| Subtitle: |
their evolution, structure, and ecology. |
| Authors: |
John A. Burton, Philip John Kennedy. Burton, John A. Burton, Philip John Kennedy. Burton |
| Year: |
1973 |
| Subject: |
Owls
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| Found: |
World (1)
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| Tags |
birds, owls, birding, nature, ornithology, animals, biology, conservation biology, ecology, encyclopedia, evolution, natural history, natural world, nocturnal, structure |
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| Subtitle: |
William Smith and the birth of modern geology |
| Authors: |
Simon. Winchester
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| Year: |
2001 |
| Subject: |
Geology, Stratigraphic, Geologists, Smith, William, Great Britain, Biography, History |
| Found: |
World (3)
, Underworld (1)
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| Tags |
history, geology, science, biography, maps, cartography, geography, history of science, england, 19th century, britain, popular science, british, natural history, great britain, 18th century, english history, historical, british history, earth science, fossils, uk, coal, history of geology, map, paleontology, stratigraphy, 21st century, biology, evolution, factual, geologists, historical fiction, mapmaking, nature, rocks, world history, 20th century, bibliography, british authors, earth, engineering, environment, europe, harpercollins, inventions, mapping, microhistory, religion, rochemenault, travel, winchester, airport, anglophilia, attic, autobiography, banks, biographical, books about books, british isles, british literature, canal, contemporary, cultural, cultural history, darwin, db, deep time, digging, engels, english literature, enlightenment, exploration, fate, general history, globalization, historical narrative, history of, history of ideas, history of technology, ideas, industrial revolution, industrialization, intriguing, literary, map making, matt, minerals, mining, modern, modern history, mystery, narrative history, natural philosophy, natural science, personal collection, places, popular history, prehistory, q, regency, rob, science biography, science writing, scientific, scientific theory, scientists, social history, social science, social studies, somerset, take, teaching, travel narrative, travelogue, wales, world |
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| Subtitle: |
William Smith and the birth of modern geology |
| Authors: |
Simon. Winchester
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| Year: |
2001 |
| Series: |
Wheeler large print book series.
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| Subject: |
Geology, Stratigraphic, Geologists, Large type books, Smith, William, Great Britain, Biography, History |
| Found: |
World (3)
, Underworld (1)
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| Tags |
history, geology, science, biography, maps, cartography, geography, history of science, england, 19th century, britain, popular science, british, natural history, great britain, 18th century, english history, historical, british history, earth science, fossils, uk, coal, history of geology, map, paleontology, stratigraphy, 21st century, biology, evolution, factual, geologists, historical fiction, mapmaking, nature, rocks, world history, 20th century, bibliography, british authors, earth, engineering, environment, europe, harpercollins, inventions, mapping, microhistory, religion, rochemenault, travel, winchester, airport, anglophilia, attic, autobiography, banks, biographical, books about books, british isles, british literature, canal, contemporary, cultural, cultural history, darwin, db, deep time, digging, engels, english literature, enlightenment, exploration, fate, general history, globalization, historical narrative, history of, history of ideas, history of technology, ideas, industrial revolution, industrialization, intriguing, literary, map making, matt, minerals, mining, modern, modern history, mystery, narrative history, natural philosophy, natural science, personal collection, places, popular history, prehistory, q, regency, rob, science biography, science writing, scientific, scientific theory, scientists, social history, social science, social studies, somerset, take, teaching, travel narrative, travelogue, wales, world |
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| Authors: |
Ronald M. Nowak
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| Year: |
2005 |
| Subject: |
Marsupials, Classification |
| Found: |
World (2)
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| Tags |
marsupials, animals, australia, biology, encyclopedia, fauna, mammals, natural history, science, zoology |
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| Authors: |
John,1838-1914. Muir, Edwin Way,1899 Teale, Edwin Way Teale, 1899 |
| Year: |
1954 |
| Subject: |
Muir, John
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| Found: |
World (1)
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| Tags |
