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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Brushed by Feathers: A Year of Birdwatching in the WestA collection of intriguing factual essays providing month-by-month introductions to more than 150 western birds.Author: Frances L. WoodPublisher: Fulcrum PublishingPublished: 10/01/2004Pages: 247Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.11h x 6.04w x 0.56dISBN: 9781555914806About the AuthorFrances L. Wood is a writer, teacher, and naturalist. She writes a...
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Technonatures: Environments, Technologies, Spaces, and Places in the Twenty-First CenturyEnvironmentalism and social sciences appear to be in a period of disorientation and perhaps transition. In this innovative collection, leading international thinkers explore the notion that one explanation for the current malaise of the "politics of ecology" is that we increasingly find ourselves negotiating...
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Dam Builders: The Natural History of Beavers and Their PondsFew animals in the world are as famous or as infamous as the beaver, and none save our species has the ability to so dramatically transform its environment. Beavers are remarkable animals. They have teeth that self-sharpen and never stop growing, and a heart...
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Ocean Drifters: A Secret World Beneath the WavesBeasts that look as if they come from a science-fiction movie. -- The Times (UK) Beneath the waves lies a hidden microcosm of life: the world of plankton. These microscopic algae and the tiny animals that eat them float freely in the sunlit surface...
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Ten Technologies to Save the PlanetRespected, authoritative, award-winning author Chris Goodall tackles global warming reversal in this engaging and balanced book. Ten Technologies to Save the Planet -- popular science writing at its most crucial -- is arguably the most readable and comprehensive overview of large-scale solutions to climate...
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The Atlantic Coast: A Natural HistoryThe North Atlantic coast of North America--commonly known as the Atlantic Coast--extends from Newfoundland and Labrador through the Maritime Provinces and the Northeastern United States south to Cape Hatteras. This North Atlantic region belongs to the sea. The maritime influence on climate, flora, and...
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The David Suzuki Reader: A Lifetime of Ideas from a Leading Activist and ThinkerDavid Suzuki's collected writings on science, nature, technology, economics, politics, and the connectedness of all things. The David Suzuki Reader brings together for the first time the scientific and philosophical thought of North America's leading environmentalist. Drawing from Suzuki's published and unpublished writings, this...
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Guide to Gems: Illustrated Guide to the Identification, Properties and Use of GemstonesA reference guide to gems, semi-precious stones and crystals. Gemstones and crystals are used for jewelry, industry, lasers and precision technology. Firefly Guide to Gems is a practical, compact guide to the identification and use of precious and semi-precious stones, novelty stones, agates and...
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Warblers of the Great Lakes Region and Eastern NorThanks to their distinctive colors and lively calls, warblers are a favorite among birders. However sightings can be rare due to the warbler's migratory nature, feeding habits, and sometime-endangered status. Warblers is a handy reference for watching these fast-moving and elusive birds. It explains...
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AnatomicThe poems of Anatomic have emerged from biomonitoring and microbiome testing on the author's body to examine the way the outside writes the inside, whether we like it or not. Adam Dickinson drew blood, collected urine, swabbed bacteria, and tested his feces to measure...
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Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban CanadaAnimal Metropolis brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as spectacle: orca captivity in Vancouver,...
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A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now Parks Canada, has been at the centre of important debates...
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The Organic Revolutionary: A Memoir from the Movement for Real Food, Planetary Healing, and Human LiberationAn influential founding member of the American organic agriculture movement and a long-time organic farmer, Grace Gershuny gives us one of the most comprehensive and deeply personal accounts of adventures in that movement ever written. A principal author of the USDA's first proposed National...
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Four Billion Years and Counting: Canada's Geological HeritageCanada's diverse landscape speaks to its fascinating geological history, from towering peaks to Prairie plains, from fertile farmlands of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands to rugged cliffs of the Atlantic shore. However, the modern landscape is just the latest episode in an...
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Parry Sound Logging DaysA collection of stories told by the men who worked the white pine logging camps and steam-powered mills of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Author: John MacfiePublisher: Boston Mills PressPublished: 02/01/2003Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 11.05h x 8.51w x 0.55dISBN: 9781550460551About the Author...
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Passion and Persistence: Fifty Years of the Sierra Club in British Columbia, 1969-2019Social unrest, political activism, worry about human impact on this earth--sound familiar? In 1969, British Columbians were facing concerns that are still making headlines today. At the end of a decade of changing technological and political landscapes associated with draft dodgers, hippie flower power...
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A Field Guide to Marine Life of the Outer Coasts of the Salish Sea and BeyondThe common marine life of the transition waters and more exposed coasts of the Salish Sea are abundant and diverse: giant green anemones, amazing sea stars and thick kelp forests. This eight-fold field guide is a useful aid to coastal exploration from BC to...
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Crossing Home Ground: A Grassland Odyssey Through Southern Interior British ColumbiaLike John Muir, David Pitt-Brooke stepped out for a walk one morning--a long walk of a thousand kilometres or more through the arid valleys of southern interior British Columbia. He went in search of beauty and lost grace in a landscape that has seen...
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Lacy Sunshine's Rory's Seasons Coloring Book: Rory Sweet Urchin Celebrates Winter Spring Summer Fall Coloring All Ages Volume 39Color your world with Lacy Sunshine's 39th Coloring Book titled Rory's Seasons by award winning artist Heather Valentin. Over 25 gorgeous images to color with your favorite markers, crayons, colored pencils and pens. Several pages features Heather's every so popular, the original one and...
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Bigfoot Uncovered: Finding SasquatchEnter the mysterious world of Sasquatch "Bigfoot Uncovered" is the third in our collection of true stories about Sasquatch sightings and encounters. The majority of the stories in "Bigfoot Uncovered" took place in the Pacific Northwest and there are also encounters that happened in...
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