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 Compleat LungfishThis World. This world as it is right there now. Some instruments behind it there. The abrasive throat against it. Where to put it? Where to align these things with these other things? Patricia Lee Smith screaming. Who is there screaming now? The figure...
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Spawning Modern Fish: Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese SalmonSince the mid-nineteenth century, agricultural development and fisheries management in northern Japan have been profoundly shaped by how people within and beyond Japan have compared Hokkaido's landscapes to those of other places, as part of efforts to make the new Japanese nation-state more legibly...
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Wilted Wings: A Hunter's Fight for EaglesIn this groundbreaking work, McTee, a hunter and wildlife researcher in westernMontana, exposes a terrifying link between humans and eagles, while buildingthe framework for how to safeguard these iconic raptors.Highly recommended for anyone interested in how modern hunters are leading our nation's conservation efforts....
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San Bruno Mountain: A Guide to the Flora and FaunaA deep dive into the Bay Area's ecological treasure trove--and how this wild mountain in our midst was saved.San Bruno Mountain, located in the center of the San Francisco Bay Area, is a four-square mile global treasure--a natural preserve touted by biologist E.O. Wilson...
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Loss/LessChosen by Susan Howe for the Marsh Hawk Press Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award, Loss/Less is a collection that addresses grief and reverence for the natural world. These commanding yet haunting poems present an "ecstatic interpretation of the natural world that brings Emerson to mind....
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Utah Mollusk Identification GuideThe Utah Mollusk Identification Guide offers up-to-date information for identifying aquatic and terrestrial snails, slugs, clams, and mussels within the state of Utah, providing comparative tables, taxonomic keys, and more than 230 images, including many type specimen images published for the first time. Amateur...
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Saving the Georgia Coast: A Political History of the Coastal Marshlands Protection ACTFifty years ago Georgia chose how it would use the natural environment of its coast. The General Assembly passed the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act in 1970, and, surprisingly, Lester Maddox, a governor who had built a conservative reputation by defending segregation, signed it into...
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Passions for Birds: Science, Sentiment, and SportWhether as sources of joy and pleasure to be fed, counted, and watched, as objects of sport to be hunted and killed, or as food to be harvested, wild birds evoke strong feelings. Sean Nixon traces the transformation of these human passions for wild...
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How to Create a Butterfly Garden: Bringing the Beauty of Butterflies Into Your WorldAuthor Mathew Tekulsky wrote the first book on butterfly gardening for North America, nearly 40 years ago! Butterfly gardening is the practice of attracting beautiful butterflies to your garden by growing common plants and flowers that they use for food and nectar. This fun...
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The Longest Story: How Humans Have Loved, Hated and Misunderstood Other SpeciesWhy do we treat our dogs as people but prefer pigs as bacon? 'Lucid, informed and persuasive' Evening Standard 'Thought-provoking' Daily Mail 'An extraordinary book' Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer The history of humanity's relationship with other species is baffling. Without animals...
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Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the EnvironmentSo much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative Ecologies is a bold reappraisal of the outsized role fossil fuels have played in making the environment visible, factual,...
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Small Bodies of Water'Remarkable' Robert Macfarlane'Gorgeous' Amy Liptrot'Urgent and nourishing' Jessica J. Lee Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo - where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became her first body of water. Through her...
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Insects and Their Beneficial MicrobesA comprehensive overview of symbiotic relationships between insects and microbes Insects and Their Beneficial Microbes is an authoritative and accessible synthesis of insect associations with beneficial microorganisms. Angela Douglas distills the vast literature in entomology and microbiology, as well as the burgeoning microbiome literature,...
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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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Each One a Furnace: PoemsFrom the author of The Junta of Happenstance, here is a brilliant new collection of poems--a burning chronicle of passage and stillness and restlessness. Each One a Furnace explores (im)migration, diasporas, transience, and instability by following the behaviour, and abundant variety, of finches. The...
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Yellowstone & Grand Teton Wildlife Portfolio (Sc)Here's your invitation to savor the awe-inspiring beauty of two of our nation's most beloved national parks, Yellowstone and Grand Teton, at the magical hour near dawn. Accomplished photographer Dennis Linnehan captures the parks' diversity, photographing dramatic Grand Teton vistas, the delicate patterns of...
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Toward a Critical Theory of Nature: Capital, Ecology, and DialecticsChallenging the normalization of a capitalist reality in which environmental destruction and catastrophe have become 'second nature', Towards a Critical Theory of Nature offers a bold new theoretical understanding of the current crisis via the work of the Frankfurt School. Focusing on key notions...
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Crossroads of the Natural World: Exploring North Carolina with Tom EarnhardtIn this richly illustrated love letter to the wild places and natural wonders of North Carolina, Tom Earnhardt, writer and host of UNC-TV's Exploring North Carolina and lifelong conservationist, seamlessly ties deep geological time and forgotten species from our distant past to the unparalleled...
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Animals in DangerMice have gone missing, polar bears are losing their place to rest, butterflies are going without food, and invasive species are taking over. What on Earth is putting these animals in danger? As Earth's climate is changing, natural habitats are shifting and disappearing, causing...
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Killing the Hidden WatersIn the quarter-century since his first book, Killing the Hidden Waters, was published in 1977, Charles Bowden has become one of the premier writers on the American environment, rousing a generation of readers to both the wonder and the tragedy of humanity's relationship with...
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