検索キーワード： 自然・生態学

In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog’s behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition, are driven by our emotion. The dog doesn’t respond to its owner based on what the owner thinks, says, or does; it...

 Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows offers an absorbing look at what social psychologist Melanie Joy calls carnism, the belief system that conditions us to eat certain animals when we would never dream of eating others. Carnism causes extensive animal suffering and global injustice, and it drives us to act against our own interests and the interests of others without fully realizing what we are doing.  

Published in 1951, The Sea Around Us is one of the most remarkably successful books ever written about the natural world. This classic work remains as fresh today as when it first appeared. Carson's writing teems with stunning, memorable images - the newly formed Earth cooling beneath an endlessly overcast sky, the centuries of nonstop rain that created the oceans, giant squids battling sperm whales hundreds of fathoms below the surface, and incredibly powerful tides moving 100 billion tons of water daily in the Bay of Fundy.

Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride. In this ground-breaking, classic work, Robert Macfarlane takes us up into the mountains: to experience their shattering beauty, the fear and risk of adventure, and to explore the strange impulses that have for centuries lead us to the world's highest places.

Our National Parks by John Muir is a brilliant guide and introduction to Yosemite and several other magnificent parks by the man who helped to create them through his advocacy for the preservation of wilderness areas. The author provides detailed observations of the animals, birds, glaciers, streams, fountains, sights, scents, and sounds of Yosemite, Yellowstone, Mount Rainier, Sequoia, and other forest reservations of the West.

Targeted to beginners and beyond, National Geographic's fun, inspiring guide to the art, craft, and science of bird-watching combines practical know-how and expert knowledge. Browsable and bursting with helpful illustrations and photographs, Birding Basics offers new ideas for when, where, and how to get to know the birds in your world.

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." -Henry David Thoreau, Walden. This is a new audiobook of Thoreau's masterpiece, expertly read by Daniel Adam Day.

Edward O. Wilson - winner of two Pulitzer prizes, champion of biodiversity, and Faculty Emeritus at Harvard University - is arguably one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. Yet his celebrated career began not with an elite education but from an insatiable curiosity about the natural world and drive to explore its mysteries. Called "one of the finest scientific memoirs ever written" by the Los Angeles Times, Naturalist is a wise and personal account of Wilson's growth as a scientist and the evolution of the fields he helped define.

Christopher Wills's claim has its roots in an insight from Charles Darwin: the interactions between species in an ecosystem are a powerful driver of evolution. In this book Wills describes how, by using the latest genetic techniques, we are probing ecosystems and discovering that even the most apparently barren of them are rich in variety, especially of microbes.

氷に閉ざされた極限環境と人間の限界が激しく衝突する壮絶な歴史を描き出す、静かな夜のリラックスタイムや集中したい通勤時間に最適な極地探検ノンフィクションです。未知なる純白の荒野がいかにして探検家たちを...

In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision - especially since our own adventurous ancestors spread across the world without maps or instruments. O'Connor goes to the Arctic, the Australian bush and the South Pacific to talk to masters of their environment who seek to preserve their traditions at a time when anyone can use a GPS to navigate.

人間中心の知性の概念を根底から覆し、皮膚で世界を味わう異質な生命体の秘密を解き明かす、驚きに満ちた自然科学と感覚世界の探求がここから始まります。静寂に包まれた海の底へ意識を沈めるこの体験は、慌ただし...

騒がしい日常のストレスを手放し、心を穏やかに鎮めたい夜、雨音のリズムと雪が織りなす静寂のノンフィクションが、深いリラクゼーションと至福の睡眠へとあなたを導きます。窓ガラスを打つ柔らかな水滴から、空高...

足元の土から毎日の食卓まで、密かに世界を支配する菌類のミクロな生態系を紐解き、分解と共生が織りなす自然の循環を鮮やかに解き明かすサイエンスガイド。通勤電車に揺られながら、あるいは休日の穏やかな散歩道...

私たちの体でひっそりと暮らす目に見えない同居人、マイクロバイオームの不思議な世界を旅して、あなた自身の体を愛おしく感じるやさしい科学入門体験を。通勤中の慌ただしい時間や就寝前の静かなリラックスタイム...

巨大隕石の衝突による恐竜絶滅という地球規模の危機を生き延びた、最強の海洋捕食者が持つ驚異の生存戦略と進化の軌跡を解き明かします。毎日の通勤時間や夜の静かなリラックスタイムに、生命の神秘に触れる知的な...

人間には見えない光や聞こえない音が織りなす自然界の秘密を紐解き、凝り固まった日常の風景を劇的に塗り替える、驚きと癒やしに満ちた感覚の生物学エッセイ。慌ただしい通勤電車の中や、静かな夜のリラックスタイ...

The popular and highly respected horse trainer Mark Rashid brings together Western and Eastern philosophies to demonstrate a seamless new incarnation of horse training. After years of helping "difficult" horses, Mark Rashid understands how to build the foundation of a horse's training and resolve any problems encountered along the way.

Dr. Catherine Kleier invites us to open our eyes to the phenomenal world of plant life and to the process she calls “Natura Revelata”, the joy of celebrating and learning from the secrets of nature. As Dr. Kleier shares her knowledge with contagious excitement for her subject, she emphasizes the middle ground: Instead of focusing on cell microbiology or the study of ecosystems and habitats, she stresses the basic biology, function, and the amazing adaptations of the plants we see all around us.

In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, Wilding is, above all...