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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In Defense of Hunting: Yesterday and TodayIn prose that vibrantly evokes the beauty and the cruelty of nature--and the archetypal nature of the hunt--James Swan argues that acknowledging the instinctual roots of the hunt is vital to repairing our modern alienation from nature and crucial to our understanding of our...
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The Big, Bad Book of Beasts: The World's Most Curious CreaturesThe world's wildest collection of animal knowledge and lore Lions, and tigers, and bears . . . and dinosaurs, dragons, and monsters. Oh my For hundreds of years, the most popular books in the Western world next to the Bible were "bestiaries," fanciful encyclopedias...
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Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005The poems in Robert Hass's new collection--his first to appear in a decade--are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise.His...
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Why New Orleans MattersIn the aftermath of Katrina and the disaster that followed, promises were made, forgotten, and renewed. Now what will become of New Orleans in the years ahead? What do this proud, battered city and its people mean to America and the world?Award-winning author and...
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Essential WhitmanFrom the introduction by Galway Kinnell: The poems of Walt Whitman meant little to me when I read them in high school and college. Luckily, when I was teaching at the University of Grenoble in my late twenties, I was required to give a...
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The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for HumanityAs the specter of religious extremism has become a fact of life today, the temptation is great to allow the evil actions and perspectives of a minority to represent an entire tradition. In the case of Islam, there has been much recent confusion in...
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The Black Ridge: Amongst the Cuillin of Skye'Will undoubtedly become a classic narrative of this scenically magnificent, legend-rich and geologically unique part of Scotland' Cameron McNeish, The Herald Rising a kilometre out of the storm-scoured waters around Scotland's Isle of Skye is a dark battlement of pinnacles and ridgelines: the Cuillin....
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The Wanderings of a Mountain Fly Fisher: Tales from a Catskill Eddy and Other Trout WatersThis little volume recollects true accounts from a fly-fisher's angling log centered about a half-century of the pursuit of trout, sometimes more than one-hundred-fifty fishing outings a season. Settings include New York's Catskill Mountains, Garden State wild trout waters, and the Blue Ridge Mountains...
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A Force for Nature: Nancy Russell's Fight to Save the Columbia GorgeA Force for Nature is a biography of Nancy Russell and her successful campaign to establish and protect the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Bowen Blair tells the story of the activist who fought one of the most fiercely contested conservation battles of...
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Hazardous Air Pollutants: Case Studies from AsiaHazardous Air Pollutants: Case Studies from Asia examines the variety of public health problems, such as cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, increased mortality, and impaired mental health, that are severely affecting multiple Asian countries as a result of exposure to high concentrations of air pollution...
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Occurrence, Toxicity & Analysis of Toxic Compounds in Oceanic BiotaThe presence of concentrations of organic substances and cations in sea water is a matter of increasing concern to the water industry, environmentalists and the general public alike. There is a threat of possible health hazards to both human, fish and crustacea. Occurrence, Toxicity...
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Renewable Energy Systems from Biomass: Efficiency, Innovation and SustainabilityNew innovations are needed for the invention of more efficient, affordable, sustainable and renewable energy systems, as well as for the mitigation of climate change and global environmental issues. In response to a fast-growing interest in the realm of renewable energy, Renewable Energy Systems:...
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Routledge International Handbook of Green CriminologyThe Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology was the first comprehensive and international anthology dedicated to green criminology. It presented green criminology to an international audience, described the state of the field, offered a description of a range of environmental issues of regional and...
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Environing MediaThis edited volume interrogates the role of media technologies in the formation of environments, understood both as physical spaces and as epistemological constructs about them. Using the concept of 'environing media', the book advances a deeper understanding of how media processes - defined here...
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Spill Some New Brightness: PoemsFrancine Marie Tolf's poetry is like the leaves she describes in one of her poems: "green fire in morning sun." Spill Some New Brightness opens in a place where grief and gratitude walk hand in hand: "Sometimes something wonderful occurs, / a sister you...
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Wild IndiaThis book contains all the information related to the various national parks and wildlife sanctuaries of India. The contents of the book are 1. Introduction 2. Bandipur National Park, Karnataka 3. Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhya Pradesh 4. Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala 5. Corbett National...
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Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's WoodsA gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market -- and how it intersects with environmentalism, class, and culture.In Tree Thieves, Lyndsie Bourgon takes us deep into the underbelly of the illegal timber market. As she traces three timber poaching cases, she introduces us...
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Delicate ArchMuch of Delicate Arch is the result of a 6,000-mile trip my wife and I took in the fall of 2019, when we visited many national parks and monuments. Previous and subsequent journeys have expanded its scope. My first experience of the national parks...
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The High Sierra: A Love StoryKim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during the summer of 1973. He returned from that encounter a changed man, awed by a landscape that made him feel as if he were simultaneously strolling through an art museum and scrambling on...
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On the Move with Adйlie PenguinsIn this title, early fluent readers follow Adam the Adйlie penguin as he and his colony migrate north in the winter in search of open water and sun. Read along as Adam swims thousands of miles back to his nesting site in Antarctica in...
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