nature, biography, conservation, essays, environment, memoir, muir, natural history, outdoors, john muir, natural science, nature writing, science, travel, environmental issues, exploration, history, journal, national parks, naturalist, naturalists, the west, travel narrative, us, wilderness, wisconsin |
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| Authors: |
Thomas,1933 Pakenham
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| Year: |
2002 |
| Subject: |
Trees, Pictorial works |
| Found: |
World (2)
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| Tags |
trees, nature, photography, botany, gardening, natural history, plants, coffee table, travel, art, photographs, history, art reference, beautiful, coffee, dendrology, environment, flora, forestry, forests, gardens, information, international, mexico, natural world, picture book, poetry, quotations, sacred sites, travel guide, wonders, worldwide |
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| Subtitle: |
science as a candle in the dark |
| Authors: |
Carl,1934-1996. Sagan
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| Year: |
1995 |
| Subject: |
Science, Literacy, Science and civilization, Methodology, Popular works, Study and teaching |
| Found: |
World (3)
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| Tags |
science, skepticism, religion, philosophy, pseudoscience, atheism, critical thinking, history, popular science, superstition, essays, rationalism, sagan, astronomy, physics, psychology, carl sagan, culture, philosophy of science, politics, skeptic, 20th century, debunking, sociology, education, humanism, rationality, biology, general science, evolution, logic, paranormal, scientific method, society, american, ufo, belief, cosmology, spirituality, supernatural, aliens, ensayo, faith, history of science, hoaxes, myth, nature, opinion, popularization, reasoning, science writing, social commentary, space, 1990s, adult, american author, anthropology, atheist, chemistry, civilization, english, enlightenment, ethics, fringe science, god, humanities, ignorance, inspiration, literacy, methodology, mysticism, naturalism, new age, occult, rational, science and religion, science fiction, secularism, skeptical, social issues, theism, theology, witchcraft, agnosticism, alien, amazon, american literature, atlanta, belief and doubt, bibliography, blog, children's, civic, closet, commentary, connectedness, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, cosmos, crop circles, cults, cultural studies, cultures, curiosity, current affairs, educational, enlightening, environmentalism, european history, factual, fads, faglitteratur, francis, freethought, fundamentalism, geek, ghosts, gods, gullibility, history of civilization, human behavior, humanity, hysteria, ideas, intellect, intellectual history, intelligence, irrationality, knowledge, laura, learning, literary history, loft, mathematics, memoir, metaphysics, methods, mythology, myths, natural history, natural science, oxfam, parapsychology, persuasion, phenomena, physic, polemics, politic, political, propaganda, psychotherapy, public policy, q, quacks, reality, repressed memories, richard, saggio, scams, science and society, science education, scientific, sci-fi, secular humanism, seti, short stories, social, social reform, social science, space exploration, speculation, study and teaching, stupidity, technology, theory, thinking, thought, thought provoking, to read, truth, ufology, universe, urban legends, us history, weis, witch hunts, wonder, worldview, yes |
|
| Subtitle: |
a do-it-yourself guide to revolutionary science |
| Authors: |
Rupert. Sheldrake
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| Year: |
1995 |
| Subject: |
Science, Experiments, Popular works |
| Found: |
natural (1)
, World (1)
|
| Tags |
science, biology, experiments, fortean, parapsychology, dutch, esoterica, geology, holistic, morphic resonance, natural phenomena, natural science, philosophy of science, physics, popular science, pseudoscience, psychology, science experiments, telepathy, weird science |
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| Authors: |
Alan. Weisman
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| Year: |
2007 |
| Subject: |
Nature, Material culture, Human-plant relationships, Human-animal relationships, Effect of human beings on |
| Found: |
World (5)
, nature (2)
, worlds (1)
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| Tags |
