Nature category: 119170 books
Out of the Woods
Seeing Nature in the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
2018 Reading the West Book Awards Nonfiction Winner
Have you ever wondered about society’s desire to cultivate the perfect lawn, why we view some animals as “good” and some as “bad,” or even thought about the bits of nature inside everyday items–toothbrushes, cell phones, and coffee...
Still the Same Hawk
Reflections on Nature and New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
This essay collection draws on natural history, urban ecology, and environmental politics to consider New York City’s complex relationship to nature.
How can a hawk nesting above Fifth Avenue become a citywide phenomenon? Why does a sudden butterfly migration at Coney Island energize the...
Seconde nature
La défiguration des paysages de l'Ouest américain
Language: French
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Partez à la découverte des surprenants paysages de l'Ouest américain Dans ce court tableau, Jonathan Raban nous entraîne des profondes forêts du Pacifique à la vaste plaine du fleuve Columbia, à la recherche de ce que ces immenses paysages révèlent du rapport de l’homme à la nature.Lui,...
Summary of The Invention of Nature
by Andrea Wulf | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Summary of The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf | Includes Analysis Preview: The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf is a biography of Alexander von Humboldt, a Prussian naturalist born in 1769. Humboldt had an older brother, Wilhelm. Their father died when...
Writers on... Nature
(A Book of Quotations, Poems and Literary Reflections)
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Writers on Nature' contains a collection of inspirational stories and quotes about nature and the seasons, from great poets and authors. Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Burroughs and John Muir all feature, along with many, many others. This anthology demonstrates the complex...
Nature and the Marketplace
Capturing The Value Of Ecosystem Services
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
In recyears, scientists have begun to focus on the idea that healthy, functioning ecosystems provide essential services to human populations, ranging from water purification to food and medicine to climate regulation. Lacking a healthy environment, these services would have to be provided through...
The Forest Unseen
A Year's Watch in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of old-growth forest--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Look out for David Haskell's new book, The Songs of Tree: Stories From Nature's Great Connectors, coming in April...
by Florence Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
"Highly informative and remarkably entertaining." —Elle
From forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to eucalyptus groves in California, Florence Williams investigates the science behind nature’s positive effects on the brain. Delving into brand-new research, she uncovers...
Mind and Cosmos:Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem,...
by Bill McKibben
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth.
This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still...
Nature as Measure
The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
An essential and timely collection of wise and compelling essays from one of the longtime leaders of the sustainable agriculture movement in America.
Wes Jackson, “a well-known and admired advocate for sustainability especially as it relates to agriculture, has the rare ability to transform his...
by Bee Frances
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Nature's Secret Tales are good funFor girls and boys and dads and mums;So enjoy all that Nature bringsInside this book of living things.Nature's wonderful world comes to life in 40 rhymes about many kinds of animals,birds and insects. This picture book has a colourful collection of creatures that will...
The Nature Magpie
A Cornucopia of Facts, Anecdotes, Folklore and Literature from the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
A collection of anecdotes, facts, figures, folklore and literature, The Nature Magpie is a veritable treasure trove of humanity’s thoughts and feelings about nature. With acclaimed nature writer Daniel Allen as your guide, join naturalists, novelists and poets as they explore the most isolated parts...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Forest fires are scary. They could happen without warning, and they could grow so big that many animals will lose their home. So how can man control huge forest fires? Young children will be learning a lot from this educational book! Make reading more interesting than before by getting a copy of picture books like this one. Grab a copy today!