Ecology category: 3266 books
Wilderness Survival Handbook : Primitive Skills for Short-Term Survival and Long-Term Comfort: Primitive Skills for Short-Term Survival and Long-Term Comfort
Primitive Skills for Short-Term Survival and Long-Term Comfort
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
An essential guide to everything you need to stay sheltered, fed, healthy, and safe in the backcountry
Organized around the six essentials of survival (shelter, water, food, fire, comfort and health, and navigation), Wilderness Survival Handbook covers 100 skills and techniques, including preserving...
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.
In...
The Northern Rockies
A Fire Survey
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
It’s a place of big skies and big fires, big burns like those of 1910 and 1988 that riveted national attention. Conflagrations like those of 1934 and 2007 that reformed national policy. Blowups like that in Mann Gulch that shaped the literature of American fire. Big fires mostly hidden in the backcountry...
by John Muir
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book-collection file includes: The Grand Canon of the Colorado (article), The Mountains of California, Steep Trails, Stickeen (article), The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Travels in Alaska, Yosemite, My First Summer in the Sierras, and Alaska Days with John Muir (by S. Hall Young). According to...
Biomimicry
Innovation Inspired by Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature’s best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems.
If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature – taking advantage...
by J. R. McNeill
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
"Refreshingly unpolemical and at times even witty, McNeill's book brims with carefully sifted statistics and brilliant details."—Washington Post Book World
The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic...
The One-Straw Revolution
An Introduction to Natural Farming
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book,” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative...
The Imperfect Environmentalist
A Practical Guide to Clearing Your Body, Detoxing Your Home, and Saving the Earth (Without Losing Your Mind)
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Actress, producer, mother, and imperfect environmentalist, Sara Gilbert understands how helping the environment can seem overwhelming. Between keeping up with work, friends, and kids, who has the time or money to maintain a compost pile, become an activist, or knit a sweater out of recycled grocery...
Parasite Rex
Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2000
IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their destruction.
IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites are masters of chemical warfare and camouflage, able to cloak themselves with their hosts' own molecules.
IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites steer the course of evolution,...
Being a Beast
Adventures Across the Species Divide
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
A passionate naturalist explores what it’s really like to be an animal—by living like them
How can we ever be sure that we really know the other? To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans, the...
The Spell of the Sensuous
Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains...
by Rachel Carson
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
This New York Times bestseller by the author of the environmental classic Silent Spring beautifully details the coastal ecosystem of birds and the sea.
In her first book, preeminent nature writer Rachel Carson tells the story of the sea creatures and birds that dwell in and around the waters...
Active Hope
How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Most books addressing global issues focus on either our dire problems or grand-scale solutions. Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone focus instead on equipping readers with a transformational mind-set. Facing the facts of a planet and economies in crisis, many individuals feel hopeless because they recognize...
Anarchy Evolution
Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
“Take one man who rejects authority and religion, and leads a punk band. Take another man who wonders whether vertebrates arose in rivers or in the ocean….Put them together, what do you get? Greg Graffin, and this uniquely fascinating book.” —Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel
Anarchy...