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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Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's LanguagesFew people know that nearly one hundred native languages once spoken in what is now California are near extinction, or that most of Australia's 250 aboriginal languages have vanished. In fact, at least half of the world's languages may die out in the next...
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A Dictionary of Nature MythsThis engaging reference work explores our age-old desire to interpret and control natural phenomena. Without the benefit of science, our ancestors sought to explain forces--such as wind, clouds, earthquakes, and stars--in a manner they believed to be inexorably connected to the will of the...
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Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest PredatorSince the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and controversial display animal in history. Yet, until now, no historical account has explained how we came to care about...
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By All Means Necessary: How China's Resource Quest Is Changing the WorldIn the past thirty years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants comprised the largest portion of the populace to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more megacities than anywhere else on earth. This remarkable transformation has required, and...
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Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)Although climate change and pollution make near-daily appearances in the news, humans have not always recognized that the environment needs to be protected. Only after the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 did environmental protection became a political and social priority. In...
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Jackstraws: PoemsIn this new collection of sixty-two poems Charles Simic paints exquisite and shattering word pictures that lend meaning to a chaotic world populated by insects, bridal veils, pallbearers, TV sets, parrots, and a finely detailed dragonfly. Suffused with hope yet unafraid to mock his...
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ForageWinner of Weatherford Award for Best Poetry Book about Appalachia A poet acclaimed for uncompromising, honest poems that sound like no one else (The Rumpus) now offers considerations of the natural world and humans' place within it in ecopoetry of both ambitious reach and...
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Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary"Incredible book . . . Best I've read this year." --Jack Dorsey, via Twitter This eye-opening book by the legendary author of the National Book Award-winning Whole Earth Catalog persuasively details a new approach to our stewardship of the planet. Lifelong ecologist and futurist...
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The Georgics: A Poem of the LandOne of the greatest poems of the classical world Virgil's Georgics is a glorious celebration of the eternal beauty of the natural world, now brought vividly to life in a powerful new translation. Georgic means to work the earth, and this poetic guide to...
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Case Studies in Disaster Mitigation and Prevention: Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation SeriesCase Studies in Disaster Mitigation and Prevention: Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation series presents cases illustrating efforts to reduce human and material losses associated with disasters. This volume demonstrates that mitigation is an ongoing phase in which communities continually...
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Plant PathologyThis fifth edition of the classic textbook in plant pathology outlines how to recognize, treat, and prevent plant diseases. It provides extensive coverage of abiotic, fungal, viral, bacterial, nematode and other plant diseases and their associated epidemiology. It also covers the genetics of resistance...
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The Wall of Birds: One Planet, 243 Families, 375 Million YearsA celebration of the diversity and evolution of birds, as depicted in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's magnificent 2,500-square-foot Wall of Birds mural by artist Jane Kim.Part homage, part artistic and sociological journey, The Wall of Birds tells the story of birds' remarkable 375-million-year...
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The Humane Economy: How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers Are Transforming the Lives of AnimalsA NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER"ESSENTIAL READING." -- JANE GOODALL"A CRITICALLY IMPORTANT BOOK." -- JACK WELCHFrom the leader of the nation's most powerful animal-protection organization comes a frontline account of how conscience and creativity are driving a revolution in...
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The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems"Steadily--by redefining green--Jones is making sure that our planet and our people will not just survive but also thrive in a clean-energy economy."--Leonardo DiCaprio A New York Times bestseller, The Green Collar Economy by award-winning human rights activist and environmental leader Van Jones delivers...
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The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship and Discovery in the Alaskan WildWith a body twisted by adolescent scoliosis and memories of the brutal death of a woman he loved, Lynn Schooler kept the world at arm's length, drifting through the wilds of Alaska as a commercial fisherman, outdoorsman, and wilderness guide. In 1990, Schooler met...
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PlanisphereA star finder that allows visible stars to be identified for any date and time for locations in the Northern Hemisphere. Compiled by astronomical experts, Storm Dunlop and Wil Tirion and approved by the astronomers of the Royal Observatory Greenwich.Author: Wil Tirion, Storm Dunlop,...
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Cloud Conversations & Image Stories-Leonardo's Theory: Pictorial ConsciousnessHow does Leonardo's theory of chance images, "accidental" inspiration, relate to clouds? In Cloud Conversations & Image Stories, Margaret A. Harrell weaves her own cloud photography into the art history of chance images, bringing in related drawings, scrying, and our relationship to Mother Nature....
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The EarthThe CubeBook series brings together breathtaking landscapes, inspiring quotes, and infographics about environmental issues that take the reader on a journey through the depths of the earth. "We really have the most beautiful planet in our solar system. None other can sustain life like...
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Hawk Moths of JamaicaJamaica was initially one of a few locations in the New World where early collections of hawk moths were made by visiting naturalists including Sir Hans Sloane, Philip Gosse, and natural history illustrator Luke Robins. From this material several species of hawk moths, new...
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Seasons In HaikuSeasons in Haiku, divinded into the four seasons, is a provocation to consider the state of our relationships with the seasons which Takara calls Song, Shimmer, Shadows and Sojourn. If we follow in the author's footsteps and give this matter some attention, we likely...
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