Nature

16488 books

Hawaii: Interlink Traveller's Wildlife Guide - Paperback

$28.80

by Les Beletsky (Author), Pratt (Illustrator)All the information you need to find, identify, and learn about Hawaii's unique land animals and magnificent sea life can be found in this convenient easy-to-carry guide. Travellers to Hawaii go for sun, sand, and surf, but increasingly leave the beach for part of their stay to explore the islands' incredible natural attractions: stunning mountain scenery, wonderful hiking trails, glimpses of birds--many of them highly endangered--that occur nowhe...

Jane Austen on Nature: The Novels as Pastoral Literature - Paperback

$79.92

by Mary Jane Curry (Author) Jane Austen's heroines respond to the power of the natural world, seeking comfort in nature's calm or referencing "verdure"--meaning fresh greenness and fertility--in relation to their awakening sexuality. This book focuses on the interactions between Austen's heroines and the uncontrollable, wild world. Femininity and nature are interwoven; male characters often exploit nature as they exploit women. In the fragment _Sanditon_, Austen satirizes resort developers w...

$21.10

by Tyler E. Bagwell (Author)Since the 1940s, Jekyll Island has gone through a transformation from an exclusive private club where America's wealthiest families vacationed to a state-owned resort enjoyed by thousands of visitors each year. The changes that came to Jekyll brought bothdisappointments and triumphs, and involved people from all walks of life--the former employees of the Jekyll Island Club who remained after its closing in 1942, the military servicemen who were stationed on the isl...

$16.32

by Kathleen Jamie (Author)" Kathleen Jamie's] essays guide you softly along coastlines of varying continents, exploring caves, and pondering ice ages until the narrator stumbles over -- not a rock on the trail, but mortality, maybe the earth's, maybe our own, pointing to new paths forward through the forest." --Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing, "By the Book" in The New York Times Book Review. An immersive exploration of time and place in a shrinking world, from the award-winning...

The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds - Paperback

$24.96

by John Muir Laws (Author)John Muir Laws's guide to drawing birds is itself winged, soaring between a devotion not only to art but also to the lives, forms, and postures of the birds themselves.Here, artistic technique and the exquisite details of natural history intertwine, and drawing becomes the vehicle for seeing. As Laws writes, "To draw feathers, you must understand how feathers grow, overlap, and insert into the body. To create the body, you must have an understanding of the bird's ske...

Florida Natural Springs: A History - Paperback

$23.98

by Holly Sprinkle (Author)Author Holly Sprinkle unveils the secrets hidden within Florida's aquatic wonders. Florida's springs swirl a spectrum of greens and blues with a crystal clarity seen nowhere else in Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: October 14, 2024

Something in the Woods Loves You - Hardcover

$28.80

by Jarod K. Anderson (Author)An inspiring blend of nature writing and memoir that explores nature's crucial role in our emotional and mental health Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his life took him to a painfully dark place, the poet behind The CryptoNaturalist, Jarod K. Anderson, found comfort and redemption in these facts and the shift in perspective that comes from paying a new kind of attention to nature. Something in the Woods Loves You tells th...

Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization - Paperback

$17.26

by Steven Solomon (Author)"I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi--it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people depend on it, and there's no backup plan. As Steven Solomon makes clear, the same is true the world over; this volume will give you the background to understand the forces that will drive much of 21st century ...

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America - Paperback

$22.06

by Douglas Brinkley (Author)From New York Times bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley comes a sweeping historical narrative and eye-opening look at the pioneering environmental policies of President Theodore Roosevelt, avid bird-watcher, naturalist, and the founding father of America's conservation movement.In this groundbreaking epic biography, Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to examine the life and achievements of our "naturalist president." By setting aside more...

$29.68

by Wayne Pacelle (Author)"If the animals knew about this book they would, without doubt, confer on Wayne Pacelle, their highest honor."--Jane Goodall"The Bond is the best overall book on animals I have ever read. Brilliant and moving."--John Mackey, CEO and Co-founder of Whole Foods Market"The Bond is at once heart-breaking and heart-warming. No animal escapes Wayne Pacelle's attention; nor should his book escape any human animal's attention."--Alexandra Horowitz, New York Times Bestselling A...

