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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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His Very Silence Speaks: Comanche-The Horse Who Survived Custer's Last StandHis Very Silence Speaks addresses larger issues such as the human relationship to animals and nature, cross-cultural differences in the ways animals are perceived, and the symbolic use of living and legendary animals in human cognition and communication.Author: Elizabeth Atwood LawrencePublisher: Wayne State University...
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Late, Great Lakes: An Environmental HistoryThe Late, Great Lakes is a powerful indictment of man's carelessness, ignorance, and apathy toward the Great Lakes. With the longest continuous coastline in the United States, they hold one-fifth of the world's freshwater supply. Author William Ashworth presents a compelling history of the...
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Visualizing Posthuman Conservation in the Age of the AnthropoceneHow do we understand the lives of nonhuman animals and our relationship with and responsibilities to them? What are the artifacts or things that help configure such perceived responsibility? And what does it mean to practice conservation in the Anthropocene? Amy D. Propen seeks...
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June in EdenSometimes June in Eden occupies a garden in a wild landscape. Other times, we're given a terrain where the coveted tree is one that hides a cell tower, where lungs are likened to ATMs and prayers are sent via text message. Rosalie Ruth Moffett's...
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Virginia Climate Fever: How Global Warming Will Transform Our Cities, Shorelines, and ForestsClimate disruption is often discussed on a global scale, affording many a degree of detachment from what is happening in their own backyards. Yet the consequences of global warming are of an increasingly acute and serious nature.In Virginia Climate Fever, environmental journalist Stephen Nash...
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Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate ChangeSince the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth's atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and mass extinction. This period of observable human impact on the Earth's ecosystems has been called the Anthropocene Age. The...
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Different Shades of Green: African Literature, Environmental Justice, and Political EcologyEngaging important discussions about social conflict, environmental change, and imperialism in Africa, Different Shades of Green points to legacies of African environmental writing, often neglected as a result of critical perspectives shaped by dominant Western conceptions of nature and environmentalism. Drawing on an interdisciplinary...
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Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh"Set aside your Bella Tuscanys and Year in Provences for a different kind of travel book. Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa puts a walking stick in your hand and Marsh's Man and Nature in your knapsack, exploring how Italians have managed their natural and cultural heritage...
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Fishing the Shenandoah Valley: An Angler's GuideThe Shenandoah Valley is famous for its role in Civil War history and for its great natural beauty. But there is something else: it is a tremendous place to fish. Fishing the Shenandoah Valley: An Angler's Guide is the latest stop in author M....
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Wild Flowers of Tidewater VirginiaThe design of this book is to furnish information with which the plants can be identified without resorting to technical language or requiring that the structure of plant parts be understood. Color photographs and descriptive comments are provided as identification materials for each species.Author:...
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Veterinarian s Encyclopedia of AnimalAuthor: BeaverPublisher: John Wiley & SonsPublished: 02/05/1994Pages: 324Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.28h x 6.34w x 0.91dISBN: 9780813821146About the AuthorBonnie V. G. Beaver is the author of The Veterinarian's Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, published by Wiley.
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North American Trees 5eCompletely updated, this new edition continues the grand tradition of this classic reference covering trees of North America excluding Mexico and tropical Florida. This handbook has been designed to meet the needs of the general public as well as those of students and scientists....
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Science by the People: Participation, Power, and the Politics of Environmental KnowledgeLonglisted for the Fleck Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Citizen science--research involving nonprofessionals in the research process--has attracted both strong enthusiasts and detractors. Many environmental professionals, activists, and scholars consider citizen science part of their toolkit for addressing environmental...
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Running Dry: Essays on Energy, Water, and Environmental CrisisThe world's water is under siege. A combination of corporate greed, the elite pursuit of political power, and our unrelenting reliance on carbon-based energy is accerlating a broad range of environmental and political crises. Potentially catastrophic climate change, driven primarily by the consumption of...
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The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and AquacultureWinner of the 2017 Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award from the American Sociological Association Although humans have long depended on oceans and aquatic ecosystems for sustenance and trade, only recently has human influence on these resources dramatically increased, transforming and undermining oceanic environments...
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This Is Our Land: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Late Twentieth CenturyIn the last three decades of the twentieth century, the environmental movement experienced a quiet revolution. In This is Our Land, Cody Ferguson documents this little-noted change as he describes the efforts of three representative grassroots groups--in Montana, Arizona, and Tennessee--revealing how quite ordinary...
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Green Planet: How Plants Keep the Earth Alive2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Plants are not just a pretty part of the landscape; they keep the entire planet, with all of its human and nonhuman inhabitants, alive. Stanley Rice documents the many ways in which plants do this by making oxygen, regulating...
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Wild New Jersey: Nature Adventures in the Garden StateThe fastest animal on earth dive-bombs him from the skies. A young black bear bounds up a mountain trail a few yards away. Poisonous snakes swirl at his feet. A thousand bats careen past his head in a pitch-black roost. Pods of dolphins swim...
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Divining, a Memoir in TreesIn sixteen essays, each named after a species of tree, Maureen Dunphy explores the nature of human-arboreal relationships, and how each of these trees has-literally-served as a friend, a confidante, or a place to rest. The depth and diversity of these relationships are revealed...
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The North of the South: The Natural World and the National Imaginary in the Literature of the Upper SouthOver the past generation the Deep South has become the primary focus, and the plantation the predominant site, in southern literary studies. These developments followed academic interest first in postcolonial studies and more recently in globalization studies and conceptions of the Global South. With...
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