Nature and the natural world: general interest Books
Awake in the Wild A Field Guide to Nature Meditation: 52 Mindfulness Practices for Joy, Wisdom and Wonder
£17.58
Monday Creek Publishing Twin Flame Love: Soulmate Poetry
£14.99
Meow Library Crime and Punishment (For Your Cat)
£19.94
Meow Library Thus Spoke Zarathustra (For Your Cat)
£20.54
HarperCollins Publishers iSPY My First Birds
Book SynopsisThe amazing new i-SPY sticker book for kids age 3+Get little ones started on their very own spotting adventure with My First i-SPY sticker books! With more than 100 things to spot from swifts to sparrows, ducks to gulls, children will love learning about the brilliant birds found in the UK.Each colourful, interactive page there are points to collect, fun facts to keep young children entertained, plus stickers to add to each spot. At the end of the book, send off for your super-spotter progress poster!For even more fun check out:i-SPY My First Wildlife (ISBN 9780008529802)i-SPY My First Farm (ISBN 9780008529796)i-SPY My First Things that go (ISBN 9780008529819)i-SPY My First Seaside (ISBN 9780008562670)i-SPY My First Journey (ISBN 9780008562663)i-SPY My First Park (ISBN 9780008562649)Trade Review“A fun, interactive way to encourage curious children to learn about the world around them.” – Parents In touch
£8.80
Penguin Putnam Inc Upstream
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£14.40
The Natural History Museum Colour and Vision Through the Eyes of Nature 2016
Book SynopsisA highly readable guide to the evolution of colour and vision in the natural world.
£11.69
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Effin Birds Playing Cards
Book SynopsisThese irreverent playing card decks feature fowl-beaked statements from some of the rudest birds on earth, accompanied by Audubon bird illustrations—from the author of Effin' Birds.Bird identification has a grand and noble tradition—but you won't find that in Effin' Birds Playing Cards, which pairs elegant illustrations with dirty sayings, witty insults, and a crapload of poop jokes. Based on the laugh-out-loud success of Effin' Birds, this pair of playing card decks includes:two rude and ridiculous card decks, perfect for playing your favorite card game or just as a pick-me-up108 cards featuring glorious full-color Audubon portraits and black and white sketches and engravings of birds saying the things that should not be saida simple and snarky booklet offering the rules for classic card gamesBirders, their friends and families, and anyone who relishes irreverent mashup hu
£14.44
Random House USA Inc Sibley Tree Identification Flashcards
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated deck of 102 flashcards for tree lovers from leading naturalist David Allen Sibley.With full-color paintings and descriptive text from The Sibley Guide to Trees to of North America, this set includes 100 easy-to-reference flashcards housed in one handsome pull-drawer gift box, plus a title card and information card for general identification success. Each card featuresprecise illustrations showing the tree’s bark, leaves, twigs, buds, fruit, and flowersthe common and Latin names for each treegeneral description for easy identificationa map with notes about common areas where each tree can be found. With the cards organized by region, you'll travel from the Scotch Pine in the Northeast to the Joshua Tree in the Southwest and discover the beautiful trees of North America.
£21.59
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Paper Boat
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£32.00
Princeton University Press The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs
Book SynopsisThe best-selling Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs remains the must-have book for anyone who loves dinosaurs, from amateur enthusiasts to professional paleontologists. Now extensively revised and expanded, this dazzlingly illustrated large-format edition features some 100 new dinosaur species and 200 new and updated illustrations, bringing readersTrade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011 One of the Library Journal's Best Reference (Print, Electronic, and Free Reference Resources) in the Sciences category, for 2009 Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award in Single Volume Reference/Science, Association of American Publishers "Mr. Paul's book takes up the task of bringing readers up to date with the current view of these animals, adding a spate of new species that have popped up since its initial publication in 2010... But Mr. Paul's book is more than simply a lavishly illustrated compendium... Name a dinosaur and you're likely to find it in [The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs, Second Edition], detailed with vital statistics about size, where it lived and how much of the skeleton is known. You'll also find skeletal diagrams, fleshed-out profiles and classic pieces of Mr. Paul's distinctive art... [This book shows] the unexpected variety that life is capable of and raise[s] the question of what the next 235 million years will bring."--Brian Switek, Wall Street Journal "You'll never need to decide whether that massive beast lumbering through your front yard is Chasmosaurus belli or C. sternbergi, but if you did, this would be a handy book to have on your windowsill... [A]s dinosaur guidebooks go, this is as carefully assembled and authoritative as they come."