Nature category: 119170 books
Sacred Species and Sites
Advances in Biocultural Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
It is being increasingly recognised that cultural and biological diversity are deeply linked and that conservation programmes should take into account the ethical, cultural and spiritual values of nature. With contributions from a range of scholars, practitioners and spiritual leaders from around...
The Curious Naturalist
Nature's Everyday Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
Boston Globe nature columnist discusses the lovelorn messages sent by singing insects on autumn evenings, the messages contained in spiderwebs, the effects of winter snow on the way sound travels, the way all life depends on the unusual structure of water, and much more. Most fun is the author's description...
by Graham Victor Frederick Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Skokholm is a remote island nature reserve located off the southwest coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales. Home to over 100,000 seabirds (including the third-largest Manx shearwater colony in the World), it was made famous by pioneer naturalist Ronald Mathias Lockley in the 1930s and 1940s as a result of...
Slopovers
Fire Surveys of the Mid-American Oak Woodlands, Pacific Northwest, and Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
America is not simply a federation of states but a confederation of regions. Some have always held national attention, some just for a time. Slopovers examines three regions that once dominated the national narrative and may now be returning to prominence.
The Mid-American oak woodlands were...
Prairie Spring
A Journey Into the Heart of a Season
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
A grasslands nature trek that “weaves together spiritual insight, plant biology, geology lessons and American history—and a plethora of bird sightings” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
A nature writer and avid birder offers a portrait of a season in the heartland of North America as he...
Working on Earth
Class and Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
This collection of essays examines the relationship between environmental injustice and the exploitation of working-class people. Twelve scholars from the fields of environmental humanities and the humanistic social sciences explore connections between the current and unprecedented rise of environmental...
After Preservation
Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
From John Muir to David Brower, from the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos—to encircle nature with our protection, to keep it apart,...
Our Place
Changing the Nature of Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
A collection of essays and articles that reflect upon the ecology, conservation history, missed opportunities and emerging possibilities of a place that could have been about so much more than oil.
Naturalist, hunter, conservation activist and recovering bureaucrat Kevin Van Tighem explores...
Teewinot
A Year in the Teton Range
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2001
Jack Turner grew up with an image of the Tetons engraved in his mind. As a young man, he climbed the peaks of this singular range with basic climbing gear friends. Later in life, he led treks in India, Pakistan, Nepal, China, Tibet, and Peru, but he always returned to the mountains of his youth. He...
Engineering Eden
A Violent Death, a Federal Trial, and the Struggle to Restore Nature in Our National Parks
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
The award-winning story of the century-and-half-long attempt to control nature in the American wilderness, told through the prism of a tragic death at Yellowstone—now in paperback
In the summer of 1972, 25-year-old Harry Eugene Walker hitchhiked away from his family’s northern Alabama dairy...
Shell Games
Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
A unique blend of natural history and crime drama, Shell Games by Craig Welch is a riveting tale of rogues, scoundrels, and the hunt for nature’s bounty in the tradition of The Orchid Thief. A stranger-than-fiction true story centered around a larger-than-life character who pursued a larger-than-life...
Neoliberal Environments
False Promises and Unnatural Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
This volume explores the nexus between nature, markets, deregulation and valuation, using theoretically sharp and empirically rich real-world case studies and analyses of actually existing policy from around the world and across a range of resources. In short, it answers the questions: does neoliberalizing...
The Most Dangerous Animal
Human Nature and the Origins of War
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Almost 200 million human beings, mostly civilians, have died in wars over the last century, and there is no end of slaughter in sight.
The Most Dangerous Animal asks what it is about human nature that makes it possible for human beings to regularly slaughter their own kind. It tells the story of why...
Beyond Words
Talking with Animals and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
In this powerful follow-up to her groundbreaking book, Learning Their Language, Marta Williams presents fascinating stories that explore the connections among humans, nature, and animals and demonstrates the effective and life-enhancing techniques of intuitive communication.