science, environment, ecology, nature, future, environmentalism, biology, evolution, history, post-apocalyptic, earth, natural history, speculation, material culture, civilization, global warming, speculative, environmental science, popular science, geography, sustainability, apocalypse, environmental, extinction, human-animal relationships, humanity, anthropology, dystopia, geology, philosophy, 21st century, archaeology, climate change, conservation, current events, earth science, essays, human ecology, posthuman, technology, futurism, politics, pollution, social commentary, social science, thought experiment, american, culture, end of the world, green, humans, new york city, people, science fiction, adult, animals, climate, current affairs, decay, disaster, english, environmental issues, global, houston, human impact, hypothetical, planet, population, society, sociology, abandoned, adult non-fiction, amazon, american literature, architecture, cats, chemistry, conjecture, current issues, doom, entropy, environmental degradation, environmental history, forecasting, futures, futurist, futuristic, general science, historical, issues, journalism, misanthropy, new york times, nyc, paleontology, plastic, plastics, ruins, sciences, sci-fi, survival, urban, accidents, advocacy, africa, alternate history, alternate reality, alternate universe, alternative history, american author, apes, apocalyptic, bestseller, bibliography, biodiversity, biography, birds, booklist, books, borders, botany, causes, cautionary, cities, climatology, collapse, contemporary, crisis, cyprus, deforestation, destruction, development, disease, eco, ecological, economics, ecosystem, educational, energy, epidemiology, fantasy, fish, futurology, german, gulf coast, harpercollins, historical fiction, human behavior, human beings, idea, ideas, independence, industry, information, infrastructure, intellectual, journalistic, liberal, life, life science, light, lucas, maintenance, manhattan, marine biology, materialism, melancholy, memory, men, modern world, natural science, nerds, nuclear power, oceans, past, perspective, plants, political science, prague, prayer, prediction, prehistory, primitivism, priority, progress, recycling, restoration, romanticism, sad, sea, speculative fiction, thought provoking, thoughtful, thriller, time, urbanism, urbanization, water, what if, world |
| Rating: |
4 out of 5: They liked it |
| Reviews: |
1 community review(s) |
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| Authors: |
James Roy,1907-1966. Newman, James Roy Newman, 1907-1966. |
| Subject: |
Mathematics
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| Found: |
World (3)
, nature (1)
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| Tags |
mathematics, history, science, history of mathematics, essays, wiskunde, biography, logic, philosophy, history of science, natural science, social science, statistics, 1990s, 20th century, applied mathematics, collected works, fire, first person, miscellany, modern philosophy, philosophy of mathematics, physical science, popular science, science essays |
|
| Subtitle: |
evolution in everyday life |
| Authors: |
David P. Mindell
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| Year: |
2006 |
| Subject: |
Evolution (Biology), Sociobiology, Behavior genetics, Social aspects |
| Found: |
World (3)
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| Tags |
evolution, biology, conservation, domestication, health, metaphor, natural selection, politics, science |
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| Authors: |
Daniel,1975 Kehlmann, Carol Brown. Janeway, Carol Brown. Janeway |
| Year: |
2006 |
| Subject: |
Humboldt, Alexander von, Gauss, Carl Friedrich, Fiction |
| Found: |
World (2)
, naturalist (1)
|
| Tags |
science, roman, germany, german, history, mathematics, historical fiction, humboldt, biography, gauss, historical, german literature, south america, 19th century, exploration, historical novel, adventure, geography, history of science, humor, 18th century, travel, 21st century, berlin, philosophy, enlightenment, german fiction, astronomy, contemporary fiction, literary fiction, biographical fiction, contemporary, duits, magical realism, popular science, russia, 20th century, allemagne, austrian, drama, europe, humour, math fiction, modern fiction, physics, satire, 17th century, 2000s, 20th century fiction, 21st century fiction, abandoned, algebra, astronomer, austria, authors, aventure, aventures, biogeography, biographic, booklist, british fiction, cartography, contemporary literature, db, dutch, english literature, expedition, explorers, family, france, funny, genius, geology, german history, historial, historic, historische roman, history of ideas, history of mathematics, homosexuality, latin america, magnetism, man, mind, montenegro, napoleon, natural history, natural science, paleontology, paris, prime numbers, prussia, rivers, saggio, sailing, scientists, semi-fiction, society, spain, storico, surveying, switzerland, the enlightenment, wiskunde |
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| Authors: |
Walter. Schumann
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| Year: |
1997 |
| Subject: |
Precious stones
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| Found: |
natural (2)
, World (1)
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| Tags |
gemstones, gems, geology, jewelry, gemology, crystals, minerals, nature, science, rocks, stones, crafts, earth, guide, natural world, asia, beading, beads, guidebook, history, hong kong, inspiration, jewelery, jewels, mineralogy, pictorial works, precious stones |
|
| Authors: |
Walter. Schumann
|
| Year: |
2006 |
| Subject: |
Precious stones
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| Found: |
