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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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The Secret Language of Dogs: Unlocking the Canine Mind for a Happier Pet
Victoria Stilwell · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 151
Format: Print book
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The star of Animal Planet's It's Me or the Dog Victoria Stilwell reveals how to both interpret and "speak" the hidden language of dogs. Recent studies into the minds of canines show that they have a rich social intelligence and a physical and vocal language as complex and subtle... |
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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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Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life
Matin Durrani · Bloomsbury SIGMA
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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The principles of physics lie behind many of the ways animals go about their daily lives. Scientists have discovered that the way cats and dogs lap up liquids can be explained by the laws of surface tension, how ants navigate is due to polarized light, and why pistol shrimps can generate... |
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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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18 Miles: The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather
Christopher Dewdney
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of Acquainted with the Night comes a brilliant and witty look at our favourite topic - weather We live at the bottom of an ocean of air - 5, 200 million million tons, to be exact. It sounds like a lot, but Earth's atmosphere is smeared onto its surface... |
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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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The New Rules of the Roost: Organic Care and Feeding for the Family Flock
ROBERT LITT · Timber Press
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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New from Robert and Hannah Litt - the owners of the Urban Farm Store and the authors of the bestselling A Chicken in Every Yard - comes a hardworking guide to backyard chicken keeping that goes beyond the basics. The New Rules of the Roost addresses the read problems that crop up when keeping... |
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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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The Milk Lady of Bangalore: An Unexpected Adventure
SHOBA NARAYAN · Algonquin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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When Shoba Narayan, a writer and cookbook author who had lived for years in Manhattan, moves back to Bangalore with her family, she befriends the milk lady, from whom she buys fresh milk every day. These two women from very different backgrounds bond over not only cows, considered holy... |
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Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
ELIZABETH RUSH · Milkweed Editions
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant -- and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable... |
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The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
Jack E Davis · Liveright
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
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The tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic.When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented... |
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Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America
Craig Childs · Pantheon
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, tracing the arrival of the First People in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates. This book upends our notions of where these people came... |
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