Search results for “[Subject: science-nature-environment]”

• Author(s): Benjamin Hale • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Environmental ScienceA brief foray into a moral thicket, exploring why we should protect nature despite tsunamis, malar...

• Author(s): William B. Meyer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)An analysis that offers evidence to challenge the widely h...

• Author(s): Paul Wapner • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralHow environmentalism can reinvent itself in a postnature age: a prop...

• Author(s): Nancy Leys Stepan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: RegionalWhether as sublime landscape, malignant wilderness, or a site for environmental conflicts and eco-tourism, tropica...

• Author(s): Wyman | Richard • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyGlobal Climate Change and Life on Earth focuses on the greenhouse effect and its relation...

• Author(s): Salzman, James • Publisher: Overlook Press • Publisher Imprint: Overlook Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Natural ResourcesIn Drinking Water, Duke University professor and environmental policy expert James Salzman ...

• Author(s): Morris Berman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsThe Reenchantment of the World is a perceptive study of our scientific consciousness and a cogent and forceful chal...

• Author(s): W. B. Gratzer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Molecular BiologyThe 63 articles collected in this book appeared in the news and reviews section of Nature between January 1969 and August 1...

• Author(s): David Keith • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Global Warming & Climate ChangeA leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technol...

• Author(s): Matthew Alan Cahn | Rory O'Brien • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Underlying current controversies about environmental regulation are shared conc...

• Author(s): Sylvia Noble Tesh • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralOrdinary citizens frequently organize around environmental issues on ...

• Author(s): Bernhard Glaeser • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)This reissue, first published in 1995, focuses on philosophy and social science in h...

• Author(s): Stephen Ansolabehere | David M. Konisky • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: EnergyHow Americans make energy choices, why they think locally (not globally), and how this ...

• Author(s): Oran R. Young • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)How can the global environment be safeguarded in the absence of a wo...

• Author(s): Lorenz Kruger | Lorraine Daston | Michael Heidelberger • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryProbability ideas are the success story common to the growth of the modern natural and social sciences. Chan...

• Author(s): Leigh Raymond • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyHow the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative created a new paradigm in climate policy...

• Author(s): Kelly Sims Gallagher • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyAn examination of barriers that impede and incentives that motivate the glob...

• Author(s): Davydd Greenwood • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - PhysicalThe theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of h...

• Author(s): Avi Sharma • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Europe - GermanyNature was central to the Wilhelmine German experience. Medical cosmologies and reform-initia...

• Author(s): Howard Gardner • Publisher: Hachette • Publisher Imprint: Hachette India • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Aims & ObjectivesMerging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schoo...

• Author(s): David Ray Griffin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PhilosophyThe process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne has made many distinctive contributions ...

• Author(s): Deborah Adelman • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionDemonstrates the relevance, rigor, and creativity of interpretive research methodologies for political science and its...

• Author(s): Barbara J. Shapiro • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralBarbara J. Shapiro traces the surprising genesis of the "fact," a modern concept that, sh...

• Author(s): Barbara J. Shapiro • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralBarbara J. Shapiro traces the surprising genesis of the "fact," a modern concept that, sh...

• Author(s): Juris Dilevko | Lisa Gottlieb • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Reference librarians are no longer expected to know much about the information they find; they are merel...

• Author(s): Judy Rosenblith | Edward M. Kennedy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Science & TechnologyHow Jerry Wiesner, presidential science adviser and president of MIT, worked to make a better and safer world,...

• Author(s): Samuel Bowles • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Economics - GeneralThis edited collection looks at the emerging relationship between politics and economics. The analysis of power relations - tr...

• Author(s): Richard Sugg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshJust as museum exhibits of plastinated corpses, television dramas about forensics, and books abo...

• Author(s): Ellen Greenblatt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Building upon the legacy of Gay and Lesbian Library Service (1990, "invaluable"--...

• Author(s): Edward M. Corrado | Heather Moulaison Sandy • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Library & Information Science - Archives & Special LibrariesThis n...

• Author(s): Kerstin Dautenhahn | Chrystopher L. Nehaniv • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Intelligence (AI) & SemanticsAn interdisciplinary overview of current research on imitation in animals and artifac...

• Author(s): Reed Timmer • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: WeatherAn eye-of-the-hurricane view of storm chasing from the star of the Discovery Channel hit series Storm Chasers. Only one i...