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The book is divided in 43 short chapters ordered by date and roughly covering a whole year. [1] In each of them the author, which visits almost every day a single square meter randomly chosen of an old-growth forest of Cumberland Plateau ( Tennessee ), describes what happens to plants, animals and insects living there.
The Control of Nature: John McPhee: 1989: Geoengineering: ISBN 0-374-12890-1: Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming: Bjørn Lomborg: 2007: Global warming: ISBN 978-0-307-26692-7: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things: Michael Braungart and William McDonough: 2002: Sustainability; production ISBN 0-86547-587-3
Bernd Heinrich (born April 19, 1940 in Bad Polzin, Germany (now Połczyn-Zdrój, Poland)), is a professor emeritus in the biology department at the University of Vermont and is the author of a number of books about nature writing and biology.
The reception to the book has been positive. Elizabeth Day of The Guardian praised the complex characters, calling "Alma's journey a universal one, despite anchoring her protagonist's life in a different time and sending her to the furthest corners of the unexplored earth."
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World is a nonfiction book released in 2015, by the historian Andrea Wulf about the Prussian naturalist, explorer and geographer Alexander von Humboldt. The book follows Humboldt from his early childhood and travels through Europe as a young man to his journey through Latin America and his ...
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History is a 1989 book on the evolution of Cambrian fauna by Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould.The volume made The New York Times Best Seller list, [1] was the 1991 winner of the Royal Society's Rhone-Poulenc Prize, the American Historical Association's Forkosch Award, and was a 1991 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Lyall Watson (12 April 1939 – 25 June 2008) was a South African botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethologist, and author of many books, among the most popular of which is the best seller Supernature. Lyall Watson tried to make sense of natural and supernatural phenomena in biological terms.
The book received many positive reviews. Time wrote: "In translation the book is an uncommon reading experience, an offbeat narrative that has the timeless tone of legend... The Ten Thousand Things are the fragments that make up life's substance, and to go on living, however maddeningly arranged the fragments may be, is itself a valid action.