Nature and the natural world: general interest Books
Counterpoint The Way Of Imagination: Essays
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£14.39
Counterpoint The Great Clod: Notes and Memoirs on Nature and
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£14.39
Workman Publishing Sea Turtles to Sidewinders: A Guide to the Most
Book Synopsis"For families wanting to explore their local wildlife as well as an engaging read for those with a general interest in the subject.” —Booklist The American West is home to a wide array of reptiles and amphibians-from the rare and curious to those that can be found in parks and backyards. With this user-friendly guide in hand, discover the most likely-to-be-encountered lizards, snakes, turtles, and amphibians native to Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington, plus the western parts of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. Whether you are a dedicated herper or simply have a keen interest in wildlife and natural history, Sea Turtles to Sidewinders—from Charles Hood, Erin Westeen, and Jose Gabriel Martfnez-Fonsec—will help you appreciate and celebrate the amazing diversity represented by reptiles and amphibians of the West.
£15.19
Workman Publishing Wild Houston: Explore the Amazing Nature in and
Book SynopsisHouston is more than just a bustling metroplex, it's full of amazing wildlife. You just need to know where to find it! Equal parts natural history, field guide, and trip planner, Wild Houston has something for everyone. This handy yet extensive guide looks at the factors that shape local nature and profiles over 100 local species, from the Barred Owl and the Western Rat Snake to the Houston Burrowing Crayfish, the Rainbow Scareb, and the Nine-banded Armadillo. Also included are descriptions of day trips that help you explore natural wonders on hiking trails, in public parks, and in your own backyard.
£18.00
Timber Press (OR) Poppy State
£24.00
Weldon Owen, Incorporated Total Dog Manual
Book SynopsisNew for 2020, this paperback edition of The Total Dog Manual brings over 200 invaluable tips from David Meyer, Abbie Moore and Dr Pia Stalk, operators of Adopt-A-Pet.com, the world's largest non-profit pet adoption website.Whether a long time or first time dog owner, this 256 page guide will walk you through how to prepare your home, yourself and your family for your new best friend. Get ready to welcome a new bundle of furry canine love into your home and your heart!
£12.34
Center for Humans and Nature Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol.
Book Synopsis*Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of Anthology Volume 4 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of interpersonal relations: Which experiences expand our understanding of being human in relation to other-than-human beings? We live in an astounding world of relations. We share these ties that bind with our fellow humans—and we share these relations with nonhuman beings as well. From the bacterium swimming in your belly to the trees exhaling the breath you breathe, this community of life is our kin—and, for many cultures around the world, being human is based upon this extended sense of kinship. Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a lively series that explores our deep interconnections with the living world. The five Kinship volumes—Planet, Place, Partners, Persons, Practice—offer essays, interviews, poetry, and stories of solidarity, highlighting the interdependence that exists between humans and nonhuman beings. More than 70 contributors—including Robin Wall Kimmerer, Richard Powers, David Abram, J. Drew Lanham, and Sharon Blackie—invite readers into cosmologies, narratives, and everyday interactions that embrace a more-than-human world as worthy of our response and responsibility. Kinship spans the cosmos, but it is perhaps most life changing when experienced directly and personally. “Persons,” Volume 4 of the Kinship series, attends to the personal—our unique experiences with particular creatures and landscapes. This includes nonhuman kin that become our allies, familiars, and teachers as we navigate a “world as full of persons, human and otherwise, all more-or-less close kin, all deserving respect,” as religious studies scholar Graham Harvey puts it. The essayists and poets in the volume share a wide variety of kinship-based experiences—from Australian ecophilosopher Freya Mathews’s perspective on climate-related devastation on her country’s koalas, to English professor and forest therapy guide Kimberly Ruffin’s reclamation of her “inner animal,” to German biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber’s absorption with and by lichen. Our kinships are interpersonal, and being “pried open with curiosity,” as poet and hip-hop emcee Manon Voice notes in this volume, “Stir the first of many magicks.” Proceeds from sales of Kinship benefit the nonprofit, non-partisan Center for Humans and Nature, which partners with some of the brightest minds to explore human responsibilities to each other and the more-than-human world. The Center brings together philosophers, ecologists, artists, political scientists, anthropologists, poets and economists, among others, to think creatively about a resilient future for the whole community of life.Trade Review“This collection is a passionate call to turn towards the living Earth with reverence and respect, and in so doing to cultivate new and old forms of curiosity, of understanding, and of responsibility. Across five captivating volumes, Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations brings together a rich diversity of voices and perspectives. Contributions range in form from poetry to interviews and essays, drawing on and engaging with the insights of Indigenous stories, philosophy, the natural sciences, and much more. Ultimately, this is a collection that does much more than simply describe the webs of relationship that are our world of kin. At the same time, it invites and at times pulls the reader into a sense of the fundamental sharedness of all life and our profound obligations, perhaps now more than ever, to hold open room for others to be and to become in their own unique and precious ways.”—Thom van Dooren, author of The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds“Essential reading about the question of our time: how to belong. A chorus of beautiful, wise, grieving, exulting, and generative voices, guiding us into true ‘family values’ for a wild living Earth. These collections offer rare and rich insight into how to find, honor, and heal the bonds of blood, place, time, and ethics that knit us to all other beings.”