Natural Histories

Looks at the cultural history of the natural world through 25 species, accompanying the BBC Radio 4 series of the same name, which was produced in ...

Elegantly and persuasively argues that natural theology was an important presence, not only in the natural histories of the eighteenth and nineteen...

Reflections on family, history, identity, place and nature, from acclaimed writer and artist Amanda ThomsonPublisher: Canongate BooksAuthor(s): Ama...

Reducere. A leading researcher shares natural remedies for psoriasisAccording to the National Psoriasis Foundation, at least seven million people in the U.S....

DescriptionFrom the sculptured peaks of Mount Rushmore to the Coloradan prairie lands at Sand Creek to the idyllic islands of the Pacific, the West...

DescriptionThe 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo marked an end to the Mexican--American War, but it sparked a series of lynchings of Mexicans and su...

Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. This collection offers an examinatio...

The articles compiled in this book discuss different aspects of the cultures and literatures of the Amazon, focusing not on its natural resources o...

Reducere. The tree recounts its visits over the years by a special human who was born in the same year. As a boy, this human climbs the cottonwood's branches...

Reducere. This issue of 'Antennae' is part of a project informed by the exhibition 'Making Nature' held at Wellcome Collection in London between the 1st of D...

Reducere. This classic MUP text discusses the historical development of science, technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaiss...

The glaciers creepLike snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains, Slow rolling on.- Percy Shelley, "Mont Blanc, " 1816Glaciers in Amer...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this reprint of a classic piece of cave literature, the famed geologist, J Harlen Bretz, gives a detailed account of the formation an...

Reducere. This 20th Anniversary Edition of David Petersen's 1991 natural-history cult classic features new cover art by landscape master Thomas Aquinas Daly;...

Reducere. Winner, 2020 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay An impassioned call for recognizing and preserving the ecological wonders of...

Reducere. The story Raven and the Box of Daylight, which tells how Raven transformed the world and brought light to the people by releasing the stars, moon, ...

Reducere. Twenty-five years ago Philip L. Fradkin read a book about a remote bay on the Gulf of Alaska coast. The noted environmental historian was attracted...

Reducere. DescriptionIn South Carolina, a croker sack is any big cloth sack. When opened, it sometimes reveals more than expected, as do these deceptively si...

In this issue of Aperture, photographers explore the idea of cosmologies through their origins, histories, and local universes. The issue will feat...

Reducere. Sacred myths from Santer a centered on nature and the natural world - Includes more than 40 myths, stories, and histories from the Lucum tradition ...

Reducere. DescriptionI m continually intrigued by the manner in which the natural and human histories of any given region overlap and eventually commingle. T...

Reducere. DescriptionI m continually intrigued by the manner in which the natural and human histories of any given region overlap and eventually commingle. T...

Ice cream has a singular place in American cuisine as both a comfort food and festive treat. Fudge ripple is a consolation for a minor disappointme...

Reducere. The first anthology to focus on the rich tradition of Canadian nature poetry in English, Open Wide a Wilderness is a survey of Canada's regions, po...

Reducere. Dr. Jensen's years of study have proved the juices--both fruit and vegetable--are the fastest method for getting nutrients into our bodies. Dr. Jen...

Reducere. This edition includes new trails, tours and the post-9/11 access information you need to glide past gridlock and into the natural, cultural, and hi...

From its beginnings as an alternative and dissident form of dance training in the 1960s, Somatics emerged at the end of the twentieth century as on...

The surprising history of the scientific method--from an evolutionary account of thinking to a simple set of steps--and the rise of psychology in t...

A Twisting Journey Continues describes a high country backroads trip following and intersecting the Pacific Crest Trail in Northern Oregon from Wil...

DescriptionDiscovered by Dr. Edward Bach in the 1930s, the 38 Bach Flower Remedies form a system of healing aimed at the negative emotions that can...

What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene--the age of humans? Just as paleontologists lo...

