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Meaning in Life: The harmony of nature and spirit
An acclaimed philosopher suggests that the art of living well employs the same principles as those that exist in all artistic creativity.This final book in Irving Singer's Meaning in Life trilogy studies the interaction between nature and the values that define human spirituality. It examines the ways in which we overcome the suffering in life by resolving our sense of being divided between the…
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- 9780262259200
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- 1 online resource (xix, 222 pages).
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Deep time reckoning :how future thinking can help earth now
"How Finland's nuclear waste experts discern far future Earths, and what the rest of us non-Finns and non-experts can learn from them"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262359368
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A Theory of General Ethics: Human Relationships, Nature, and the Built Enviro…
An integrated approach to ethics that covers interhuman ethics, the ethics of the natural environment (including animals), and the ethics of the built environment, and enables us to offer sensible and defensible answers to the widest possible range of eth.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273053
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- 1 online resource (x, 392 pages)
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Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance
In recent years, Earth systems science has advanced rapidly, helping to transform climate change and other planetary risks into major political issues. Changing the Atmosphere strengthens our understanding of this important link between expert knowledge and environmental governance. In so doing, it illustrates how the emerging field of science and technology studies can inform our understanding…
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- 9780262279819
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- 1 online resource (xii, 385 pages) :illustrations.
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Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investiga…
For much of human evolution, the natural world was one of the most important contexts of children's maturation. Indeed, the experience of nature was, and still may be, a critical component of human physical, emotional, intellectual, and even moral development. Yet scientific knowledge of the significance of nature during the different stages of childhood is sparse. This book provides scientific…
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- 9780262276641
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- 1 online resource (xix, 348 pages) :illustrations
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Against nature
A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders. Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America, up to the latest controversies over gay marriage and cloning, natural orders have been enli…
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- 9780262353809
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- 1 online resource (96 pages) :illustrations.
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Conflicted American landscapes
"Traces six contradictory American ideologies of nature from their emergence in the late eighteenth century to the present to explore how inconsistent conceptions of nature lead to conflict"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363097
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Mnemonic ecologies :memory and nature conservation along the former iron curtain
"Examination of the relationships among conservation, restoration, novel ecosystems, collective trauma, and memorialization as illustrated by the Green Belt between the former East and West Germanies"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262375245
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Plasticity of development
Revised papers presented at a series of lectures, during the 1986-87 academic year. Organized by the Program for Developmental Research, University of Maryland, College Park."A Bradford book."Errata slip inserted.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269193
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- 1 online resource (viii, 182 pages) :illustrations
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Carving Nature at Its Joints: Natural Kinds in Metaphysics and Science
"A Bradford book.""Contemporary discussions of the success of science often invoke an ancient metaphor from Plato's Phaedrus: successful theories should 'carve nature at its joints.' But is nature really 'jointed'? Are there natural kinds of things around which our theories cut? The essays in this volume offer reflections by a distinguished group of philosophers on a series of intertwined issue…
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