—David George Haskell, author of The Forest Unseen and The Songs of Trees"Sometimes when we are working with a document, when it’s growing and changing, we call it “live.” Likewise, this book is live. It’s full of life. It’s living inside you as you read it and you are living inside it. It’s changing you and you’re changing it. May this book be a living document that guides us toward love and care for all kin."—Janisse Ray, author of Wild Spectacle"The Kinship series of books is an ensemble of outstanding essays that reveal the truth that reality is rooted in relationships. After reading these marvellous essays, it becomes crystal clear that there is no reality outside relationships. These books shatter the old story of separation between humans and Nature and explode the belief that nature is a machine and the planet Earth is a dead rock. Here is the new story of the living Earth and a celebration of deep connectivity of life; human as well as more-than-human life. These are inspiring and enlightening essays. They will change your perception of Nature. I recommend these books wholeheartedly!"—Satish Kumar, Founder, Schumacher College, Editor Emeritus, Resurgence & Ecologist“What a joyful series this is, this family of books, crafted with love, clarity, and compassion by a family of poets, scholars, and sages. Together the volumes form a five-part harmony, converging beautifully around notions of kinship and kinning. The authors ask, how do we rightly relate? How may we learn to live well with our kin? Can we listen with sensitivity to the voices and languages of others, the beings with fur, claws, wings, scales, and fins with whom we share the mountains, rivers, seas, grasslands, and forests, places that ring with spirit and meaning, too, who are family, too? The chapters are stories as much as studies, narratives born from experience, wisdom, and observations over many generations. I can’t wait to share this family with my students and colleagues in conservation and anthropology, and with my friends and kin everywhere.”—Dr. Amanda Stronza, Anthropologist and Professor of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Texas A&M University“Kinship is essential reading. Five books of elemental grace and charm, beginning with a spider's web. Each strand glistens in the sunlight, dreaming, catch and release, a journey through the multiverse. Each gathering of words, a page, a tribe, a story of who we are, who we have been, and who we've yet to become, shiny, bright, new, and very old. The DNA of rock and stone, of all our relations, the chemistry of breathing, letting go, and Love. Again, again, and again.”—John Francis, PhD, author of Planetwalker: 17 Years of Silence, 22 Years of Walking “At a time when divisive politics and human-first ideologies dominate public discourse, Kinship provides a deeply-moving, soul-rejuvenating, and course-correcting primer for recognizing and building relationships among all living things. Here readers will find solace in essays and poems about what we’re losing, as well as inspiration for how to live well with other humans—and with our other-than-human kin. But Kinship is more than instructive. Taken together, these exquisite volumes are a balm for the soul.”—Dr. Amy Brady, Executive Director of Orion magazine"Kinship is the type of series I would want to gift to my wild, untamed, and unschooled children, for from its pages springs an education at the end of homogenous time, a crack in the tarmac of ascension, an insurgency of the hitherto invisible. At a time when the human is no longer tenable as a category unto itself, we will need the prophetic voices of these poets, philosophers, mothers, fathers, scientists, thinkers, public intellectuals, artists, and awestruck fugitives to kindle a politics of humility, to help us fall down to earth from our gilded perches, to help us stray from the threatening familiarity of our own image. It is time to meet the others we imagined we left behind: this constellation of stars will guide us."—Bayo Akomolafe, Ph.D., author of These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home “The Kinship series upends colonial paradigms around humans and our relationship with more-than-human nature. These paradigms have driven mainstream environmental movements to engage in myopic efforts that at times have exacerbated ecological imbalances. Through stories, essays, art, poetry, and more, contributors chip away at the layers that bind our collective colonial ethos. Rather than owning nature, we are urged to think about our kinship with all that is nonhuman. Rather than controlling our environments using methods rooted in human exceptionalism (i.e., we know best), we are urged to learn from our kin. Rather than “using” land, water, and wildlife as “natural resources,” we are urged to be in reciprocity and right relationship with our kin. Rather than labeling birds, rocks, and rivers as “it,” we are urged to think of them as persons who have their own rights. Rather than being static, we are urged to be kinetic (Kin-etic?). Decolonization begins with unlearning, and this is a good place to begin.”—Aparna Rajagopal (she/her), founding partner of the Avarna Group and cofounder of PGM ONE Summit"The wonderful essays gathered here will stir minds and open hearts with the reminder that kinship is about how all things are connected, and that these relationships are best when acknowledged, attended to, and above all, savored."—Florence Williams, author of The Nature Fix: How Being in Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
£999.99
Guest Editions Agua
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£38.00
Penguin Random House South Africa Struik Nature Guide: Wild Flowers of Kenya and
Book SynopsisA compact guide featuring nearly 400 wild owers of Kenya and northern Tanzania, grouped for ease of use according to colour. e book includes the most widespread and commonly encountered species as well as some unusual owers found in more remote areas. Plants range from hardy succulents to spectacular epiphytic orchids and shaggy mountain lobelias, each concisely presented with reference to key features and typical habitat. Additional notes indicate whether a given species has particular ecological, medicinal or cultural value. Sales points: Colour coded for easy navigation; concise, yet detailed text highlighting key ID features and habitat; vibrant, full-colour photographs; notes on the ecological and cultural significance of particular wild flowers; attractively priced.
