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Report copyright infringementby Dan Kainen (Author), Mara Grunbaum (Contribution by)This astounding book comes alive to bring you up close and personal with eight different bird species. Seeing is believing with the innovative and bestselling Photicular books, and now Birds gives readers a fascinating view of bird behavior in living motion. The book features eight incredible moving images: Penguins hopping, Grebes in an elaborate courtship dance, preening lovebirds, the blinking eyes of an o...

Parklands: America's National Parks and Public Lands

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Report copyright infringementby Jacob W. Frank (Author)A visual odyssey through America's most spectacular national parks and public lands--from iconic parks like Yosemite, Glacier Bay, Denali, the Everglades, and the Grand Tetons, to the lesser-known gems of the Dry Tortugas, Congaree, Black Canyon, and the John Day Fossil Beds. ★ "Featuring hundreds of stunning images of parks and public land across the US, Jacob W. Frank's Parklands is an extraordinary book of nature photography that embra...

Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology

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Report copyright infringementby Ann Fisher-Wirth (Editor), Laura-Gray Street (Editor), Margaret Ronda (Introduction by)The Ecopoetry Anthology is the authoritative book of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment. Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street, the editors of the daring first volume, have reunited to create Attached to the Living World. The second anthology explores the issues and conversations in ecopoetry over the past decade and features more than 150 establis...

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Kingsnorth (Author)How a force that's hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human In Against the Machine, "furiously gifted" (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original--and terrifying--account of the technological-cultural matrix enveloping all of us. With masterful insight into the spiritual and economic roots of techno-capitalism, Kingsnorth reveals how the Machine, in the...

The Call of the Honeyguide: What Science Tells Us about How to Live Well with the Rest of Life

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Report copyright infringementby Rob Dunn (Author)"A must read" (David George Haskell) that shows how rethinking our relationships with other species can help us reimagine the future of humankind In the woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa, sometime deep in our species' past, something strange happened: a bird called out, not to warn others of human presence, but to call attention to herself. Having found a beehive, that bird--a honeyguide--sought human aid to break in. The behavior can seem almo...

Little Alleluias: Collected Poetry and Prose

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Oliver (Author), Natalie Diaz (Foreword by)An archival compendium of three complete works by Mary Oliver: the book-length poem The Leaf and the Cloud, the collection What Do We Know, and essays from Long Life--with a foreword by fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Postcolonial Love Poem Natalie Diaz. For the many admirers of Mary Oliver's breathtaking poetry of touch and transcendence, as well as for those coming to her words for the first time, Lit...

The Hidden Seasons: A Calendar of Nature's Clues

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Report copyright infringementby Tristan Gooley (Author)We all notice the flowers of spring, longer days of summer, colors of autumn, and snowfalls of winter. But have you observed the way that water tends to run clearest in June? Did you know that at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, you can find Sirius due south in the night sky? And have you seen the poetic "shadow compasses" butterflies make on the hottest days, as they align their wings with the sun, their thin shadows pointing th...

The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal

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Report copyright infringementby Yossi Yovel (Author)An awe-inspiring tour of bat world by the world's leading expert With nearly 1500 species, bats account for more than twenty percent of mammalian species. The most successful and most diverse group of mammals, bats come in different sizes, shapes, and colors, from the tiny bumblebee bat to the giant golden-crowned flying fox. Some bats eat fruit and nectar; others eat frogs, scorpions, or fish. Vampire bats feed on blood. Bats are the only m...

The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Brannen (Author)How carbon dioxide made planet Earth, shaped human history, and now holds our future in the balanceEvery year, we are dangerously warping the climate by putting gigantic amounts of carbon dioxide into the air. But CO2 isn't merely the by-product of burning fossil fuels--it is also fundamental to how our planet works. All life is ultimately made from CO2, and it has kept Earth bizarrely habitable for hundreds of millions of years. In short,...

Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places

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Report copyright infringementby Alex Riley (Author)From scorching deserts to frozen seabeds, from the highest peaks of the Himalaya to the hadal depths of the oceans, there are habitats on this Earth that appear hostile to life--yet where, nevertheless, life flourishes. In North American forests, wood frogs awaken each spring from solid blocks of ice. Under the Saharan sun, shielded by silvery hairs, desert ants sprint through the midday heat that is lethal to any other animal. At the bottom ...

