2021-09-14T07:00:00Z Step Out of Your Car and Right into Nature!
New England's Roadside Ecology guides you through 30 spectacular natural sites, all within an easy walk from the road. The sites include the forests, wetlands, alpines, dunes, and geologic ecosystems that make up New England.
Author Tom Wessels is the perfect guide. Each entry starts wi...[Read More]
2012-10-25T07:00:00Z The sixth title in the bestselling Collins Guide series, this book covers the fungi of the British Isles, with considerable relevance for Europe and the wider temperate world.
Leading mycological artists have been specially commissioned to ensure accurate, detailed illustrations. Where possible, species are described and illustrated on the same page, with...[Read More]
2017-11-14T08:00:00Z Sol?cito como una ardilla, leal como un cuervo, compasivo como un rat?n de campo, triste como una cierva... ?Pueden los animales tener tales emociones? ?Cabe una vida emocional tan vasta que no est? s?lo reservada a los seres humanos? Mediante los m?s recientes conocimientos cient?ficos, ilustrados con observaciones y experiencias personales con animales, ...[Read More]
2021-05-25T07:00:00Z Smokescreen cuts through years of misunderstanding and misdirection to make an impassioned, evidence-based argument for a new era of forest management for the sake of the planet and the human race. Natural fires are as essential as sun and rain in fire-adapted forests, but as humans encroach on wild spaces, fear, arrogance, and greed have shaped the way that ...[Read More]
2019-07-22T07:00:00Z Para Stefano Mancuso, o verdadeiro potencial para a solu??o dos problemas que nos afligem est? nas plantas. Sua autonomia energ?tica, ligada a uma arquitetura cooperativa, distribu?da, sem centros de comando, faz delas seres vivos capazes de resistir a repetidos eventos catastr?ficos e de se adaptar com rapidez a enormes mudan?as ambientais. Ao revelar a capacidade ...[Read More]
2013-03-21T07:00:00Z A special edition of one of the greatest masterpieces of the environmental movement--plus original photographs and other writings on environmental ethics
Since his death in 1948, Aldo Leopold has been increasingly recognized as one of the indispensable figures of American environmentalism. A pioneering forester, sportsman, wildlife manager, and eco...[Read More]
2021-05-24T07:00:00Z As we face an ever-more-fragmented world, What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? demands a return to the force of lineage--to spiritual, social, and ecological connections across time. It sparks a myriad of ageless-yet-urgent questions: How will I be remembered? What traditions do I want to continue? What cycles do I want to break? What new systems do I
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2021-07-20T07:00:00Z 'Inspiring. [...] Crammed with lively interviews and grounded examples' Ashish Kothari, founder of Kalpavriksh
Permaculture is an environmental movement that makes us reevaluate what it means to be sustainable. Through innovative agriculture and settlement design, the movement creates new communities that are harmonious with nature. It has grown from humb...[Read More]
2010-09-21T07:00:00Z "Eels [is] more than a fish book. It is an impassioned defense of nature itself. . . . [Prosek] passes on the truth that the often disdained eel, like all migratory fish, is vital and mysterious and worthy of our full effort to bring it back." -- New York Times Book Review
"A wonderful account of far-flung travels in pursuit of ...[Read More]
2013-04-15T07:00:00Z If you have trouble distinguishing chickweed from stitchwort, then this is the ebook for you. Designed as a beginner's guide, but also handy for a more experienced naturalist, What's That Flower? is an indispensable pocket guide that gives you the 150 most common and interesting species and shows you how to tell them apart.
2021-10-14T07:00:00Z A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.
Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plai...[Read More]
2011-05-24T07:00:00Z "You'llnever think of bees, their keepers, or the fruits (and nuts) of their laborsthe same way again." --Trevor Corson, author of The Secret Life of Lobsters
Award-winning journalist Hannah Nordhaus tells the remarkable story of John Miller, one of America's foremost migratory beekeepers, and the myriad and mysterious epidemics threatening American honey...[Read More]