--Laurence A. Marschall, Natural History "Artist and researcher Gregory S. Paul describes hundreds of dinosaur species in this richly illustrated compendium. Learn how beasts ranging from Allosaurus to zuniceratops grew, moved and reproduced--and how they eventually went extinct."--Scientific American "Given the vibrant state of dinosaur science, any book about them is going to be out-of-date by the time it hits shelves, but Gregory Paul's new The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs is a useful yearbook of dinosaurs which includes a variety of rarely-mentioned species... Indeed, Paul is to be credited for pulling so much information together into one volume, as well as for illustrating so many skeletons (some dinosaurs no doubt discovered while the book was in press.)"--Brian Switek, SmithsonianMag.com's Dinosaur Tracking blog "The publication of Gregory Paul's The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs is cause for celebration for all who share a fascination with this diverse family of animals. Paul's field guide is (perhaps) the most comprehensive one-volume guide to what we know about 735 species of dinosaurs. The book includes an outstanding ... introduction summarizing the history of dinosaurs research, evolution, biology, energetics, behavior, and distribution. It includes a discussion of the most arresting feature of dinosaurs--their great size... The heart of the book is a richly illustrated field guide which is organized like any of the field guides that we have become accustomed to. The species are presented in phylogenic order and meticulously and beautifully illustrated following the current state of our knowledge of posture and shape."--Wayne Mones, AudubonMagazine.org blog "World-renowned dinosaur illustrator and researcher Gregory Paul provides comprehensive visual and textual coverage of the dinosaurs in this lavishly illustrated field guide. Incorporating the latest discoveries and research that are radically transforming what we know about dinosaurs, this book is distinguished both by its scientific accuracy and the quality and quantity of its illustrations... The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs is a must-have for anyone who loves dinosaurs, from the amateur enthusiast to the professional paleontologist."--Prehistoric Times "Lavishly filled with fossil forms and drawn interpretations of their outward appearance, the guide covers the entire spectrum of dinosaur species. The color images of some of the rock stars of the Age of Dinosaurs, from T-Rex to Triceratops, will enthrall any youngster with a yen for these ancient beasts... Paul has revitalized and re-invented the depiction of dinosaurs in recent decades, and the book brings the breadth of their lost world to today's readers."--Dan Vergano, USA Today "This latest book by Paul, a leading dinosaur researcher and illustrator, is an excellent accompaniment to your standard dinosaur encyclopedias. Its strength lies in the inclusion of over 735 species, along with information on how complete the fossil skeletons representing them are, anatomical characteristics, distribution of fossil finds, the animal's probable habitat, and what scientists believe about its behavior... [B]eautifully illustrated."--Library Journal "A fantastic new book on dinosaurs... Paul is an accomplished illustrator and expert in all things dinosaurian. The first 60 pages of the book provide an introduction to dinosaur biology, morphology and techniques for studying these fossils. The information on how the limbs of dinosaurs articulated is particularly intriguing... His fine illustrations provide nice accents to the text. The meat of the book is the coverage of individual dinosaur species."--Herb Wilson, Portland Press Herald "This book ... shows off Paul at his artistic and conceptual finest, as it is replete with all the latest knowledge of dinosaurian knowledge... [I]t's an excellent book, one of the best ever, and one which I wish was around in my youth, when all I had were dense textbooks."--Dan Schneider, Blogcritics.org "There's no doubt that Paul has done a tremendous job with The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs and it's quite impressive. If you're serious about dinosaurs and want a meticulously researched guide, this is certainly the book for you."--Jonathan Liu, Wired.com's GeekDad blog "Paul, an eminent authority on dinosaur anatomy and a leading dinosaur illustrator, presents detailed information on all dinosaur groups... The author, well known for his detailed skeletal diagrams and ability to interpret dinosaur biomechanics, displays his formidable skills throughout this book... Serious dinosaur scholars will devour this book; it is a major contribution to the field."--Choice "Reproduced and copied time and again, Paul's interpretation of dinosaur anatomy has found for years a permanent home on both the popular and scientific page. Paul's latest publication, The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs, is the collection of these skeletal reconstructions that the dinosaur-loving community has been waiting for. If nothing else, it is this collection that makes the book worthy of ownership."