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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Tides and the Ocean: Water's Movement Around the World, from Waves to WhirlpoolsSurfers, sailors, and anyone who loves the ocean will enjoy this visual exploration of the world's seas along its shores, including rip tides, swells, waves, and tsunamis. Tide is the vertical motion of water, something so subtle it is impossible to see with the...
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Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the EnvironmentSwine flu. Bird flu. Massive fish kills. Concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Recalls of contaminated meats, fruits, and vegetables. Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market. In Animal Factory, bestselling investigative journalist...
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Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist: How a CEO Doubled Earnings, Inspired Employees and Created Innovation from One Simple IdeaInspirational . . . Essential reading for anyone, whether lay, student, or practitioner, interested in business success today and in the environment.--Library Journal (starred review) In 1994, Interface founder and chairman Ray Anderson set an audacious goal for his commercial carpet company: to take...
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When Man Is the Prey: True Stories of Animals Attacking HumansSince we humans have evolved into the dominant species on this planet, we sometimes fail to recognize--and respect--the ever-present threat posed by the animals we love or fear, hunt or fight to protect. Many of nature's most lethal residents have combative skills that have...
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The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From, and How They Live- How are birds so good at flying and navigating?- Why are birds so like mammals- and yet so very different? - Did birds descend from dinosaurs, and if so, does that mean birds are dinosaurs?- How do they court each other and fend...
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Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife TraffickingAn intrepid investigation of the criminal world of wildlife trafficking--the poachers, the traders, and the customers--and of those fighting against it Journalist Rachel Nuwer plunges the reader into the underground of global wildlife trafficking, a topic she has been investigating for nearly a decade....
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Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and BerlinA fascinating and beautifully illustrated volume that explains what street trees tell us about humanity's changing relationship with nature and the city "A deep . . . dive into urban society's need for--and relationship with--trees that sought to return the natural world to the...
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Birds of Northern South America Volume 2: Plates and Maps: An Identification GuideWinner of the 2007 National Outdoor Book Award (NOBA) for Nature GuidebooksThe two companion volumes of this extensive and detailed guide make a groundbreaking contribution to bird guide literature: they not only provide detailed accounts of every known bird species in the vast region...
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Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the WorldThis is the first book created primarily for the field identification of parrots, one of the most familiar and colorful groups of birds. From the mighty macaws to the diminutive pygmy parrots, the 350 species of parrots include cockatoos, parakeets, lovebirds, and Budgerigar. Most...
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Lake Michigan in Motion: Responses of an Inland Sea to Weather, Earth-Spin, and Human ActivitiesReligion and the Culture of Print in Modern America explores how a variety of print media - religious tracts, newsletters, cartoons, pamphlets, self-help books, mass-market paperbacks, and editions of the Bible from the King James Version to contemporary Bible-zines - have shaped and been...
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Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North AtlanticIceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since the middle of the eighteenth century, however, this marginalized region...
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The Earth's Blanket: Traditional Teachings for Sustainable LivingThis is a thought-provoking look at Native American stories, cultural institutions, and ways of knowing, and what they can teach us about living sustainably.Author: Nancy J. TurnerPublisher: University of Washington PressPublished: 01/22/2008Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.78h x 7.31w x 0.79dISBN: 9780295987392Review Citation(s): Reference...
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Mountain in the Clouds: A Search for the Wild SalmonIt is now more than ten years since Bruce Brown began the Olympic Peninsula wanderings that led him to write this powerful account of how greed, indifference and environmental mismanagement have threatened the survival of the wild Pacific salmon and, as a result, the...
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The Wolves of Mount McKinleyIn the time of Lewis and Clark, wolves were abundant throughout North America from the Arctic regions to Mexico. But man declared war on this cunning and powerful animal when cattle replaced the buffalo on the western plains, reducing the wolf's range to those...
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The City Is More Than Human: An Animal History of Seattle an Animal History of SeattleWinner of the 2017 Virginia Marie Folkins Award, Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO)Winner of the 2017 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize, Western History AssociationSeattle would not exist without animals. Animals have played a vital role in shaping the city from its founding...
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The Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and TroutThe Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and Trout combines in-depth scientific information with outstanding photographs and original artwork to fully describe the fish species critical to the Pacific Rim. This completely revised and updated edition covers all aspects of the life cycle of...
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The Green Republic: A Conservation History of Costa RicaWith over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as "the green republic." In this very readable history of conservation in Costa Rica, Sterling Evans explores the establishment of the country's national...
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Butterflies, Moths, and Other Invertebrates of Costa Rica: A Field GuideAt the biological crossroads of the Americas, Costa Rica hosts an astonishing array of plants and animals--over half a million species! Ecotourists, birders, and biologists come from around the world, drawn by the likelihood of seeing more than three or four hundred species of...
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Water in Texas: An IntroductionNo natural resource issue has greater significance for the future of Texas than water. The state's demand for water for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and recreational uses continues to grow exponentially, while the supply from rivers, lakes, aquifers, and reservoirs is limited. To help Texans...
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Small-Headed Flycatcher. Seen Yesterday. He Didn't Leave His Name.: And Other StoriesPete Dunne has been watching birds since he was seven years old. But not just watching-deeply absorbing every nuance of color, markings, shape, flight, and song; all the subtle clues that can identify a bird barely glimpsed among the highest branches in fading twilight....
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