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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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The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green GenerationRome's genial new book . . . brings to life another era. --Nicholas Lemann, The New YorkerThe first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay ritual homage to the planet every April 22, everyone knows...
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Horns and AntlersThis is the story of North American deer and antelopes-whitetails found in all parts of the United States, mule deer in the West, moose in Canada, mountain goats in the Rockies, and others. The habits of the various members of the deer family of...
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StarlingsImported to the United States from Europe in 1890 and released in Central Park, New York City, to fight the growing number of insect pests at that time, the starlings quickly adapted themselves to the new climate. They are now at home almost everywhere....
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CoyotesA coyote is a very smart kind of wild dog. A coyote does not want to live the way a tame dog does, with someone to feed him and give him a home. He wants to dig his own den, hunt his own supper,...
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That Magnificent Army of Youth and Peace: The Civilian Conservation Corps in North Carolina, 1933-1942In this landmark study, the establishment of the CCC in North Carolina is discussed, camp life is recounted in great detail, and the accomplishments of the Corps are examined. Separate chapters present the involvement of African Americans and the Cherokee in North Carolina's CCC...
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Hemp Diseases and Pests: Management and Biological ControlHemp is enjoying a worldwide resurgence. This book combines a useful review of the hemp pest and disease literature published over the past 50 years, with up-to-date information on modern biological control techniques. Each pest and disease organism is presented in the same format,...
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Today's GospelA challenging presentation of the nature of the gospel, and the communication of it today.Author: Walter J. ChantryPublisher: Banner of Truth TrustPublished: 08/01/1981Pages: 93Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 7.10h x 4.76w x 0.35dISBN: 9780851510279This title is only available via back order
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The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian TaigaA meditation on escaping the chaos of modern life and rediscovering the luxury of solitude. Winner of the Prix M dicis for nonfiction, The Consolations of the Forest is a Thoreau-esque quest to find solace, taken to the extreme. No stranger to inhospitable places,...
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Our Deepest Desires: How the Christian Story Fulfills Human AspirationsAs human beings, we are created with desires. We all long for meaningful relationships, lives that reflect goodness, engagements with beauty, and the freedom to pursue our lives with integrity. But where can our restless hearts find fulfillment for these universal longings? Philosopher and...
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A Sense of the Divine - The Natural Environment from a Theocentric PerspectiveTHE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT FROM A THEOCENTRIC PERSPECTIVE.Author: James M. GustafsonPublisher: Pilgrim PressPublished: 03/13/1996Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 7.02h x 5.04w x 0.59dISBN: 9780829811001
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Wings for My Flight: The Peregrine Falcons of Chimney Rock"Blends adventure, romance, humor and pathos. . . . Offers vivid descriptions of her sky-diving subjects and the seductive beauty of the wilderness."--Chicago Sun-Times"Well crafted and compelling, a dramatization of the classic conflict between the legitimate interests of conservationists and developers. This is a...
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High and Dry: The Texas-New Mexico Struggle for the Pecos River (Revised)Water law, water politics, and especially water shenanigans are at the center of this book about New Mexico and Texas dividing the Pecos River. On one level the story is about a twenty-year court case, Texas v. New Mexico, a monstrous law suit between...
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Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in the Near SouthwestThese personal and historical meditations explore the human and natural history of the Near Southwest, a bio-region that embraces New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and slices of Colorado, Kansas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Centuries ago, the Navajos named this region the Horizontal Yellow, a landscape characterized...
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Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos, and National Parks in AlaskaThis volume, the first in the New American West Series edited by Elliott West, explores Alaska's vast national-park system and the evolution of wilderness concepts in the twentieth century. After World War II, Alaska's traditional Eskimos, Indians, and whites still trapped, hunted, and fished...
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Protecting Yellowstone: Science and the Politics of National Park ManagementYellowstone National Park looks like a pristine western landscape populated by wild bison, grizzly bears, and wolves. But the bison do not always range freely, snowmobile noise intrudes upon the park's winter silence, and some tourist villages are located in prime grizzly bear habitat....
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The World-Tilting Gospel: Embracing a Biblical Worldview & Hanging on TightA cure to worldly vertigo The first generation of Christians turned the world upside down. But the church today is being turned upside down by the world. Why? And why aren't we-with all our social medias and high-tech gadgets-more effectively producing Christ-centered, Gospel-liberated, biblically-instructed,...
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One Hundred Mountains of Japan"The more deeply you go into a long-held tradition, the more secrets and surprises it yields up. Mighty Ontake is like that. The mountain's inexhaustible treasury of riches is like some endless storybook with its pages uncut. As one follows the rambling plot along,...
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A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Hawai'i: The Main Islands and Offshore WatersWinner of the 2011 Ka Palapala Po'okela Award of Excellence in Natural Science, Hawai'i Book Publishers Association Hawai'i is home to some of the most beautiful and sought after birds in the world. From the offshore waters, where graceful seabirds glide on the cool,...
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Hawai'i's Ferns and Fern AlliesHawaii's Ferns and Fern Allies is the first comprehensive survey of Hawaii's ferns to be published in more than 100 years. The book covers endemic, indigenous, and naturalized ferns and fern allies (including rare and endangered taxa), providing dichotomous keys, basionyms and synonyms, technical...
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Sea Turtles of Hawai`iEnter the world of the honu, Hawai'i's beloved green sea turtle. Revered by Hawaiians since ancient times, and playing an important role in their culture, these turtles were reduced to dangerously low numbers by commercial fishing before gaining protection as a threatened species under...
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