Download or read book Tue Greenfort eine Berggeschichte written by Hans Dünser and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Bauhaus to Ecohouse written by Peder Anker and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates about environmentally sensitive architecture have been ongoing for nearly a century. From Bauhaus to Eco-House examines key moments of inspiration and exchange between designers and ecologists from the Bauhaus projects of the interwar period to the eco-arks of the late 1980s. From Bauhaus to Eco-House provides new insight into a critical period in the evolution of environmental awareness and design.
Download or read book Global Design written by Peder Anker and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the possibilities for scaling design solutions to global warming. The featured projects showcase leading-edge design innovations at multiple scales.
Download or read book Landscapes and Labscapes written by Robert E. Kohler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like to do field biology in a world that exalts experiments and laboratories? How have field biologists assimilated laboratory values and practices, and crafted an exact, quantitative science without losing their naturalist souls? In Landscapes and Labscapes, Robert E. Kohler explores the people, places, and practices of field biology in the United States from the 1890s to the 1950s. He takes readers into the fields and forests where field biologists learned to count and measure nature and to read the imperfect records of "nature's experiments." He shows how field researchers use nature's particularities to develop "practices of place" that achieve in nature what laboratory researchers can only do with simplified experiments. Using historical frontiers as models, Kohler shows how biologists created vigorous new border sciences of ecology and evolutionary biology.
Download or read book The Power of the Periphery written by Peder Anker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how Norway has positioned itself as an alternative, environmentally-sound nation in a world filled with tension and instability.
Download or read book On Vanishing written by Nicolas De Oliveira and published by Exhibitions International. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over the past decade Hans Op de Beeck has become established as one of the most exciting young artists on the international art scene. His work covers an astonishing spectrum ranging from installation art and sculpture, to video, photography and drawing." "On Vanishing is the result of a collaboration between the artist and the authors Nicolas de Oliveira and Nicola Oxley. The authors' text builds other matter around the artist's work, creating an ambiguous space crisscrossed by different paths that contain obstacles, deviations and detours."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Evolution of American Ecology 1890 2000 written by Sharon E. Kingsland and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1890s, several initiatives in American botany converged. The creation of new institutions, such as the New York Botanical Garden, coincided with radical reforms in taxonomic practice and the emergence of an experimental program of research on evolutionary problems. Sharon Kingsland explores how these changes gave impetus to the new field of ecology that was defined at exactly this time. She argues that the creation of institutions and research laboratories, coupled with new intellectual directions in science, were crucial to the development of ecology as a discipline in the United States. The main concern of ecology - the relationship between organisms and environment - was central to scientific studies aimed at understanding and controlling the evolutionary process. Kingsland considers the evolutionary context in which ecology arose, especially neo-Lamarckian ideas and the new mutation theory, and explores the relationship between scientific research and broader theories about social progress and the evolution of human civilization. By midcentury, American ecologists were leading the rapid development of ecosystem ecology. and society in the postwar context, foreshadowing the environmental critiques of the 1960s. As the ecosystem concept evolved, so too did debates about how human ecology should be incorporated into the biological sciences. Kingsland concludes with an examination of ecology in the modern urban environment, reflecting on how scientists are now being challenged to produce innovative responses to pressing problems. The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000 offers an innovative study not only of the scientific landscape in turn-of-the-century America, but of current questions in ecological science.
Download or read book Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities written by Stephen Siperstein and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is an enormous and increasingly urgent issue. This important book highlights how humanities disciplines can mobilize the creative and critical power of students, teachers, and communities to confront climate change. The book is divided into four clear sections to help readers integrate climate change into the classes and topics they are already teaching as well as engage with interdisciplinary methods and techniques. Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities constitutes a map and toolkit for anyone who wishes to draw upon the strengths of literary and cultural studies to teach valuable lessons that engage with climate change.
Download or read book Imperial Ecology written by Peder Anker and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aelian's Historical Miscellany is a pleasurable example of light reading for Romans of the early third century. Offering engaging anecdotes about historical figures, retellings of legendary events, and descriptive pieces - in sum: amusement, information, and variety - Aelian's collection of nuggets and narratives could be enjoyed by a wide reading public. A rather similar book had been published in Latin in the previous century by Aulus Gellius; Aelian is a late, perhaps the last, representative of what had been a very popular genre. Here then are anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights; myths instructively retold; moralizing tales about heroes and rulers, athletes and wise men; reports about styles in dress, foods and drink, lovers, gift-giving practices, entertainments, religious beliefs and death customs; and comments on Greek painting. Some of the information is not preserved in any other source. Underlying it all are Aelian's Stoic ideals as well as this Roman's great admiration for the culture of the Greeks (whose language he borrowed for his writings).
Download or read book Geostories written by Rania Ghosn and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ING_08 Review quote
Download or read book The Environment and International History written by Scott Kaufman and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of the history of international relations traditionally have focused on the decisions made by those at the highest levels of government. In more recent years, scholars have expanded their attention to cover economic, cultural, or social interactions among nations. What has remained largely ignored, however, is the impact of an increasingly-interdependent world upon the environment and, conversely, how environmental concerns have affected the ecology, social relationships, economics, and politics at national, regional, and global levels. The Environment and International History fills this gap, looking at the interrelationship between international politics and the environment. Using a transnational and interdisciplinary approach, this book examines how imperialism, war, and a divergence of interests between the developed and underdeveloped world all have had implications for plants, animals, and humans worldwide.
Download or read book Behind the Green Door written by Oslow Architecture Triennale and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Behind the Green Door' is a richly illustrated critical portrait of the current green wave in architectural design. Embracing a transdisciplinary outlook, the book addresses the concrete consequences and paradoxes of the building industry's strive for sustainability.
Download or read book Gottfried Bechtold Right Through the Heart written by Gottfried Bechtold and published by Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gottfried Bechtold?s ?Mitten durchs Herz? (Right through the heart) themes such as religion and physics collide, organic and inorganic materials meld, opposing forces seize hold of the space. In the publication accompanying the exhibition at Kunstraum Dornbirn the internationally renowned Vorarlberg artist addresses, with his radical research approach, technology, myth, death and overcoming gravity. Gottfried Bechtold was born in 1947 in Bregenz. He initially trained to be a stonemason in Hallein and subsequently spent considerable periods in Great Britain, the USA and Canada. His works have been shown in numerous exhibitions, for instance the documenta in Kassel in 1972. The artist works in Hörbranz and Bregenz, taking an experimental approach to expanding the concept of art. He is particularly interested in physical phenomena, the transfer of reality in media, the mythology of the automobile and the idea of time and motion. 00Exhibition: Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria (09.09.-04.12.2016).
