Natural History

Natural history is the research and study of organisms including plants or animals in their environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

New Releases Tagged "Natural History"

When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Traversal
Raising Hare: A Memoir
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Is a River Alive?
Beasts of the Sea
When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
Birding to Change the World: A Memoir
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Origin of Species
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
H is for Hawk
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Genius of Birds by Jennifer AckermanWesley the Owl by Stacey O'BrienThe Wild Birds by Emily StrelowSilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Books for Bird Lovers
534 books — 215 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Song of the Dodo by David QuammenThe Flight of the Iguana by David QuammenThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Best of Natural History
362 books — 69 voters
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead GeorgeWhite Fang by Jack LondonThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonNever Cry Wolf by Farley MowatA Wolf Called Romeo by Nick Jans
Books about Wild Canines
165 books — 44 voters

Rats by Robert SullivanLily Pond by Hope RydenThe Irish Wildlife Book by Fergus O'GormanPaddy by R.D. LawrenceEager by Ben  Goldfarb
Natural History of Rodents
39 books — 8 voters
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane AckermanA Natural History of Dragons by Marie BrennanRain by Cynthia BarnettThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanA Natural History of Love by Diane Ackerman
A Natural History of...
107 books — 9 voters


In our twenty-first-century world, the terms "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" sit uneasily in the mind, associated with some of our darkest and most disturbing thoughts about human nature. They conjure Darfur, Servia, Cambodia and Pol Pot, and most vividly of all for many of us, the horrors in Europe before and during World War II. "Spicies cleansing," on the other hand, is not a term that falls readily to hand, although we have engaged in it without much remorse for at least 10,000 years and p ...more
Dan Flores, Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

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