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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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Dancing with Trees: A Family JournalDancing with Trees is a collection of color photographs and stories that explore how one family has journeyed through life under the watchful eyes of individual trees that often become their soulmates. The author explains how these trees on his farm have served as...
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The HeronryOrdinary people seek connections to the natural world and each other in the poems of The Heronry, a collection that presents a series of spiritual encounters in the form of praise poems, lyric portraiture, and meditations on faith and belief. Mark Jarman is the...
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Tortugas a Traves de La LenteStudents exploring the wild Mojave, cameras in hand, meeting wildflowers and wildlife face-to-face, while gaining a deeper understanding of the value of these lands--this is the Tortoises Through the Lens Program. This beautiful, full-color book is the product of their eighteen-month adventure to seek...
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Googootz and Other PoemsThe poems in Howard Faerstein's Googootz and Other Poems journey by their own inimitable logic, finding their way as they go, because "you keep travelling on / whether life invites you or not." In this wide-ranging volume of praise and protest, subtle humor and...
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A scrap of linen, a boneGinger Murchison's debut poetry collection, a scrap of linen, a bone, is a must-read. As Tomas Lux says in his introduction: These are made poems. These are earned poems. These are poems of a full-fledged grownup who understands and celebrates the "slow hungers" that...
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Continuous ShowingsWith Anania's familiar, quick movement from perception to the precise but often kinetic image and his extraordinary musicality, Continuous Showings explores a wide range of continuities, from the persistence of tribal culture and language in Mexico to the experience of a fifties movie with...
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The Global Warming ScamDr. Vincent Gray discusses and analyzes the science and politics of the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) meme. Dr. Gray is a renowned scientist and voice of reason; he thoroughly debunks the crass manipulation and politicization of academic climate science. His well-documented book is a...
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A Walk in the Animal Kingdom: Essays on Animals Wild and TameANIMALS ARE EVERYWHERE IN OUR LIVES. We follow them into the wild, we invite them into our homes, they inhabit our dreams, mythologies, folklores, and popular cultures. What is this powerful bond? Why are we so fascinated with animals of every kind? And why...
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WaldenIn this classic memoir, Henry David Thoreau has written both a manual and a testimony to living a simple life amongst the physical and sacred beauty of nature. Thoreau recounts his experience of living in a cabin he built near Walden Pond in the...
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The Problem of the ManyWinner of the Big Other Award for Poetry and finalist for the Believer Book Award. If The Cloud Corporation is, as John Ashbery called it, "the poetry of the future, here, today," then Timothy Donnelly's third collection, The Problem of the Many, is the...
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Conceiving an Alternative: Philosophical Resources for an Ecological CivilizationThe essays in this volume are not limited to any single theme or subject. Some of the chapters are focused on the impact of various philosophical perspectives on environmentalism. Others roam into issues of Western philosophy stretching all the way from Plato and Aristotle...
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Orbital PathsSilver medal winner, 2016 Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin book awards Winner of the Robert Frost Farm Prize and the String Poet Prize In the lyrical tradition of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, the finely crafted poems in Richard Meyer's debut collection Orbital...
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Water Index: Design Strategies for Drought, Flooding and ContaminationIn the wake of an escalating global crisis with water, Water Index is the first critical inventory and analysis of innovative architecture, landscape architecture and design solutions to address the rising, disappearing, and contamination of water. As an ecological disaster complex ferments in contemporary...
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Animal Internet: Nature and the Digital RevolutionBold and fascinating ... A truly thought-provoking book for animal lovers and technology enthusiasts alike.--Kirkus ReviewsA bestial Brave New World is on the horizon: Some fifty thousand creatures around the globe--including whales, leopards, flamingoes, bats, and snails--are being equipped with digital tracking devices. The...
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Parque Nacional YendegaiaYendegaia National Park offers a visually spectacular tour of one of Earth's most remote and scenic national parks. In Chilean Patagonia on the grand island of Tierra del Fuego, the new park -- designated in 2014 -- was prompted by a donation of private...
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Sunday SparrowsSong Lin's poems explore his sojourns in several countries, the natural world outside him, and his own inner landscape. His early imprisonment during the 1989 Tienanmen Square protests gave rise to the title poem, as well as a profound sense of yearning that pervades...
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My Village: Selected Poems, 1966-2014Wu Sheng has written vivid poems about rural life and the land since the 1960s, when he became one of Taiwan's most popular poets. His poems are rooted in the soil, embued with an unshakable affinity for the people who till it, sweat over...
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Woodland ManitouWoodland Manitou: To Be on Earth is a collection of essays rooted in the rhythm of the natural world. Through the turn of the seasons, Heidi Barr illustrates how the cycles of the earth have informed her everyday life from community to vocation to...
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Afoot in Connecticut: Journeys in Natural HistoryAfoot in Connecticut, is a love letter to this often overlooked region of America, an inspirational story that will have you taking to the trails and the greenways, along the beaches and mountaintops, and into a land full of transformation, of beauty, and of...
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Circle It, Cape Cod Facts, Word Search, Puzzle BookWhy just work through lists of words when you can read interesting facts about Cape Cod and enjoy some stimulating Circle It word search. No more boring lists of words(TM). The words for the Circle It word search are in bold within the text....
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