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Water Planet: The Culture, Politics, Economics, and Sustainability of Water on Earth
Camille Gaskin-Reyes · ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Pages: 450
Format: Hardcover
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Every culture and ecosystem on earth depends on water. As the world's climate changes, human culture is increasingly threatened by the seemingly opposite problems of having too little clean, potable water and "having too much water" e. g. , flooding, melting polar ice caps,... |
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Born To Be Wild: Hundreds of free nature activities for families
Hattie Garlick · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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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Mozart's Starling
LYANDA LYNN HAUPT · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover
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On May 27th, 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met a flirtatious little starling in a Viennese shop who sang an improvised version of the theme from his Piano Concerto no. 17 in G major. Sensing a kindred spirit in the plucky young bird, Mozart bought him and took him home to be a family pet.... |
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Climate Change: Examining the Facts
Daniel Bedford · Abc-Clio
Pages: 212
Format: Print book
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Is public understanding of global warming suffering from politically biased news coverage? Is it true that the global scientific community has not reached a consensus on whether humans are causing climate change? This important book addresses these questions and many more about global warming,... |
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Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame
Michael Kodas · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant exploration of the rising phenomenon of megafires - forest fires of alarming scale, intensity, and devastation - that captures the danger and heroism of those who fight them In Megafire, a world-renowned journalist and forest fire expert travels to the most dangerous and remote... |
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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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The Genius of Birds
Jennifer Ackerman · Penguin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds. As she travels... |
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Dog Training 101: Step-by-Step Instructions for raising a happy well-behaved dog
KYRA SUNDANCE · Quarry Books
Pages: 175
Format: Paperback
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Sit! Stay! It's easy with Dog Training 101Using a visually driven, playful presentation, Dog Training 101 offers step-by-step instructions every dog owner needs and wants to know as you care for and raise your canine best friend. From basic commands like sit, stay, and come to everything... |
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Emerald Labyrinth: A Scientist's Adventures in the Jungles of the Congo
Eli Greenbaum · ForeEdge
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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Emerald Labyrinth is a scientist and adventurer's chronicle of years exploring the rainforests of sub-Saharan Africa. The richly varied habitats of the Democratic Republic of the Congo offer a wealth of animal, plant, chemical, and medical discoveries. But the country also has a deeply... |
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The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Jeff Goodell · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2017 One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2017 One of BOOKLIST 's Top 10 Science Books of 2017 "An immersive, mildly gonzo and depressingly well-timed book about the drenching effects of global warming, and a powerful reminder... |
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Afterglow
EILEEN MYLES · Grove Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work "set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match" (New York Review of Books) . This newest book paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved... |
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Rover: Wagmore Edition
ANDREW GRANT · Firefly Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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In 2009, Andrew Grant began photographing dogs, starting with two French bulldogs at an unrelated commercial "shoot". Then he discovered the sad fact that millions of lost or abandoned dogs enter animal shelters every year. And only a few leave, through rescue and adoption. The rest... |
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Penguins of America
James Patterson · Little
Pages: 64
Format: Print book
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A lavishly illustrated, humorous book from the world's #1 bestselling writer and his son that shows how humans and penguins really aren't that different after all. Penguins--our lovable, cute, flightless friends who are constantly dressed for a formal occasion--have always fascinated... |
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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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