Nature
Discover the best nature books and top titles about the natural world at our online bookstore, featuring books about nature and life, wildlife books, and nature biographies. Explore must-read and best-selling books, including naturalist books and nature short stories, perfect for every nature enthusiast.
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Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the FutureAn anthology that accompanies Culturescapes 2023 Sahara, the 17th edition of the Swiss multidisciplinary festival. Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the Future is devoted to the ideas, images, poetics, politics, fictions, and movements of this vast desert and its myriad voices. Focused on the...
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Henry Hikes to FitchburgInspired by a passage from Henry David Thoreau's WALDEN, this wonderfully appealing story follows two friends who have very different approaches to life. When the two agree to meet one evening in Fitchburg, which is thirty miles away, each decides to get there in...
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Ahuahu: An Island Conservation Journey in Aotearoa New ZealandAotearoa New Zealand is renowned among biologists worldwide for spectacular ecological restoration work over the last 50 years, through advances in pest eradication and native species translocation. This book documents the development of these world-leading technologies. It uses examples from throughout the country, but...
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The Biology of Aquatic and Wetland PlantsAquatic plants play a critically important role in maintaining ecosystem health. They are natural biological filters in freshwater and estuarine wetlands; they contribute to the reproductive success of many organisms, some of which are harvested for food; they assist in flood control; and they...
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The Grandin Papers: Over 50 Years of Research on Animal Behavior and Welfare That Improved the Livestock Industry"The Grandin Papers is a compilation of some of my most important scientific papers with an emphasis on livestock facility design, the development of animal welfare auditing programs, and behavior of cattle and horses during handling. They are in chronological order. I chose the...
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The Sloth Lemur's Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain PresentA moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island. Madagascar is a place of change. A biodiversity hotspot and the fourth largest island on the planet, it has been home to...
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Loons 2024 12 X 12 Wall CalendarCommon loons, whose haunting calls rivet lakeside listeners, are known as "Spirits of the North". Twelve magnificent full color photographs depict these beloved birds in their natural, North American habitat. Stay organized in the upcoming year with a Willow Creek Press 2024 12" x...
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The National Parks of the United States: A Photographic Journey, 2nd EditionFirst published to coincide with the centennial of the National Parks Service, this unique collection by a single photographer has been updated in this second edition to include information on all sixty-three US National Parks. In 2007, award-winning landscape photographer Andrew Thomas began a...
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Treestand ChatterTreestand Chatter invites you to head out with the author to his treestand. Though the treestand is typically used for archery hunts for whitetail deer, it is so much more than that. The more hours spent gawking at all that makes up nature itself...
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Piko: A Return to the Dreaming"In the Hawaiian language, Piko can be translated as "the very center." As a society, we understand that before we can make sense of the results of our culture, we must remember the very design of it, or its piko.Jennifer Lighty, with her provocative...
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New York Botanical Garden 2024 Wall CalendarBeautiful reproductions of rare and little-seen botanical illustrations from the America's premier urban garden: The New York Botanical Garden. A national historic landmark, NYBG is the largest botanical garden in any U.S. city, with a 250-acre site with fifty specialty gardens and collections comprising...
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Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and TaiwanIndigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomadic, hunting, foraging, or fishing peoples. Questioning Borders explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and Taiwan, analyzing relations among humans, animals, ecosystems,...
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IndicaDid you know that the exquisite caves of Ellora were hewn from rock formed in the greatest lava floods the world has known-eruptions so enormous that they may well have obliterated dinosaurs? Or that Bengaluru owes its unique climate to a tectonic event that...
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Capturing the French River: Images Along One of Canada's Most Famous Waterways, 1910-1927Capturing the French River introduces a rare collection of exceptional photographs taken along the river between 1910 and 1927 by Doctors J. Ernest Rushbrook and Frank Sherman, whose lifelong friendship was based in part around their mutual love of photography, of nature, of the...
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Seaweed: Foraging, Collecting, PressingA gorgeous guide to foraging, pressing and using seaweeds for a wealth of home creative projects. Both aspirational and inspirational, this guide to bringing the outdoors inside is quite unlike anything on the market and will inspire all readers to begin their beach foraging...
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Ah, the Beach! 2024 6.2 X 5.4 Box CalendarPicture yourself on a sunlit, sugar-sand beach before a turquoise sea. Now picture yourself on a different beautiful beach every day of the year! This "Wish You Were There" 2024 daily calendar transports you to a tropical paradise throughout the year with 314 full-color,...
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Footprints in the Woods: The Secret Life of Forest and RiverbankThe elusive lives of otters, beavers, badgers, weasels and more are rendered in John Lister-Kaye's enchanting lyrical styleFootprints in the Woods is John Lister-Kaye's account of a year spent observing the comings and goings of otters, beavers, badgers, weasels and pine martens. This family...
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Stones: A Material and Cultural HistoryThe story of our deep and multifaceted connections to geological matter--the very bedrock of our lives. From small beach pebbles to huge megaliths, stones have been revered, collected, enhanced, sculpted, or engraved for practical and artistic purposes throughout the ages. They have been used...
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Wetland Ecology: Principles and ConservationRichly illustrated in colour and packed with examples from every major continent and wetland type, this third edition has been completely rewritten to provide undergraduates with a thoroughly accessible introduction to the basic principles. It divides the world's wetlands into six principal types and...
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Island Biogeography: Geo-Environmental Dynamics, Ecology, Evolution, Human Impact, and ConservationIsland biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands are ideal places for unique species to evolve, but they are also places of concentrated extinction. Consequently, they are...
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