Ef ég væri birkitré
4.590 kr.Hildur Hákonardóttir vefur hér saman persónulegar hugleiðingar, náttúrufræði og listræna sýn á birkið sem hefur mótað íslenskt landslag og menningu allt frá landnámi. Með næmu auga listamannsins og virðingu fyrir náttúrunni leiðir hún lesandann inn í heim þar sem mörk manns og náttúru eru óljós.
Þetta er bók fyrir þá sem þrá að tengjast náttúrunni á nýjan hátt og finna innblástur með því að ímynda sér: Hvað ef ég væri birkitré?
Life on Air
990 kr.Sir David Attenborough is Britain’s best-known natural history film-maker. His career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned nearly five decades and there are very few places on the globe that he has not visited. In this volume of memoirs David tells stories of the people and animals he has met and the places that he has visited. Sir David’s first job – after Cambridge University and two years in the Royal Navy was at the London publishing house Hodder & Stoughton. Then in 1952 he joined the BBC as a trainee producer and it was while working on the Zoo Quest series (1954-64) that he had his first opportunity to undertake expeditions to remote parts of the globe to capture intimate footage of rare wildlife in its natural habitat. He was Controller of BBC2 (1965-68), during which time he introduced colour television to Britain, then Director of Programmes for the BBC (1969-1972). However in 1973 he abandoned administration altogether to return to documentary-making and writing. Over the last 25 years he has established himself as the World’s leading Natural History programme maker with several landmark BBC series, including Life on Earth (1979), The Living Planet (1984), The Trials of Life (1990), The Private Life of Plants (1995) and Life of Birds (1998). Sir David is a Trustee of the British Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; an Honorary Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge; a Fellow of the Royal Society and was knighted in 1985.
Flóra
5.990 kr.Flóra geymir myndir af flestöllum tegundum íslenskra blómplantna og byrkninga, alls um 460. Hér er megináherslan á að sýna plönturnar sjálfar, fegurð þeirra og sérkenni, fremur en vistfræði, útbreiðslu og flokkunarfræði – því hlutverki gegna fjölmörg önnur verk. Langflestar myndanna eru gerðar eftir lifandi eintökum en annars byggt á bestu heimildum sem völ er á til að gefa sem sannferðugasta mynd af hverri tegund auk þess sem ýmis einkenni eru dregin fram.
Myndir listamannsins Jóns Baldurs Hlíðberg af íslenskri náttúru, dýrum og foldarskarti, eru löngu kunnar hér á landi auk þess að hafa birst víða erlendis og hlotið þar margháttaða viðurkenningu.
Fátt jafnast á við að njóta skrúðs og fjölbreytileika blómanna í náttúrunni sjálfri en þegar því verður ekki við komið er gott að geta notið þeirra í myndasafni eins og því sem hér birtist.
Walden eða lífið í skóginum
5.790 kr.Meistaraverk eins merkasta höfundar og hugsuðar Norður-Ameríku. Þau málefni sem Thoreau voru hugleikin eiga ekki síður við nú á dögum, enda hefur Walden allt frá því verkið kom fyrst út árið 1854 veitt mönnum innblástur og verið uppspretta nýrra hugmynda. Nú í fyrsta sinn á íslensku, þegar 200 ár eru liðin frá fæðingu höfundarins.
Gathering Moss
3.690 kr.Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.
In these interwoven essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings. Kimmerer explains the biology of mosses clearly and artfully, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us.
Drawing on her experiences as a scientist, a mother, and a Native American, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as within the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world.
Braiding Sweetgrass
3.690 kr.As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers.
In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two ways of knowledge together. Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings – asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass – offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world.
For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.
Fuglar
5.890 kr.Varúð!
Þetta er ekki góð fuglagreiningarbók. Fuglarnir í henni eru illa teiknaðir og textinn fullur af fordómum og tilgerð. Vert er að hafa það í huga við lesturinn. Hafir þú hins vegar áhuga á krassandi sögum af áhættusækni, skrautfíkn og ástarlífi íslenskra fugla, og hvers kyns sérvisku sem tengist þeim, þá er þetta rétta bókin fyrir þig.
Falleg bók um íslenska fugla fyrir alla fjölskylduna. Spéfuglarnir Hjörleifur Hjartarson og Rán Flygenring draga fram helstu sérkenni fuglanna í máli og myndum án þess að taka sig of alvarlega og niðurstað er einstök og óvenjuleg en um leið fræðandi bók um íslenska fugla.