--Richard A. Kissel, American Paleontologist "I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It represents the most comprehensive collection of scientifically informed dinosaur anatomical illustrations to date, making it a valuable desk reference. One can imagine taking a trip back to the Mesozoic and using this guide to identify these awe-inspiring creatures. This volume should find a proud place on the bookshelf of both amateurs and professionals."--Christopher R. Noto, Quarterly Review of Biology "I am certain that all ages of dinosaur fans will love this book."--Dan Tallman, South Dakota Bird Notes "Greg Paul is an independent researcher who specialises on dinosaurs; he's well known for his popular articles, books and technical papers, but in particular for his hugely influential artwork. Paul's most recent book--the 2010 The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs--is, simply put, the ultimate Greg Paul book. It's a large, heavily illustrated catalogue of over 400 reconstructed skeletons, accompanied throughout with life restorations and brief chunks of text that present data on the world's Mesozoic dinosaur species."--Darren Naish, ScientificAmerican.com's Tetrapod Zoology blog "This engaging volume is informed by the latest research, much of it from China. In a fully revised introduction, Paul explores his subject from head to tail, while the passage 'If Dinosaurs Had Survived' is sure to leave readers misty-eyed."--New ScientistTable of ContentsPreface 6 Acknowledgments 6 Introduction History of Discovery and Research 9 What Is a Dinosaur? 13 Dating Dinosaurs 14 The Evolution of Dinosaurs and Their World 15 Extinction 23 After the Age of Dinosaurs 24 Biology 25 General Anatomy 25 Skin, Feathers, and Color 33 Respiration and Circulation 34 Digestive Tracts 36 Senses 36 Vocalization 38 Disease and Pathologies 38 Behavior 39 Brains, Nerves, and Intelligence 39 Social Activities 39 Reproduction 40 Growth 45 Energetics 47 Gigantism 49 Mesozoic Oxygen 52 The Evolution-and Loss-of Avian Flight 53 Dinosaur Safari 54 If Dinosaurs Had Survived 55 Dinosaur Conservation 55 Where Dinosaurs Are Found 56 Using the Group and Species Descriptions 62 Group and Species Accounts Dinosaurs 69 Theropods 69 Sauropodomorphs 182 Ornithischians 239 Additional Reading 350 Index: Dinosaur Taxa 351 Formations 358
£999.99
Rowman & Littlefield Shattered Consensus The True State of Global
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewShattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming convincingly demonstrates the remarkable differences between what we commonly read about global warming and what is really happening. ... Anyone who reads this book will come away with a new appreciation of the complexity of the climate issue and will question the need for expensive policies that are likely to have little or no detectable effect on the planet's temperature. * Science Daily *Eleven essayists skillfully contradict and disassemble many false assumptions within the science of global warming as well as methodology used to warn world governments of catastrophic futures. Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: False Impressions: Misleading Statements, Glaring Omissions, and Erroneous Conclusions in the IPCC's Summary for Policymakers, 2001 Chapter 2 The Mann et al. Northern Hemisphere "Hockey Stick" Climate Index: A Tale of Due Diligence Chapter 3 Observational Surface Temperature Records versus Model Predictions Chapter 4 Temperature Changes In the Bulk Atmosphere: Beyond the IPCC Chapter 5 Severe Weather, Natural Disasters and Global Change Chapter 6 Precipitation and the "Enhanced" Hydrologic Cycle Chapter 7 Predictive Skill of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation and Related Atmospheric Teleconnections Chapter 8 Climate Change and Human Health Chapter 9 The Impact of Solar Variability on the Earth's Climate Chapter 10 Limitations of Computer Predictions of the Effects of Carbon Dioxide on Global Climate
£45.60
Quarry Books Crocheting the National Parks
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£16.14
Workman Publishing 97 Ways to Make a Cat Like You
Book SynopsisFrom the publisher of B. Kliban’s Cat, All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat, and Bad Cat, comes a new book that answers the question all cat lovers ask: How do I make my cat like me?97 Ways to Make a Cat Like You is the perfect interactive guide to these mysterious, fickle, seemingly aloof—yet really, just particular—pets. Paired with a full-color photograph of friendly, extroverted, happy cats (in case you’ve forgotten what a cat looks like when he “likes” you), the 97 inspired, occasionally silly but always behaviorally-based tips and tricks prove that when a cat is treated right, he or she will respond in kind. Within reason. There’s the “Eye on the Ball”—record a tennis match or a Ping-Pong game on TV to play back for your cat when he needs a bit of exercise. “Cat Burrito”—wrap your cat in a towel, burrito-style, which is particularly good for anxious pets or trips to the vet. The “Boing, Boing!”—wind pipe cleaners around a pencil in a spiral shape to create springs. Carefully slide off the pencil so the spirals go “boing” when pressed. The classic “Tickle, Tickle”—tickle Kitty under her chin and softly say “gitchy, gitchy, gitchy” in your highest-pitched voice. And for the cat owner willing to go the distance, the “There’s No Business Like Show Business”—practice your best Ethel Merman by belting out favorite show tunes for your cat. Kitty won’t care if you’re off-key and she’ll enjoy the stimulation.
