Nature category: 119170 books
by Michel Luchesi
Language: French
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Au détour d’une rue ou dans un parc, regardez attentivement autour de vous : la nature est bel et bien présente en ville et ne se cantonne pas au pigeon ou au platane ! À travers 55 fiches détaillées et une centaine de photos, ce guide vous propose de partir à la découverte de la faune et...
Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money
Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Could there ever be an alternative stock exchange dedicated to slow, small, and local? Could a million American families get their food from CSAs? What if you had to invest 50 percent of your assets within 50 miles of where you live?Such questions-at the heart of slow money-represent the first steps...
by Ralph Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Originally published anonymously, Nature was the first modern essay to recommend the appreciation of the outdoors as an all-encompassing positive force. Emerson’s writings were recognized as uniquely American in style and content, and launched the idea of going for a walk as a new way of looking...
by Lucretius
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2007
Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul is mortal, and the world and everything in it is governed...
Wonders of the World: Mother Nature at Work
Nature Books for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Mother Nature is definitely a wonderful provider! She gives us not only the things we need but also the things we’d love to see. This educational book is a collection of all best natural wonders of the world. Through this book, your child will get to learn and appreciate the sights found from all over...
by Speedy Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Parents who are interested in helping their children develop the ability to think creatively and independently should note that purchasing them nature books regarding tigers is a great way to put this process in motion. Nature books that feature tigers can spark a child's imagination for many reasons,...
Macro Photography for Gardeners and Nature Lovers
The Essential Guide to Digital Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2008
Gardeners and nature lovers delight in taking pictures—especially close-ups of flowers, butterflies, and insects. And though advances in digital camera technology have made taking, storing, and sharing photos easier than ever, taking top-quality pictures requires familiarity with both digital technology...
by Diane Cook, Len Jenshel
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Leading landscape photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel present Wise Trees—a stunning photography book containing more than 50 historical trees with remarkable stories from around the world.
Supported by grants from the Expedition Council of the National Geographic Society, Cook and Jenshel...
The Dog Who Came to Stay: A Memoir
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
During a fierce snowstorm, an abandoned and hungry animal howls at the back door of nature writer Hal Borland’s farmhouse, announcing the beginning of a transformational friendship
Hal Borland and his wife Barbara have recently moved onto a hundred-acre farm in northwest Connecticut,...
Bringing Nature Home
How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
“A fascinating study of the trees, shrubs, and vines that feed the insects, birds, and other animals in the suburban garden.” —The New York Times
As development and habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. In Bringing Nature Home, Douglas...
Weeds
In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
“[A] witty and beguiling meditation on weeds and their wily ways….You will never look at a weed, or flourish a garden fork, in the same way again.”
—Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder
“In this fascinating, richly detailed book, Richard Mabey gives weeds their full due.”
—Carl...
by John Muir
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book-collection file includes: The Grand Canon of the Colorado (article), The Mountains of California, Steep Trails, Stickeen (article), The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Travels in Alaska, Yosemite, My First Summer in the Sierras, and Alaska Days with John Muir (by S. Hall Young). According to...
Nature Noir
A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
A nature book unlike any other, Jordan Fisher Smith's startling account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat -- a stretch of land that has been officially condemned to...
Soulcraft
Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Since 1980, Jungian psychologist Bill Plotkin has been guiding men and women into the wilderness — the redrock canyons and snow-crested mountains of the American Southwest — but also into the wilds of the soul. He calls this work soulcraft. There’s a great longing in all people — a longing...