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  In the Catskills - Selections...

  John Burroughs

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  In the Catskills gathers eight of John Burroughs's finest nature essays, first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1910 with photographic illustrations by Clifton Johnson. Burroughs — nicknamed "John o' Birds" for his devotion to birdlife and often credited with creating the modern nature essay — grew up on a farm in New York's Catskill Mountains, and this collection returns again and again to that landscape: snow-covered forests, hemlock groves, trout streams, and the peak of Slide Mountain. Listeners follow him snowshoeing after a red fox, tracing the rhythms of farm life through the seasons, searching out birds' nests each spring, and camping on a bed of hemlock boughs deep in the southern Catskills. Written in Burroughs's plain, observant prose, these essays helped define American nature writing and reflect the same careful attention to the natural world that made him a friend and correspondent of Walt Whitman, John Muir, and Theodore Roosevelt. A public-domain classic, this audiobook brings Burroughs's affectionate portrait of the Catskill wilderness to a new generation of listeners.

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  The System of the World

  Isaac Newton

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  A groundbreaking exploration of the laws governing the universe.
  
  In this influential scientific work, Isaac Newton explains the principles of motion, gravity, and the structure of the cosmos, expanding humanity's understanding of the natural world. His revolutionary ideas transformed physics, astronomy, and scientific thought forever.
  
  Combining observation, mathematics, and philosophical reflection, the book remains a cornerstone in the history of science.
  
  Written by Isaac Newton.
  
  Explore the scientific ideas that reshaped our understanding of the universe—download your copy today.

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  Methuselah's Zoo - What Nature...

  Steven N. Austad

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  Opossums in the wild don't make it to the age of three; our pet cats can live for a decade and a half; cicadas live for seventeen years. Whales, however, can live for two centuries and tubeworms for several millennia. Meanwhile, human life expectancy tops out around the mid-eighties, with some outliers living past 100 or even 110. Is there anything humans can learn from the exceptional longevity of some animals in the wild? In Methusaleh's Zoo, Steven Austad tells the stories of some extraordinary animals, considering why, for example, animal species that fly live longer than earthbound species and why animals found in the ocean live longest of all. 
   
   
   
  Austad—the leading authority on longevity in animals—argues that the best way we will learn from these long-lived animals is by studying them in the wild. Accordingly, he proceeds habitat by habitat, examining animals that spend most of their lives in the air, comparing insects, birds, and bats; animals that live on, and under, the ground—from mole rats to elephants; and animals that live in the sea. 
   
   
   
  Humans have dramatically increased their lifespan with only a limited increase in healthspan; we're more and more prone to diseases as we grow older. By contrast, these species have successfully avoided both environmental hazards and the depredations of aging. Can we be more like them?

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  Unwired - Gaining Control over...

  Gaia Bernstein

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  Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help measures to limit their usage, yet repeatedly fail, while parents feel particularly powerless to help their children. Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies shows us a way out. Rather than blaming users, the book shatters the illusion that we autonomously choose how to spend our time online. It shifts the moral responsibility and accountability for solutions to corporations. Drawing lessons from the tobacco and food industries, the book demonstrates why government regulation is necessary to curb technology addiction. It describes a grassroots movement already in action across courts and legislative halls. Groundbreaking and urgent, Unwired provides a blueprint to develop this movement for change, to one that will allow us to finally gain control.

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  Shopping All the Way to the...

  Rachel S. Gross

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  A fascinating history of the profitable paradox of the American outdoor experience: visiting nature first requires shopping 
   
   
    
  No escape to nature is complete without a trip to an outdoor recreational store or a browse through online offerings. This is the irony of the American outdoor experience: visiting wild spaces supposedly untouched by capitalism first requires shopping. With consumers spending billions of dollars on clothing and equipment each year as they seek out nature, the American outdoor sector grew over the past 150 years from a small collection of outfitters to an industry contributing more than 2 percent of the nation's economic output. 
   
   
    
  Rachel S. Gross argues that this success was predicated not just on creating functional equipment but also on selling an authentic, anticommercial outdoor identity. In other words, shopping for the woods was also about being—or becoming—the right kind of person. Demonstrating that outdoor culture is commercial culture, Gross examines Americans' journey toward outdoor expertise by tracing the development of the nascent outdoor goods industry, the influence of World War II on its growth, and the boom years of outdoor businesses.

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  An Insect A Day

  Dominic Couzens, Gail Ashton

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  Richly illustrated stories of fascinating insects from across the globe in 366 daily entries. 
  In this beautifully produced collection, nature experts Gail Ashton and Dominic Couzens tell the stories of hundreds of insects with information about behaviour, migration and protection mechanisms, as well as their involvement in folklore, history, literature and more. Learn the scientific name for each bug and why they are important while reading what both poets and scientists have recorded about them over the years. 
  Discover the story of the gnat, whose wings beat at 1000 times a second, the glowworm, who has captured the power of light, and the sacred scarab beetle, worshipped in Egypt thousands of years ago.
  Illustrated with stunning photographs and works of art, showcasing the colours, textures and strange and unique features of these fascinating creatures, this collection is a celebration of insects and their special place in our ecosystems and culture.

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