£8.99
Workman Publishing Adventure Cats
Book SynopsisJust when you thought you knew all there was to know about cats comes the ultimate—and unexpected—guide to taking your cat into the wild. Here are cats walking on a leash. Cats hiking on a leash. Cats tramping through snow. Cats camping. Cats kayaking, canoeing, even surfing—yes, cats who love water. When animal writer and active hiker Laura Moss couldn’t find an online resource for hitting the trail with her cat, she created one. AdventureCats.org took off like wildfire, with attention from Wired, the Huffington Post, Outside magazine, BuzzFeed, and much more. Now, the book Adventure Cats—a collection of jaw-dropping photographs, inspiring stories of real-life cats, and all the how-to a cat owner needs—will take readers and their cats well beyond the backyard. Learn how to leash-train a cat. What to do if you encounter wildlife on the trail. Plus, winter safety tips, and how to bring a little bit of the outdoors to an indoor cat. The stories themselves are catnip for animal lovers, from Nanakuli, the one-eyed cat who hangs ten; to Georgie, a four-year-old gray tabby who lives on a sailboat; to Quandary, who not only insists on hiking with her family but also teaches them a valuable lesson: When you follow your cat’s natural tendency to wander, you experience the outdoors at a slower, richer pace. This book will delight every cat person, regardless of whether their pet is inclined to adventure. (Take the quiz at the beginning of the book to find out!) Trade Review“An excellent training guide for any level of outdoor fun.” — Library Journal “Simply the most extraordinary book about cats that I have read in decades.” —Frank McMillan, Director of Animal Well-Being Studies at Best Friends Animal Society“An excellent training guide for any level of outdoor fun.” — Library Journal “Simply the most extraordinary book about cats that I have read in decades.” —Frank McMillan, Director of Animal Well-Being Studies at Best Friends Animal Society “The purr-fect book doesn't exi... ??” - @outsidemagazine“An excellent training guide for any level of outdoor fun.” — Library Journal “Simply the most extraordinary book about cats that I have read in decades.” —Frank McMillan, Director of Animal Well-Being Studies at Best Friends Animal Society “The purr-fect book doesn't exi... ” - @outsidemagazine
£12.34
Running Press,U.S. This Is a Book for People Who Love the National
Book Synopsis Smart, short, and irresistibly illustrated, This Is a Book for People Who Love National Parks is a park-by-park celebration of the American outdoors. For devoted park-goers and casual campers alike, this charming guide is nothing short of a celebration of America''s natural wonders. An introduction to the storied history of the Parks Service is paired with engaging profiles of each of the sixty-one National Parks, from Acadia to Zion and everything in between. Quirky facts and key dates are woven throughout, while refreshingly modern illustrations capture the iconic features of each majestic setting. Deeply researched but not too serious, This Is a Book for People Who Love National Parks is an essential addition to every park lover''s field library.
£11.39
Rizzoli International Publications Americas National Historic Trails
£14.98
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Drinking the Rain
Book SynopsisA memoir of spiritualism and self-discovery from the acclaimed, award-winning authorAt fifty, Alix Kates Shulman, author of the celebrated feminist novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, left a city life dense with political activism, family and literary community, and went to live alone on an island off the coast of Maine. On a windswept beach, in a cabin with no plumbing, power, or telephone, she found that she was learning to live all over again. In this luminous, spirited book, she charts her subsequent path as she learned not simply the joys of meditative solitude, but to integrate her new awareness into a busy, committed, even hectic mainland life.A ten-year voyage of discovery . . . Shulman''s honesty and sense of inquiry carry us with her all the way--could even, if we were willing, change our lives. San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle
£23.14
Turner Publishing Company Flyball Racing The Dog Sport for Everyone
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£14.18
Workman Publishing The HaveMore Plan
Book SynopsisThis classic guide to homesteading is based on solid, practical techniques that remain useful to everyone who wants to learn country skills and increase their self-sufficiency. By turns philosophical and instructional, Ed and Carolyn Robinson share their pioneering approach to efficiently growing vegetables, raising livestock, and building farm structures. Since it was first published in 1943, The Have-More Plan has inspired generations of homesteaders to make the most out of whatever land they have available.
