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An ecologist reflects on the natural wonders of the Pacific Northwest during his thirty years in the village of Gray's River, near the mouth of the Columbia River.

• Opening: Of Nature and Other Demons
• Narratives of Conquest and the Conquest of Narrative
• Oviedo, Las Casas, and the Difference That Made Nature
• The Anthropolitics of Bernardino de Sahagún
• The Imperial Renaissance of Francisco Hernández
• José de Acosta and the Ends of Empire
• Epilogue: Towards a Natural History of Colonial Dominaton

In Writing the New World, Mauro Caraccioli examines the natural history writings of early Spanish missionaries, using these texts to argue that colonial Latin America was fundamental in the development of modern political thought. Revealing their narrative context, religious ideals, and political implications, Caraccioli shows how these sixteenth-century works promoted a distinct genre of philosophical wonder in service of an emerging colonial social order.Caraccioli discusses narrative techniques employed by well-known figures such as Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo and Bartolome de Las Casas as well as less-studied authors including Bernardino de Sahagun, Francisco Hernandez, and Jose de Acosta. More than mere catalogues of the natural wonders of the New World, these writings advocate mining and molding untapped landscapes, detailing the possibilities for extracting not just resources from the land but also new moral values from indigenous communities. Analyzing the intersections between politics, science, and faith that surface in these accounts, Caraccioli shows how the portrayal of nature served the ends of imperial domination. Integrating the fields of political theory, environmental history, Latin American literature, and religious studies, this book showcases Spain's role in the intellectual formation of modernity and Latin America's place as the crucible for the Scientific Revolution. Its insights are also relevant to debates about the interplay between politics and environmental studies in the Global South today. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)-a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries-and the generous support of Virginia Tech.
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• Paper 1250
• A portal to other ways of knowing
• Biological legacies
• The survivor-hero
• The placard
• Successions
• The concrete forest
• A black stew of bacteria
• The tunnel
• The log mat
• Fish in a fishless lake
• Growing seasons
• Fish in a fishless river
• The bugle in the cardboard box
• Epilogue: Volcán Calbuco

• Prologue: After
• More than the boom. Paper 1250 ; A portal to other ways of knowing
• Natural experiments. Biological legacies ; The survivor-hero ; To recover or not to recover ; Lines of succession ; The concrete forest
• Of logs and lakes. A black stew of bacteria ; The tunnel ; The log mat ; Fish in a fishless lake
• Changes to the land. Disturbed ecologies ; Fish in a fishless river ; The elk in the cardboard box
• Epilogue: Volcán Calbuco.
• Contents page

On May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted. Fifty-seven people were killed and hundreds of square miles of what had been lush forests and wild rivers were to all appearances destroyed. Ecologists thought they would have to wait years, or even decades, for life to return to the mountain, but when forest scientist Jerry Franklin helicoptered into the blast area a couple of weeks after the eruption, he found small plants bursting through the ash and animals skittering over the ground. Stunned, he realized he and his colleagues had been thinking of the volcano in completely the wrong way. Rather than being a dead zone, the mountain was very much alive. Mount St. Helens has been surprising ecologists ever since, and in After the Blast Eric Wagner takes readers on a fascinating journey through the blast area and beyond. From fireweed to elk, the plants and animals Franklin saw would not just change how ecologists approached the eruption and its landscape, but also prompt them to think in new ways about how life responds in the face of seemingly total devastation.
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Firths and estuaries are liminal places, where land meets sea and tides meet freshwater. Their unique ecosystems support a huge range of marine and other wildlife: human activity too is profoundly influenced by their waters and shores. The Solway Firth - the crooked finger of water that both unites and divides Scotland and England - is a beautiful yet unpredictable place and one of the least-industrialised natural large estuaries in Europe. Its history, geology and turbulent character have long affected the way its inhabitants, both human and non-human, have learnt to live along and within its ever-changing margins.
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• CONTENTS v Acknowledgments vii Introduction
• 1 Plants
• 15 Annelids
• 18 Mollusks
• 21 Arthropods - Centipedes, Millipedes, Pillbugs, Sowbugs, Insects, and Arachnids
• 72 Amphibians
• 77 Reptiles
• 84 Birds
• 100 Mammals
• 115 Appendix - Scientific and Common Names
• 119 References
• 125 About the Author.
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In the same lighthearted yet scientifically accurate style of Fylling's Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tide Pools, this portable guidebook reveals the splendidly strange animals and plants just outside your door. Marni Fylling's full-color illustrations make species identification a snap, and concise descriptions include fascinating (and sometimes grotesque) factoids about frequently encountered plants, insects, arachnids, birds, and mammals. With Fylling's guidance, the everyday becomes extraordinary: Pigeons share nest-building and egg-sitting duties, and mate for life-with occasional dalliances; squirrel teeth grow about six inches per year; spiders owe their characteristic creep to their "hydraulic" legs; poison oak and poison ivy's itch-inducing oil is also found in pistachios, cashews, and mangoes; and much, much more.
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"Explores the rich landscapes and diverse social histories of the San Luis Valley, an impressive mountain valley spanning over 9,000 square miles that crosses the border of south-central Colorado and north-central New Mexico. Contributors uncover the natural and cultural history of the region" -- Provided by publisher

