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Nature Library Vol. 5
Nature Library Vol. 5
1. Tutila: The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Farm
The most elaborate depiction and admiration of the once "autonomous" nature of a part of New Zealand
◎ With a love of local natural history, the author of this book spent half his life recording the ecological changes of a sheep farm on the shores of Lake Tutila, New Zealand, including soil erosion under the surface of the countryside, the ancient way of life of the Maori people, the fate of people and pioneers of animal migration, the naturalization of foreign flora and fauna, and the disappearance of land-grabbers and the rise of self-farming farmers.
2. The secret life of ferns
Thirty-three ways to see ferns
Admire the wonderful geometry of the ferns as they go
Its evolutionary and cultural implications should be understood
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◎ Ferns are a special type of plant, they are different from seed plants, do not rely on seeds but rely on spores to reproduce. Because of this, there are two generations in their growth cycle, with two forms... In this book, which synthesizes the life history, taxonomy, adaptability, geography and ecology, and evolutionary history of ferns, the author also highlights the relationship between ferns and humans—the role they play in literature and film, and the origin of the fern's name.
3. Wildness and Warmth: Self-cultivation of animal parents
There is no world of difference between animals and humans
Nor does "natural" parenting mean laissez-faire and coldness
Get a whole new inspiration from animal parenting
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◎ From the poor appetite when conceiving a new life to the situation at the time of childbirth, from the excessive anxiety of the first parents to the duration of breastfeeding, from resolving disputes between children to how to make rules for children, from divorce and family reorganization to the adoption of a child... It turns out that all kinds of contradictions and conflicts in human family life can be found in animal families. The difference is that animals respect nature and have few entanglements. How do they face the arrival of new life and how do they raise their children? While some of these approaches are surprising, there are also many ways to deal with them that are worth learning.
4. The Biography of Gilbert White: The Story Behind the Seyr bloomberg
"The Father of the Worldview Bird", the biography of White, Britain's first ecologist
Tell the untold story behind Seil Peng Bo.
Selected for American Outdoor Magazine's "10 Books that Changed the World"
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Gilbert White (1720-1793) is often referred to as Britain's first ecologist. Although White was a village priest, he often exchanged letters with other natural historians, and on the basis of these letters was written the Seyrburn Museum Chronicle. The book describes the flora and fauna of the area by describing the small rural parish where he lived and the neighboring parishes, and observes the habits and living environment of birds. It was the only work of White's life, but it was this one that fulfilled centuries-old myths about White and Serpen.
Natural Library
Series 1-4
1. Invisible forest
2013 National Academy Award for Best Book
Finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in the nonfiction category
2012 National Outdoor Book Award
The book is in the form of a series of observations that make a small part of an ancient forest. The daily narrative records the events that occurred during each search. The authors clearly explain these events and their impact on the ecosystem. The author takes us through the natural phenomena that have been overlooked by everyone. In the book, the author highlights the interconnections between lower organisms, such as fungi and native arthropods. After reading this book, there will be an urgent desire to get close to nature.
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2. Flower Empire
This book is the most famous work of author Amy Stewart, and the work has received widespread media attention and praise.
In this book, the author takes the reader into her secret garden and uncovers the mystery behind the flower industry. The author starts from a private garden, vividly and in detail how to achieve the perfect state of harvesting flowers in the process of planting, a garden garden is mainly a geneticist, land expert and flower farmer, in order to make the flowers more full and beautiful, but also tells a lot of interesting stories of botany, such as a scientist developed a genetically modified blue rose, the historical legend about the most popular lily, the association between Ecuadorian roses and Tiffany diamonds, etc., in every aspect of the flower industry, She has a unique vision, sensual and vivid brushstrokes, and there is no lack of analysis of botany and commercial technology.
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3. A square inch of silence
Inheriting the foresight of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, this book draws attention to the beauty that is taken for granted and rings the alarm about the imminent environmental alarm. Emmy Award-winning sound ecologist Gordon Hampton warns that the silence of nature is America's fastest-disappearing resource, and his mission is to record and preserve these rich and diverse sounds intact before these soothing earth soundscapes disappear due to increasing anthropogenic noise.
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4. The story of the seed
Best Science Book of 2009 in New Scientist magazine.
Tell the story of the amazing evolution of seeds.
Demonstrate the immense power of seeds to transform human life.
Starting from the origin of the seed, the author describes to the reader the indelible importance of the seed on the earth where all things are abundant. Combining the profound knowledge of a scientist with the cheerful mood of a gardener, this book shows all kinds of wonders, whether you are addicted to scientific novelty or love of flowers and grass, it is difficult to resist the temptation of this book.
