The Earth: natural history: general interest

Wouldn't it be useful to be able to accurately predict the weather simply by reading the clouds?

Wouldn't it be useful to be able to accurately predict the weather simply by reading the clouds?

Rogue waves remain something of a mystery.

Rogue waves remain something of a mystery.

An evocative social history of Europe's peatlands, moors, bogs and heaths.

An evocative social history of Europe's peatlands, moors, bogs and heaths.

Instant Weather Forecasting has been a perennial bestseller since it was first published nearly 50 years ago.

Instant Weather Forecasting has been a perennial bestseller since it was first published nearly 50 years ago.

This is a book about practical weather forecasting, and it starts where most other books finish.

Weather Wise is a highly practical, lively and very accessible guide to weather phenomena for anyone who enjoys the outdoors.

As the planet warms, winter is shrinking.

The frozen wastes of the Southern Ocean; the tropical rainforests of South America, the scorching grasslands of Africa, the dizzy heights of the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas: Martin Hughes-Games has been to every continent on earth filming natural history programmes.

The Most Alive is the Wildest gathers Thoreau's essential writings on nature, self-reliance, and the moral discipline of attention, presenting his lifelong effort to recover a more deliberate relation to the living world.

'A DELIGHT' HENRY GEE'BEAUTIFUL' THOMAS HALLIDAYWhere do we come from and how did we get here?

Today there remain relatively few areas of the planet Earth where man rarely takes a step, casts an eye, or disturbs the natural environment, but most of Siberia is like that.

North Carolina's Hurricane History charts the more than fifty great storms that have battered the Tar Heel State from the colonial era through Irene in 2011 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012, two of the costliest hurricanes on record.

Songs of Exotic Birds contains poems written over a span of sixty years,forming an arc of life and capturing moments the writers memorystubbornly cannot lose.

Its the 1940s and the WW11 is raging.

Verblüffende Fakten, überzeugende Grafiken, mutige Zukunftsszenarien: der große Atlas zur KlimakriseWie könnte die Welt aussehen, wenn wir all das Geld, das in Greenwashing gesteckt wird, in echten Klimaschutz investieren?

Winner: National Outdoor Book AwardA Kansas Notable BookThe upper Arkansas River courses through the heart of America from its headwaters near the Continental Divide above Leadville, Colorado, to Arkansas City, just above the Kansas-Oklahoma border.

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Earth Journal was written by the author in the summer of 1972 at age 21.

The sharks, ancient or modern, real or imaginary, have always been with us, and will probably remain with us forever.

BASIC ILLUSTRATED WEATHER FORECASTINGMichael Hodgson gives detailed lessons in recognizing shifts in weather patterns, understanding why they occur, identifying cloud formations, and mastering basic meteorological concepts.

The Mountain Encyclopedia is the first A to Z compendium on all matters related to mountains including geological, geographical, and zoological terms and concepts as well as climbing and historical details.

Mountains have long inspired the wit and daring of the world's most fascinating explorers.

This book in itself is testimony to transition in the affairs of the north circumpolar region.

Here you will find a wealth of information on the fauna, flora, and natural wonders of the Kawarthas.

Here you will find a wealth of information on the fauna, flora, and natural wonders of the Kawarthas.

Mountains have long inspired the wit and daring of the world's most fascinating explorers.

This New York Times bestseller by the author of the environmental classic Silent Spring beautifully details the coastal ecosystem of birds and the sea.

National Book Award Winner and New York Times Bestseller: Explore earth's most precious, mysterious resource-the ocean-with the author of Silent Spring.

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1864 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies Rainbow Dust explores the ways in which butterflies delight and inspire us all, naturalists and non-naturalists alike.

Alan Root is one of the great wildlife pioneers.

The Sunday Times bestseller.

_________________'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMESWINNER OF THE THWAITES WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2015What really goes on in the long grass?

Accompanying a major new BBC1 series presented by Alan Titchmarsh, British Isles: A Natural History is a fascinating journey through the natural history of Britain from its birth to the present day.

Revised Edition with New Afterword from the Author Time #1 Nonfiction Book of the YearFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Over 3 million copies sold in 35 Languages"e;On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is.

Acknowledging that the scientific and the spiritual communities are increasingly split, Raymo builds strong bridges between them.

In his characteristically iconoclastic and original way, Stephen Jay Gould argues that progress and increasing complexity are not inevitable features of the evolution of life on Earth.

This story is a quest for an animal so rare that a sighting has never been recorded.

Originally published in 1902, this early work on Hunting trips on the Prairie and mountains is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition.

Yule, Beltane, and Halloween Festivals explores ancient celebrations and feasts that ancient communities of people held in worship of their gods.

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING 2026A beautiful and profound natural history of snow from the bestselling, award-winning Swedish environmentalist Sverker S rlin, exploring the cultural, scientific, artistic and existential significance of what is fast-becoming a vanishing fact of nature.

Refreshes the parts other history books can t reach.

Go pishing for birds; become a bat detective; take a city safari; find snakes and lizards; identify spiders and their webs; look for owl pellets.

Feel the force of winter and appreciate its beauty through this collection of the best writing on the season.

The British weather: famously changeable, subject of endless complaint and endless small talk.

The essential aid for everyday cloudspotting, from the author of the bestselling THE CLOUDSPOTTER'S GUIDE'The perfect companion for a gloomy day'New Scientist'Float away with this unstuffy guide to all things fluffy'Good HousekeepingTHE CLOUD COLLECTOR'S HANDBOOK fits into pockets, allowing cloudspotters to identify cloud formations anytime and anywhere.