Nature Books
Explore the beauty of the natural world with our Nature collection at Thryft. Immerse yourself in captivating narratives about the environment, wildlife, and the mysteries of our planet. From renowned environmentalists to insightful nature writers, there's something for every keen nature enthusiast.
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The Family Encyclopedia of Animals provides a comprehensive overview of the animal kingdom, from evolution and habitat to the study of individual animal groups. This is a great read for nature lovers and conservationists looking to deepen their understanding of the animal kingdom and the current issues it is facing.
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Peter Barrett, Douglas Palmer |
Mitchell
Beazley
Evolution : The story of life
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"Evolution" is an essential read for anyone interested in the history of life on our planet. The book stands out for its innovative portrayal of the Earth's timeline, featuring a stunning 50-meter artwork across 200 pages. Supported with hundreds of photographs, illustrations and an expert commentary, this book is a family reference for all ages. Additionally, "Evolution" presents an A to Z guide to the many species featured in the artwork, background information, and stunning photographs of modern life's diversity, making it a must-read for anyone seeking to explore life's marvellous history.
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What Is Life? : Five Great Ideas in Biology
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"What Is Life?" is a great read for anyone who is curious about biology and wants to understand the fundamental concepts that make up life. The book uses personal anecdotes and the history of science to introduce readers to the five great ideas of biology: the Cell, the Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as Chemistry, and Life as Information. Paul Nurse writes with great passion and brings to life the excitement of scientific discovery, making this book an engaging and enlightening read for both experts and non-experts alike.
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Richard Dawkins
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Free
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Greatest Show on Earth
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In a brilliant follow-up to his blockbuster The God Delusion, Dawkins lays out the evidence for evolution.
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Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Visible
Ink
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Handy Science Answer Book : Custom Edition 99
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When will Niagara Falls disappear? Can any bird fly upside down? What is a nuclear meltdown? Is white gold really gold? Do bears in zoos hibernate? How do fireflies produce light? You’ll find answers to 1,400 frequently asked, but hard to explain questions like these inside. This updated edition of the bestselling “Handy Science Answer Book” tackles dozens of new sci-tech topics, as well as your old favorites - from the inner workings of the human body to outer space, and from mathematics and computers to cars, boats, planes and trains. The clear-cut, straightforward style of “The Handy Science Answer Book” makes answers fun and easy to understand. With more than 100 illustrations and dozens of tables and graphs, it’s a friendly resource for browsers, scanners and serious sojourners in the realms of science and technology.
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Mark S. Blumberg
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Oxford
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Freaks of Nature : And What They Tell Us About Evolution and Development
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Freaks of Nature could be a fascinating read for those interested in both biology and history. Blumberg explores the connections between genetics, development, environment and evolution through the lens of bodily anomalies. Through this subject that was once considered taboo, the book sheds light on how individuals and entire species develop, survive, and evolve. Users would appreciate the unique perspective it provides on a topic that is not widely explored.
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Desmond Morris
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Crown
Animalwatching
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Animalwatching is an ideal choice for those who love nature and want to know more about how animals adapt, survive and behave. The author deeply examines the behavior of various animals in their natural habitats and explains how they have evolved to match their environment over time. Readers will enjoy this book's engaging and informative writing style, as well as the scientific information on animal behavior that it provides.
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David Quammen
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Scribner
The Song Of The Dodo - Island Biogeography In An Age Of Extinctions
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David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo , is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment and wonders.In The Song of the Dodo , we follow Quammen's keen intellect through the ideas, theories, and experiments of prominent naturalists of the last two centuries. We trail after him as he travels the world, tracking the subject of island biogeography, which encompasses nothing less than the study of the origin and extinction of all species. Why is this island idea so important? Because islands are where species most commonly go extinct -- and because, as Quammen points out, we live in an age when all of Earth's landscapes are being chopped into island-like fragments by human activity.Through his eyes, we glimpse the nature of evolution and extinction, and in so doing come to understand the monumental diversity of our planet, and the importance of preserving its wild landscapes, animals, and plants. We also meet some fascinating human characters. By the book's end we are wiser, and more deeply concerned, but Quammen leaves us with a message of excitement and hope.
