Ecology category: 3266 books
Homing Instincts
Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Long-Listed for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Sarah Menkedick spent her twenties trekking alone across South America, teaching English to recalcitrant teenagers on Reunion Island, picking grapes in France and camping on the Mongolian grasslands; for her, meaning...
by Marian Van Eyk McCain
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
The first ebook in this GreenSpirit series, 'What is Green Spirituality?' described a form of spirituality towards which more and more people are turning these days: one that is grounded in a deep love of—and reverence for—the Earth and of all Nature and which sees the emergence of higher levels...
On Extinction
How We Became Estranged from Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In this “strange hybrid of travelogue and natural science” the award-winning author explores extinction with “solid research . . . and truly poetic prose” (New York Times Review of Books).
Award-winning author, poet, and scholar Melanie Challenger saw a link between her own estrangement...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book tells stories of how ordinary people in their everyday lives have responded to the challenges of living more sustainably. In these difficult times, we need stories that engage, enchant and inspire. Most of all, we need stories of practical changes, of community action, of changing hearts...
Landscape Evolution in the United States
An Introduction to the Geography, Geology, and Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Landscape Evolution in the United States is an accessible text that balances interdisciplinary theory and application within the physical geography, geology, geomorphology, and climatology of the United States. Landscape evolution refers to the changing terrain of any given area of the Earth's crust...
The Global Warming Scam
and the Climate Change Superscam
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Dr. Vincent Gray discusses and analyzes the science and politics of the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) meme. Dr. Gray is a renowned scientist and voice of reason; he thoroughly debunks the crass manipulation and politicization of academic climate science. His well-documented book is a valuable...
Fishing North Carolina's Outer Banks
The Complete Guide to Catching More Fish from Surf, Pier, Sound, and Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
In this hands-on, how-to guide to fishing North Carolina's Outer Banks, expert fisherman Stan Ulanski combines his enthusiasm, his experience, and his scientific expertise to show anglers how to catch more fish.
Focusing on the essential but often misunderstood links between recreational fishing...
by Bert Brun
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
After running a Victorian house Bed and Breakfast for four years at the top of Seattle's Capital Hill, two seniors want something completely different and hatch a plan to move a cottage to the edge of a beautiful, remote tidal marsh in eastern North Carolina. They run into unexpected difficulties...
by Midwest Journal Press, John Williams Streeter.
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Farm lands are each year being brought closer to markets by steam and electric roads; telephone and telegraphic wires give immediate service; and the daily distribution of mails brings the producer into close touch with the consumer. The day of isolation and seclusion has passed, and the farmer is...
Wonderland
A Year of Britain's Wildlife, Day by Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Vibrant, fascinating, poetic - a year in living things: all the things we love, all the things we wish we could, all the little things we step over and never know - the best of British wildlife from two superb naturalists and writers' CHRIS PACKHAM
From blackbirds,...
Common Ground
Encounters with Nature at the Edges of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
All too often, we think of nature as something distinct from ourselves, something to go and see, a place that’s separate from the ordinary modern world in which we live and work. But if we take the time to look, we soon find that’s not how nature works. Even in our parceled-out, paved-over urban...
by David Bohan, Alex Dumbrell, Guy Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Next Generation Biomonitoring: Part Two, Volume 59, the latest release in the Advances in Ecological Research series, is the second part of a thematic on ecological biomonitoring. It includes specific chapters that cover aquatic volatile metabolomics using trace gases to examine ecological processes,...
by Danielle Clode
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2018
Fire has shaped the Australian landscape and the lives of Australians for thousands of years—and will continue to do so as the climate changes. For all our advances in prevention and prediction, planning and communication, bushfires keep claiming our lives and our homes. How can we avoid another...
The Story of Vermont
A Natural and Cultural History, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
In this second edition of their classic text, Klyza and Trombulak use the lens of interconnectedness to examine the geological, ecological, and cultural forces that came together to produce contemporary Vermont. They assess the changing landscape and its inhabitants from its pre-human evolution up...