Product Description: This is the classic treatise on hunting, written by Spain's leading philosopher of the 20th century. Reprinted with permission from Scribner, this edition features handsome new illustrations. The author explains the reason why humans hunt, as well as the ethics of hunting.

Product Description: Paul Shepard is one of the most profound and original thinkers of our time. He has helped define the field of human ecology, and has played a vital role in the development of what have come to be known as environmental philosophy, ecophilosophy, and deep ecology -- new ways of thinking about human-environment interactions that ultimately hold great promise for healing the bonds between humans and the natural world...read more

Product Description: Gathered here in book form for the first time, the fourteen essays in Where We Belong exemplify Paul Shepard's interdisciplinary approach to human interaction with the natural world. Drawn from Shepard's entire career and presented chronologically, these pieces vary in setting from the Hudson River to the American prairie to New Zealand...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A pioneering exploration of the roots of our attitudes toward nature, Paul Shepard's most seminal work is as challenging and provocative today as when it first appeared in 1967. Man in the Landscape was among the first books of a new genre that has elucidated the ideas, beliefs, and images that lie behind our modern destruction and conservation of the natural world.Departing from the traditional study of land use as a history of technology, this book explores the emergence of modern attitudes in literature, art, and architecture―their evolutionary past and their taproot in European and Mediterranean cultures. With humor and wit, Shepard considers the influence of Christianity on ideas of nature, the absence of an ethic of nature in modern philosophy, and the obsessive themes of dominance and control as elements of the modern mind. In his discussions of the exploration of the American West, the establishment of the first national parks, and the reactions of pioneers to their totally new habitat, he identifies the transport of traditional imagery into new places as a sort of cultural baggage.

Twenty-one essays discuss the perception and aesthetics of nature, the influence of animals on humans, the nature of place, and how nature and culture help shape the development of the individual (view table of contents)

Examines the theory that essential human nature is a product of genetic heritage, formed through thousands of years of evolution during the Pleistocene epoch and the current subversion of that heritage lies at the heart of today's ecological and social problems (view table of contents)

Product Description: In a world increasingly dominated by human beings, the survival of other species becomes more and more questionable. In this brilliant book, Paul Shepard offers a provocative alternative to an "us or them" mentality, proposing that other species are integral to humanity's evolution and exist at the core of our imagination...read more

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Provides a controversial analysis of the psychological roots of human attempts to destroy the environment, focusing on the desire to subjugate rather than harmonize with natural processes that has led to continual conflict with nature (view table of contents)

Argues that human interactions with animals--observing them, hunting them, using their products, and domesticating them--influenced the development of human culture

A compilation of the author's works reflects his philosophy of the relationship between the human condition and the surrounding natural environment