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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Insects of the Los Angeles BasinUpdated for the first time in over twenty years, the third edition of Insects of the Los Angeles Basin is a beautifully produced and richly illustrated field guide to more than 450 common or conspicuous insects, spiders, millipedes, and other arthropods that inhabit the...
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Italian Environmental Literature: An Anthology"Italian Environmental Literature" brings together, for the first time - in Italy or for an English-speaking audience - a collection of over 40 authors from the deep and broad tradition of Italian environmental writing. Poetry and prose, the essay, the political and economic tract,...
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Metamorphosis: Evolution in ActionMetamorphosis is the result of a lifetime of biological research seeking to penetrate through the phenomena to the formative principles that have shaped them. Following Goethe's participatory method, and drawing on his observations on a number of continents, Andreas Suchantke shows how the development...
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Animals in the Third ReichThis important book explores the relationship between the Third Reich and animals -- as symbols, as myths, and as living creatures. From a review in Choice: "Rarely does a book contribute to two fields so significantly as this one. Sax, an independent scholar and...
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Canoeing North Into the Unknown: A Record of River Travel, 1874 to 1974Canoeing North Into the Unknown is an important book about canoeing Canada's most remote and fabled rivers, the rivers that flow north to the Arctic. Bruce W. Hodgins and Gwyneth Hoyle have amassed an unparalleled amount of information on who canoed these rivers and...
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Plants of Saratoga and Eastern New York: An Identification ManualAuthor: H. HowardPublisher: Union College PressPublished: 07/01/1995Pages: 326Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.91lbsSize: 10.31h x 7.05w x 0.96dISBN: 9780912756301
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Reading the Landscape of EuropeTake a field trip with American naturalist May Theilgaard Watts to see how nature, history, and culture have written their stories on the landscapes of Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Britain. In this sequel to her popular book Reading the Landscape of...
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Buffalo River HandbookThe highly anticipated second edition of the Buffalo River Handbook, written by Kenneth L. Smith, updates and expands the first edition initially published in 2004. The new edition includes the recently completed 28-mile segment of the Buffalo River Trail from U.S. Hwy 64 (Grinder's...
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Life Under GlassThe only account written during the original enclosure, Life Under Glass tells the story of the original crew that lived and worked inside the Biosphere 2 structure for two years, where they recycled their air, water, food, and wastes, setting a world record for...
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The Haiku of BashoMatsuo Basho (1644-1694) was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. He is universally recognised as the greatest master of haiku. His work is internationally renowned, and in his native land, many of his poems are reproduced on monuments and traditional...
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One Best Hike: Mount Whitney: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Hike California's Highest PeakSuccessfully hike Mount Whitney with the highly informative guide that helps you prepare and provides the details you need to know.As the highest mountain in the lower 48 states, California's 14,505-foot Mount Whitney is on the "life list" of many hikers. And it's no...
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Meditations of Henry David Thoreau: A Light in the WoodsCarry Henry David Thoreau's wisdom with you in this inspirational guide that features 60 of his most insightful quotes. Pencil-maker, surveyor, naturalist--Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) wrote articles and essays that established him as America's first great conservationist. As a 19th century man, Thoreau witnessed...
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Wild Plants of the San Juan Islands, 2nd Edition* The first comprehensive field guide to the San Juans * Also covers the Gulf Islands and southern Vancouver Island * Includes an annotated checklist of all vascular plants recorded for San Juan County Washington's jewel-like San Juan Islands, outdoor playground for both foot-and...
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Mountain Bike!: A Manual of Beginning to Advanced TechniqueIf you're looking for the ultimate mountain bike guide for the totally honed, welcome to William (Not Bill) Nealy's world. Nealy's expertise (acquired through years of crash and burn) enables him to translate hard-learned reflexes and instinctive responses into easy-to-understand drawings: drawings that will...
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Plants of Central Texas WetlandsAlong the San Marcos River, in and surrounding Palmetto State Park in south central Texas, lie more than five square kilometers of relict ecosystem known as the Ottine Wetlands. This rich and fascinating area of swamps, marshes, and ponds is situated on the biogeographical...
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The Complete Collector's Guide to Shells & Shelling: Seashells for the Waters of the North American Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Gulf of Mexico, GulfThis field guide features more than 450 full-color illustrations of shells for easy identification and provides complete descriptions, habitats, collecting details, size ranges, and dollar values for each specimen. The scientific names listed are the latest corrections or renamings by conchologists. Beginning or seasoned...
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Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico: Texas, Louisiana, and Adjacent Waters, Second EditionRevised in both format and content, this new edition of the standard Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico is based on two decades' research and greater attention to deepwater habitats. The authors have revamped the taxonomic nomenclature for more than forty species and included...
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The Minds of BirdsIn this controversial culmination of a lifelong quest, Alexander F. Skutch, a well-known ornithologist who has studied birds for more than sixty years, makes a case for "believing that birds' mental capacities have been grossly underestimated." Lacking hard scientific proofs of what birds think...
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The Fossil BookSpecial features you will unearth inside this book: Loaded cover-to-cover with color photos and illustrations Full-color interior Explains how fossils are formed Describes how to build your own fossil collection, including - How to extract fossils - How to identify fossils - How to...
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Ninety Fathoms Down: Canadian Stories of the Great LakesNinety Fathoms Down is the first collection of Canadian stories about the Great Lakes, the inland seas that shaped the development of Ontario. This fascinating book explains the history of the Canadian side of the Great Lakes by telling the stories of people whose...
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