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1. Drunken botanist
The book is a passionate toast recited on top of a botany-wine wedding — sake begins with grains of rice, Scotch whisky from barley, tequila from tequila, rum from sugar cane, and bourbon from corn. Are you already thirsty? In The Drunken Botanist, Amy Stewart examines the dizzying flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that humans have desperately converted into alcohol over thousands of years with their ingenuity and passion.
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2. Explore the order of nature
In Search of the Order of Nature, Farber examines nearly three centuries of naturalistic traditions. It also examines the role of new facilities such as natural museums, botanical gardens, and zoos in both scientific formation and attracting public attention.
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3. The bird's senses
What is it like to be a bird? In this book, Birkhead takes you on an exploration of the various senses of birds. How do owls fly at night? How do flamingos feel the torrential rain thousands of miles away? With thousands of kilometres of continuous migration, swifts resting in flight, and kiwis smelling earthworms in the dirt – citing decades of research in bird behavior, physiology, and anatomy, this book takes us deep into the sensory world of birds and the mysteries of these flying (or non-flying) elves.
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4. Feathers
Feathers are a miracle in evolution, involving aerodynamics, adiabatics, deception, and seduction. Its origins date back 1 billion years, but the story about it has not yet been fully presented to the reader.
In this book, biologist Thor Hansen exhaustively searches the stories of feathers in natural history.
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1. The Age of Gaia: A Biography of the Earth
"Just as the human body is made of cells, the earth is an organism made up of all living organisms."
In this bestseller, Ravulok made this point for the first time.
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2. The secret life of the tree
This is a book that is mainly related to tree science, using the means of modern science to tell us about trees. Much of the book is about how trees are born, their types, their growth and distribution, and their causes; how they survive in nature, and how they compete and cooperate with the creatures around them. In the last chapter of the book, it's about how we should use trees and what they can provide for us.
The science in this book is not a celebration of human ingenuity and ability, as is usually the case, but rather a true embodiment of a spirit of respect.
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3. Galapagos Islands: A Pilgrimage to Evolution
In this isolated little world, we seem to be getting closer to that great truth, the greatest secret of biological evolution—natural selection.
A new understanding of life on Earth; here the theory of evolution is born; the epitome of our entire planet.
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4. Dogs know the answers – the science and wonders behind working dogs
The book features a personal experience of targeting working dogs to search crime and accident scenes, detailing smells, deaths, and forensic searches, while telling a moving story of a woman who turns a troublesome dog into a loving companion and a socially beneficial animal.
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5. Legend of the Hawthorn Tree – Food, Medicine and Spiritual Food from Ancient Times
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the influence of hawthorn trees in human history events, explores the medicinal functions of hawthorn trees, and for the first time makes wine from the fruits of hawthorn trees, and the symbolic significance of its thorns and flowers in religious symbols. The style of this book is vivid and interesting, but also inspiring, and it is the first work to comprehensively introduce the inextricable connection between hawthorn trees and human society as a whole. The author explains the connotations of hawthorn trees from a political, cultural and naturalistic point of view, closely stitching the individual, history and nature together.
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6. Walk thousands of miles to the bay
This book is the author's first long-distance journey after recovering from illness, and it is also his first profound reflection on the human-centered view of nature and the universe.
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7. Global forests
Combining science with the spirituality of poets in forty short allegorical essays, Global Forests lays out a theme that is vital to modern man but often overlooked: the interconnectedness of nature and the loss of biodiversity when forests are deforested.
The book follows in form the style of the ancient Irish land-wandering troubadours. The authors incorporate stories of miniature scientific expeditions into the prose, laying out a plan to maintain biodiversity in the face of climate change. The plan was very simple, but also quite revolutionary.
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8. Sex on Earth – Animals reproduce those things
How did sex begin? Do Australian sleeping lizards also feel love like birds? Is the love of birds the same as those of voles? How can we get rid of the pesky Spanish slugs? Where is the male hooked blind snake? How much does ocean noise affect the sexual life of aquatic mammals? How do slugs mate? How big is the penis of the Tyrannosaurus rex? Who made the embolism in the hedgehog's vagina? Why are dolphins usually homosexual inclinations the same as heterosexual tendencies? Do fireflies mate with street lights? After reading this book, you will understand.
From ancient dinosaurs, angry three-spined fish, lascivious frogs, stallions worth thousands of dollars, to the ubiquitous but silent "asexual zombie" rotifers, and the crawling behavior of cats and dogs, experts in animal sex have embarked on a mysterious journey for readers.
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9. Rainbow Dust – Meet those butterflies
The book begins with the story of the author who met a butterfly at a young age and began to breed and study butterflies, providing a unique perspective on butterflies and the people who have loved butterfly research throughout natural history. Not only does this book serve as a butterfly-viewing guide or butterfly museum, but it also provides an in-depth look at how butterflies inspire and delight all of us, including naturalists and ordinary people. In addition, the author vividly elaborates on the special status of the butterfly in art, literature, advertising, and science, and its impact on our hearts, lives, and imagination.