£11.90
University of Regina Press Cry Wolf Inquest into the True Nature of a
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£12.99
UEA Publishing Project The Barley Bird Notes on the Suffolk Nightingale
Book SynopsisFirst prize winner in the Nature and Placecategory of the 2010 EDP/Jarrolds East Anglian Book AwardsSo vividly written you can almost hear the song of these rare birds - Kate Kellaway, The GuardianRichard Mabey, described as Britain''s greatest living nature writer, explores the nightingale''s links with Suffolk culture and landscape, and traces the bird's course through myth, lore and tradition. He plumbs his subject for its fascinating literary and historical references, and opens the reader''s ears to the bird itself and its extraordinary song, a hymn to survival. New images by Derrick Greaves accompany the text.Trade Review"So vividly written you can almost hear the song of these rare birds" - Kate Kellaway, The Guardian
£18.00
LEGARE STREET PR Biologia CentraliAmericana or Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America Volume Atlas Volume 4
£23.36
Forgotten Books Provincial Names and Folk Lore of British Birds Classic Reprint
£20.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Gathering Place
Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024''Deeply poetic.'' CAROLINE LUCAS MP''A masterpiece of storytelling.'' NICK MAYHEW-SMITH''Mary Colwell is a candle of open-minded curiosity.'' PATRICK LAURIE''An unforgettable story.'' MICHAEL MCCARTHY-Mary Colwell makes a solo pilgrimage along the Camino Francés winding through forests, mountains, farmland, industrial sprawls and places of worship. Pilgrims have always walked in times of upheaval, pitching themselves against weather, hunger, thirst and sometimes pain as they tread the paths their ancestors once followed. In the winter of 2020, author, nature campaigner and veteran solo walker Mary Colwell walked a 500-mile pilgrimage along the Camino Francés in northern Spain. In a typical year, many thousands of people walk this route, but Mary had it virtually to herself at a unique historical moment a time of profound political cTrade ReviewA compelling storyteller, Colwell’s 500-mile pilgrimage is rich with memories, myths and associations from the past. In this deeply poetic journey into an inner and an outer landscape, the natural world is often her only companion, powerfully evoked and brilliantly observed. * Caroline Lucas MP *In The Gathering Place, Mary Colwell is a candle of open-minded curiosity, which reminds us that while clear answers are hard to come by, we should never stop asking questions. * Patrick Laurie, author of Native *An unforgettable story of heroes and villains, kindness and horror, holiness and wickedness, miracles, bizarre legends, lost souls, and eventually, solace in a troubled world. Not to be missed. * Michael McCarthy, author of The Moth Snowstorm *Mary Colwell brings an inspiring sense of openness, courage, humility and loving curiosity to her daily encounters with the natural and human worlds. * Jeremy Mynott, author of The Consolation of Nature *A rich tapestry full of myth, wisdom and humility, accompanied always by evocative musings on the natural world … enveloped in hope and sprinkled with humour. -- Tiffany Francis-Baker * Resurgence *A masterpiece of storytelling on a journey that will move hearts and minds alike. * Nick Mayhew-Smith, author of Britain’s Pilgrim Places *Beautifully written. * Kate Green, Country Life *The Gathering Place is much more than a travel book down a well-trodden path. It is a brutally honest examination of why we are as we are, and just how important the cultural landmarks of our lives have become in a world of anxiety and change. Brave, tough and surprisingly funny, this is a witness statement from one of the UK's great campaigners. * Roger Morgan-Grenville, author of Liquid Gold *Amazing. * Tim Birkhead, author of Birds and Us *The Gathering Place is a beautiful thing: like a warm crystal; full of light, reflecting and refracting and celebrating everything both inside and outside the book. * Charles Foster, author of Being a Human *An enjoyable account of a popular pilgrimage in unusual circumstances. -- Philip Welsh * Church Times *Table of ContentsPrologue Chapter 1 - Wooden Staffs and Mountains Chapter 2 - Moors and Myths Chapter 3 - Witches and Forests Chapter 4 - To The Stars Chapter 5 - The Kindness of Strangers Chapter 6 - Wine and Wonder Chapter 7 - War and Peace Chapter 8 - The Unravelling Road Chapter 9 - Stones and Snow Chapter 10 - Ultreïa Epilogue Acknowledgements References and Further Reading Index
£25.20
Edinburgh University Press Transscalar Critique
Book SynopsisContemporary African American writing negotiates the twinned crises of anthropogenic climate change and anti-Black violence by thinking in new ways about scaleTrade Review"Henry Ivry's Transscalar Critique offers a penetrating response to the Anthropocene's problem of scale. Necessary and urgent,Transscalar Critique centres Black Studies as a vital precursor to contemporary examinations of scale. In doing so it provides an essential corrective to the study of the Anthropocene in literature.?" -David Farrier, University of Edinburgh
£80.75
Read Books Dogs Of All Nations
£16.99
Abrams Guys Can Be Cat Ladies Too
Book SynopsisMixes the funny with the feline . . . Showalter makes us laugh while revealing that he's a big softie who cares a lot about the future of felines. CatsterMichael Showalter's Guys Can Be Cat Ladies Too is the hilarious all-access guide to help a man comprehend, appreciate, and bond with the felines in his life. They say dogs are a man's best friend. True! But what if that man's girlfriend/boyfriend, wife/husband, or mother-in-law has a cat? Is that the end for him? Is he resigned to an eternity of estrangement from this furry creature with which he shares his life partner, his favorite chair, and his sock drawer? Showalter offers hope for men everywhere in their quest to understand and love cats.In this intimate portrait of one man's love for cats, you will learn the answers to burning questions such as: Why are they all aloof and weird and stuff?; They hate me, right?; and Is it true that they have nine lives? Armed with these and countless
£999.99
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Rhino Keepers Struggle for Survival
Book SynopsisFew animals face as violent, as well organised, and as determined an enemy as the world's rhinos. Across the continent, rhinos are being slaughtered on a daily basis and approximately 5,000 black rhinos and 21,000 white rhinos are all that prevent Africa's rhinos from extinction.
