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  • Salt Lakes

    An Unnatural History

    An acclaimed nature writer’s dazzling love letter to a strange ecosystem and a moving odyssey into her own identity.More than a hundred salt lakes dot Earth’s surface, most of them hidden away in remote desert valleys. But today nearly all of them are at risk of drying up. Their death is a harbinger of rising sea levels, life-threatening dust storms, and environmental collapse.Writer and ... Leer más

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    Salt Lakes

    An Unnatural History

    Narrado por Cassandra Campbell ...

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    More than a hundred salt lakes dot Earth's surface, most of them hidden away in remote desert valleys. But today nearly all of them are at risk of drying up. Their death is a harbinger of rising sea levels, life-threatening dust storms, and environmental collapse.Writer and geographer Caroline Tracey didn't know this when she began crossing paths with salt lakes during her early twenties. From the ... Leer más

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  • Wild New World

    The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

    de Dan Flores ...
    **Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book AwardWinner of the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History LiteratureShortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Society Ralph Waldo Emerson AwardA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2022A deep-time history of animals and humans in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America.**In 1908, near Folsom, ... Leer más

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  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024

    Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year.“This was the most anomalous year (so far) in human history,” guest editor Bill McKibben writes, “the year in which the relationship between people and planet showed its most dramatic signs yet of unraveling.” The ... Leer más

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  • The First Americans

    In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery

    J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about, and the firestorm it has ignited. As he writes, “The work of lifetimes has ... Leer más

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  • Erosion

    Essays of Undoing

    Timely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist."These are essays about the courage to face what is most brutal and monstrous by finding what is most beautiful and merciful." —Rebecca SolnitBest of Fall 2019 at Newsweek , The Chicago Tribune , Kirkus Reviews , and</... ... Leer más

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  • Colors of Nature

    Culture, Identity, and the Natural World

    "An anthology of nature writing by people of color, providing deeply personal connections to—or disconnects from—nature." —NPRFrom African American to Asian American, indigenous to immigrant, "multiracial" to "mixed-blood," the diversity of cultures in this world is matched only by the diversity of stories explaining our cultural origins: stories of creation and destruction, displacement and ... Leer más

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  • The Flight of the Iguana

    A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

    de David Quammen ...
    From the award-winning author of The Tangled Tree and The Song of the Dodo comes a collection of essays in which various weird and wonderful aspects of nature are examined.From tales of vegetarian piranha fish and voiceless dogs to the scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah, Quammen captures the natural world with precision. Throughout, he illuminates the surprising ... Leer más

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  • River Flowing From The Sunrise

    An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan

    The authors recount twelve millennia of history along the lower San Juan River, much of it the story of mostly unsuccessful human attempts to make a living from the river's arid and fickle environment. From the Anasazi to government dam builders, from Navajo to Mormon herders and farmers, from scientific explorers to busted miners, the San Juan has attracted more attention and fueled more hopes ... Leer más

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  • Time Traveler

    In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia

    True stories of fossil-hunting adventures around the globe from "a world-class field scientist [and] a highly entertaining writer" ( The American Scholar).Michael Novacek, a world-renowned paleontologist who has discovered important fossils on virtually every continent, is an authority on patterns of evolution and on the relationships among extinct and extant organisms. Time Traveler is his ... Leer más

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  • When the Land Was Young

    Reflections on American Archaeology

    An award-winning science and nature writer "presents a lively, confident, and free-flowing history of archaeology in America" ( Booklist).Digging up the relics of the past is not without controversy. With insight and eloquence, Sharman Apt Russell reveals here that when it comes to archaeological study, there is more than one way to examine history.Raising provocative questions anew about subjects ... Leer más

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  • Undermining

    A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West

    "A marvelous slim book [that] weaves . . . ideas, facts, images, and histories into a whole about . . . the ecology of the manmade world." —Rebecca SolnitIn Undermining, the award-winning author, art historian and social critic Lucy R. Lippard delivers "another trademark work" that combines text and full-color images to explore "the intersection of art, the environment, geography and politics" ( ... Leer más

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