£999.99
Birlinn General Fringed With Mud Pearls
Book SynopsisOne of the Daily Telegraph''s 20 Books Perfect for TravelScotland has its rugged Hebrides; Ireland its cliff-girt Arans; Wales its Island of Twenty Thousand Saints. And what has England got? The isles of Canvey, Sheppey, Wight and Dogs, Mersea, Brownsea, Foulness and Rat. But there are also wilder, rockier places Lundy, the Scillies, the Farnes.These islands and their inhabitants not only cast varied lights on the mainland, they also possess their own peculiar stories, from the Barbary slavers who once occupied Lundy, to the ex-major who seized a wartime fort in the North Sea and declared himself Prince of Sealand.Ian Crofton embarks on a personal odyssey to a number of the islands encircling England, exploring how some were places of refuge or holiness, while others have been turned into personal fiefdoms by their owners, or become locations for prisons, rubbish dumps and military installations. He also describes the varied ways in which England''s islands have been formed, and how t
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Icon Books Adrift: A Secret Life of London’s Waterways
Book SynopsisJourneying along London's waterways on a canal boat called Pike, Helen Babbs puts down roots for two weeks at a time before moving on. From Walthamstow Marsh in the east to Uxbridge in the west, she explores the landscape in all its guises: marshland, wasteland, city centre and suburb.From deep winter to late autumn, Babbs explores the people, politics, history and wildlife of the canals and rivers, to reveal an intimate and unusual portrait of London - and of life.Trade ReviewAdrift is an engaging introduction to living on a narrow boat, held together with atmospheric descriptions of reconnecting with life's simple pleasures ... It is at its best when capturing the transition from a life on land to a life on board, as well as mapping the evolving relationship between urban building developments and the canal's ecology. -- Times Literary SupplementBabbs is an excellent nature writer, evoking the lives and emotions tied to the water. Charming -- Steven Cooper * Waterstones Events Manager, The Bookseller *A compelling exploration of river living * Homes and Gardens *One of the best waterways books for decades * Waterways World *A treat ... Babbs's effortless prose is tight and lyrical, moseying along at a calm, steady pace, but there are moments both barbed and cutting ... A serious and fascinating book * Hackney Citizen *Chapter after chapter of utterly captivating prose * Caught by the River *Waterways writing at its finest: the breathtaking, boat-eulogising Adrift. -- @TheBookBarge
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Lexington Books Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and
Book SynopsisDwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth offers ecocritical and ecopoetic readings that focus on multispecies dwellings of enchantment and reenchant our rapport with the more-than-human world. It sheds light on the marvelous entanglements between humans and other life forms coexisting with us–entanglements that, when fully perceived, call onto humans to shift perspectives on both the causes and solutions to current ecological crises. Working against the disenchantment of humans’ relationships with and perceptions of the world entailed by a modern ontology, this book illustrates the power of ecopoetics to attune humans to the vibrant matter both within and outside of us. Braiding indigenous with non-indigenous worldviews, this book tackles ecopoetics emerging from varying locations in the world. It underscores the postmodernist, remythologizing processes going on in many ecopoetic texts, via magical realist modes and mythopoeia.
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Lexington Books Turkish Ecocriticism: From Neolithic to
Book SynopsisTurkish Ecocriticism: From Neolithic to Contemporary Timescapes explores the values, perceptions, and transformations of the environment, ecology, and nature in Turkish culture, literature, and the arts. Through these themes, it examines historical and contemporary environmentally engaged literary and cultural traditions in Turkey. The volume re-imagines Turkey in its geo-social and ecocultural narratives of multiple connections and complexities, in its multi-faceted webs of histories, and in its rich multispecies stories.Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction by Serpil Oppermann and Sinan AkıllıPart I: Ancient Nature cultures and Latter-day EcospiritualityChapter 1: The Contemporary Reflections of Tengrism in Turkish Climate Change Fictions by Fatma AykanatChapter 2: Toxic Agentic Legacy in Turkish Waters: From Sacrosanct Bodies to Toxic Bodies of Water by Pelin KümbetChapter 3: Turkey’s First Ecologist: Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, The Fisherman of Halicarnassus by Roger WilliamsPart II: Urban EcologiesChapter 4: Irrigating and Weeding the Bostan in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Turkish Literature by Aleksandar ShopovChapter 5: Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories and the City and the Local-Global Tension in Ecocritical Place Studies by Scott SlovicChapter 6: Urban Ecologies/Urbanatures of İstanbul in Contemporary Turkish Novel by Gülşah GöçmenChapter 7: Yaşar Kemal’s Ecopoetics of the Sea: Loss of Marine Biodiversity in Turkey’s Coastal Waters by Adem BalcıPart III: Animals: Past ReflectionsChapter 8: Human-Animal Relations in Neolithic Anatolian Art: the Heritage of the Bull by Louise WestlingChapter 9: Ottoman Ecocriticism and Political Ecology: Horse-Human Relationships in Evliya Çelebi and After by Donna LandryChapter 10: “Then There are the Packs of Dogs”: Turkish Street Dogs, Nineteenth-Century British Travelers, and Tourist Wonders by Jeanne DubinoPart IV: Animals: Present ReflectionsChapter 11: When Horses and Human Beings Meet in Anatolia: Towards a Critical Examination of the Tradition of Yılkı Horses by Emre KoyuncuChapter 12: Writing and Animal(ity) in Contemporary Turkish Fiction by Meliz ErginChapter 13: Precarious Lives of Animals and Humans through the Lens of Contemporary Turkish Literature by Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu and Ezgi HamzaçebiPart V: Ecological Arts, Aesthetics, and PerformanceChapter 14: The Ecophobia/Biophilia Spectrum in Turkish Theatre: Anatolian Village Plays and (Karagöz-Hacivat) Shadow Plays by Simon C. Estok and Z. Gizem Yılmaz KarahanChapter 15: Postecological Aesthetics and Contemporary Turkish Art in the Anthropocene by Kerim Can YazgünoğluChapter 16: Speculative Ecologies of Plastics in the Environmental Aesthetics of Pınar Yoldaş by Burcu Baykan Chapter 17: Spiritus Domus: The Decorum of Ecological-Ecesis by Creativity by Yusuf EradamAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex
£96.90
Bonnier Books Ltd Inspirational Colouring: Animals and Nature
Book SynopsisStep into the wild with wonderful illustrations of creatures from around the world
£9.49
The History Press Ltd From High Places: A Journey through Ireland's
