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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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Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind, Abridged EditionThis virtual encyclopedia of the rattlesnake became a natural history sensation when it was first published in 1956. The republication of the Second Edition, with a new foreword by Harry W. Greene, will give amateur and professional herpetologists alike reason to rejoice.Author: Laurence M....
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Telling Trees: An Illustrated GuideWhat's the difference between an oak and a maple, a spruce and a pine, an ash and a sycamore? With this portable guide, you'll be able to distinguish between more than 100 common American trees. Take it along on walks and hikes for quick,...
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Our National ParksJohn Muir (1838-1914) ranks among America's most important and influential environmentalists and nature writers. Devoted to the preservation of wilderness areas, Muir founded the Sierra Club and was active in the establishment of Yosemite National Park. Our National Parks, originally published in 1901, includes...
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Dollar Bill Animals in OrigamiJohn Montroll has consistently expanded the limits of the ancient art of paper folding. Now in this exciting volume of more than 30 original models, the world-renowned origami master departs from the traditional square form and crafts each creation from an ordinary dollar bill.Using...
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Travels in AlaskaJohn Muir (1838-1914) ranks among America's most important and influential naturalists and nature writers. Devoted to the preservation of wilderness areas, Muir founded the Sierra Club and was active in the establishment of Yosemite National Park. This book, one of his most popular works,...
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Wild AnimalsThis splendid global tour features wild animals living on every continent from Antarctica to North America. Little adventurers can guide a baby panda through a maze, connect the dots to form an African elephant, find a rabbit and a deer hiding in the Everglades...
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California's Salmon and Steelhead: The Struggle to Restore an Imperiled ResourceMillions upon millions of salmon and steelhead once filled California streams, providing a plentiful and sustainable food resource for the original peoples of the region. But over the years, dams and irrigation diversions have reduced natural spawning habitat from an estimated 6,000 miles to...
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Pollution, Politics, and International Law: Tankers at SeaThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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A Gardener's Handbook of Plant Names: Their Meanings and OriginsLiterally hundreds of thousand of plants have been given botanical names. Of this huge number very few have English names, and these have become established more by use than by anything else. Thus, there has long been a need for a comprehensive guide to...
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California's Salmon and Steelhead: The Struggle to Restore an Imperiled ResourceMillions upon millions of salmon and steelhead once filled California streams, providing a plentiful and sustainable food resource for the original peoples of the region. But over the years, dams and irrigation diversions have reduced natural spawning habitat from an estimated 6,000 miles to...
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The Bone Hunters: The Heroic Age of Paleontology in the American WestHighly recommended to all scientists and non-scientists interested in paleontology and the West. -- Science BooksA century after the founding of the Republic, the United States was a leader in the science of vertebrate paleontology -- the study of the fossils of backboned animals....
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Adventures with a Hand LensWith an ordinary magnifying glass and this book as your guide, 50 adventures in close observation await you. These entertaining nature studies take you on field trips in and around your home, calling attention to interesting features of dozens of familiar or overlooked plants,...
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The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1907-81, Second EditionDetroit's public school system, lauded as a model for the nation in the 1920s and 1930s, has become one of the city's most conspicuous failures. Jeffrey Mirel draws on Detroit's experience to offer a new interpretation of urban educational decline in the twentieth century,...
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A History of Ann ArborI found it filled with many interesting things . . . .---Arthur MillerFor those of us who have admiration and affection for the university and the city of Ann Arbor, it is fascinating reading.---Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United StatesMarwil clearly documents...
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Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740Lucinda Cole s "Imperfect Creatures" offers the first full-length study of the shifting, unstable, but foundational status of vermin as creatures and category in the early modern literary, scientific, and political imagination. In the space between theology and an emergent empiricism, Cole s argument...
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Looking for Hickories: The Forgotten Wildness of the Rural MidwestA new voice reveals the unique character of the upper MidwestIn the spirit of other writers who share an affinity for the natural world---authors such as Robert Frost, Emerson, and Bill Bryson---Looking for Hickories is Tom Springer's ode to the people, natural beauty, and...
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The Brightest Stars: Discovering the Universe Through the Sky's Most Brilliant StarsFred Schaaf is one of the most experienced astronomical observers of our time. For more than two decades, his view of the sky-what will be visible, when it will be visible, and what it will look like-has encouraged tens of thousands of people to...
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The 50 Best Sights in Astronomy and How to See Them: Observing Eclipses, Bright Comets, Meteor Showers, and Other Celestial WondersFred Schaaf is one of the most experienced astronomical observers of our time. For more than two decades, his view of the sky--what will be visible, when it will be visible, and what it will look like--has encouraged tens of thousands of people to...
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Touring the Universe Through Binoculars: A Complete Astronomer's GuidebookAstronomy enthusiasts are waking up to the enjoyment of touring the heavens through binoculars. Powers of resolution - especially of faint objects - are as much as 40 per cent better using binocular vision, and colour perception is also enhanced considerably. Add to this...
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Star Watch: The Amateur Astronomer's Guide to Finding, Observing, and Learning about More Than 125 Celestial ObjectsYour Passport to the Universe The night sky is alive with many wonders--distant planets, vast star clusters, glowing nebulae, and expansive galaxies, all waiting to be explored. Let respected astronomy writer Philip Harrington introduce you to the universe in Star Watch, a complete beginner's...
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