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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Koi For DummiesKnown throughout the world for its beauty and personality, koi is one of the most carefully bred fish species around. Raising koi is especially time-consuming and requires more than just sprinkling little flakes in the fish bowl. But thankfully, you don't have to be...
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Elephantoms: Tracking the ElephantAs a child in South Africa, spending summers exploring the wild with his boyhood friends, Lyall Watson came face to face with his first elephant. This entertaining and enchanting work (Washington Post Book World) chronicles how Watson's fascination grew into a lifelong quest to...
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The Queen Must Die: And Other Affairs of Bees and MenAn engaging collection of observations about honeybees and their activities.--Publishers Weekly.Author: William LonggoodPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 05/01/1988Pages: 234Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.83h x 4.76w x 0.78dISBN: 9780393305289
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Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation RevolutionA Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year If environmental destruction continues at its current rate, a third of all plants and animals could disappear by 2050-along with earth's life-support ecosystems, which provide food, water, medicine, and natural defenses against climate change. Now...
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Working on the Edge: Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High SeasIn a breathtaking, action-packed account that combines his personal story with the stories of survivors of the industry's most harrowing disasters, Spike Walker's Working on the Edge re-creates the boom years of Alaskan crab fishing and the crash that followed.No profession pits man against...
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Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures"A witty, scientifically accurate, and often intensely creepy exploration of sanguivorous creatures."--San Francisco Chronicle"Bill Schutt turns whatever fear and disgust you may feel towards nature's vampires into a healthy respect for evolution's power to fill every conceivable niche."--Carl Zimmer, author of Parasite Rex and...
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Grouse Hunter's Almanac: The Other Kind of HuntingLike that earlier grouse hunter Aldo Leopold, Mark Parman takes to the woods when the aspens are smoky gold. Here, in an evocative almanac that chronicles the early season of the grouse hunt through its end in the snows of January, Parman follows his...
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Mammals, Amphibians, and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Field GuideTo help visitors, as well as local residents, identify and enjoy the wildlife of Costa Rica, Carrol L. Henderson published Field Guide to the Wildlife of Costa Rica in 2002, and it instantly became the indispensable guide. Now Henderson has created a field guide...
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The Charles Bowden Reader"I will make bold to say that Bowden is America's most alarming writer. Just when you think you've heard it all you learn you haven't in the most pungent manner possible. . . . With The Charles Bowden Reader in hand you get a...
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Dolphin Communication and Cognition: Past, Present, and FutureExperts survey the latest research on dolphin communication and cognition, offering a comprehensive reference to findings in the laboratory and from the field.Dolphin researchers have collected an impressive amount of data over the last twenty years, thanks to advances in technology for monitoring, recording,...
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Cambrian Ocean World: Ancient Sea Life of North AmericaThis volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group...
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This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent"The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That's largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably, bending the continent's natural bounty...
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Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable CityPhoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and...
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Introduction to Environmental EconomicsClearly written, global in approach, and theoretically broad-minded, this text is an ideal introduction to environmental economics. Assuming no prior knowledge of economics, the international author team introduces fundamental economic concepts as they relate to our environment. They then use the fundamental concepts to...
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A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central AmericaWhen Steve Howell first visited Mexico in November of 1981, he arrived armed with a strong background of birding in Britain and the Western Palearctic, and an even stronger enthusiasm for the diverse and exotic birds of Northern Central America. But he also arrived...
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Great Sea: A Human History of the MediterraneanConnecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this brilliant and expansive book, David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea...
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Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental MovementThe Great Depression coincided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and devastating floods of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Recovering from these calamities--and preventing their reoccurrence--was a major goal of the New Deal. In Nature's New Deal, Neil M. Maher...
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Essential Entomology 2nd EditionComprising well over half of all known animal species, insects are the most successful organisms on the planet. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that one cannot study agriculture, biology, and the environment, without a basic understanding of entomology. Furthermore, insects are indispensable...
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A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the ArcticBased on five decades of research and observation, a haunting and unsparing look at the melting ice caps, and what their disappearance will mean. Peter Wadhams has been studying ice first-hand since 1970, completing 50 trips to the world's poles and observing for himself...
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The Alternative Introduction to Biological AnthropologyIn The Alternative Introduction to Biological Anthropology, Second Edition, author Jonathan Marks presents an innovative framework for thinking about the major issues in the field with fourteen original essays designed to correlate to the core chapters in standard textbooks. Each chapter draws on and...
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