Book SynopsisThe mountains of Ireland are wild and untrodden. There is a powerful and magnetic quality to Ireland’s high places, a mix of mountains and sea that creates an indelible impression and inexorably draws one back. From High Places is a celebration of Ireland’s great mountains. A collection of stunning images taken from the peaks of these mountains, it will transport you from the quartzite giants of Connemara, the wild summits of Donegal, the sweeping mountains of Mourne, to the towering peaks of Kerry. In addition to these images, the author describes his own unique experiences exploring these mountain areas and interweaves these with an account of the local history, folklore, and geology. From High Places will inspire the reader, be they beginner or experienced hill-walker, to set out and explore the magnificent mountains Ireland has to offer.Trade Review"Some might wonder why people want to walk on our hills. Quite simply, this book is why. It is a glorious celebration, and the enthusiasm of the author for his subject abounds on every page. This book also reminds us that our mountains are perhaps one of our most precious resources, to be savoured, treasured, and denied to none.' Alan Tees, President, Mountaineering Ireland
£22.50
AK Press The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink
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£13.50
Whittles Publishing Running South America: With My Husband and Other
Book SynopsisRunning marathons back-to-back, sleeping by the side of the road, giving presentations to remote schools that had never been visited by their own kinsfolk, this is the remarkable story of personal endurance that gives an engrossing insight into the people and wildlife of South America. It is the story of two everyday runners, Katharine and David, who decided to take on a continent and learn how to run again - barefoot, pushing their bodies and minds to levels they had never considered possible in a bid to become the first in the world to run the length of South America, to give a voice to the wildlife and wildernesses they adore.Running laid them bare, stripped them of the shell people journey within, so all they had to rely on was their own bare feet. Yet this very vulnerability provided the key to unlocking communities who would fling open their doors, tuck them under their wings and whisper their secrets. Amazing animals accompanied them: gigantic vaulting stick-insects; cackling macaws who wheeled and pirouetted in the sky, desperately trying to gain a better view of them; and a giant anteater whom they stalked through a snake-infested swamp, so they could stand within an arm's length as he devoured termites upon the end of his long sticky tongue. It was also an animal, if one of the most diminutive, that nearly succeeded in ending their dreams of conquering the continent - an ant! But when their joints and muscles were screaming, when they couldn't stand the sight of one another and when prickly heat, blisters and tropical ulcers infested their skin, it was the wildlife and wildernesses that pulled them through. Day after day, for months on end, running from freezer through desert and into the biggest rainforest on earth, they survived hurricane-force winds, near 100% humidity, swarms of biting insects and some of the most crime-ridden places on the planet. The expedition nearly cost them their marriage, health, sanity and lives. But somehow, they made it to the other end of the continent, 6,504 miles and 15 months later, when they splashed into the warm and much-dreamed of Caribbean Sea.Trade Review`...Katharine relates the story of the run in fascinating details and with frankness and humour. She is also...a quality artist, which is demonstrated in the beautiful sketches of wildlife throughout the book. Running South America is an enthralling book and without doubt one of the best I have read’. Wildlife Detective, The blog of Alan Stewart -------------------- `...Katharine and David Lowrie (both 39) have made a journey that makes many a marathon runner be envious of envy or awe. ... If you are travelling in nature for so long as Katharine and David experienced numerous funny and absurd, but also dangerous moments. In her book...Katharine describes the various adventurous moments’. TravelBook -------------------- `...reading Katharine’s powerful and exciting book about her remarkable adventure is certainly a white-knuckle experience. It takes you deep into the heart of a mysterious continent where you are invited to watch the landscape unfold on a human scale one step at a time. It is a thrilling account punctuated by bizarre encounters with incredible native wildlife...’ Daily Express -------------------- `This really is an inspiring book ...a lovely book which will have you flinging off your shoes and embracing life’. Burnley Express, Rebecca Hay -------------------- `If ever a feat of daring and endurance deserved a book it was the adventure on which Katharine and David Lowrie embarked’. Chronicle Live -------------------- 'I am awe-inspired and deeply impressed'.--Dean Karnazes, World Ultra Marathon Runner 'A gruelling and challenging run for a vitally important cause... an extraordinary marathon'.--HRH Prince of Wales
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Whittles Publishing Untangling the Knot, Belugas and Bears: My
Book SynopsisThe beginning of the author's adventure with a camera - filming wildlife across the world for the BBC Natural History Unit and other major TV companies - began in 1978 when he joined the RSPB's film unit. Untangling the Knot gives an in-depth look into what is involved in capturing the sequences needed for a natural history film, using comprehensive diaries and over 200 photographs. Mike describes the stresses of international flying with 20 cases of film equipment, sometimes alone, to distant corners of the world. The hardships of living and working for weeks in remote regions, avoiding tropical diseases, the onslaught of forest insects, long hours of waiting from dawn to dusk, and of frustration and disappointment when the elements or circumstances conspired against him. There are times of great elation too, when animal behaviour never seen before is captured on film. Working with top biologists and highly-experienced pilots was an essential partnership in understanding the subject to be filmed, often in remote regions where the challenge was reaching the subject in rainforest canopies, on remote islands or in featureless arctic tundra. In a career spanning 35 years, several of the programmes in which he was involved have won major awards. He describes filming Attenborough in Paradise in New Guinea with Sir David Attenborough as a career highlight, where he filmed behaviour of Birds of Paradise that had never been seen before. His last programme, Jewelled Messengers was the fulfilment of an ambition to make the ultimate film on hummingbirds with producer Paul Reddish, using the latest high-speed, high-definition cameras, and which was shot mainly in Brazil and Ecuador. The story concludes when he realizes his dream of visiting the Ross Sea region of the Antarctic. Mike considers himself lucky to have worked in so many spectacular regions of the world and this book enables readers to travel with him and share his incredible experiences.
