Tag: Nature

Free Download Eli Diamond, "Mortal Imitations of Divine Life: The Nature of the Soul in Aristotle’s De Anima "
English | ISBN: 0810130696 | 2015 | 284 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In Mortal Imitations of Divine Life, Diamond offers an interpretation of De Anima, which explains how and why Aristotle places souls in a hierarchy of value. Aristotle’s central intention in De Anima is to discover the nature and essence of soul-the principle of living beings. He does so by identifying the common structures underlying every living activity, whether it be eating, perceiving, thinking, or moving through space. As Diamond demonstrates through close readings of De Anima, the nature of the soul is most clearly seen in its divine life, while the embodied soul’s other activities are progressively clear approximations of this principle. This interpretation shows how Aristotle’s psychology and biology cannot be properly understood apart from his theological conception of God as life, and offers a new explanation of

Free Download Wild Wonder: What Nature Teaches Us About Slowing Down and Living Well by Stephen Proctor
English | September 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 0593581792 | 192 pages | True EPUB | 115.84 MB
An invitation to explore the life-giving lessons we can learn from the Earth, featuring stunning photography and reflections from an acclaimed visual artist

Free Download The Nature of Scientific Innovation, Volume I: Processes, Means and Impact
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031752112 | 333 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
Innovation is a major driver of social, economic and environmental change and is researched extensively by academics from disciplines as diverse as, business, engineering, economics, sociology and psychology. On the whole, each discipline pursues its own pathway to understanding without an interdisciplinary framework that links diverse research outputs. This partite structure creates a remove from the practical realities of entrepreneurship, and the innovators who operate and perceive innovation in its entirety. This book delivers insights and creates a different framework, one that includes terminologies and typologies, greater understanding of paradigmatic influences in science, needs vs wants and demand, impact and value of knowledge, publications and patents and economic benefits. It challenges current approaches to education, research, creativity and skills development, infrastructure, investment and policy.

Free Download Elizabeth Alice Honig, "Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature (Renaissance Lives)"
English | 2019 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 1789140765 | EPUB | 25,0 mb
A fresh account of the life, ideas, and art of the beloved Northern Renaissance master.

Free Download Nocturnalia: Nature in the Western Night by Charles Hood, José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca
English | October 31, 2023 | ISBN: 1597146242 | 240 pages | EPUB | 51 Mb
Don’t be afraid of the dark: grab a flashlight and rediscover your sense of adventure!

Free Download Stephen Bocking, "Nature’s Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0813533988 | PDF | pages: 310 | 1.0 mb
"With clarity and grace, Stephen Bocking tackles the complicated question of the role of scientific expertise in environmental policy making. Nature’s Experts is a timely and important book."-David H. Guston, author of Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity of Research

Free Download Casper Bruun Jensen, "Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies "
English | ISBN: 1789205387 | 2019 | 158 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Over time, the role of nature in anthropology has evolved from being a mere backdrop for social and cultural diversity to being viewed as an integral part of the ontological entanglement of human and nonhuman agents. This transformation of the role of nature offers important insight into the relationships between diverse anthropological traditions. By highlighting natural-cultural worlds alongside these traditions, Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies explores the potential for creating more sophisticated conjunctions of anthropological knowledge and practice.

Free Download Love, Nature, Magic: Shamanic Journeys into the Heart of My Garden by Maria Rodale
English | February 21, 2023 | ISBN: 1645021718, 1645021688 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 6.5 MB
Join author, activist, and garden expert Maria Rodale as she reflects on her surprising conversations with the spirits of the familiar plants and animals around us―and the knowledge they share with us.

Free Download David Dugan, "Inside Nature’s Giants"
English | 2011 | pages: 318 | ISBN: 000743880X | EPUB | 384,0 mb
With a foreword by Richard Dawkins, and based on the BAFTA award-winning Channel 4 TV series, Inside Nature’s Giants gets under the skin of the largest animals on the planet. See them as you’ve never seen them before – from the inside out.

Free Download Eric J. Cassell, "Doctoring: The Nature of Primary Care Medicine"
English | 2002 | pages: 221 | ISBN: 0195158628, 0195113233 | PDF | 0,9 mb
American medicine attracts some of the brightest and most motivated people the country has to offer, and it boasts the most advanced medical technology in the world, a wondrous parade of machines and techniques such as PET scans, MRI, angioplasty, endoscopy, bypasses, organ transplants, and much more besides. And yet, writes Dr. Eric Cassell, what started out early in the century as the exciting conquest of disease, has evolved into an overly expensive, over technologized, uncaring medicine, poorly suited to the health care needs of a society marked by an aging population and a predominance of chronic diseases. In Doctoring: The Nature of Primary Care Medicine, Dr. Cassell shows convincingly how much better fitted advanced concepts of primary care medicine are to America’s health care needs. He offers valuable insights into how primary care physicians can be better trained to meet the needs of their patients, both well and sick, and to keep these patients as the focus of their practice.