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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Owls of the United States and Canada: A Complete Guide to Their Biology and BehaviorNamed One of the Best Reference Books of 2007 by Library JournalThere is no group of birds more mysterious and fascinating than owls. The loudmouths of the raptor world, they peep, trill, toot, bark, growl, shriek, whistle, chittle, whoop, chuckle, boom, and buzz. Indeed,...
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The Bees of the WorldIn this extensive update of his definitive reference, Charles D. Michener reveals a diverse fauna that numbers more than 17,000 species and ranges from the common honeybee to rare bees that feed on the pollen of a single type of plant. With many new...
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Squirrels: The Animal Answer GuideDid you know that a groundhog is really a type of squirrel? That squirrels control their body temperature with their tails? That most squirrels have yellow-tinted eye lenses that work like sunglasses to reduce glare? That tree squirrels can turn their hind feet completely...
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A Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of the Southern AppalachiansAlthough the title suggests this is a guide to plants in a limited geographic range, the plants here are found in many areas of eastern North America, and the book can therefore be used as a guide for this larger area. But for naturalists...
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The Clements Checklist of Birds of the WorldBirds have long held a unique dual role as a model group for scientists and as the focus of birders' passionate quests. Despite centuries of observation, each year brings the discovery and description of several entirely new avian species and hundreds of other taxonomic...
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Curiosité Naturelle, 2e Édition: Ressource Pour l'Enseignante Ou l'Enseignant: L'Importance Du Point de Vue Autochtone Dans l'Enquête Dans l'EnvironneLe présent document est un excellent outil pour l'enseignante ou l'enseignant de même qu?un incitatif pour l'élève à découvrir le monde qui l'entoure. Il encadre l'enquête dans l'environnement, enquête qui est façonnée par les questions et les hypothèses formulées par l'élève ? sa curiosité...
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TreesTrees is a must-have, field guide for beginners and experts alike. Whether you're on a nature hike or taking a stroll in your neighborhood, you'll want to take along a copy of this indispensable guide featuring some of the most familiar, distinctive, and widespread...
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How to Walk a Puma: And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling Through South AmericaOn his nineteenth birthday, Peter Allison flipped a coin. One side would take him to Africa and the other to South America, the two places he wanted to explore before he died. He recounted his time spent as a safari guide in Africa to...
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The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the BeholderFrom "one of the most fascinating and thought-provoking writers of natural history" (The Seattle Times), a collection of enduring essays that form a bestiary of wondrous creatures and a gallery of the human faces that peer at them. The Boilerplate Rhino brings together twenty-six...
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Neighboring With Nature: Native Herbs for Purpose & PleasureNeighboring with Nature is a gardening guide for people eager to foster a closer relationship with their local landscapes by planting gardens designed both for their ecological and aesthetic values. We have reached the point where our plantings can no longer be just ornamental...
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Wildlife of the ArcticA pocket-sized photographic field guide to Arctic birds, mammals, and other wildlife Wildlife of the Arctic is an accessible and richly illustrated pocket-sized photographic field guide to the birds, land and sea mammals, and plants and lichens of the northern polar region--including Alaska, Canada,...
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Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth HabitableThe marvelous microbes that made life on Earth possible and support our very existence For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for...
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Animals of Kruger National ParkSouth Africa's Kruger National Park is one of the largest and most diverse conservation areas in Africa, and a hugely popular visitor attraction. Animals of Kruger National Park is a compact and beautifully illustrated guide, and the essential companion for any safari to the...
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The World's Rarest BirdsAn illustrated survey of the world's most endangered birds This illustrated book vividly depicts the most endangered birds in the world and provides the latest information on the threats each species faces and the measures being taken to save them. Today, 571 bird species...
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Life in Cold BloodLife in Cold Blood offers a rare glimpse into the peculiar world of amphibians and reptiles, the first vertebrate creatures to venture forth from the primeval waters millions of years ago, yet which today include species that are the most at risk of extinction....
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Birds of Europe, Russia, China, and Japan: Non-Passerines: Loons to WoodpeckersThis is one of two companion field guides that illustrate and describe all of the approximately 1,800 bird species found in the Palearctic--the huge region that includes Europe, Asia north of the Himalayas, Africa north of the Sahara Desert, and the Middle East excluding...
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PassingsPassenger pigeon. Carolina parakeet. Eskimo curlew. In this timely collection of elegies, award-winning poet Holly J. Hughes gives voice to these and other bird species that no longer fill our skies. If their names sound a litany of the hundreds of species we've lost,...
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UnforgettableWe all have memories that are sacred to us, that we have kept for ourselves. They bridge our pasts and our present. Some of these are sources of great beauty and we hold them dear. Others bring pain and heartache, and these we often...
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Why I Came WestIn this searching memoir, Rick Bass describes how he first fell in love with theWest -- as a landscape, an idea, and a way of life. Bass grew up in the suburban sprawl of Houston, attended college in Utah, and spent eight years working...
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A Sea of Glass: Searching for the Blaschkas' Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk Volume 13"The author makes an eloquent plea for marine biodiversity conservation."--Library Journal"Harvell seems to channel the devotion that motivated the Blaschkas."--The Guardian Winner of the 2016 National Outdoor Book Award, Environment Category It started with a glass octopus. Dusty, broken, and all but forgotten, it...
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