Most books about the environment build on dire threats warning of the possible extinction of humanity. Alan Weisman avoids frightening off readers by disarmingly wiping out our species in the first few pages of this remarkable book. He...
Nature
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Author:Weisman, AlanSummary: - Author:Balcombe, JonathanSummary:
An underwater exploration that overturns myths about fishes and reveals their complex lives, from tool use to social behavior There are more than thirty thousand species of fish--more than all mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians...
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Author:Thoreau, Henry DavidSummary:This essay was presented as a lecture by Thoreau in his later years, but only published after his death. It's best known for its quote "In wildness is the preservation of the world", which has become a rallying cry of the...
- Author:Phillips, ElizabethSummary:
Winner, Lesbian Poetry at the 2008 GCLS Literary Awards (Golden Crown Literary Awards) and nominated for LGBT Poetry at the Lambda Literary Awards
Shortlisted for the 2007 Anne Szumigalsi Award for Poetry and the 2007 Saskatoon...
- Author:Fombelle, Timothée deSummary:
Se cachant au creux des écorces, courant parmi les branches, épuisé, les pieds en sang, Tobie fuit, traqué par les siens... Tobie Lolness ne mesure pas plus d'un millimètre et demi. Son peuple habite le grand chêne depuis la nuit des...
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Author:Aitchison, JohnSummary: - Author:Wohlleben, PeterSummary:
The final book in the Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben Nature is full of surprises-deciduous trees affect the rotation of the Earth, cranes sabotage the...
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Author:The EarthWorks GroupSummary:The world's a better place with EarthWorks Group's John Javna in it. He, along with his daughter, Sophie, help kids go from aware to active with simple (but inspiring) projects, tips and little-known facts that puts a kid...
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Author:DAWKINS, RichardSummary:Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world before they developed the scientific method. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting the goddess Nut swallowed the sun....
- Author:Dawkins, RichardSummary:
Dawkins examines how people use science to make sense of the world and to answer the basic questions of existence. He also chronicles the time before the scientific method was developed, when society had only myth to explain the unknown...
- Author:Macfarlane, Robert, Morris, Jackie, Bowman, Edith, Garvey, Guy, Matthews, Cerys, Zephaniah, BenjaminSummary:
FINALIST, WAINWRIGHT PRIZE. In 2007, when a new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary - widely used in schools around the world - was published, a sharp-eyed reader soon noticed that around forty common words concerning nature had...
- Author:Macfarlane, Robert, Morris, Jackie, Bowman, Edith, Garvey, Guy, Matthews, Cerys, Zephaniah, BenjaminSummary:
FINALIST, WAINWRIGHT PRIZE. In 2007, when a new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary - widely used in schools around the world - was published, a sharp-eyed reader soon noticed that around forty common words concerning nature had...
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Author:Suzuki, DavidSummary: -
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Author:Haas, JessieSummary:Here is a completely revised, full-color second edition of the established go-to source for equestrian information. This comprehensive A-to-Z guide covers "everything horse" and bridges gaps in the equestrian universe between...
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Author:Wohlleben, PeterSummary: - Author:Kricher, John C.Summary:
Wheaton College professor John Kricher presents an absorbing analysis of the diverse ecosystems that exist on Planet Earth. He provides a factual study of the many fragile and threatened portions of our biosphere while describing the...
- Author:Alderson, Sue AnnSummary:
Introduces children to the urgent concerns of saving the earth, by starting with a child's eye view of one cherished part of it. Musical poems convey not only the sights and sounds of a nature preserve, but its textures and seasons, its...
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