The Control of Nature

The Control of Nature

By
John McPhee
John McPhee
1989 • 288 pages

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62 books

Mostly Plants

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Emma
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Botany of Desire
The Orchid Thief
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History
Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature
Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest

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Swimming to Cambodia
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
SantaLand Diaries
The Elephant Vanishes

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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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Blue Highways: A Journey into America

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202 books

Geography

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Down to the Sea in Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men

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300 books

Landscape And Place

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Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West

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134 books

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Food and the City: New York's Professional Chefs, Restaurateurs, Line Cooks, Street Vendors, and Purveyors Talk About What They Do and Why They Do It
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Heretics of Dune

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244 books

Serious

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The Third Wave: The Classic Study of Tomorrow
20 Brainteaser für Scrum-Masterinnen
Coaching und Supervision
A year with Peter Drucker

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Rumble
The Blue Nowhere
The New Way Things Work
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Mere Christianity
Confessions of an Advertising Man
To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels
Mencius

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9 books

Climate

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Creating the Twentieth Century
Energy
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Losing Earth
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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Disquiet Gods
Age of Myth
Heretics of Dune
Guts: The True Stories Behind "Hatchet" and the "Brian" Books
Ashes of the Sun
Dune Messiah
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