£19.90
The Dovecote Press Downs, Meadows and Pastures
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The Dovecote Press Woodlands
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Whittles Publishing Seton Gordon's Scotland: An Anthology
Book SynopsisSeton Gordon was only a boy when he began exploring the Cairngorms, fascinated by its wildlife and seeking to photograph all he saw - he later became a pioneer naturalist, photographer and folklorist. He wrote about the land that is Scotland, her flora and fauna, her people, her spirits, her often violent past. He took the earliest pictures of golden eagles at their eyries and throughout the first half of the 20th century came to know Scotland's remotest corners, amassing a unique photographic record, recording the changing social life of the islands, collecting a mass of folklore and historical stories, lecturing and writing both for regular publications and in 27 books. Like John Muir, he was a wanderer and a guide. We walk with him through pinewoods, to eyries, to the corries of the Cairngorms, we follow him trying to recreate the greenshank's song on his bagpipe chanter; and see him holding a snowball windward of a nesting dotterel to cool its panting.Welcomed in croft or palace, a keen piper, inevitably dressed in kilt and bunnet, Seton Gordon was one of the age's great characters. This selection from his writings gives a fascinating insight of the man and his great versatility. The author, himself a Scottish outdoors enthusiast and well-known author, has been a lifelong admirer of Seton Gordon and his books and has created a book to treasure.Trade Review'...it is a kaleidoscope of a way of life in the first half of the 20th century, a contribution of great importance. There are customs, myths, fairy stories and legends to fascinate anyone in the HIghlands and Islands and beyond. ...An utterly fascinating book'. Highland News'...Hamish Brown's compilation of Seton Gordon's work ...will be highly acclaimed in many circles, and rightly so. It covers a large area of Scotland and contains an abundance of material to keep the reader's attention, chapter after chapter'. Stornoway GazetteTable of ContentsThe Cairngorms; The Length of the Land; The Outer Hebrides; Ways That Are Gone; Birds Above All; Hill Days; Western Isles; The Unrestful Past; Bird Notes; A Vanished World; Epilogue
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Merlin Unwin Books A Job for all Seasons: My Small Country Living
Book SynopsisSmallholders often learn the hard way but author Phyllida Barstow had been immersed in animal husbandry as a child, so her experiences here are well-informed and witty. First-hand account of her smallholding in Gloucestershire with a chapter each on chickens, goats, horses, sheep, peacocks, alpacas and more!
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Luath Press Ltd Nature's Peace: Landscapes of the Watershed: A
Book SynopsisIn 2005 Peter Wright walked the 1,200 km length of the Watershed in 64 days. Walking along the very spine of Scotland he was struck by the magnificence and diversity of the landscapes which his original and little publicised route exposed him to. Nature’s Peace celebrates these landscapes as never before through stunning photographs, taking the reader on an imaginary journey from the English border in the south to the Shetland Isles and Unst at the very northern tip of Britain. Wright brings his journey to life with vivid descriptions of the land’s history and discussions about its future.