• A traverse
• A return in three chapters
• Fluid places
• Otter meditation
• Tending to bread
• Confetti
• The funeral
• Chenega
• The cut

Leavetaking is an Alaska-based essay collection propelled by movements of departure and return. Corinna Cook asks: What can coming and going reveal about place? About how a place calls to us? About heeding that call? And might wandering serve not only to map new places but also to map the most familiar ones, like home? Departures and returns in these essays derive in large part from the narrator's personal experiences of cross-continental travel by pickup truck and by airplane, human-powered expedition-style travel by kayak, regional travel by ferry, and her daily or local travel on foot. But the movement of coming and going at the heart of this collection exceeds the physical, for these essays are also intent on understanding spiritual and psychological pulses of proximity and distance in human connections to other people, their stories, and their homes.
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• 1. MACAWS AND CROCODILES
• 2. A TREASURE HIDDEN AMONG THE PALMS
• 3. THE WHALES' ROUTE.
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This guidebook takes a fresh look at three distinct regions along the Pacific Coast-from Carara, a birdwatcher's paradise, to Manuel Antonio with its extraordinary ecological gems, to Bahia Ballena and whale watching. With this book, readers will gain a deeper understanding of some of Costa Rica's most popular tourist destinations. Costa Rica is much more than a verdant paradise. It's a land of diverse landscapes and cultures. This collection of regional guides reveals unknown facets of Costa Rica and helps travelers understand what makes this country unique. Includes a foldout map of key tourist destinations.
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The roughly 24 million acres of that make up the Edwards Plateau, commonly known as the Texas Hill Country, are characterized by rolling highlands, picturesque river canyons, and beautiful springtime wildflowers. Located in the heart of Texas, this region is home to hundreds of natural springs, thousands of limestone caves, and the famous Devil's Sinkhole. Encompassing grasslands, savannas, and woodlands, the Edwards Plateau is a unique and diverse ecological haven. Beginning with the stories of how biologists and naturalists have defined the ecological areas of the great state of Texas over time, The Natural History of the Edwards Plateau explores the formation of the region more than a billion years ago, its diverse ecosystems, and the conservation efforts to keep those ecosystems intact and thriving. With detailed descriptions and vivid pictures of the flora, fauna, and geologic features that make this area so unique, the authors also explore the ways in which people have interacted with the ecosystems over time, from natural spring water used by San Antonio's Pearl Brewing Company to the use of bats for gunpowder and bombing raids. In their exploration of the natural history, veteran ecologists Brian R. Chapman and Eric G. Bolen remain especially conscious of the conservation and management issues that affect the natural resources of the Edwards Plateau region, revealing their deep connection to the state. Bolstered by a glossary, further reading suggestions, and an appendix of scientific terms, this is an educational and essential guide for all Texans and environmental enthusiasts.