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

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Report copyright infringementby Zo? Schlanger (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New Yorker's Best Books of 2024 - TIME's 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 - New York Magazine's 10 Best Books of the Year - Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2024 - Smithsonian's 10 Best Science Books of the Year - A Best Book of the Year: Boston Globe, Scientific American, New York Public Library, Christian Science Monitor, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly - An Amazon Best Nonfiction...

The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Lexa (Author), Ricardo Macía Lalinde (Illustrator)Learn to identify animals, plants, and fungi wherever you go with this step-by-step guide for spotting and recording key traits and characteristics. If you've ever consulted a field guide to identify a new bird at your feeder, you know the process isn't as easy as it sounds. In fact, it seems like you have to know a lot about that mystery bird to even figure out where to start. The Everyday Naturalist fi...

National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of the United States and Canada, 8th Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Ted Floyd (Author)America's beloved bird field guide just got even better with this completely revised 8th edition, created for a new generation of birders. Updated ID guidance, descriptive details, and annotated art on more than 1,000 species, including new range maps powered by eBird technology. This new edition of the trusted National Geographic field guide combines fresh new text, updated taxonomy, expanded art including 240 new illustrations, and authorita...

The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World

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Report copyright infringementby Harriet Rix (Author)A mind-expanding exploration of how trees learned to shape our world by manipulating the elements, plants, animals, and even humankind, possessing agency beyond anything we might have imagined "Astounding . . . a true masterpiece . . . Rix refuses to put herself much in the picture, but through the scenes we glimpse an Indiana Jones figure who is both an eminent, travelling scientist and a born writer."--The Telegraph For a supposedly statio...

The Secret Life of a Cemetery: The Wild Nature and Enchanting Lore of Père-Lachaise

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Report copyright infringementby Benoît Gallot (Author), Daniel Casanave (Illustrator), Arielle Aaronson (Translator)From the head curator of the most famous cemetery in the world--a moving story about a place where joy, grief, and wild nature converge in unexpected and inspiring ways. "Père-Lachaise in Paris, whose tombs of Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf and many other artistic icons have made it a popular tourist draw, has become a haven for wildlife."--from the New York Times profile...

Cloud Warriors: Deadly Storms, Climate Chaos--And the Pioneers Creating a Revolution in Weather Forecasting

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas E. Weber (Author)The unprecedented inside story of the people pushing boundaries of science and technology to build better weather forecasts--providing life-saving warnings and crucial intelligence about nature's deadliest threats Killer tornadoes. Catastrophic hurricanes. Lethal heat waves. Across the United States and around the world, extreme weather events bring an unending torrent of death and destruction. One indispensable tool consistently offers ...

A Year with the Seals: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea's Most Charismatic and Controversial Creatures

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Report copyright infringementby Alix Morris (Author), Sy Montgomery (Foreword by)Environmental journalist Alix Morris spends an eye-opening year getting to know these elusive, intelligent creatures, investigating the effects of their extraordinary return from the brink of extinction and how we can try to bring nature back into balance. It might be their large, strangely human eyes or their dog-like playfulness, but seals have long captured people's interest and affection, making them the per...

The Social Lives of Birds: Flocks, Communes, and Families

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Report copyright infringementby Joan E. Strassmann (Author)An exploration of all the ways in which birds are social creatures--from breeding to nesting to babysitting In The Social Lives of Birds, evolutionary biologist and author of Slow Birding Joan Strassmann examines what it means for birds of a feather to flock together. Some birds sleep together. Some join the foraging groups of other species. Some are only social during breeding season, forming nesting colonies in trees, cliffs, and sa...

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Poppick (Author)The epic stories of our planet's 4.54-billion-year history are written in strata--ages-old remnants of ancient seafloors, desert dunes, and riverbeds striping landscapes around the world. In this brilliantly original debut work, science writer Laura Poppick decodes strata to lead us on a journey through four global transformations that made our lives on Earth possible: the first accumulations of oxygen in the atmosphere; the deep freezes o...

Submersed: Wonder, Obsession, and Murder in the World of Amateur Submarines

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Gavin Frank (Author)An exquisite, lyrical foray into the world of deep-sea divers, the obsession and madness that oceans inspire in us, and the story of submarine inventor Peter Madsen's murder of journalist Kim Wall--a captivating blend of literary prose, science writing, and true crime "[A] thrilling study of an obsession--to sink below the surface, to depths both metaphoric and in fact. Full of wild characters and strange histories, by the end we are...