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September Publishing Among the Summer Snows: In Search of Scotland's
Book SynopsisAs the summer draws to a close, a few snowbeds - some as big as icebergs - survive in the Scottish Highlands. Christopher Nicholson's Among the Summer Snows is both a celebration of these great, icy relics and an intensely personal meditation on their significance. A book to delight all those interested in mountains and snow, full of vivid description and anecdote, it explores the meanings of nature, beauty and mortality in the twenty-first century.Trade Review'This is the kind of beautiful writing that transcends form - in this case nature writing - to arrive somewhere improbable and compelling.' Paul Evans, Guardian | 'A beautiful book about love and loss, fragility and chance, the wide world and the near world...full of intense light and colour, extraordinary glimpses, moving insights and subtle humour.' Richard Kerridge, author of Cold Blood | 'A ravishingly lovely book.' Keggie Carew author of Dadland | 'What shines through is a love of wild places without the need to conquer summits or tick lists. It is a love affair that is addictive ... and [Nicholson] expresses it in such a beautiful way in this unusual and evocative narrative.' Active Outdoors | 'A glorious little book, beautifully produced by an independent publisher.' The Telegraph | 'Haunting, moving, silent, and profoundly beautiful.' The Great Outdoors | 'Lyrical and elegiac, this debut is a tender account of an unusual fascination with the remaining snows of the Scottish Highlands. Nicholson offers us a wry, self-aware take on the relationship between humans and the changed (and changing) natural world.' Helen Mort, chair of Boardman Tasker Award judges | 'Made me laugh and cry within just a few pages... left me humbled as he revealed a range of other interconnected wonders I never knew about.' Books in Scotland | 'Destined to become a classic of mountain literature. Superb.' Chris Townsend, The Great Outdoors | 'His moving journey makes compelling reading. Occasionally amusing, seldom maudlin or self-pitying, and ultimately uplifting, this quest for meaning offers solace for anyone with a penchant for pondering the mysteries of life, love and loss during solitary wanderings through the wilderness.' Mark Sutcliffe, Countryfile
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Carnegie Publishing Ltd Cumbrian Contrasts: A Vision of Countryside
Book SynopsisThis is nature writer Jan Wiltshire's second book, following the highly successful About Scout Scar. Cumbrian Contrasts celebrates the wonder of one of the most beautiful, diverse and precious parts of the British Isles. From the source of rivers high in the fells, through moorland solitudes to the urban fringe, and down to estuaries and the coast, the author paints a vivid portrait of a landscape and its wildlife. Words and images come together as a story which reveals the magic of the natural world. There are fossils, butterfl ies and flora at Smardale. Eider duck breed on Walney Island with its shingle flora, and natterjack toads mate on the Duddon Estuary. Skylark soar in song flight over Whitbarrow and there are dark green fritillary butterflies and frog orchid on Scout Scar. There's always something new to discover. This is writing that really makes you feel as if you are there, experiencing the beautiful, strange and rare in varied habitats. If you love the countryside and enjoy books that inspire, inform and entertain, then Cumbrian Contrasts will delight.
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh World World of Plants: Stories of Survival
Book SynopsisWorld of Plants: Stories of Survival tells the story of 100 plants from the Living Collection at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, that are endangered or threatened in the wild. Featuring images and descriptions of each plant, details of their origins, the threats they face, and the work being done to save them.
£17.09
Briza Publications,South Africa Garden Succulents
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£26.96
Ugly Duckling Presse Of Forests and Of Farms : On Faculty and Failure
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£9.50
World Poetry Books John Scotus Eriugena At Laon & Other Poems
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£17.09
World Poetry Books Cold Fire
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£13.49
Winter Editions Via
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£15.20
Atria Books Counting Sheep: Reflections and Observations of a
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£12.34
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Effin' Birds: A Field Guide to Identification
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£14.44
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Mushrooms of Cascadia
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Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH Woran du erkennst, dass deine Katze deinen Tod
Book SynopsisEine Katze hält sich für einen Puma und ihr Miauen für furchteinflößendes Brüllen. Sie übt im Katzenklo das Verscharren von Leichen. Wenn sie gähnt, ist sie nicht müde - sie zeigt Ihnen ihr Killergesicht. "Woran du erkennst, dass deine Katze deinen Tod plant" enthüllt in skurrilen Comics die wahre Natur der gemeinen Hauskatze. Zu Papier gebracht hat sie der Meister des entlarvenden Humors The Oatmeal - herausgekommen ist eine urkomische und geistreiche Comicsammlung, die uns darüber aufklärt, was Katzen wirklich wollen: die Weltherrschaft (und natürlich am Bauch gekrault werden). Wenn deine Katze auf dir sitzt und trampelt, ist das kein Zuneigungsbeweis. Sie überprüft deine inneren Organe auf Schwachstellen. Wenn deine Katze dir einen toten Vogel bringt, ist das kein Geschenk, sondern eine Warnung. "Woran du erkennst, dass deine Katze deinen Tod plant" ist eine urkomische und geistvolle Sammlung von Katzen-Comics, Fakten und Handlungsempfehlungen aus dem kreativen Wunderland von The Oatmeal.Trade Review»Die wahren Absichten hinter diesem scheinbar (!) ganz alltäglichen Verhalten zeigt Matthew Inman ... in seinem humorvollen Comic und eröffnet und eine ganz neue Perspektive auf unsere Miezen. Der Katzenfan wird so manche Szene mit seinem felligen Freund wiedererkennen und erfährt obendrein, wann er sich vor seinem Mitbewohner in Acht nehmen sollte. Praktische Tipps und (lebensrettende) Verhaltensregeln für Dosenöffner runden das herrlich-skurrile Buch ab, das auch uns Menschen auf die Schippe nimmt (...)." (ekz.bibliotheksservice IN 2013/23) »Wenn Sie regelmäßig unter schmerzhaften Liebesbeweisen Ihrer Katze leiden, dann müssen Sie dieses Buch lesen! Im Notfall ist es auch ein handliches Schutzschild.« Veronica Belmont, Gastgeberin von Tekzilla und Game On! »Der Mann hinter diesen rabiaten Zeichnungen und krassen Witzen ist der 31-jährige Matthew Inman. Im Jahr 2009 startete er seine Internetseite und die Welt konnte seitdem nicht mehr aufhören zu lachen.« Nick Carbone, Time »Brilliant, originell und überraschend lustig. Inmans einzigartige Perspektive und seine Fähigkeit, den Leser mit jedem Umblättern von einem wissenden Kopfnicken zu einem schallenden Lachen zu bringen, ist zum Verzweifeln. Ich hasse ihn dafür.« David Thorne, 27bslash6.com »Gefährlich lustig.« Rosa Golijan, NBC News, Today.comTable of ContentsWoran du erkennst, dass sich deine Katze für einen Puma hält Der Obdachlose Ausrichtung der Ohren Was Katzen lieben Hund oder Katze ausführen? Aussicht auf ein Thunfischsandwich Katzen vs. Internet Die 3 Wege mit Katzenklos fertig zu werden Zerbrechlich Woran du erkennst, dass dein Kater homosexuell ist Wie Kätzchen die Welt - herr schaft an sich reißen wollen Wenn wir unsere Katzen so behandeln würden wie sie uns behandeln Baby oder Katze? Wie du deine Katze siehst und wie deine Katze dich sieht Wie man Katzen krault Geschenkideen Geschwindigkeitsrekorde Woran du erkennst, dass deine Katze deinen Tod plant Bob & Bob am Montag Dienstag Mittwoch Donnerstag Freitag Samstag
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Biologie des Geistesblitzes - Speed up your mind!
