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
Technological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariThe Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
The Human Animal
143 books — 101 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve BrusatteI'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraFascism by Madeleine K. AlbrightEnlightenment Now by Steven PinkerChildren of Nazis by Tania Crasnianski
Historical Nonfiction 2018
222 books — 56 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

The Botany of Desire by Michael PollanThe Hidden Life of Trees by Peter WohllebenBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererLab Girl by Hope JahrenGathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Nonfiction Books about Plants
436 books — 146 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Year of Living Biblically by A.J. JacobsThe Trigger by Tim ButcherAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverTithing and Giving by J.A.    Cox
Memoirs of Experiments
240 books — 109 voters


The materially reconstructed animal is immune to pain, free from our ability to inflict upon it (further) mental or physical cruelty or violence. Any guilt or concern about the animal's welfare - its confinement, its isolation from its own kind's social structures, and the enforced company of humans - troubles us no longer; the animal is "at rest," while simultaneously prepared to be continually at our behest. Modeled in glass, its eyes are incapable of any disturbingly accusatory stare. ...more
Geoffrey N. Swinney

Lawrence Millman
Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down slopes that contained some of the oldest rocks in the world, isotope-dated at 3,800 billion years, remnants, so the geological rumor goes, of the earth's earliest terrestrial crust. ...more
Lawrence Millman, Last Places: A Journey in the North

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Natural History Reading Club…more
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Wild Type Press - Read for the Earth Read for the Earth with Wild Type Press! This reading group was started as an Artists for the Ea…more
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Natural History & Biology This reading group will focus on natural history. We will immerse ourselves within the realm of…more
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The Natural World Book Club A community for nature lovers and readers, run by the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County.
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