#hardcover #nature #beauty #landscape #nonfiction 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Utah

Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction

A finalist for the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

"[A] glorious guide to the miracle of life's sound." --The New York Times Book Review

A lyrical exploration of the diverse sounds of our planet, the creative processes that produced these marvels, and the perils that sonic diversity now faces

We live on a planet alive with song, music, and speech. David Haskell explores how these wonders came to be. In rain forests shimmering with insect sound and swamps pulsing with frog calls we learn about evolution's creative powers. From birds in the Rocky Mountains and on the streets of Paris, we discover how animals learn their songs and adapt to new environments. Below the waves, we hear our kinship to beings as different as snapping shrimp, toadfish, and whales. In the startlingly divergent sonic vibes of the animals of different continents, we experience the legacies of plate tectonics, the deep history of animal groups and their movements around the world, and the quirks of aesthetic evolution.
 
Starting with the origins of animal song and traversing the whole arc of Earth history, Haskell illuminates and celebrates the emergence of the varied sounds of our world. In mammoth ivory flutes from Paleolithic caves, violins in modern concert halls, and electronic music in earbuds, we learn that human music and language belong within this story of ecology and evolution. Yet we are also destroyers, now silencing or smothering many of the sounds of the living Earth. Haskell takes us to threatened forests, noise-filled oceans, and loud city streets, and shows that sonic crises are not mere losses of sensory ornament. Sound is a generative force, and so the erasure of sonic diversity makes the world less creative, just, and beautiful. The appreciation of the beauty and brokenness of sound is therefore an important guide in today's convulsions and crises of change and inequity.
 
Sounds Wild and Broken is an invitation to listen, wonder, belong, and act.

Sounds Wild and Broken

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#paperback #california #geology #landscape #earth #nature

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Colorado

Twenty vignettes focus on particular geologic scenes, relationships, and features of southern California's active landscape.

Geology Underfoot in Southern California

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Delaware

Shows homeowners how to effectively use shrubs for landscaping. Pruning instructions for 300+ varieties.

Shrubs and Hedges

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#paperback #groundcover #sunset #gardening #landscape

Idaho

Describes more than one hundred plants used for ground cover, provides details on the care required for each, and offers advice on planting, watering, maintenance, and designing with ground cover plants

Ground Covers

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#paperback #poetry #urban #minimalism #city #citylife #home #melbourne #australia #landscape

Florida

Cul-de-sacs. Parks. Footpaths. Busy roads. Creeks. Car parks. Streetscapes...




Where No Home Like a Raft explored wanderlust and faraway places, Streetscapes examines Martin Jon Porter's re-assimilation into suburban Melbourne. And the streetscape GPS isn't what it used to be.




Sketched with purposeful minimalism, these poems invite us to consider the bare lines of landscape and social activity that define our world. Streetscapes allows us an access to the lives of others in an illuminating view of the city and the people within.







Streetscapes

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Marks on first page as pictured. #nature #land #naturalist #women #pilgrimage #wilderness #landscape

Wisconsin

Stories from the Field

The acclaimed author of Refuge here weaves together a resonant and often rhapsodic manifesto on behalf of the landscapes she loves, combining the power of her observations in the field with her personal experience--as a woman, a Mormon, and a Westerner. Through the grace of her stories we come to see how a lack of intimacy with the natural world has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other.

Williams shadows lions on the Serengeti and spots night herons in the Bronx. She pays homage to the rogue spirits of Edward Abbey and Georgia O'Keeffe, contemplates the unfathomable wildness of bears, and directs us to a politics of place. The result is an utterly persuasive book--one that has the power to change the way we live upon the earth.

An Unspoken Hunger

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#hardcover #landscape #gardening #stones 

Pennsylvania

A Guide to Using Stone in Your Garden

How to incorporate stone many garden features including paths, steps, walls, ponds, and rock gardens. Twenty basic designs.

Stonescaping

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#paperback #digital #photography #landscape 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Arizona

Photographing landscape with a film camera is different than with a digital camera. There are several books on the market that cover landscape photography but few of them are specifically for the digital photographer. This book is what you are looking for!

Digital Landscape Photography covers:
* equipment such as accessories and lenses
* exposure from shutter speednbsp;and othernbsp;common mistakes
* shooting
* light and its importance
* composing your perfect photo
* printing
* and a special section on specific subjects such as waterfalls and sunrises

Digital Landscape Photography, written by experts that have been shooting outdoors for decades, is a fresh look at current ways to shoot landscapes by making the most of digital format.


