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  • Swamp

    Nature and Culture

    Series series Earth
    Throughout history, swamps have been idealized and demonized, purged and protected. They are considered to be places of evil, pestilence and death, as well as diverse ecosystems teeming with life. They can be obstacles to development and remnants of fading cultures. Distillations of pure wildness, with menacing morasses and fragile wetlands, swamps have fascinated, terrified, frustrated and ... Leer más

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  • 100 Birds and How They Got Their Names

    de Diana Wells ...
    How did cranes come to symbolize matrimonial happiness? Why were magpies the only creatures that would not go inside Noah's Ark?Birds and bird imagery are integral parts of our language and culture. With her remarkable ability to dig up curious and captivating facts, Diana Wells hatches a treat for active birders and armchair enthusiasts alike. Meet the intrepid adventurers and naturalists who ... Leer más

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  • The Song of the Dodo

    Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

    de David Quammen ...
    “Compulsively readable—a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism.” —Bill McKibben, AudubonA brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope and far-reaching in its message, The Song of the Dodo is a crucial book in precarious times. Through personal observation, scientific theory, and history, David Quammen examines the mysteries of evolution and extinction and radically ... Leer más

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  • The Secret Token

    Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke

    de Andrew Lawler ...
    *National Bestseller*A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths--about race, gender, and immigration--exposed by the Lost Colony of RoanokeIn 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina. Chartered by Queen Elizabeth I, their colony was to establish England's first foothold ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Rain

    A Natural and Cultural History

    Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive.It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain.Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind

    The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind

    de David Quammen ...
    "Rich detail and vivid anecdotes of adventure....A treasure trove of exotic fact and hard thinking."—The New York Times Book Review, front pageFor millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150 big predators may only exist on the other side of glass barriers and ... Leer más

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  • Of a Feather

    A Brief History of American Birding

    Beyond Audubon: A quirky, "lively and illuminating" account of bird-watching's history, including "rivalries, controversies, [and] bad behavior" ( The Washington Post Book World).From the moment Europeans arrived in North America, they were awestruck by a continent awash with birds—great flocks of wild pigeons, prairies teeming with grouse, woodlands alive with brilliantly colored songbirds. Of a ... Leer más

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  • Ivory's Ghosts

    The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants

    "[A] tour de force examination of the history of ivory . . . and the demise of the elephant and human decency in the process of this unholy quest." — The Huffington PostPraised for the nuance and sensitivity with which it approaches one of the most fraught conservation issues we face today, John Frederick Walker's Ivory's Ghosts tells the astonishing story of the power of ivory through the ages, ... Leer más

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  • History of the World in 100 Animals

    de Simon Barnes ...
    'So, so good! ... More gems than a pirate's chest ... science, art, history, culture - it's epic and mammoth, a repository of all our truths through their lives' Chris PackhamA powerful and fascinating insight into the 100 animals - from the blue whale to the mosquito - that have had the biggest influence on humanity through the ages.We are not alone. We are not alone on the planet. We are not ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Sound of the Sea

    Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans

    **A Science Friday Best Science Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearA Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the YearA Tampa Bay Times Best Book of the YearA stunning history of seashells and the animals that make them that "will have you marveling at nature…Barnett’s account remarkably spirals out, appropriately, to become a much larger story about the ... Leer más

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  • Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?

    The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization

    de Andrew Lawler ...
    Veteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a “fascinating and delightful…globetrotting tour” (Wall Street Journal) with the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization—the chicken.In a masterful combination of historical sleuthing and journalistic adventure, veteran reporter Andrew Lawler “opens a window on civilization, evolution, capitalism, and ethics” (New York) with a ... Leer más

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  • The Human Shore

    Seacoasts in History

    Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the sea has begun to take on new and potentially catastrophic dimensions. The latest generation of coastal dwellers lives largely in ignorance of the history of those ... Leer más

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