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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A Most Improbable Story: The Evolution of the Universe, Life, and HumankindThis book is a "Big History" of the evidence regarding how we came to be. It briefly explores philosophical thought and how our past might affect our future. The text summarizes different perspectives, including the strengths and weaknesses of each. The genesis of our...
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Discovering Dinosaurs: The Secrets of the World's Most Amazing CreaturesJourney back to the age of dinosaurs and uncover the secrets of some of the prehistoric world's most remarkable beasts. From the Tyrannosaurus rex and Diplodocus to the Triceratops and Stegosaurus, get up close and discover how these fascinating creatures lived, hunted, evolved and...
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Beyond Nature: Animal Liberation, Marxism, and Critical TheoryIn Beyond Nature Marco Maurizi offers a unique perspective on the question of animal liberation. Because animal rights activism has hitherto been characterized by an abstract moralism, Maurizi proposes instead a historical-materialist analysis of the relationship between humans and non-human animals.By contrasting the thinking...
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Blood Ivory: The Massacre of the African ElephantThe fascinating history of the persecution and conservation of the African elephant It is more than a thousand years since the exploitation of the elephant began. However, it is only in the last hundred years, with the coming of the 'Great White Hunters' with...
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EcoLaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of NatureThis book re-imagines law as ecolaw. The key insight of ecological thinking, that everything is connected to everything else - at least on the earth, and possibly in the cosmos - has become a truism of contemporary theory. Taking this insight as a starting...
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Remaking Society: A New Ecological PoliticsBreathing new life into revolutionary ideas.According to Murray Bookchin, a humane solution to the climate crisis will require replacing industrial capitalism with an egalitarian, ecological society; decentralized democratic communities; and sustainable technologies. Drawing on rich traditions of ecological science, anthropology, history, utopian philosophy, and...
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The Last Wilderness: A Journey Into SilenceNeil Ansell's THE LAST WILDERNESS is a mesmerising book on nature and solitude by a writer who has spent his lifetime taking solitary ventures into the wild. For any readers of the author's previous book, DEEP COUNTRY, Robert Macfarlane's THE OLD WAYS or William...
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Historic Disasters in Southeast MinnesotaSoutheast Minnesota has regularly felt the wrath of nature.In 1890, a driving straight-line wind on Lake Pepin overturned the Sea Wing, killing ninety-eight people within minutes in the worst marine tragedy in Minnesota history. In 1940, a raging blizzard trapped duck hunters on islands...
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Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to MiningIn a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world's sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand mining is stripping beaches and...
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That Red Headed Yukon Guide and TrapperA Reader's Digest of hunting and trappingWelcome to your vicarious wilderness adventure! With that red-headed Yukon guide and trapper as your leader, experience the joys and challenges of hunting and trapping ... all without leaving your living room chair.Through a series of short stories,...
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Ritual at World's End: Cláudio CarvalhaesWith a foreword by Ivone Gebara. "Ritual at World's End maps Cláudio's conversion to an ecological approach to liturgy. It also manifests his ever-confident eschewal of the usual authorities in liturgical theology. Instead, he is looking to liberation theologians, and listening to the poor....
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The Vegan Evolution: Transforming Diets and AgricultureArguing for a vegan economy, this book explains how we can and should alter our eating habits away from meat and dairy through sociocultural evolution. Using the latest research and ideas about the cultural ecology of food, this book makes the case that through...
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Routledge Handbook of Environmental Hazards and SocietyThis Handbook provides a state-of-the-science review of research and practice in the human dimensions of hazards field.The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Hazards and Society reviews and assesses existing knowledge and explores future research priorities in this growing field. It showcases the work of international...
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Collected Works of John Muir, Naturalist (complete and unabridged), including: The Mountains of California (illustrated in B&W), Stickeen: The Story oJohn Muir (1838- 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and the modern day ""patron saint of ecology"". His writings on his adventures in the various wildernesses of America have been enjoyed by millions. His ecological activism helped to preserve many of the national...
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Solid Air: Invisible Killer- Saving Birds from WindowsBirds behave as if sheet glass is invisible to them. They kill themselves striking clear and reflective panes in all types and sizes of human-built structures the world over. The killing is indiscriminate, taking the fit and unfit species, of any age category- both...
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The Pollen Grain Drawings of Dorothy Hodges: Taken from the Pollen Loads of the HoneybeeThe Pollen Loads of the Honeybee by Dorothy Hodges, an artist and experienced beekeeper, was first published 1952. It included drawings of pollen grains which will never be surpassed. The originals are preserved at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This booklet, published by IBRA,...
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Drone Flight Log Book: Ultimate UASDrone pilots increasingly need to keep accurate records of their flights for training and licensing purposes This log book makes it easy to record all flights and important information. Included in this journal: - basic flight info including weather, date, and location- drone information...
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We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and RecoveryWhat is the role of folklore in the discussion of catastrophe and trauma? How do disaster survivors use language, ritual, and the material world to articulate their experiences? What insights and tools can the field of folkloristics offer survivors for navigating and narrating disaster...
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Cities in a Sunburnt Country: Water and the Making of Urban AustraliaAs Australian cities face uncertain water futures, what insights can the history of Aboriginal and settler relationships with water yield? Residents have come to expect reliable, safe, and cheap water, but natural limits and the costs of maintaining and expanding water networks are at...
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Breeding Super BeesSteve Taber was a giant of the craft. He brought a wide experience in practical beekeeping to the problems of breeding.This volume brings together in one place a life times of experienceAuthor: S. TaberPublisher: Peacock PressPublished: 09/05/2000Pages: 184Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w...
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