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 World Encyclopedia of Animals: A Reference and Identification Guide to 840 of the Most Significant Amphibians, Reptiles and MammalsPacked full of facts and detailed illustrations, this is a substantially updated family reference guide to the animals that inhabit our world. From the smallest mouse to the largest whale, this book offers a thorough introduction to an array of reptiles, amphibians and mammals,...
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Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold That Seduced the WorldHoney has been waiting almost ten million years for a good biography. Bees have been making this prized food -- for centuries the world's only sweetener -- for millennia, but we humans started recording our fascination with it only in the past few thousanAuthor:...
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Animal Lessons: Discovering Your Spiritual Connection with AnimalsDevelop a deeper, more positive relationship with the animals in your life and become a better person using Animal Lessons. All around you, animals are acting as therapists, trainers, mentors, and gurus--if you pay attention. They want to guide you toward the next step...
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How Biology WorksThe mysteries of life, from DNA and cells to evolution and ecology, all explained with simple words and clever graphics The simplest, most visual guide to the science of life--ever How do vaccines work? What is special about stem cells? How did we evolve...
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Florida's ShipwrecksThe Sunshine State has a rich maritime history spanning more than five centuries. Tragically, part of that history includes thousands of ships that have met their fates in Florida waters.Potentially more than 5,000 shipwrecks reside off Florida's 1,200 miles of coastline, with hundreds more...
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Dominion of Bears: Living with Wildlife in AlaskaLong ago we invited bears into our stories, our dreams, our nightmares, our lives. We have always sought them out where they live, for their hides, their meat, their beauty, their knowingness. Human country and bear country exist side by side. As Sherry Simpson...
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Sea Dragons: Predators of the Prehistoric OceansIn the days when dinosaurs dominated the earth, their marine counterparts--every bit as big and ferocious--reigned supreme in prehistoric seas. In this entrancing book, Richard Ellis, one of the world's foremost writers on the denizens of the deep, takes us back to the Mesozoic...
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Bees of California: Art, Science, and PoetryBees provide food through the simple but essential act of pollination. There are thousands of bee species in North America, but bees are dying. This book is a collaboration between student artists, scientists and writers at the University of California concerned with bee decline....
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A Field Guide to the Larger Mammals of TanzaniaHome to the Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania offers some of the finest big game watching in the world, from elephants and rhinos to chimpanzees and lions. This field guide covers all the larger mammals of Tanzania, including marine mammals...
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Birds of Western and Central AfricaThis is the only pocket guide to all the species of bird known to inhabit Western and Central Africa. Ber van Perlo introduces more than 1,500 species through 109 expertly rendered full-color plates and concise, easy-to-consult entries. The territory covered is vast--nearly 2,500 miles...
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Where the Sunrise BeginsWhere does the sunrise begin? Douglas Wood asks this question in the style that has made him an internationally bestselling author. He answers it by focusing on the world of one child, then moving to another child's world farther away, and then yet still...
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The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and NatureFrom the award-winning author of The Tangled Tree and The Song of the Dodo comes a collection of essays in which various weird and wonderful aspects of nature are examined. From tales of vegetarian piranha fish and voiceless dogs to the scientific search for...
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African SilencesAfrican Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain on a continent he has written about in two previous books, A Tree Where Man...
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The Urban Whale: North Atlantic Right Whales at the CrossroadsIn 1980 a group of scientists censusing marine mammals in the Bay of Fundy was astonished at the sight of 25 right whales. It was, one scientist later recalled, "like finding a brontosaurus in the backyard." Until that time, scientists believed the North Atlantic...
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Simon & Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious StonesSimon & Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones provides both the connoisseur and the casual collector with a compact, easy-to-use volume describing more than 100 rare varieties of minerals whose beauty and mystery have possessed our imaginations from time immemorial. More than 450...
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The Wind Masters: The Lives of North American Birds of PreyEven people with little interest in birds will stop in their tracks at the sight of a hawk soaring overhead or a falcon perched on a window ledge. Birds of prey have an aura that few other creatures have. In the acclaimed Hawks in...
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Gladiator DogsFrom the author of The World of Fighting Dogs and Pit Bulls and Tenacious Guard Dogs comes this third and most impressive book to date, Gladiator Dogs. Bringing to life 13 breeds originally used as fighting dogs, Dr. Carl Semencic illustrates the history, characteristics...
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Mountain Wildflowers of Washington: 265 ImagesThis handy, laminated, fold-out wildflower guide is perfect for carrying in your back pocket or your daypack. It features 265 color photographs of Washington Wildflowers and includes the common name and scientific name for each. For ease of use, flowers are organized by color....
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The Complete Guide to the Herschel Objects: Sir William Herschel's Star Clusters, Nebulae and GalaxiesSir William Herschel's contributions to astronomy during the late eighteenth century are unrivaled. His lasting legacy is his dedicated all-sky survey of star clusters and nebulae, and these objects continue to be among the most studied in the night sky. This unique book provides...
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Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American ConservationCrimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber...
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