Book SynopsisDenken Sie, das Gehirn ist eine perfekte Rechenmaschine, die evolutionäre Krone aller Informationssysteme, die komplexeste Struktur des Universums, präziser und leistungsfähiger als jeder Computer? Vergessen Sie das sofort! Das Gehirn ist ein Haufen voller eitler, fauler und selbstverliebter Zellen, die sich ständig verrechnen und dabei noch permanent von ihren Nachbarn abgelenkt werden.Da hält man es kaum für möglich und doch geschieht das Wunder: Das Gehirn funktioniert! Sehr gut sogar, denn Menschen sind im Gegensatz zu rechnenden Maschinen ausgesprochen kreativ.„Wie das?“, mag man fragen und dieses Buch gibt die Antwort darauf. Fachlich fundiert und locker aufbereitet berichtet der deutsche Science Slam-Meister 2012 Henning Beck über das Zusammenspiel von Nerven- und ihren Helferzellen, erklärt, was ein Geistesblitz überhaupt ist, wie er entsteht und was die Hirnforschung zum Thema Kreativität zu sagen hat.Trade Review “... die zahlreichen Bilder machen das Buch zu einem Erlebnis und gewähren dem Leser Einblick in verschiedenste Methoden der Zellbiologie. Der humoristische Grundton macht die Lektüre zu einer guten Unterhaltung, die zugleich den eigenen Wissenshorizont erweitert. Ein Buch, das man gerne auch zur Entspannung lesen kann, und das einen mehr als einmal zum Schmunzeln bringt ...“ (Kerstin Rauwolf, in: Junge Wissenschaft, Heft 101, 2014, S. 69)Mit amüsantem Plauderton und witzigen Grafiken versteht es der Autor, sein Fach dem Leser nahezubringen. Auch wenn sich Beck für die "manchmal doch recht drastischen Simplifizierungen" entschuldigt, fehlt es seinem Werk nicht an Tiefgang.Spektrum.de, 07.10.2013Table of ContentsDie Einleitung.- Das Gehirn.- Die Zellen.- Der Nervenimpuls.- Der Geistesblitz.- Der Schluss.- Glossar.- Literatur.- Index.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG No fungi no future: Wie Pilze die Welt retten
Book SynopsisDas Buch für naturwissenschaftlich interessierte Leser, die sich Gedanken machen über die anstehenden Probleme einer zahlenmäßig rasch zunehmenden Weltbevölkerung. Das Buch klärt über den bisher allgemein kaum bekannten Nutzen der sogenannten Großpilze auf. Es sind Pilze, die man sonst von Spaziergängen in Wald und Wiese kennt und die man im Handel kaufen kann. Wie können Großpilze dazu beitragen die Menschheit zu retten?Können Ernährungsprobleme in armen Ländern Afrikas durch Großpilze gelöst werden?Gelingt eine Revitalisierung ganzer geschädigter Wälder?Und was haben Pilze auf dem Mars zu suchen?Diese und weitere spannende Fragen werden im Verlauf der Kapitel beantwortet. Die Leser bekommen Einblicke in die Geheimnisse und Arbeitsweisen einer Wissenschaft, die, wie auch Pilze, im Verborgenen aktiv ist, deren Bedeutung rapide steigt, obwohl sie bisher nur von relativ wenigen Forschern betrieben wird.Table of ContentsVorwort.- 1 Einführung.- 2 Pilze für die Welt.- 3 Wer Pilze isst, lebt länger.- 4 Auch Tiere mögen Pilze.- 5 Pilze, Lebenspartner der Waldbäume.- 6 Pilze als Problemlöser.- Schlusswort.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Pocket Guide Geologie im Gelände
Book SynopsisDieses Buch ist ein Bestimmungsatlas, der hilft, Minerale, Gesteine und die wichtigsten Fossilgruppen im Gelände zu erkennen und zu beschreiben. Aber nicht nur das. Zusätzlich wird eine Reihe von wichtigen geologischen Strukturen beschrieben und in zahlreichen Fotos dargestellt. Dadurch werden Sie eingeladen, die Geologie hinter Landschaften und Gesteinen draußen im Gelände aufzuspüren. Denn die Geologie ist eine Wissenschaft, die erst richtig lebendig wird beim Wandern in der Natur, z. B. an der Küste oder durch Nationalparks. Mit wenig Wissen werde Sie die Landschaft anders erleben. Die Gesteine werden quasi lebendig und Sie werden die Geschichte wie ein Buch lesen können und die Vielfalt und Komplexität von geologischen Prozessen verstehen. Solche Prozesse – ein Wechselspiel von Magmatismus, Tektonik, Metamorphose, Klima und Sedimentation – haben die heutige Erdoberfläche geformt. Das Buch wendet sich an die geologisch interessierten Leser und Studierende, denen das Werk als Begleiter bei Ausflügen durch die Natur gute Dienste leisten wird.Table of ContentsÜberblick.- Minerale.- Magmatische Gesteine.- Metamorphe Gesteine.- Sedimentgesteine.- Fossilien & Paläoökologie.
