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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Henna's Secret History: The History, Mystery & Folklore of HennaAuthor: Marie Anakee MiczakPublisher: iUniversePublished: 01/01/2001Pages: 356Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.26w x 0.87dISBN: 9780595178919This title is not returnable
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Exploring the Yukon RiverAuthor: Archie SatterfieldPublisher: iUniversePublished: 11/01/2000Pages: 148Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.16h x 6.10w x 0.42dISBN: 9780595146307This title is not returnable
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British Isles: A Natural HistoryBritish Isles: A Natural History takes the reader on a journey through time, from the explosive birth of the islands to the rich and varied landscape of today. It chronicles the evolution of this unique land, exploring everything from geology and geography to flora...
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Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Western North AmericaA comprehensive field guide that uses an innovative Sound Index to allow readers to quickly identify unfamiliar songs and calls of birds in western North America. Bird songs and calls are at least as important as visual field marks in identifying birds. Yet short...
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Hugs Kill: The Hidden Spectrum Between Dark and LightAuthor: Dennis H. BarkerPublisher: Dennis H. BarkerPublished: 05/01/2022Pages: 182Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39dISBN: 9780578289458
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The Light RoomFrom "one of our most formally ambitious writers" (Esquire), a moving account of caretaking in a time of uncertainty and loss "Kate Zambreno's writing is mysterious, unclassifiable, and yet intimate and familiar," Jenny Zhang has written. Now, Zambreno offers her most profound and affecting...
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Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American WestMustang is the sweeping story of the wild horse in the culture, history, and popular imagination of the American West. It follows the wild horse across time, from its evolutionary origins on this continent to its return with the conquistadors, its bloody battles on...
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Ramshackle OdeA sparkling debut collection from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet that makes an ecstatic argument for living Containing joy and suffering side by side, Ramshackle Ode offers elegies and odes as necessary partners to bring out the greatest power in each. By turns celebratory, meditative,...
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The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American EnvironmentalismThe Bulldozer in the Countryside is the first scholarly history of efforts to reduce the environmental costs of suburban development in the United States. The book offers a new account of two of the most important historical events in the period since World War...
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The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle AgesHow did people of the medieval period explain physical phenomena, such as eclipses or the distribution of land and water on the globe? What creatures did they think they might encounter: angels, devils, witches, dogheaded people? This fascinating book explores the ways in which...
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The Green and the Brown: A History of Conservation in Nazi GermanyThis study provides the first comprehensive discussion of conservation in Nazi Germany. Looking at Germany in an international context, it analyses the roots of conservation in the late 19th century, the gradual adaptation of racist and nationalist thinking among conservationists in the 1920s and...
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Elastic Wave Propagation and Generation in SeismologyBridging the gap between introductory textbooks and advanced monographs, this book provides the necessary mathematical tools to tackle seismological problems and demonstrates how to apply them. Including student exercises, for which solutions are available on a dedicated website, it appeals to advanced undergraduate and...
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North American Freshwater Mussels: Natural History, Ecology, and ConservationThis well-illustrated book highlights freshwater mussels' fabulous diversity, amazing array of often bizarre ecological adaptations, and their dire conservation plight. Summarizing and synthesizing historical and contemporary information as well as original research and analysis, the book describes the diverse array of mussel life history...
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A Natural History of California: Second EditionIn this comprehensive and abundantly illustrated book, Allan A. Schoenherr describes the natural history of California--a state with a greater range of landforms, a greater variety of habitats, and more kinds of plants and animals than any area of equivalent size in all of...
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The Myth of Silent Spring: Rethinking the Origins of American EnvironmentalismSince its publication in 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring has often been celebrated as the catalyst that sparked an American environmental movement. Yet environmental consciousness and environmental protest in some regions of the United States date back to the nineteenth century, with the...
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Napa Valley Historical Ecology Atlas: Exploring a Hidden Landscape of Transformation and ResilienceHow has California's landscape changed? What did now-familiar places look like during prior centuries? What can the past teach us about designing future landscapes? The Napa Valley Historical Ecology Atlas explores these questions by taking readers on a dazzling visual tour of Napa Valley...
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Field Guide to California Rivers: Volume 105Award-winning author, naturalist, and conservationist Tim Palmer presents the world of California rivers in this practical and inspiring field guide. Loaded with tips on where to hike, fish, canoe, kayak, and raft, it offers an interpretive approach that reveals geology, plant and wild life,...
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Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the WestWhere will the water come from to sustain the great desert cities of Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Phoenix? In a provocative exploration of the past, present, and future of water in the West, James Lawrence Powell begins at Lake Powell, the vast reservoir...
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Water and the West: The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American WestBack in print for the first time in over ten years, this classic account of the numerous struggles--national, state, and local--that have occurred over western American water rights since the late 1800s is thoroughly expanded and updated to trace the continuing battles raging over...
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Trees: A Visual GuideBeautifully illustrated and designed, this gorgeous reference book explores the world of trees from every perspective--from the world's great forests to the lifespan of a single leaf. Arresting color photographs of a wide variety of trees and close-ups of many of their remarkable features...
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