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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Alligators: The Illustrated Guide to Their Biology, Behavior, and ConservationThe ultimate guide to understanding the biology and behavior of the amazing and underappreciated American alligator.Few scenes put the senses on edge more than a submerged alligator, only eyes and snout showing, when peering across a southern lake on a misty morning. An iconic...
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Arctic: Culture and ClimateFor more than 25,000 years, Arctic peoples have made warm and hospitable homes in diverse and innovative ways out of ecosystems of ice. For the first time in their long history, however, Arctic communities are facing the real possibility that the foundations of their...
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Beneath the Surface: Understanding Nature in the Mullica Valley Estuary2021 winner of Non-fiction popular category: New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance The Mullica Valley estuary and its watershed, formed over the last 10,000 years, are among the cleanest estuaries along the east coast of the United States. This 365,000-acre ecosystem benefits from a combination...
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Arctic Plants of Svalbard: What We Learn from the Green in the Treeless White WorldThe Arctic is a special world. The Arctic Ocean is covered by white sea ice, and its margins are surrounded by bare terrestrial regions, known as tundra. Tundra is a cold and dry environment without trees, but even in the absence of trees, tundra...
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Systematics and Morphology of American MosasaursA classic work from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History describing the mosasaurs, a group of large predatory marine lizards of the Mesozoic Mosasaurs have captured the imagination of readers everywhere interested in prehistoric life, and they remain a focus of paleontological study...
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dear plant killers: a guide on how to be a good plant parentyou're probably here because you have a hard time keeping plants alive. i'm here to tell you not to give up. plant care is not easy, but it's absolutely worth it. it takes time, care, and research to keep every plant alive. it's not...
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HumanWhat does it mean to be human? And what, if anything, does it have to do with being a member of the animal species Homo sapiens? This dazzling book gets to the very heart of our rather unscientific motivations and prejudices, showing how they...
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Show Me the Honey: Adventures of an Accidental ApiaristIf you think beekeeping is a quick and easy shortcut to wealth, this book will set you straight. . . --New York TimesA lighthearted, self-deprecating account of one fledgling beekeeper's misadventures. With wit and warning in equal measure, this informative, refreshingly honest narrative will...
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of EvolutionWritten partly in response to Social Darwinism and in particular to Thomas H. Huxley's Nineteenth Century essay, "The Struggle for Existence", Kropotkin's book drew on his experiences in scientific expeditions in Siberia to illustrate the phenomenon of cooperation. After examining the evidence of cooperation...
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Restoring the Wild: Sixty Years of Rewilding Our Skies, Woods and WaterwaysThe RSPB's Book of the Season The distinctive white-tailed sea eagle was driven to extinction in Britain more than 200 years ago, but this immense predator is making a return to our skies, thanks to Roy Dennis, an ornithologist, conservationist and arguably the driving...
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Beautiful Butterfly Coloring Book: New and Expanded EditionBeautiful Butterfly Adult Coloring Book - New and Expanded EditionThis gorgeous coloring book features more than 50 unique butterfly designs including flowers, gardens, birds, and more. Get more value for your money with this jumbo adult coloring book.A beautiful adult coloring book filled with...
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Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland: Second EditionThe cool temperate waters of the British and Irish seas contain an astonishing 6% of the world's algal species, more than 600 different seaweeds, and yet most divers, snorkellers and rockpoolers can put names to only a handful of them. The first edition of...
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America's Largest Classroom: What We Learn from Our National ParksOver the past 100 years, visitor learning at America's national parks has grown and evolved. Today, there are over 400 National Park Service (NPS) sites, representing over eighty million acres. Sites exist in every US state and territory and are located on land, at...
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And Other Bodiless Powers"This poet possesses a precision both spare and fierce. And Other Bodiless Powers is cut from the same cloth as the poems of Lorine Niedecker in that they both read a landscape, down to its smallest aspect, and create from these thickets, fogs, and...
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The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect BirdA rollicking true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs--and the wildlife detective determined to stop him.On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain's Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to...
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The Will of Heaven: An Inspiring True Story About Elephants, Alcoholism, and HopeTHE WILL OF HEAVEN is the powerful true story of how one woman overcame a debilitating addiction-rising from the courtrooms of her past to the grass plains of Kenya as a conservation research scientist. It was there she could finally fulfill her lifelong dream...
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Horizon of the Dog WomanHorizon of the Dog Woman powerfully explores the strength of people, especially women, who struggle to find acceptance--in their bodies, in histories, in relationships, or in Indigeneity. These poems invoke the anxieties of outsiders, of those forced to reside in the liminal spaces of...
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Furry Fun: Fox Activity Book for older kids & adults: Cryptograms, mazes, dot to dot, word searches, coloring pages: Foxy fun forA coloring and activity book for older kids and adults who love foxes So many fox fans are stuck with things made for the younger set - this one's for the more mature fox fan. This 36-page book 8x10 book contains: Two challenging dot-to-dot...
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EnvironmentObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What is the environment, this elusive object that impacts us so profoundly--our odds to be born; the way we look, feel, and function; and how long and...
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Caring for Creation: Hope in Difficult TimesCaring for Creation argues that progress has been made in areas such as protection of endangered species, the sustainable agriculture movement, and recycling. While much remains to be done in these and other areas, this progress is cause for optimism about the future. In...
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