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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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Oil in the Sea IV: Inputs, Fates, and EffectsOil and natural gas represent more than 50 percent of the worldwide energy supply, with high energy demand driven by population growth and improving standards of living. Despite significant progress in reducing the amount of oil in the sea from consumption, exploration, transportation, and...
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Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight Over Controlling NatureThe fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to control nature in the national parks. When twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a...
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The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: PoemsFrom the phenomenally bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time comes Mark Haddon's first collection of poems. That Mark Haddon's first book after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a book of poetry may surprise...
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Marine Mammals: Biology and ConservationA: Introduction: Life History & Ecology. 1. Life history strategies of marine mammals; P.G.H. Evans, I. Stirling. 2. How persistent are marine mammal habitants in an ocean of variability? A. Bj rge. 3. Ecological aspects of reproduction of marine mammals; C. Lockyer. B: Sensory...
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The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic JourneyIn a volume as urgent and eloquent as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, this book--winner of the Southern Environmental Law Center's 2016 Reed Environmental Writing Award in the book category--reveals how the health and well-being of a tiny bird and an ancient crab mirrors our...
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Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural WorldA founder of soundscape ecology offers a pioneering field guide for listening to and recording the sounds of the wild Through his organization Wild Sanctuary, Bernie Krause has traveled the globe to hear and record the sounds of diverse natural habitats. Wild Soundscapes, first...
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The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane KatrinaHow a plucky coterie of Louisiana shrimp-boat captains faced down the most destructive hurricane in U.S. history--only to realize that the struggle to preserve their centuries-old culture had just begun With a long and colorful family history of defying storms, the seafaring Robin cousins...
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Ginkgo: The Tree That Time ForgotPerhaps the world's most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when people...
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Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital ResourceThe little-known story of the systems that bring us our drinking water, how they were developed, the problems they are facing, and how they will be reinvented in the near future Turn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug,...
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A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Japan and North-East AsiaEncompassing a spectacular variety of environments--from boreal areas to subtropical islands, from dense woodlands to open seas--Japan is home to a rich array of bird species. This up-to-date and brilliantly photographed guide covers nearly 600 species of birds found in Japan and north-east Asia,...
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Wildly Successful Farming: Sustainability and the New Agricultural Land EthicWildly Successful Farming tells the stories of farmers across the American Midwest who are balancing profitability and food production with environmental sustainability and a passion for all things wild. They are using innovative techniques and strategies to develop their wildly successful farms as working...
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The Essential Aldo Leopold: Quotations and CommentariesDemocracy in Print captures many of the most influential voices from a century of United States history who have spoken out on the struggle to make real the promise of democracy for all Americans, railed against abuses of corporate power, renounced American empire, championed...
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Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933Focusing on former socialist states in Eastern Europe, the contributors disclose the political and physical dangers inherent in field research. They reveal how communities undergo political and economic dislocations, plummeting living standards, and ethnic and nationalist violence.Author: Margaret Beattie BoguePublisher: University of Wisconsin PressPublished:...
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The Orphan Tsunami of 1700: Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North AmericaA puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700. Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and damage. Some noted having felt no earthquake; they wondered what had set off the waves but had no way of knowing that the tsunami was spawned...
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Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and RatsFrom tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In Pests in the City, Dawn Day Biehler argues that the urban ecologies that supported pests were shaped not only by the physical...
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Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific NorthwestDrawing boundaries around wilderness areas often serves a double purpose: protection of the land within the boundary and release of the land outside the boundary to resource extraction and other development. In Drawing Lines in the Forest, Kevin R. Marsh discusses the roles played...
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Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban GeologyMost people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in any urban center to find a range of rocks equal to any assembled by plate...
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Antbirds and Ovenbirds: Their Lives and HomesWestern Books Exhibition, Rounce and Coffin ClubAntbirds and ovenbirds, two of the five largest families of birds found only in the Western Hemisphere, have been among Alexander Skutch's favorites for more than six decades. In this book, he draws on years of observations to...
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The Behavior of Texas BirdsWhether it's the sudden, plunging dives of Brown Pelicans, the singing and aerial displays of Northern Mockingbirds, or the communal nesting of Purple Martins, innate and learned behaviors are some of the most fascinating things to observe in Texas birds. Even casual birdwatchers eventually...
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Trees & Shrubs of the Trans-Pecos and Adjacent AreasFirst published by the Big Bend Natural History Association in 1988 as Trees & Shrubs of Trans-Pecos Texas, this book is the only keyed guide to the more than 400 species of woody plants native to the Trans-Pecos region and adjacent areas in eastern...
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