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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects...
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Storey Publishing, LLC
Parution :
1981-01-05
Collection :
Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin
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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects...
Editeur :
Storey Publishing, LLC
Parution :
1981-01-02
Collection :
Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin
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The true and hilarious story of how Gerald Durrell and his wife set up their own zoo. Journeying to the Cameroons, he and his wife, helped by the renowned Fon of Bafut, managed to collect 'plenty beef.' Their difficulties began when they found themselves back at home,...
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Penguin
Parution :
1980-11-20
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More than any other writer Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years before Darwin, White realised the crucial role of worms in the formation of soil and understood the significance of territory and song in birds. His...
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Penguin
Parution :
1977-05-26
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To those who know the charm of Aldo Leopold's writing in A Sand County Almanac, this collection from his journals and essays will be a new delight. The journal entries included here were written in camp during his many field trips--hunting, fishing, and exploring--and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1972-03-30
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First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1968-12-31
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An American masterwork in praise of nature, self-reliance, and the simple life
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,...
Editeur :
KTHTK
Parution :
2025-04-16
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''Bright with Silver'' describes the rise of the United States ginseng and fox farming industries through the story of the Fromm brothers of Hamburg, Wisconsin. The Fromms began their lives at the turn of the century as impoverished farmers and rapidly grew into the...
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Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2025-01-23
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First published in 1926. About the London Zoo, a century ago. Fascinating read. Absolutely astounding how times have changed, totally casual attitude to zoo animals dying during capture and transport. You were allowed to feed the animals. Good photos.
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Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2024-04-05
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Dive into the beauty of nature and discover more about the amazing animal groups of North America in this jaw-dropping find-the-hidden-picture book written by Caroline Fernandez and illustrated by Erin Mercer. Find the butterfly and other unique animals in each page to...
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DC Canada Education Publishing
Parution :
2022-04-01
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The life story of the naturalist and renowned writer, the author of the series of animal stories for children. Comments on a wide variety of subjects, including nature study, wildlife conservation, and people.
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Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2021-11-06
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The Origin of Species is the magnum opus of natural scientist Charles Darwin. In the book Darwin presents the theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through the process of natural selection.The book goes on to present a body of evidence for the...
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Big Cheese Books
Parution :
2019-11-28
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I’m especially fond of Charlevoix—one of the favourite haunts of my youth. By walking through this region from one hilltop to the next I realized just how vast the St. Lawrence was. I would gaze at its salty waters and the fine line of the horizon, and a desire would...
Editeur :
Presses de l'Université Laval
Parution :
2018-05-09
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downstream: reimagining water brings together artists, writers, scientists, scholars, environmentalists, and activists who understand that our shared human need for clean water is crucial to building peace and good relationships with one another and the planet. This...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2017-02-24
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Western Canada’s natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most recently the negative effects of global climate change. The complex...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2015-03-31
Collection :
Environmental Humanities
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Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene is a collection of essays about the natural environment in a province rich in natural resources and aggressive in development goals. This is a casebook on Alberta from which emerges a far wider set of...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2014-10-22
Collection :
Environmental Humanities
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In Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, international scholars investigate how films portray human emotional relationships with the more-than-human world and how such films act upon their viewers’ emotions. Emotion and affect are the basic...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2014-10-07
Collection :
Environmental Humanities
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For all curious readers, the Knowledge Guides open the door to a world of complex and captivating phenomena.
Accurate, detailed visual information is all defined in lay language to make it readily accessible to the non-expert. Definitions to scientific terms are given...
Editeur :
Québec Amérique
Parution :
2012-08-09
Collection :
The Visual Guides
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The Visual Dictionary of Universe and Earth takes the reader into a fascinating journey through cosmos to discover celestial bodies, astronomical observation equipment and astronautics, and then provides a complete view of our planet through geography, geology,...
Editeur :
Québec Amérique
Parution :
2012-07-20
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There are many things we can choose to do about climate change, including doing nothing at all. All of them have consequences, many of which will be unforeseen. If we could foretell more accurately what would happen to the climate in the future, our choices might be...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-30
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