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Walking/ Wild Apples (annotated)
ISBN: 9781519507440 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil--to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that.
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil--to regard man as an inhab...
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The Naturalist in Nicaragua
ISBN: 9781519581549 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Walden
ISBN: 9781509826704 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Henry Thoreau is considered, along with Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Hawthorne, as one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most influential book. It recounts the author's experiences living in a small house in the woods around Walden Pond near Concord in Massachusetts. Thoreau constructed the house himself, with the help of a few friends, and one of the reasons why he moved into it was in an attempt to see if he could live independently and away from society. The result is an intriguing work which... Henry Thoreau is considered, along with Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Hawthorne, as one of the leading figures i... |
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
ISBN: 9781616206420 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her encounter with a Neohelix albolabris--a common woodland snail.
While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence on her nightstand. As a result, she discovers the solace and sense of wonder that this mysterious creature brings and comes to a greater understanding of her own place in the world. Intrigued by the snail's molluscan anatomy, cryptic defenses, clear decision... In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her e...
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The Theory of Everything and the Man Who Could Save the Earth: All But the World Is Loving 2
ISBN: 9781482855395 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A man's love for nature could turn out to be the greatest love for humanity, and such a fondness could ultimately pave the way on his quest to enlighten and encourage everyone about the essence of that love-to passionately save the earth and its biodiversity from destruction. By saving the earth from the ravages of anthropogenic climate change-deforestation, peak oil, and rising seas-a love for nature can reverse the trends and therefore prolong life for not only the planet but for human beings as well. The Theory of Everything and the Man Who Could Save the Earth is dedicated to nature...
A man's love for nature could turn out to be the greatest love for humanity, and such a fondness could ultimately pave the way on his quest to enlight...
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The Theory of Everything and the Man Who Could Save the Earth: All But the World Is Loving 2
ISBN: 9781482855388 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A man's love for nature could turn out to be the greatest love for humanity, and such a fondness could ultimately pave the way on his quest to enlighten and encourage everyone about the essence of that love-to passionately save the earth and its biodiversity from destruction. By saving the earth from the ravages of anthropogenic climate change-deforestation, peak oil, and rising seas-a love for nature can reverse the trends and therefore prolong life for not only the planet but for human beings as well. The Theory of Everything and the Man Who Could Save the Earth is dedicated to nature...
A man's love for nature could turn out to be the greatest love for humanity, and such a fondness could ultimately pave the way on his quest to enlight...
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The Highland Light/Night and Moonlight (annotated)
ISBN: 9781523623532 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it, -to penetrate to the shores of its Lake Tchad, and discover the source of its Nile, perchance the Mountains of the Moon? Who knows what fertility and beauty, moral and natural, are there to be found
Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it, -to penetrate to the shores of its Lake Tchad, and discover t...
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What I've Seen: Animal, Nature, and Ranger Tales
ISBN: 9780996971928 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traveling in the west, working as a naturalist at several national parks, as well as on Mount Greylock in Massachusetts, Kathleen O'Rourke encountered large animals and wild weather, park visitors and native peoples. She writes as a storyteller and pulls the reader along into her experiences as a greenhorn ranger who learns to overcome a fear of snakes, mountain lions and bears by talking to them and being curious about their lives. When she was lonely, or needed to learn about a new environment, or maybe just looking for some fun, it was often the other rangers, Indian friends, as well as...
Traveling in the west, working as a naturalist at several national parks, as well as on Mount Greylock in Massachusetts, Kathleen O'Rourke encountered...
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Gorillas in Our Midst: The Story of the Columbus Zoo Gorillas
ISBN: 9780814207673 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just as gorillas have a special allure for zoo visitors around the world, the Columbus, Ohio, zoo has a special place in the history of the care and captive breeding of the greatest of the great apes. Columbus was the site of the world's first captive gorilla birth in 1956, and in the more than four decades that have followed since that historic day, twenty-six more gorillas have been born into the Columbus Zoo gorilla family. Gorillas in Our Midst chronicles the characters and events that have made the Columbus gorilla program world renowned. From the brutal capture of the zoo's first...
Just as gorillas have a special allure for zoo visitors around the world, the Columbus, Ohio, zoo has a special place in the history of the care and c...
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Lime Creek Odyssey
ISBN: 9780871083272 / Angielski / Twarda / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet
ISBN: 9781595347800 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. This powerful anthology gathers the passionate voices of young writers who have grown up in an environmentally damaged and compromised world. Each contributor has come of age since Bill McKibben foretold the doom of humanity's ancient relationship with a pristine earth in his prescient 1988 warning of climate change, The End of Nature.
What happens to individuals and societies when their most fundamental cultural, historical, and ecological bonds weaken--or snap? In Coming of Age at the End... Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. This powerful anthology gathers the passionate voices of young...
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Talking on the Water: Conversations about Nature and Creativity
ISBN: 9781595347862 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 1980s and 90s, the Resource Institute, headed by Jonathan White, held a series of "floating seminars" aboard a sixty-five-foot schooner featuring leading thinkers and writers from an array of disciplines. Over ten years, White conducted interviews, gathered in this collection, with the writers, scientists, and environmentalists who gathered on board to explore our relationship to the wild.
White describes the conversations as the roots of an integrated community: "While at first these roots may not appear to be linked, a closer look reveals that they are sustained in common... During the 1980s and 90s, the Resource Institute, headed by Jonathan White, held a series of "floating seminars" aboard a sixty-five-foot schooner fea...
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The Batty Trio: Whimsical Tales from the Wild Hearts
ISBN: 9781530858637 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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#Fishing Like a Girl: From the 10,000 Islands and Beyond
ISBN: 9781517736767 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A Gentle Walk Through Nature
ISBN: 9781497466708 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many people are hurting, to what degree, sometimes we will never know. The goal of this book is to bring about a soothing atmosphere of calm and healing. To find comfort in the arms of Nature, and feel the love and bliss on a beautiful summer's day, such as this one the hiker has chosen in the book. I hope through your journey, you find a restorative balm in A Gentle Walk Through Nature. May your walk through this book bring you Peace and Light.
Many people are hurting, to what degree, sometimes we will never know. The goal of this book is to bring about a soothing atmosphere of calm and heali...
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Zephyr of Time: Meditations on Time and Nature
ISBN: 9780996222211 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Continuing with his meditative and spiritual essays on nature published in Canyon Breezes (Lichen Rock Press, 2015), Joseph Colwell explores the time of nature and the nature of time in a new collection of essays and poems. These essays combine nature with spirituality in a meditative style. They are reflective and personal, covering experiences over half a century of exploring and thinking of time and nature. A zephyr is a gentle breeze, a mild west wind. The author grew up in Illinois and he will always consider that home. But the zephyr from the West pulled him and the West... Continuing with his meditative and spiritual essays on nature published in Canyon Breezes (Lichen Rock Press, 2015), Joseph Colwell explores the ti... |
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Where's the Moon?: A Memoir of the Space Coast and the Florida Dream
ISBN: 9781623494506 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When you lose your parents just as you have left home for graduate school glad to finally be away from a life and place you found stifling how do you make your way in a world with no home to go back to? For Ann McCutchan, whose parents died in a car accident when she was twenty-three, the answer was to keep moving, away from the dream her mom and dad had so hopefully embraced in her childhood, and away from the locus of that dream, the state of Florida in the 1960s.
In this coming-of-age memoir, McCutchan, a writer and musician, returns to Florida to reconcile with the life she had... When you lose your parents just as you have left home for graduate school glad to finally be away from a life and place you found stifling how do you ...
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Adios to the Brushlands
ISBN: 9781623494865 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a little-known area of South Texas, extending across the Rio Grande into Mexico, a mysterious, lush land once harbored mighty trees, bushes, and grasses--brushland home to a plethora of wildlife. In Adios to the Brushlands native son Arturo Longoria remembers this chapparal land of his childhood: hot summer days and frigid winter mornings walking with his grandfather or his best friend through the dense underbrush, watching birds, studying reptiles, identifying plants. Boyhood hunting and varmint calling, encounters with rattlesnakes and fierce pamorana ants, hours spent with his...
In a little-known area of South Texas, extending across the Rio Grande into Mexico, a mysterious, lush land once harbored mighty trees, bushes, and gr...
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The Treasures of Scouting: Character Traits and Skills to Ensure Youth Success
ISBN: 9780692675144 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Be Prepared-For An Extraordinary Look At Scouting
"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."-President Franklin D. Roosevelt The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has been building America's youth for more than a century. Over that time, nearly 100 million kids have passed through its ranks and today BSA boasts 2.5 million members and almost a million adult volunteers. Jeff Johnson has been with BSA for more than thirty years, and has collected some of his favorite memories for you to enjoy-stories that reveal the strength of character... Be Prepared-For An Extraordinary Look At Scouting
"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."-P... |
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Fantastic Animals Book 4: Animals Grayscale coloring books for adults Relaxation Art Therapy for Busy People (Adult Coloring Books Series, grays
ISBN: 9781535121248 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Special Discount Get your copy right now
What is grayscale coloring? Simply put, it is an easy and amazing way to add professional shading to your coloring, without having to add the shade yourself The complex gray tones add variance and depth to your art, taking your adult coloring to the next level, resulting in pictures you'll be proud to share. Includes 24 beautiful photos Printed on one side only Full size (8.5"x 11"), pure white 60lb. paper
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