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Nature/Countryside
Nature/Countryside
Nature and the countryside, animals and minerals, gemstones and rocks to birds and beekeeping, Alfred Wainwright and walking to conservation.
| JULES HOWARD Book Number: 81577 |
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Sex marks the spot in this playful and at times hilarious book on the creation of new life. Celebrating the wonders and peculiarities of animal reproduction, Jules Howard has interviewed scientist...
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| PIMPERNEL PRESS & COUNTRY LIFE Book Number: 84425 |
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Born with a silver spoon in their mouths, these shaggy doggies much prefer tales of leaping over country fences, accompanying their masters, hunting in packs of hounds, alongside horses, and lookin...
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| EDITED BY JOHN LANTOS Book Number: 85116 |
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Sub-titled 'Thoughts on the Public Display of Plastinated Corpses', the book looks at the powerful sway these corpses hold over their living audiences everywhere. Plastination was invented in the ...
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| ROBERT MOOR Book Number: 86022 |
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While hiking the Appalachian Trail in 2009, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that lie beneath our feet. How do they form? Why do some improve over time while others devolve? What make...
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| ROBERT MUIR-WOOD Book Number: 86148 |
Published price: $29.95
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Year after year, natural disasters wreck homes, livelihoods and lives, be they floods, hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, tsunamis or, as is becoming more commonplace, sinkholes. But since they ar...
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| THOMAS MARENT & F. JANTSCHKE Book Number: 86450 |
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'Only if we help shall they be saved' wrote Jane Goodall, the young research scientist who was the first human to make contact with David Greybeard, the first chimpanzee to get close in a scientifi...
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| BBC EARTH Book Number: 86645 |
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Your chance to own the 'Television Classic' (The Times), the 1999 BBC TV series which changed the way we saw dinosaurs forever. This revolutionary show takes viewers right into the dinosaurs' worl...
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| BILL MCKIBBEN Book Number: 86571 |
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First published in 1989 and here with a new introduction by the author (2006), here is the ground-breaking plea for radical and life-renewing change. Mckibben argues that our view of nature, its r...
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| JONATHAN FRANZEN Book Number: 87062 |
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"I was indulging a different sort of compulsion in Ghana. To my shame, I am what people in the world of birding call a lister... I go birding to experience their beauty and diversity, learn more ab...
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| DR JOHN FELTWELL Book Number: 87314 |
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Why is it that so many animals display a black and white coloration, and why do they do so? Zoologist and naturalist Dr John Feltwell explores the nature of black and white in mammals, birds, rept...
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| DR CARIN BONDAR Book Number: 87206 |
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Birds do it, bees do it, in fact every member of the animal kingdom does it from fruit flies to blue whales. Try having to do it being hunted down by predators, or in unpredictable and life-threat...
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| PHILIP HOARE Book Number: 87422 |
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Idiosyncratic tales of mariners, adventurers and the odd dilettante, here is an exquisite read, stuffed with dark myths and eerie legends, written with poetic descriptions. It is a watery book by ...
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| JOHN MILES & BARRY ROBSON Book Number: 87389 |
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A companion to Gowk the Cuckoo (code 87390) in the same collectable art series by Langford Press we meet Fred the Chaffinch, born in a hawthorn bush in a nest built by his mother, with five eggs sh...
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| JONATHAN LOSOS Book Number: 87485 |
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Breakthroughs in evolutionary biology have brought insight into natural selection and evolutionary change which have far-reaching applications for protecting ecosystems, securing our food supply, a...
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| ANDREW ROBINSON Book Number: 87905 |
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The Cambridge University scholar has written more than 25 books on the arts and sciences and here he puts earthquake impact on history into a proper perspective. Since antiquity and on every conti...
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| BRUCE MONTAGUE Book Number: 87867 |
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Sub-titled 'An A -Z Guide to the Sexual Predilections of Animals from Aardvarks to Zebras', here is an amusing book on the courtship and mating habits of animals, including Homo sapiens sapiens. T...
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| SARA EVANS Book Number: 88018 |
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A hundred years ago there were 200,000 wild lions living in Africa. Today their numbers have dropped by 90%, and humans are responsible for their decline. Sara Evans meets lion champions in Kenya...
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| KIMBERLY ARCAND & M. WATZKE Book Number: 88046 |
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Radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays - light illuminates our world and allows us to see everything around us. But humans can only see a slither of the ...
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| LAWRENCE TREVELYAN WEAVER Book Number: 87826 |
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Sub-titled 'Animal Artist of the Agricultural Revolution', Thomas Weaver was one of a small group of artists who pioneered paintings of livestock. At the end of the 18th century, novel methods of ...
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| ALEXANDRA HARRIS Book Number: 87781 |
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A change in the weather can make us feel we are entering a new world, as both Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf noted, while a painter like John Constable can conjure up a stormy sky with a single l...
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| NIGEL BLAKE Book Number: 88152 |
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Do you know your red-legged partridge from your sparrow hawk, your moorhen from your Coot, or love watching the long-tailed, blue, great, crested, coal, willow or marsh Tit? Here are the swallows ...
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| DAVID SCARFE Book Number: 88123 |
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"Let a little wildness in. You won't regret it" urges the author of these 58 outdoor activities guaranteed to "get your feet dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling". Cloudspotting is not t...
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| LIZ TEMPERLEY Book Number: 88223 |
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The southern Rockhopper penguin who travels hundreds of miles when it's time to mate, pairs are drawn together by the mystery of love. The Malagasy giant rat finds home sweet home in an undergroun...
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| BARNEY SHAW Book Number: 88261 |
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The most emotionally provocative of our senses. It can bring back memories faster and with more immediacy than a photograph, so why is it so little understood? Armed with a hungry curiosity and a...
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| MEERA SENTHILINGHAM Book Number: 88378 |
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Sub-titled 'Battling Infection from Measles to Coronavirus' For centuries we have waged war against infections which could have wiped out communities or even entire populations. Yet, for all our a...
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| MARTIN HUGHES-GAMES Book Number: 88383 |
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Many of us will know Martin as part of the BBC's Springwatch and Autumnwatch team, but before he began presenting he had for over three decades been a cameraman on some of the finest wildlife docum...
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| BRUCE PEARSON Book Number: 84533 |
Published price: £38
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Living and working amongst Albatross 35 years ago on a remote island in the Southern Ocean, Bruce Pearson in 2010 returned to see what had happened to some of the birds he had known so well. An aw...
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| FRANCINE RAYMOND Book Number: 88269 |
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Bursting with ingenious ideas and savvy solutions, you can transform your backyard, rooftop, balcony or back garden into a super small holding. Be inspired by the harvest at an organic vineyard in...
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| ANDREW MAY Book Number: 88578 |
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Extra-terrestrial life is a common theme in science fiction, but is it a serious prospect in the real world? Astrobiology is the emerging field of science that seeks to answer this question. The ...
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| ANUP SHAH & FIONA ROGERS Book Number: 88632 |
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Ever since Jane Goodall first made their acquaintance in 1960, the intimate world of chimpanzees has never been caught so lovingly as in this stunningly illustrated book. The intensity of the imag...
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