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The Sixth Extinction
An Unnatural History
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes
Over the last half a billion years, there have...
by Robert Macfarlane
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
**National Bestseller
From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet’s past and future.**
Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author...
by Nick Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The twentieth anniversary edition of the acclaimed memoirist’s masterpiece of Montana fly fishing with a new preface by the author—“I love Nick Lyons’s books” (Ted Hughes).
The Spring Creek river in central Montana is where you’ll find trout as long as your arm—trout that are...
Stolen Water
Saving the Everglades from Its Friends, Foes, and Florida
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
A riotous journey through America's most controversial, beautifully unapproachable, and abused wilderness -- the Florida Everglades.
In December 2000, President Clinton signed into law a $7.8 billion restoration plan for the Everglades that garnered national attention and has since become America's...
A Native Plant Propagation Guide And Nursery Model
For Gardeners, Activists, and Professionals in the Eastern U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2019
This eBook is designed to empower individuals, businesses, non-profits, and public organizations to grow high quality native plants for their projects in support of biodiversity and restoration. The 13 Chapter eBook is sectioned off into 3 parts; Part 1. A Native Nursery Model, Part 2. Native Plant...
Feeding the Other
Whiteness, Privilege, and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
How food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity.
The United States has one of the highest rates of hunger and food insecurity in the industrialized world, with poor households,...
A Walk in the Woods
Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body.
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia...
Love, Life, and Elephants
An African Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. Her deep empathy and understanding, her years of observing Kenya's rich variety of wildlife, and her pioneering work in perfecting the right husbandry...
by John Vaillant
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2006
A tale of obsession so fierce that a man kills the thing he loves most: the only giant golden spruce on earth.
When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier,...
Hunting Nature's Fury
A Storm Chaser's Obsession with Tornadoes, Hurricanes, and other Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Each year, at least 1,200 tornadoes batter the United States. While most occur in Tornado Alley--a vast, weather-beaten swath of middle America-in truth, tornadoes can occur almost anywhere. And where there are tornadoes, there are storm chasers. They come in all shapes and sizes, from hobbyists to...
The Swamp
The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
The Everglades was once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and Americans have launched the largest environmental project in history to try to save it. The Swamp is the stunning story of the destruction and possible resurrection...
Plan Bee
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest-Working Creatures on thePla net
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
A guided tour inside the world of bees
Overtaxed and underrecognized-and now disappearing in alarming numbers- bees are the unsung heroes of the food chain, essential for the pollination of more than ninety of the crops we eat. The hardworking, humble, and matriarchal bee finally gets her due...
by William T. Hornaday
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
US Government report, first published in 1889. According to Wikipedia: "William Temple Hornaday, Sc.D. (December 1, 1854 March 6, 1937) was an American zoologist, realtor, conservationist, author, poet and songwriter. He revolutionized museum exhibits by displaying wildlife in their natural settings,...
Wild Idea
Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
For more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan O’Brien’s home. Working as a writer and an endangered-species biologist, he became convinced that returning grass-fed, free-roaming buffalo to the grasslands of the northern plains would return natural balance to the region and...