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• Growth and Degradation of Hawaiian Volcanoes / David A. Clague and David R. Sherrod
• Climates of the States: Hawaii / David I. Blumenstock and Saul Price
• Online Rainfall Atlas of Hawaiʻi / Thomas W. Giambelluca, Qi Chen, Abby G. Frazier, Jonathan P. Price, Yi-Leng Chen, Pao-Shin Chu, Jon K. Eischeid and Donna M. Delparte
• Surface Water in Hawaii / Delwyn S. Oki
• Soils of Hawaiʻi / Jonathan Deenik and Tai McClellan
• Long-distance Dispersal: A Framework for Hypothesis Testing / Rosemary G. Gillespie, Bruce G. Baldwin, Jonathan M. Waters, Ceridwen I. Fraser, Raisa Nikula, and George K. Roderick
• How Old Is the Hawaiian Biota?: Geology and Phylogeny Suggest Recent Divergence / Jonathan P. Price and David A. Clague
• Succession and Zonation of Vegetation in the Volcanic Mountains of the Hawaiian Islands / Dieter Mueller-Dombois
• Associations among Land Use, Habitat Characteristics, and Invertebrate Community Structure in Nine Streams on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, 1999-2001 / Anne M.D. Brasher, Reuben H. Wolff, and Corene D. Luton
• Use of Integrated Landscape Indicators to Evaluate the Health of Linked Watersheds and Coral Reef Environments in the Hawaiian Islands / Kuʻulei S. Rodgers, Michael H. Kido, Paul L. Jokiel, Tim Edmonds, and Eric K. Brown
• Marine Ecosystems in the Hawaiian Islands / E. Alison Kay
• Recolonization of Hermatypic Corals on Submerged Lava Flows in Hawaii / Richard W. Grigg and James E. Maragos
• Benthic Composition of a Healthy Subtropical Reef: Baseline Species-level Cover, with an Emphasis on Algae, in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands / Peter S. Vroom and Cristi L. Braun
• Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems in the Hawaiian Archipelago / John Rooney, Emily Donham, Anthony Montgomery, Heather Spalding, Frank Parrish, Raymond Boland, Douglas Fenner, Jamie Gove, and Russ Vetter
• Molecular Biogeography and Diversification of the Endemic Terrestrial Fauna of the Hawaiian Islands / Robert H. Cowie and Brenden S. Holland
• The Hawaiian Freshwater Algae Biodiversity Survey (2009-2014): Systematic and Biogeographic Trends with an Emphasis on the Macroalgae / Alison R. Sherwood, Amy L. Carlile, Jessica M. Neumann, J. Patrick Kociolek, Jeffrey R. Johansen, Rex L. Lowe, Kimberly Y. Conklin, and Gernot G. Presting
• What Do We Know about Hawaiian Ferns and Lycophytes? / Tom A. Ranker
• Area and the Rapid Radiation of Hawaiian Bidens (Asteraceae) / Matthew L. Knope, Clifford W. Morden, Vicki A. Funk, and Tadashi Fukami
• Species Differentiation on a Dynamic Landscape: Shifts in Metapopulation Genetic Structure using the Chronology of the Hawaiian Archipelago / George K. Roderick, Peter J.P. Croucher, Amy G. Vandergast, and Rosemary G. Gillespie
