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The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness

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Report copyright infringementby Kenn Kaufman (Author)Renowned naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers in this fascinating "blend of history, science, art, biography, and memoir" (Booklist, starred review) that is "a bird lovers' delight" (Kirkus Reviews). Raging ambition. Towering egos. Competition under a veneer of courtesy. Heroic effort combined with plagiarism, theft, exaggeration, and fraud. This was the s...

The Bird Singers: How Two Boys Discovered the Magic of Birdsong

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Report copyright infringementby Jean Boucault (Author), Johnny Rasse (Author), Katia Grubisic (Translator)In the vein of H is for Hawk and The Book of Eels, this moving memoir shines a light on the transformative power of nature as it tells the story of two boys, Jean and Johnny, who learned the language of birds. "I read this book in one sitting. I loved the story of the two boys, of their relationships with the nature around them, their community, and their relationship with each other."--M...

This Magnetic North: Candid Conversations on a Changing Northern Michigan

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Mulherin (Author)What happens when a place is so beautiful that everyone wants to go there--and then they stay? This book explores a phenomenon occurring around Michigan's Great Lakes and other high-demand scenic locations across the country: natural landscapes are undergoing profound human and climatological change as people pick up their lives and move to bucolic locations. The Grand Traverse region in northwest lower Michigan has been one of the most im...

The Garden at the End of Time: Getting by in the Age of Climate Change

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Report copyright infringementby John Hanson Mitchell (Author) John Hanson Mitchell has long written about his garden outside of Boston, and about the plants and animals with whom he shares this land. In 2022, the United Nations and others started reporting the true severity of the climate crisis as the Earth passed a point of no return. All across the globe it was the worst year on record for climate-related disasters, including extinctions, deadly floods, massive fires, and dramatic droughts...

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Report copyright infringementby Marina Gibson (Author)For fans of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk, a lyrical memoir and "engaging, endearing, deeply felt" (David Coggins) ode to the art of fly fishing and how it can shape a life--by renowned female angler and conservationist Marina Gibson. As her twenty-first birthday approached, Marina Gibson received a unique gift suggestion from her parents, who offered her a choice between fishing rods or jewelry. In an unconvent...

Up North in Michigan: A Portrait of Place in Four Seasons

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Report copyright infringementby Jerry Dennis (Author)Northern Michigan is a place, like all places, in change. Over the past half century, its landscape has been bulldozed, subdivided, and built upon. Climate change warms the water of the Great Lakes at an alarming rate--Lake Superior is now the fastest-warming large body of freshwater on the planet--creating increasingly frequent and severe storm events, altering aquatic and shoreline ecosystems, and contributing to further invasions by non-...

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Report copyright infringementby Sharon Lawrence (Author), Jim Wuepper (Photographer), Murray Palmer (Photographer)In this memoir, Sharon Lawrence offers an intimate portrait of her life with R. D. Lawrence, a world-renowned field biologist, naturalist, journalist, and author. Together, Sharon and R. D. Lawrence managed Wolf Hollow, a wildlife sanctuary in Ursa, Ontario. This book tells the story of their renowned sanctuary and all the lives it touched.From humble beginnings as a private getaw...

The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores

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Report copyright infringementby Archie F. Carr (Author)Winner of the John Burroughs Medal, American Museum of Natural History"A naturalist with a taste for adventure as a state of mind proves an absorbing storyteller as he wanders the Caribbean coasts."--Kirkus Reviews"The most compelling account of sea turtle ecology the world had ever seen."--Research in Review"Writing in the best tradition of the great naturalist explorers."--Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring "This is a classic and it...

Take to the Trees: A Story of Hope, Science, and Self-Discovery in America's Imperiled Forests

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Report copyright infringementby Marguerite Holloway (Author)Journalist Marguerite Holloway arrives at the Women's Tree Climbing Workshop as a climbing novice, but with a passion for trees and a deep concern about their future. Run by twin sister tree doctors Bear LeVangie and Melissa LeVangie Ingersoll, the workshop helps people--from everyday tree lovers to women arborists working in a largely male industry--develop impressive technical skills and ascend into the canopy. As Holloway tackles ...

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Report copyright infringementby Gary Snyder (Author), Jack Shoemaker (Editor), Kim Stanley Robinson (Introduction by)In one volume, the indispensable prose of our "poet laureate of deep ecology" Here is Gary Snyder's own selection of his pathbreaking environmental essays, Buddhist journals, poetic notebooks, and more, including previously uncollected material Gathered for the first time in a single volume and completing the definitive Library of America edition of his works, here is the essen...

