Nature category: 119170 books
Cycle Maryland
A Guide to Bike Paths and Rail Trails
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
As off-road, family-friendly bike paths have increased in popularity, cycling has become a safe and healthy way to exercise out-of-doors and enjoy the beauty of nature. In Maryland, cyclists are fortunate to have access to a range of paved and unpaved recreational trails throughout some of the state’s...
Timber's Gambit
Nature's Guardians Series: Book Two
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Young Timber is a grey wolf born into the largest pack in North America. Growing up as son to the great alpha, Zeus, he has the respect of the entire pack. However, after he causes a much needed hunt to fail, Zeus convinces him to find a pack of his own. Facing mountain lions, rival wolf packs, humans,...
French 'Ecocritique'
Reading Contemporary French Theory and Fiction Ecologically
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
French Écocritique is the first book-length study of the culturally specific ways in which contemporary French literature and theory raise questions about nature and environment. Stephanie Posthumus’s ground-breaking work brings together thinkers such as Guattari, Latour, and Serres with recent...
Pacific High
Adventures In The Coast Ranges From Baja To Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
"Starting out, my mind and spirit were open to the mystery of foreign cultures, the spareness of aridity, the tension of seismicity, the heat of fire, the exuberance of the vast, the abundance of rot and rebirth, the kindness of strangers, the indomitable rules of climate, the triumph of life, the...
by Victor Carl Friesen
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2005
Memories of farming in the 1940s conjure up images of horse-drawn farm machinery, grain stooks in fields, hay meadows, free-range chickens and cords of wood strategically placed for fuelling the kitchen range – all before farming became the highly technical, big-time operation it is now.
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by HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Language: French
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Walden ou la Vie dans les bois (titre original Walden, or, Life in the Woods) est un récit publié en 1854 par l'écrivain américain Henry David Thoreau. Le livre raconte la vie que Thoreau a passée dans une cabane pendant deux ans, deux mois et deux jours, dans la forêt appartenant à son ami...
Crimes against Nature
Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing,...
by Andrey Davydov, Olga Skorbatyuk
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
All the guardian spirits of the ancient Natives were part of nature. The Natives made animals, plants and so forth their totems, and not in vain, as they really gave people real power and real super abilities, made them powerful, invincible, were able to prevent diseases and heal, as well as “avert...
by John C. Avise
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Award-winning geneticist John C. Avise guides this delightful voyage around the planet in search of answers to nature's mysteries. He demonstrates how scientists directly examine DNA to address long-standing questions about wild animals, plants, and microbes. Through dozens of stories that span the...
The Biophilia Effect
A Scientific and Spiritual Exploration of the Healing Bond Between Humans and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Did you know that spending time in a forest activates the vagus nerve, which is responsible for inducing calm and regeneration? Or that spending just one single day in a wooded area increases the number of natural killer cells in the blood by almost 40 percent on average?
We’ve all had an...
Tamed By a Bear
Coming Home to Nature-Spirit-Self
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
"Priscilla Stuckey shines a brilliant light on the relationship we long to cultivate with the deepest wellsprings of our wisdom and love . . . This is a groundbreaking book, written with extraordinary clarity, beauty, and radical honesty." —Gail D. Storey, author of I Promise Not to Suffer:...
Iceland Imagined
Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since the middle of the eighteenth century, however, this marginalized region has gradually become part...
The Secret Teachings of Plants
The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2004
Reveals the use of direct perception in understanding Nature, medicinal plants, and the healing of human disease
• Explores the techniques used by indigenous and Western peoples to learn directly from the plants themselves, including those of Henry David Thoreau, Goethe, and Masanobu Fukuoka,...
Beyond Nature's Housekeepers
American Women in Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
From pre-Columbian times to the environmental justice movements of the present, women and men frequently responded to the environment and environmental issues in profoundly different ways. Although both environmental history and women's history are flourishing fields, explorations of the synergy produced...