The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions - Paperback

$16.30

by Peter Brannen (Author)One of Vox's Most Important Books of the DecadeNew York Times Editors' Choice 2017Forbes Top 10 Best Environment, Climate, and Conservation Book of 2017As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangero...

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us - Paperback

$23.98

by Steve Brusatte (Author)New from the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs ("A masterpiece of science writing." --Washington Post) and "one of the stars of modern paleontology" (National Geographic), a sweeping and revelatory history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to us.National Bestseller - Top 10 Nonfiction of 2022: Kirkus - Best Science Books of 2022: The Times UKWe humans are the inheritors of a dynasty t...

Decision Methods for Forest Resource Management - Hardcover

$159.92

by Joseph Buongiorno (Author), J. Keith Gilless (Author)Decision Methods for Forest Resource Management focuses on decision making for forests that are managed for both ecological and economic objectives. The essential modern decision methods used in the scientific management of forests are described using basic algebra, computer spreadsheets, and numerous examples and applications. Balanced treatment is given throughout the book to the ecological and economic impacts of alternative managemen...

$16.32

by Gretel Ehrlich (Author)A collection of transcendent, lyrical essays on life in the American West, the classic companion to Gretel Ehrlich's new book, Unsolaced "Wyoming has found its Whitman." --Annie Dillard Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn't leave. The Solace of Open Spaces is a chronicle of her first years on "the planet of Wyoming," a personal journey in...

Response of Plants to Multiple Stresses - Hardcover

$116.72

by William E. Winner (Editor), Eva J. Pell (Editor), Jacques Roy (Editor)This book presents a whole-plant perspective on plant integrated responses to multiple stresses, including an analysis of how plants have evolved growth forms and phenological responses to cope with changing stress patterns in natural environments. Number of Pages: 396 Dimensions: 0.98 x 9.32 x 6.28 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: June 28, 1991

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition - Paperback

$19.20

by Marc Reisner (Author)"I've been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West's success with irrigation could be a mirage -- that it took water for granted and didn't appreciate the precariousness of our capacity to control it." - Farhad Manjoo, The New York Tim...

Environmental Protection Wentk P - Paperback

$16.27

by Pamela Hill (Author)Although climate change and pollution make near-daily appearances in the news, humans have not always recognized that the environment needs to be protected. Only after the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 did environmental protection became a political and social priority. In Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), environmental lawyer Pamela Hill offers clear, engaging answers to some of the most pressing questions facing us today...

The Alternative Introduction to Biological Anthropology - Paperback

$103.98

by Jonathan Marks (Author)In The Alternative Introduction to Biological Anthropology, Second Edition, author Jonathan Marks presents an innovative framework for thinking about the major issues in the field with fourteen original essays designed to correlate to the core chapters in standard textbooks. Each chapter draws on and complements--but does not reconstitute (except for the sake of clarity)--the major data and ideas presented in standard texts. Marks explores such topics as how we make ...

Who Rules the Earth?: How Social Rules Shape Our Planet and Our Lives - Paperback

$54.70

by Paul F. Steinberg (Author)Worldwide, half a million people die from air pollution each year-more than perish in all wars combined. One in every five mammal species on the planet is threatened with extinction. Our climate is warming, our forests are in decline, and every day we hear news of the latest ecological crisis. What will it really take to move society onto a more sustainable path? Many of us are already doing the "little things" to help the earth, like recycling or buying organic p...

Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

$11.47

by David DeGrazia (Author)This volume provides a general overview of the basic ethical and philosophical issues of animal rights. It asks questions such as: Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting modelsfor understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connec...

$147.44

by George C. McGavin (Author), Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou (Author), Richard Lewington (Author)Comprising well over half of all known animal species, insects are the most successful organisms on the planet. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that one cannot study agriculture, biology, and the environment, without a basic understanding of entomology. Furthermore, insects are indispensable to advances in molecular biology and genetics, and their ongoing decline in many parts of the world has...

$19.18

by Ursula Goodenough (Author)For many of us, the great scientific discoveries of the modern age--the Big Bang, evolution, quantum physics, relativity--point to an existence that is bleak, devoid of meaning, pointless. But in The Sacred Depths of Nature, eminent biologist Ursula Goodenough shows us that the scientificworld view need not be a source of despair. Indeed, it can be a wellspring of solace and hope. This eloquent volume reconciles the modern scientific understanding of reality with ...

Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America - Paperback

$34.94

by Ted Steinberg (Author)As the waters of the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain began to pour into New Orleans, people began asking the big question--could any of this have been avoided? How much of the damage from Hurricane Katrina was bad luck, and how much was poor city planning? Steinberg's Acts of God is a provocative history of natural disasters in the United States. This revised edition features a new chapter analyzing the failed response to Hurricane Katrina, a disaster Steinbe...

Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions - Paperback

$50.14

by Cass R. Sunstein (Editor), Martha C. Nussbaum (Editor)Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum bring together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Addressing ethical questions about ownership, protection against unjustified suffering, and the ability of animals to make their own choices free from human control, the authors offer numerous different perspectives on animal rights and animal w...

Rocks: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

$11.47

by Jan Zalasiewicz (Author)Rocks, more than anything else, underpin our lives. They make up the solid structure of the Earth and of other rocky planets, and are present at the cores of gas giant planets. We live on the rocky surface of the planet, grow our food on weathered debris derived from rocks, and we obtain nearly all of the raw materials with which we found our civilization from rocks. From the Earth's crust to building bricks, rocks contain our sense of planetary history, and are a g...

Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement - Paperback

$48.62

by Neil M. Maher (Author)The Great Depression coincided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and devastating floods of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Recovering from these calamities--and preventing their reoccurrence--was a major goal of the New Deal. In Nature's New Deal, Neil M. Maher examines the history of one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's boldest and most successful experiments, the Civilian Conservation Corps, describing it as a turning point both in national politi...

Introduction to Invertebrate Conservation Biology - Paperback

$112.48

by T. R. New (Author)As the first book on the conservation biology of invertebrate animals - the predominant components of most global communities - this volume synthesizes much important information in this emerging science. Global in scope, the book deals with animals in terrestrial, marine, and freshwater communities. Also included are chapters on biodiversity, rationale and priorities for invertebrate conservation and practical conservation, and suggestions on agendas for the future. Many...

A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America - Paperback

$101.84

by Steve N. G. Howell (Author), Sophie Webb (Author)When Steve Howell first visited Mexico in November of 1981, he arrived armed with a strong background of birding in Britain and the Western Palearctic, and an even stronger enthusiasm for the diverse and exotic birds of Northern Central America. But he also arrived without an adequate field guide. Indeed, to his surprise, he found that relatively little was known (and even less written) about the myriad of bird species that inhabit the regio...

Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals - Hardcover

$35.82

by Christine M. Korsgaard (Author)Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, she offers an explanation of why animals are the sorts of beings for whom things can be good or bad. She then turns to Kant's argument for the value of humanity to show that rationality...

Biology and Conservation of Musteloids - Paperback

$126.16

by David W. MacDonald (Editor), Chris Newman (Editor), Lauren A. Harrington (Editor)The musteloids are the most diverse super-family among carnivores, ranging from little known, exotic, and highly-endangered species to the popular and familiar, and include a large number of introduced invasives. They feature terrestrial, fossorial, arboreal, and aquatic members, ranging from tenacious predators to frugivorous omnivores, span weights from a 100g weasel to 30kg giant otters, and express a range...

Forests: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

$11.47

by Jaboury Ghazoul (Author)Since the dawn of human civilization, forests have provided us with food, resources, and energy. The history of human development is also one of forest loss and transformation, and yet even in our increasingly urbanized societies we remain surprisingly dependent on forests for a wide range of goods and services. Moreover, forests still retain a remarkable hold on our environmental values. In an era of continuing tropical deforestation and temperate forest resurgence...

Conservation Drones: Mapping and Monitoring Biodiversity - Paperback

$80.56

by Serge A. Wich (Author), Lian Pin Koh (Author)Increasing numbers of ecologists and conservation biologists have begun to explore the use of drone technology to obtain accurate and up-to-date data on the distribution and density of species, as well as the threats to their habitats, in their ongoing attempts to conserve and monitor biodiversity. Conservation drones are low-cost, autonomous, and operator-friendly unmanned aerial vehicles that can be used for surveying, mapping, and monitoring ...