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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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Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital TechnologiesWhile digital media give us the ability to communicate with and know the world, their use comes at the expense of an immense ecological footprint and environmental degradation. In Finite Media Sean Cubitt offers a large-scale rethinking of theories of mediation by examining the...
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Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in EgyptThe waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores the everyday politics of water: a politics anchored in the mundane yet vital acts of blocking, releasing, channeling, and diverting water. She examines the quotidian practices...
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Sudden Music: Improvisation, Sound, NatureMusic, said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, "is a means of rapid transformation." It takes us home to a natural world that functions outside of logic, where harmony and dissonance, tension and release work in surprising ways. Weaving memoir, travelogue, and philosophical reflection, Sudden Music...
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Dragonflies and Damselflies of Georgia and the SoutheastVisit any pond on a summer day and the air will be alive with dragonflies and damselflies--shimmering aerobatic daredevils that dart above the water and even into nearby fields and woodlands. Organized for easy use in the field, this abundantly illustrated guide, with more...
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Sea Turtles of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United StatesWritten by two of the Southeast's foremost authorities on sea turtle conservation, this is an accessible, fully illustrated guide to the species that frequent the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States. No one who encounters a sea turtle soon forgets it. The...
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Fishes of the Middle Savannah River Basin: With Emphasis on the Savannah River SiteFeaturing more than 200 color photographs of species and habitats, this is the first comprehensive assessment of the fishes of the Middle Savannah River Basin (MSRB). Located along the Georgia-South Carolina border, the MSRB comprises the portion of the Savannah River drainage area located...
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The State Botanical Garden of GeorgiaThese 145 spectacular color photographs celebrate nature's cycles in a splendid and diverse southern garden. Each month for more than six years, Carol and Hugh Nourse have explored the paths and collections of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia in Athens, capturing the kaleidoscope...
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Trees of Southeastern United StatesThis popular guide enables users to quickly and confidently identify any of the trees of the southeastern United States, from the common loblolly pine or red mulberry to the rare Pinckneya (fever-tree) or goat willow. The guide treats more than 300 species--every one known...
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Inward MorningWhen first published in 1958, The Inward Morning was ahead of its time. Boldly original, it blended East and West, nature and culture, the personal and the universal. The critical establishment, confounded, largely ignored the work. Readers, however, embraced Bugbee's lyrical philosophy of wilderness....
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Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Northern Florida and Adjacent Georgia and AlabamaThis complete and authoritative work provides identification keys, full descriptions, and line drawings that make it possible to identify 383 native and naturalized species of trees, shrubs, and woody vines found in northern Florida and adjacent Georgia and Alabama. Casual observers of the lower...
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Deep Enough for IvorybillsDeep Enough for Ivorybills is a powerful, thoughtful collection of autobiographical writings about James Kilgo's hunting and fishing excursions in the woods, fields, and swamps of South Carolina and Georgia. Portraying a world both visceral and majestic, Deep Enough for Ivorybills establishes Kilgo not...
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Handbook of Shells: Sea Shells of the Gulf and Atlantic CoastsTake this easy-to-tote guide along to the beach to help identify your finds among its 120 shells and assortment of other seashore creatures. Each shell is illustrated with a line drawing.Author: Lula SiekmanPublisher: Great Outdoors Publishing CompanyPublished: 06/01/1981Pages: 48Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 8.61h x...
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Among the Swamp People: Life in Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw River DeltaColorful and lively personal essays about life in the wilds of Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw River Delta Among the Swamp People is the story of author Watt Key's discovery of the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. "The swamp" consists of almost 260,000 acres of wetlands located just north...
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Turtles of Alabama: Volume 5For nearly 200 million years, Earth has been occupied by reptiles--a lineage of terrestrial vertebrates that includes some, like birds, that have invaded the aerial environment, and others, like turtles, that have invaded aquatic environments. With thirty-nine known species, Alabama harbors more turtle species...
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Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico's National Parks, 1910-1940Winner of the Alfred B. Thomas Award (Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies) Revolutionary Parks tells the surprising story of how forty national parks were created in Mexico during the latter stages of the first social revolution of the twentieth century. By 1940 Mexico...
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The San Pedro River: A Discovery GuideThe San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona not only features some of the richest wildlife habitat in the Southwest, it also is home to more kinds of animals than anywhere else in the contiguous United States. Here you'll find 82 species of mammals, dozens...
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North American Boletes: A Color Guide to the Fleshy Pored MushroomsA comprehensive guide to this extraordinary and highly prized group of mushrooms known for their beautiful colors, distinctive features, relative abundance, and edibility. The scope of North American Boletes goes beyond the identification of the species; it also encompasses the symbiotic relationship boletes share...
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From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of PlaceWhy does a particular landscape move us? What is it that attaches us to a particular place? Tall's From Where We Stand is an eloquent exploration of the connections we have with places--and the loss to us if there are no such connections. A...
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Adirondack Wilderness: A Story of Man and NatureAn account of the history of the nation's largest public park includes how man's changing attitudes toward nature have affected our interaction with the park.Author: Jane Eblen KellerPublisher: Syracuse University PressPublished: 02/01/1980Pages: 262Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.94h x 5.99w x 0.73dISBN: 9780815601500
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Applied Vet Clinical NutritionApplied Veterinary Clinical Nutrition provides current, clinically relevant nutritional advice intended for use in daily canine and feline practice. Highly practical, the book emphasizes solutions for integrating nutrition into clinical practice, with introductory chapters covering the foundation and science behind the recommendations and extensive...
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