This is a collection of studies on the ecologies of European cities, including Paris, Zurich, and Amsterdam among others. Its discussion includes the natural and historical development of each city, local flora, the environmental impact of city growth, and environmental planning…
In this book, Benoît Dubreuil offers a naturalist account of the creation and destruction of hierarchies in human evolution
by Obrist, Hans Ulrich, Zimmer, Carl, Sussman, Rachel
Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older
An explorer and environmentalist offers a natural history of the Earth as well as a biography of the human species
This book considers how nature - in both its biological and environmental manifestations - has been invoked as a dynamic force in human history. It shows how historians, philosophers, geographers, anthropologists and scientists have used ideas of nature to explain the evolution …
