Designs On Nature

Author : Sheila Jasanoff
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400837316
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designs on Nature written by Sheila Jasanoff and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biology and politics have converged today across much of the industrialized world. Debates about genetically modified organisms, cloning, stem cells, animal patenting, and new reproductive technologies crowd media headlines and policy agendas. Less noticed, but no less important, are the rifts that have appeared among leading Western nations about the right way to govern innovation in genetics and biotechnology. These significant differences in law and policy, and in ethical analysis, may in a globalizing world act as obstacles to free trade, scientific inquiry, and shared understandings of human dignity. In this magisterial look at some twenty-five years of scientific and social development, Sheila Jasanoff compares the politics and policy of the life sciences in Britain, Germany, the United States, and in the European Union as a whole. She shows how public and private actors in each setting evaluated new manifestations of biotechnology and tried to reassure themselves about their safety. Three main themes emerge. First, core concepts of democratic theory, such as citizenship, deliberation, and accountability, cannot be understood satisfactorily without taking on board the politics of science and technology. Second, in all three countries, policies for the life sciences have been incorporated into "nation-building" projects that seek to reimagine what the nation stands for. Third, political culture influences democratic politics, and it works through the institutionalized ways in which citizens understand and evaluate public knowledge. These three aspects of contemporary politics, Jasanoff argues, help account not only for policy divergences but also for the perceived legitimacy of state actions.

Author : Frederick R. Steiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558443938
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design with Nature Now written by Frederick R. Steiner and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, Ian McHarg's seminal book, Design with Nature, set forth a new vision for regional planning using natural systems. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, a team of landscape architects and planners from PennDesign have showcased some of the most advanced ecological design projects in the world today. Written in clear language and featuring vivid color images, Design with Nature Now demonstrates McHarg's enduring influence on contemporary practitioners as they contend with climate change and other 21st-century challenges.

Author : Kate Fletcher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351111493
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design and Nature written by Kate Fletcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organised as a dialogue between nature and design, this book explores design ideas, opportunities, visions and practices through relating and uncovering experience of the natural world. Presented as an edited collection of 25 wide-ranging short chapters, the book explores the possibility of new relations between design and nature, beyond human mastery and understandings of nature as resource and by calling into question the longstanding role for design as agent of capitalism. The book puts forward ways in which design can form partnerships with living species and examines designers’ capacities for direct experience, awe, integrated relationships and new ways of knowing. It covers: • New design ethics of care • Indigenous perspectives • Prototyping with nature • Methods for new design and nature relations • A history of design and nature • Animist beliefs • De-centering human-centered design • Understanding nature has power and agency Design and Nature: A Partnership is a rich resource for designers who wish to learn to engage with sustainability from the ground up.

Author : Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026201999X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Synthetic Aesthetics written by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As synthetic biology transforms living matter into a medium for making, what is the role of design and its associated values?

Author : Heather Powers
Publisher : Kalmbach Books
ISBN 13 : 0871167646
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewelry Designs from Nature: Woodlands, Gardens, Sea written by Heather Powers and published by Kalmbach Books. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jewelry Designs from Nature, Heather Powers reveals her creative process and guides readers through 30 nature inspired bracelet, necklace and earring projects. Her designs feature her beads and the beads of other well-known artists. Simple techniques such as stringing, wirework and bead stitching are explained with clear step-by-step directions. Pieces are designed with simple techniques, chain, wire, findings, crystals, seed beads and art beads in standard sizes. Readers can recreate the pieces or choose their own beads to personalize projects. Heather Powers shows readers that there is a method behind using simple stringing and other basic jewelry-making techniques to produce jaw-dropping results.

Author : Harry E. Zimmerman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486267326
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature Designs Stained Glass Pattern Book written by Harry E. Zimmerman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outstanding collection of 78 royalty-free motifs focusing on nature themes — the sun, bamboo plants, long reeds and grasses; floral scenes with birds, small animals, fish, plus many abstract designs, all imbued with the lovely, tranquil lines and rhythms of nature. Varied shapes make the designs adaptable to wide range of projects.

Author : Norah Gaughan
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1647006066
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knitting Nature written by Norah Gaughan and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Norah Gaughan, one of the most innovative and respected knitwear designers working today, Knitting Nature was an instant classic when it was released in hardcover in 2006, and it is now available at a must-have paperback price. In Knitting Nature, Gaughan blends together the natural and artistic world with 39 stunning, fun-to-knit designs for women, men, and children. Among them are a skirt patterned after the hexagonal scales nature has used to cover a domed turtle’s shell, a jacket whose collar grows in a spiral—much the same way a ram’s horn does—and a tank top with leaves that grow the same way they do on a stem. Also available from Norah Gaughan: Norah Gaughan's Knitted Cable Sourcebook, Comfort Knitting & Crochet: Babies & Toddlers, and Comfort Knitting & Crochet: Afghans.

Author : Ian L. McHarg
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613923330
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design With Nature written by Ian L. McHarg and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1995-02-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NULL

Author : Ruth Soffer
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486823067
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Haven Beautiful Nature Designs Coloring Book written by Ruth Soffer and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 31 richly detailed art includes a cluster of red and purple clematis, bee-eating birds, long-stemmed lily pads, migrating monarch butterflies, and much more.

Author : Dover
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486168247
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Book of Nature Stencil Designs written by Dover and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 850 attractive cuts depict fish, amphibians, dinosaurs, exotic birds, waterfowl, roses, wildflowers, and scores of other nature-related subjects. Suitable for any decorative need.