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Enid Blyton's Nature Lover's Book

Author : Enid Blyton
Publisher : Evans Brothers
ISBN 13 : 0237535688
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Enid Blyton's Nature Lover's Book written by Enid Blyton and published by Evans Brothers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1944, this delightful collection of stories, poems, and nature facts is centered on three children and their uncle who takes them on nature walks, unveiling the delights of the countryside throughout the seasons. Poems by Enid Blyton as well as classic works by Wordsworth, Keats, and others are accompanied by lush illustrations of various animals and plants. A field guide to common birds and plants is also provided, making this a must-have for nature lovers young and old.

A Nature Lover's Almanac

Author : Diane Olson
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423622251
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book A Nature Lover's Almanac written by Diane Olson and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasury of nature facts and trivia for every season: “Get ready to be amazed, delighted, and enlightened.”—Chip Ward, author of Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West Did you know that: We all have follicle mites living on our faces? In India, the humble pigeon is a symbol of lust? Jumping spiders sometimes watch TV with you? Healthy garden soil has the same characteristics as a good chocolate cake? The North Pole rarely points north? The caterpillar of the silver-spotted skipper blasts its frass (poop) five feet outside its nest? This collection of fascinating but little-known facts of nature will connect you with the rhythms of the universe even if you live far from the wild—and enlighten you every day of the year. Also included are good tips for gardeners as well as a rundown of what constellations you can see in the night sky each month.

Carnivorous Nights

Author : Margaret Mittelbach
Publisher : Villard
ISBN 13 : 0307516830
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Carnivorous Nights written by Margaret Mittelbach and published by Villard. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packing an off-kilter sense of humor and keen scientific minds, authors Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson take off with renowned artist Alexis Rockman on a postmodern safari. Their mission? Tracking down the elusive Tasmanian tiger. This mysterious, striped predator was once the world’s largest carnivorous marsupial. It had a pouch like a kangaroo and a jaw that opened impossibly wide to reveal terrifying choppers. Tragically, this rare and powerful animal was hunted into extinction in the early part of the twentieth century. Or was it? Journeying first to the Australian mainland and then south to the wild island of Tasmania, these young naturalists brave a series of bizarre misadventures and uproarious wildlife encounters in their obsessive search for the long-lost beast. From an ancient cave featuring an aboriginal painting of the tiger to a lab in Sydney where maverick scientists are trying to resurrect the animal through cloning, this intrepid trio comes face-to-face with blood-sucking land leeches and venomous bull ants, a misbehaving wallaby who invades their motel room, and a crew of flesh-eating, bone-crunching Tasmanian devils gorging on roadkill. They bond with trappers, bushwackers, and wildlife experts who refuse to abandon the tiger hunt, despite the paucity of evidence. Sifting through local myths, bar-room banter, and historical accounts, these environmental detectives sweep readers into a world where platypus’ swim, kangaroos roam, and a large predator with a pouch was–or perhaps still is–queen of the jungle. Filled with Alexis Rockman’s stunning drawings of flora and fauna–-made from soil, wombat scat, and the artist’s own blood–Carnivorous Nights is a hip and hilarious account of an unhinged safari, as well as a fascinating portrayal of a wildly unique part of the world.

Nature Lover #6

Author : Kelly Starling Lyons
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593226496
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Nature Lover #6 written by Kelly Starling Lyons and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jada Jones is back for the sixth book of this popular, celebrated series perfect for STEM fans! "Readers who love Ivy and Bean or Katie Woo will want to meet Jada Jones." --School Library Journal Jada is thrilled when she gets to go on an outdoor class field trip with her Pop Pop, a nature lover, as a chaperone. She can't wait to show him off to her friends--and show him what she knows. But the trip has some twists along the way, including a soaring zip line she's not sure she wants to try. What happens when Jada's shining moment starts to lose its luster? Praise for Jada Jones: Rock Star "Fast-paced, with supersimple vocabulary and a smattering of earth science to spark interest in young rock collectors everywhere." --Kirkus Reviews

For The Love of Nature

Author : Martin C Dodge
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 152559723X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book For The Love of Nature written by Martin C Dodge and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Love of Nature is an intimate collection of essays written by a man whose love of nature dates back to his earliest days. These travel stories span a range of global ecosystems, with an emphasis on Alaska, a site of great delight for the author. Here is a love letter to the natural world that begins around the ponds, forests, and meadows of a childhood and journeys through a lifelong career as an educator keen on sharing not only passion for the living parts of our planet, but respect and knowledge, as well. Marty Dodge focuses on situations where he had the opportunity to share his informed appreciation for the complexity and beauty of actual places. He describes adventures where, as a college instructor, he led student groups through the Florida Everglades, Costa Rica, Belize, and Alaska. And his adventures didn’t stop when his working life did; Dodge’s post-retirement travel was just as vigorous, and his documented tributes include spirited descriptions of visits to Nepal, Chile, the western United States, and, as ever, his adored Alaska.