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Books on Demand Intelligente Evolution: Spurensuche nach dem Sinn des Lebens
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Books on Demand Mord, Magie und wirre Träume: Die dunkle Seite
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Spektrum Akademischen Verlag Biotechnologie in Cartoons
Book SynopsisMärchenhaft und bildend zugleich: Das weltweit allererste Biotechnologie-Buch im lustigen lockeren Cartoon-Stil! Die Story: Eine Sternschnuppe fällt auf die Erde in das Königreich Makronesien. Als König Richard VIII. den Sternenstaub unter dem Super-Mikroskop untersucht, entdeckt er ein nanoskopisch kleines intelligentes Wesen in einem Mikro-Raumschiff ... Professor Nanoroo ist vom Planeten Nano zur Erde gekommen, um die menschliche Biotechnologie zu verstehen. Neugierig kommuniziert er mit den Menschen, fragt allen ein Loch in den Bauch. Nanoroo begegnet brotbackenden und bierbrauenden Hefen; krank- und gesundmachenden Bakterien; Pilzen, die Medikamente gegen Bakterien produzieren. Er erlebt viele Abenteuer, unter anderem rettet er des Königs Bruder vor dem Herzinfarkt, misst den Zuckerspiegel Richards und die Fitness von Rennpferden, sieht Pflanzen bei der Raupenabwehr und kostet vitaminreichen Goldenen Reis. Die wissenschaftlichen Hintergründe der Cartoons werden jeweils sachlich kurz in Boxen erklärt. Wenn Nanoroo am glücklichen Ende von der Erde abfliegt mit dem Versprechen wiederzukommen, haben junge und alte Cartoon-Fans bereits stillvergnügt und spielend die Grundlagen der Biotechnologie begriffen. Trade Review“... ein attraktives Ergänzungswerk für Schüler der Mittel- und Oberstufe. Das Lesen und Durchblättern macht aber auch Erwachsenen Spaß – ob mit oder ohne Biotechnologiekenntnisse.” (Ulrike Abel-Wanek, in: PZ Pharmazeutische Zeitung, Heft 29, 21. Juli 2016)“... Den kurzen Cartoons, mit Sachkenntnis angefertigt vom chinesischen Zeichner Ming-fai Chow, folgen jeweils einige Seiten mit tiefer gehenden Erklärungen und detaillierten Skizzen. Grundbegriffe der Biotechnologie wie Protein, DNS oder Molekül werden gut verständlich erklärt. ... Als Autor diverser Fachbücher und Kolumnen kennt er sich bestens mit der populärwissenschaftlichen Aufarbeitung komplexer Themen aus. Und das beweist er einmal mehr in seinem aktuellen Werk ...” (Sigrid März, in: Laborjournal online, laborjournal.de, 2. März 2016)
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Spektrum Akademischer Verlag Bewusstsein - ein neurobiologisches Rätsel: Mit
Book Synopsis1 Einführung in die Erforschung des Bewusstseins.- 2 Neuronen, die Atome der Wahrnehmung.- 3 Die ersten Schritte zum Sehen.- 4 Der primäre visuelle Cortex als prototypisches neocorticales Areal.- 5 Was sind die neuronalen Korrelate des Bewusstseins?.- 6 Die neuronalen Korrelate des Bewusstseins befinden sich nicht im primären visuellen Cortex.- 7 Die Architektur der Großhirnrinde.- 8 Jenseits des primären visuellen Cortex.- 9 Aufmerksamkeit und Bewusstsein.- 10 Die neuronalen Grundlagen der Aufmerksamkeit.- 11 Gedächtnisformen und Bewusstsein.- 12 Was man tun kann, ohne sich dessen bewusst zu sein: Der Zombie in uns.- 13 Agnosie, Blindsehen, Epilepsie und Schlafwandeln: Klinische Belege für Zombies.- 14 Einige Spekulationen über die Funktionen des Bewusstseins.- 15 Über Zeit und Bewusstsein.- 16 Wenn der Geist umspringt: Auf den Spuren des Bewusstseins.- 17 Das Gehirn zu spalten, heißt das Bewusstsein zu spalten.- 18 Weitere Spekulationen über Gedanken und den nicht-bewussten Homunculus.- 19 Ein Entwurf des Bewusstseins.- 20 Ein Interview.- Glossar.
£26.59
Jens Peters Publications Philippines Travel Guide
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Books on Demand Naturerlebnis - Mähen mit der Sense
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Die Gestalten Verlag Ask Me About... Dinosaurs: Questions and Answers
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Pleasant Place Pleasant Place Issue 4
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£14.99
The University of Chicago Press The Naturalist in Nicaragua
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The University of Chicago Press Kindred Nature
Book SynopsisHighlighting the contributions of Victorian and Edwardian women to the study, protection, and writing of nature, this text recovers their works from the misrepresentation they often faced at the time of their composition.
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