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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Legacy of LexingtonA reference book for the breeders of sport horses and Thoroughbreds, which covers in detail the superior sport bloodlines developed in the heat racing era (1665-1870) and identifies the modern carriers that are potent in them. It gives the history of this unique breed,...
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North American Sport Horse BreederThis is a reference book for the breeder and owner of sport horses. It presents the breeder with a fresh way to evaluate their stock or mounts, using the pedigree as a genetic road map so they can assess genetic dominance, plus it explains...
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The Green Crab Cookbook: An Invasive Species Meets a Culinary SolutionFor centuries, green crabs have been embedded within Venetian cuisine: served soft-shell or shucked for delicious caviar known as Masinette. Travel outside the Mediterranean and the crab has a very different reputation. This small crustacean has spread to nearly every continent on the globe...
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Shell Life on the SeashoreOriginally published in 1961, Shell Life on the Seashore is an amateur beachcombing classic. This newly reissued and updated edition includes a new foreword by Philip Hoare and an illustrated fold-out guide to identifying shells on the reverse of the book jacket. For many,...
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Museum Through a Lens: Photographs from the Natural History Museum 1880 to 1950Featuring a wealth of black-and-white photographs from the Natural History Museum's vast collection, this text offers a real flavour of life at one of London's oldest and most famous visitor attractions, from Victorian times until just after the Second World War.Author: Susan Snell, Polly...
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten," notes guest editor Amy Stewart in her introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016. "But at the end of the day, we're...
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The Best American Science and Nature WritingThe Best American Series The next edition in a series praised as "undeniably exquisite" (Maria Popova), The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015 includes work from both award-winning writers and up-and-coming voices in the field. From Brooke Jarvis on deep-ocean mining to Elizabeth...
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Accepting the Universe Essays in NaturalismThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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Alimentamos Una Isla / We Fed an Island: Una Historia Verdadera Sobre La Reconstrucción de Puerto RicoLa historia verdadera de c mo un grupo de chefs aliment a cientos de miles de estadounidenses hambrientos despu s del hurac n Mar a y conmovi los corazones de muchos m s. El chef Jos Andr s lleg a Puerto Rico cuatro d...
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Greyhound Nation: A Coevolutionary History of England, 1200-1900Edmund Russell's much-anticipated new book examines interactions between greyhounds and their owners in England from 1200 to 1900 to make a compelling case that history is an evolutionary process. Challenging the popular notion that animal breeds remain uniform over time and space, Russell integrates...
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Australia's Mammal Extinctions: A 50 000 Year HistoryOf the forty mammal species known to have vanished in the world in the last 200 years, almost half have been Australian. Our continent has the worst record of mammal extinctions, with over 65 mammal species having vanished in the last 50 000 years....
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In the Company of Animals: A Study of Human-Animal RelationshipsIn the Company of Animals is an original and very readable study of human attitudes to the natural world. It contrasts the way we love some animals while ruthlessly exploiting others; it provides a detailed and fascinating account of ways in which animal companionship...
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Global Biodiversity Assessment Summary for Policy-MakersThe Global Biodiversity Assessment is an independent, peer-reviewed, scientific analysis and assessment of the biological and socio-economic aspects of biodiversity. It was commissioned by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The main conclusions drawn by the...
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The Ever Changing Sky: A Guide to the Celestial SphereThe Ever-Changing Sky is a comprehensive and uniquely non-mathematical guide to spherical astronomy. In a clear and lucid text, it guides through terrestrial and celestial co-ordinate systems, time measurement and celestial navigation, on to the stars and constellations (with useful star maps provided), the...
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The Cambridge Guide to the ConstellationsConstellations are not new to astronomy. Even before the era of printing, patterns of stars have been recognized by humans and their histories have been passed on from generation to generation, culture to culture. This book is the ultimate constellation reference book. Finally, a...
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Astronomy with Your Personal ComputerThe first edition of this very successful book was a winner of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's "Astronomy Book of the Year" award in 1986. The popularity of the book's programs is based on the ease with which the amateur astronomer can perform...
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Environmental Markets: A Property Rights ApproachEnvironmental Markets explains the prospects of using markets to improve environmental quality and resource conservation. No other book focuses on a property rights approach using environmental markets to solve environmental problems. This book compares standard approaches to these problems using governmental management, regulation, taxation,...
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A Guide to Species Irises: Their Identification and CultivationThis volume was first published in 1997, providing a comprehensive, botanically detailed survey of this beautiful group of plants since publication of The Genus Iris by W. R. Dykes. Following the pattern of the original Dykes monograph, botanical details, cultivation suggestions and general comments...
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ConservationThe importance of conservation is growing each year, with increasing concerns over the destruction of biodiversity and the rising awareness of ecosystem services generating new debates on the human-nature relationship. This compact overview integrates the process, theory and practice of conservation for a broad...
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Fundamentals of AstrometryAstrometry encompasses all that is necessary to measure the positions and motions of celestial bodies: observational techniques, instrumentation, processing and analysis of observational data, and reference systems and frames, as well as the resulting astronomical phenomena. It is fundamental to all other fields of...
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