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10. Shaxiang Yearbook
The Sand Country Almanac is Leopold's masterpiece and the result of his life's observation, experience, and contemplation of nature. In the form of natural essays, it vividly describes the natural ecological beauty of different seasons in Shaxiang, praises the beauty of the relationship between people and land, rivers and lakes, animals and plants "treating each other as equals and coexisting harmoniously", calls on people to pay attention to ecological ethics, and believes that human beings can only enhance the welfare of human beings when they "maintain the overall harmony, stability and beauty of the ecological community". Leopold's conception of land ethics has become the ideological basis for the actions of environmental organizations and government agencies in the United States, and he himself is recognized as the most famous forerunner of eco-environmentalism. The book includes the first English edition of the evocative illustrations drawn by Charlie Schwartz, which greatly enhances the readability and beauty of the book.
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11. Great animal orchestra
The Great Animal Orchestra chronicles the experience of a naturalist recording the sound of nature in the purest way, vividly presenting a symphony of animals playing with nature, and calmly exploring a topic that has long been overlooked by us - the primitive music in nature.
Bernie Krauss is one of the world's most famous experts in capturing natural sounds.
The book details the sounds of animals, plants, and nature collected by the author around the world, such as the grunting of jaguars, the creaking of drum shrimp, the crackling of glaciers, and the roars of the wilderness, showing a symphony of animals and nature, sharing with the reader how animals rely on their hearing to survive in their habitats, and the destructive effects of foreign noise on the delicate balance between predators and prey.
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12. A brief history of table plants: the cultivation and evolution of fruits, vegetables, grains and spices
Since ancient times, in the process of human attempts to cultivate these plants, it has always been full of thrills and excitement, but also without accidents. The author selects more than 50 kinds of plant "regulars" on the table, and tells the little-known cultivation history behind them with the unique sense of humor of the British, and tells their deep meaning in the cultures of various countries.
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1. Song of trees
A new book by the author of pulitzer prize-winning finalist The Invisible Forest. Using the sounds around trees in twelve different habitats as clues, it depicts a community of life made up of trees, people and other creatures, and reflects on how the world network achieves a harmonious eternity in conflict and cruelty.
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2. The mark of the hedgehog, the fox and the doctor
The author of "The Panda's Thumb" and winner of the National Book Award, Stephen Jay Gould, is the last popular science book in his life. The book traces the historical roots of the conflict between science and the humanities, borrows the metaphors of hedgehogs and foxes, clarifies the truth of the complex relationship between science and the humanities, and confirms the great advantages and potential of disciplinary integration with examples.
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3. The secret of peeling off bird eggs
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Award
Forbes Bird book of the Year
The famous British ornithologist Burkhead's popular science masterpiece
Peel off a bird's egg layer by layer and delve into the mysteries
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4. Stray Cat Wars
The "Pet Killer" set off a big war between the "cat lovers" and the "bird watching group". Tracing the common evolutionary history of cats and humans, who is responsible for the ecological problems caused by stray cats?
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5. New life history
For decades, human research into extinction has focused on the effects of catastrophic meteorite impacts. The New Life History describes another possible cause – bacteria and their impact on ecosystems and climate. This is a revolutionary interpretation of the origin and evolution of life, as well as a blunt and vivid warning.
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6. Magical garden
This botanical book follows a gardener and novelist's exploration and reflections on planting, spanning the history of early plant discovery, showing the dynamics of modern horticulture and the cultivation of new crops under global climate change.
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7. Dead Zone: Wildlife infested places
By visiting plantations and farms around the world, the author shows the increasingly urgent living environment of more than a dozen endangered wild animals, exposing the shady scenes behind modern industrial cultivation and breeding.
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8. Desperate Situation – An Epic Journey of the Sandpiper and the Horseshoe
The 2016 National Academy of Sciences Good Book Award for Scientific Communication and the Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award, the first natural literature to focus on migration.
On a scientific expedition that nearly spans the north and south poles, the author follows the migration of birds and visits numerous naturalistic shrines along the way. It has also been carefully revised for the Chinese edition.
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9. Self-cultivation of seeds
The research journals of world-class biologists are both field notes, travelogues and sketchbooks. A plant runs through the memory of the entire life, embodying scientific truths in the author's search for music, poetry, beauty, and imagination.
10. Da Vinci's Meeting of Shell Mountain and Worms
When Leonardo da Vinci meets the shell at the top of the mountain, the Mona Lisa takes on a new perspective
The book does not spend much time on clams, leonardo da Vinci, or worms, but focuses primarily on some of the evolutionary blind spots in the history of human intelligence. This is not an easy read. Gould's work takes some time to familiarize. For readers who are new to Gould, it takes some patience to find his beautiful prose writing fascinating.