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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Which Way for the Ecology Movement?: Essays by Murray BookchinIn the essays that make up this book, Murray Bookchin calls for a critical social standpoint that transcends both "biocentrism" and "ecocentrism." A call for new politics and ethics of complementarity, in which people, fighting for a free, nonhierarchical, and cooperative society, begin to...
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A Birdwatchers' Guide to Southern Spain and Gibraltar: Site GuideA guide to birdwatching sites in Southern Spain: this book shows you where to go and when to visit for the best birding experience. This guide is best used alongside your field guide - it does not include information about identifying birds. Written by...
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Signs of the Wild: A Field Guide to the Spoor & Signs of the Mammals of Southern AfricaThis compact field guide to the identification of Southern African mammals based on their spoor, droppings and skulls has long been a top seller. This edition offers up-to-date information on identification through signs; provides new illustrations for a number of species; and features illustrations...
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Parrots of Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands: Biology, Ecology and ConservationA detailed examination of all aspects of parrots from behavior to their conservation. Parrots' colour and charisma, coupled with the fact that they mimic human speech, make them fascinating to many people. They are ancient birds with unique bill and foot structures that enable...
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Prickly Pear: A Social History of a Plant in the Eastern CapeAn explanation of how an invasive cactus from Mexico became a source of income in Africa While there are many studies of the global influence of crops and plants, this is perhaps the first social history based around a plant in South Africa. Plants...
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The Sustainability Practitioner's Guide to Input-Output Analysis...this time around success will need to be measured not by how much we can control nature but by how well we can live as part of it. Our efforts in the transition to a sustainable future require decisions that not only acknowledge the...
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Only a God Can Save Us: Heidegger, Poetic Imagination and the Modern MalaiseIn the shadow of a looming global environmental catastrophe humanity is at an unprecedented crossroad where crucial and difficult decisions must be made about how we are to live. This book questions where the desire for certainty and mastery is taking us and argues...
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PeacockBreathtakingly beautiful and exotic, the peacock inspires devotion among both artists and bird lovers. Its iridescent plumage, when fully displayed, is a delight to behold. The bird itself, as Christine E. Jackson notes in Peacock, appears to enjoy its audience, preening and strutting about...
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Pigeon Racing: My Personal InsightsJim Emerton is one of the most respected figuresin pigeon racing, having bred and raced birds for40 years and had birds return to the loft from asfar as 879 miles away. Now he writes on the subject for magazines and websites, sharing hisexpertise and...
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Chasing after Chimpanzees: The Making of a PrimatologistHaving moved from zoology to psychology to anthropology on both sides of the Atlantic, Bill McGrew developed a fascination for chimpanzees which led to him spending four decades studying our nearest living relations in their African homelands. He held a series of academic posts...
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Navigating the Night Sky: How to Identify the Stars and Constellations- Aimed at anyone who marvels at the night sky and who wishes to learn to recognise constellations and identify the brightest stars by name. It is essentially a practical book, which accompanies the reader on their celestial explorations, guiding their way around the...
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Using the Meade Etx: 100 Objects You Can Really See with the Mighty EtxThe Meade ETX range of telescopes is one of the most successful ever made. It is low-cost, has sold in its tens of thousands, and is available in almost every country. Here, ETX expert Mike Weasner reveals everything any amateur astronomer ever wanted to...
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Volcanoes: Encounters Through the AgesAshes were already falling, not as yet very thickly. I looked round: a dense black cloud was coming up behind us, spreading over the earth like a flood. That's Pliny the Younger, writing to Tacitus about the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE, one...
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A Countryside Camera: The Photography of Roger RedfernRoger Redfern was a travel writer for over 50 years, most notably as a regular contributor to The Guardian newspaper s Country Diary feature. This book reveals the unknown side of Redfern, his photography, in stunning fashion focusing upon his images of Britain s...
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Kestrels for CompanyThis title raises the profile of the kestral. It provides an extensive picture of this falcon, including its lifestyle and the factors that affect ts breeding success and survival. As well as a wealth of factual data, there are entertaining anecdotes and stories both...
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Running WildAt the age of 86, Mike Tomkies is back doing what he does best observing Britain s rarest and most dramatic wildlife, unsuspected and from close quarters, and writing about it with the kind of intimate detail that has earned high acclaim from critics...
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The Life in My YearsNow in a paperback edition, this book will inspire anyone who cares about the future of the planet and all the creatures dependent on it, including human beings. This is the inspirational story of Virginia McKenna, who starred in some of the most popular...
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Imperiled Life: Revolution Against Climate CatastropheImperiled Life theorizes an exit from the potentially terminal consequences of capital-induced climate change. It is a collection of reflections on the phenomenon of catastrophe--climatological, political, social--as well as on the possibilities of overcoming disaster. Javier Sethness-Castro presents the grim news from contemporary climatologists...
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Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner LivesAmazing, moving, and enlightening. Bats Sing, Mice Giggle presents the latest findings on the intimate lives of animals with great elegance. I recommend it wholeheartedly.--Larry KingBats Sing, Mice Giggle is the culmination of years of fascinating scientific research that reveals how animals have secret...
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Blackpool's Seaside HeritageTwo centuries of tourism has left behind a rich heritage, but Blackpool has also inherited a legacy of social and economic problems, as well as the need for comprehensive new sea defences to protect the heart of the town. In recent years this has...
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