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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Animal as Machine: The Quest to Understand How Animals Work and AdaptThrough the ages natural historians have puzzled over how animals work, wavering between a vitalist belief in a soul animating bodily functions and a mechanistic outlook in which animal body parts are seen as pieces of organic machinery. Animal as Machine explores the life,...
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A New Ecological Order: Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern EuropeThe rise of industrial capitalism in the nineteenth century forged a new ecological order in North American and Western European states, radically transforming the environment through science and technology in the name of human progress. Far less known are the dramatic environmental changes experienced...
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Toxic Matters: Narrating Italy's DioxinIn Toxic Matters, Monica Seger considers two Italian environmental disasters: an isolated factory explosion in Seveso, just north of Milan, in 1976 and the ongoing daily toxic emissions from the Ilva steelworks in the Apulian city of Taranto. Both have exposed residents to high...
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Grandma, Tell Me a Story...About Bears"Grandma, tell me a story," was the request that came at bedtime or sitting together on the porch swing or, most often, from the back seat on long car trips."O.K. What kind of story would you like to hear?" I asked."Any story... maybe about...
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Adventures of a Zoo DirectorFrom a very young age growing up in southern California, Steve Taylor, knew he wanted to do something with his life to save wildlife and wild places. What he didn't know then, was how much fun it would be. During his career he met...
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The Eighth Wonder of the World: Exbury Gardens and the RothschildsThe history of Hampshire's renowned Exbury Gardens and the extraordinary achievement of Lionel de Rothschild in creating them. This book celebrates Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942) and his vision in creating Exbury Gardens, a two-hundred-acre woodland garden in Hampshire, and all those who have worked...
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The Apple Is Everything- A provocative new book from sculptor and artist Barnaby Barford- Explores the significance of the apple throughout human history- Over 240 illustrations and photographs of apples, illustrating their place within culture- Short video for the title hereIn mythology, art history and religious iconography,...
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Disastrous Floods and the Demise of Steel in JohnstownJohnstown is synonymous with floodwaters and steel. When the city was decimated by a flood of biblical proportions in 1889, it was considered one of the worst natural disasters in American history and gained global attention. Sadly, that deluge was only the first of...
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La abeja: Conducta y cuidadosEn los últimos cien años, el mundo animal y vegetal han sido marcados por el mundo de la técnica. El hombre puede ir hacia las estrellas y también consigue inseminar a una abeja. Hoy en día en el campo se consiguen cosechas inimaginables pero...
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Winter"The naturalist, says Emerson, must satisfy all the demands of the spirit. Dana Wilde does that by uniquely unifying acute perception with that transcendental metaphysic that Emerson unabashedly called Love. Wilde is the poet of facts, his science always in the service of reverence...
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Swimming Grand Canyon and Other PoemsFormer Colorado River guide Rebecca Lawton doesn't advocate being tossed from a raft in some of the world's fiercest whitewater, but she has been plenty of times. And navigating life beneath the waves is a skill every guide-and some first-time boaters-must learn. But despite...
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How to Run a Lathe; the Care and Operation of a Screw-cutting LatheThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Soil Mechanics Laboratory ManualSoil Mechanics Laboratory Manual, Tenth Edition, is designed to get dirty. This ideal complement to any Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics textbook is ring-bound and 'flexi-covered' so students can have it on hand at the lab bench or in the field. Content is organized...
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Dmt: The Beginners Introductory Guide to Dimethyltryptamine + How to Have the Best DMT ExperienceDo you enjoy the effects of hallucinogens?Are your friends taking DMT and having a great time?Do you want to know more about DMT and its hallucinogenic properties?Dimethyltyptamine (DMT) is a naturally occurring hallucinogen that can be found in a wide range of plants and...
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Pushing Past the Human in Latin American CinemaPushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema brings together fourteen scholars to analyze Latin American cinema in dialogue with recent theories of posthumanism and ecocriticism. Together they grapple with how Latin American filmmakers have attempted to "push past the human," and destabilize the...
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Butterfly or Moth?In Butterfly or Moth?, beginning readers will learn to spot the differences between these insects. Carefully leveled text relays what the insects look like and how they behave. Each page then asks readers to name which one is shown in the photo. Answers appear...
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Flowers and Butterflies Coloring Book: A Beautiful Coloring Book with Butterflies and Flowers for Stress Relieving & RelaxationTreat your everyday stress with this colouring book with beautiful flowers and butterflies! This is a coloring book with unique flower and butterfly designs for you. It is a recommended coloring book for relieving stress and creating relaxation for active people who have a...
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God's Work: Perfect in Every WayBehold the beauty of God's work. Everywhere you gaze the awesome wonder of His unmatched skills of creation are revealed. Observe the varied bouquets of wildflowers in Spring and the colorful palette of leaves in Autumn. Listen to the ocean's roar and watch the...
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The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental DisorderThis study traces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany's Weimar Republic. In the early twentieth century, hygiene encompassed the myriad attempts to create healthy spaces for life and work amid the pollution, disease, accidents, and noise of industrial...
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Forty Days In the Wilderness, WanderingMapping moments of deep attention and wonder, Forty Days in the Wilderness, Wandering invites its readers to contemplate the natural world, sacred wilderness, and devotional wandering through the 2020 Lenten season and the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.Largely composed in conjunction with walks through...
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