Nature category: 119170 books
The Living Great Lakes
Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Award-winning nature author Jerry Dennis reveals the splendor and beauty of North America’s Great Lakes in this “masterwork”* history and memoir of the essential environmental and economical region shared by the United States and Canada.
No bodies of water compare to the Great Lakes....
by Fanny Lai, Bjorn Olesen
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
This Borneo wildlife pictorial offers nature lovers, visitors to Borneo and armchair explorers an unparalleled introduction to this mysterious treasure island.
Illustrated with more than 350 images, taken by Bjorn Olesen and other wildlife photographers, A Visual Celebration of Borneo's Wildlife...
Nature's Ways
Lore, Legend, Fact and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2006
A fascinating collection of animal and plant truths, tales, and traditions from the author of Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Royal Family Life.
Trying to understand the ways of the natural world has been a human preoccupation since the earliest times. The knowledge of which animals were helpful...
Nature's Year in the Kawarthas
A Guide to the Unfolding Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2002
Nature’s Year in the Kawarthas is an almanac of key events occurring in the natural world over the course of a year in the Kawartha Lakes district – and in cottage country in general. Covering all areas of our flora and fauna as well as weather and the night sky, the book is a month-by-month chronicle...
Finding Sanctuary in Nature
Simple Ceremonies in the Native American Tradition for Healing Yourself and Others
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
These spiritual lessons are based on Native American shamanism but fit a wide range of interests from yoga and alternative medicine to Bible study and nature hiking. Hands-on exercises, step-by-step instructions for ceremonies, and sketches by the author's wife explain how to clear spaces of unwanted...
by Steven Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2003
The story—and the science—of nature's greatest engine.
Whether we blink an eye, lift a finger, throw a spear or a ball, walk, run, or merely breathe, we are using muscle. Although muscles differ little in appearance and performance across the animal kingdom, they accomplish tasks as diverse...
by Balachandher Krishnan Guru
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
This little book contains a compilation of short stories told by a silent master. The stories illustrate how much wisdom can be gained by merely observing Mother Nature. The first chapter contains the essence of the entire book that everything in this wonderful world is connected and hence destroying...
by Lallan Prasad
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
The poems in Evening Delights are the expression of the poets love of nature, love of man and the celebration of life. Commenting on his poems in Hindi, Atal Behari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India and a renowned poet said that almost all the poems depicted nature in an attractive manner....
Human Ecology
How Nature and Culture Shape Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Humans have always been influenced by natural landscapes, and always will be—even as we create ever-larger cities and our developments fundamentally change the nature of the earth around us. In Human Ecology, noted city planner and landscape architect Frederick Steiner encourages us to consider...
Lightning as a 'Photographer'
Revisiting a Forgotten Phenomenon of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Occasionally, it happens that when men or animals have been struck by lightning, peculiar impressions have been left upon their bodies, which seem to be the exact impression of some adjacent objects, persons, paintings, etc., in the vicinity of the stroke. The imprint is so accurate, and sometimes...
by James Constant
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
Man is part of a natural and social environments. The natural environment is structured by nature and the social environment is structured by the state. Man cannot escape from either environment and to survive, during his lifetime and after, must adapt. Man has a better chance of surviving in an advanced...
There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather
A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Bringing Up Bébé meets Last Child in the Woods in this “fascinating exploration of the importance of the outdoors to childhood development” (Kirkus Reviews) from a Swedish-American mother who sets out to discover if the nature-centric parenting philosophy of her native Scandinavia holds the...
Nature, Nurture and Horses
A Journal of Four Dressage Horses in Training-From Birth through the First Year of Training
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Follow along as four young horses—Corsana, Kara, Elsa, and Escarpa—leave their babyhood behind and begin their training for future careers as sport horses, well schooled in the art of classical dressage.Renowned rider, trainer, author, and equestrian philosopher Paul Belasik shares the daily schedule,...
A Word for Nature
Four Pioneering Environmental Advocates, 1845-1913
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The careers and ideas of four figures of monumental importance in the history of American conservation--George Perkins Marsh, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Wesley Powell--are explored in A Word for Nature. Robert Dorman offers lively portraits of each of these early environmental advocates,...