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With large bright eyes and silent flight, the owl is a master of mystery. A bird of superstition and super-intelligence, its gifts are manifold, hidden beneath a sheath of feathers, just as the owl remains out of sight until the call of night beckons. A symbol of wisdom...
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Quadrille
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2025-09-25
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'Jamie Lafferty embarks on an epic quest - in which the journey is at least as entertaining as the end result' - Stephen Moss, author of Ten Birds That Changed the World'Highly entertaining and gloriously obsessional' - Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan'A wise, rude,...
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Wildfire
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2025-09-25
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'When we know what to look for and what it means, seasonal moments that were once hiddenshine brightly.'In The Hidden Seasons, Tristan Gooley shows us how to read the clues that the sun, moon, stars, plants, fungi, animals, water and weather give us - but that we...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2025-09-18
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Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex of a natural hierarchy. Yet today many maintain that we are the most intelligent, virtuous, successful species that ever lived. This flawed thinking persuades us to exploit the earth at the expense of...
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Abacus
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2025-09-18
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'An ode to one of the world’s best-loved birds' Harper’s Bazaar'The perfect book for the penguin person in your life' Daunt Books'A joy' Horatio Clare, The Spectator‘Electrifyingly charismatic’ Dan Snow, author of On This Day in History‘The world's best-loved bird from...
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Penguin
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2025-09-18
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** A FINANCIAL TIMES & NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF 2025** A Bill Gates Top Pick for 2025: 'One of the clearest explanations of the climate challenge I’ve read''We urgently need Hannah Ritchie' GUARDIAN'Essential reading' RUTGER BREGMAN 'Read this book -- now' MARK...
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Vintage Digital
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2025-09-18
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Experiencing nature has positive effects on mental development, health, and well-being, and can be interpreted as an element of a “good life.” This book relates this connection to learning and educational settings. Educational processes in biology education...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-09
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Travel back in time to the prehistoric world of the dinosaurs, brought to life in spectacular detail.Revisit the spectacle of the incredible new series of BBC One’s Walking With Dinosaurs in this richly detailed look into the distant past. With the latest up-to-date...
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Dk
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2025-09-05
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Discover the wonders of the natural world with this beautiful collection of botanical paintings from around the globe.The opening of the 19th century ushered in an age of unprecedented scientific discovery and artistry. As the development of the microscope allowed...
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Ilex Press
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2025-09-04
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From the soils that sustain our crops to the homes we've built, the technology we rely on, our biological makeup, and even the tea or coffee you drink, rocks have had a profound influence on human life for as long as we have existed.No wonder rock has inspired art,...
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The Bridge Street Press
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2025-09-04
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Shortlisted for Non-Fiction Book of The Year, Irish Book Awards 2025'An outstanding work' Michael D. Higgins'Explosive' Irish Times'An honest, uncompromising book that pulls no punches in identifying the powerful interests that are stymieing Ireland’s transition to a...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2025-09-04
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'My encounters with nature are very personal. I am inspired by watching jays gathering acorns and hearing owls hooting.''In the shady parts of my garden, ferns grow. In the springtime, the ferns unfurl their tight, rounded, bundled leaves into rich green fingers. By the...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2025-08-28
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'This book reawakens something vital – a way of slowing down and truly seeing the world around you. It is not merely a manual, it is the authentic voice of experience and a mentor in print.' Lieutenant Colonel Gaz Veacock MBA, Royal MarinesRay Mears has accumulated his...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
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2025-08-28
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When Adrian Potter retires from a life of teaching in West Yorkshire, his interests turn to a local badger group. He takes over the 'Badger Phone', which he comes to realise is something of a hot potato. He is inundated with calls: reports of sightings, requests for...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2025-08-28
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To want to ‘save the planet’, a person has to have a sense of belonging in it…What would a saved planet look like for a Black collective?'This book is validating and monumental' Courttia Newland‘Sensitive, powerful and necessary’ Joycelyn LongdonGlobally, Black people...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2025-08-28
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This book examines the complicated place of animals in literary analysis and education and shows how an ethically engaged approach to animals’ representation could be pursued to challenge anthropocentrism and cultivate multispecies empathy. Other species are...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-23
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This book presents a comprehensive framework for applying digital technologies to heritage conservation. It begins by developing a knowledge path of cultural heritage buildings through methods such as 3D laser scanning, photogrammetry, and Heritage Building Information...
Editeur :
Springer
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2025-07-28
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Take a trip into the world of hallucinogenic plants in this latest addition to Kew's Witch's Garden series. From ancient ayahuasca rituals in the Amazon to substance-fuelled partying in the Summer of Love, psychoactive plants have been used for thousands of years for...
Editeur :
Welbeck
Parution :
2025-07-24
Collection :
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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A classic Gerald Durrell title reissued by Penguin to celebrate the centenary of his birth'Gerald Durrell was magic' SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGHMenagerie Manor chronicles the early, sunlit days of Gerald Durrell’s dream to create a sanctuary for animals, realized Les Augrès...
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Penguin
Parution :
2025-07-24
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