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Place and Nature
Language: en
Pages: 366
Authors: Alexandra Bekasova
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02 - Publisher:

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This book offers new perspectives on the environmental history of lands that have come under Russian and Soviet rule by paying attention to 'place' and 'nature'
Nature Out of Place
Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: Jason Van Driesche
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-10 - Publisher: Island Press

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Though the forests are still green and the lakes full of water, an unending stream of invasions is changing many ecosystems around the world from productive, ti
The Home Place
Language: en
Pages: 143
Authors: J. Drew Lanham
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-22 - Publisher: Milkweed Editions

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“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 H
John Burroughs and the Place of Nature
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: James Perrin Warren
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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This study situates John Burroughs, together with John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, as one of a trinity of thinkers who, between the Civil War and World War I,
Knowledge and Its Place in Nature
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Hilary Kornblith
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Philosophers have traditionally used conceptual analysis to investigate knowledge. Hilary Kornblith argues that this is misguided: it is not the concept of know