Arkansas Nature Lover's Guidebook

Author : Tim Ernst
Publisher : Cloudland.Net
ISBN 13 : 9781882906581
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Arkansas Nature Lover's Guidebook written by Tim Ernst and published by Cloudland.Net. This book was released on 2010 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This includes over 100 of Tim's favorite scenic locations all across the state. There are prairies, bluffs, caves, mountain vistas, wildlife viewing areas, wilderness areas, waterfalls, hiking and canoe trails, scenic drives, nature centers, and swamps--including eight beautiful cypress swamps in The Big Woods region alone (where the Ivory-billed woodpecker was rediscovered). The guidebook is filled with stunning color photographs, plus maps, descriptions, difficulty ratings, and GPS coordinates. This is a must for anyone who wants to explore the most scenic parts of Arkansas!

The Grassling

Author : Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141989637
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Grassling written by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A subtle, moving celebration of place and connectedness . . . The Grassling brings the sounds, smells and sights of the countryside alive like few other books. Burnett stretches the limits of prose, infusing it with poetic intensity to create a powerful, original voice' PD Smith, Guardian What fills my lungs is wider than breath could be. It is a place and a language torn, matted and melded; flowered and chiming with bones. That breath is that place and until I get there I will not really be breathing. Spurred on by her father's declining health and inspired by the history he once wrote of his small Devon village, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett delves through layers of memory, language and natural history to tell a powerful story of how the land shapes us and speaks to us. The Grassling is a book about roots: what it means to belong when the soil beneath our feet is constantly shifting, when the people and places that nurtured us are slipping away.

The Love of Nature and the End of the World

Author : Shierry Weber Nicholsen
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262250436
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Love of Nature and the End of the World written by Shierry Weber Nicholsen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychological exploration of how the love of nature can coexist in our psyches with apathy toward environmental destruction. Virtually everyone values some aspect of the natural world. Yet many people are surprisingly unconcerned about environmental issues, treating them as the province of special interest groups. Seeking to understand how our appreciation for the beauty of nature and our indifference to its destruction can coexist in us, Shierry Weber Nicholsen explores dimensions of our emotional experience with the natural world that are so deep and painful that they often remain unspoken. The Love of Nature and the End of the World is a gathering of meditations and collages. Its evocations of our emotional attachment to the natural world and the emotional impact of environmental deterioration are meant to encourage individual and collective reflection on a difficult dilemma. Nicholsen draws on work in environmental philosophy and ecopsychology; the writings of psychoanalytic thinkers such as Wilfred Bion, Donald Meltzer, and D. W. Winnicott; and ideas from Buddhist and Sufi traditions. She shows how our emotional responses to the vulnerabilities of the natural world range from intense caring and compassion, through grief and outrage, to diffuse depression. Individual chapters focus on silence and the process whereby we move from the unspoken to the spoken, the love of nature, the "perceptual reciprocity" with the natural world to which we might mature, beauty in the human and natural realms, the psychological impact of the destruction of the natural world, and reflections on the future.

The Affordable City

Author : Shane Phillips
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642831336
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book The Affordable City written by Shane Phillips and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instability. Debates over the appropriate course of action have been defined by two poles: building more housing or enacting stronger tenant protections. These options are often treated as mutually exclusive, with support for one implying opposition to the other. Shane Phillips believes that effectively tackling the housing crisis requires that cities support both tenant protections and housing abundance. He offers readers more than 50 policy recommendations, beginning with a set of principles and general recommendations that should apply to all housing policy. The remaining recommendations are organized by what he calls the Three S’s of Supply, Stability, and Subsidy. Phillips makes a moral and economic case for why each is essential and recommendations for making them work together. There is no single solution to the housing crisis—it will require a comprehensive approach backed by strong, diverse coalitions. The Affordable City is an essential tool for professionals and advocates working to improve affordability and increase community resilience through local action.

