Nature category: 119170 books
Nature's Compass
The Mystery of Animal Navigation
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
We know that animals cross miles of water, land, and sky with pinpoint precision on a daily basis. But it is only in recent years that scientists have learned how these astounding feats of navigation are actually accomplished. With colorful and thorough detail, Nature's Compass explores the remarkable...
by Howard P. Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Wonderwalks is the first handy guide to all the accessible trails, sanctuaries, and nature centers owned and maintained by the New Jersey Audubon Society and open to the public free of charge. Nature lovers, hikers, birders, and anyone seeking a respite from the commotion of modern life will delight...
Sketches of Nature
A Geneticist's Look at the Biological World During a Golden Era of Molecular Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
This visually appealing book recounts the history of molecular ecology and evolution as seen through the personal lens of one of its most prolific practitioners, who has studied a panorama of creatures ranging from corals, sponges, and other invertebrates to a wide variety of vertebrate animals including...
Catching Nature in the Act
Réaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Natural history in the eighteenth century was many things to many people—diversion, obsession, medically or economically useful knowledge, spectacle, evidence for God’s providence and wisdom, or even the foundation of all natural knowledge. Because natural history was pursued by such a variety...
What Did the Romans Know?
An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends that even though many of the Romans’ views about the natural world have no place in modern science—the...
Mimicking Nature's Fire
Restoring Fire-Prone Forests In The West
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
In Mimicking Nature's Fire, forest ecologists Stephen Arno and Carl Fiedler prespractical solutions to the pervasive problem of deteriorating forest conditions in western North America.
by Curt Stager
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A fascinating exploration of lakes around the world, from Walden Pond to the Dead Sea.
More than a century and a half have passed since Walden was first published, and the world is now a very different place. Lakes are changing rapidly, not because we are separate from nature but because we...
Wilderness Forever
Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Winner of the Forest History Society's 2006 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award
As a central figure in the American wilderness preservation movement in the mid-twentieth century, Howard Zahniser (1906-1964) was the person most responsible for the landmark Wilderness Act of 1964. While the rugged...
Hidden Nature
The Startling Insights of Viktor Schauberger
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Austrian naturalist Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958) was far ahead of his time. From his unusually detailed observations of the natural world, he pioneered a completely new understanding of how nature works. He also foresaw, and tried to warn against, the global waste and ecological destruction of our...
Energizing Water
Flowform Technology and the Power of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The poor quality of water, as well as its restricted supply and availability, is one of the biggest challenges of our time, with presently two-fifth's of the world's population unable to find adequate fresh water for essential usage.
Over 40 years' research has been carried out on the positive...
Anthropocene or Capitalocene?
Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the oceans—all point toward an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity's relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make...
The Earth Manifesto
Saving Nature with Engaged Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.
We live in critical times. Choices we make daily now will affect the future of life itself. Years from now children will study our era on the brink and ask...
The Spiritual Nature of Animals
A Country Vet Explores the Wisdom, Compassion, and Souls of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Beloved Companions, Kindred Spirits
Karlene Stange’s spiritual journey began as she drove her pickup loaded with medical supplies to attend to animals throughout southwestern Colorado, where the Animas River carves the landscape. As an ambulatory veterinarian, she has experienced the challenges,...
Cornucopia
A Journey Through the Mountains of Gold
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
What begins as a relaxing, back to nature backpacking trip into Oregon's rugged Eagle Cap wilderness soon evolves into a three month adventure of a lifetime for three people and a big white dog.
Physically unprepared and ill equipped, the party sets out on a three day hiking trip only to discover...