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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Claws: The Crab, the Lobster, and the ShrimpCelebrate the allure and variety of crustaceans with this beautifully illustrated guide to thirty species of crabs, lobsters, hermit crabs, and shrimps.Turn the pages of Claws and dive into a world of empathy and wonder for the natural realm by marveling at these curious,...
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California Amphibians and How to Find ThemA welcoming, laugh-out-loud, conservation-minded guide to California's salamanders and frogs.Frisky frogs and secretive salamanders: For these marvelous creatures, California is one massive wild water park. With California Amphibians and How to Find Them, expert herpetologist Emily Taylor presents an accessible guide to the part-water,...
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Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf CoastBeyond Katrina is poet Natasha Trethewey's very personal profile of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by hurricane Katrina. Trethewey spent her childhood in Gulfport, where much of her mother's extended family, including her younger brother,...
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Animal PhysiologyComprehensive, contemporary, and engaging, Animal Physiology provides evolutionary and ecological context to help students make connections across all levels of physiological scale. One of the major challenges instructors and students face in Animal Physiology is making connections across levels of biological scale. Animal Physiology...
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A Californian's Guide to the Birds Among UsAs its sister title, A Californian's Guide to the Trees Among Us, did for arboreal varieties, this new guidebook introduces casual birders to 120 of California's most easily seen bird species--native and exotic alike--as found in a mix of urban, suburban, and traditionally natural...
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Abbey's Road"The natural world, as we call it, has already become remote, out of reach, mysterious, in the minds of urban and suburban Americans. They see the wilderness disappearing, slipping away, receding into an inaccessible past. But they are mistaken. That world can still be...
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1200 Tropical Fish: An Illustrated Guide to 1200 Fish Species from Around the WorldA specialist in tropical fish illustration, Mitsuhiro Iwasaki has used Computer Assisted Design (CAD) software to make illustrations of the most interesting tropical fish, meticulously drawn to scale. This is one of the world's most comprehensive encyclopedias of tropical fish. In addition to the...
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Wonderlandscape: Yellowstone National Park and the Evolution of an American Cultural IconAn evocative blend of history and nature writing that tells the story of Yellowstone's evolving significance in American culture through the stories of ten iconic figures. An "Honored Book" by the Montana Book Awards Yellowstone is America's premier national park. Today is often a...
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Wild Edible Plants of OklahomaA state of botanical dynamism, Oklahoma's wild edible plant life is rich and varied. This diversity is linked to a number of environmental elements, of which geography and climate are the main players. Consequently, the state sits within two extremes, the arid mesas of...
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Trees of Eastern North AmericaThe most comprehensive and user-friendly field guide to the trees of eastern North America Covering 825 species, more than any comparable field guide, Trees of Eastern North America is the most comprehensive, best illustrated, and easiest-to-use book of its kind. Presenting all the native...
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The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate GreedIn their acclaimed book The Water Defenders, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh told the story of activists in San Isidro, El Salvador, who fought multinational mining corporation OceanaGold and won--protecting their drinking water and environment from irreparable harm--despite great personal danger. Now, Jon Sack's...
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The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary ParisStep into the life and times of George Forster, the eighteenth-century naturalist who sailed the world and made waves with his revolutionary ideas about humanity and freedom--from the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature. "[A] thrilling biography-cum-adventure story." --Hampton Sides, author of The...
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The Rediscovery of North AmericaFive hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came to America and began a process not of discovery, but incursion: "a ruthless, angry search for wealth" that continues to the present day. This provocative and superbly written book...
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The Lives of Butterflies: A Natural History of Our Planet's Butterfly LifeA beautifully illustrated introduction to the lives of butterflies around the world There are more than fifteen thousand butterfly species in the world, fluttering through a wide variety of habitats. Bright and beautiful, butterflies also have fascinating life histories and play an important role...
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The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and LossThe Book of Birds is a field guide with a difference: It shows readers not just how to identify birds, but also how to identify with them. Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris conjure the unique spirit of nearly fifty once-common species: avocet to yellowhammer,...
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Sibley Birding Sticker Book: With More Than 300 Stickers: Stickers for Journals, Water Bottles, Laptops, Planners, and MoreA vibrant collection of more than 300 unique stickers of common and rare North American birds, from beloved birding expert and nature artist David Sibley Celebrate the birds of North America with The Sibley Birding Sticker Book! Personalize your belongings with over 300 different...
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Mammals of Michigan Field GuideIdentify Michigan mammals with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by family and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information.Whether you happen upon an animal track or actually see wildlife in nature, encountering mammals is a thrill. Learn to identify mammals in Michigan. With Stan Tekiela's...
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Is a River Alive?Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is...
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Compassion in Crisis: Building Disaster-Resilient CommunitiesA vibrant and holistic grassroots guide to disaster preparedness that builds community resilience.polycrisis noun /'pa: .li, krai.sis/a time of great disagreement, confusion, or suffering caused by many different crises occurring simultaneously and amplifying one another.How do we live in the age of disaster? In...
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Cats: A HistoryA sweeping and fascinating history of cat-human relationships.For more than 10,000 years, cats have prowled at the edges of human life. But, starting only a few decades ago, hundreds of millions of them became pets. In Cats, Rod Phillips shares a sweeping cultural and...
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