• Evolution in Hawaiian Cave-adapted Isopods (Oniscidea: Philosciidae): Vicariant Speciation or Adaptive Shifts? / Malia Ana J. Rivera, Francis G. Howarth, Stefano Taiti, and George K. Roderick
• Origin and Diversification of the Endemic Hawaiian Tree Snails (Achatinellidae: Achatinellinae) based on Molecular Evidence / Brenden S. Holland and Michael G. Hadfield
• Hawaiian Stream Fishes: The Role of Amphidromy in History, Ecology, and Conservation Biology / Robert M. McDowall
• Multilocus Resolution of Phylogeny and Timescale in the Extant Adaptive Radiation of Hawaiian Honeycreepers / Heather R.L. Lerner, Matthias Meyer, Helen F. James, Michael Hofreiter, and Robert C. Fleischer
• Adaptive Value of Same-sex Pairing in Laysan Albatross / Lindsay C. Young and Eric A. VanderWerf
• Two Tickets to Paradise: Multiple Dispersal Events in the Founding of Hoary Bat Populations in Hawaiʻi / Amy L. Russell, Corinna A. Pinzari, Maarten J. Vonhof, Kevin J. Olival, and Frank J. Bonaccorso
• Seaweed Resources of the Hawaiian Islands / Karla J. McDermid, Keelee J. Martin, and Maria C. Haws
• Emergent Patterns of Population Genetic Structure for a Coral Reef Community / Kimberly Selkoe, Oscar E. Gaggiotti, TOBO Laboratory, Brian W. Bowen, and Robert J. Toonen
• Diversification of Sympatric Broadcast-spawning Limpets (Cellana spp.) within the Hawaiian Archipelago / Christopher E. Bird, Brenden S. Holland, Brian Bowen, and Robert J. Toonen
• Origins, Ages, and Population Histories: Comparative Phylogeography of Endemic Hawaiian Butterflyfishes (Genus Chaetodon) / Matthew T. Craig, Jeff A. Eble, and Brian W. Bowen
• High Levels of Mesophotic Reef Fish Endemism in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands / Corinne Kane, Randall K. Kosaki, and Daniel Wagner
• A Review of the Demographic Features of Hawaiian Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) / George H. Balazs, Kyle S. Van Houtan, Stacy A. Hargrove, Shandell M. Brunson, and Shawn K.K. Murakawa
• Integrating Multiple Technologies to Understand the Foraging Behaviour of Hawaiian Monk Seals / Kenady Wilson, Charles Littnan, Patrick Halpin, and Andrew Read
• The Hawaiian Ahupuaʻa Land Use System: Its Biological Resource Zones and the Challenge for Silviculture Restoration / Dieter Mueller-Dombois
• Climate Change and Conservation of Endemic Amphidromous Fishes in Hawaiian Streams / Ryan P. Walter, J. Derek Hogan, Michael J. Blum, Roderick B. Gagne, Ernest F. Hain, James F. Gilliam, Peter B. McIntyre
• Customary Marine Resource Knowledge and Use in Contemporary Hawaiʻi / Alan M. Friedlander, Janna M. Shackeroff, and John N. Kittinger
• Changing Seabird Management in Hawaiʻi: From Exploitation through Management to Restoration / David Cameron Duffy
• An Integrated Approach for Assessing Translocation as an Effective Conservation Tool for Hawaiian Monk Seals / Tenaya A. Norris, Charles L. Littnan, Frances M. D. Gulland, Jason D. Baker, and James T. Harvey
• A Tour de Force by Hawaii's Invasive Mammals: Establishment, Takeover, and Ecosystem Restoration through Eradication / Steven C. Hess

