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2021.
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English
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The 254 landscape photos in this book, along with the accompanying facts about them, illustrate all of the counties of Texas. Each county includes a map of its location and iconic photography of that county's notable landscape and natural setting. The photographer, Lance Varnell, has the heart of an environmentalist and had the eye of a photographer. The word had is used here because following the 15-year adventure of collecting these photographs,...
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Louise Lindsey Merrick natural environment volume no. 39
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English
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Louise Lindsey Merrick natural environment volume no. 44
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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2016.
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English
Description
The Texas Landscape Project explores conservation and ecology in Texas by presenting a highly visual and deeply researched view of the widespread changes that have affected the state as its population and economy have boomed and as Texans have worked ever harder to safeguard its bountiful but limited natural resources. Covering the entire state, from Pineywoods bottomlands and Panhandle playas to Hill Country springs and Big Bend canyons, the project...
5) Our planet
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"This striking photographic companion to the groundbreaking Netflix original documentary series, from the team that brought us the original 'Planet Earth' and 'The blue planet', takes you on a journey across the globe's different biological realms to present stunning visuals of nature's most intriguing animals in action, and environmental change on a scale that must be seen to be believed"--
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[2021]
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English
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"As if Annie Dillard walked into THE WORLD WITHOUT US: a beautiful, lyrical exploration of the places where nature is flourishing in our absence Some of the only truly feral cattle in the world wander a long-abandoned island off the northernmost tip of Scotland. A variety of wildlife not seen in many lifetimes has rebounded on the irradiated grounds of Chernobyl. A lush forest supports thousands of species that are extinct or endangered everywhere...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
Description
See the images and read the stories behind the creative process of one of America's most respected landscape photographers, William Neill. For more than two decades, William Neill has been offering his thoughts and insights about photography and the beauty of nature in essays that cover the techniques, business, and spirit of his photographic life. Curated and collected here for the first time, these essays are both pragmatic and profound, offering...
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The author surveys the traces we will leave for peoples in the very distant future. He shows that modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, including the plastic polluting the oceans, the nuclear waste entombed within the earth, and the thirty million miles of paved roads spanning the planet. This is his medition on climate change and the Anthropocene, and an urgent search for fossils--industrial,...
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2013, ©2000.
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English
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"Richard Box explores line, tone and color with numerous step-by-step illustrations and many finished drawings. Taking his inspiration from nature, he shows how to interpret subjects in a personal and individual way -- from drawing trees in the landscape to representing the beauty of a mass of poppies and delphiniums."-- $c Back cover.
10) Bryce Canyon
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
Description
Despite its name, Bryce Canyon is not a canyon at all, but an incredible range of natural stone amphitheaters. Its rippling red rock towers called hoodoos and limestone cliffs are otherworldly. Readers will tour the parks beautiful landscapes and get an in-depth look at its many plants and animals. They will also learn about the parks origins, when humans first came to the area, and much more. Features include engaging sidebars that highlight unique...
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Get tangled up in the serenity of the natural world. It's easy to see why interest in tangle drawing continues to grow. With a focus on simple mark making as well as drawing with the intention to relax and be creative, tangle drawing is a powerful tool for people looking to tap into their inner artist. This book guides readers in exploring and developing their own style of tangle-inspired botanicals, land and seascapes, lush foliage, and mixed media...
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[2017]
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English
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Experience the grandeur of the Texas Hill Country through stunning photography and narrative highlighting the natural beauty, scenic wonders, charming historic towns, and cultural heritage of Texas's most celebrated region. Cradled by Austin to the east and San Antonio to the south, the Texas Hill Country is famous for its undulating landscape, where spring-fed streams carve wooded canyons, rugged limestone peaks rise to more than 2,500 feet, and...
14) Olympic
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Known as Washington's gift from the sea, the Olympic Peninsula is home to everything from ice-capped mountains and dense rain forests to rushing rivers and rugged Pacific Coast shores. Readers will visit Olympic National Park to tour the peninsula's beautiful landscapes and catch a glimpse of its many native plants and animals. They will also learn how the park came to be, how people are working to preserve its natural beauty today, and more"--
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Conceived of by artist Amy Goldin, "flowstones" are crafted by molding a sheet of polymer clay around a smooth river rock. They impart a sense of calm to the holder, grounded by the weight and soothed by the smooth surface. Each stone's unique shape and pattern gives it a beauty all its own. In Flowstones, Goldin shares beautiful photographs of the many stones she has created, captured in nature, where their striking appearance contrasts with landscapes...
16) The book of Koli
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Rampart trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Book of Koli is the unforgettable story of a young boy struggling to find his place in a world where nature itself has turned against humanity: Everything that lives hates us... Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable landscape. A place where overgrown forests are filled with choker trees and deadly seeds that will kill you where you stand. And if they don't get you, one of the dangerous shunned men will. Koli...
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Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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When a colleague teased writer Dreher one day about his visit to the "lefty" local food co-op, he started thinking about the ways he and his conservative family lived that put them outside the bounds of conventional Republican politics. Shortly thereafter, Dreher wrote an essay about "crunchy cons," people whose "Small Is Beautiful" style of conservative politics often put them at odds with GOP orthodoxy. Dreher was deluged by e-mails from conservatives...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
Description
Get hands-on knowledge of how BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) can be used to develop question answering (QA) systems by using natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning. The book begins with an overview of the technology landscape behind BERT. It takes you through the basics of NLP, including natural language understanding with tokenization, stemming, and lemmatization, and bag of words. Next, you'll look at...
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"To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans, the beasts. And to do that, he tried to be like them, choosing a badger, an otter, a fox, a deer, and a swift. He lived alongside badgers for weeks, sleeping in a sett in a Welsh hillside and eating earthworms, learning to sense the landscape through his nose rather than his eyes. He caught fish in his teeth...
20) Georgia O'Keeffe
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was one of the foundational figures of American modernism and a pioneering woman in the arts. Widely celebrated and recognized for her flower paintings and Southwest landscapes, O'Keeffe is revealed in full in this new book. With superb plates of more than 200 works, it ranges from well-known masterpieces to the abstractions, nature studies, and New York City scenes that have captivated new generations of art lovers....
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