Tree Whispering

Author : Jim Conroy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983411406
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Tree Whispering written by Jim Conroy and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tree Whispering offers a simple yet profound personal experience of communicating with Green Beings. This book introduces a revolutionary worldview that moves away from human-centric "we know best" attitudes and toward communication, cooperation, partnership, and co-creativity with all of Nature. It guides readers, step by step, to come from the trees' and plants' point of view while providing useful healing techniques and respectful approaches for rejuvenating tree and plant health. Readers will celebrate their strengthened connection with Nature. Whispering with tress, plants, and all of Nature opens up possibilities: For people, a heart-warming experience, a shift in thoughts and actions, expansion of healthy well-being, and reconnection to the sacredness of life. For Nature, vigorous growth for trees and plants, balanced and sustainable ecosystems, and coexistence among trees, plants, insects, diseases, and related organisms, and people. For Earth, reconstitution of dynamic balance on a large scale.

Sacred Pathways

Author : Gary Thomas
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310361184
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Pathways written by Gary Thomas and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Pathways reveals nine distinct spiritual temperaments--and their strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies--to help you improve your spiritual life and deepen your personal walk with God. It's time to strip away the frustration of a one-size-fits-all spirituality and discover a path of worship that frees you to be you. Experienced spiritual directors, pastors, and church leaders recognize that all of us engage with God differently, and it's about time we do too. In this updated and expanded edition of Sacred Pathways, Gary Thomas details nine spiritual temperaments and--like the Enneagram and other tools do with personality--encourages you to investigate the ways you most naturally express yourself in your relationship with God. He encourages you to dig into the traits, strengths, and pitfalls in your devotional approach so you can eliminate the barriers that keep you locked into rigid methods of worship and praise. Plus, as you begin to identify and understand your own temperament, you'll soon learn about the temperaments that aren't necessarily "you" but that may help you understand the spiritual tendencies of friends, family, and others around you. Whatever temperament or blend of temperaments best describes you, rest assured it's not by accident. It's by the design of a Creator who knew what he was doing when he made you according to his own unique intentions. If your spiritual walk is not what you'd like it to be, you can change that, starting here. Sacred Pathways will show you the route you were made to travel, marked by growth and filled with the riches of a close walk with God. A Sacred Pathways video Bible study is also available for group or individual use, sold separately.

A Down to Earth God

Author : Garry Genser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780978557300
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book A Down to Earth God written by Garry Genser and published by . This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Down to Earth God: Devotionals for the Nature Loveris an inspirational non-fiction collection of earthy country stories illustrating scripture. Garry Genser humorously reveals his own weaknesses, inviting readers to more fully explore their own souls. In this process, simple scriptural truths come to life. Genser uses common daily experiences to capture vivid spiritual insights to help readers see God’s hand in their lives and to inspire them to a greater commitment to God’s will. A section of scripture follows each story, rather than preceding it, which invites dialogue. The scripture also reveals the moral of the stories with little exposition, so as not to turn the reader off by religiosity. The book would work well for family and small group devotionals. I>A Down to Earth Godcelebrates an amazing God who seeks out each one of us through the daily circumstances of our lives.

Why We Love

Author : Helen Fisher
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1466829443
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Why We Love written by Helen Fisher and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2005-01-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking exploration of our most complex and mysterious emotion Elation, mood swings, sleeplessness, and obsession—these are the tell-tale signs of someone in the throes of romantic passion. In this revealing new book, renowned anthropologist Helen Fisher explains why this experience—which cuts across time, geography, and gender—is a force as powerful as the need for food or sleep. Why We Love begins by presenting the results of a scientific study in which Fisher scanned the brains of people who had just fallen madly in love. She proves, at last, what researchers had only suspected: when you fall in love, primordial areas of the brain "light up" with increased blood flow, creating romantic passion. Fisher uses this new research to show exactly what you experience when you fall in love, why you choose one person rather than another, and how romantic love affects your sex drive and your feelings of attachment to a partner. She argues that all animals feel romantic attraction, that love at first sight comes out of nature, and that human romance evolved for crucial reasons of survival. Lastly, she offers concrete suggestions on how to control this ancient passion, and she optimistically explores the future of romantic love in our chaotic modern world. Provocative, enlightening, and persuasive, Why We Love offers radical new answers to the age-old question of what love is and thus provides invaluable new insights into keeping love alive.

