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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Spix's Macaw: The Race to Save the World's Rarest BirdAn environmental parable for our times - the story of a beautiful blue bird meeting its nemesis at the end of the 20th-century.In December 1897 the Reverend F. G. Dutton lamented that 'there are so many calls on a parson's purse, that he cannot...
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Going DarkWe are the last individuals of our species on Earth. How shall we respond? How shall we act? If industrial civilization is maintained, climate change will cause human extinction in the near term. If industrial civilization falls, sufficient ionizing radiation will be released from...
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Dinomania: Why We Love, Fear and Are Utterly Enchanted by DinosaursFrom Jurassic Park to Sue the T-Rex and Barney, our dino love affair is as real, as astonishing, and as incomprehensible as the gargantuan beasts themselves. At once reptilian and avian, dinosaurs enable us to imagine a world far beyond the usual boundaries of...
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Natural Living Style: Inspirational Ideas for a Beautiful and Sustainable HomeIn Natural Living Style, Selina Lake reveals how to create a simple, beautiful, and stylish home that is as natural, plastic-free, and sustainable as possible. "Our favorite stylist is back--we can't stop drooling over Selina Lake's new book..." Mollie Makes In Inspirations, Selina starts...
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Practising Feminist Political Ecologies: Moving Beyond the 'Green Economy'Destined to transform its field, this volume features some of the most exciting feminist scholars and activists working within feminist political ecology, including Giovanna Di Chiro, Dianne Rocheleau, Catherine Walsh and Christa Wichterich. Offering a collective critique of the 'green economy', it features the...
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My First Summer in the SierraIn the summer of 1869, John Muir set out from California's Central Valley with a flock of sheep and trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. His journals describe the summer he spent in what would become Yosemite National Park. Celebrating the Sierra's...
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The Paleoart of Julius CsotonyiThe collected works of Julius Csotonyi, one of the world's most high profile and talented contemporary paleoartists. Csotonyi has considerable academic expertise that contributes to his stunning dynamic art. Csotonyi represents the natural world photorealistically and has been influenced by natural history illustrators such...
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LlamaKnown for their woolly charm, sure-footed strength, and a propensity to spit at you if you bother them too much, llamas have had a rich and diverse history. Since their domestication high in the Andes, they have been farmed, smuggled, sacrificed, and sometimes kept...
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EarthquakeThe 2011 devastating, tsunami-triggering quake off the coast of Japan and 2010's horrifying destruction in Haiti reinforce the fact that large cities in every continent are at risk from earthquakes. Quakes threaten Los Angeles, Beijing, Cairo, Delhi, Singapore, and many more cities, and despite...
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Field Guide to Wild Flowers of South AfricaSouth Africa's varied landscape is home to some 19,000 shrubs and herbs, a large number of which bear flowers of intricate and often stunning beauty. This field guide covers more than 1,100 species, focusing on the most common, conspicuous and 'showy' plants of the...
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Time Is Always NowPoetry. Rebecca Starks's TIME IS ALWAYS NOW unfolds against a backdrop of nature, often permeated in unexpected ways with the human dynamics of family, neighborhood, and nation. Her poems convey the urgency within moments of transformation--whether seasonal, as in wilderness and garden; physical, as...
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The Killer Whale Who Changed the WorldThe fascinating and heartbreaking account of the first publicly exhibited captive killer whale -- a story that forever changed the way we see orcas and sparked the movement to save them. Killer whales had always been seen as bloodthirsty sea monsters. That all changed...
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The Energy of SlavesAncient civilizations routinely relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities. In the early 19th century, the slave trade became one of the most profitable enterprises on the planet. Economists described the system...
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Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita WongCurrent, Climate is an introduction to the environmental and social-justice poetry of Rita Wong. Selections from her poetic oeuvre show how Wong has responded to local and global inequities with outrage, linguistic inventiveness, and sometimes humour. Wong's poetry explores the meeting places of life,...
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500 Butterflies: Butterflies from Around the WorldThis handsome, well-illustrated guide features 514 butterflies from all continents, most of them photographed in their natural environment, sometimes with their caterpillars. Sales of 15,000 copies in hardcover is proof of its value. The butterflies are organized by genus, species and subspecies, and described...
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Color and Vision: The Evolution of Eyes and PerceptionThis thought-provoking book examines life before there was vision and considers how it changed when the image-forming eye evolved. It goes back to the earliest life on Earth to trace the evolution of vision and color in nature. For color to exist there needs...
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Fifty Minerals That Changed the Course of HistoryThe brief sections are consistently interesting, and plenty of supplemental illustrations and photos make this a handsome volume... best-suited to curious kids and casual mineralogists. --Publishers Weekly A beautiful book, nicely bound and richly illustrated... written in an easy to read, casual style. --Science...
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18 Miles: The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its WeatherWINNER, American Meteorological Society's Louis J. Battan Authors' Award WINNER, 2019 Science Writers & Communicators of Canada Book Award WINNER, 2018 Lane Anderson Award "With wit and a humbling sense of wonder, this is a book that can be shared and appreciated by a...
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Birds of Africa South of the SaharaBirds of Africa South of the Sahara provides unrivalled coverage of African birds in a single volume, and is the only book to describe and illustrate all of the birds found in Africa south of the Sahara Desert (the Afrotropic Region), including Socotra, Pemba...
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Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest PeopleIn this unique journey into traditional Aboriginal life and culture, a European business-management professor and an Aboriginal eldercollaborate to create a powerful and original model that western societies can use tobuildenvironmentally sustainableorganizations, communities, and ecologies based uponthe same Aboriginal traditions that allowed theAborigines tocreatesustainable...
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