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Skeletons: The Extraordinary Form & Function of Bones
Andrew Kirk · Wellfleet Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Everything you need to know about the framework of the body - our bones!Bone is one of the most extraordinary materials in the natural world-flexible, strong, and available in a number of types and densities. Yet we can only absorb quite how amazing it is when we look at the range of different... |
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Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History
ULRICH RAULFF · Liveright
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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A surprising, lively, and erudite history of horse and man, for readers of The Invention of Nature and The Soul of an Octopus.Horses and humans share an ancient, profoundly complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build... |
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National Geographic Backyard Guide to Insects and Spiders of North America
Arthur V Evans · National Geographic
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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An accessible visual guide to the top 150 insects and spiders, this guide combines readable text, representative photographs, and explanatory illustrations to highlight key features of body shape, life cycle, and behavior. Organized by scientific taxonomy, the book offers navigational devices... |
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What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
Jonathan Balcombe · Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times Bestseller Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking... |
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American Museum of Natural History Birds of North America
Paul D. Hess · DK
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover
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Updated to reflect all the latest taxonomic data, American Museum of Natural History Birds of North America is the complete photographic guide to the 657 species of birds found in the United States and Canada.Ideal for the armchair bird enthusiast or dedicated bird watcher, this book includes... |
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Frans de Waal · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 340
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Bestseller From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal, a groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic.What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your... |
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The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs
PETER WOHLLEBEN · Dutton
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.In this first-ever... |
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Labradoodles
JOAN HUSTACE WALKER · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
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The perfect resources for Labradoodle lovers!These friendly, energetic, and charming dogs came into existence in 1988 when a breeder looking for a service dog sought to combine the low-shedding coat of the poodle with the gentleness and eager-to-please trainability of the Labrador Retriever.... |
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Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
Juli Berwald · Riverhead Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A former ocean scientist goes in pursuit of the slippery story of jellyfish, rediscovering her passion for marine science and the sea's imperiled ecosystems. Jellyfish are an enigma. They have no centralized brain, but they see and feel and react to their environment in complex ways. They... |
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Shop Cats of New York
Tamar Arslanian · Harpercollins
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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Humans of New York meets The French Cat in this carefully cultivated, gorgeous full-color collection featuring New York's iconic felines and the stories behind them.They inhabit New York City's most legendary and coziest spots - the Algonquin Hotel, a whiskey distillery, Bleecker Street... |
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Run the Storm: A Savage Hurricane, a Brave Crew, and the Wreck of the SS El Faro
GEORGE MICHELSEN FOY · Scribner
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of A Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, a harrowing account of the incredible true story of the recent shocking disappearance of El Faro, a gigantic American cargo ship that sank suddenly in the Bermuda Triangle in 2015 - taking with it thirty-three lives.On... |
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