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Passions For Nature : Nineteenth-century America’s Aesthetics Of Alienation

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Rochelle L. Johnson
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Book, University of Georgia Press, 2009
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Natural history · United States · Philosophy · 19th century · History · Philosophy of nature · Nature (Aesthetics) · Johnson, Rochelle
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Endless Forms : Charles Darwin, Natural Science And The Visual Arts

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edited by Diana Donald and Jane Munro
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Book, Fitzwilliam Museum, 2009
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- Table of contents only
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Darwin, Charles, · 1809-1882 · Art and science · Art and society · History · 19th century · Natural history · Social aspects · Donald, Diana · Munro, Jane
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(UPPER LEVEL) N72.S3 E53 2009 ON HOLDSHELF

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(UPPER LEVEL)	N72.S3 E53 2009	ON HOLDSHELF

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Paradise Found : Nature In America At The Time Of Discovery

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Steve Nicholls
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Book, University of Chicago Press, 2009
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Here Steve Nicholls brings this spectacular environment back to vivid life, demonstrating with both historical narrative and scientific inquiry just what an amazing place North America was and how it looked when the explorers first found it. The story of the continent?s colonization forms a backdrop to its natural history, which Nicholls explores in chapters on the North Atlantic, the East Coast, the Subtropical Caribbean, the West Coast, Baja California, and the Great Plains. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Natural history · North America · Nature · Effect of human beings on · History · Discovery and exploration · Environmental conditions · Nicholls, Steve
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BROWSING (MAIN) QH102 .N53 2009 AVAILABLE

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BROWSING (MAIN)	QH102 .N53 2009	AVAILABLE

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Fresh Pond : The History Of A Cambridge Landscape

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Jill Sinclair
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Book, MIT Press, 2009
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Fresh Pond Reservation, at the northwest edge of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been described as a “landscape loved to death.” In Fresh Pond, Jill Sinclair tells the story of the pond and its surrounding land through photographs, drawings, maps, plans, and an engaging narrative of the pond’s geological, historical, and political ecology. The pond itself?a natural lake carved out by the retreating Ice Age about 15,000 years ago?was a center of the nineteenth-century ice industry (disparaged by Thoreau, writing about another pond), and still supplies the city of Cambridge with fresh drinking water. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Landscape · Massachusetts · Cambridge · History · Social aspects · City planning · Natural history · Fresh Pond (Middlesex County, Mass.) · Cambridge (Mass.) · Environmental conditions · Sinclair, Jill, 1961-
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OVERSIZE (UPPER) F74.C1 S54 2009 AVAILABLE

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OVERSIZE (UPPER)	F74.C1 S54 2009	AVAILABLE

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Darwin Slept Here : Discovery, Adventure, And Swimming Iguanas In Charles Darwin’s South America

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Eric Simons
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Book, 1st ed, Overlook Press, 2009
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For “Darwin Year,” a fresh-eyed and enchanting journey through South America in his footsteps One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, the self-proclaimed “southernmost city in the world,” writer Eric Simons picked up a copy of Charles Darwin’s The Voyage of the Beagle. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Darwin, Charles, · 1809-1882 · Travel · South America · Simons, Eric · Natural history · Description and travel · Simons, Eric
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BROWSING (MAIN) QH31.D2 S547 2009 AVAILABLE

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BROWSING (MAIN)	QH31.D2 S547 2009	AVAILABLE

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A Sea Of Change : Ernest Hemingway And The Gulf Stream : A Contextual Biography

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Mark P. Ott
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Book, Kent State University Press, 2008
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By contrast, in 1952, with the publication of “The Old Man and the Sea”, his style was described as comparable to Winslow Homer’s - realistic.At the center of this evolution is the contention that Hemingway’s preoccupation with and scientific study of life in the Gulf Stream moved his theory and practice of writing away from the Paris art circle of the 1920s to the new realism of the 1950s. “A Sea of Change” explores the importance of Hemingway’s relationship to the waters of the Gulf Stream that transformed his imaginative work.Drawing primarily on Ernest Hemingway’s handwritten and unpublished fishing logs and from published and unpublished correspondence and newspaper articles, Mark P. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Hemingway, Ernest, · 1899-1961 · Criticism and interpretation · Knowledge · Natural history · Homes and haunts · 1899-1961. · To have and have not · Old man and the sea · Nature in literature · Ott, Mark P., 1966-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3515.E37 Z7515 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3515.E37 Z7515 2008	AVAILABLE

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Time And Tide In Acadia : Seasons On Mount Desert Island

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Christopher Camuto
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Book, 1st ed, W.W. Norton, 2009
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An evocative exploration of the natural life of Maine?s Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park. To this task Camuto brings an appetite for observing wildlife and landscape with considerable originality, a regard for history and indigenous perceptions of nature, a keen interest in exploring the psychological and philosophical appeal of nature, and a writer?s love of language. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Natural history · Maine · Mount Desert Island · Acadia National Park · Natural areas · Mount Desert Island (Me.) · Acadia National Park (Me.) · Camuto, Christopher
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BROWSING (MAIN) QH105.M2 C36 2009 AVAILABLE

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BROWSING (MAIN)	QH105.M2 C36 2009	AVAILABLE

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Autumnal Tints

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Henry David Thoreau
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Audio, Silver Hollow Audio, 2008
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Autumnal Tints is one of Thoreau’s best known essays. From the purple grasses of August, to the yellow elms of October, to the scarlet oak leaves of November, Henry David Thoreau casts his eye on the brilliant colors of autumn and guides us on a journey through the season’s bounty. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Natural history · New England · Autumn · Fall foliage · Color in nature · Audiobooks · Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 · Barry, Brett
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3042 .B27 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3042 .B27 2008	AVAILABLE

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New-England’s Rarities Discovered In Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, And Plants Of That Country.

