Nature category: 119170 books
by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS
I. Nature of Fungi.
II. Structure.
III Classification
IV. Uses.
V. Notable Phenomena.
VI. The Spore and Its Dissemination.
VII. Germination and Growth.
VIII. Sexual Reproduction.
IX. Polymorphism.
X....
Arrival of the Fittest
Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
“Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. Nature’s many innovations—some uncannily perfect—call for natural principles that accelerate life’s ability to innovate.”
Darwin’s theory of natural selection explains how useful adaptations are preserved...
Unseen City
The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
It all started with Nathanael Johnson’s decision to teach his daughter the name of every tree they passed on their walk to day care in San Francisco. This project turned into a quest to discover the secrets of the neighborhood’s flora and fauna, and yielded more than names and trivia: Johnson...
An Unnatural Metropolis
Wresting New Orleans from Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River yet standing atop a former swamp, New Orleans was from the first what geographer Peirce Lewis called an "impossible but inevitable city." How New Orleans came to be, taking shape between the mutual and often contradictory forces...
Nature's Return
An Environmental History of Congaree National Park
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Located at the confluence of the Congaree and Wateree Rivers in central South Carolina, Congaree National Park protects the nation’s largest intact expanse of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest. Modern visitors to the park enjoy a pristine landscape that seems ancient and untouched by human hands,...
A Year in the Woods
The Diary of a Forest Ranger
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Colin Elford's A Year in the Woods is an enthralling journey into the heart of the English countryside - with a preamble by Craig Taylor.
Colin Elford spends his days alone - alone but for the deer, the squirrels, the rabbits, the birds, and the many other creatures inhabiting the woods.
From...
Heatstroke
Nature in an Age of Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
In 2006, one of the hottest years on record, a “pizzly” was discovered near the top of the world. Half polar bear, half grizzly, this never-before-seen animal might be dismissed as a fluke of nature. Anthony Barnosky instead sees it as a harbinger of things to come. In Heatstroke, the renowned paleoecologist...
Discovering Westcave
The Natural and Human History of a Hill Country Nature Preserve
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
In the heart of the Texas Hill Country lies an astonishing place called Westcave Preserve, a 76-acre nature preserve and environmental education facility in western Travis County, near Austin, that provides a sanctuary for the flora and fauna of surprisingly diverse ecosystems.
Westcave has...
by Chris Packham
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Many of Britain's plants and animals have come to rely upon gardens as an essential lifeline as their natural habitats come under increasing pressure from human activity and global warming. This comprehensive book explains the best ways to attract wildlife to gardens and encourage it to stay there....
The Nature of the Hydrogen Bond
Outline of a Comprehensive Hydrogen Bond Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Hydrogen bond (H-bond) effects are known: it makes sea water liquid, joins cellulose microfibrils in trees, shapes DNA into genes and polypeptide chains into wool, hair, muscles or enzymes. Its true nature is less known and we may still wonder why O-H...O bond energies range from less than 1 to more...
The Hunter's Way
A Guide to the Heart and Soul of Hunting
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
“Craig Raleigh puts hunting into modern perspective, combining higher sensibilities and his firsthand insight into the hunting world to gently illuminate a part of human nature that was, and still is, among the purest of human endeavors.” —Jim Shockey, award-winning writer and host of Jim Shockey’s...
The Perfumier and the Stinkhorn
Six Personal Essays on Natural Science and Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
In these elegant, short essays, revered nature writer Richard Mabey attempts to marry a Romantic's view of the natural world with that of the meticulous observations of the scientist. By Romanticism, he refers to the view that nature isn't a machine to be dissected, but a community of which we, the...
by Barry Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1987
“Provocative and richly textured. . . .Schwartz’s analyses of the inadequacies of contemporary scientific views of human nature are compelling, but the consequences are even more worthy of note.” —Los Angeles Times
Out of the investigations and speculations of contemporary science,...
The Living Mountain
A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
AS SEEN ON BBC’S WINTERWATCH WITH CHRIS PACKHAM AND MICHAELA STRACHAN 'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' Guardian In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that...