£22.46
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Big Pharma Dirty Lies Busy Bees and Eco Activists
Book SynopsisThis exciting third book from David Bristow covers everything environmental in South Africa that you always wanted to know about. Subjects including pesticides, poaching, petrol, plastics, population, pollination, pollution, pods, politics, pharmaceuticals, people, prophets, power and poop.
£15.15
Chronicle Books You Need More Sleep
Book SynopsisOur feline friends have spent eons observing, napping, pondering, napping, and taking notes about the human condition. In between naps, they''ve realized that we humans could use some catlike guidance when it comes to handling the ups and downs of life. In this book they''ve condescended to share their invaluable wisdom in short advice columns such as Always Stay at Least 30 Feet from a Loved One and Never Let Anyone Dress You. Whether it''s coping with romance, surviving a social gathering, or clawing your way to the top of the corporate ladder only to realize you can''t get down, the cats in this book will have you relaxed and ready to take on the world! Just after one more nap.
£9.49
Hodder & Stoughton 100 Ways to Be More Like Your Cat
Book Synopsis From the bestselling author of One Hundred Ways For a Cat To Train Its Human comes a new guide on how to improve your own life by learning from your cat. Content, living in the moment, finding pleasure in small things - your cat knows exactly how to get the best out of life. So let your cat be your guru as Celia Haddon shows in 100 ways how adopting their outlook can lead to our own happiness. Stretch out, relax, find a warm spot - and enjoy purrfection.
£10.44
Edinburgh University Press Romantic Environmental Sensibility
Book SynopsisUncovers alternative ways of seeing the environment from the Romantic period.Trade Review"Romantic Environmental Sensibility: Nature, Class and Empire offers a boldly revisionary reading of environmental texts from the British Romantic period. The essays in this collection are profoundly concerned with questions of environmental justice and social class as manifested in the work of English aristocrats and working-class writers and in the perspectives of colonial overlords and local inhabitants throughout the British Empire. This book makes a vitally important contribution to the emerging discipline of ecocriticism." -James C. McKusick, University of Missouri-Kansas City, author of Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology and coeditor of Literature and Nature: Four Centuries of Nature Writing.
£23.74
Simon & Schuster On Trails
Book SynopsisNew York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award • Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award • “The best outdoors book of the year.” —Sierra Club From a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a wondrous exploration of how trails help us understand the world—from invisible ant trails to hiking paths that span continents, from interstate highways to the Internet.While thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that lie beneath our feet: How do they form? Why do some improve over time while others fade? What makes us follow or strike off on our own? Over the course of seven years, Moor traveled the globe, exploring trails of all kinds, from the miniscule to the massive. He learned the tricks of ma
£15.29
Globe Pequot Gold Panning California A Guide to the Areas Best
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£24.13
Book Publishing Company Death of a Whale: The Challenge of Anti-Whaling
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£15.29
Knickerbocker Press,U.S. National Parks 2025 Weekly Planner
Book SynopsisTake an exciting journey through the year with this weekly planner inspired by America’s breathtaking national parks. This unique planner invites you on an enlightened planning and scheduling experience, whether for work, school, or your daily life, from July 2024 through December 2025. Thoughtfully composed to guide you through 18 months led by exciting excursions and facts based on your favorite national parks, this planner is designed for outdoor adventurers, bucket listers, and nature lovers alike. This planner features: Stunning full-page artistic interpretations of the parks to inspire introspection and appreciation. Weekly quotes to inform your week and spark spiritual nourishment. 18 full-month calendar spreads, from July 2024 through December 2025. 72 weeks with plenty of space to write. Convenient size ideal for carrying in a book bag, briefcase, or purse. E
£999.99
Knickerbocker Press,U.S. National Parks
Book SynopsisAdventure through the year with this weekly planner inspired by America’s breathtaking national parks. This unique planner invites you on an enlightened planning and scheduling experience, whether for work, school, or your daily life. Thoughtfully composed to guide you through 18 months led by exciting excursions and facts based on your favorite national parks, this planner is designed for outdoor adventurers, bucket listers, and nature lovers alike. This planner features: Stunning full-page artistic interpretations of the parks to inspire introspection and appreciation. Weekly quotes to inform your week and spark spiritual nourishment. 18 full-month calendar spreads. 72 weeks with plenty of space to write. Convenient size ideal for carrying in a book bag, briefcase, or purse. Elastic band closure to help secure your planner or mark your place inside. This
£14.39
Hatherleigh Press,U.S. The Nature Lover's Quotation Book
Book SynopsisA collection of inspirational and meaningful quotes perfect for every lover of the great outdoors.
