Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature
Author : Thomas Henry Huxley
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 1863
Category : Apes
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Author : Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 1863
Category : Apes
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Author : J. Drew Lanham
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1571318755
“A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape, and a deep meditation on nature…wise and beautiful.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk A Foreword Reviews Best Book of the Year and Nautilus Silver Award Winner In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.” By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a meditation on nature and belonging by an ornithologist and professor of ecology, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South—and in America today. “When you’re done with The Home Place, it won’t be done with you. Its wonders will linger like everything luminous.”—Star Tribune “A lyrical story about the power of the wild…synthesizes his own family history, geography, nature, and race into a compelling argument for conservation and resilience.”—National Geographic
Author : Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Apes
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Author : Arnold Gehlen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231052184
Author : George Perkins Marsh
Publisher :
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Conservation of natural resources
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Author : William Cronon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 1996-10-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 0393242528
A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics. In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls through the Nature Company, and the disputes between working people and environmentalists over spotted owls and other objects of species preservation. The problem is that we haven't learned to live responsibly in nature. The environmentalist aim of legislating humans out of the wilderness is no solution. People, Cronon argues, are inextricably tied to nature, whether they live in cities or countryside. Rather than attempt to exclude humans, environmental advocates should help us learn to live in some sustainable relationship with nature. It is our home.
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Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 1956
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Author : Alan Weisman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780312427900
A penetrating take on how our planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence
Author : Charles Francis Hockett
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Anthropology
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Author : Max Scheler
Publisher :
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 11,17 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Human beings
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