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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The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals, Revised EditionFor this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and the writing of history, Gertrude Himmelfarb adds four insightful and provocative essays dealing with changes in the discipline over the past twenty years. In examining the effects of postmodernism, the illusions of cosmopolitanism,...
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Thoreau's Country: Journey Through a Transformed LandscapeIn 1977 David Foster took to the woods of New England to build a cabin with his own hands. Along with a few tools he brought a copy of the journals of Henry David Thoreau. Foster was struck by how different the forested landscape...
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Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New EnglandIn this innovative study of the rise of the conservation ethic in northern New England, Richard Judd shows that the movement that eventually took hold throughout America had its roots among the communitarian ethic of countrypeople rather than among urban intellectuals or politicians. Drawing...
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Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks and MineralsAn easy to use field guide that contains everything rock and mineral enthusiasts need to know with more than 1,000 spectacular illustrations--600 in full color! Practical, concise, and easy to use, Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals contains everything that the rock...
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Awesome Is EverywhereA stunning first picture book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome. Are you ready? With the simple touch of your fingers go on a stunning interactive journey to see the world as you never have before. Fly through...
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50 Ways to Help Save the Earth, Revised EditionRebecca Barnes outlines fifty ways in which you, your congregation, and your local community can help fight global warming and enjoy participation in a vital part of Christian discipleship. In 50 Ways to Help Save the Earth, Revised Edition, she makes a clear connection,...
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The Tasmanian Tiger: Extinct or Extant?Does the Tasmanian Tiger still roam the island state, parts of the Australian mainland, and the northern land mass of Irian Jaya-Papua New Guinea? Despite being hunted to extinction in the early part of the 20th century, the Tasmanian Tiger continues to stalk the...
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Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England FishermanWith its spectacular beaches and charming towns, Cape Cod is known around the world as a vacation spot and a summer retreat for the well-to-do. But there is another Cape Cod, a hidden, hardscrabble, year-round world whose hunter-gatherer economy dates back to the Bay...
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Guidebook to North American Dinosaurs According to Created KindsA Guidebook that provides expert information on North American dinosaurs from a biblical yet scientific perspective. In-depth facts and figures on over 100 genera of dinosaurs organized according to their likely created kinds. More than 300 artistic sketches and full-color photographs. Actual fossil evidences...
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Catskills and Hudson Valley EssaysHenry James described John Burroughs as a "more humorous, more available, and more sociable Thoreau." Burroughs's close friend and mentor Walt Whitman called him an "Audubon of prose." Throughout his long writing career, the Catskills and Hudson Valley native infused his writing with images...
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Eggs In My PocketA collection of essays selected from a long-running column in The Williamson County Sun Newspaper in Georgetown, Texas, Eggs In My Pocket paints a series of vivid, often touching pictures of everyday life on a three-generation family farm. Readers who have experienced, or longed...
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Foxfire 11Continuing the tradition begun in the acclaimed series of "Foxfire" books first published in 1972, the eleventh book includes articles on wild plant uses, gardening wit and wisdom, beekeeping, tool making, fishing, and more affairs of plain living.Author: Foxfire Fund IncPublisher: Turtleback BooksPublished: 12/01/1999Pages:...
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Foxfire 9The newest entry in the Foxfire publishing phenomenon--which all totalled has sold over 7 million books to date--continues the bestselling tradition with an all-new collection of home-folk material that promotes a more self-sufficient way of life. Black-and-white photographs throughout.Author: Eliot WiggintonPublisher: Turtleback BooksPublished: 09/17/1986Pages:...
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On the Wings of Cranes: Larry Walkinshaw's Life StoryTo love whooping cranes, sandhill cranes, and Kirtland's warblers was easy for Larry Walkinshaw. Saving them from extinction engulfed his life. Journey into Walkinshaw's incredible life drama to discover how his adventures led him onto the pinnacle of ornithological attainment-into that world of birding...
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Mushrooms, Molds, and Miracles"This superb book does for fungi what Audubon did for birds and Freud for the psyche," wrote the New Haven Register. Time Magazine called it "Fascinating" in a lead review. The little-known kingdom of fungi is revealed as never before or since-from the potato...
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Boiling Frogs: Intel vs. the VillageThe story goes that if you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water, he will jump out and save himself. If you place the same frog in a pot of cool water and slowly bring it to a boil, he will allow...
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Unknown Waters in an Unknown Land: Trout and the Soul in IowaAuthor: Dennis E. ClaysonPublisher: iUniversePublished: 04/01/2002Pages: 132Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.68h x 6.06w x 2.14dISBN: 9780595214730This title is not returnable
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Great Lakes Nature: An Outdoor YearAuthor: Mary BlocksmaPublisher: iUniversePublished: 10/01/2000Pages: 356Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.14w x 0.90dISBN: 9780595129430This title is not returnable
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Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a HeroA delight, full of heart and hijinks and humor . . . McDougall is a gifted storyteller who gets to the heart of the human-animal connection. --John Grogan, author of Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog From the best-selling...
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Atlas of Sedimentary Rocks Under the MicroscopeProvides a very clear guide to sedimentary rock types as seen under the microscope supported by practical aspects of slide preparation.Author: A. E. Adams, W. S. MacKenzie, C. GuilfordPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 07/16/1984Pages: 110Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.23dISBN: 9780582301184This title is not...
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