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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Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New OrleansThrough the innovative perspective of environment and culture, Urmi Engineer Willoughby examines yellow fever in New Orleans from 1796 to 1905. Linking local epidemics to the city's place in the Atlantic world, Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans analyzes how incidences...
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Wildflowers of the Coastal Plain: A Field GuideWildflowers of the Coastal Plain provides detailed information on 535 species of herbaceous plants, vines, and shrubs inhabiting one of the great floristic provinces of the United States. The coastal plain extends from southeast Texas eastward to Florida and includes the Mississippi River flood...
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Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II SouthFollowing World War II, chemical companies and agricultural experts promoted the use of synthetic chemicals as pesticides on weeds and insects. It was, Pete Daniel points out, a convenient way for companies to apply their wartime research to the domestic market. In Toxic Drift,...
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Nature's Second ChanceRenowned conservationist Aldo Leopold once wrote, A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it does otherwise. Few have taken Leopold's vision more to heart than Steven I. Apfelbaum, who...
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The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild PlacesWhat may happen now that so many more children are denied exposure to wilderness than at any other time in human history?Author: Gary Nabhan, Stephen TrimblePublisher: Beacon PressPublished: 04/30/1995Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.95h x 5.92w x 0.50dISBN: 9780807085257About the AuthorGary Paul Nabhan, a...
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Paradise of BombsWinner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction.Author: Scott Russell SandersPublisher: Beacon PressPublished: 06/30/1993Pages: 172Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.53h x 5.52w x 0.50dISBN: 9780807063439About the AuthorScott Russell Sanders is the author of The Paradise of Bombs; Wilderness Plots: Tales About the Settlement...
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Hunting for Hope: A Father's JourneysAfter an angry confrontation with his son on a hiking trip intended to restore their relationship, Scott Sanders realizes that his own despair has darkened his son's world. In Hunting for Hope he sets out to gather his own reasons for facing the future...
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The Animals' Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human AgeA compelling argument that the time has come to use what we know about the fascinating and diverse inner lives of other animals on their behalf Every day we are learning new and surprising facts about just how intelligent and emotional animals are--did you...
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The Prophet of Dry Hill: Lessons from a Life in NatureDavid Gessner had always known of John Hay. A nature-writing legend, author of fifteen books, Hay was something of a hero to the younger Gessner. But it wasn't until he returned to his childhood home on Cape Cod that Gessner befriended the older man....
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The Land Grabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth"Raises complex and urgent issues."--Booklist, starred review How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheiks, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food shortages or eager to...
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To Save the Wild Bison: Life on the Edge of YellowstoneAlthough the American bison was saved from near-extinction in the nineteenth century, today almost all herds are managed like livestock. The Yellowstone area is the only place in the United States where wild bison have been present since before the first Euro-Americans arrived. But...
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Oklahoma Breeding Bird AtlasBirding is the fastest-growing outdoor pursuit in America. This landmark volume, Oklahoma's first breeding bird atlas, offers both amateurs and ornithologists a wealth of information about Oklahoma bird species and their distributions. Lavishly illustrated with over 200 color photographs and 200 color maps, the...
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The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky MountainsThe Natural West offers essays reflecting the natural history of the American West as written by one of its most respected environmental historians. Developing a provocative theme, Dan Flores asserts that Western environmental history cannot be explained by examining place, culture, or policy alone,...
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The Yellowstone Wolf: A Guide and SourcebookAll royalties from sales of this book go to Yellowstone's wolf recovery project Few animals inspire such a mixture of fear, curiosity, and wonder as the wolf. Highly regarded but often misunderstood, the wolf has as many friends as enemies, and its reintroduction into...
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The BurroThe donkey, the onager, the koulan-the burro. All are names for one of the world's most used and abused beasts of burden. If the horse was the animal of conquest, it was the lowly burro who made it possible for civilization to spread to...
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Muskoxen and Their Hunters, 5: A HistoryIn this first major work on the muskox, Peter C. Lent presents a comprehensive account of how its fortunes have been intertwined with our own since the glaciations of the Pleistocene era.Drawing from paleontology, archaeology, anthropology, and Indian and Inuit lore, Lent examines muskoxen...
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Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of EnergyFrom the author of the now-classic Resource Wars, an indispensable account of how the world's diminishing sources of energy are radically changing the international balance of power Recently, an unprecedented Chinese attempt to acquire the major American energy firm Unocal was blocked by Congress...
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The Serpents of Paradise: A ReaderThis book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel pieces and fictions to reveal Ed's life directly, in his own words. The selections gathered here are arranged chronologically by incident, not by date of publication, to offer Edward Abbey's...
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A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia: Including the Philippines and BorneoWhether traveling through Southeast Asia or relaxing at home, bird lovers will enjoy this thorough and colorful bird watching guide. A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia is the first comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of mainland Southeast Asia, the Philippines...
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Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After AtrocityThe mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global human rights movement, the...
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