World (2)
, natural (1)
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| Tags |
gemstones, gems, geology, jewelry, gemology, crystals, minerals, nature, science, rocks, stones, crafts, earth, guide, natural world, asia, beading, beads, guidebook, history, hong kong, inspiration, jewelery, jewels, mineralogy, pictorial works, precious stones |
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| Subtitle: |
the ingenuity of animal survival |
| Authors: |
Bernd,1940 Heinrich
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| Year: |
2003 |
| Subject: |
Animals, Wintering |
| Found: |
World (3)
, nature (4)
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| Tags |
nature, science, animals, biology, natural history, winter, ecology, zoology, wildlife, hibernation, animal behavior, survival, behavior, environment, new england, animal science, birds, botany, ecosystem, ethology, fauna, flora, maine, mammals, naturalists, nature study, nature writing, north woods, plants, scholarly, seasons, sleep, snow, woodlands, woods |
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| Authors: |
Anthony,1926 Nayman, Jacqueline. Nayman, Jacqueline. Nayman |
| Summary: |
Introduces the animal life inhabiting the six regions of the world, Antarctica, and various islands…
|
| Year: |
1979 |
| Subject: |
Zoology, Animals |
| Found: |
World (2)
|
| Tags |
animals, wildlife, biology, children's books, children's literature, education, natural history, nature, obscure, photography, science, young adult |
|
| Authors: |
John,1931 McPhee
|
| Year: |
1998 |
| Subject: |
Geology, United States |
| Found: |
World (3)
, natural (1)
|
| Tags |
geology, science, natural history, essays, history, nature, geography, pulitzer prize, united states, earth science, environment, plate tectonics, travel, journalism, new yorker, north america, paleontology, usa, america, history of science, popular science, california, creative nonfiction, deep time, landscape, us, 20th century, american, american history, biology, chemistry, historical geology, physics, time, western us, american author, american west, americana, anthropology, armchair travel, beautifully written, belles-lettres, ben, blog, children's, christian living, compendium, earth, ecology, education, epic, evolution, fossils, guide, highly recommended, ideas, interviews, maps, mountains, narrative nonfiction, natural science, on the road, pennsylvania, petroleum, princeton, rf, road trip, rocks, rocky mountains, science writing, societies, tectonics, travels, us history |
|
| Subtitle: |
a season of bounty |
| Authors: |
Bernd,1940 Heinrich
|
| Year: |
2009 |
| Subject: |
Animals, Summering |
| Found: |
World (2)
, nature (2)
|
| Tags |
nature, biology, natural history, science, insects, summer, botany, maine, new england, nonfiction, usa, adult, adult non-fiction, american author, animals, birds, bog, ecology, fauna, flora, forest, heinrich, new york times, plants, survival, vermont, woodlands |
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| Authors: |
Bill. Peet
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| Summary: |
The Wump World is an unspoiled place until huge monsters bring hordes of tiny creatures from the…
|
| Year: |
1970 |
| Subject: |
Pollution, Science fiction, Fiction, Picture books for children |
| Found: |
World (3)
|
| Tags |
picture book, environment, pollution, children's, children, children's books, animals, earth, earth day, science fiction, caring, causation, children's fiction, ecology, environmentalism, fantasy, nature, science, 20th century, asking questions, children's literature, environmental, fables, humor, juvenile, kid, kids, modern fantasy, natural resources, outer space, picture, primary, recycling, sentence fluency, social studies, spaceships |
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| Authors: |
Henry David,1817-1862. Thoreau, Eliot,1901 Porter, Sierra Club., Eliot Porter, 1901, Sierra Club. |
| Year: |
1962 |
| Series: |
[Sierra Club exhibit format series, 4]
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| Found: |
World (1)
|
| Tags |
photography, nature, art, thoreau, environment, essays, natural history, nature photography, wilderness, ecology, landscape, philosophy, photographs, sierra club, color photographs, pictorial works, poetry, preservation, quotations, studio, travel, 9th century, adult, american, american author, autobiography, chaplain, color, conservation, contemporary, environmental awareness, environmental literature, essays/criticism, illustrated books, inspiration, maine, maxims, memoir, natural world, naturalism, nature writing, outdoors, photojournalism, photos, plants, u.s.a., usa, walden, wilderness areas, wildness |
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| Authors: |
David,1926 Attenborough, David Attenborough, 1926 |
| Year: |
1989 |
| Subject: |
Natural history, Ecology, Maps, Maps |
| Found: |
natural (1)
, World (1)
|
| Tags |
nature, natural history, atlas, animals, geography, science, biology, maps, photographs |
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