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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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Man of the Trees: Richard St. Barbe Baker, the First Global ConservationistRichard St. Barbe Baker was an inspirational visionary and pioneering environmentalist who is credited with saving and planting billions of trees. He saved lives, too, through his ceaseless global campaign to raise the alarm about deforestation and desertification and by finding effective, culturally sensitive...
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Wildlife of Southern Forests: Habitat & ManagementThe most up-to-date manual on the Southern Forests habitat and management techniques. Wildlife of Southern Forests traces the history of southern forests and associated wildlife, details the biology and habitat requirements of species and communities and offers practical guidelines for habitat management on a...
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Alaska's Father Goose: Captain Gerald A. Bud Bodding: A Career in AviationOccasionally tense, frequently humorous, and always straightforward, Alaska's Father Goose is a celebration of flight, a wartime memoir, a history of airline growth, and ultimately a quintessentially Sourdough success story. Nicknamed Father Goose because of his many thousands of hours piloting the Grumman JRF...
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Gold! Gold!: A Beginners Handbook: How to Prospect for GoldRecent scientific studies confirm that early miners only scratched the surface and that 75 - 85% of the gold remains in "them thar hills". You can find gold! It's history, recovery methods, and identification techniques are revealed in this book. Learn where to look...
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Raptors in Captivity: Guidelines for Care and ManagementA first-of-its-kind resource, Raptors in Captivity is designed as a reader-friendly reference tool covering a wide range of topics from choosing a suitable species, to housing and transportation, diet, medical care, equipment, training. Raptors in Captivity is the recommended US Fish & Wildlife Service...
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Behavior of the Golden Eagle: An Illustrated EthogramIn this volume, the action patterns and activities of the golden eagle are described and most are illustrated in great detail. Names/titles are given for each action pattern, and those that are most useful in determining health and level of disturbance are discussed. There...
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Outlands: Journeys to the Outer Edges of Cape CodOn fog-shrouded barrier island or deep in winter woods, eighteen essays describe the wild, outer half of Cape Cod. Robert Finch is a vivid witness to our participation, whether as individuals or as communities, in the mysteries of natural experience. As he explains: "One...
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Principles of Conservation BiologyPrinciples of Conservation Biology, Third Edition, features a wholly revised organization, emphasizing analyses of different categories of threat and approaches to conservation. Coverage has been expanded to incorporate both terrestrial and marine conservation issues, and efforts in the U.S. and across the globe. The...
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YogoHere is a remarkable geological story backed by a century of rich Montana history--a fascinating tale that lay hidden in disjointed company files and correspondence, dusty geological reports, decades of yellowed newspaper clippings, and even in some of the works of Charles M. Russell.Author:...
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The People's ForestsDevoted conservationist, environmentalist, and explorer Robert Marshall (1901-1939) was chief of the Division of Recreation and Lands, U.S. Forest Service, when he died at age thirty-eight. Throughout his short but intense life. Marshall helped catalyze the preservation of millions of wilderness acres in all...
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A Peculiar River: Geology, Geomorphology, and Hydrology of the Deschutes River, OregonPublished by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Water Science and Application Series, Volume 7. The Deschutes is a "peculiar" dammed river in Oregon. Its dramatic juxtaposition of geology, topography, and climate presents a virtual textbook of landforms and geomorphic processes revealing...
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Native Plants of Southern Nevada: An EthnobotanyThe southern Great Basin/northern Mojave desert region is home to several different Paiute and Shoshone peoples, all of whom speak languages in the Numic language family. These societies shared a way of life based mainly on harvesting wild plants, following an annual cycle of...
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To Think Like a Mountain: Environmental Challenges in the American WestIn the West, shortsighted human self-interest has resulted in devastating environmental losses. Fur trade beaver trapping meant streams and wetland ecosystems deteriorated. Grazing livestock depleted native bunch grasses. Migrating Idaho Salmon once reached the ocean in ten to fourteen days. Now dams stretch the...
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Rainbow Bridge: An Illustrated HistoryOn the morning of August 14, 1909, a small, diverse group including Professor Byron Cummings of the University of Utah, Government Land Office surveyor William Douglass, pioneer archaeologist and trader John Weatherill, and Paiute guide Nasja Begay gazed at the largest structure of its...
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Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the DarkThe development of the modern world has brought with it rampant light pollution, destroying the ancient mystery of night and exacting a terrible price--wasted energy, damage to human health, and the sometimes fatal interruption of the life patterns of many species of wildlife. In...
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Venture of the Infinite Manventure of the infinite man was Neruda's third book, published in 1926, two years after his widely celebrated Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. In a stark stylistic departure from the love poems, Neruda composed an epic poem in 15 cantos, discarding...
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City of Memory and Other PoemsThe leading poet of his generation, Jose Emilio Pacheco is one of Mexico's most esteemed and beloved writers. City of Memory and Other Poems presents two of his finest poetry collections, accompanied by beautifully rendered translations. The first, City of Memory, touches on Pacheco's...
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Seventh Generation Earth Ethics: Native Voices of WisconsinWisconsin's rich tradition of sustainability rightfully includes its First Americans, who along with Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and Gaylord Nelson shaped its landscape and informed its "earth ethics." This collection of Native biographies, one from each of the twelve Indian nations of Wisconsin, introduces...
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The Wealth of Nature: Economics as If Survival MatteredNature-centered economics for the age of peak oilAuthor: John Michael GreerPublisher: New Society PublishersPublished: 06/01/2011Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.08w x 0.71dISBN: 9780865716735Review Citation(s): Library Journal 06/01/2011 pg. 107About the AuthorJohn Michael Greer is a scholar of ecological history, an award-winning author...
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The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate ChangeIn The Whale and the Supercomputer, scientists and natives wrestle with our changing climate in the land where it has hit first--and hardestA traditional Eskimo whale-hunting party races to shore near Barrow, Alaska-their comrades trapped on a floe drifting out to sea-as ice that...
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