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Coming Home to the Pleistocene
""When we grasp fully that the best expressions of our humanity were not invented by civilization but by cultures that preceded it, that the natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams, we will be on the way to a long overdue reconciliation between opposites which are of our own ......
ISBN-13: 9781559635905 (Paperback)
Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
Paul Shepard, Florence R. Shepard
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Local release date: 15/04/2004
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Categories: Earth sciences [RB]

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Biophilia Hypothesis
""Biophilia"" is the term coined by Edward O. Wilson to describe what he believes is humanity's innate affinity for the natural world. In his landmark book Biophilia, he examined how our tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes might be a biologically based need, integral to our development as individuals and as a species. That idea has ......
ISBN-13: 9781559631471 (Paperback)
Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
Imprint: SHEARWATER
Stephen R. Kellert, Edward O. Wilson, Scott McVay, Aaron Katcher, Cecilia McCarthy, Gregory Wilkins, Roger Ulrich, Paul Shepard, Sara St. Antoine, Jared Diamond
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Local release date: 14/05/1995
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Categories: Earth sciences [RB]

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How Animals Made Us Human
Paul Shepard has been one of the most brilliant and original thinkers in the field of human evolution and ecology for more than forty years. His thought-provoking ideas on the role of animals in human thought, dreams, personal identity, and other psychological and religious contexts have been presented in a series of seminal writings, including ......
ISBN-13: 9781559634342 (Paperback)
Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
Paul Shepard
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Local release date: 14/05/1997
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Categories: Earth sciences [RB]

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Encounters with Nature:
Essays By Paul Shepard
While most scholars work within the safe, sturdy confines of conventional academics, Paul Shepard moved beyond convention, out under the open sky where he was free to turn and peer in every direction. Blending, sifting, and culling massive mounds of scientific, historical, and deductive data -- drawn from biology, ecology, ethology, anthropology, ......
ISBN-13: 9781559635295 (Hardback)
Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
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Florence R. Shepard, Paul Shepard, David Petersen
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Local release date: 14/11/1999
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Reinventing Nature?:
Responses To Postmodern Deconstruction
How much of science is culturally constructed? How much depends on language and metaphor? How do our ideas about nature connect with reality? Can nature be ""reinvented"" through theme parks and malls, or through restoration?Reinventing Nature? is an interdisciplinary investigation of how perceptions and conceptions of nature affect both the ......
ISBN-13: 9781559633116 (Paperback)
Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
Michael E. Soule, Gary Lease, Alan Gussow, Albert Borgmann, Gary Paul Nabhan, Kathryn Hayles, David Graber, Donald Worster, Paul Shepard
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Local release date: 16/03/1995
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Categories: Earth sciences [RB]