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• catalog abstract "Presents new perspectives on present-day environmental problems by examining the changing nature of humankind's belief in a paradise and the ways we have disguised our actual dealings with nature.".
• catalog contributor b10672033.
• catalog created "1998.".
• catalog date "1998".
• catalog date "1998.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 559-593) and index.".
• catalog description "Part 3. Idylls. Arcadia: In search of the perfect midpoint between city and wilderness ; Lost illusions: Summer places and their discontents; and some lessons from the real Arcadia ; The walled garden: Persia: What the garden walls out, and how its pattern soothes the divided soul ; Patting nature on the head: Greek gardens, or the lack thereof, and the Roman empire of greenery ; The cloister and the plow: The Middle Ages: contemplating heaven while mastering the earth ; Bringing a statue to life: The Renaissance garden as refuge from plague, proletarians, and paradox ; Leaping the fence: Sun King and Ice Age: coal, capital, colonies, and the English landscape garden ; Westward in Eden: The real American experiment: a direct relation to nature, culture be damned ; A goddess quantified: Gaia, chaos, complexity: The nervous alliance of science and myth -- Part 4. Earth jazz. Managers and fetishers: Two schools that dominate the current debate, and why both are wrong ; Bebop: In search of a musical model for our collaboration with nature ; The wild garden: From rain forest to desert, indigenous peoples have learned to learn from nature ; The tree of life: It's not the fiascos of biotechnology that we should fear, but its successes ; The tree of knowledge: Finding the garden in the machine -- without being lulled by "soft technology" ; The urban animal: A second look at the city, which ought to be nature's best friend ; Reclaiming Arcadia: Another second look: suburbs, summer homes, and how they may be redeemed ; Two networks: Hedgerows, greenbelts, wildlife corridors: the geometry of wildness ; Hot and cool: The challenge of global warming, and why nature is never spent ; The foothills of Eden: A look back over the ground we have covered, and a view from heaven.".
• catalog description "Presents new perspectives on present-day environmental problems by examining the changing nature of humankind's belief in a paradise and the ways we have disguised our actual dealings with nature.".
• catalog description "Prologue: Persons from Porlock -- Part 1. Waves. The marriage of grass and man: A look at the logic of husbandry, from wheat's point of view ; Axis powers: Long before humankind, alliances of species were conquering the world ; Dirt cheap: The rise and fall of the soil community, and the cost of modern farming ; The new Pangaea: Biological invasion: How ships and airplanes erode the diversity of life ; The human mushroom: The odd ecology of fossil fuel, and why getting energy is a risky business ; Life on the edge: The tricky, and partly illusory, transition from nature to culture -- Part 2. The mountain and the tower. The mountain of the gods: Canaan: The heart of the world is wilderness ; The Tower of Babel: Mesopotamia: The heart of the world is the city ; The fiery sword: Israel: In making our paradise we unmake Eden, and so expel ourselves -- The rivers of Eden: How streams and pools of wildness keep civilization alive ; Storming the mountain: Gilgamesh and Enki: The triumph over nature and its bitter, or salty, aftertaste ; The highways of Rome: From a Hebrew god tied to place, to the perils of Western universalism.".
• catalog extent "xxiv, 612 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Ecology of Eden.".
• catalog identifier "0394577507".
• catalog isFormatOf "Ecology of Eden.".
• catalog issued "1998".
• catalog issued "1998.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Alfred A. Knopf,".
• catalog relation "Ecology of Eden.".
• catalog subject "Environmentalism.".
• catalog subject "GE195 .E38 1998X".
• catalog subject "Human ecology.".
• catalog subject "Nature Effect of human beings on.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Part 3. Idylls. Arcadia: In search of the perfect midpoint between city and wilderness ; Lost illusions: Summer places and their discontents; and some lessons from the real Arcadia ; The walled garden: Persia: What the garden walls out, and how its pattern soothes the divided soul ; Patting nature on the head: Greek gardens, or the lack thereof, and the Roman empire of greenery ; The cloister and the plow: The Middle Ages: contemplating heaven while mastering the earth ; Bringing a statue to life: The Renaissance garden as refuge from plague, proletarians, and paradox ; Leaping the fence: Sun King and Ice Age: coal, capital, colonies, and the English landscape garden ; Westward in Eden: The real American experiment: a direct relation to nature, culture be damned ; A goddess quantified: Gaia, chaos, complexity: The nervous alliance of science and myth -- Part 4. Earth jazz. Managers and fetishers: Two schools that dominate the current debate, and why both are wrong ; Bebop: In search of a musical model for our collaboration with nature ; The wild garden: From rain forest to desert, indigenous peoples have learned to learn from nature ; The tree of life: It's not the fiascos of biotechnology that we should fear, but its successes ; The tree of knowledge: Finding the garden in the machine -- without being lulled by "soft technology" ; The urban animal: A second look at the city, which ought to be nature's best friend ; Reclaiming Arcadia: Another second look: suburbs, summer homes, and how they may be redeemed ; Two networks: Hedgerows, greenbelts, wildlife corridors: the geometry of wildness ; Hot and cool: The challenge of global warming, and why nature is never spent ; The foothills of Eden: A look back over the ground we have covered, and a view from heaven.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: Persons from Porlock -- Part 1. Waves. The marriage of grass and man: A look at the logic of husbandry, from wheat's point of view ; Axis powers: Long before humankind, alliances of species were conquering the world ; Dirt cheap: The rise and fall of the soil community, and the cost of modern farming ; The new Pangaea: Biological invasion: How ships and airplanes erode the diversity of life ; The human mushroom: The odd ecology of fossil fuel, and why getting energy is a risky business ; Life on the edge: The tricky, and partly illusory, transition from nature to culture -- Part 2. The mountain and the tower. The mountain of the gods: Canaan: The heart of the world is wilderness ; The Tower of Babel: Mesopotamia: The heart of the world is the city ; The fiery sword: Israel: In making our paradise we unmake Eden, and so expel ourselves -- The rivers of Eden: How streams and pools of wildness keep civilization alive ; Storming the mountain: Gilgamesh and Enki: The triumph over nature and its bitter, or salty, aftertaste ; The highways of Rome: From a Hebrew god tied to place, to the perils of Western universalism.".
• catalog title "The ecology of Eden / Evan Eisenberg.".
• catalog type "text".