Digital Landscape Photography

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

Planning, Planting, Building

Helps determine the yard type and its needs by examining privacy and security, sun and shade, patios and decks, and service areas, and provides detailed instructions on landscaping it

Step-by-Step Landscaping

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#hardcover #landscape #science #nature minor shelf wear

Michigan

From hidden underwater worlds burgeoning with exotic life forms to fiery volcanoes, the Earth's natural masterpieces are described in rich detail in this extraordinary book.

Nature's Masterpieces

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Discarded library book has stickers and stamps. Pages are all in good shape. Beautiful color photographs. Plastic dust cover has wear on the backside. Vintage book from 2000. Make me an offer! #gardening #garden #annuals #landscape #flowers #bushes #planning #hardcover #planting #plants 

Vermont

design ideas from classic to cutting edge

Annuals with style

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#race #history #america #lyric #essay #landscape #ecology #memory

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America's still unfolding history and ideas of 'race' have marked its people and the land.

Trace

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California

"[Kathleen Jamie's] essays guide you softly along coastlines of varying continents, exploring caves, and pondering ice ages until the narrator stumbles over -- not a rock on the trail, but mortality, maybe the earth's, maybe our own, pointing to new paths forward through the forest." --Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing, "By the Book" in The New York Times Book Review.

An immersive exploration of time and place in a shrinking world, from the award-winning author of Sightlines.

In this remarkable blend of memoir, cultural history, and travelogue, poet and author Kathleen Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and considers what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. From the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village in Alaska to its hunter-gatherer past to the shifting sand dunes revealing the impressiely preserved homes of neolithic farmers in Scotland, Jamie explores how the changing natural world can alter our sense of time. Most movingly, she considers, as her father dies and her children leave home, the surfacing of an older, less tethered sense of herself. In precise, luminous prose, Surfacing offers a profound sense of time passing and an antidote to all that is instant, ephemeral, unrooted.

Surfacing

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Arkansas

Ortho's all about building waterfalls, pools, and streams

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This is a fine art photography book by acclaimed photographer Michael Belk. It contains numerous high quality reproductions of his photography of Australia and New Zealand along with poetic verses. #paperback #fineart #photo #photography #poetry #landscape 

Australia New Zealand 

Journey 

#hardcover #travel #history #dystopia #landscape

Histories of Places Not yet Forgotten

"Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?" asks one chapter of Kate Brown's surprising and unusual journey into the histories of places on the margins, overlooked or erased. It turns out that a ruined mining town in Kazakhstan and Butte, Montana--America's largest environmental Superfund site--have much more in common than one would think thanks to similarities in climate, hucksterism, and the perseverance of their few hardy inhabitants. Taking readers to these and other unlikely locales, Dispatches from Dystopia delves into the very human and sometimes very fraught ways we come to understand a particular place, its people, and its history.



In Dispatches from Dystopia, Brown wanders the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation, first on the Internet and then in person, to figure out which version--the real or the virtual--is the actual forgery. She also takes us to the basement of a hotel in Seattle to examine the personal possessions left in storage by Japanese-Americans on their way to internment camps in 1942. In Uman, Ukraine, we hide with Brown in a tree in order to witness the annual male-only Rosh Hashanah celebration of Hasidic Jews. In the Russian southern Urals, she speaks with the citizens of the small city of Kyshtym, where invisible radioactive pollutants have mysteriously blighted lives. Finally, Brown returns home to Elgin, Illinois, in the midwestern industrial rust belt to investigate the rise of "rustalgia" and the ways her formative experiences have inspired her obsession with modernist wastelands.

 

Dispatches from Dystopia powerfully and movingly narrates the histories of locales that have been silenced, broken, or contaminated. In telling these previously unknown stories, Brown examines the making and unmaking of place, and the lives of the people who remain in the fragile landscapes that are left behind.

Dispatches from Dystopia

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Vintage 1936 ex library book hardcover with the wrapped sleeve. Written by a superintendent of parks and forestry  #parks #forestry #roadhistory #roadsides #bennett #landscape #hardcover 

Indiana

The Front Yard of the Nation

Roadsides

#history #walking #landscape #woolf #flaneuse #england #sussex #virginiawoolf

A Journey Beneath the Surface

To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One idyllic, midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked. Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape {OCLCbr#96} and how ghosts never quite leave the place they love.

