Engineering Eden
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Engineering Eden
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Author : Jordan Fisher Smith
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2016-06-07
Engineering Eden written by Jordan Fisher Smith and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-07 with Science categories.
The fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to control nature in the national parks. When twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions about American wilderness management that had been boiling for a century. At immediate issue was whether the Park Service should have done more to keep bears away from humans, but what was revealed as the trial unfolded was just how fruitless our efforts to regulate nature in the parks had always been. The proceedings drew to the witness stand some of the most important figures in twentieth century wilderness management, including the eminent zoologist A. Starker Leopold, who had produced a landmark conservationist document in the 1950s, and all-American twin researchers John and Frank Craighead, who ran groundbreaking bear studies at Yellowstone. Their testimony would help decide whether the government owed the Walker family restitution for Harry's death, but it would also illuminate decades of patchwork efforts to preserve an idea of nature that had never existed in the first place. In this remarkable excavation of American environmental history, nature writer and former park ranger Jordan Fisher Smith uses Harry Walker's story to tell the larger narrative of the futile, sometimes fatal, attempts to remake wilderness in the name of preserving it. Tracing a course from the founding of the national parks through the tangled twentieth-century growth of the conservationist movement, Smith gives the lie to the portrayal of national parks as Edenic wonderlands unspoiled until the arrival of Europeans, and shows how virtually every attempt to manage nature in the parks has only created cascading effects that require even more management. Moving across time and between Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier national parks, Engineering Eden shows how efforts at wilderness management have always been undone by one fundamental problem--that the idea of what is "wild" dissolves as soon as we begin to examine it, leaving us with little framework to say what wilderness should look like and which human interventions are acceptable in trying to preserve it. In the tradition of John McPhee's The Control of Nature and Alan Burdick's Out of Eden, Jordan Fisher Smith has produced a powerful work of popular science and environmental history, grappling with critical issues that we have even now yet to resolve.
Remaking Eden
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Author : Lee M. Silver
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Remaking Eden written by Lee M. Silver and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Cloning categories.
A leading geneticist explores the "brave new world" of baby-making in an age that looks onward from IVF and surrogacy to human clones and genetic engineering. Lee Silver explains the science of embryology, explores what science can and will be able to do to affect the natural processes, and through a series of individual stories, both contemporary and imagined from the future, looks at the moral, ethical and legal implications.
Process Systems Engineering
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Author : Mario R. Eden
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2018-07-01
Process Systems Engineering written by Mario R. Eden and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Process Systems Engineering
Nature Noir
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Author : Jordan Fisher Smith
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2006-05-03
Nature Noir written by Jordan Fisher Smith and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-03 with Nature categories.
“A nature book unlike any other…peppered with gritty, anti-romantic, all-too-real tales of cops ’n’ bad guys in the great outdoors.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune Jordan Fisher Smith’s startling account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat—a stretch of land that has been officially condemned to be flooded—brings him into contact with drug users tweaked out to the point of violence, obsessed miners, and other dangerous creatures. In unflinchingly honest prose, he both portrays the breathtaking natural world around him and reveals the unexpectedly dark underbelly of patrolling and protecting public lands. “Gloriously unlike anything I’ve ever read before…gives entree into a strange, dark, and mesmerizing outdoor world that's absolutely unforgettable.”—The Boston Globe “By turns funny, poignant and surprising…an intimate memoir of the career of a state-park ranger. Not just any ranger, but one with a wicked pen, patrolling a doomed landscape.”—Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer “Compelling…refreshingly unsentimental.”—Barry Lopez, author of Arctic Dreams “Smith offers a fresh perspective on our threatened environment…Nature Noir reflects the spirit of an era as did Desert Solitaire.”—Charlotte Observer
Creating The Garden Of Eden
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Author : Alan Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Creating The Garden Of Eden written by Alan Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Greenhouses categories.
