Nature category: 119170 books
Wolves & Honey
A Hidden History of the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2004
A journey through upstate New York’s Finger Lakes: “One of those rare nature books that mix a perfect combination of personal insight and historical depth” (USA Today).
“The Finger Lakes region of western New York is remote from much of the state, and, unlike the Hamptons, the Catskills,...
Creating Africas
Struggles Over Nature, Conservation and Land
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
In Africa, conflicts between protected areas for fauna and flora and space for their surrounding human populations continue despite years spent trying to find an accommodation between the needs of both parties. Creating Africas investigates the roots of the current conservation boom, demonstrates...
House Guests, House Pests
A Natural History of Animals in the Home
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Today we live in snug, well-furnished houses surrounded by the trappings of a civilised life. But we are not alone – we suffer a constant stream of unwanted visitors. Our houses, our food, our belongings, our very existence are under constant attack from a host of invaders eager to take advantage...
by Lynn Michelsohn
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Exotic Galapagos Islands Birds!
Glimpse the unique world of Galapagos Island birdlife through the camera of nature photographer, Moses Michelsohn, and brief selections from the writings of world-famous early visitors Charles Darwin, Herman Melville, and HMS Beagle Captain Robert FitzRoy.
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Unified Architectural Theory
A COMPANION TO CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER’S THE PHENOMENON OF LIFE — THE NATURE OF ORDER, BOOK 1
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
We are on the threshold of a new way of thinking about, learning, and practicing architecture. Ready to abandon design based on often-irrelevant images for a more meaningful paradigm, we find answers in combining timeless truths with recent scientific results. These explain how architecture can re-attach...
Survival of the Beautiful
Art, Science, and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
"The peacock's tail," said Charles Darwin, "makes me sick." That's because the theory of evolution as adaptation can't explain why nature is so beautiful. It took the concept of sexual selection for Darwin to explain that, a process that has more to do with aesthetics than the...
Cairns
Messengers in Stone
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From meadow trails to airy mountaintops and wide open desert, cairnsthose seemingly random stacks of rockare surprisingly rich in stories and meaning. For thousands of years cairns have been used by people to connect to the landscape and communicate with others, and are often an essential guide to travelers....
Pushing Our Limits
Insights from Biosphere 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Pushing Our Limits is a fresh examination of Biosphere 2, the world’s first man-made mini-world, twenty-five years after its first closure experiment. Author Mark Nelson, one of the eight crew members locked in the enclosure during the 1991–1993 experiment, offers a compelling insider’s view...
by Kurt Rinehart
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
An innovative guide to making the most of the wilderness experience.
Landscape Perspectives
The Holistic Nature of Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Climb a mountain and experience the landscape. Try to grasp its holistic nature. Do not climb alone, but with others and share your experience. Be sure the ways of seeing the landscape will be very different. We experience the landscape with all senses as a complex, dynamic and hierarchically structured...
The Nature of Southeast Alaska
A Guide to Plants, Animals, and Habitats
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Everything you ever wanted to know about the flora and fauna of Southeast Alaska is contained in the third edition of this lively field guide to the natural world, from bears to banana slugs, mountains to murrelets. Highlighting the most fascinating and unusual aspects of Southeast Alaska natural history, the book is also a guide to the most frequently seen plants and animals.
Exploring the Other Island
A seasonal guide to nature on Long Island
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
“A singularly effective guide. Inspired concept. Highly recommended!” George Plimpton noted on the first edition of John Turner’s classic guide to the natural world of Long Island. Now Turner, one of New York’s most knowledgeable and eloquent naturalists, has produced a new edition, greatly...
Paintings in Under a Thousand Words
Nature Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Many of the poems found in these pages are all but memories of experiences that have colored my early life. Some see these moments as glimpses of a time past but I see them as paintings formed in slow deliberate strokes that highlight the details of life that instill the feeling of accomplishment...
by A. D. Thibeault
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
A full executive summary of Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Is Reinventing Nature and Ourselves by George M. Church and Ed Regis. This is not a chapter-by-chapter summary. Rather, the author takes an holistic approach, reorganizing and breaking down the content for easier understanding where necessary,...