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Drinking from the Stream: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature
ISBN: 9780615916873 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of real life episodes, poems and essays from women who view nature through the lens of their experience. This book will transport the armchair traveler to the far reaches of our globe to recount heroic, sometimes Quixotic, but always fascinating accounts of the search for solitude and spiritual renewal.
A collection of real life episodes, poems and essays from women who view nature through the lens of their experience. This book will transport the arm...
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59,87 |
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El origen de las especies
ISBN: 9781489586469 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La teoria de Darwin de la evolucion se basa en hechos clave y e inferencias extraidas de los mismos, que el biologo Ernst Mayr resumio como sigue: Cada especie es suficientemente fertil para que si sobreviven todos los descendientes para reproducir la poblacion crecera. Aunque hay fluctuaciones periodicas, las poblaciones siguen siendo aproximadamente del mismo tamano. Los recursos como los alimentos son limitados y son relativamente estables en el tiempo. Sobreviene una lucha por la supervivencia (inferencia). Los individuos de una poblacion varian considerablemente de unos a otros. Gran...
La teoria de Darwin de la evolucion se basa en hechos clave y e inferencias extraidas de los mismos, que el biologo Ernst Mayr resumio como sigue: Cad...
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27,94 |
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The Peace of Blue: Water Journeys
ISBN: 9780813060095 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Florida Book Award, Florida Nonfiction, Silver Medalist
Away from the strip malls and the sprawl, the theme parks and the resorts, the waters of Florida are a secret blue world of wonders. Belleville s beautiful new book takes you with him on (and sometimes under) the rivers and springs, lakes and marshes and seas of this most liquid of states. Diane Roberts, author of Dream State: Eight Generations of Swamp Lawyers, Conquistadors, Confederate Daughters, Banana Republicans, and Other Florida Wildlife Florida Book Award, Florida Nonfiction, Silver Medalist
Away from the strip malls and the sprawl, the theme parks and the resorts, the wate... |
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94,84 |
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Braiding Sweetgrass
ISBN: 9781571313560 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" ("Publishers Weekly") and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by "Library Journal," "Braiding Sweetgrass" is poised to be a classic of nature writing. As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer asks questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces indigenous teachings that consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge...
Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" ("Publishers Weekly") and the book that, "anyone interested in...
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On Location: Essays of Place
ISBN: 9781492222910 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These are essays of place, locations where people have found themselves: a tree garden, a historic courthouse in New York's Revolutionary War corridor, an ancient volcano in central Arizona, a man's home given over to birds, Seneca's boyhood home in Ostia Antica, the shores of California's Salton Sea, Philadelphia's Wissahickon where Edgar Allan Poe spent idle hours drifting in a skiff. On Location, Essays of Place attempts to assemble the influences of location, and their necessity to human identity. Colored prints and illustrations.
These are essays of place, locations where people have found themselves: a tree garden, a historic courthouse in New York's Revolutionary War corridor...
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110,47 |
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Animal Stories: Encounters with Alaska's Wildlife
ISBN: 9781941821084 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,38 |
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West Along the River 2: Stories from the Connecticut River Valley and Elsewhere
ISBN: 9781626469693 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The is the second book in a series about nature, village life, sense of place in the Connecticut River Valley, and beyond. Seasons in western New England, family, Red Sox lore and local heroes in Fenway Park, encounters with bears and other memorable wild creatures, Native American presence, and adventures in Ireland, Brittany and France complete this collection. Lyrical nature writing and tender remembrance connect the past and present, helping record oral history of a corner of New England rural culture.
The is the second book in a series about nature, village life, sense of place in the Connecticut River Valley, and beyond. Seasons in western New Engl...
