Evernden Lorne (9 results)

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. No Edition Stated, Presumed 1st. Preface by author dated December, 1984 at Toronto. Book divisions: The Environmentalist's Dilemma; The Cultural Dimension; The Organic Dimension; The Context of Environmentalism. 144 pp. plus: Notes, Index. Cloth covered boards have white text on spine, black ep's. Spine ends are slightly rubbed, many pencil underlinings, fon at head of full title p. Unclipped, unpriced DJ has light edge/extremity wear, a 3/8" closed tear at rear base of spine. Bookseller's Inventory # 230136. …

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Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 200 2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1966 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 256 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 256 Lorne Leslie Neil Evernden.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 200.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 200.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'I think The Social Creation of Nature stands Evernden in relation to the present generation roughly as Thoreau stood in relation to New England Transcendentalism.'--Max Oelschlaeger, author of The Idea of Wilderness.'A thoughtful and illuminating book. For Evernden, wildness' is what should be defended and preserved.'--New Scientist.One reason for our failure to 'save the earth,' argues Neil Evernden, is our disagreement about what 'nature' really is--how it works, what constitutes a risk to it, and even whether we ourselves are part of it. Nature is as much a social entity as a physical one. In addition to the physical resources to be harnessed and transformed, it consists of a domain of norms that may be called upon in defense of certain social ideals. In exploring the consequences of conventional understandings of nature, The Social Creation of Nature also seeks a way around the limitations of a socially created nature in order to defend what is actually imperiled--'wildness,' in which, Thoreau wrote, lies hope for 'the preservation of the world.'.…