To the River

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Discarded library book has stickers and stamps. Pages are in good readable condition. Bright colored photographs. The front cover is starting to come loose from the spine. Make me an offer!  #garden #perennial #growing #flowers #bushes #landscape #planning #gardening #plants #design

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Essential Guide to Creating Simply Sensational Gardens

Turn your outdoor landscape into a rich, living canvas of color and texture. Encouraging experimentation, Stephanie Cohen and Nancy J. Ondra show you how to plan a garden that incorporates unique combinations of plants to achieve stunning effects. With an overview of garden design fundamentals and 20 sample garden plans, Cohen and Ondra will inspire you to play with creative juxtapositions of vibrant hues and subtle textures. Let your imagination run wild as you create your own unique and original garden designs.

The Perennial Gardener's Design Primer

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#garden #edibleplants #yard #gardening #landscape #nativeplants #rose #greenhouse #herbs. Ex library book.  Stamps and stickers inside and on cover/spine. Slight curling of front cover.  For similar 🔖Bookmark Journey 📚 titles, click #bookmarkjourneynonfiction

Illinois

Creative Ideas from America's Best Gardeners

A step-by-step guide to creating a garden based on theme, style, or need--from kitchen gardens to tropical gardens--furnishes a look at the pleasures of creating a landscape that nurtures the gardener as well as wildlife. Original.

Exploring Garden Style

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#paperback #vintage #conservation #roundriver #environment #styleoflife #almanac #landscape #sierraclub 
 #vintagepaperback 
The classic statement of the joy and beauty found in a style of life that protects the environment

With essays on conservation from Round River

A Sand County Almanac

Georgia

Landscapes

"Creative Colored Pencil Landscapes explores the many ways artists approach making landscapes. Designed to teach, motivate, and inspire through individual demonstrations, this volume presents the techniques of fifteen master artists. Easy-to-follow instructions demonstrate how to render such difficult subjects as sky, clouds, water, and cityscapes; features tricks of the trade for working with photos, developing compositions, mixing colors, and rendering accurate images; and a gallery section illustrates a variety of finished work by the featured artists."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Creative Colored Pencil

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#paperback #guide #pictorial #landscape #travel #nature #tripplanning #roadtrip

Oregon

The Official Guide to Touring America's First National Park

An indispensable resource for Yellowstone visitors. Newly updated guidebook provides information to assist with all aspects of your trip, from reservations to road maps to recommended activities. The guide will explain Yellowstone's human and geologic history, providing information on the natural features with guidance on how to view the free-ranging wildlife and geothermal features safely. Along with a map of the entire park, the guide also includes an easy-to-use field guide section which contains color photos and descriptions of many of the park's most common mammals, plants, wildflowers and birds. 93 pages.

Yellowstone

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[planning, planting, building].

A new edition of Better Homes and Gardens(r) best-selling landscaping book. Packed with 408 pages of all-new material from the editors of Better Homes and Gardens(r) books, this complete landscaping guide has everything you need to know transform your yard. More than 700 stunning photographs and 100 complete step-by-step projects show you how to improve grading, plant successfully, build a deck, and much more. Plus an all-new plant encyclopedia with 95 plant photos! It's everything you need to know to improve your view. Step-by-step plans for patios, edging, walls, fences, water gardens, outdoor kitchens, fireplaces, garden sculpture, and more. Cost estimate, time needed to complete, skill level, and material list included with every project. Hundreds of inspiring photographs, ideas, and plans.

David George Haskell

Sounds Wild and Broken

Robert P. Sharp; Allen F. Glazner

Geology Underfoot in Southern California

Penelope O'Sullivan

Shrubs and Hedges

Sunset Publishing Staff

Ground Covers

Martin Jon Porter

Streetscapes

Terry Tempest Williams

An Unspoken Hunger

Jan K. Whitner; Ben Watson (Editor)

Stonescaping

John and Barbara Gerlach

Digital Landscape Photography

Better Homes and Gardens Editors

Step-by-Step Landscaping

Michael Bright; Reader's Digest Editors

Nature's Masterpieces

Michael Ruggiero

Annuals with style

Lauret Savoy

Trace

Kathleen Jamie

Surfacing

Charles M. Thomas

Ortho's all about building waterfalls, pools, and streams

Michael Belk

Journey

Kate Brown

Dispatches from Dystopia

J. M. Bennett

Roadsides

Olivia Laing

To the River

Stephanie Cohen, Nancy J. Ondra

The Perennial Gardener's Design Primer

Editors and Contributors of Fine Gardening

Exploring Garden Style

Aldo Leopold

A Sand County Almanac

Vera Curnow

Creative Colored Pencil

Yellowstone Forever Staff (Contribution by)

Yellowstone

Better Homes & Gardens

Step-by-Step Landscaping