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72,16 |
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Early Southern Sports and Sportsmen, 1830-1910: A Literary Anthology
ISBN: 9781611173970 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jacob F. Rivers III has collected twenty-two classic hunting tales by twelve southern writers including Davey Crocket, Johnson J. Hooper, and Henry Clay Lewis. These stories spring not only from a genteel literary tradition but also from the tradition of the tall tale or stories of backwoods humor. Antebellum and post-Civil War tales reflect changes in the social and economic composition of the hunting class in the South. Some reveal themes of fear for the future of field sports, and others demonstrate an early conservation ethic among hunters and landowners. Early Southern Sports and... Jacob F. Rivers III has collected twenty-two classic hunting tales by twelve southern writers including Davey Crocket, Johnson J. Hooper, and Henr... |
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165,17 |
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Readings in Wood: What the Forest Taught Me
ISBN: 9781611174588 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Artful and comic essays of keen appreciation and thoughtful study of the invaluable wooded world
Artful and comic essays of keen appreciation and thoughtful study of the invaluable wooded world
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77,68 |
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How to Read the Landscape
ISBN: 9781856231855 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to an ICM poll, 77 percent of UK adults, or about 38 million people, say they walk for pleasure at least once a month. It is remarkable, therefore, that no one has written about the landscapes they're walking through and enjoying . . . until now. Patrick Whitefield has spent a lifetime living and working in the countryside and twenty years of that taking notes of what he sees, everywhere from the Isle of Wight to the Scottish Highlands. This book is the fruit of those years of experience. In How to Read the Landscape, Patrick explains everything from the... According to an ICM poll, 77 percent of UK adults, or about 38 million people, say they walk for pleasure at least once a month. It is remarkable, ... |
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Animal Wonder World: A Chronicle of the Unusual in Nature
ISBN: 9781590774441 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a charming series of essays on animal behavior, written in 1951 by the note British science writer Frank W. Lane, reveals obscure and fascinating oddities of animal behavior. The clear, logical explanation behind each bizarre happening grounds the observations in scientific research, and provides modern readers insight on mid-century scientific field methodology. Here are some of the cases featured in this fantastic compilation: Do bees tell time and tell each other of honey locations? Can game animals dodge bullets? Have fish an ear for music? Do birds hitch hike on each other's...
This is a charming series of essays on animal behavior, written in 1951 by the note British science writer Frank W. Lane, reveals obscure and fascinat...
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71,54 |
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Facing It: Epiphany and Apocalypse in the New Nature
ISBN: 9781623491451 / Angielski / Miękka / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blending memoir, cultural history, and a literary perspective, "Facing It" bears witness to controversies like Tellico and Chernobyl, global warming and local drought. But rather than merely drowning readers in waves of ecological angst, M. Jimmie Killingsworth seeks alternative images and episodes to invoke presence without crippling the hope for survival and sustenance in places and communities of value. In deft, highly accessible prose, Killingsworth takes the reader through a Cold-War childhood, an adolescence colored by anti-war and ecological activism, and an adulthood darkened by...
Blending memoir, cultural history, and a literary perspective, "Facing It" bears witness to controversies like Tellico and Chernobyl, global warming a...
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116,54 |
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Messages from an Owl
ISBN: 9780691605579 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When zoologist Max Terman came to the rescue of a great horned owlet in a Kansas town park, he embarked on an adventure that would test his scientific ingenuity and lead to unprecedented observations of an owl's hidden life in the wild. In Messages from an Owl, Terman not only relates his experiences nursing the starving owlet, "Stripey," back to health and teaching it survival skills in his barn, but also describes the anxiety and elation of letting a companion loose into an uncertain world. Once Terman felt that Stripey knew how to dive after prey, he set the owl free. At this... When zoologist Max Terman came to the rescue of a great horned owlet in a Kansas town park, he embarked on an adventure that would test his scienti... |
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Seasons of the Tallgrass Prairie: A Nebraska Year
ISBN: 9780803253377 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A respected author and scholar, Paul A. Johnsgard has spent a lifetime observing the natural delights of Nebraska s woodlands, grasslands, and wetlands. Seasons of the Tallgrass Prairie collects his musings on Nebraska s natural history and the issues of conservation facing our future. Johnsgard crafts essays featuring snow geese, owls, hummingbirds, and other creatures against the backdrop of Great Plains landscapes. He describes prairie chickens courting during predawn hours and the calls of sandhill cranes; he evokes the magic of lying upon the prairie, hearing... A respected author and scholar, Paul A. Johnsgard has spent a lifetime observing the natural delights of Nebraska s woodlands, grasslands, and wetl... |
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Nature
ISBN: 9781500164430 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Nature," Emerson lays out an abstract problem that he attempts to solve throughout the essay: that humans do not fully accept nature's beauty and all that it has to offer. According to Emerson, people are distracted by the world around them; nature gives to humans, but humans do not reciprocate. Emerson breaks his essay into eight sections--Nature, Commodity, Beauty, Language, Discipline, Idealism, Spirit and Prospects--each of which sheds a different perspective on the relationship between humans and nature.