£11.39
Workman Publishing A Wilder Life: A Season-by-Season Guide to
Book SynopsisIn our technology-driven, workaday world, connecting with nature has never before been more essential. A Wilder Life, a beautiful oversized lifestyle book by the team behind the popular Wilder Quarterly, gives readers indispensable ideas for interacting with the great outdoors. Learn to plant a night-blooming garden, navigate by reading the stars, build an outdoor shelter, make dry shampoo, identify insects, cultivate butterflies in a backyard, or tint your clothes with natural dyes. Like a modern-day Whole Earth Catalog, A Wilder Life gives us DIY projects and old-world skills that are being reclaimed by a new generation. Divided into sections pertaining to each season and covering self-reliance, growing and gardening, cooking, health and beauty, and wilderness, and with photos and illustrations evocative of the great outdoors, A Wilder Life shows that getting in touch with nature is possible no matter who you are and—more important—where you are.Trade Review“The new book that’s becoming our natural beauty obsession. . . . It’s a comprehensive, coffee table–worthy, DIY project–packed manual for enjoying all four seasons through interaction with nature—including recipes (foraged elderflower champagne! Pumpkin butter!), gardening and home tips. . . . It’s also a particularly good resource for natural-beauty buffs.”—Vogue.com “Wander through the pages of A Wilder Life in awe and appreciation. . . . [The book] urges readers to garden with a purpose—to stew, brew, can and pot. . . . . Nature isn’t just a screen saver. It’s a soul saver.” —The New York Times Book Review “Will smarten up any side table.”—Domino “A beautiful, informative, thoughtful compilation of facts, recipes, DIY instructions, and more—a book designed to put you a little more in touch with nature and a lot more in touch with yourself.”—Organic Lifestyle Magazine
£22.79
Chelsea Green Publishing Co Landfill: Notes on Gull Watching and Trash
Book SynopsisOver the past hundred years, gulls have been brought ashore by modernity. They now live not only on the coasts but in our slipstream following trawlers, barges, and garbage trucks. They are more our contemporaries than most birds, living their wild lives among us in towns and cities. In many ways they live as we do, walking the built-up world and grabbing a bite where they can. Yet this disturbs us. We’ve started fearing gulls for getting good at being among us. We see them as scavengers, not entrepreneurs; ocean-going aliens, not refugees. They are too big for the world they have entered. Their story is our story too. Landfill is the original and compelling story of how in the Anthropocene we have learned about the natural world, named and catalogued it, and then colonized it, planted it, or filled it with our junk. While most other birds have gone in the opposite direction, hiding away from us, some vanishing forever, gulls continue to tell us how the wild can share our world. For these reasons Landfill is the nature book for our times, groundbreaking and genre-bending. Without nostalgia or eulogy, it kicks beneath the littered surface of the things to discover stranger truths. Trade Review“Landfill is an erudite meditation on these former seabirds — in literature, science and culture — and their symbiotic relationship with us within the natural world."—Toronto Star “Landfill is an important and entirely brilliant book. It’s a love letter to gulls and their charged relationship with humans, but it’s also a deep meditation on difficulty and waste, on the beauty of the disregarded, and on what we make of matter out of place. There’s love and death here, fear, fascination, hope, and the breaking of the world. Dee has written an absolute triumph.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk“The British literature of birds that includes Gilbert White with his swifts and martins, Helen Macdonald with her hawks, is a rich one. But Tim Dee’s own obsession with gulls also leads him to contemplate the landfills over which they often preside and the alarming changes to our landscapes with which they are associated. His alertness to factors in ecological health results not in a jeremiad, however, but instead in an exploration of surprising parallels between evolution in the biological realm and the slow siftings of memory and culture. Landfill is a remarkably venturesome, robustly voiced, and illuminating book.”—John Elder, author of Reading the Mountains of Home“Like coyotes, ravens, raccoons, and other resourceful urban wildlife, gulls frequently face our scorn, and sometimes our bullets. In his delightful jaunt through gull taxonomy, behavior, and lore, Tim Dee casts his feathered protagonists as indomitable heroes of the Anthropocene—thriving in our cities, colonizing our culture, and repurposing our trash as treasure. Next time a gull snatches your fries, you’ll find yourself not cursing a petty thief, but admiring one of our planet’s grittiest, savviest survivors.”