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Report copyright infringementby David Attenborough (Author), Colin Butfield (Author)Award-winning broadcaster and natural historian David Attenborough and longtime collaborator Colin Butfield present a powerful call to action focused on our planet's oceans, exploring how critical this habitat is for the survival of humanity and the earth's future. Through personal stories, history and cutting-edge science, Ocean uncovers the mystery, the wonder, and the frailty of the most unexplored habitat...

Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future

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Report copyright infringementby Alan Weisman (Author)One of Heatmap's 18 Climate Books to Read in 2025 The award-winning environmental journalist's extraordinary, long-awaited portrait of hope and resilience as we face a fractured and uncertain future In this profoundly human and moving narrative, the bestselling author of The World Without Us returns with a book ten years in the making: a study of what it means to be a human on the front lines of our planet's existential crisis. His new book...

The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters

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Report copyright infringementby Christine Webb (Author)An impassioned celebration of humility before the living world that leads us to a new understanding of other species--and ourselves Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex of a natural hierarchy. Yet today many maintain that we are the most intelligent, virtuous, successful species that ever lived. This flawed thinking enables us to exploit the earth towards our own exclusive ends, throwing us into a perilous pl...

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Nicolson (Author)An intimate exploration of the lives of birds and their interactions with man, by a preeminent naturalist. Poets and scientists, saints and naturalists, stalk through these pages. Neighboring cock robins duel almost to the death. Tawny owl widows are seen looking for tawny owl widowers to set up shop with. Blackbirds are found singing phrases from late Beethoven quartets, both in a garden in southern England (where they have been listening...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert MacFarlane (Author)Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law.Macfarlane takes readers on three...

Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie

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Report copyright infringementby Dave Hage (Author), Josephine Marcotty (Author)A vivid portrait of the American prairie, which rivals the rainforest in its biological diversity and, with little notice, is disappearing even faster "This book describes--in loving, living prose--one of the world's greatest and most important landscapes. And it does so while there's still time to save some serious part of it."--Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature The North American prairie is an ecological...

Slither: How Nature's Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen S. Hall (Author)In this "important and pioneering" (The New York Times Book Review) book, a science writer reintroduces readers to The Snake, encouraging our initial reaction to the slithery creature to be one of awe rather than disgust. For millennia, depictions of snakes as alternatively beautiful and menacing creatures have appeared in religious texts, mythology, poetry, and beyond. From the foundational deities of ancient Egypt to the reactions of ...

Becoming Earth: A Journey Through the Hidden Wonders That Bring Our Planet to Life

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Report copyright infringementby Ferris Jabr (Author)A vivid account of a major shift in how we understand Earth, from an exceptionally talented new voice. Earth is not simply an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather a planet that came to life. "Glorious . . . full of achingly beautiful passages, mind-bending conceptual twists, and wonderful characters. Jabr reveals how Earth has been profoundly, miraculously shaped by life."--Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author ...

Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door

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Report copyright infringementby Thor Hanson (Author)An award-winning natural-history writer presents "the perfect mix of science and story" (Sy Montgomery), opening the door to the nature that thrives in our yards, gardens, and parks: "I couldn't put it down" (Doug Tallamy). We all live on nature's doorstep, but we often overlook it. From backyards to local parks, the natural places we see the most may well be the ones we know the least. In Close to Home, biologist Thor Hanson shows how re...

Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of the Midwest - Paperback

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by Matthew Alfs (Author)The potential benefits of wild plants for human health and well-being are wide-ranging. But, knowing which plants to use, and how, for edible and medicinal purposes requires a deep understanding of the characteristics and qualities of these species in the wild. Whether you are seeking an herbal remedy for a specific ailment or simply want to make the most of the natural bounty that surrounds us, you need look no further than this groundbreaking study. Collected here ar...

Beautiful Shells: George Perry's Conchology - Hardcover

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by Mark Carnall (Author)An informative introduction exploring our fascination with shells, complete with stunningly reproduced illustrations. In 1811, architect, stone mason, and shell obsessive George Perry published his lavishly illustrated volume, Conchology or the Natural History of Shells. The work featured 348 beautifully illustrated mollusk shells with descriptions of species, many of which were new to science. Despite the effort that went into producing it--and at a time when conchop...

The Incredible Voyage: The Round-The-World Adventures of a Young Sailor and a Seafaring Chicken - Paperback

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by Guirec Soud?e (Author), David Warriner (Translator)"Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping ... readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas."--BOOKLIST A man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no matter what stands in your way. When Guirec Soud?e was 21 years old, he bought a 30-foot sailboat and set out across the Atlantic, despite having only sailed a dinghy before. His only companion? His plucky ...