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A new, fully updated edition of David Attenborough’s groundbreaking Life on Earth.David Attenborough’s unforgettable meeting with gorillas became an iconic moment for millions of television viewers. Life on Earth, the series and accompanying book, fundamentally changed the way we view and interact with the natural world setting a new benchmark of quality, influencing a generation of nature lovers.Told through an examination of animal and plant life, this is an astonishing celebration of the evolution of life on earth, with a cast of characters drawn from the whole range of organisms that have ever lived on this planet. Attenborough’s perceptive, dynamic approach to the evolution of millions of species of living organisms takes the reader on an unforgettable journey of discovery from the very first spark of life to the blue and green wonder we know today.To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the book’s first publication, David Attenborough revisited Life on Earth, completely updating and adding to the original text, taking account of modern scientific discoveries from around the globe. This paperback edition also includes more than 60 full colour photographs, chosen by the author to help illustrate the book in a much greater way than was possible forty years ago.This updated edition provides a fitting tribute to an enduring wildlife classic, destined to enthral the generation who saw it when first published and bring it alive for a whole new generation.
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Charles and Ralling Christopher (ed) Darwin
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Ariel
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Voyage of Charles Darwin
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A chronological selection of Darwin's own writings from his diary, journal, and autobiography, which highlight the adventure as well as the scientific inquiry of his monumental voyage on the HMS Beagle. Excellent color photographs of the flora and fauna make this an inviting introduction to Darwin's work. The book is also a supplement to and commentary on the British TV dramatization of the same title.
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Peter Godfrey-Smith
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William
Collins
Other Minds : The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
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Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In captivity, octopuses have been known to identify individual human keepers, raid neighboring tanks for food, turn off lightbulbs by spouting jets of water, plug drains, and make daring escapes. How is it that a creature with such gifts evolved through an evolutionary lineage so radically distant from our own? What does it mean that evolution built minds not once but at least twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how subjective experience crept into being—how nature became aware of itself. As Godfrey-Smith stresses, it is a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. Tracking the mind’s fitful development, Godfrey-Smith shows how unruly clumps of seaborne cells began living together and became capable of sensing, acting, and signaling. As these primitive organisms became more entangled with others, they grew more complicated. The first nervous systems evolved, probably in ancient relatives of jellyfish; later on, the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous mollusks, abandoned their shells and rose above the ocean floor, searching for prey and acquiring the greater intelligence needed to do so. Taking an independent route, mammals and birds later began their own evolutionary journeys. But what kind of intelligence do cephalopods possess? Drawing on the latest scientific research and his own scuba-diving adventures, Godfrey-Smith probes the many mysteries that surround the lineage. How did the octopus, a solitary creature with little social life, become so smart? What is it like to have eight tentacles that are so packed with neurons that they virtually “think for themselves”? What happens when some octopuses abandon their hermit-like ways and congregate, as they do in a unique location off the coast of Australia?By tracing the question of inner life back to its roots and comparing human beings with our most remarkable animal relatives, Godfrey-Smith casts crucial new light on the octopus mind—and on our own.
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Clint Twist Andromeda
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Macmillan
Macmillan Encyclopedia Science Rvsd Vol4
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MacMillan Encyclopedia of Science, Volume 4: Life on Earth
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What is life like underground? Where can you find the world's ugliest fish? Why are fungi so fantastic? Take an amazing look at the natural world to find out. Discover plants and animals and where they live - from deserts to oceans, rainforests to mountains. And find out how living things evolve, reproduce, feed and defend themselves - watch a chameleon catch its prey and come face-to-face with a jellyfish propelling through water. Packed with curiosity quizzes, 'turn and learn' boxes and bite-sized facts to get your teeth into, there's lots to see and explore. It is perfect for homework or just for fun. Go ahead, take a leap into the natural world!
