

by Linda Hogan

This is Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan's first book of nonfiction--a series of reflections on the natural world. A meditation on the meaning of home, Hogan incorporates conflicting cultures, Native peoples' sacrifices and gifts, and the Indian tradition of finding balance in life. These writings are borne out of deep tradition, yet offer ...

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New Atlantis and Great Instauration

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by Jerry Weinberger (Editor), Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon

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Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future

Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future more books like this

by Melissa K Nelson (Editor)

Original Instructions presents the ancient teachings for sustainable living that are safeguarded and maintained by indigenous peoples. With contributions from John Mohawk, Winona LaDuke, Chief Oren Lyons, and others, these voices tell us how to live with a light footprint--in gratitude and with reverence for community and all creation.

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Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History

Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History more books like this

by Ted Steinberg

In this ambitious and provocative text, environmental historian Ted Steinberg offers a sweeping history of the United States--a history that, for the first time, places the environment at the very center of the narrative. Now in a new edition, Down to Earth reenvisions the story of America "from the ground up." It reveals how focusing on plants, ...

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Shadows in the Sun: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire

Shadows in the Sun: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire more books like this

by Wade Davis

An anthropologist travels around the world seeking the spiritual bond between man and nature as it is manifest in a variety of cultures, from the Inuit to the Amazonian.

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Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America

Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America more books like this

by Jennifer Price

A quirky, brilliant debut book that explores the evolution of our relationship to nature and the ways in which we attach meaning to it today. Flight Maps should find its place on any bookshelf with the likes of David Quammen and John McPhee. . In five sharply drawn chapters, Flight Maps charts the ways in which Americans have historically made ...

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The idea of nature

The idea of nature more books like this

by R. G. Collingwood

The Idea of Nature propounds Collingwood's theory of philosophical method applied to the problem of the philosophy of nature. The book is divided into four major sections: Introduction, Greek Cosmology, the Renaissance View of Nature, and the Modern View of Nature. Perhaps more than any of his other books, this one illustrates the breadth of ...

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Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution

Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution more books like this

by Carolyn Merchant

Traces the scientific revolution and its effects on women, the environment and the meaning of science today. This journey through the scientific revolution shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion and a new socioeconomic order that subordinated women. It ...

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In search of nature more books like this

by Edward O. Wilson

This is a collection of short essays that addresses the themes of Wilson's scientific career--biophilia, sociobiology, and biodiversity.

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The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology more books like this

by Professor Max Oelschlaeger

How has the concept of wild nature changed over the milennia? And what have been the environmental consequences? In a work of intellectual history, the author presents an examination of humankind's relationship with the natural world through the ages - from early teomism through Egyptian, Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian supernaturalism to the rise ...

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The Embers and the Stars more books like this

by Erazim Kohak

The quest of this volume is one of recalling what we have thus hidden from ourselves. It is a philosopher's book, deeply indebted to the cultural heritage of three millennia of Western thought. It is also a book of philosophy, though in a sense far older than the current acceptation of that term.

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This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment more books like this

by Roger S Gottlieb (Editor)

Updating a survey of religion's complex relationahip to the environment, "This Sacred Earth", 2nd edition reflects the tremendous growth in the 1990s and early 21st century and transformation of scholarly, theological and activist religious environmentalism.

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On Nature and the Environment more books like this

by J. Krishnamurti

Focusing on nature and the environment, this is one of a series of selections from the works of the spiritual teacher, Jiddu Krishnamurti. He argues that, because we do not love the earth and the things of the earth, but merely utilize them, we have lost touch with life.

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Mind and Nature more books like this

by Gregory Bateson

A celebratory trade paper edition of a mass market classic of contemporary thought in which Bateson exhorts us to learn to "think as Nature thinks" if we are to live in harmony on this planet.

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Ecstatic Naturalism: Signs of the World more books like this

by Robert S. Corrington, John Deely (Foreword by)

...an original philosophical position ...historically thorough, carefully argued, and well disciplined. -Robert C. Neville. Semiotic theory, which has restricted its focus largely to human forms of signification, is transformed by Robert S. Corrington into a semiotics of nature itself. Corrington situates the divide between nature naturing and ...

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Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity more books like this

by Gregory Bateson

A re-issue of Gregory Bateson's classic work. It summarizes Bateson's thinking on the subject of the patterns that connect living beings to each other and to their environment.

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The Biophilia Hypothesis more books like this

by Stephen R Kellert, Ph.D. (Editor), Edward Osborne Wilson (Editor), Scott McVay (Contributions by)

This book brings together the views of some of the most creative scientists of our time, each attempting to amplify and refine the concept of biophilia. Contributors to this volume include Jared Diamond, Aaron Katcher, Richard Nelson and others.

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Ecology of Wisdom more books like this

by Arne Naess, Alan Drengson (Editor), Bill Devall (Editor)

A founder of the Deep Ecology Movement, Arne Naess' has produced articles on environmentalism that have provided unmatched inspiration for ecologists, philosophers, and activists worldwide. This collection amasses a definitive group of Naess' most important works in which he calls for nonviolent, cooperative action to protect the Earth. Rich with ...

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The Artful Universe Expanded more books like this

by John Barrow

In "The Artful Universe Expanded", John D. Barrow draws out the deep links between our aesthetic inclinations - our art, our music, our appreciation of form, pattern, and landscape - and the mathematical and physical structure of the Universe of which we form a part. Barrow challenges the commonly held view that our sense of beauty is entirely ...

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The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World more books like this

by Peter Dear

Throughout the history of the Western world, science has possessed an extraordinary amount of authority and prestige. And while its pedestal has been jostled by numerous evolutions and revolutions, science has always managed to maintain its stronghold as the knowing enterprise that explains how the natural world works: we treat such legendary ...

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Biophilia Hypothesis, C! more books like this

by Stephen R Kellert, Ph.D. (Editor), Edward Osborne Wilson (Editor), Scott McVay (Contributions by)

"Biophilia" is the term coined by Edward O. Wilson, author of The Diversity of Life and winner of two Pulitzer prizes, to describe what he believes is our innate affinity for the natural world. In his landmark book Biophilia, he examined how our tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes might be a biologically based need, integral to our ...

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SC-In Wildness more books like this

by Eliot Porter

A stunning presentation of one of America's leading photographers and artistic pioneers, this is Eliot Porter's interpretation of the works of Henry Thoreauin a paperback edition of one of the most famous and bestselling Sierra Club Exhibit Format Books. 72 color photographs.

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Feminism and the Mastery of Nature more books like this

by Val Plumwood

Two of the main political movements of the late-20th century are those of environmentalism and feminism. In this text, Val Plumwood argues that feminist theory has an important opportunity to make a major contribution to the debates in political ecology and environmental philosophy. "Feminism and the Mastery of Nature" explores the emergence of ...

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