In "Nature," Emerson lays out an abstract problem that he attempts to solve throughout the essay: that humans do not fully accept nature's beauty and ...
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28,94 |
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How Domestic Animals Came to the United States
ISBN: 9781493689293 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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35,92 |
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Swim or Drown: Business and Life Lessons I've Learned from the Ocean
ISBN: 9781500555986 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Several sea turtles sprint across the beach, jumping over driftwood and dodging hungry birds. These creatures simply do not know the meaning of the word "obstacle." At the young age of thirteen, Warren Cassell Jr. came to the conclusion that we can learn everything there is to know about life by simply observing nature. In this intentionally short book, Warren invites us to take a dive into the oceans that cover nearly three quarters of the earth's surface. He shares some of the wisdom he gleaned from the lives of its inhabitants, but more importantly, he encourages us to discover some of the...
Several sea turtles sprint across the beach, jumping over driftwood and dodging hungry birds. These creatures simply do not know the meaning of the wo...
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23,91 |
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Step Into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9781582705002 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Step outside your door and reconnect with nature. From the author of Writing and the Spiritual Life comes a guide that will replenish your connection to the earth and inspire you to develop and strengthen your imagination. The natural world has inspired artists, seekers, and thinkers for millennia, but in recent times, as the pace of life has sped up, its demands have moved us indoors. Yet nature's capacity to lead us to important truths, to invigorate and restore our imagination and equilibrium, is infinite. Step into Nature makes nature personal again by stimulating...
Step outside your door and reconnect with nature. From the author of Writing and the Spiritual Life comes a guide that will replenish your conn...
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An Explorer's Notebook: Essays on Life, History, and Climate
ISBN: 9780802122971 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Best known for his #1 international bestseller "The Weather Makers," Tim Flannery is one of the world s most influential scientists, a foremost expert on climate change credited with discovering more species than Charles Darwin. But Flannery didn t come to his knowledge overnight. With its selection of exhilarating essays and articles written over the past thirty years, "An Explorer s Notebook" charts the evolution of a young scientist doing fieldwork in remote locations into the major thinker who has changed the way we think about global warming. In these thirty pieces, Flannery writes about...
Best known for his #1 international bestseller "The Weather Makers," Tim Flannery is one of the world s most influential scientists, a foremost expert...
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68,42 |
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At Home in the Woods: Living the Life of Thoreau Today
ISBN: 9781608934423 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One hundred years ago, Henry Thoreau wrote of the charms and joys of simple living in the woods, away from the hectic nuisances of our city civilization. His philosophy has become part of our American heritage, as sound today as the day he first set it down. But his advice on the simple life has seemed too rugged for later generations, brought up in cities, pampered with conveniences and scared of nature. Vena and Brad Angier were fed up with their city bound existence and longtime readers and admirers of Thoreau, they set out to see if his discoveries were valid today. This is the account of...
One hundred years ago, Henry Thoreau wrote of the charms and joys of simple living in the woods, away from the hectic nuisances of our city civilizati...
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