National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Summary: From one majestic nature landscape to the next, this is an iconic collection of National Geographic’s photography of the world’s most beautiful locations that will immortalize the beauty of the great outdoors, showcasing evocative, and often unseen, images of extraordinary landscapes around the world. With vast deserts in twilight, snowcapped mountain ranges at the brink of dawn, a forest in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Partners 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770 GRESummary: Follows five Native American communities as they restore their traditional land management practices in the face of a changing climate. For millennia Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted their ability to maintain these processes. From deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains, and prairies, Native communities across the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INHBrown, Nancy Marie
Summary: "Icelanders believe in elves. Why does that make you laugh?, asks Nancy Marie Brown, in this wonderfully quirky exploration of our interaction with nature. Looking for answers in history, science, religion, and art--from ancient times to today--Brown finds that each discipline defines what is real and unreal, natural and supernatural, demonstrated and theoretical, alive and inert. Each has its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.12 BROEggers, Dave
Summary: In this picture book with minimal text, a tiger with a chair on its back wanders across the different but beautiful landscapes of the Earth, from an Alpine lake to the tundra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EGGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EGGPerrier, Dianne.
Contents: The Great Warriors Trace -- New York : wars for an empire -- Pennsylvania : the nation's arsenal -- Maryland : grand anticipation -- West Virginia : fearful reality -- The Shenandoah Valley of Virginia : seeing the elephant -- Southwestern Virginia : themarch of the elephant ends -- Tennessee : when cloudshadows pass -- Annihilating space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Florida 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 PERWinton, Tim
Summary: "A beautiful, evocative, and sometimes provocative memoir of Australia's unique landscape, and how that singular place has shaped Tim Winton and his writing. From boyhood, Winton's relationship with the world around him-rock pools, sea caves, scrub, andswamp-has been as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets, walking in high rocky desert, diving in reefs, bobbing in the sea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WINTON, TIM WINEngwicht, Kimberly.
Summary: Discover the landscapes of Australia through the vibrant artwork of Aboriginal artist Kimberly Engwicht.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Hare 2022
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Summary: Explore natural and man-made wonders from ancient cities to modern volcanoes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Set Shine Light Brown 2018Gross, Benedikt
Summary: Discover the alphabet from a bird's-eye view! Geographer and designer duo Benedikt Gross and Joey Lee have taken the alphabet to new heights-literally! Using satellite imagery and computer technology, the pair has discovered "accidental letters" all over the world: in roads, rivers, buildings, lakes, and more. Take a journey around the Earth in 26 letters with this special book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Price Stern Sloan, An Imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 428 GROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE GROHiggins, Charlotte
Summary: "What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Sometimes on foot, sometimes in a magnificent, if not entirely reliable, VW camper van, Charlotte Higgins sets out to explore the ancient monuments of Roman Britain. She explores the land that was once Rome's northernmost territory and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 936 HIGHoagland, Clayton.
Summary: Presents master drawings depicting the basic principles of composition and perspective as well as exercises to develop observational powers and technical style
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 743.8 HOAAckerman, Jennifer
Summary: "From the bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, the revised and reissued edition of her beloved book of essays describing her forays along the Delaware shore"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 917.51 ACKMacfarlane, Robert
Summary: andmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428 MACConaway, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shoemaker & Hoard 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.30492 CONSchama, Simon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304 SCHLynn, Robin.
Contents: "The Lungs" / James Huneker (1914) -- Along the Water's Edge -- Manhattan. Historic Battery Park ; Battery Park City ; East River Waterfront ; Hudson River Park and Riverside Park South ; Riverside Park ; Riverbank State Park ; West Harlem Piers Park -- Brooklyn. Brooklyn Bridge Park ; Williamsburg Waterfront ; Erie Basin Park ; Newton Creek Nature Walk -- Queens. Gantry Plaza State Park --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 LYNArnosky, Jim.
Summary: Provides drawings of landscapes, plants, animals, and other aspects of nature, accompanied by comments from the artist on how and why he drew them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books 1988
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 743.83 ARNCzestochowski, Joseph S.
Summary: Contains 176 landscapes painted by 126 American artists between 1740 and 1965 with accompanying text.
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Publisher / Publication Date: E.P. Dutton 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 758.1 CZEBanks, Kate
Summary: The sun begins to set on the savanna, and ten little lions must find their way home before dark. One by one, lion cubs emerge from trees, past bouncing monkeys and braying zebras. They cross a stream, watch a herd of thundering wildebeest, and explore the darkening beauty of the landscape. As the moon rises, ten little lion cubs curl up together just in time for bedtime, under their mothers'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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Summary: "Learn to paint seascapes, landscapes, florals, and more with Paint with Me: Vibrant Watercolor, a beautiful new book from Geethu Chandramohan"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walter Foster 2024
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Summary: "As a boy, Robert Kaplan recalls his father driving trucks across the country to earn a living for his family, a man who witnessed and understood America from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 KAPMeisel, Susan Pear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 974.1 MEISeligman, Patricia
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Publisher / Publication Date: B.T. Batsford 1995