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Botanical Art from the Golden Age of Scientific Discovery
Anna Laurent · Univ Of Chicago Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, wall charts were a familiar classroom component, displaying scientific images at a large scale, in full color. But it's only now that they've been superseded as a teaching tool that we have begun to realize something their ubiquity... |
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The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs
David Hone · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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'Gripping and wonderfully informative' Tom Holland, New Statesman Adored by children and adults alike, Tyrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur in the world, one that pops up again and again in pop culture, often battling other beasts such as King Kong, Triceratops or velociraptors in Jurassic... |
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Imperial Dreams: Tracking the Imperial Woodpecker Through the Wild Sierra Madre
Tim Gallagher · Atria Books
Format: Hardcover |
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Explorer and naturalist Tim Gallagher is obsessed with rare birds A decade ago Gallagher was one of the rediscoverers of the legendary ivory-billed woodpecker which most scientists believed had been extinct for more than half a centuryan event that caused an international stir Now in Imperial... |
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Born To Be Wild: Hundreds of free nature activities for families
Hattie Garlick · Bloomsbury Natural History
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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Want to save cash, your child's imagination, and possibly even the planet? This is the book you need. Packed with great photos of real families in the outdoors, Born to Be Wild contains easy-to-follow instructions for activities that require nothing more sophisticated than a child's imagination... |
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Secret Service Dogs : the heroes who protect the president of the united states
Maria Goodavage · Dutton
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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In an age fraught with terrorism, United States Secret Service canine teams risk their lives to safeguard the president, vice president, their families, visiting heads of state, and a host of others. Unprecedented access to these heroic dog teams has allowed a fascinating first-time-ever... |
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Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild
Michael Forsberg · University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book |
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The Great Plains were once among the greatest grasslands on the planet. But as the United States and Canada grew westward, the Plains were plowed up, fenced in, overgrazed, and otherwise degraded. Today, this fragmented landscape is the most endangered and least protected ecosystem in North... |
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Nature Walks on the Indiana Prairie
Alan McPherson · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 108
Format: Paperback |
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The easternmost extent of the western Great Plains begins in Indiana with the central tallgrass prairie. The "Grand Prairie Peninsula" occupies northwest Indiana roughly between Lake Michigan and the Wabash River. Although most of the Indiana prairie has gone the way of the bison... |
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Upstream: Selected Essays
Mary Oliver · Penguin Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book |
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"In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be." So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which beloved... |
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Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet
Julie Dunlap · Trinity University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Print book |
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Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. This powerful anthology gathers the passionate voices of young writers who have grown up in an environmentally damaged and compromised world. Each contributor has come of age since Bill McKibben foretold the doom... |
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