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  • Robert Bateman: The Boy Who Painted Nature

    Celebrated artist Robert Bateman is renowned internationally for bringing the natural  world to life on the canvas. A naturalist and painter from his youth, Robert has for decades used his recognition to shed light on environmental issues and advocate for animal welfare.Robert Bateman: The Boy Who Painted Nature is the story of how a young child achieved his dream of painting the world around him ... Read more

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  • Robert Bateman: The Boy Who Painted Nature Read-Along

    Celebrated artist Robert Bateman is renowned internationally for bringing the natural  world to life on the canvas. A naturalist and painter from his youth, Robert has for decades used his recognition to shed light on environmental issues and advocate for animal welfare.Robert Bateman: The Boy Who Painted Nature is the story of how a young child achieved his dream of painting the world around him ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Birds of Ontario (Vol. 1)

    This extensive and long overdue work of reference covers all of the bird species, more than 400 of which have been recorded in the province of Ontario. Birds of Ontario contains an identification and description of all species, with 344 outstanding colour plates. Anyone with even a casual interest in birds will find the colour plates and informative text of considerable interest. This volume ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tree

    A Life Story

    Only God can make a tree,” wrote Joyce Kilmer in one of the most celebrated of poems. In Tree: A Life Story, authors David Suzuki and Wayne Grady extend that celebration in a biography” of this extraordinary - and extraordinarily important - organism. A story that spans a millennium and includes a cast of millions but focuses on a single tree, a Douglas fir, Tree describes in poetic detail the ... Read more

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  • Life Sketches

    Full of never-before-seen illustrations, Life Sketches is an inspiring and elegant portrait of Robert Bateman’s life as an artist and of his belief that “Nature is an infinite source of reason, imagination, and invention.”From one of Canada’s most beloved painters comes an intimate, visually stunning memoir of the artist at work.Internationally acclaimed artist Robert Bateman has brought the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Rover Boys

    This is the true story of two great Canadians, Bristol Foster and Robert Bateman and how the world of 1957/58 changed them forever.

    “In 1957 two Americans, Jack Kerouac and Neil Cassady, became legends with the publication of On the Road, a fictional account of a drive across the United States that was less a journey than an opportunity for an intense and performative celebration of self.That same year two Canadians, one an aspiring artist of 23, the other a wildlife biologist just 22, went around the world by road, with nary ... Read more

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  • Caribou and the North

    A Shared Future

    "If the caribou die, then we die." These few words speak eloquently to the significanceof caribou for northern peoples. They were spoken not by a wise old chief, but by a 13-year-old Dene youth in 2007 during a hearing regarding uranium exploration on the caribou wintering grounds.Right now there is urgent, widespread concern about the future of the most centralof species: caribou. Caribou and the ... Read more

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  • Whitmans Tomb: Stories from the Pines

    These 13 innovative short stories that chart the mysteries of everyday life. Set in and around the New Jersey Pine Barrens, the stories of Whitmans Tomb examine an often chaotic world where people struggle to preserve whatever small truths life has granted them. With an uncanny sense for locating the extraordinary within the familiar, Robert Bateman has created an insightful collection of fiction ... Read more

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  • The Transformative Potential of Participatory Budgeting

    Creating an Ideal Democracy

    Series series Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy
    In this book, George Robert Bateman, Jr. presents a philosophical examination of the potential benefits of participatory budgeting (PB), with recommendations of how they might be realized.The work of social philosophers like Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey, Robert Putnam are studied to better understand the potential benefits and their effect on individuals and communities. Using social provisioning ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    In this eloquent collection, award-winning writers from the United States, Canada, the UK and Australia describe a personal encounter with the natural world that moved them, enhanced their understanding of nature, changed them, or was in some other way of prime importance to them. These essays describe childhood memories, everyday walks transformed into life-changing events, being in the grip of a ... Read more

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  • The Tree

    A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter

    by Colin Tudge ...
    A blend of history, science, philosophy, and environmentalism, The Tree is an engaging and elegant look at the life of the tree and what modern research tells us about their future.There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers, and a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • David Suzuki

    The Autobiography

    by David Suzuki ...
    David Suzuki’s autobiography limns a life dedicated to making the world a better place. The book expands on the early years covered in Metamorphosis and continues to the present, when, at age 70, Suzuki reflects on his entire life - and his hopes for the future. The book begins with his life-changing experience of racism interned in a World War II concentration camp, and goes on to discuss his ... Read more

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