"First published in 1972 and again in 1994 by E. Alison Kay, the thirty-eight readings in this book, newly edited by Cynthia L. Hunter, provide a fresh and up-to-date synthesis of the rich knowledge that comprises the natural history of the Hawaiian Islands. From sea mounts to sea birds, mauka to makai, the articles here offer insights to the unparalleled geological, biological, and historical processes that make these islands unique and fascinating"-- Provided by publisher

• Foreword / by John P. Karges
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: natural history in Texas
• Trans-Pecos: desert legends and rugged grandeur
• Appendix: scientific names
• Glossary

The last frontier in Texas, the Trans-Pecos region is an immense and remote series of desert basins in the western-most part of the state. Columns of rock and stony debris dot the landscape, with various peaks, such as the notable El Capitan, rising from a long-forgotten sea floor. While the acidic and shallow desert soil only allows for scrubby vegetation in many places, what survives is rugged, colorful, and adaptable. Far from just an arid region, however, the Trans-Pecos is also home to grasslands, wetlands, and even woodlands. Animal life varies considerably, from the Black-tailed Jackrabbit and Desert Cicada to Bighorn Sheep, Black Bears, and Mountain Lions. Complete with an introduction chronicling the stories of biologists and naturalists who have explored and defined the ecological areas of Texas over time, The Natural History of the Trans-Pecos explores the formation of the region more than 600 million years ago, the adaptability of its ecosystems, and the conservation efforts to keep these wildly diverse environments flourishing. Detailed descriptions, vivid anecdotes, and vibrant pictures of the features that make this region so unique emphasize the rugged grandeur of the Trans-Pecos.
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• CONTENTS
• Preface Plants Fungi Invertebrates: Sponges to Spiders Fishes Amphibians Reptiles Birds Mammals
• Resources Index.
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California's San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys and the nearby Sierra Nevada Foothills are host to abundant, varied, and often surprising plants and wildlife. This fully illustrated guide pairs over seven hundred meticulous line drawings with descriptions of the birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fishes, invertebrates, plants, and fungi that make the Central Valley and Foothill Regions their home. Like a ranger-led nature walk, each species receives a lively overview; readers will learn about freshwater jellyfish, mushrooms that decompose railroad ties, handstanding spotted skunks, salt-shedding pickleweed-not to mention insects. Every write-up not only contains fun facts but also conveys a sense of the complex connections and interactions that sustain life in a unique place. Previously published as Magpies and Mayflies (Heyday, 2005), The Naturalist's Illustrated Guide to the Sierra Foothills and Central Valley features an attractive new cover, updated scientific and common names, and a full interior redesign.
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• Foreword Sundowner
• 1. Notes from the Hastings Natural History Reservation
• 2. Notes from the Santa Crus Island Reserve
• 3. Notes from the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory
• 4. Notes from the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest
• 5. Notes from the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center Afterword.
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John Seibert Farnsworth's delightful field notes are not only about nature, but from nature as well. In Nature Beyond Solitude, he lets us peer over his shoulder as he takes his notes. We follow him to a series of field stations where he teams up with scientists, citizen scientists, rangers, stewards, and grad students engaged in long-term ecological study, all the while scribbling down what he sees, hears, and feels in the moment. With humor and insight, Farnsworth explores how communal experiences of nature might ultimately provide greater depths of appreciation for the natural world. In the course of his travels, Farnsworth visits the Hastings Natural History Reservation, the Santa Cruz Island Reserve, the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, the North Cascades Institute's Environmental Learning Center, and more.
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• Secrets of the talking leaf
• A Mineral King esthetic
• A different day on Beetle Rock
• Joys of the suburban jungle
• Eden in a vacant lot: special places, species, and kids in the neighborhood of life
• Nature matrix
• The blind teaching the blind: the academic as naturalist, or not
• It was all about the beavers
• Swift and underwing, boulderfield and bog: Nabokov's individuating details
• Extinct in the wild
• The extinction of experience revisited
• The semiotics of Sasquatch
• Epistemology of the Big Year
• Bright lights, big city is a classic nature book!

"Nature Matrix: New and Selected Essays contains sixteen pieces that encompass the philosophy, ethic, and aesthetic of Robert Michael Pyle. The essays range from Pyle's experience as a young national park ranger in the Sierra Nevada to the streets of Manhattan; from the suburban jungle to the tangles of the written word; and from the phenomenon of Bigfoot to that of the Big Year?a personal exercise in extreme birding and butterflying. They include deep profiles of John Jacob Astor I and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as excursions into wild places with teachers, children, and writers. The nature of real wilderness in modern times comes under Pyle's lens, as does reconsideration of his trademark concept, "the extinction of experience"?maybe the greatest threat of alienation from the living world that we face today. Nature Matrix shows a way back toward possible integration with the world, as it plumbs the range and depth of experience in one lucky life lived in close connection to the physical earth and its denizens. This collection brings together the thoughts and hopes of one of our most widely read and respected natural philosophers as he seeks to summarize a life devoted to conservation."--Amazon.com.

