Full name: Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas

Author: Donald Worster Year: 1977 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780521468343 0521468345

Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it, and shows how it in turn has shaped the modern perception of our place in nature. The book includes portraits of Linnaeus, Gilbert White, Darwin, Thoreau, and such key twentieth-century ecologists as Rachel Carson, Frederic Clements, Aldo Leopold, James Lovelock, and Eugene Odum. It concludes with a new Part VI, which looks at the directions ecology has taken most recently. Similar books: The Forest and the Sea by Marston Bates Uncommon Ground by William Cronon Something New Under the Sun by J. R. McNeill The Closing Circle by Barry Commoner The End of Nature by Bill McKibben The Code Book by Simon Singh The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Cod by Mark Kurlansky Salt by Mark Kurlansky The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough Hackers by Steven Levy The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan The Cracking Code Book by Simon Singh How Apollo Flew to the Moon by W. David Woods The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston The Information by James Gleick