Nature category: 119170 books
by Diane Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
A celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalist explores a year of dawns in her most personal book to date.
In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, Diane Ackerman awakens us to the world at dawn—drawing on sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion,...
Nature's Temples
The Complex World of Old-Growth Forests
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
“Maloof eloquently urges us to cherish the wildness of what little old-growth woodlands we have left. . . . Not only are they home to the richest diversity of creatures, but they work hard for humans too.” —New York Times Book Review
An old-growth forest is one that has formed naturally...
The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs
Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals—and Other Forgotten Skills
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Turn Every Walk into a Game of Detection
When writer and navigator Tristan Gooley journeys outside, he sees a natural world filled with clues. The roots of a tree indicate the sun’s direction; the Big Dipper tells the time; a passing butterfly hints at the weather; a sand dune reveals prevailing...
by Rogerio Cietto
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
The word eco means nature (in Greek oikos means house), so an Ecohouse would be a place that respects the environment (literally, a house inside a house). It would be easy for all of us to be ecologically friendly, in complete simbiosis with nature: we just need to live the way we did 10.000 years...
Engineering Nature
Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 exported the United States' growing technical and environmental...
Natural Nashville
A Guide to the Greenways and Nature Parks
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Beneath the veneer of Music City, USA and The Athens of the South that each year draws more than 10 million visitors, there is a stunningly beautiful natural landscape enjoyed by locals and outsiders alike. Nashvilles 533 square miles include such varied areas as steep forested ridges, deep rich woods,...
by Karen Hearing
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
So you really think you "own" your pet ferrets and that they live in "your" house? Well, think again – because it just may be otherwise. And that's exactly why we've written this humorous little book, "A Ferret Manual: How to Train and Manage Your Human." It examines...
Notebooks from New Guinea
Reflections on life, nature, and science from the depths of the rainforest
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
This is a unique and delightfully engaging account by a leading tropical biologist of doing science at one of the last wild frontiers in the world. Vojtech Novotny is a highly respected Czech scientist. His widely cited work, of profound importance to ecology and evolution, is not done, like much...
by Charles Oliver, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Both of these texts, The ABCs of Science by Charles Oliver and Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson, are among the most popular and acclaimed titles ever produced in the science/nature genre. Now both volumes are available together in this single book.
Howl
of Woman and Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
"Enormously personal and perceptive
a compelling wildlife study that extends beyond familiar settings."-BOOKLIST"Howl has all the depth, complexity, and moving power of that most haunting of sounds: the howl of a wild wolf. Bird shows us that the gap between tameness and wildness
is not so far as it...
Shooting in the Wild
An Insider's Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Wildlife and nature films are a hugely popular entertainment genre: networks such as Animal Planet and Discovery are stars in the cable television universe, viewers flock to IMAX theaters to see jaw-dropping footage from the wild, and the venerable BBC still scores triumphs with series such as Planet...
Jens Jensen
Writings Inspired by Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Jens Jensen (1860–1951) was one of America's most distinguished landscape architects and a pioneering conservationist. During his long and productive career, this Danish-born visionary worked for and with some of the country's most prominent citizens and architects, including Henry Ford, Louis Sullivan,...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
To Emerson and other New England transcendentalists who knew him best, Thoreau often seemed prickly and antisocial. But in his writings he was (and is) a man anyone would treasure as a friend, sounding board, and spiritual advisor — a man who trafficked in that rarest of commodities, the truth....
by Hope Jahren, Tim Folger
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
**“Undeniably exquisite . . . Reveal[s] not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity.” —Maria Popova
“An excellent introduction to the key issues in science today.” —P. D. Smith, Guardian
“[A] stellar compendium . . . Delightful...