Nature category: 119170 books
by The Guardian
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Our cities are a mosaic of 'micro-habitats' providing food, water, green spaces and places to breed - the natural equivalent of the five-star hotel. Hence the presence of a huge range of animals, from badgers to bats, hawkmoths to herons, and sparrows to seals. In this ebook, we aim to prove that the...
Drifting into Darien
A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father’s construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a life preserver, she washed onto a sandbar as the craft sank from view. That first baptism began a lifelong relationship with a stunning and powerful river...
Learning the Valley
Excursions into the Shenandoah Valley
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In Learning the Valley, award-winning nature writer John Leland guides readers through the natural and human history of the Shenandoah Valley in twenty-five short essays on topics ranging from poison ivy and maple syrup to Stonewall Jackson and spelunking. Undergirding this dynamic narrative of place...
Vanished Gardens
Finding Nature in Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
New to living and gardening in Philadelphia, Sharon White begins a journey through the landscape of the city, past and present, in Vanished Gardens. In prose now as precise and considered as the paths in a parterre, now as flowing and lyrical as an Olmsted vista, White explores Philadelphia's gardens...
A Buffalo in the House
The True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American West
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
**From a #1 New York Times–bestselling author, “**a heartwarming tale of bonding between people and animals” (Booklist).
A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks are not your ordinary animal lovers....
Tales from Concrete Jungles
Urban Birding Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Born and raised in London, David Lindo's passionate interest in the natural world, especially birds, began at an early age. His thriving curiosity opened a door for him into an unexplored world of urban birding. Years later he decided to champion the delights of birding in cities and reinvented himself...
Musings
A Countrywoman's Views on Family Nature and Life in a Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
This book is a countrywomans views on family, nature, and life in a small town. I chose the name Musings as that is where the main thoughts come from. I think of the topics as I am driving, sitting on my front porch, or just before going to sleep. Some are humorous, some thought provoking, and some sadthats life.
by Daniel P Mannix
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Beneath the surface of a river, stream or pond lies a strange and dramatic world of living things, a world of unearthly beauty and marvelous complexity that to most of us is unknown. In Troubled Waters one of America's most popular nature writers transports us into this realm of...
The Fishermen's Frontier
People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
In The Fishermen's Frontier, David Arnold examines the economic, social, cultural, and political context in which salmon have been harvested in southeast Alaska over the past 250 years. He starts with the aboriginal fishery, in which Native fishers lived in close connection with salmon ecosystems...
Landscapes in Between
Environmental Change in Modern Italian Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Since its economic boom in the late 1950s, Italy has grappled with the environmental legacy of rapid industrial growth and haphazard urban planning. One notable effect is a preponderance of interstitial landscapes such as abandoned fields, polluted riverbanks, and makeshift urban gardens. Landscapes...
Remaking Wormsloe Plantation
The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Why do we preserve certain landscapes while developing others without restraint? Drew A. Swanson’s in-depth look at Wormsloe plantation, located on the salt marshes outside of Savannah, Georgia, explores that question while revealing the broad historical forces that have shaped the lowcountry South.
Wormsloe...
On Foundations of Seismology
Bringing Idealizations Down to Earth
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
This remarkable collaboration between a mathematical physicist and a science philosopher concerns foundational and conceptual issues in seismology. Their aim is to present mathematical, physical and philosophical topics in a clear and concise manner. They provide an extensive philosophical discussion...
Letters to a Friend
Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr 1866-1879
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
As a student at the University of Wisconsin, John Muir often visited with Dr. Ezra Carr and his family, and the impressionable young man came to regard Mrs. Carr as his spiritual mother. A keen botanist, she shared Muir's passion for nature, and the two formed a lasting bond. After heading west to...
Pompéi, nature, sciences et techniques (Paris - 2001)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Hors des sentiers battus, l'exposition Pompéi, nature, sciences et techniques, présentée à Paris au palais de la Découverte du 3 avril au 22 juillet 2001, donnait à voir un matériel inattendu: les objets d'art étaient conviés à titre de témoins et comme illustrations d'un propos...
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