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At the start of a new Star Wars movie Kit Dobson suddenly realized his daughter had never truly seen the night sky. From then on he began to think seriously about how little we, as humans, interact with the natural world and how that has changed our place within it. Written in elegant sections, Field Notes on Listening starts at Dobson’s kitchen …

Featuring over 150 waterfalls.

Praise for previous editions:

"A very practical guidebook to exploring 80 different provincial waterfalls... A coffee table book on one hand, a guidebook on the other... nicely balanced, organized and provocative." --Toronto Star

"It's rare to have a book that's so user friendly, packed with information yet beautiful …

Life histories can be defined as the means by which individuals (or more precisely genotypes) vary their age- or stage-specific expenditures of reproductive effort in response to genetic, phenotypic, and environmental correlates of survival and fecundity. Life histories reflect the expression of traits most closely related to individual fitness, su …

Henry David Thoreau, the "Cosmic Yankee", makes a witty 1100-mile foray into Canada. Suspense and excitement accompany every step of this intellectual invasion. Despite the apparent casualness of the writing, Thoreau put much of himself and his philosophy into this work. The score or more authors on Canadian history, travel, exploration, geography, …

In the spring of 2018, Brian Bartlett embarked on an experiment of going outdoors before sunrise to find what could be seen, heard, felt and thought in the days’ earlier hours. Composed of entries drafted over 18 months, Daystart Songflight: A Morning Journal combines nature writing, travel, autobiography and reflections on reading. During in-the …

Get to know your own backyard and neighbourhood, and get acquainted with the trees and shrubs throughout the Atlantic region.

Features:

• Highly realistic illustrations
• Details and identifiers for featured species
• Locations and natural history of heritage trees
• Provincial maps showing the best parks and hiking trails for exploring old growth fore …

No matter where you are in Toronto, you are close to a ravine. In these often-hidden places you can find an astonishing diversity of birds, flowers, and trees. Jason Ramsay-Brown has spent twenty years exploring the more than one hundred ravines, parks, and urban forests within Toronto’s boundaries. For this book he has selected the thirty natura …

Theoretical Ecology: concepts and applications continues the authoritative and established sequence of theoretical ecology books initiated by Robert M. May which helped pave the way for ecology to become a more robust theoretical science, encouraging the modern biologist to better understand the mathematics behind their theories. This latest instal …