Takes us on a journey back in time to the dawn of the Dinosaurs and to the evolution of the mightiest creatures to ever walk the earth.
Author: Rupert Matthews
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 36
Publisher: Five Mile
Publication Date: 31 May 2004
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Alfred Russel Wallace, John van Wyhe |
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The Annotated Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
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Wallace's 'Malay Archipelago' is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast Asia. It has been loved by readers ever since its publication in 1869. Despite numerous modern reprints with appreciative introductions, this is the first - and long overdue - annotated edition in English.This edition explains, updates and corrects the original text with an historical introduction, and hundreds of explanatory notes. Wallace left hundreds of people, places, publications and species unidentified. He referred to most species only with the scientific name current at the time. Whenever available, the common name for species have been provided, and scientific names updated. The 52 illustrations from the original edition are supplemented by 16 pages of newly-selected colour illustrations dating from the period.The content of the 'Malay Archipelago' has never been thoroughly analysed and compared against other contemporary sources. It turns out that the book contains many errors. This includes not just incorrect dates and place names but some of the most remarkable anecdotes; for example, the dramatic claim that tigers "kill on an average a Chinaman every day" in Singapore or that a Dutch Governor General committed suicide by leaping from a waterfall on Celebes.By correcting the text of the 'Malay Archipelago' against Wallace's letters and notebooks and other contemporary sources and by enriching it with modern identifications, this edition reveals Wallace's work as never before.
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The proof for evolution is vast, varied, and magnificent, drawn from different fields of scientific inquiry. Todat, scientists are documenting species splitting into two, observing animals and plants adapting before our eyes,and finding more and more fossils capturing what happened eons ago--dinosaurs that have sprouted feathers, fish that have grown limbs. In this unique and accessible summary of the facts supporting the theory of natural selection, Jerry A. Coyne eloquently shows that evolution does nothing to destroy the beauty of life, only enhances it. By demonstrating the "indelible stamp" of the processes first proposed by Darwin, Coyne does not aim to prove creationism wrong. Rather, by using irrefutable evidence, it sets out to prove evolution right."OUTSTANDINGLY GOOD...COYNE'S KNOWLEDGE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY IS PRODIGIOUS, HIS DEPLOYMENT OF IT AS MASTERFUL AS HIS TOUCH IS LIGHT." --RICHARD DAWKINS, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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Brian Curtis
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Dover
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Life Story of the Fish
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A comprehensive survey, remarkable for its clarity, accuracy, and sheer readability. Curtis begins with the evolution of the fish and treats in their body coverings, framework, senses and nervous system, internal workings, reproduction, growth, and more. 72-item Bibliography. 6 full-page photographic plates.
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Charles Darwin
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Vintage
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The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the Beagle
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When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the HMS Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a process of natural selection. This theory, published as The Origin of Species in 1859, sparked a fierce scientific, religious, and philosophical debate which continues heatedly today. This seminal work is presented with The Voyage of the Beagle , a vivid travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal. Ordered by place, covering area from Northern Chile to Australia to Cape Verde Islands, this text contains hints of the theories that were later developed in The Origin of Species .
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Discover the enthralling narratives of the natural world with Thryft's Nature collection. Here, you can find works by celebrated authors and environmentalists who bring the splendour of the earth to life. Whether you're passionate about conservation or enchanted by wilderness tales, our selection offers a variety of perspectives and stories. Explore titles that challenge, inspire, and awaken your ecological curiosity.
Yes, many books in the Nature collection explore crucial environmental issues, offering insights into conservation, biodiversity, and climate change.
Absolutely! Some works bridge the gap between nature and philosophy by exploring deep ecological thoughts. Consider also visiting our Philosophy collection for more contemplative reads.
Yes, our Nature collection includes titles focused on wildlife conservation and the efforts needed to protect various species globally.
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