Love and Its Place in Nature

Author : Jonathan Lear
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300074673
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Love and Its Place in Nature written by Jonathan Lear and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jonathan Lear has shown us both Freud`s texts and his subject matter from a new angle of vision, one that renders much recent controversy about psychoanalytic theory irrelevant. For any student of those texts this book is indispensable."--Alasdair MacIntyre "Lear makes one understand how psychoanalysis works not only on the therapist`s couch but also as a condition of being alive. . . . Love and Its Place in Nature not only offers a form of spiritual nutriment for the self, it also defines that self with a clear profundity that few readers will have encountered before."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times "A brief and engaging philosophical perspective on Freudian psychoanalysis. The book is simply written, but important themes are profoundly investigated. . . . An important philosophic reading of Freud."--Don Browning, Christian Century In this brilliant book, Jonathan Lear argues that Freud posits love as a basic force in nature, one that makes individuation--the condition for psychological health and development--possible. Love is active not just in the development of the individual but also in individual analysis and indeed in the development of psychoanalysis itself, says Lear. Expanding on philosophical conceptions of love, nature, and mind, Lear shows that love can cure because it is the force that makes us human.

The Nature of Love

Author : Thomas Jay Oord
Publisher : Chalice Press
ISBN 13 : 0827208294
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Love written by Thomas Jay Oord and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God is love. Consequently, shouldn't love exist at the center of Christian theology? When love is at the center, theology is understood differently than it has typically been understood. Some theologians have placed faith at the center, others God's sovereignty, still others-the Church, but Dr. Oord places the emphasis on love. God's love for us, revealed in Christ, in the Church, and in creation, and our love for God and others as ourselves-must be afforded its rightful place. Beginning with the foundation of "love" is what differentiates the Christian faith from others.a loving God. Dr. Oord defines love as: "To love is to act intentionally, in sympathetic/empathetic response to God and others, to promote overall well-being." Is this not what has defined Christians throughout history?

The Nature of Love, Volume 1

Author : Irving Singer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262258463
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Love, Volume 1 written by Irving Singer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-02-20 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of concepts of bestowal, appraisal, imagination, and idealization followed by explorations into the writings of thinkers that include Plato, Ovid, and Martin Luther. Irving Singer's trilogy The Nature of Love has been called "majestic" (New York Times Book Review), "monumental" (Boston Globe), "one of the major works of philosophy in our century" (Nous), "wise and magisterial" (Times Literary Supplement), and a "masterpiece of critical thinking [that] is a timely, eloquent, and scrupulous account of what, after all, still makes the world go round" (Christian Science Monitor). In the first volume, Singer begins by studying love as appraisal and bestowal as well as imagination and idealization. He then examines the contrasting views of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Ovid, Lucretius, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Martin Luther. After having described the nature of erotic idealization, Singer analyzes the religious idealization in Judeo-Christian concepts of eros, philia, nomos, and agape. Medieval Catholicism sought to combine these four ideas of love in the "caritas synthesis." Luther repudiated that attempt on the grounds that love exists only in God's agapastic bestowal of unlimited goodness upon humanity and all of nature. In relation to the different modes of theorizing, Singer explores the humanistic implications of each.

The Nature and Nurture of Love

Author : Marga Vicedo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226215136
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book The Nature and Nurture of Love written by Marga Vicedo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion that maternal care and love will determine a child’s emotional well-being and future personality has become ubiquitous. In countless stories and movies we find that the problems of the protagonists—anything from the fear of romantic commitment to serial killing—stem from their troubled relationships with their mothers during childhood. How did we come to hold these views about the determinant power of mother love over an individual’s emotional development? And what does this vision of mother love entail for children and mothers? In The Nature and Nurture of Love, Marga Vicedo examines scientific views about children’s emotional needs and mother love from World War II until the 1970s, paying particular attention to John Bowlby’s ethological theory of attachment behavior. Vicedo tracks the development of Bowlby’s work as well as the interdisciplinary research that he used to support his theory, including Konrad Lorenz’s studies of imprinting in geese, Harry Harlow’s experiments with monkeys, and Mary Ainsworth’s observations of children and mothers in Uganda and the United States. Vicedo’s historical analysis reveals that important psychoanalysts and animal researchers opposed the project of turning emotions into biological instincts. Despite those substantial criticisms, she argues that attachment theory was paramount in turning mother love into a biological need. This shift introduced a new justification for the prescriptive role of biology in human affairs and had profound—and negative—consequences for mothers and for the valuation of mother love.