The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder
10 best books like The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder (Richard Louv): A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Encounters with the Archdruid, The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, The Yosemite, Sharing Nature with Children: The Classic Parents' & Teachers' Nature Awareness Guidebook, Simplify Your Life: 100 Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy the Things That Really Matter, Andrew's Brain, Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children, My Antonia / O Pioneers!
| Author | Aldo Leopold |
| ISBN | 0195007778 |
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.
Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the...
| Author | Marc Reisner |
| ISBN | 0140178244 |
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert Marc Reisner writes...
| Author | John McPhee |
| ISBN | 0374514313 |
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in...
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
| Author | Florence Williams |
| ISBN | 0393355578 |
From forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to eucalyptus groves in California, Florence Williams investigates the science behind nature’s positive effects on the brain. Delving into brand-new research, she uncovers the powers of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection...
| Author | John Muir |
| ISBN | 1426421451 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | Joseph Bharat Cornell |
| ISBN | 1883220734 |
When Joseph Cornell's classic book reached its 20th anniversary, Cornell drew upon a wealth of experience in nature education to significantly revise and expand his book. New nature games--favorites from the field--and Cornell's typically insightful commentary make the second edition of this...
| Author | Elaine St. James |
| ISBN | 0786880007 |
More than 1,000,000 copies in print!
The more complex life becomes, the more people crave simplicity. Whether it's in your work, relationships, health, finances, or leisure time, North America's simplicity expert Elaine St. James can help you learn to unwind and improve the quality of your...
| Author | E.L. Doctorow |
| ISBN | 1400068819 |
This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been an inadvertent agent of disaster.
Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown...
Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children
| Author | Angela J. Hanscom |
| ISBN | 1626253730 |
In this important book, a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of TimberNook shows how outdoor play and unstructured freedom of movement are vital for children’s cognitive development and growth, and offers tons of fun, engaging ways to help ensure that kids grow into healthy, balanced,...
I don't even know where to begin, but I can simply say that this book was wonderful. It was beautifully written, simple yet vivid, and the story evoked the images of earlier times, that were both simpler and more difficult than the world we know now. It was very easy to become immersed in the book and its characters...
Audible Originals takes to the high seas to bring to life this timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps and mutiny, starring BAFTA-nominated Catherine Tate (The Catherine Tate Show, The Office, Doctor Who), Philip Glenister (Outcast, Life On Mars), Owen Teale (Game of Thrones, Pulse, Last Legion)...
The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
Foreword by Laszlo Bock, the bestselling author of Work Rules! and former Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google
An inspiring guide from Dolly Chugh, an award-winning social psychologist at the New York University Stern School of Business, on how to confront difficult issues including...
The Best American Essays 2001
| Author | Kathleen Norris |
| ISBN | 0618049312 |
This year’s Best American Essays is edited by the best-selling, award-winning writer Kathleen Norris, whose books include Dakota andThe Virgin of Bennington. “The writers in this volume invite us into hidden places: a surgical pathologist’s laboratory, the boxing gym where a college professor...
Junior Great Books (Series 4, Book One)
| Author | Alma Flor Ada |
| ISBN | 1933147040 |
(http://facebook.com/almaflorada)
Dr. Ada was the founder and First Editor in Chief of :
NABE, Journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education
She has been active for many years in various professional associations including : IRA, International Reading Association
CRA,...
A Field Guide to Little-Known and Seldom-Seen Birds of North America
| Author | Ben Sill |
| ISBN | 0934601585 |
This is one of those humorous little oddities.
The title should have perhaps held more of a clue that this is a humorous work. Maybe they thought it a better marketing strategy to go the other direction.
It's a small book of imaginary birds, weird little chimeras that nature MIGHT have...
Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness
It was a culinary journey like no other: Over the course of 195 weeks, food writer and blogger Sasha Martin set out to cook—and eat—a meal from every country in the world. As cooking unlocked the memories of her rough-and-tumble childhood and the loss and heartbreak that came with it, Martin became...
Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
| Author | Heather "Anish" Anderson |
| ISBN | 1680512366 |
By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and Continental Divide Trail (CDT)—a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. A few years later, she left her...
| Author | Don Novello |
| ISBN | 1563052857 |
In letters to stars, dignitaries, and chairmen of the country's most powerful organizations, Don Novello's alter ego Lazlo Toth pestered his victims for photographs, offered outlandish advice, fired off strange inquiries, and more. The strangest part? Practically everyone answered, leaving...
