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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Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural HistoryAmong scientists who write, no one illuminates as well as Stephen Jay Gould doesthe wonderful workings of the natural world. Now in a new volume of collected essays--his sixth since Ever Since Darwin--Gould speaks of the importance of unbroken connections within our own lives...
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The Birds of America: The Bien Chromolithographic EditionJohn James Audubon is arguably America's most widely recognized and collected artist. His Birds of America has been reproduced often, beginning with the double elephant folio printed by Havill in England, followed by a much smaller "Octavo" edition printed in Philadelphia and sold by...
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The Remarkable BaobabStanding tall on the sunburned plains of Africa and Australia, baobabs may be the oldest life forms on the planet. Many of the specimens still standing today have been around for well over two thousand years. Tremendous in size and bizarre in appearance, they...
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No god but God: The Origins and Evolution of IslamEngaging, accessible, and thought-provoking, No god but God is a persuasive, elegantly written, and accessible introduction for young readers to a faith that for much of the West remains shrouded in ignorance and fear. Adapted for young readers from No god but God: The...
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To Touch a Wild Dolphin: A Journey of Discovery with the Sea's Most Intelligent CreaturesIn 1982, Rachel Smolker traveled to Monkey Mia, a remote spot in western Australia where she'd heard wild dolphins regularly interact with people. She had no intention of staying long; she simply wanted to see if the rumors were true. That initial trip changed...
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OrthodoxyChesterton's timeless exploration of the essentials of Christian faith and of his pilgrimage to belief (more than 750,000 copies sold in the Image edition) is now reissued. For G.K. Chesterton, orthodoxy carries us into the land of romance, right action, and revolution. In Orthodoxy,...
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Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch ButterflyEvery autumn, the monarch butterflies east of the Rockies migrate from as far north as Canada to Mexico. Memory is not their guide -- no one butterfly makes the round trip -- but each year somehow find their way to the same fifty acres...
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Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost NotebooksBy focusing mostly on the birds Charles Darwin observed, and by brilliantly mining his lesser-known writings, Haupt pens a startlingly fresh exploration of the man's genius that invites readers to look at the world with new eyes.Author: Lyanda Lynn HauptPublisher: Little Brown and CompanyPublished:...
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Tides and the Ocean: Water's Movement Around the World, from Waves to WhirlpoolsSurfers, sailors, and anyone who loves the ocean will enjoy this visual exploration of the world's seas along its shores, including rip tides, swells, waves, and tsunamis. Tide is the vertical motion of water, something so subtle it is impossible to see with the...
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Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the EnvironmentSwine flu. Bird flu. Massive fish kills. Concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Recalls of contaminated meats, fruits, and vegetables. Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market. In Animal Factory, bestselling investigative journalist...
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Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist: How a CEO Doubled Earnings, Inspired Employees and Created Innovation from One Simple IdeaInspirational . . . Essential reading for anyone, whether lay, student, or practitioner, interested in business success today and in the environment.--Library Journal (starred review) In 1994, Interface founder and chairman Ray Anderson set an audacious goal for his commercial carpet company: to take...
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When Man Is the Prey: True Stories of Animals Attacking HumansSince we humans have evolved into the dominant species on this planet, we sometimes fail to recognize--and respect--the ever-present threat posed by the animals we love or fear, hunt or fight to protect. Many of nature's most lethal residents have combative skills that have...
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The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From, and How They Live- How are birds so good at flying and navigating?- Why are birds so like mammals- and yet so very different? - Did birds descend from dinosaurs, and if so, does that mean birds are dinosaurs?- How do they court each other and fend...
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Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife TraffickingAn intrepid investigation of the criminal world of wildlife trafficking--the poachers, the traders, and the customers--and of those fighting against it Journalist Rachel Nuwer plunges the reader into the underground of global wildlife trafficking, a topic she has been investigating for nearly a decade....
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Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and BerlinA fascinating and beautifully illustrated volume that explains what street trees tell us about humanity's changing relationship with nature and the city "A deep . . . dive into urban society's need for--and relationship with--trees that sought to return the natural world to the...
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Birds of Northern South America Volume 2: Plates and Maps: An Identification GuideWinner of the 2007 National Outdoor Book Award (NOBA) for Nature GuidebooksThe two companion volumes of this extensive and detailed guide make a groundbreaking contribution to bird guide literature: they not only provide detailed accounts of every known bird species in the vast region...
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Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the WorldThis is the first book created primarily for the field identification of parrots, one of the most familiar and colorful groups of birds. From the mighty macaws to the diminutive pygmy parrots, the 350 species of parrots include cockatoos, parakeets, lovebirds, and Budgerigar. Most...
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Lake Michigan in Motion: Responses of an Inland Sea to Weather, Earth-Spin, and Human ActivitiesReligion and the Culture of Print in Modern America explores how a variety of print media - religious tracts, newsletters, cartoons, pamphlets, self-help books, mass-market paperbacks, and editions of the Bible from the King James Version to contemporary Bible-zines - have shaped and been...
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Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North AtlanticIceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since the middle of the eighteenth century, however, this marginalized region...
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The Earth's Blanket: Traditional Teachings for Sustainable LivingThis is a thought-provoking look at Native American stories, cultural institutions, and ways of knowing, and what they can teach us about living sustainably.Author: Nancy J. TurnerPublisher: University of Washington PressPublished: 01/22/2008Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.78h x 7.31w x 0.79dISBN: 9780295987392Review Citation(s): Reference...
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