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Combines biological science writing with ideas from mythology, psychology, history, and religion to show us the way to a new relationship with nature and with ourselves.

Process and Reality, Whitehead's magnum opus, is one of the major philosophical works of the modern world, and an extensive body of secondary literature has developed around it. Yet surely no significant philosophical book has appeared in the last two centuries in nearly so deplorable a condition as has this one, with its many hundreds of errors and with over three hundred discrepancies between the American (Macmillan) and the English (Cambridge)...

"This book tries to assess Galileo's work in its historical singularity. It is constructed around a precise question: How did Galileo create the modern science of motion? Starting from this question, I shall go on to determine as accurately as I can what concepts and methods helped classical mechanics to take shape." [Preface].

This history of American confrontation with the wilderness from the Puritans through Thoreau to the battles for preservation, has been revised to include an extended analysis of the Grand Canyon Dam controversy and the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System; recent work in wilderness philosophy; efforts to protect Alaskan wilderness; trends in wilderness management; the international perspective and the future of wilderness.

Physiologia makes accessible, for the first time in English, major themes of sixteenth-century Aristotelianism, the culmination of four hundred years of commentary and criticism. In his incisive and readable treatment, Dennis Des Chene supplies the Aristotelian background necessary for understanding the rise of modern science. Physiologia promotes a new understanding of the philosophical setting in which modern notions of scientific law emerged. Continuities...