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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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A Naturalist's Guide to the Virginia CoastAs Curtis Badger will tell you, "Being a good naturalist has more to do with being an enthusiastic observer than traveling to distant places. It is more a matter of curiosity than of a need for adventure, a frame of mind rather than peculiarity...
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John Sloane's Country Seasons 2024 Deluxe Wall CalendarThe thirty-eighth edition of the John Sloane's Country Seasons 2024 Deluxe Wall Calendar features a new collection of paintings that recall happy times gone by and celebrate the joys of traditional country life. Sloane's beautifully detailed paintings take you on a journey to a...
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The Egg Came FirstThere have been many great scientists and philosophers, as well as moms and dads, who have all been baffled at the world's most curious secret: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Well, I came up with the answer in my own creative...
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What Bees Want: Beekeeping as Nature IntendedBee populations are plummeting. The solution? Give them what they need to live naturally, and they'll handle the rest. Susan Knilans and Jacqueline Freeman are in love with bees. So in love that they observe their bees--their work, communication, seasonal activity, and more--for hours...
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The Last Two: The Battle to Save the Northern White RhinosMeet Najin and Fatu-the last of the northern white rhinos-as well as the scientists, conservationists, and rangers who are fighting for the species' survival. The last two remaining northern white rhinos, an already functionally extinct species, are kept behind three electrical fences and protected...
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Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth, Second Edition: Weather, Climate Change, and Finding Deep Powder in Utah's Wasatch Mountains and Around the WorUtah has long claimed to have the greatest snow on Earth--the state itself has even trademarked the phrase. In Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth, Jim Steenburgh investigates Wasatch weather, exposing the myths, explaining the reality, and revealing how and why Utah's powder...
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The Cardinal Anthology: Vol. 2 2023The Cardinal Anthology is a collection of social, reproductive, environmental, and economic justice themed essays, poetry, and short stories written by authors from around the world.Contributors include: Stewart Acuff, Matthew D. Albertson, Devonne Brown, Con Chapman, Binod Dawadi, Alshaad Kara, Carol Marujo, Brett Lewis...
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BearThe angry grizzly and the cuddly teddy: few animals possess such a range of personas as the bear. Here, Robert Bieder surveys the wealth of imagery, myths, and stories that surrounds the bear. Beginning with the dawn bear, the small dog-sized ancestor of all...
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Ten Plants That Changed Minnesota"If we cannot name and recognize plants, how can we value them and realize how essential they are to our environment and our well-being as humans?" --from the IntroductionIn 2012 a committee of experts chose the ten plants that most changed Minnesota from nearly...
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Mining the Heartland: Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron RangeA riveting portrait of the cultural struggles and political conflicts of proposed copper-nickel mines in Minnesota's Iron Range On an unseasonably warm October afternoon in Saint Paul, hundreds of people gathered to protest the construction of a proposed copper-nickel mine in the rural northern...
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ButterfliesButterflies is an outstanding collection of photographs showcasing nature's most beautiful and often elusive butterflies and moths - members of the Lepidoptera order - in a variety of their natural habitats. Arranged in chapters covering some of the most beautiful and interesting types of...
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Industrialism - Our Commitment to ImpermanenceThe REAL Inconvenient Truth! By choosing to industrialize, we Homo sapiens unwittingly made a commitment to impermanence. We adopted a terminally unsustainable way of life, in which the finite and non-replenishing NNRs (nonrenewable natural resources) that enable our industrial existence, would inevitably become insufficient...
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What the Raven SaidTwo women met over a decade ago online in a writing class. They have never met in person, never spoken on the phone, by zoom or Facetime, but always kept in touch via email. They found themselves deepening their writerly friendship with a shared...
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High School Biology: Questions & Explanations for Organismal BiologyThousands of students use Sterling to achieve academic success!Master high school organismal biology with questions and detailed explanations. This book provides practice questions covering organismal biology topics for comprehensive high school biology preparation. The detailed explanations describe why one answer is correct and why...
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Entangled Life: The Illustrated Edition: How Fungi Make Our WorldsMerlin Sheldrake's New York Times bestseller, Entangled Life, is now a lavish visual journey into the hidden lives of fungi. When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi...
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Foraging Central Grasslands: Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible Wild Foods in the Central United StatesThe central grasslands support significant biodiversity and parts of the ecoregion are known for being in the top ten ecoregions for reptiles, birds, butterflies, and tree species. The grasslands are dependent upon fires for both its survival and renewal as it keeps the grasslands...
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The Routledge Handbook of Landscape EcologyThe Handbook provides a supporting guide to key aspects and applications of landscape ecology to underpin its research and teaching. A wide range of contributions written by expert researchers in the field summarize the latest knowledge on landscape ecology theory and concepts, landscape processes,...
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Walking"I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil--to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make...
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The Pipestone Wolves: The Rise and Fall of a Wolf FamilyIn the winter of 2008-2009, a new wolf family from the Pipestone Valley suddenly appeared in the Bow Valley of Banff National Park, taking up residence alongside the Bow Valley wolf family that had ruled there for over a decade. Within a year, these...
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The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered AnimalsAt the beginning of the 20th century, scientists and laymen alike appear to have been peculiarly confident that the world had been thoroughly explored and most of its creatures named and documented. Few, if any, large animals still awaited discovery. The scientific unveiling of...
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