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 Natural History of New York: Second EditionThis is a comprehensive guide to the natural history of New York state, with more than 300 full-color photographs, maps and illustrations. Everything from bears and beavers to snakes and spiders is covered. Learn about the state's geology, its rivers and mountains. Find out...
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Memoirs of a BiologistThose interested in reading engaging accounts of scientific observations about a wide variety of plants and animals will do well to read Dr. Fail's short essays. A bonus in this small treasure trove of information is Dr. Fail's habit of introducing people and incidents...
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Environmental Life Cycle Assessment: Measuring the environmental performance of productsEnvironmental Life Cycle Assessment is an introductory college level textbook on the science of Life Cycle Assessment. It provides materials for a full year of study. Over thirty LCA experts were brought together by the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment, with full redundant...
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Out of the Wasteland: Stories from the Environmental FrontierIn Out of the Wasteland, founding Executive Director of the Community Environmental Council Paul Relis takes us on a journey of the environmental frontier, from the heady days of the birth of environmentalism in Santa Barbara, into the intricate, obfuscated but all important world...
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Fighting for your Life: Man-eater BearsAmie Huguenard, the Grizzly Man's girlfriend, had to die a thousand deaths, screaming her head off for Lord knows how long, but certainly long enough for her to have escaped instead. Timothy Treadwell had just been dragged into the alders to be eaten alive,...
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Wood Duck AdventuresThe wood duck is our most beautiful of all waterfowl, and for fifty years F. Eugene Hester observed and recorded their exciting lives. He and his companions erected wood duck nest boxes and observed nesting activities. By banding the ducks and applying web tags...
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Weather Map Handbook, 3rd ed., colorWeather Map Handbook is a guidebook and encyclopedia of the most common weather forecasting charts used in operational forecasting in the 2010s. It's written by a veteran forecaster for forecasters. All of the products are available on centralized systems like AWIPS and on the...
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God's Creatures: A Biblical View of AnimalsAs an animal behavior consultant and Christian, Susan Bulanda draws on years of professional experience, scientific reading, and theological study to present a biblical view of animals: how and why they behave as they do, how God sees them, how he uses them to...
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Brush & Weeds of Texas RangelandsMore than one hundred million acres of Texas land are either native rangeland or permanent pasture, but most of this land is infested with unwanted weed and brush species that compete with desirable forage plants. With this book at their fingertips, landowners and rangeland...
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Every Creature a Word of GodWhat does a spirituality that affirms God's love for all creatures look like? Borrowing from a breadth of sources, including the Bible and Christian monks, mystics, sages, and saints, Annika Spalde and Pelle Strindlund show that God's compassion is the core Christian message. Perhaps...
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Wildflowers of the Llano EstacadoSuitable for the expert and lay person alike, this book contains more than 100 beautiful color photographs with accompanying descriptions.Author: Francis L. Rose, Russell StrandtmannPublisher: Taylor Publishing CompanyPublished: 01/15/1986Pages: 112Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.31h x 6.25w x 0.63dISBN: 9780961710200
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Norwegian Forest Cats and Kittens. Complete Owners Guide. Includes Advice on Purchase, Care, Health, Breeders, Re-Homing, Adoption and Diet.Norwegian Forest Cats and Kittens. Complete Owners Guide. Strong, gentle, patient and hardy, the Norwegian forest cat is a truly unique breed. This owners guide provides essential information on the origin, physical attributes, purchase, care, temperament, health issues, and socialization of this wonderful cat....
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Insects of the Los Angeles BasinUpdated for the first time in over twenty years, the third edition of Insects of the Los Angeles Basin is a beautifully produced and richly illustrated field guide to more than 450 common or conspicuous insects, spiders, millipedes, and other arthropods that inhabit the...
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Italian Environmental Literature: An Anthology"Italian Environmental Literature" brings together, for the first time - in Italy or for an English-speaking audience - a collection of over 40 authors from the deep and broad tradition of Italian environmental writing. Poetry and prose, the essay, the political and economic tract,...
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Metamorphosis: Evolution in ActionMetamorphosis is the result of a lifetime of biological research seeking to penetrate through the phenomena to the formative principles that have shaped them. Following Goethe's participatory method, and drawing on his observations on a number of continents, Andreas Suchantke shows how the development...
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Animals in the Third ReichThis important book explores the relationship between the Third Reich and animals -- as symbols, as myths, and as living creatures. From a review in Choice: "Rarely does a book contribute to two fields so significantly as this one. Sax, an independent scholar and...
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Canoeing North Into the Unknown: A Record of River Travel, 1874 to 1974Canoeing North Into the Unknown is an important book about canoeing Canada's most remote and fabled rivers, the rivers that flow north to the Arctic. Bruce W. Hodgins and Gwyneth Hoyle have amassed an unparalleled amount of information on who canoed these rivers and...
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Plants of Saratoga and Eastern New York: An Identification ManualAuthor: H. HowardPublisher: Union College PressPublished: 07/01/1995Pages: 326Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.91lbsSize: 10.31h x 7.05w x 0.96dISBN: 9780912756301
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Reading the Landscape of EuropeTake a field trip with American naturalist May Theilgaard Watts to see how nature, history, and culture have written their stories on the landscapes of Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Britain. In this sequel to her popular book Reading the Landscape of...
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Buffalo River HandbookThe highly anticipated second edition of the Buffalo River Handbook, written by Kenneth L. Smith, updates and expands the first edition initially published in 2004. The new edition includes the recently completed 28-mile segment of the Buffalo River Trail from U.S. Hwy 64 (Grinder's...
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