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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Mammals: 300 Amazing AnimalsMammals includes some of the most intriguing creatures on the planet: the big cats of Africa, the monkeys that inhabit the trees of the Amazon basin, the whales and dolphins that roam the world's oceans. This book profiles the mammals of the world, using...
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National Forestry HandbookThe National Forestry Handbook (NFH) contains methodology, procedures, and related reference materials that assist NRCS personnel to implement the policies contained in the National Forestry Manual (NFM) relative to forestry and agroforestry technologies. All references to the Soil Conservation Service or SCS by Public...
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The Spirit of Trees: Science, Symbiosis and InspirationA holistic appraisal of 24 of the best-loved trees of Europe and North America, presented with stunningly beautiful paintings, drawings and photographs. Trees are one of Earth's oldest life forms; silent witnesses to human evolution and the passing of time. Many people today are...
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Let Your Kids Go Wild OutsideCreative ways for children to spend time outdoors and discover nature. Creative ways for children to spend time outdoors and discover nature. In an era when the iPad is often more appealing than the park, it can be difficult to encourage kids to get...
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Bird Art: Drawing Birds Using Graphite & Coloured PencilsFew creatures symbolise the beauty of the natural world better than birds. Their delicacy, poise and power combine to create an irresistible subject for the artist. In this his first book, award-winning artist Alan Woollett captures perfectly, in breathtaking detail, the exquisite beauty of...
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Collected Works of John Muir, Naturalist (complete and unabridged), including: The Mountains of California (illustrated in B&W), Stickeen: The Story oJohn Muir (1838- 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and the modern day "patron saint of ecology". His writings on his adventures in the various wildernesses of America have been enjoyed by millions. His ecological activism helped to preserve many of the national...
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Slant LightIn her first full-length collection, Sarah Westcott immerses the human self in the natural world, giving voice to a remarkable range of flora and fauna so often silenced or unheard. Here, the voiceless speaks, laments and sings - from the fresh voice of a...
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Mama AmazonicaMama Amazonica is set in a psychiatric ward and in the Amazon rainforest, an asylum for animals on the brink of extinction. It reveals the story of Pascale Petit's mentally ill mother and the consequences of abuse. The mother transforms into a giant Victoria...
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Days of GraceDoris Kareva is one of Estonia's leading poets, admired especially for poems that balance precision and control with passion and bravado. Her achievement, according to Estonian Literature, is in writing poems which are both plentiful and fragile like a crystal...balancing on the line between...
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Societies Beyond Oil: Oil Dregs and Social FuturesWhat would a de-carbonised society be like? What are the implications of a general de-globalisation for our social futures? How will our high-carbon patterns of life be restructured in a de-energized world? As global society gradually wakes up to the new reality of peak...
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The Little Book of Scottish BeastiesScotland is renowned for the huge range of its wildlife, which comes in all shapes and sizes. In this book Tim Kirby introduces 45 of them, from the iconic red deer and golden eagle to the Highland cow and ubiquitous midge. In addition, he...
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The Little Book of Scottish RainBleeters come and bleeters go, they never, never stay -if it's not raining nowmore rain is on the way.It's widely reported that Eskimos have over 50 words for snow. Given the equivalent ubiquity of rain in Britain's northern climes, it is not surprising that...
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BedbugFew animals elicit such a profound combination of horror, fear, and disgust as the bedbug. Uninvited, bedbugs invade our most private spaces (our beds), take away our blood, and afterwards, impudently mark their territory (our sheets). In this book, Klaus Reinhardt investigates the natural...
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The Last of the Light: About TwilightNeither day nor night, twilight has long exerted a fascination for Western artists, thinkers, and writers, while haunting the Romantics and intriguing philosophers and scientists. In The Last of the Light, Peter Davidson takes readers through our culture's long engagement with the concept of...
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SkunkSolitary, nocturnal creatures, skunks generally go about their business unnoticed. But then there's that thing they do . . . and oh, boy, when they do it, no one can ignore them. But there's far more to skunks than their stench, and with this...
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WaterAs any scientist will tell you, there is no substance more vital than water. Our history is necessarily a history with water, whether we have irrigated our fields with it, cooled our machines, washed ourselves, drank it down deeply, or even worshipped it. In...
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OstrichOstriches may not be able to fly, but they loom large in the bird kingdom. They are the world's tallest and heaviest living birds, and they lay the largest eggs. With their long legs, ostriches are also fleet of foot, running up to 43...
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A Practical Illustrated Guide to Attracting and Feeding Backyard Birds: The Complete Book of Bird Feeders, Bird Tables, Birdbaths, Nest Boxes, and GarWhat to feed garden birds, 25 projects for birdhouses and a directory of garden birds.Author: Jen GreenPublisher: Southwater PublishingPublished: 03/07/2015Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.38lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.40w x 0.80dISBN: 9781780192802This title is only available via back order
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Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their Role in Our Changing WorldThe sweeping scientific and social history of the humble dung beetle The humble and industrious dung beetle is a marvelous beast: the 6,000 species identified so far are intricately entwined with human history and scientific endeavor. These night-soil collectors of the planet have been...
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Edible and Medicinal Arctic Plants: An Inuit Elder's PerspectiveAs a little girl in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Aalasi learned from her mother how to identify and harvest plants. Later, a mother herself, and living in Niaqunnguuq (Apex), she continued the practice, living off the land and passing her knowledge on to the next generation....
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