—Ben Goldfarb, author of Eager“Tim Dee’s restive and gorgeous prose pulls readers into the wilds of the modern urban landscape, where gulls and humans wander side-by-side with ancient poets, Victorian novelists, and Madagascar nighthawks. In this small book Dee asks—and beautifully begins to answer—one of the largest questions of our time: How do we live with attentive grace and wisdom alongside the varied coinhabitants of our imperiled, complex, and beloved earth?”—Lyanda Lynn Haupt, author of Mozart’s Starling and Crow Planet“Evolution is fluid, and the urban gulls of Tim Dee’s Landfill embody this ever-changing world in action. Tracking difficult-to-categorize gulls and the people who know their habits best, Dee alerts us to the heavy-laden meanings we lay on the wings of others, even as he revels the ways in which gulls continue to fly beyond our grasp. Familiarity need not breed contempt. As Dee shows, it can breed fascination.”—Gavin Van Horn, author of The Way of Coyote
£999.99
PM Press First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological
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£21.33
New World Library Cow Hug Therapy
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£15.29
University of Iowa Press Booming from the Mists of Nowhere: The Story of the Greater PrairieChicken
Book SynopsisFor ten months of the year, the prairiechicken’s drab colors allow it to disappear into the landscape. However, in April and May this grouse is one of the most outrageously flamboyant birds in North America. Competing with each other for the attention of females, males gather before dawn in an explosion of sights and sounds—“booming from the mists of nowhere,” as Aldo Leopold wrote decades ago. There’s nothing else like it, and it is perilously close to being lost. In this book, ecologist Greg Hoch shows that we can ensure that this iconic bird flourishes once again.Skillfully interweaving lyrical accounts from early settlers, hunters, and pioneer naturalists with recent scientific research on the grouse and its favored grasslands, Hoch reveals that the prairiechicken played a key role in the American settlement of the Midwest. Many hungry pioneers regularly shot and ate the bird, as well as trapping hundreds of thousands, shipping them eastward by the trainload for coastal suppers. As a result of both hunting and habitat loss, the bird’s numbers plummeted to extinction across 90 percent of its original habitat. Iowa, whose tallgrass prairies formed the very center of the greater prairiechicken’s range, no longer supports a native population of the bird most symbolic of prairie habitat.The steep decline in the prairiechicken population is one of the great tragedies of twentiethcentury wildlife management and agricultural practices. However, Hoch gives us reason for optimism. These birds can thrive in agriculturally productive grasslands. Careful grazing, reduced use of pesticides, wellplaced wildlife corridors, planned burning, higher plant, animal, and insect diversity: these are the keys. If enough blocks of healthy grasslands are scattered over the midwestern landscape, there will be prairiechickens—and many of their fellow creatures of the tall grasses. Farmers, ranchers, conservationists, and citizens can reverse the decline of grassland birds and insure that future generations will hear the booming of the prairiechicken.
£16.10
Microcosm Publishing Cats I've Known: On Love, Loss, and Being
Book SynopsisDeeply heartfelt, humourous, and insightful stories about cats.
£13.49
Workman Publishing Earth Almanac: A Year of Witnessing the Wild,
Book SynopsisNoted nature writer Ted Williams invites readers along on a year-long immersion in the wild and fleeting moments of the natural world, from winter candy and spring quackers to summer’s scarlet farewell and autumn reveilles. This beautifully crafted collection of short, seasonal essays combines in-depth information with evocative descriptions of nature’s marvels and mysteries. Williams explains the weather conditions that bring out the brightest reds in autumn leaves, how hungry wolf spiders catch their prey, and why American goldfinches wait until late July or August to build their nests. In the tradition of Thoreau, Carson, and Leopold, Ted Williams’s writing stands as a testament to the delicate balance of nature’s resilience and fragility, and inspires readers to experience the natural world for themselves and to become advocates for protecting and preserving the amazing diversity and activity found there.
£13.29
Counterpoint The World-ending Fire: The Essential Wendell
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£15.19
Counterpoint Nature Matrix: New and Selected Essays
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£14.39
