Nature's Everyday Mysteries: A Field Guide to the World in Your Backyard

by Sy Montgomery

Book Overview

Contextualism as a philosophy of science has been receiving increased attention from psychologists and other social scientists frustrated with the dominant mechanistic view within psychology. This... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963159194
• ISBN13: 9780963159199
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A pleasurable read.

A beautifully written book about the natural world that supplies the reader with an enormous amount of information about the world we seldom see and the other lives which inhabit it.

Reconnect with the seasons

In the middle of a bleak, New England winter and at a time in my life when I felt disconnected from the natural world due to health difficulties, I purchased this book. I opened it to the section on winter and read the first essay entitled, "Sounds and Silences of December." Not only was it interesting to learn that sound travels farther and is clearer over frozen ground, but it encouraged me to go outside and see for myself! Since then, this book has been a source of valuable information regarding the unique aspects of each season. Also, it has been a source of encouragement, drawing me out-of-doors to explore. I don't have to venture far from home to experience some of the things written about in the book. Learn about peepers in spring, mud season, insects, messages in spider webs, chipmunks and squirrels, animal migrations, exploring the off-season beach in winter...just to name a few. If you've never been an outdoorsy person or need some guidance to reconnect, this is an excellent choice.