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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Wolf Haven: Sanctuary and the Future of Wolves in North AmericaThis stirring book of photographs introduces the many wolves that have been given sanctuary at Wolf Haven International near Mount Rainer in southeast Washington State. Annie Marie Musselman was given the rare opportunity to photograph the wolves at the Wolf Haven sanctuary. These captive-born...
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Feasibility Analysis for Sustainable Technologies: An Engineering-Economic PerspectiveFeasibility Analysis for Sustainable Technologies will lead you into a professional feasibility analysis for a renewable energy or energy efficiency project. The analysis begins with an understanding of the basic engineering description of technology in terms of capacity, efficiency, constraints, and dependability. It continues...
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Star Watch: The Amateur Astronomer's Guide to Finding, Observing, and Learning about Over 125 Celestial ObjectsYour Passport to the Universe The night sky is alive with many wonders--distant planets, vast star clusters, glowing nebulae, and expansive galaxies, all waiting to be explored. Let respected astronomy writer Philip Harrington introduce you to the universe in Star Watch, a complete beginner's...
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Embracing the Seasons: Memories of a Country GardenIn Embracing the Seasons Gunilla Norris shares her soulful and thought-provoking observations of a year lived in the countryside and reflects on the abundance and meaning of nature and its cycles of renewal. This journey through the seasons has been shaped by being home...
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Crunch & Des: Classic Stories of Saltwater FishingPhilip Wylie's enthralling tales of saltwater fishing have been entertaining readers of the Saturday Evening Post since 1939. Captain Crunch Adams, skipper of the charter boat Poseidon, and his friend and partner Des Smith adventure high and low in the waters of Florida, coming...
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The Spotted Hyena: A Study of Predation and Social BehaviorIn this seminal study, Hans Kruuk redefines the image of the spotted hyena, not as a common scavenger, but as a complex matriarchal predator with links to human evolution. The Spotted Hyena is the first study to capture the true behavior and ecology of...
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Getting Food from Water: A Guide to Backyard AquacultureGet your feet wet with another one of Gene Logsdon's brilliant guides Don't shy away from aquaculture for fear that it is too complex and difficult. With a little guidance, this decades-old tradition can be practiced successfully on plots of all sizes. Engage your...
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La Purisíma Concepción:: The Enduring History of a California MissionIn two centuries, La Purísima Concepción went from a fledgling frontier mission to a renowned California State Historic Park. Once home to many Spanish soldiers, settlers and hundreds of Chumash Indians, La Purísima held the seat of the California Mission government under Father Mariano...
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Orzel:: Scottsdale's Legendary Arabian StallionIn 1967, Scottsdale's longtime Arabian horse breeder Ed Tweed embarked on a mission to race the horses he bred. He imported a chestnut stallion from Poland named Orzel, or Eagle in English, that flew past competitors to become the first U.S. National Racing Champion....
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Texas Almanac 2020-2021The 70th edition in this long-running reference guide is filled to the brim with maps, statistics, full-color photographs, and fascinating information. You'll buy a piece of Texas history in every Texas Almanac in your collection. Our features this year include: Everyone knows Texas is...
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A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting: The Decoys, Guides, Clubs, and Places, 1870s to 1970sThe days are gone when seemingly limitless numbers of canvasbacks, mallards, and Canada geese filled the skies above the Texas coast. Gone too are the days when, in a single morning, hunters often harvested ducks, shorebirds, and other waterfowl by the hundreds. The hundred-year...
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Herping Texas: The Quest for Reptiles and AmphibiansCoiled beneath discarded trash or rocky slabs, basking along river edges, and tucked into rock cuts beside the highway, reptiles and amphibians constantly surround us. While many people go out of their way to avoid snakes or shudder at the thought of touching a...
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The Blanco RiverFor eighty-seven miles, the swift and shallow Blanco River winds through the Texas Hill Country. Its water is clear and green, darkened by frequent pools. Wes Ferguson and Jacob Botter have paddled, walked, and waded the Blanco. They have explored its history, people, wildlife,...
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Caddo: Visions of a Southern Cypress LakeIn a stunning tribute to one of Texas' most enigmatic waterways, a veteran East Texas historian and a professional photographer have together created an homage to a lake like no other--half Texas, half Louisiana, a swampy labyrinth of bald cypress and water plants filled...
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UnbrandedOn an epic 3,000-mile journey through the most pristine backcountry of the American West, four friends rode horseback across an almost contiguous stretch of unspoiled public lands, border to border, from Mexico to Canada. For their trail horses, they adopted wild mustangs from the...
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Dangerous BodiesWith deceptively pellucid language, Dangerous Bodies offers, in poem after poem, precise, jewel-like crystallizations of understanding that illuminate the craggy and often harrowing emotional terrain of a family gone wrong. Out of abandonment and incest, the wounded child turns to the long building of...
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The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate DisruptionAs seen in The New York Times, Men's Journal, Smithsonian.com, and The GuardianThe author who Jeremy Scahill calls the quintessential unembedded reporter visits hot spots around the world in a global quest to discover how we will cope with our planet's changing ecosystems After...
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Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg: The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic 30The true story of Greenpeace activists imprisoned in Russia--and the fight to free them: "A gripping story of tremendous courage that reads like a thriller" (Naomi Klein). "The most important prison motto is hope for the better, but every moment, literally every moment, be...
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The Weather Companion: An Album of Meteorological History, Science, and FolkloreA fascinating look at weather, including a wealth of unusual proverbial and naturalist lore. Makes the vagaries of the weather comprehensible, from the point of view of naturalists, and both modern and ancient meteorologists. Describes several natural barometers, and explains the basis of some...
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Raising Monarchs: Caring for One of God's Graceful CreaturesHave you ever wondered how to raise monarch butterflies? Author and butterfly farmer Sue Fox McGovern takes you through all of the steps from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. All of this can be done in your own backyard. Many color photographs...
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