The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

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Report copyright infringementby Manjula Martin (Author)H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman's experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record. FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it r...

Sacred Earth Rising Within: The Making of a Spiritual Ecologist in a Creative Cosmos

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Report copyright infringementby K. Lauren De Boer (Author)How does connection with nature help overcome early trauma in individuals and societies? What is the healing power of a life-giving cosmology (a comprehensive origins story) that brings us back to a sense of meaning and belonging to the universe? Part memoir, part lyrical essay and poetry, Sacred Earth Rising Within carries a powerful message of hope for the human prospect. It begins with the author's early experiences as a minister's ...

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Report copyright infringementby Curt Iles (Author)"They say places like Dry Creek no longer exist." In Where I Come From, Curt Iles takes readers on a memorable journey to his beloved Dry Creek, Louisiana home.In his fourteenth book, Iles shares over sixty short stories celebrating the rural culture, history, and people of the Louisiana Pineywoods. Written in the warm style loved by his readers, Curt writes in a resonant voice that elicits laughter and tears, often in the same story. Part tra...

236 Pounds of Class Vice President: A Memoir of Teenage Insecurity, Obesity, and Virginity

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Report copyright infringementby Jason Mulgrew (Author)Jason Mulgrew, popular blogger and author of Everything Is Wrong with Me, continues his depreciating yet hilarious self-reflection with 236 Pounds of Class Vice President. Set in Mulgrew's high school years, this genuine and honest memoir revisits his teenage antics and escapades as he, while navigating the indignity of puberty, attempts to run for vice president of the student body, displays a penchant for long fur capes, and (naturally) ...

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Report copyright infringementby Annette Hobart (Author), Warren Hobart (Author)In Nordegg: The Quest to Find Sasquatch, Annette and Wunfeather (Warren) Hobart invite readers into the wilderness of Nordegg, Alberta, to join them on their unique journey in search of the legendary Sasquatch. Seasoned trappers and Indigenous Knowledge Keepers, the Hobarts draw from their deep connection to the land to interpret the mysterious signs they encounter-from towering figures at the edge of camp to unexp...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Leech (Author)This is a look at many pursuits, travels, and activities I've undergone during my more than a few years in this world. It's a memoir with lots of fun details about my experiences in the U. S. and many other countries I've visited. Especially memorable were the people I got to know along the way, and the several I continue to stay in touch with decades later. Those who read this might find they - relate readily to many of their own adventures.T...

Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange

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Report copyright infringementby Katie Goh (Author) Per person, oranges are the most consumed fruit in the world. Across the world, no matter how remote or cold or incongruous a climate is, oranges will be there. What stories could I unravel from the orange's long ribboning peel? What new meanings could I find in its variousness, as it moves from east to west and from familiar to foreign? What begins as a curiosity into the origins of the orange soon becomes a far-reaching odyssey of citrus f...

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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Report copyright infringementby Olivia Laing (Author)In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground...

Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice

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Report copyright infringementby Abby Reyes (Author)"Essential reading, filled with exactly the kind of truth that this precarious moment demands." --Kaira Jewel Lingo, author of We Were Made for These Times In 1999, Abby Reyes lost her partner, Terence Unity Freitas, as he and two others were murdered after departing Kajka Ika--the heart of the world--of Indigenous U'wa territory in Colombia. Imperiled by multinational oil interests, U'wa lifeways were under attack. Terence, Ingrid Washinawat...

World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After

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Report copyright infringementby Martha Park (Author)For fans of Margaret Renkl and Lisa Wells's Believers, World Without End circles the connections between climate change and faith in the fear and fascination of the end of the world.When Martha Park's father announces he is retiring from the ministry after forty-two years, she moves home to Memphis to attend his United Methodist church for his last year in the pulpit. She hopes to encounter a more certain sense of herself as secular or relig...

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time - Paperback

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by Jonathan Weiner (Author)PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research of Darwin's discovery of evolution that "spark[s] not just the intellect, but the imagination" (Washington Post Book World). "Admirable and much-needed.... Weiner's triumph is to reveal how evolution and science work, and to let them speak clearly for themselves."--The New York Times Book ReviewOn a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first i...

Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing

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Report copyright infringementby Lili Taylor (Author)Eye-opening essays about searching for peace in the cacophony of birds and discovering a world of meaning in small moments--from award-winning actor Lili Taylor. Most people don't really know birds--or rather, they aren't aware of them. Lili Taylor used to be one of those people. She knew birds existed. She thought about them, maybe even more than the average person. But she didn't know them. And then something happened. During a much-needed...

My Life with Sea Turtles: A Marine Biologist's Quest to Protect One of the Most Ancient Animals on Earth

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Report copyright infringementby Christine Figgener (Author), Jane Billinghurst (Translator)"A WONDERFUL READ ... Christine's deep love for turtles comes through on each page."--CRAIG FOSTER, MY OCTOPUS TEACHER "Will appeal to anyone interested in the world around us."--DR. JANE GOODALL Filled with reverence and wonder for the natural world, this captivating book reveals the secret life of sea turtles, one of the oldest living creatures on Earth, and the story of one female scientist's fight t...

Tiny Miracles of the Sea: Exploring Manta Ray Pup Development

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Report copyright infringementby Hurmuz Ain (Author)"Small Wonders of the Ocean: Investigating Manta Beam Little guy Advancement" dives into the spellbinding and frequently baffling universe of one of the sea's most glorious animals, the manta beam. This book unwinds the complexities of manta beam little guy improvement, revealing insight into the entrancing excursion from origination to adolescent stages. The initial parts set the stage by acquainting perusers with the stunning life systems a...

New Jersey Beach Magazine Wildlife 2024: New Jersey Wildlife

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Report copyright infringementby Susan A. Wagner (Author) Number of Pages: 66 Dimensions: 0.17 x 10 x 8 IN Publication Date: August 23, 2024

Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves - Hardcover

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by Jaap de Roode (Author)The astonishing story of how animals use medicine and what it can teach us about healing ourselves Ages before the dawn of modern medicine, wild animals were harnessing the power of nature's pharmacy to heal themselves. Doctors by Nature reveals what researchers are now learning about the medical wonders of the animal world. In this visionary book, Jaap de Roode argues that we have underestimated the healing potential of nature for too long and shows how the study of ...

Breaking the Ice: Antarctica, climate change and me: Foreword by Professor Emily Shuckburgh

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Report copyright infringementby David Vaughan (Author), Emily Shuckburgh (Foreword by)Antarctica fascinates us with its awe-inspiring beauty, wildlife, and tales of the heroic age of exploration. Often described as the last frontier, this frozen continent is critical to all life on earth. Professor David Vaughan shares the excitement of his first trip to Antarctica, his passion for the ice, and his 40-year quest to solve a scientific conundrum - is the West Antarctic Ice Sheet stable and will...

Judy: The Greatest Chimpanzee That Ever Lived

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Report copyright infringementby Ralph Helfer (Author)My thoughts traverse the realm of understanding between humans and apes. Things which we once explored might perhaps need to be reopened to find a better way to communicate between man and animal. Many before us have tried to reach into the core of man/animal understanding. Few have succeeded. In my search for a 'Judy, ' I came to find out that apes, like people, were individuals. No two were alike. Also, no two had the same intellect. I re...

A Billion Butterflies: A Life in Climate and Chaos Theory

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Report copyright infringementby Jagadish Shukla (Author)The amazing true story of the man behind modern weather predictionConsider a world without weather prediction. How would we know when to evacuate communities ahead of fires or floods, or figure out what to wear tomorrow? Until 40 years ago, we couldn't forecast weather conditions beyond ten days. Renowned climate scientist Dr. Jagadish Shukla is largely to thank for modern weather forecasting. Born in rural India with no electricity, plu...

Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless

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Report copyright infringementby Tamara Dean (Author)Living mindfully with nature during a time of uncertainty In the midst of the environmental crises of the early twenty-first century, Tamara Dean sought a way to live lightly on the planet. Her quest drew her to a landscape unlike any other: the Driftless area of Wisconsin, a region untouched by glaciers, marked by steep hills and deeply carved valleys, capped with forests and laced with cold, spring-fed streams. There, she confronted, in w...

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Report copyright infringementby Lydia Millet (Author)Across more than a dozen acclaimed works of fiction, readers have become intimate with Lydia Millet's distinctive voice and sly wit. We Loved It All, her first nonfiction book, combines the precision of fact with the power of narrative to evoke our enmeshment with the more-than-human world.Emerging from Millet's quarter century of wildlife and climate advocacy, We Loved it All marries scenes from her life with moments of nearness to "the ot...