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Physical science Bill W. Tillery · 1991 · ★ 3.3 · 707p · ≈ 23h · Moderate top: diagram of the structure of the Earth including its atmosphere in Earth sciences and a diamond cuboctahedron in materials science Shares: Physical sciences, Science

The variation of animals and plants under domestication Charles Darwin · 1868 · ★ 3.2 · 506p · ≈ 16h · Challenging During the seven years which have elapsed since the publication in 1868 of the first edition of this Work, I have continued to attend to the same subjects, as far as lay in my power; and I have thus accumulated a large body of additional facts, chiefly through the kindness of many correspondents. Of these facts I have been able here to use only those which seemed to me the more important. I have… Shares: Plants, Natural history, Nature, Science

A short history of natural science and of the progress of discovery Arabella B. Buckley · 1876 · 467p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Introduction to the wonders of the physical world: sunbeams and the work they do, the aerial ocean in which we live, a drop of water on its travels, the two great sculptors-water and ice, the voices of nature and how we hear them, the life of a primrose, the history of a piece of coal, bees in the hive, and bees and flowers. Shares: Plants, Natural history, Animals, Science

Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents Anna Botsford Comstock · 1911 · ★ 5.0 · 938p · ≈ 31h · Challenging For decades, the Handbook of Nature Study has been a matchless resource for teachers, naturalists, and anyone curious about the world around them. Originally written in 1911 and later revised by a group of naturalists in 1939, this classic work remains as valid and helpful today as it was back then. Anna Botsford Comstock crafted this handbook primarily for elementary school teachers who had… Shares: Nature study, Nature, Science

The botanic garden Erasmus Darwin · 1700 · ★ 3.9 · 278p · ≈ 9h · Demanding One of the first popular science books, the intent of The Botanic Garden is to pique readers' interest in science while educating them at the same time. By embracing Linnaeus's sexualized language, which anthropomorphizes plants, Darwin makes botany interesting and relevant to his readers, but his reliance on conventional images of women when describing plants and flowers reinforces traditional… Shares: Plants, Natural history, Science

My first summer in the Sierra John Reid Muir · 1911 · ★ 4.1 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Introduction by Mike Davis; Illustrated with photographs by Herbert W. Gleason and drawings by the author Shares: Natural history, Nature

The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre · 1912 · 404p · ≈ 13h · Challenging The Life of the Spider is a volume in Jean-Henri Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques", in which he shares fifty years of careful observation. He re-acquaints us with the most everyday insects, inspiring a new interest, awareness and understanding in the reader. This volume concerns spiders. Shares: Nature, Science

The sylvan year Hamerton, Philip Gilbert · 1876 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Shares: Natural history, Nature

The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies · 1884 · 235p · ≈ 7h · Challenging This book is a reprint of the following stories printed in the following publications: Time, Longman's Magazine, The Graphic, The Standard, The Magazine of Art, The Gentleman's Magazine, The St. James's Gazette, The National Review, The Manchester Guardian, and The Pall Mall Gazette. Shares: Natural history, Nature

Biology René Fester Kratz · 2010 · ★ 4.3 · 422p · ≈ 14h · Moderate An updated edition of the ultimate guide to understanding biology. Ever wondered how the food you eat becomes the energy your body needs to keep going? The theory of evolution says that humans and chimps descended from a common ancestor, but does it tell us how and why? We humans are insatiably curious creatures who can't help wondering how things work starting with our own bodies. Wouldn't it be… Shares: Natural history, Science

The idea of nature R. G. Collingwood · 1800 · 183p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The book propounds Collingwood's theory of philosophical method applied to the problem of the philosophy of nature. The book is divided into four major sections: Introduction, Greek Cosmology, The Renaissance View of Nature, and the Modern View of Nature. Shares: Nature, Science

The life and letters of Charles Darwin Charles Darwin · 1887 · 575p · ≈ 19h · Challenging The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin is a book published in 1887 edited by Francis Darwin about his father Charles Darwin. It contains a selection of 87 letters from the correspondence of Charles Darwin , an autobiographical chapter written by Charles Darwin for his family, and an essay by Thomas Huxley "On the reception of the 'Origin of Species'". Shares: Natural history, Science

Fundamentals Of Electricity And Magnetism McGraw-Hill · 2001 · ★ 4.3 · 203p · ≈ 6h · Moderate lccn 68-25655 isbn 07-034780-8 (sic, per tp verso) Shares: Physical sciences, Science

The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin · 1903 · 66p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) moved with her family from Illinois to the desert on the edge of the San Joaquin Valley in 1888. In the next fifteen years she moved from one desert community to another, working on her sketches of desert and Indian life. Spending the last years of her life in Santa Fe, Austin remained a lifelong defender of Native Americans and was recoginzed as an expert in Native… Shares: Natural history, Nature

The book of a naturalist W. H. Hudson · 1918 · 360p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Shares: Natural history, Nature Shares: Natural history, Nature

The story of my heart Richard Jefferies · 1883 · 66p · ≈ 2h · Challenging While browsing a Stonington, Maine, bookstore, Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams discovered a rare copy of an exquisite autobiography by nineteenth-century British nature writer Richard Jefferies, who develops his understanding of a "soul-life" while wandering the wild countryside of Wiltshire, England. Brooke and Terry, like John Fowles, Henry Miller, and Rachel Carson before, were… Shares: Natural history, Nature

Advances in imaging and electron physics Peter W. Hawkes · 1995 · 360p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Advances in Imaging & Electron Physics merges two long-running serials--Advances in Electronics & Electron Physics and Advances in Optical & Electron Microscopy. The series features extended articles on the physics of electron devices (especially semiconductor devices), particle optics at high and low energies, microlithography, image science and digital image processing, electromagnetic wave… Shares: Science

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