Nature category: 119170 books
Montana's Pioneer Naturalist
Morton J. Elrod
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
A naturalist on Montana’s academic frontier, passionate conservationist Morton J. Elrod was instrumental in establishing the Department of Biology at the University of Montana, as well as Glacier National Park and the National Bison Range. In Montana’s Pioneer Naturalist, the first in-depth assessment...
by Omar H. Malik
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book is a sequel to the authors well-received first publication, Reflections: Mirror of My Mind. In this book, he continues his exploration of the purity, serenity, and tranquility of nature that, over the years, has been in slow decline due to sustained human intervention and its insatiable...
by Ann Simpson, Rob Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
This field guide dedicated to wildlife of Yosemite National Park is an information-packed, pocket-sized book that introduces park visitors to the animals, plants, insects and more that reside in Yosemite National Park in a colorful and portable package. Published in cooperation with Yosemite National...
by Charles Walters
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
What is the most important plant in the world? In terms of nutritive content, function within the ecosystem, and even medicinal properties, the answer to this question may very well be grass. In this wide-ranging survey of grass forages and pastureland, Charles Walters makes the case that grass...
Unified Principles of Physics and Nature
Energy Fluctuation In Quantum Atoms, Black Holes, Stars, Gravity
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
The principles presented in this publication unify gravity with the quantum atom. The many areas of focused research within the scientific community now have a clear harmonized path forward. There are fundamental reasons the nearly 100 year scientific quest to unify general relativity and quantum theories...
Nature's Third Cycle
A Story of Sunspots
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
The cycle of day and night and the cycle of seasons are two familiar natural cycles around which many human activities are organized. But is there a third natural cycle of importance for us humans? On 13 March 1989, six million people in Canada went without electricity for many hours: a large explosion...
Atmospheric Environmental Research
Critical Decisions Between Technological Progress and Preservation of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This is an extended version of lectures that were held at the summer workshop Atmosphiirische Umweltforschung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Technik und Natur (At mospheric Environmental Research between Technology and Nature) at the Techni 16, 1996. We were very happy to have Paul J. Crutzen, cal...
Harnessed
How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
The scientific consensus is that our ability to understand human speech has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. After all, there are whole portions of the brain devoted to human speech. We learn to understand speech too quickly and with almost no training and can seamlessly absorb enormous...
After Nature
A Politics for the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. The world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists call this epoch the Anthropocene, Age of Humans. The facts of the Anthropocene are scientific—emissions, pollens, extinctions—but its shape and meaning are questions for politics. Jedediah Purdy develops a politics for this post-natural world.
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Nature was a form of religion for naturalist, essayist, and early environmentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817–62). In communing with the natural world, he wished to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and … learn what it had to teach." Toward that end Thoreau...
Ill Nature
Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2015
Most of us watch with mild concern the fast disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution - related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched rivers, and the increasing violence in our own country. Joy Williams does much more than watch. With guts and passion, she sounds...
by Bryan Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2015
Some time ago, dogs became as interwoven in the American culture as baseball, apple pie and the Fourth of July. In fact, in most households, the dogs have even trumped evolution itself and jumped straight to being four legged humans where they are adorned with human names, designer outfits and fed...
Sasquatch Seeker's Field Manual
Using Citizen Science To Uncover North America's Most Elusive Creature
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
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•Provides observational techniques for uncovering nature’s clues hiding in plain sight
•Includes maps, scientific figures, and illustrations
•NOT A SPORTSMAN’S HUNTING GUIDE, as Sasquatch’s value to science is potentially ground-breaking
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Nature's Music
The Science of Birdsong
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature’s Music brings together some of the world’s experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our understanding of how and why birds sing, what their songs and calls mean, and how they have evolved. All contributors...