Reducere. A Twisting Journey describes a high country backroads trip following and intersecting the Pacific Crest Trail in Southern Oregon from California to...

This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackn...

Reducere. "Solid history and archaeology combines with an understated call to preserve Bears Ears--all of it, not just a sliver." --KIRKUS REVIEWS For more t...

Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and...

The poems that comprise Indonesian poet, artist, and playwright Afrizal Malna's 2013 collection Document Shredding Museum address a variety of hist...

The term "sense of place" is an important multidisciplinary concept, used to understand the complex processes through which individuals and groups ...

Reducere. By combining both an Eastern and Western approach to healing and medicine, renowned medical expert Dr Zhi Gang Sha has created a remarkable and acc...

Alaska is truly bear country. It is the only one of America's fifty states to be inhabited by all three of North America's ursine species: black, p...

Reducere. DescriptionA lavishly illustrated compendium of the art and history of animal anatomy from antiquity to todayFor more than two thousand years, comp...

DescriptionThis visually magnificent book unveils the alluring world of uncommon botanicals, including a prickly cactus that played a storied role ...

Reducere. Hot and Cold Health is 100+ health books, 40+ years personal and professional experiences (Licensed Acupuncture Physician, Nutritional Counselor FL...

Reducere. DescriptionIn an indispensable book for genealogists and trail buffs, Levida Hileman presents a comprehensive history of Independence Rock, plus an...

Reducere. In Media Primitivism Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that h...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The ocean comprises the largest object o...

Reducere. The concept and idea of survivance has revolutionized our understanding of the lives, creative impulses, literary practices, and histories of the N...

Stanhope and Byram have rich industrial histories that were shaped by local natural resources. Winding its way through Stanhope, the Morris Canal a...

Reducere. Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial ca...

Reducere. As human populations inhabiting cities have grown dramatically, we have lost the ability to understand and even to see the natural world around us....

Reducere. A collection of haunting lyricism that evokes the beauty and hardship of the rural South, by a revered American master of letters--the award-winnin...

Reducere. Prehistoric foragers, conquistadors, missionaries, adventurers, hunters, and rugged agriculturalists parade across the histories of these little-kn...

Written in elegiac prose, Lepore's groundbreaking investigation places truth itself--a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence--at the center of the...

Reducere. National Book Critics Circle AwardUsing natural, biblical, and classical imagery, these poems explore the difficulties of faith and love--particula...

Reducere. One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. Bu...

DescriptionThis year we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mendeleev's first publication of the Periodic Table of Elements. This book offers an ori...

DescriptionThe Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and innovative book, the world's last great wilderness has...

DescriptionThe hidden material histories of music.Music is seen as the most immaterial of the arts, and recorded music as a progress of demateriali...

Reducere. Illuminating the entangled histories of the people and commodities that circulated across the Atlantic, Sharika D. Crawford assesses the Caribbean ...

Reducere. Old Man River, Paul Schneider's exploration of America's great waterway--taking the reader from the Mississippi River's origins to its polluted pre...

Reducere. From natural disaster areas to zones of conflict around the world, a new logic of intervention has emerged. This new post-Cold War international or...

Reducere. A book about scale model collectible toy car brands such as Matchbox, Dinky, Corgi, Lledo, Minichamps, Schuco, Schabak, Wiking, BUB-Premium Classix...

Reducere. Using mythology, archetypal symbolism, and a wealth of case histories, this study provides new material and insight into the many facets of this ma...

Reducere. Do you want the perfect name for your baby?This baby names book could be the answer you're looking for...Naming a child can be a bit daunting as it...

Reducere. In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their na...

Reducere. It is hard to love the high, cold plains of the American West. They are vast and harsh and demanding. And perhaps because they are so hard to love,...

Reducere. "What would rodeo look like if we took it as a record, not of human triumph and resilience, but of human imperfection and stubbornness?" asks anima...

DescriptionDo you want the perfect name for your baby? This baby names book could be the answer you're looking for... Naming a child can be a bit d...