Tag: Nature

Free Download On the Nature of the Universe (Oxford World’s Classics) By Ronald Melville; Don Fowler; Peta Fowler
2008 | 907 Pages | ISBN: 0192817612 | EPUB | 1 MB

Free Download Regreening the Built Environment: Nature, Green Space, and Sustainability, 2nd Edition
by Michael A. Richards
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032668598 | 354 Pages | True PDF | 34 MB

Free Download Scientific Secrets of Nature: Indoor & Outdoor Experiments for the Whole Family
English | 2024 | ISBN: 366269574X | 281 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 51 MB
In this book, you and your children will discover the amazing wonders of nature through simple experiments. What’s the science behind the Lotus effect? Find out using kohlrabi leaves. Feeding carnivorous plants with gummy bears? Yes, it works! But why? Determine the air quality of your surroundings, a park, or a forest with a homemade lichen grid. Quickly, you’ll become an expert on the wonderful and useful lichens. Invisible microorganisms of a lake become visibly teeming life with a laser pointer – all without a microscope! Discover the "dark" side of nature with a simple UV flashlight, making vegetables, plants, mosses, fungi, algae, crabs, and shells glow in vibrant colors. A red glowing spooky bell pepper for Halloween? Yes! An exploratory night walk on the beach? Hooray! Great fun with experiments for indoors and outdoors for the whole family. This book is the perfect companion for hikes and holiday travels – bringing you closer to nature. Featuring numerous color photos, many descriptive graphics, and 14 spectacular videos. So: Off into nature!

Free Download For Nature/With Nature: New Sustainable Design Scenarios (Springer Series in Design and Innovation) by Claudio Gambardella
English | May 4, 2024 | ISBN: 3031531213 | 1110 pages | EPUB | 330 Mb
This volume contributes to the construction of a multi-voice mosaic on the theme of Nature and the relationship between Man (understood as designer) and Nature by emphasizing the innovative and sustainable proposals coming from the discipline of design, in its many facets and interdisciplinary contributions. Since it isn’t discussed the creative and economic effort that designers, institutions and companies have been leading for years to improve human living conditions, preference will be given to scientific contributions (unpublished or not yet fully known case studies, projects of strategies, products, systems and services, theoretical contributions, communication) that are an expression of a new approach to Nature, seen as our ally and object of an ethics of care. The focus is the design both in its role as innovation driver and interpreter of social evolution, that must be considered within the human-nature relationship. The topics identify some of the most relevant fields of development in which "Design Driven Innovation" can be developed in the respect of perspective of a new relationship with nature.

Free Download Devin Zane Shaw, "Freedom and Nature in Schelling’s Philosophy of Art "
English | ISBN: 1441156240 | 2011 | 192 pages | PDF | 642 KB
Schelling is often thought to be a protean thinker whose work is difficult to approach or interpret. Devin Zane Shaw shows that the philosophy of art is the guiding thread to understanding Schelling’s philosophical development from his early works in 1795-1796 through his theological turn in 1809-1810.

Free Download Earthly Bodies: Embracing Animal Nature by Vanessa Chakour
English | September 24, 2024 | ISBN: 0143137751 | 336 pages | PDF | 7.55 Mb
Examining the cultural belief that our animal instincts are to be corrected or corralled, nature advocate and rewilding facilitator Vanessa Chakour explores our inner and outer landscapes through the lens of wild animals.

Free Download Ambiguity in Mind and Nature: Multistable Cognitive Phenomena By G. Roth (auth.), Dr. Peter Kruse, Professor Dr. Michael Stadler (eds.)
1995 | 493 Pages | ISBN: 3642784135 | PDF | 16 MB
Ambiguity in Mind and Nature is the result of cognitive multistability, the phenomenon in which an unchanging stimulus, usually visual, gives rise in the subject to an oscillating perceptual interpretation. The vase/face picture is one of the most famous examples. In this book scientists from many disciplines including physics, biology, psychology, maths and computer science, present recent progress in this fascinating area of cognitive science. Using the phenomenon of multistability as a paradigm they seek to understand how meaning originates in the brain as a consequence of cognitive processes. New advances are achieved by applying concepts such as self-organization, chaos theory and complex systems to the latest results of psychological and neurophysical experiments.

Free Download Dr. Leonard Bowers, "The Social Nature of Mental Illness"
English | 1998 | pages: 226 | ISBN: 0415227771 | PDF | 1,0 mb
Psychiatrists assert that mental illness is a physiological brain disorder. The anti-psychiatry movement refutes this on grounds of lack of evidence claiming that mental illness is socially defined. Len Bowers offers a rational, objective and philosophical critique of the theories of mental illness as a social construct and concludes that, though sometimes misguided, they cannot be wholly rejected. This critical scrutiny of a controversial and keenly-debated issue will be of interest to psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, sociologists and professionals in paramedical disciplines.

Free Download Nature, Culture, and Inequality: A Comparative and Historical Perspective by Thomas Piketty, Willard Wood
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 1635424569 | 96 pages | PDF | 5.06 Mb
"The most important economics book of the year―and maybe of the decade." -Paul Krugman, New York Times, on Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Free Download Mariel Hemingway, "Running with Nature: Stepping Into the Life You Were Meant to Live"
English | ISBN: 0988247615 | 2013 | 200 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
When there is a will to experience each moment of life more fully with vibrancy and vitality, there is a way. It’s Running with Nature. It’s about reconnecting to nature one broad-minded step at a time to discover a more fulfilling life of simplicity, adventure, stillness, and laughter. In Running with Nature, Mariel Hemingway and Bobby Williams share their dynamic and authentic approach to living mindfully and healthfully, offering concrete action steps that readers can take and even track through a multifaceted point-earning system. Simple activities like watching a sunrise instead of sleeping in, drinking water out of glass instead of plastic, taking time to be in silence instead of always listening to things out there, eating clean food instead of processed and packaged food, and taking time away from technology to get outside are some of the natural ways to tune into ourselves and make far-reaching differences in our lives, our relationships, and our world. As Mariel and Bobby explain, change can be approached radically or gently or anywhere in between. Readers can choose to take all ten suggested action steps in each area of their life or just a few. Through thought-provoking discussions and suggestions for lifestyle modifications, the authors gently urge and coach readers to take action, at their preferred pace, that will bring about lasting change-inside and out. The Willing Way is a book of inspiration. It provides the way to make a difference in the reader’s approach to life. Having the willingness to do so is the only requirement.