This book offers a material ecocritical rereading of late-Victorian science fiction and its depiction of the dynamic, agential reality with which humankind is inescapably entangled-- Provided by publisher. Adrian Tait argues that late...Loe edasi...
Nature is full of surprises, some of which are so rare or extraordinary that very few people have witnessed them. Once in a Blue Moon delves into these exceptional events, elusive creatures and almost-fantastical phenomena, telling their stories and...Loe edasi...
What’s behind the eerie St Elmo’s Fire phenomenon? What was the mysterious explosion that tore through a Siberian forest in the early 1900s? And can fish and frogs really rain from the sky?Travel aroun...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Sep-2025, Board book, Kirjastus: Little Bigfoot, ISBN-13: 9781632176080)
Poetic children’s book celebrating nature and wildlife in the summer season.Summer is the perfect season for families to embrace the outdoors. When Summer Comes celebrates playing and exploring in the wilderness during the summ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009561259)
During the nineteenth century, the idea of genius became associated with natural landscapes on both sides of the Atlantic. Scott D. Hess explores how those associations defined the modern significance of nature and precipitated the emergence of Nat...Loe edasi...
Thoreau is well known as a lyrical nature writer, environmental prophet, rebel against stifling convention, and theorist of strategic intervention to protest injustice. He was also a part-time surveyor and graphite grinder, student of Native America...Loe edasi...
Explore the great outdoors with The Very Hungry Caterpillar! In this engaging search-and-find board book, young readers will be challenged to find various animals on a nature walk with The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Count the cre...Loe edasi...
Capture the Magic and Whimsy of the Enchanted ForestMake spellbinding nature crafts that will transport your wild child into the realm of fairies, gnomes and enchanted toadstools. Discover how to use flowers and fairy lights to crea...Loe edasi...
The third title in the charming series inspired by the Forest School movement, teaching young children how to engage with nature from season to season. A Field Guide to SummerHunt for bugs, build your own sundial, identify different trees, an...Loe edasi...
This fun baby book allows young children to practise their foundational literacy and hand-eye coordination skills while being introduced to the different aspects of nature, from rivers and oceans to plants and animals....Loe edasi...
This book looks at representations of nature in popular art and media, including fiction, to trace its construction in Western culture as justly vengeful. By depicting nature as monstrous, abject, or apocalyptic, these works lead popular audiences t...Loe edasi...
Revitalising conversations around environmentalism and ecopoetics, this new gathering of African, Asian and Caribbean diaspora voices is both urgent and inspirational....Loe edasi...
The book explores environmental issues in twenty-first century Anglophone fiction and how those issues are dealt with by specific literary means. It proposes a reciprocal relationship between nature and narrative-the idea according to which nature b...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the power of eco-literature to inspire environmental activism and ethical stewardship. It uniquel...Loe edasi...
This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Little, Brown Young Readers, ISBN-13: 9780316446914)
A picture book biography of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the remarkable conservationist and naturalist who worked tirelessly to protect the Florida Everglades. As an environmental journalist and conservationist, Marjory Stoneman Douglas s...Loe edasi...
