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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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Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered Last ManuscriptThe final harvest of our great nature writer's last years, Wild Fruits presents Thoreau's distinctly American gospel--a sacramental vision of nature in which the tension between Thoreau the naturalist and Thoreau the missionary for nature's wonders invigorates nearly every page (Time). In transcribing the...
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The Bird of LightHere is an evocative, closely observed portrait of terns, as the noted naturalist John Hay has watched these tirelessly flying, excitable, vulnerable birds for years on Cape Cod. Celebrating their beauty, Hay describes all aspects of the birds' lives, from threats by enemies (including...
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Living Fossil: The Story of the CoelacanthIn the winter of 1938, a fishing boat by chance dragged from the Indian Ocean a fish thought extinct for 70 million years. It was a coelacanth, which thrived concurrently with dinosaurs and pterodactyls--an animal of major importance to those who study the history...
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The Peacocks of BaboquivariErma J. (Jonnie) Fisk, at seventy-three, lived alone for five months in a tiny cabin in the foothills of Arizona's Baboquivari Peak, recording and banding birds for the Nature Conservancy. This is her lively account of that adventure.Author: Erma J. FiskPublisher: W. W. Norton...
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The Human Age: The World Shaped by UsAckerman is justly celebrated for her unique insight into the natural world and our place in it. In this landmark book, she confronts the unprecedented reality that one prodigiously intelligent and meddlesome creature, Homo sapiens, is now the dominant force shaping the future of...
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The Dogs of Avalon: The Race to Save Animals in PerilGreyhounds, bred to be the fastest racing dogs on earth, are streaks of lightning. Beautiful, astonishing creatures, countless numbers of them disappear each year once they can no longer compete and win. The Dogs of Avalon introduces us to the strong-willed Marion Fitzgibbon, born...
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The Longleaf Pine Ecosystem: Ecology, Silviculture, and RestorationThe longleaf pine ecosystem, once one of the most extensive in North America, has been reduced over the past few centuries to about 2.2% of its original size. Still, the range of the longleaf still extends from Florida and the Carolinas to Texas, and...
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Stable Isotope EcologyA solid introduction to stable isotopes that can also be used as an instructive review for more experienced researchers and professionals. The book approaches the use of isotopes from the perspective of ecological and biological research, but its concepts can be applied within other...
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Ecological Intelligence: The Hidden Impacts of What We BuyThe bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence and Primal Leadership now brings us Ecological Intelligence--revealing the hidden environmental consequences of what we make and buy, and how with that knowledge we can drive the essential changes we all must make to save our planet and...
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Braving the ElementsNowhere in the world is weather as volatile and powerful as it is in North America. Scorching heat in the Southwest, hurricanes on the Atlantic coast, tornadoes in the Plains, blizzards in the mountains: Every area of the country has vastly different weather, and...
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The Mountains of CaliforniaWhen John Muir traveled to California in 1868, he found the pristine mountain ranges that would inspire his life's work. The Mountains of California is the culmination of the ten years Muir spent in the Sierra Nevadas, studying every crag, crook, and valley with...
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Hurricane Watch: Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on EarthThe ultimate guide to the ultimate storms, Hurricane Watch is a fascinating blend of science and history from one of the world's foremost meteorologists and an award-winning science journalist. This in-depth look at these awe-inspiring acts of nature covers everything from the earliest efforts...
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The Peter Matthiessen Reader"Our greatest modern nature writer in the lyrical tradition." --The New York Times Book Review "Matthiessen is a great travel companion. . . . His knowledge of plants, animals and people is breathtaking." --The Boston Globe Perhaps no writer has better articulated our relationship...
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Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Ancient Mammals from Montana to Mongolia"A superb introduction to paleontology as it really is and how it is done, from fish to dinosaur, bird, and mammal." --Edward O. WilsonMichael Novacek, a renowned paleontologist who has discovered important fossils on virtually every continent, is an authority on patterns of evolution...
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I Am: The Selected Poetry of John ClareHail, humble Helpstone ... Where dawning genius never met the day, Where useless ignorance slumbers life awayUnknown nor heeded, where low genius triesAbove the vulgar and the vain to rise.--from Helpstone I Am: The Selected Poetry of John Clare is the first anthology of...
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The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the OceanFrom New York Times bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets For all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of wonder and...
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of AmericaWinner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionIn Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman's transformation from a struggling single...
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Routledge Handbook of Urban ForestryMore than half the world's population now lives in cities. Creating sustainable, healthy and aesthetic urban environments is therefore a major policy goal and research agenda. This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of the state of the art and science of urban forestry....
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Environmental Economics: The EssentialsEnvironmental Economics: The Essentials offers a policy-oriented approach to the increasingly influential field of environmental economics that is based upon a solid foundation of economic theory and empirical research. Students will not only leave the course with a firm understanding of environmental economics, but...
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The Age of Sustainability: Just Transitions in a Complex WorldWith transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.Every day we are bombarded by reports...
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