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  • Forest Under Story

    Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest

    Edited by Frederick J. Swanson, Nathaniel Brodie, Charles Goodrich ...
    Series series Ruth Kirk Book Fund
    Two kinds of long-term research are taking place at the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, a renowned research facility in the temperate rain forest of the Oregon Cascades. Here, scientists investigate the ecosystem’s trees, wildlife, water, and nutrients with an eye toward understanding change over varying timescales up to two hundred years or more. And writers from both literary and scientific ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Road Ecology

    Science and Solutions

    by Richard T.T. Forman, Daniel Sperling, John A. Bissonette, Anthony P. Clevenger, Carol D. Cutshall, Virginia H. Dale, Lenore Fahrig, Robert L. France, Charles R. Goldman, Kevin Heanue, Julia Jones, Frederick Swanson, Thomas Turrentine, Thomas C. Winter ...
    A central goal of transportation is the delivery of safe and efficient services with minimal environmental impact. In practice, though, human mobility has flourished while nature has suffered. Awareness of the environmental impacts of roads is increasing, yet information remains scarce for those interested in studying, understanding, or minimizing the ecological effects of roads and vehicles.Road ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Charles Darwin, the Copley Medal, and the Rise of Naturalism, 1862-1864, Second Edition

    by Marsha Driscoll, Elizabeth E. Dunn, Dann Siems, B. Kamran Swanson ...
    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    The 1859 publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species evoked a spectrum of responses, from fervent endorsement to vehement opposition, because of the theory of natural selection’s implications for Western theological and cultural orthodoxy. During the 1860 Oxford gathering of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Thomas Huxley and Samuel Wilberforce engaged in a ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    A new edition of Henry David Thoreau's classic 1849 travel journal, a dizzying journey not just through nature but through religion, poetry, and history. A must-read for transcendentalists and fans of Thoreau's writing. ... Read more

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  • The Cabaret of Plants

    Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination

    by Richard Mabey ...
    "Highly entertaining…Mabey gets us to look at life from the plants’ point of view." —Constance Casey, New York TimesThe Cabaret of Plants is a masterful, globe-trotting exploration of the relationship between humans and the kingdom of plants by the renowned naturalist Richard Mabey.A rich, sweeping, and wonderfully readable work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant ... Read more

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  • Talking with Nature and Journey into Nature

    A Michael Roads Reader

    by Michael Roads ...
    Michael Roads had always been close to nature, but when a river started talking to him, he began to doubt his sanity. A series of encounters with the natural world followed, and Roads began to listen and let go. He found himself led stage by stage to a final wisdom, remarkable in its simplicity and in its message of hope for humanity. This book, a bind-up of his two best-known works, beautifully ... Read more

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  • Fifty Shades Trilogy by E.L. James (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of the Fifty Shades trilogy with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of the Fifty Shades trilogy by E. L. James, which has topped bestseller lists all around the world. It tells the story of Ana, a college student, who falls for successful businessman Christian Grey and finds herself swept up in his dark ... Read more

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  • The Hour of Land

    A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

    by Terry Tempest Williams ...
    An ode to our national parks, timed for the centennial, by the beloved author of When Women Were Birds.Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearAmerica's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • Lonely Land

    by Sigurd F. Olson ...
    The author of The Singing Wilderness and Listening Point begins this grand adventure: “There are few places left on the North American continent where men can still see the country as it was before Europeans came and know some of the challenges and freedoms of those who saw it first, but in the Canadian Northwest it can still be done. A thousand miles northwest of Lake Superior are great free ... Read more

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  • Animals Strike Curious Poses

    by Elena Passarello ...
    “It might be the best book on animals I’ve ever read. It's also the only one that's made me laugh out loud.” —Helen Macdonald, The New York Times Book ReviewBeginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the sixteen essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. ... Read more

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    Includes a new introduction and the author’s final revisions. Originally published by NAL Plume in 1982. ... Read more

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