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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Sandhill Cranes, Family TimesClara, a Sandhill Crane with a badly injured leg, takes readers on a journey as she recuperates, telling of her friends' nesting and hatching of rusty colored fuzzy chicks and their growth to juveniles under the close watch of vigilant parents. Clara's heartwarming, triumphant...
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Carolina Wrens: Their Family StoryA pair of Carolina Wrens chose a tiny clay pot outside a kitchen window to make their home and raise a family. From first twig in the nest to last fledgling taking to the trees, their story was captured over several weeks, in photos...
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Five Acres and Independence: A Practical Guide to the Selection and Management of the Small Farm2015 Reprint of 1940 Edition Revised and Enlarged Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Everyone who has ever dreamed of getting back to the soil will benefit from Kains' practical and straightforward discussions on what small-scale farming...
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Pilgrim at Tinker CreekPilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence."Her personal narrative highlights one year's...
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DisasterFOR MEN AND WOMEN CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH HELL ON EARTH. Has a hurricane-sized disaster ripped through your life? Do you ever feel stale in your soul and lack adventure in life? Have circumstances sucker-punched you and fear bogged you down? Not anymore! LEARN TO...
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Posthuman Plants: Rethinking the Vegetal Through Culture, Art, and PoetryOur interdependence with plants entails symbiosis that is not only biological but also cultural, social, and linguistic. Posthuman Plants addresses our diverse entanglements with plants in everyday life through the prisms of posthumanist, multispecies, ecocritical, and ecocultural theory. This volume asks: how does the...
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The Encyclopedia of Animal Predators: Learn about Each Predator's Traits and Behaviors; Identify the Tracks and Signs of More Than 50 Predators; ProteLearn to identify threatening species through tracks, scat, and the damage they leave behind. Fascinating profiles of more than 50 predatory mammals, birds, and reptiles teach farmers, ranchers, homesteaders, and backyard-animal raisers how to prevent their livestock, poultry, and pets from becoming prey. By...
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Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar BirdsSee the intimate lives of birds as never before Laura Erikson and Marie Read document the family lives of more than 50 common North American birds through breathtaking close-up photography. Stunning images of hummingbirds, owls, tanagers, and more showcase different stages of avian development...
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Native SpeciesIn his sixth book of poetry, Todd Davis, who Harvard Review declares is "unflinchingly candid and enduringly compassionate," confesses that "it's hard to hide my love for the pleasures of the earth." In poems both achingly real and stunningly new, he ushers the reader...
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A North Country Almanac: Reflections of an Old-School Conservationist in a Modern WorldA North Country Almanac: Reflections of an Old-School Conservationist in a Modern World includes the musings of an independent mind on wilderness, the conservation ethic, and the joys of loving the outdoors. Although a lifelong conservationist, Thomas C. Bailey has never unquestioningly accepted environmental...
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Alexis Rockman: The Great Lakes CycleThis book focusing on an ambitious new body of work by American artist Alexis Rockman (b. 1962) explores the past, present, and future of the Great Lakes, one of the world's most emblematic and ecologically significant environments. Rockman's series The Great Lakes Cycle celebrates...
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WinterkillIn Winterkill, Todd Davis, who, according to Gray's Sporting Journal, "observes nature in the great tradition of Robert Frost, James Dickey, and Jim Harrison," offers an unflinching portrait of the cycles of birth and death in the woods and streams of Pennsylvania, while never...
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Pub Theology: Beer, Conversation, and GodSynopsis: From London to New York to Ann Arbor, people are gathering in pubs and bars to communicate, connect, and learn from one another over the topic of religion, of all things. In Pub Theology, pastor, writer, and pub theologian Bryan Berghoef draws from...
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Trash Talk: An Encyclopedia of Garbage and Recycling Around the WorldAs the popularity of sustainability grows and climate change becomes an accepted reality, experts point to trash and waste as the link between environmental and public health. This detailed reference--one of the most comprehensive resources available on the subject--examines garbage disposal on a global...
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The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone ConservationThe remarkable story of the heroic effort to save and preserve Afghanistan's wildlife-and a culture that derives immense pride and a sense of national identity from its natural landscape. Postwar Afghanistan is fragile, volatile, and perilous. It is also a place of extraordinary beauty....
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Water WaysJoin William O'Daly and JS Graustein on their poetic explorations of New Hampshire's waterways. O'Daly's work as a Research Writer at the California Department of Water Resources during the state's multi-year drought and Graustein's training as an Aquatic Ecologist lend unique perspectives to the...
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Fragments: From the Lost Book of the Bird SpiritSet to the music of bird flight, sight, and song, these poems, in the form of fragmented ancient text, tell a story of loss and the journey toward love, and acceptance. The text, accented by silence (white space), allows for an intimacy akin to...
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Florida's Invaders: How Introduced Invasive and Non-Native Species are Changing the Ecology and Environment of the Sunshine StateAround the globe, invasive plants and animals have become a serious threat. Some 40% of all endangered species worldwide have been caused by the presence of exotic invasives, and introduced species are now the second-leading cause of extinctions, behind only habitat loss. In the...
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China Lake: A Journey Into the Contradicted Heart of a Global Climate CatastropheBarret Baumgart's literary debut presents a haunting and deeply personal portrait of civilization poised at the precipice, a picture of humanity caught between its deepest past and darkest future. In the fall of 2013, during the height of California's historic drought, Baumgart toured the...
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Wildflowers and Other Plants of Iowa Wetlands, 2nd EditionOriginally published in 1999, Wildflowers and Other Plants of Iowa Wetlands was the first book to focus on the beauty and diversity of the wetland plants that once covered 1.5 million acres of Iowa. Now this classic of midwestern natural history is back in...
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