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A visually rich exploration of how humankind perceives and represents the botanical world.
Library Journal
“A visually rich exploration of how humankind perceives and represents the botanical world.”―Library Journal
Piet Mondrian’s chrysanthemums, Faith Ringgold’s sunflowers, Georgia O’Keefe’s black iris, Salvador Dalí’s narcissus, Yayoi Kusama’s pumpkin—these are just a few of the many exemplary pairings featured in Flora that offer a unique, artistic interpretation of a plant’s essence. This visually captivating survey from Hope Werness is arranged thematically by the trees, flowers, fruit, vegetables, spices, grasses, grains, and vines that have served as a root for artistic inquiry across time. Flora deepens our understanding of plants through the lens of artistic expression, bringing a new context to an ever-enduring love of nature.
A lovely, lovely book with a wonderful style. It is reminiscent of the bird artists of yesteryear.
Amy Tan
The Illuminated Book of Birds is a stunning, one-of-a-kind celebration of the birds of the world by award-winning painter Robin Crofut-Brittingham. It includes large-scale fine art paintings of the birds in Latin America, Africa, Asia, Oceania, North America, and Europe, along with flightless birds, unusual birds, and extinct birds. It looks at birds together, grouping them by geography and families, and delights in uncovering their habits and cultural and mythological significance.
Every bird is individually featured, with curious and fun facts that will delight new and seasoned birders. In total, readers meet nearly 400 hand painted birds and experience a global birding adventure from the comfort of home.
A naturalist’s cabinet of curiosities in book form, filled with humorous anecdotes, wild diversions and interesting wildlife adventures.
Cool Green Science
While old tales warn us that danger lies waiting in the dark, there is actually an abundance of thriving, colorful life. Solar winds brighten the sky with Northern and Southern Lights. In the desert, elegant datura blooms at night, enticing moths to help with pollination, while in the Rockies grizzly bears make a meal of the insects to sustain them during hibernation. In the ocean, night-feeding dolphins chase nocturnal squid which have made a vertical migration to the surface. In the jungles, jaguars hunt by moonlight while night monkeys swing safely through the trees.
Experienced naturalist and photographer Charles Hood captures it all, sharing his nocturnal adventures all over the world, with insight, wit, and over 240 stunning photographs. Open your senses to this darkened world, which is strange yet familiar—and more beautiful than you ever imagined.
Mr. Metzl has identified an important truth: that the convergence of new technologies is galvanizing us to reimagine how to meet urgent challenges in medicine and the environment.
The Wall Street Journal
The story of AI is not just ChatGPT. It is how we can use the revolutionary suite of interconnected new technologies to improve our health, feed billions of people, supercharge our economies, store essential information for millions of years, and save our planet. But if we’re not careful, these same Promethean abilities to engineer novel intelligence and reengineer life can also do immeasurable harm, warns leading futurist Jamie Metzl in this bold and inspiring exploration of transformative human knowledge. Revised and updated to include the most cutting edge innovations in healthcare, food, material science, and more, Superconvergence is the essential guide to building our best possible future.
Stipp’s curiosity is contagious. He makes the mundane magical and encourages us to do the same.
Daily Kos
For fans of accessible and fun popular science comes an exploration of evolution’s quirkiest puzzles and most enduring mysteries.
Why do cats live longer than dogs? Why do bees have yellow stripes? Why can we smell a skunk from a mile away? Such questions can be seen as puzzles about creatures’ evolved traits. Besides triggering our curiosity, they focus our attention on beguiling designs that have been millions of years in the making. Indeed, looking at the living world through a Darwinian lens reveals its colossal depth in a way that’s all too easy to miss in the age of endless distractions. You need only summon up your inner inquisitive 7-year-old to notice such puzzles, and to find yourself looking deeper while considering possible solutions.
In this lively book, science writer David Stipp ponders Darwinian puzzles about nine familiar creatures and things—bumblebees, dogs, sparrows, caffeine, earthworms, and sleep, among others—to show how rewarding it can be to look at nature in a deeper way. By revealing hidden depths of the ordinary, Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep shows not only that fascinating intricacies lie just beneath the natural world’s familiar surfaces, but that noticing them lets us make connections we didn’t realize existed.
This is backyard biophilia at its most entertaining and enlightening.
all about animals
Nature at Night
The Owl Handbook
The Weird and Wonderful World of Bats
The Screech Owl Companion
The Insect Epiphany
Bicycling with Butterflies
Octopus
Our Native Bees
The Rescue Effect
The Return of Wolves
Sea Turtles to Sidewinders
narrative & memoir
Poppy State
Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep
Superconvergence
A Natural History of Empty Lots
Bad Naturalist
The Age of Melt
All the Presidents’ Gardens
Bringing Nature Home
Bicycling with Butterflies
Derek Jarman’s Garden
Darwin and the Art of Botany
A History of the Human Brain
Lakes
Ms. Adventure
A Natural History of Empty Lots
The Nature of Oaks
Nature’s Best Hope
Our National Forests
Something in the Woods Loves You
The Shotgun Conservationist
To Speak for the Trees
Superconvergence
What We Sow
dive deeper into the natural world
Aerial Geology
The Atlas of a Changing Climate
Botanical Art Techniques
A Botanist’s Vocabulary
Botany for Gardeners, Fourth Edition
Herbarium
How Plants Work
The Insect Artist
Our Natural World Heritage
Rare Trees
literary landscapes
Notes from an Island
Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life
Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life
The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh
A Place Like Mississippi
Unearthing The Secret Garden
Writing Wild
The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder
explore nature near you
Wild DFW
Wild Houston
Wild LA
Wild Miami
Wild NYC
Wild Philly
Wild Wasatch Front
for the kids
Birds of the Great Lakes
Birds of the Cascade Range and Columbia River Gorge
Birds of Coastal Washington
Birds of the Oregon Coast
Birds of the Pacific Northwest For Kids
Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest For Kids
more regional interest
Southwest Canyon Country’s Best Nature Walks
California’s Best Nature Walks
Cascadia Revealed
New England’s Roadside Ecology
Oregon and Washington’s Roadside Ecology
The Plants of the Appalachian Trail
The Plants of the Pacific Crest Trail
The Plants of the Pacific Crest Trail
The Wild Mississippi
Yellowstone and Grand Teton’s Best Nature Walks
medicinal plants & herbal health
The Mountain Rose Herbs Book of Natural Body Care
Iwigara
The Herbal Apothecary
Herbs in Every Season
Lavender for All Seasons
Master Recipes from the Herbal Apothecary
Native American Ethnobotany
Native American Medicinal Plants
Psilocybin Therapy
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