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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In the Presence of Buffalo: Working to Stop the Yellowstone SlaughterVery few of the 2.5 million people who visit Yellowstone National Park and who are awed by America's only continuously wild and genetically pure bison herd are aware that over the past decade, state and federal agencies have engaged in the wanton slaughter of...
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Listening to CougarThis spellbinding tribute to Puma concolor honors the big cat's presence on the land and in our psyches. In some essays, the puma appears front and center: a lion leaps over Rick Bass's feet, hurtles off a cliff in front of J. Frank Dobie,...
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A Rocky Mountain Lichen Primer"A Rocky Mountain Lichen Primer" is an introduction and field guide to lichens in the Rocky Mountain region. It features seventy-two color plates picturing the most common and conspicuous species to be found in the mountains and foothills of the Rockies. Many of these...
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Techniques for Pollination BiologistsTechniques for Pollination Biologists is the first book to incorporate all techniques published in the pollination literature as well as unpublished methods compiled from practicing pollination biologists. The bibliography includes 1,200 references from more than 200 journals, plus books and previously unpublished materials. Appendices...
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Holdfast: At Home in the Natural WorldNaturalist and philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore meditates on connection and separation in these twenty-one elegant, probing essays. Using the metaphor of holdfasts--the structures that attach seaweed to rocks with a grip strong enough to withstand winter gales--she examines our connections to our own bedrock."When...
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Holy Moli: Albatross and Other AncestorsHob Osterlund moved to Hawai'i after being visited in a dream by an ancestor, Martha Beckwith, author of the monumental classic, Hawaiian Mythology. It was there, on the island of Kaua'i, where she happened upon a few courting albatross and felt an inexplicable attraction...
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Wild in the Willamette: Exploring the Mid-Valley's Parks, Trails, and Natural AreasLocated between the population centers of Portland and Eugene, Oregon's Willamette Valley boasts rich opportunities for outdoor recreation that are too often overlooked. Wild in the Willamette is a guidebook to the natural treasures of the mid-Willamette Valley, extending far beyond the familiar I-5...
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Salmon, People, and Place: A Biologist's Search for Salmon RecoveryEach year wild Pacific salmon leave their oceanic feeding grounds and swim hundreds of miles back to their home rivers. The salmon's annual return is a place-defining event in the Pacific Northwest, with immense ecological, economic, and social significance. However, despite massive spending, efforts...
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Among Penguins: A Bird Man in AntarcticaAuthor: Noah StryckerPublisher: Oregon State University PressPublished: 04/15/2011Pages: 207Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.07w x 0.54dISBN: 9780870716294Review Citation(s): Library Journal 04/01/2011 pg. 103Publishers Weekly 04/11/2011About the AuthorNoah K. Strycker is associate editor of Birding magazine and a columnist for WildBird magazine. He has...
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Oregon Fossils, Second EditionThis revised and expanded edition of Oregon Fossils includes a record of all known fossils in Oregon going back 400 million years, along with collecting localities by county, age, rock formation, and published source. The book also provides a geologic overview of the state,...
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Butterflies of DelmarvaThe late Dr. Elton N. Woodbury had a fascination for butterflies ever since, as a preschooler, he and a friend encouraged the friend's younger sister to sample a yellow sulphur butterfly--hoping to discover whether it tasted buttery. The toddler ran screaming to her mother,...
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People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's Love Affair with an Ancient FishPeople of the Sturgeon tells the poignant story of an ancient fish. Wanton harvest and habitat loss took a heavy toll on these prehistoric creatures until they teetered on the brink of extinction. But, in Wisconsin, lake sturgeon have flourished because of the dedicated...
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Walking Home Ground: In the Footsteps of Muir, Leopold, and DerlethWhen longtime author Robert Root moves to a small town in southeast Wisconsin, he gets to know his new home by walking the same terrain traveled by three Wisconsin luminaries who were deeply rooted in place--John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and August Derleth. Root walks...
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The Bark River Chronicles: Stories from a Wisconsin WatershedThe Bark River valley in southeastern Wisconsin is a microcosm of the state's - indeed, of the Great Lakes region's - natural and human history. "The Bark River Chronicles" reports one couple's journey by canoe from the river's headwaters to its confluence with the...
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The Muskegon: The Majesty and Tragedy of Michigan's Rarest RiverMuskegon is a derivation of a Native American word meaning "river with marshes." Jeff Alexander examines the creation, uses of, devastation, and restoration of Michigan's historic and beautiful Muskegon River. Four of the five Great Lakes touch Michigan's shores; the state's shoreline spans more...
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AnthropometricaThis textbook features body measurements, and should be useful for those taking sports and health courses.Author: University Of New South Wales, Kevin Norton, Tim OldsPublisher: University of New South Wales PressPublished: 02/01/1996Pages: 411Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.10lbsSize: 9.50h x 7.60w x 0.90dISBN: 9780868402239This title is...
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The Astro-Geology of Earthquakes and VolcanoesWorldwide, there are approximately eighteen annual earthquakes if magnitude 7.0 or higher. Using all the scientific tools available today, however, geologists and seismologists are unable to predict exactly when and where such an earthquake will occur. The best they can do is to identify...
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Ecological Footprint: Managing Our Biocapacity BudgetThe only metric that tracks how much nature we have - and how much nature we use Ecological Footprint accounting, first introduced in the 1990s and continuously developed, continues to be the only metric that compares overall human demand on nature with what our...
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Mobilizing the Green Imagination: An Exuberant ManifestoElegant and audacious possibilities that push the boundaries of contemporary environmentalism Dysfunctional cities, catastrophic climate change, ever-deepening distance from nature-today we see environmental disaster everywhere we look. In Mobilizing the Green Imagination , philosophical provocateur Anthony Weston urges us to move beyond ever more...
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The Great Sea Island Storm of 1893Heartbreaking and true, The Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 details human courage and perseverance in the face of the second most fatal hurricane in US history. On a Sunday evening in August 1893, a massive hurricane slammed into South Carolina and Georgia at...
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