• Préface / Laurence des Cars
• Histoire de l'art, histoire des idées
• Pourquoi Darwin ?
• Bruno David et Guillaume Lecointre
• Introduction : La nature dévoilée par la science
• Prologue : Au paradis terrestre
• Les pouvoirs de la nature dans l'Europe moderne
• Le grand tour du rhinocéros Clara
• Des amateurs aux savants les mutations d'une collection
• Immensité du monde, diversité de la nature. Le temps des grands voyages
• L'expédition de Baudin en terres australes des artistes voyageurs
• L'"aquarium-mania"
• Vingt mille lieues sous les mers : le premier traité d'océanographie
• Surprendre le secret de la nature deux répertoires artistiques et scientifiques des fruits de l'île de France au début du XIXe siècle
• Verne réinventé par Méliès
• L'antiquité du monde. La découverte du temps de la nature
• Paysage et imaginaire géologique
• L'invention et la réinvention des dinosaures : la découverte du XIXe siècle
• L'homme préhistorique archéologie et imaginaire
• Le roman des origines de Rosny aîné
• Evolutions. Auteurs, théories, lecteurs
• De la grande échelle des êtres à l'arbre de la vie
• Pourquoi le paon est-il beau ?
• Le rire et le rêve
• Haeckel et la beauté -es formes artistiques de la nature
• Darwin, l'évolution et la caricature
• Le double. Variations sur le singe
• Singes à notre image
• La bête intérieure. Hybrides et chimères
• Ars sive natura. Art, nature et "puissance d'imagination" chez Odilon Redon
• Monet, nymphéas art, philosophie, science
• L'évolution et l'art nouveau l'exemple d'Emile Gallé
• Miroir mortifère des origines
• Ecrire les origines de l'homme ou la sortie de l'animalité
• La face sombre de l'évolution. Dégénérescence, régression et extinction
• Les origines selon l'abstraction
• La nature, cette part sauvage du monde
• Nature, l'impossible ailleurs
• Thierry Hoquet.

"La nature produit dans son giron une masse inépuisable de formes merveilleuses qui dépassent par leur beauté et leur variété tout ce que l'homme peut créer comme formes artistiques."--Page 4 of cover.

• The setup
• Cast of characters
• To seek a new world: Mark Dion and the history of exploration
• Gulf Coast
• West Texas
• King Ranch to Austin
• San Antonio

This dazzling volume records the artist's travels through the Lone Star State, a grand expedition for our time Renowned artist Mark Dion (b. 1961) has a deep passion for history and the natural world. His installations mine the materials of the past to level an institutional critique in the present. Evoking the grand expeditionary journals of the 19th century, this singular volume records Dion's latest work, produced through his crisscrossing of Texas and exploration of the Lone Star State. Dion retraces the travels of four artists and naturalists-John James Audubon, Sarah Ann Lillie Hardinge, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Charles Wright-who journeyed to the region over a century ago. Dion's travel companions include preservationists, ranchers, botanists, a poet, a tarot card reader, and fellow artists who offer accompanying texts, while lavish illustrations feature the objects Dion made or collected during his travels alongside historical artworks and botanical specimens. The result is a stunning document of the American West, past and present.
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• A brief history of the Golden State
• Red earth and acorns
• Adobe and roses
• Picket fences and orchards
• Redwoods and gold dust
• Preserving and reviving the past.

"Redwoods and Roses explores the special relationship California's diverse peoples have shared with nature and the unique gardens and landscapes they have created over the years to nurture and enhance those bonds. From pre-colonial times to the Victorian era, California gardening expert Maureen Gilmer brings this garden history to life, showing how the gardens and landscapes were created and profiling the heirloom plants within them. But Redwoods and Roses is more than a book on gardening history. Here, the reader will discover how to recreate period designs in her own garden, from making a no-fuss adobe-look wall from the Mission era to finding heirloom plants for a cottage garden. Redwoods and Roses is a blend of natural history, California history, plants profiles, landscaping tips, and sensible garden advice, as well as an eloquent plea for the preservation of many remarkable plants."--Publisher's summary.