Reclaiming Eden
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Author : David S.-K. Ting
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2024-06-07
Reclaiming Eden written by David S.-K. Ting and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-07 with Science categories.
Life on Earth is both challenging and beautiful. Reclaiming Eden is about responsible living, engineering and architectures, aiming to mitigate environmental deterioration by reclaiming land around the world to an ecologically sustainable stage. These endeavors will enable us to pass forward a beautiful tomorrow for our grandchildren in the long run, and our children and ourselves in the immediate future. Eco-friendliness is key, and this includes waste reduction, sustainable development, furthering renewables, nature and biomimicry, and coral reef restoration. This book stands as a latest update on these fronts in beautifying tomorrow.
An Inventor In The Garden Of Eden
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Author : Eric Roberts Laithwaite
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1994-09
An Inventor In The Garden Of Eden written by Eric Roberts Laithwaite and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The author presents the inventor's view of Nature. A book for all thinking people.
Families Caring For An Aging America
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Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2016-11-08
Families Caring For An Aging America written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-08 with Medical categories.
Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize and support caregivers is among the least appreciated challenges facing the aging U.S. population. Families Caring for an Aging America examines the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults and the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. This report also assesses and recommends policies to address the needs of family caregivers and to minimize the barriers that they encounter in trying to meet the needs of older adults.
Materials Science And Engineering
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Author : Eden Sparks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-12-07
Materials Science And Engineering written by Eden Sparks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-07 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The design and discovery of new materials, specifically solids, is referred to as materials science and engineering. It is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses various fields including physics, chemistry and engineering. It also includes metallurgy, ceramics, solid state physics and chemistry. Material science is concerned with understanding how the structure, performance and properties of a material are affected by its processing history. The understanding of the relationship between various characteristics of the material is known as materials paradigm. The different materials studied within this field are broadly classified into crystalline and amorphous materials. Some of the major types of materials studies within this field are nanomaterials, biomaterials, semiconductors, metals and ceramics. This textbook attempts to understand the multiple branches that fall under the discipline of materials science and engineering, and how such concepts have practical applications. It aims to shed light on some of the unexplored aspects of this field. This book will provide comprehensive knowledge to the readers.
Engineering And Living Systems
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Author : David D. Rutstein
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Release Date : 1970
Engineering And Living Systems written by David D. Rutstein and has been published by MIT Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Medical categories.
This book outlines for the first time a sound plan for interrelating the physical and engineering sciences and mathematics with biology and medicine. The walls of narrowing specialization that have kept these disciplines apart are broken down. The proposed program points up the need for an administrative structure to aid the flow of concepts, ideas, knowledge, and technology among those concerned, both within and without the university. The kinds of experts needed to bridge the existing gap between the two groups of disciplines are defined. Educational programs are outlined for full-time specialists, research participants, and practitioners in both engineering and medicine. A careful description is given of the stepwise process, including interaction with industry to apply development in the engineering sense to biology and medicine. A detailed example of the application of systems analysis and operations research to the development of a specific medical care program is also included. This book is a distillate of the general principles learned during the exploration of a joint program between Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was summarized by the authors in a Report to the National Academy of Engineering. The authors recognize the impossibility of providing on their own the authoritative grasp necessary to provide specific recommendations for the future in the many field comprised by engineering and living systems. Cooperation was obtained of outstanding experts on the two faculties, who prepared sixteen task group reports under the following headings: artificial internal organs; bioengineering curricula; biological control systems; continuing education; diagnostic instrumentation; diagnostic processes; image processing and visualization techniques; medical care microsystems; neurophysiology; organ and cell culture and storage; physiological monitoring; physiological systems analysis; regionalization of health services (macrosystems); sensory aids; skeletal prostheses; and subcellular engineering. The task group reports, included in this book, provide the documentation for the general conclusions of the authors. This book supplements existing medical programs with a new research approach to increase fundamental knowledge, and points the way to better medical care through more efficient application of engineering, technology, and systems development.