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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Birds of the Sierra Nevada: Their Natural History, Status, and DistributionThis beautifully illustrated and user-friendly book presents the most up-to-date information available about the natural histories of birds of the Sierra Nevada, the origins of their names, the habitats they prefer, how they communicate and interact with one another, their relative abundance, and where...
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Field Guide to Marine Mammals of the Pacific Coast: Volume 100From gray whales giving birth in the lagoons of Baja California to sea otters nestled in kelp beds off California to killer whales living around Vancouver Island--this spectacular stretch of the Pacific Coast boasts one of the most abundant populations of sea mammals on...
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The Fish in the Forest: Salmon and the Web of LifeThe Fish in the Forest is an elegantly written, beautifully illustrated exploration of the complex web of relationships between the salmon of the Pacific Northwest and the surrounding ecosystem. Dale Stokes shows how nearly all aspects of this fragile ecosystem--from streambeds to treetops, from...
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Elephant ReflectionsElephant Reflections brings award-winning wildlife photographer Karl Ammann's gorgeous images together with a revelatory text by writer Dale Peterson to illuminate one of nature's greatest and most original works of art: the elephant. The photographs move from the purely aesthetic to the informative, depicting...
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Do It Yourself Bushcraft: A Book of the Big OutdoorsBoy Scouts co-founder and avid outdoorsman Uncle Dan Beard provides a clear, enthusiastic introduction to the joys of camping, trapping, and outdoor survival. Originally published nearly a century ago, this engagingly written and charmingly illustrated guide provides an atmospheric reminder of a simpler time....
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Acupuncture MedicineStarting with historical background, including the origins and meanings of concepts essential to the practice of acupuncture, the text proceeds to a discussion of the anatomical and pathophysiological concepts of Oriental medicine, concluding with a detailed review of diagnostic methods. A practical guid for...
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The Wonderful World of Horses - Adult Coloring Book - 2nd Edition: Beautiful Horses to Color - 2nd Edition with additional and updated illustrationsThe Best Horse Coloring Book *Note: this is a 2nd Edition and contains most of the 1st Edition illustrations - many of these have been revised and updated for an even better coloring experience. It also has totally new & original illustrations. This 2nd...
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The Lone Wolverine: Tracking Michigan's Most Elusive AnimalIt began in late winter of 2004. Almost 100 years had passed since the last spotting of a wild wolverine in Michigan when coyote hunters caught a glimpse of one of the animals in a frozen farm field in the northern thumb region. For...
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The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections of a PrimatologistFrom the bestselling author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, a provocative argument that apes have created their own distinctive culture In The Ape and the Sushi Master, eminent primatologist Frans de Waal corrects our arrogant assumption that humans...
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Who Owns the World: The Surprising Truth about Every Piece of Land on the PlanetYou don't have to be a student of geography or cartography to have an interest in the world around you, especially with globalization making our planet seem smaller than ever. Now you can IM someone in Alaska, purchase coffee beans from Timor-Leste, and visit...
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No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies"The most honest book about climate change yet." --The Atlantic "The Infinite Jest of climate books." --The Baffler A timely, eye-opening book about climate change and energy generation that focuses on the consequences of nuclear power production, from award-winning author William T. Vollmann In...
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North Country: A Personal JourneyHoward Frank Mosher embarked on a journey following America's northern border from coast to coast in search of the country's last unspoiled frontiers. What he discovered was a vast and sparsely settled territory largely ignored by the rest of the United States and Canada;...
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Born Naked: The Early Adventures of the Author of Never Cry WolfFarley Mowat's youth was charmed and hilarious, and unbelievably free in its access to unspoiled nature through bird-banding expeditions and overnight outings in the dead of winter. The author writes of sleeping in haystacks for survival, and other adventures, with equal shares of Booth...
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World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic CollapseWe are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers...
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The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural HistoryEvolutionary theory is the theme that binds together these essays on such seemingly disparate topics as the feeding habits of flamingos, flowers and snails that change from male to female and sometimes back again, and the extinction from baseball of the .400 hitter.Author: Stephen...
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Still Waters: The Secret World of LakesMore than a century and a half have passed since Walden was first published, and the world is now a very different place. Lakes are changing rapidly, not because we are separate from nature but because we are so much a part of it....
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Meetings with Remarkable TreesThomas Pakenham's bestselling book of tree portraits. With this astonishing collection of tree portraits, Thomas Pakenham produced a new kind of tree book. The arrangement owed little to conventional botany. The sixty trees were grouped according to their own strong personalities: Natives, Travellers, Shrines,...
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Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan WildsIn 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and the their five children, the oldest of whom was nine-years-old and the youngest, twins, barely one, pulled up stakes in the Lower Forty-eight and headed north to Alaska to follow a pioneer dream of claiming land...
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Nature Underfoot: Living with Beetles, Crabgrass, Fruit Flies, and Other Tiny Life Around UsAn informed and heartfelt tribute to commonly unappreciated plants, insects, and other tiny creatures that reconsiders humanity's relationship to nature "Put aside that can of Raid for the short time it takes to read this book."--Natural History Named a Favorite Book of 2020 by...
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Forests Adrift: Currents Shaping the Future of Northeastern TreesA captivating analysis of the past, present, and future of northeastern forests and the forces that have shaped them "Charlie Canham takes us on an inspiring walk through the past, present, and future of northeastern forests, with the wisdom of a lifelong forest scientist...
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