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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Why New Orleans MattersMore than a decade after Hurricane Katrina, revisit Tom Piazza's award-winning appraisal of a city in crisis--with a new afterword placing the story of New Orleans in the context of the ongoing threat to America's coastal populations.In the years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the...
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Nick Brandt: Inherit the DustIn a series of epic African panoramas, Brandt records the impact of man in places where animals used to roamThree years after the completion of his trilogy, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls Across the Ravaged Land, Nick Brandt returned to East Africa to...
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The Big, Bad Book of Botany: The World's Most Fascinating Flora"A wild ride through the plant world."--The American GardenerAn entertaining and enlightening compendium of the world's most amazing and bizarre plants, revealing their secrets, history, and loreWhat happens when you give a plant a polygraph test? Can a flower really turn a human into...
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The Birds of Washtenaw County, MichiganThe Birds of Washtenaw County, Michigan provides a comprehensive account of the birdlife in Washtenaw County. Situated to the west of Detroit in southeast Michigan, the county has an exceptionally rich history of ornithological study, fueled by the activists of numerous amateur birdwatchers and...
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Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me about Life, Love, and Coming CleanCat behaviorist and star of Animal Planet's hit television show My Cat from Hell, Jackson Galaxy, a.k.a. "Cat Daddy," isn't what you might expect for a cat expert (as The New York Times noted, with his goatee and tattoos, he "looks like a Hells...
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Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly KillerWhy our cats are a danger to species diversity and human health In 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles. In just over a year, the Stephens Island Wren, a rare bird...
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Birds of Western Ecuador: A Photographic GuideThe ultimate photographic guide to the birds of western Ecuador Western Ecuador is famed for its astonishingly diverse birdlife, from colorful hummingbirds and outrageous toucans to more difficult groups like raptors, flycatchers, and ovenbirds. Here is the ultimate photographic guide to the spectacular birds...
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Butterflies of Indiana: A Field GuideDiscover the butterflies of Indiana in this award-winning, simple to use field-guideButterflies of Indiana is a unique and award-winning field guide to Indiana's rich butterfly fauna that covers all 149 species of butterflies and their close relatives, the skippers. It features over 500 color...
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The Commons in History: Culture, Conflict, and EcologyAn argument that the commons is neither tragedy nor paradise but can be a way to understand environmental sustainability.The history of the commons--jointly owned land or other resources such as fisheries or forests set aside for public use--provides a useful context for current debates...
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The Passenger PigeonA haunting, beautifully illustrated memorial to this iconic extinct bird At the start of the nineteenth century, Passenger Pigeons were perhaps the most abundant birds on the planet, numbering literally in the billions. The flocks were so large and so dense that they blackened...
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Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology Since DarwinA beautifully illustrated history of modern ornithology Ten Thousand Birds provides a thoroughly engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, tracing how the study of birds has been shaped by a succession of visionary and often-controversial personalities, and by the unique social and scientific...
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Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature" . . . provides readers with a much-needed cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspective on ecofeminist activism and scholarship." --Iris" . . . a very important contribution to the literature on ecological feminism." --Ethics"I think the unique collection of so many different perspectives will help...
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The Champions of CamouflageA selection of nature's greatest imposters, tricksters and magicians. Whether to escape predators or to surprise their prey, the talented strategists of nature in The Champions of Camouflage survive using visual trickery and fascinating biology. Some simply change their clothing to suit the seasons,...
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For the Wild: Ritual and Commitment in Radical Eco-ActivismFor the Wild explores the ways in which the commitments of radical environmental and animal-rights activists develop through powerful experiences with the more-than-human world during childhood and young adulthood. The book addresses the question of how and why activists come to value nonhuman animals...
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Caw of the Wild: Observations from the Secret World of CrowsCaw of the Wild is an in-depth exploration into the intriguing and complex behavior of one of North America's most intelligent, but often reviled, birds-the American Crow. As a passionate observer, author Barb Kirpluk shares her extraordinary and fascinating findings while tracking three urban...
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Insect MythologyAuthor: Gene KritskyPublisher: iUniversePublished: 12/13/2000Pages: 156Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.04w x 0.47dISBN: 9780595150175This title is not returnable
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Earth Treasures, Vol. 2: Southeastern Quandrant: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, VAuthor: Allan W. EckertPublisher: iUniversePublished: 06/01/2000Pages: 516Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.10w x 1.25dISBN: 9780595089598This title is not returnable
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The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan BearsWith a new introduction on Werner Herzog's film entitled The Grizzly ManTimothy Treadwell, self-styled "bear whisperer" dared to live among the grizzlies, seeking to overturn the perception of them as dangerously aggressive animals. When he and his girlfriend were mauled, it created a media...
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Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the BrinkFrom world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the new National Geographic documentary Jane, comes an inspiring message about the future of the animal kingdom. With the insatiable curiosity and conversational prose that have made her a bestselling author, Goodall - along with Cincinnati...
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Questions, QuestionsFrom Marcus Pfister, creator of the bestselling Rainbow Fish series, a thoughtful book of thirteen rhyming couplets that create a calming meditation on life and the great questions it inspires. How do birds learn how to sing? What brings summer after spring? What turns...
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