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  • Under Prairie Skies

    The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains

    par C. Thomas Shay ...
    In Under Prairie Skies, C. Thomas Shay asks and answers the question, What role did plants play in the lives of early inhabitants of the northern Great Plains? Since humans arrived at the end of the Ice Age, plants played important roles as Native peoples learned which were valuable foods, which held medicinal value, and which were best for crafts.Incorporating Native voices, ethnobotanical ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Beaverland

    How One Weird Rodent Made America

    par Leila Philip ...
    An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver—the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future.From award-winning writer Leila Philip, Beaverland is a masterful work of narrative science writing, a book that highlights, though history and contemporary storytelling, how this weird rodent plays an oversized role in American ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Empire of the Beetle

    How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests

    Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America. An insect the size of a rice kernel eventually killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees from Alaska to New Mexico. Often appearing in masses larger than schools of killer whales, the beetles engineered one of the world's greatest forest die-offs ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Ancient Places

    People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest

    par Jack Nisbet ...
    From a master of regional and natural history comes a collection of essays that reveals how the Pacific Northwest shaped the people—and how the people shaped the landDrawing on a range of personal research, author Jack Nisbet engages some of the iconic images in Northwest history: from fossil riches to ice age floods; from the Willamette Meteorite to the 1872 Earthquake; from up-and-down mining ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Prairie

    A Natural History

    par Candace Savage ...
    Thorough, detailed, and scientifically up-to-date, Prairies: A Natural History provides a comprehensive nontechnical guide to the biology and ecology of the prairies, or the Great Plains grasslands of North America, offering a view of the past, a vision for the future, and a clear focus on the present. With a total area of more than 3.5 million square kilometers (500,000 in Canada and the ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Quetico

    Near to Nature's Heart

    par Jon Nelson ...
    Quetico Park in northwestern Ontario celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2009. Long-recognized as a gem among parks, Quetico contains some of the largest stands of old-growth red and white pine in Canada , as well as a diversity of fascinating lichens, carnivorous plants in specialized habitats.The author presents an insightful look into Quetico's natural history as he examines the adapations that ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Trees in Trouble

    Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change

    par Daniel Mathews ...
    A troubling story of the devastating and compounding effects of climate change in the Western and Rocky Mountain states, told through in–depth reportage and conversations with ecologists, professional forest managers, park service scientists, burn boss, activists, and more.Climate change manifests in many ways across North America, but few as dramatic as the attacks on our western pine forests. In ... En savoir plus

    $18.39 CAD

  • Brave the Wild River

    The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

    **Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for History/BiographyWinner of the Reading the West Book Award in Memoir/BiographySelected as a Southwest Book of the Year Top PickRachel Carson Environment Book Award for Reporting on the Environment, Honorable MentionA Booklist Top of the List Winner for Nonfiction in 2023A New Yorker Best Book of 2023"Thrilling, expertly paced, warmhearted." —Peter ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Once and Future Giants

    What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals

    par Sharon Levy ...
    Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and foraged on the marsh land now buried beneath Chicago's streets. Then, just as the first humans reached the Americas, these Ice Age giants vanished forever. In Once and Future Giants, science writer Sharon Levy ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD

  • Light from Ancient Campfires: Archaeological Evidence for Native Lifeways on the Northern Plains

    Archaeological Evidence for Native Lifeways on the Northern Plains

    par Trevor R. Peck ...
    Light from Ancient Campfires is the first book in twenty years to gather together a comprehensive prehistoric archaeological record of the Northern Plains First Nations. In this important examination of the region's earliest inhabitants, author Trevor R. Peck reviews the many changes of interpretation that have occurred in relevant literature published during the last two decades. Beginning with ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Flintknapping

    Making and Understanding Stone Tools

    Flintknapping is an ancient craft enjoying a resurgence of interest among both amateur and professional students of prehistoric cultures. John C. Whitaker's bestselling guide is a detailed handbook on flintknapping, written from the archaeological perspective of interpreting stone tools as well as making them.Flintknapping contains detailed, practical information on making stone tools. Whittaker ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • Beaver, Bison, Horse

    The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains

    As one of North America’s most unique ecologies, the Great Plains have fostered symbiotic relationships between humans and animals for millennia. Among these, Indigenous bonds to beavers, bison, and horses have been the subject of numerous anthropological and scientific surveys.Beaver, Bison, Horse is an interdisciplinary account that centers on Indigenous knowledge and tradition. R. Grace Morgan ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD