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Displaying records 121 through 130 of 4000 |
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $18.46
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Manufacturer: Sasquatch Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Nick Jans
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Publisher: Sasquatch Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.798
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Publication Date: 2002-01-07
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: Over 130 images paired with essays from Nick Jans record the splendor of this great American wilderness. From intimate singular images to hauntingly beautiful landscapes, Alaska finds new expression under the artful lens of Art Wolfe. For more than 15 years Art Wolfe has been documenting Alaska, from the rainforests of the Southeast to snow-shrouded mountains to the northern expanses of the Brooks Range and beyond. Wolfe brings a painters sensitivity to light, pattern, and composition in his photography of landscape and wildlife, and Alaska is his personal vision of a truly awesome landscape.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $12.31
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Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: L. L. Langstroth
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Publisher: Dover Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 638.1
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Publication Date: 2004-02-20
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Reading Level: 464
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Description: The first descriptive treatise of modern bee management. In a reader-friendly, enthusiastic style, Langstroth addresses every aspect of beekeeping: bee physiology; diseases and enemies of bees; the life-cycles of the queen, drone, and worker; bee-hives; the handling of bees; and many other topics. 25 plates.
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Price: $59.95
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Sale: $32.49
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ian L. McHarg
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Publisher: Wiley
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.2
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Publication Date: 1995-02-06
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: With a distinct emphasis on human cooperation and biological partnership in design, the author explores the relationship between the built environment and nature to illustrate how both can be used to their full potential without being detrimental or destructive to each other. Provides a combination of scientific insight and constructive design, and shows how to employ what nature offers to the fullest extent without imposing limitations or design constraints to create a balanced and self-renewing environment.
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Price: $7.99
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Sale: $3.88
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Manufacturer: Berkley
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tom Brown Jr.
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Publisher: Berkley
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 1997-07-01
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Reading Level: 281
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Description: Presents twelve episodes illustrating the expert skills in tracking that the author learned from an Apache expert, demonstrating how the Native American art of survival can bring the spiritual rewards of higher consciousness and inner peace. Reprint."
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $13.40
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Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John Hanson Mitchell
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Publisher: Beacon Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.74461
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Publication Date: 2008-08-15
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: In 1614, explorer John Smith sailed into what was to become Boston Harbor and referred to the wild lands and waters around him as "the Paradise of all these parts." Within fifteen years, the Puritans were developing the tadpole-shaped Shawmut Peninsula, as members of the Massachusett tribe fled. Now, nearly four hundred years later, one must wonder what remains of John Smith's "Paradise."
Equipped with wit, intellect, and an innate curiosity about people and places, John Hanson Mitchell strolls through Boston's streets, chronicling the nonhuman inhabitants and surprisingly diverse plant life, as well as the eccentric characters he meets at various turns. Using his modern observations as a starting point, he tells the fascinating stories of the tribal leaders, naturalists, community activists, and organizations who worked to preserve nature in the city over generations, from the Victory Gardens of the Fenway to the expansive woods of Franklin Park.
But much of the history is in the land itself. As he battles traffic on notorious Route 128, Mitchell considers the ancient origins of the rocks that line the highway and those that form the city's foundation. A walk across Boston Common calls to mind the Tremount Hills, flattened by seventeenth-century newcomers; only Beacon Hill remains. A stroll through the Back Bay allows Mitchell to imagine the Charles River, so polluted by sewage that it became a public nuisance and was partially covered over with a massive nineteenth-century landfill. With this natural history in mind, Mitchell explores both ancient and new green space from Chelsea to South Boston, including the greenway formed by the Big Dig.
Endlessly readable and full of personality, The Paradise of All These Parts offers Boston visitors and residents alike a whole new perspective on one of America's oldest cities.
"Hands-on and eloquent – a lover's rhapsody."
—Edward Hoagland
"A wonderful, surprising, and gracefully written exploration of Boston's true nature. If you love this city, you will love this book."
—Eric Jay Dolin, author of LEVIATHAN: The History of Whaling in America
"A wonderful piece of work: lively, thought-provoking and totally absorbing. The city of Boston has been chopped to pieces, riddled with tunnels, and surrounded by fill, but as Mitchell reveals in The Paradise of All These Parts, it is still a place of wonder."
—Nathaniel Philbrick, author of MAYFLOWER: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"Like Vladimir Nabokov, John Hanson Mitchell is a writer with an eye for nature's curious details, rather than a naturalist who practices writing. His new natural history of Boston is actually more a history of naturalists, explorers, conservationists and others at play on nature's grand stage with lots of juicy subplots and a large cast of engaging eccentrics. Irresistible."
—Christopher W. Leahy, Gerard A. Bertrand Chair of Natural History and Field Ornithology, Massachusetts Audubon Society, and author of The Birdwatcher's Companion to North American Birdlife, Peterson First Guide to Insects of North America, and more
"The history of urban areas is often framed as the march of human mastery: culture replacing nature tree by tree. John Hanson Mitchell tells the story of how geology, nature, Natives and new arrivals have continually made and remade the place we call Boston. His amiable tale rambles easily from rocks to rivers to red light districts, interweaving natural and human history in a way that's quietly but deeply meaningful."
—Ginger Strand, author of Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies
"There is plenty of history, natural and otherwise, in The Paradise of All These Parts, but there is also wit, narrative, and vision. Like Thoreau, Mitchell has a genius for sauntering, and I can't imagine a better rambling companion. As we stroll through Boston with him, he points out the place's deep history, its returning wildness, its migrating birds and flowering plants, and of course, since this is Mitchell, its quirky characters. The journey is a grand success, and John Hanson Mitchell proves once again that he is one of our very finest writers about place."
—David Gessner, author of Soaring with Fidel: An Osprey Odyssey from Cape Cod to Cuba and Beyond
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $8.94
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Manufacturer: Tide-Mark Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Calendar
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Publisher: Tide-Mark Press
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Edition: Wal Blg
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Publication Date: 2008-06-30
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Price: $27.50
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Sale: $17.24
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Susan Freinkel
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 634.9724
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Publication Date: 2007-11-19
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Reading Level: 294
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Description: The American chestnut was one of America's most common, valued, and beloved trees--a "perfect tree" that ruled the forests from Georgia to Maine. But in the early twentieth century, an exotic plague swept through the chestnut forests with the force of a wildfire. Within forty years, the blight had killed close to four billion trees and left the species teetering on the brink of extinction. It was one of the worst ecological blows to North America since the Ice Age--and one most experts considered beyond repair. In American Chestnut, Susan Freinkel tells the dramatic story of the stubborn optimists who refused to let this cultural icon go. In a compelling weave of history, science, and personal observation, she relates their quest to save the tree through methods that ranged from classical plant breeding to cutting-edge gene technology. But the heart of her story is the cast of unconventional characters who have fought for the tree for a century, undeterred by setbacks or skeptics, and fueled by their dreams of restored forests and their powerful affinity for a fellow species.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $10.85
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Manufacturer: New Leaf Distributing Company
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Vladimir Megré
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Publisher: New Leaf Distributing Company
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 158
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Publication Date: 2008-06-15
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: "Co-creation," the fourth book and centrepiece of the Series, paints a dramatic living image of the creation of the Universe and humanity's place in this creation, making this primordial mystery relevant to our everyday living today. Deeply metaphysical yet at the same time down-to-Earth practical, this poetic heart-felt volume helps us uncover answers to the most significant questions about the essence and meaning of the Universe and the nature and purpose of our existence. It also shows how and why the knowledge of these answers, innate in every human being, has become obscured and forgotten, and points the way toward reclaiming this wisdom and in partnership with Nature manifesting the energy of Love through our lives.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $18.85
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Manufacturer: Library of America
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John Muir
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Publisher: Library of America
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.74092
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Publication Date: 1997-04-22
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Reading Level: 928
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Description: In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir made himself America's most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness, a master of natural description who evoked and celebrated with unique power and intimacy the untrammeled landscapes of Alaska and the American West.
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Price: $13.99
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Sale: $8.50
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Brand: Animal
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Manufacturer: Willow Creek Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Calendar
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Publisher: Willow Creek Press
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Edition: Wal
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Publication Date: 2008-06-30
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Description: This calendar displays close-up photography of favorite backyard beauties with common and scientific names included. More beautiful avian photography and lots of interesting facts in the award nominated book Why Birds Do That also by Willow Creek Press.
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Displaying records 121 through 130 of 4000
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