• In the Beginning
• And Then There Was Blood
• Sweat and the Transformation of a Watershed
• Tears on the Fenceline
• River Revival

With bountiful salmon and fertile plains, the Duwamish River has drawn people to its shores over the centuries for trading, transport, and sustenance. Chief Se'alth and his allies fished and lived in villages here and white settlers established their first settlements nearby. Industrialists later straightened the river's natural turns and built factories on its banks, floating in raw materials and shipping out airplane parts, cement, and steel. Unfortunately, the very utility of the river has been its undoing, as decades of dumping led to the river being declared a Superfund cleanup site. Using previously unpublished accounts by Indigenous people and settlers, BJ Cummings's compelling narrative restores the Duwamish River to its central place in Seattle and Pacific Northwest history. Writing from the perspective of environmental justice-and herself a key figure in river restoration efforts-Cummings vividly portrays the people and conflicts that shaped the region's culture and natural environment. She conducted research with members of the Duwamish Tribe, with whom she has long worked as an advocate. Cummings shares the river's story as a call for action in aligning decisions about the river and its future with values of collaboration, respect, and justice.
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• Introduction. Les sciences, un oubli de la nature ?
• (Re-) Commencements
• Démoderniser les sciences modernes : politiques des grands récits
• La révolution scientifique entre structures, formes et dispositifs
• Tous médiévistes! Un long Moyen Âge naturaliste
• Sciences ou savoirs ? Les poupées russes épistémologiques
• Nature première ou nature seconde ?
• L'horizon du global
• Le défi anthropologique
• Re-moderniser ? Historicité des usages
• Les vexations de la nature. Vers une orthopraxie ?
• Unité, lois et ordre : la force d'un juridisme
• Mathématiser la nature
• Cultures expérimentales par gros temps
• Le tour de main du savant : une ruse de l'intelligence
• L'épopée des composés
• La collectio et le paradigme de l'historia
• L'opacité du monde : le palimpseste naturaliste
• Nature, contre-nature et surnature
• Animalité et nature humaine
• Naturalisme partagé, naturalisme distingué
• Animisme, analogisme, naturalisme : un continuum
• CHAPITRE W. Nature vive, nature morte : l'oeil naturaliste
• Disegno et perspectiva : la géométrisation de la nature
• Anatomie et invention du corps humain
• Le visible et l'invisible : élargir les sens de l'observation
• "Tombeaux de la nature" : les voies de l'artificialisation
• Graphiques et diagrammes
• Régime d'"après nature" ou régime des "choses vues" ?
• Vertus cartographiques : un art chorographique
• Couleurs et matières : la chimie des images
• Ensauvager la nature : l'ingénierie des jardins
• Nuagisme : une climatologie artistique
• Écologies absolutistes : économies morales
• et politiques de la nature
• Un absolutisme naturaliste ?
• Mercantilisme naturaliste
• Nature urbaine entre droit et usage
• Policer l'environnement : air, sel et eau
• Globaliser la seconde nature ? Les archipels incertains du naturalisme
• Les empires du naturalisme
• Diplomaties naturalistes et cosmopolitisme
• Frontières naturalistes
• Collectionner l'animisme et l'analogisme au lointain
• La hiérarchisation des naturalismes
• Sciences écrites, naturalisme éphémère
• La composition physique de la Terre : vers une histoire naturelle du globe
• Épilogue. La fin d'un ancien régime naturaliste.

"Dans le contexte de la crise environnementale, la thèse est aujourd'hui bien connue : les sciences modernes en produisant une seconde nature abstraite et autonome, conquérante et prédatrice, nous auraient éloigné du monde sensible et d'une conception plus équitable de la nature. Si l'on veut cesser de voir dans les sciences un problème de la modernité, il faut se dégager de ces explications et revenir aux origines de ces récits, à savoir, l'ancien régime, avant que le grand récit de la modernité scientifique soit définitivement noué. En privilégiant une définition généreuse des sciences, en rematérialisant les pratiques scientifiques, en nuançant l'absolutisme naturaliste, en adoptant un cadre plus global, cet essai souhaite proposer une autre vision de l'enquête scientifique, moins arrogante ou discriminante mais ouverte sur d'autres possibles. Il est temps de procéder à une levée d'écrou historiographique si l'on veut libérer les interprétations des sciences du passé. En renouant le dialogue avec l'anthropologie, ce livre invite l'histoire des sciences à se refonder sur d'autres bases, plus humanistes."--Page 4 of cover.