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Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
KATHRYN MILES · Dutton
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A journey around the United States in search of the truth about the threat of earthquakes leads to spine-tingling discoveries, unnerving experts, and ultimately the kind of preparations that will actually help guide us through disasters. It's a road trip full of surprises. Earthquakes.... |
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Venom: The Secrets of Nature's Deadliest Weapon
Ronald A Jenner · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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Venom brings readers face to face with some of the most dangerous creatures on the planet, including jellyfish, snakes, and wasps, as it uncovers the story of venom. The book explores how venom is used for predation, defense, competition, and communication by an incredible diversity of species.... |
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Beekeeping For Dummies
Consumer Dummies · For Dummies
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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Everything you need to 'bee' a successful backyard beekeeper If you've ever thought about becoming a backyard beekeeper - or have already tried a hand at it and want to be better one - then this is the book for you! In Beekeeping for Dummies, 4th Edition you'll find everything... |
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Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World
Judith D Schwartz · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has entered the realm of economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide... |
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The Secret Life of Cows
Rosamund Young · Penguin Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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In this affectionate, heart-warming chronicle, Rosamund Young distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animalsAt her famous Kite's Nest Farm in Worcestershire, England, the cows (as well as sheep, hens, and pigs) all roam... |
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The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
Diane Ackerman · W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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As Diane Ackerman writes in her brilliant new book, The Human Age, "our relationship with nature has changed ... radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable." Ackerman... |
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Strays: A Lost Cat, a Drifter, and Their Journey Across America
BRITT COLLINS · Atria Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of A Street Cat Named Bob and Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Strays is a compelling true story of a man who rescues a stray, injured cat and how they save each other.Homeless, alcoholic, and depressed, Michael King lives in a UPS loading bay on the wrong... |
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Geological Structures: An Introductory Field Guide
Chris Pellant · Bloomsbury Natural History
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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Geological Structures is an easy-to-use, highly informative photographic field guide that introduces the great variety of geological structures to be found all around us. The authors' beautiful photography, extended captions and accessible text make interpreting and understanding geological... |
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Swamp Rat: The Story of Dixie's Nutria Invasion
Theodore G Manno · University Press of Mississippi
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover
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Theodore G. Manno traces the history of nutria from their natural range in South America to their status as an invasive species known for destroying the environmentally and economically important wetlands along the Gulf Coast. In this definitive book on "swamp rats," Manno vividly... |
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Wild Horse Country: The History, Myth, and Future of the Mustang, Americas Horse
DAVID PHILIPPS · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's history of wild horses in America -- and an eye-opening story on their treatment in our time.Wild horses -- also known as mustangs -- live in a strange twilight. They are deeply American but not native; they are free-born symbols of liberty but tightly... |
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No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies: 1
WILLIAM T VOLLMANN · Viking
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
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A timely, eye-opening book about climate change and energy generation that focuses on the consequences of nuclear power production, from award-winning author William T. VollmannIn his nonfiction, William T. Vollmann has won acclaim as a singular voice tackling some of the most important... |
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Bayou Country Bloodsport: The Culture of Cockfighting in Southern Louisiana
Jon Griffin Donlon · McFarland
Format: Book
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Cockfighting has had a long history in the United States. Now outlawed in all 50 states, the violent sport serves as a springboard to discuss controversial leisure activities. The author's fieldwork, beginning before the ban of cockfighting and conducted mainly in South Louisiana, provides... |
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Wild, Beautiful Places: Picture-Perfect Journeys Around the Globe
National Geographic. · National Geographic Soc
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Experience the world's most wild, remote, beautiful places with shots by National Geographic photographers and vintage photos pulled from the National Geographic archives. Highlighting 50 of Earth's most pristine, scenic locales, this beautiful book is illustrated with stunning images,... |
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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
Bill Schutt · Algonquin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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"A masterful and compulsively readable book that challenges our preconceived notions about a behavior often sensationalized in our culture and, until just recently, misunderstood in the scientific world." - Ian Tattersall, Curator Emeritus, American Museum of Natural History,... |
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