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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A City on a Lake: Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico CityIn A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity plagued by environmental problems and social inequality. Vitz shows how Mexico City's unequal urbanization...
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A World of ButterfliesButterfly enthusiasts will delight in the 200 vivid images from across the globe, accompanied by informative and engaging text from preeminent writers in the field.Author: Kjell Sandved, Brian CassiePublisher: Bulfinch PressPublished: 05/05/2004Pages: 419Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.44lbsSize: 4.96h x 6.34w x 1.49dISBN: 9780821228937Review Citation(s): Library...
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Sharing the Earth: An International Environmental Justice ReaderThe first of its kind, this anthology of eighty international primary literary texts--poems, short stories, personal essays, testimonials, activist statements, and group-authored visions--illuminates Environmental Justice as a concept and a movement worldwide in a way that is accessible to students, scholars, and general readers....
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Salamanders of the SoutheastDescribing 102 species of salamanders occurring in the southeastern United States, ecologists Joe Mitchell and Whit Gibbons provide us with the most comprehensive and authoritative, yet accessible and fun-to-read, guide to these often secretive, always fascinating wonders of nature. Mitchell and Gibbons enumerate the...
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Sea Islands of Georgia: Their Geologic HistoryThe "Golden Isles" off Georgia's coast are important sources of history and legend. Oglethorpe's activities there, the Battle of Bloody Marsh, Fort Frederica, Spanish missionaries--all are prominent in Georgia history. Published in 1948, Sea Islands of Georgia focuses on their geologic history as it...
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Georgia's Amazing Coast: Natural Wonders from Alligators to ZoeasFun and learning come together in Georgia's Amazing Coast, an inviting collection of one hundred short, self-contained features about the flora, fauna, and natural history of that fascinating place where land meets sea. Each page includes a full-color illustration and breezy, fact-filled commentary on...
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Scratching the Woodchuck: Nature on an Amish FarmDavid Kline came upon a sleeping woodchuck one summer day as he walked the land near his farm. In a gesture that speaks eloquently of Kline's relationship with the natural world, he scratched the animal gently with his walking stick, and the sleeping creature...
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Animals and Why They MatterAnimals and Why They Matter examines the barriers that our philosophical traditions have erected between human beings and animals and reveals that the too-often ridiculed subject of animal rights is an issue crucially related to such problems within the human community as racism, sexism,...
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Bright Raft in the Afterweather: Poems Volume 82In her dazzling new book, Jennifer Elise Foerster announces a frightening new truth: "the continent is dismantling." Bright Raft in the Afterweather travels the spheres of the past, present, future, and eternal time, exploring the fault lines that signal the break of humanity's consciousness...
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Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered SpeciesComprehensive study of the wolf's habits, behavior, and relationship with other animals and the environment.Author: David MechPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPublished: 04/30/1981Pages: 412Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.07w x 1.02dISBN: 9780816610266
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Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant ConservationAs biological diversity continues to shrink at an alarming rate, the loss of plant species poses a threat seemingly less visible than the loss of animals but in many ways more critical. In this book, one of America's leading ethnobotanists warns about our loss...
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The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American CultureWith roots in eugenics and other social-control programs, modern American environmentalism is not always as progressive as we would like to think. In The Ecological Other, Sarah Jaquette Ray examines the ways in which environmentalism can create social injustice through discourses of the body....
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Signs & SeasonsRenowned as a pioneer of the new school of nature writing and among the most widely read authors of his time, John Burroughs has had a profound influence on our appreciation of nature. Signs and Seasons, originally published in 1886, provides an excellent introduction...
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Lake Effect: Tales of Large Lakes, Arctic Winds, and Recurrent SnowsBlending meteorological history with the history of scientific cartography, Monmonier charts the phenomenon of lake-effect snow and explores the societal impacts of extreme weather. Along the way, he introduces readers to natural philosophers who gradually identified this distinctive weather pattern, to tales of communities...
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The Sky at Night: Easy Enjoyment from Your BackyardIdeal for backyard stargazers, this introduction to astronomy offers a unique blend of advice and personal observations. Drawn from decades of experiences and enjoyment watching the night sky, Tim B. Hunter helps beginners take up the hobby of watching the night sky. An avid...
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Voices of the ApalachicolaOne of the main water resources for Florida, Alabama, and Georgia, the Apalachicola River begins where the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers meet at Lake Seminole and flow unimpedted for 106 miles, through the red hills and floodplains of the Florida panhandle into the Gulf...
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My First Summer in the SierraJohn Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become a famed conservationist when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, not long after the Civil War. He was so captivated by what he saw that he decided to devote his...
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Morel Hunting: How to Find, Preserve, Care For, and Prepare the Wild Mushrooms- Identifying the most popular wild mushroom and distinguishing them from false morels - Color photos and full descriptions of the 5 morel types--black morels, half-cap, and gray, yellow, and big-foot--for easy identification - When and where to hunt to find the most morels...
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The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural HistoryIn this social and ecological account of the Chicago River, Libby Hill tells the story of how a sluggish waterway emptying into Lake Michigan became central to the creation of Chicago as a major metropolis and transportation hub. This widely acclaimed volume weaves the...
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New and Selected Poems, Volume TwoUnderstand, I am always trying to figure outwhat the soul is, and where hidden, and what shape- New and Selected Poems, Volume Two, an anthology of forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-and sixty-nine poems hand-picked by Mary Oliver from six of her last...
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