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By John Josselyn, gent. With an introduction and notes by Edward Tuckerman, M.A
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Book, University of Michigan, Scholarly Publishing Office, 2005
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Natural history · New England · Indians of North America · Medicine · White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) · Description and travel · Josselyn, John, fl. 1630-1675 · Tuckerman, Edward, 1817-1886
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(UPPER LEVEL) QH41 .J67 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	QH41 .J67 2005	AVAILABLE

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A New Green History Of The World : The Environment And The Collapse Of Great Civilizations

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Clive Ponting
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Book, Rev. ed, Penguin Books, 2007
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Clive Ponting?s original and provocative history of human civilization?now in a thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition Years ahead of its time, Clive Ponting captivated readers with A Green History of the World, his study of great civilizations and the causes of their fall. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Nature · Effect of human beings on · Natural history · Natural resources · Pollution · Social change · Ponting, Clive · Ponting, Clive
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(LOWER LEVEL) GF75 .P66 2007 DUE 11-30-09

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(LOWER LEVEL)	GF75 .P66 2007	DUE 11-30-09

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Amazon Expeditions : My Quest For The Ice-age Equator

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Paul Colinvaux
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Book, Yale University Press, 2007
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In this vivid memoir of a life in science, ecologist Paul Colinvaux takes his readers from the Alaskan tundra to steamy Amazon jungles, from the Galapagos Islands (before tourists had arrived) to the high Andes and the Darien Gap in Panama. The accomplishment of the task by the author and his colleagues involved finding unknown ancient lakes, lugging drilling equipment through uncharted Amazon jungle, operating hand drills from rubber boats in water 40 meters deep, and inventing a pollen analysis for a land with 80,000 species of plants. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Colinvaux, Paul A., · 1930- · Travel · Amazon River Region · Natural history · Climatic changes · Geology, Stratigraphic · Pleistocene · Colinvaux, Paul A., 1930-
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(UPPER LEVEL) QH112 .C65 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	QH112 .C65 2007	AVAILABLE

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Dakotas : Where The West Begins

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photographs by Phil Schermeister ; written by John Thompson
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Book, National Geographic, 2008
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Landscape · North Dakota · South Dakota · Natural history · Pictorial works · Description and travel · History · Schermeister, Phil · Thompson, John M. 1959-
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(LOWER LEVEL) F637 .S33 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	F637 .S33 2008	AVAILABLE

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The Jewel House : Elizabethan London And The Scientific Revolution

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Deborah E. Harkness
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Book, Yale University Press, 2007
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This book explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London, where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. These assorted merchants, gardeners, barber-surgeons, midwives, instrument makers, mathematics teachers, engineers, alchemists, and other experimenters Deborah Harkness contends formed a patchwork scientific community whose practices set the stage for the Scientific Revolution. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Science · England · London · History · 16th century · Natural history · Science, Renaissance · London (England) · Social conditions · Social life and customs · Intellectual life · Harkness, Deborah E., 1965-
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(UPPER LEVEL) Q127.G4 H37 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	Q127.G4 H37 2007	AVAILABLE

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City At The Water’s Edge : A Natural History Of New York

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Betsy McCully
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Book, Rivergate Books, an imprint of Rutgers University Press, 2007
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- Table of contents only
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Through twenty years of nature exploration, McCully has come to know New York as part of the Lower Hudson Bioregion–a place of salt marshes and estuaries, sand dunes and barrier islands, glacially sculpted ridges and kettle holes, rivers and streams, woodlands and outwash plains. The author chronicles the growth of the city at the expense of the environment, but leaves the reader with a vision of a future city as a human habitat that is brought into balance with nature. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Natural history · New York (State) · McCully, Betsy, 1950-
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(UPPER LEVEL) QH105.N7 M385 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	QH105.N7 M385 2007	AVAILABLE

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Atlantic Shorelines : Natural History And Ecology

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Mark D. Bertness
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Book, Princeton University Press, 2007
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Atlantic Shorelines is an introduction to the natural history and ecology of shoreline communities on the East Coast of North America. The book provides a comprehensive background for understanding the basic principles of intertidal ecology and the unique conditions faced by intertidal organisms. explains primary production in shoreline systems, intertidal food webs, and the way intertidal organisms survive; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Natural history · Atlantic Coast (North America) · Coastal ecology · Seashore · Bertness, Mark D., 1949-
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(UPPER LEVEL) QH104.5.A84 B47 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	QH104.5.A84 B47 2007	AVAILABLE

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