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 Book of Miracles: A Young Person's Guide to Jewish Spiritual AwarenessHere is a book of spiritual adventure. From the miracle at the Red Sea to the miracle of waking up this morning, this intriguing book introduces young people to a way of spiritual thinking to last a lifetime.Kushner, whose award-winning books have brought spirituality...
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Origami Sea LifeIn Origami Sea Life, John Montroll and Robert J. Lang have collaborated to produce a truly elegant work. The pages of this book contain some of the most creative origami published to date. Each project is accompanied by a biological sketch of the animal...
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The Book of the Farm. Volume II. (Hardcover)Author: Henry StephensPublisher: Benediction BooksPublished: 01/09/2009Pages: 744Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.66lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.56dISBN: 9781849022583This title is not returnable
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Ireland's Seashore: A Field GuideIreland's seashores are famous for their spectacular beauty, ranging from exposed rocky headlands that receive the full power of the Atlantic to enclosed sea loughs and sheltered mudflats. Its northern latitude means that some Arctic species find a home there, but the warm currents...
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Ecovillages Around the World: 20 Regenerative Designs for Sustainable CommunitiesA beautiful, full-color book showcasing 20 best practice designs from ecovillages around the world - Features well-established ecovillages such as Findhorn in Scotland or Auroville in India and newer initiatives such as Hua Tao in China - Highlights the unique features of each project...
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The Whale Whisperer: Healing Messages from the Animal Kingdom to Help Mankind and the PlanetGoing beyond the standard pet communication book, this adventure delivers messages from many different wild and sacred animal species. Voices of the white buffalo, the humpback whale, the white lions of Timbavati South Africa, orcas, and bears all speak through the author, who embarked...
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Finding Sanctuary in Nature: Simple Ceremonies in the Native American Tradition for Healing Yourself and OthersThese spiritual lessons are based on Native American shamanism but fit a wide range of interests from yoga and alternative medicine to Bible study and nature hiking. Hands-on exercises, step-by-step instructions for ceremonies, and sketches by the author's wife explain how to clear spaces...
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Ancient Oaks: In the English LandscapeThe ancient native oaks of England are a national treasure, beautiful and beloved. And England has more of them than the rest of Europe combined. How did that happen? How, as Europe was deforested over the course of centuries, did England manage to preserve...
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Spix's Macaw: The Race to Save the World's Rarest BirdAn environmental parable for our times - the story of a beautiful blue bird meeting its nemesis at the end of the 20th-century.In December 1897 the Reverend F. G. Dutton lamented that 'there are so many calls on a parson's purse, that he cannot...
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Going DarkWe are the last individuals of our species on Earth. How shall we respond? How shall we act? If industrial civilization is maintained, climate change will cause human extinction in the near term. If industrial civilization falls, sufficient ionizing radiation will be released from...
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Dinomania: Why We Love, Fear and Are Utterly Enchanted by DinosaursFrom Jurassic Park to Sue the T-Rex and Barney, our dino love affair is as real, as astonishing, and as incomprehensible as the gargantuan beasts themselves. At once reptilian and avian, dinosaurs enable us to imagine a world far beyond the usual boundaries of...
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Natural Living Style: Inspirational Ideas for a Beautiful and Sustainable HomeIn Natural Living Style, Selina Lake reveals how to create a simple, beautiful, and stylish home that is as natural, plastic-free, and sustainable as possible. "Our favorite stylist is back--we can't stop drooling over Selina Lake's new book..." Mollie Makes In Inspirations, Selina starts...
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Practising Feminist Political Ecologies: Moving Beyond the 'Green Economy'Destined to transform its field, this volume features some of the most exciting feminist scholars and activists working within feminist political ecology, including Giovanna Di Chiro, Dianne Rocheleau, Catherine Walsh and Christa Wichterich. Offering a collective critique of the 'green economy', it features the...
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My First Summer in the SierraIn the summer of 1869, John Muir set out from California's Central Valley with a flock of sheep and trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. His journals describe the summer he spent in what would become Yosemite National Park. Celebrating the Sierra's...
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The Paleoart of Julius CsotonyiThe collected works of Julius Csotonyi, one of the world's most high profile and talented contemporary paleoartists. Csotonyi has considerable academic expertise that contributes to his stunning dynamic art. Csotonyi represents the natural world photorealistically and has been influenced by natural history illustrators such...
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LlamaKnown for their woolly charm, sure-footed strength, and a propensity to spit at you if you bother them too much, llamas have had a rich and diverse history. Since their domestication high in the Andes, they have been farmed, smuggled, sacrificed, and sometimes kept...
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EarthquakeThe 2011 devastating, tsunami-triggering quake off the coast of Japan and 2010's horrifying destruction in Haiti reinforce the fact that large cities in every continent are at risk from earthquakes. Quakes threaten Los Angeles, Beijing, Cairo, Delhi, Singapore, and many more cities, and despite...
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Field Guide to Wild Flowers of South AfricaSouth Africa's varied landscape is home to some 19,000 shrubs and herbs, a large number of which bear flowers of intricate and often stunning beauty. This field guide covers more than 1,100 species, focusing on the most common, conspicuous and 'showy' plants of the...
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Time Is Always NowPoetry. Rebecca Starks's TIME IS ALWAYS NOW unfolds against a backdrop of nature, often permeated in unexpected ways with the human dynamics of family, neighborhood, and nation. Her poems convey the urgency within moments of transformation--whether seasonal, as in wilderness and garden; physical, as...
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The Killer Whale Who Changed the WorldThe fascinating and heartbreaking account of the first publicly exhibited captive killer whale -- a story that forever changed the way we see orcas and sparked the movement to save them. Killer whales had always been seen as bloodthirsty sea monsters. That all changed...
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