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Peterson Reference Guides: Birding by Impression: A Different Approach to Knowing and Identifying Birds

Kevin Karlson · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 286
Format: Print book

A highly visual guide to identifying birds in the field based on the important, unchanging features of size, shape, structure, and behavior Birding is an extremely rewarding and fun hobby, but some situations can be frustrating or unsuccessful because of a variety of challenging viewing...

How to Change Minds About Our Changing Climate: Let Science Do the Talking the Next Time Someone Tries to Tell You...The Climate Isn't Changing; Global ... Other Arguments It's Time to End for Good

Seth B Darling · The Experiment
Pages: 200
Format: Print book

The essential climate-debate handbook -- everything you need to know about climate science to change mindsHave you ever heard someone say that climate change is simply the result of natural cycles? Or that there can't be global warming because it still gets so cold out? While the claims...

GED® Math Test Tutor, For the New 2014 GED® Test

Ms. Sandra Rush M.A. · Research & Education Association; Csm edition
Format: Paperback

REA's GED® Math Test Tutor - Helps You Pass the Most Challenging Part of the GED® Get ready for the math portion of the GED® with REA's GED® Math Test Tutor Book features: - Content 100% aligned with the new 2014 GED® test - Written by a GED® math tutor...

Among Chimpanzees: Field Notes from the Race to Save Our Endangered Relatives

Nancy J. Merrick · Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

Foreword by Jane GoodallA former student and colleague of Jane Goodall shares stories of chimps and their heroes, and takes readers on a journey to save mans closest relative. Â Unbeknownst to much of the public, chimps are in trouble censuses show them to be extinct in four African countries...

A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction

Joel Greenberg · Bloomsbury
Pages: 289
Format: Hardcover

In the early nineteenth century 25 to 40 percent of North America's birds were passenger pigeons, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours or even days. The down beats of their wings would chill the air beneath and create a thundering roar that would drown out all other...

CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae, 31st Edition

Daniel Zwillinger · Chapman and Hall/CRC; 31 edition
Format: Hardcover

A perennial bestseller, the 30th edition of CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae was the first "modern" edition of the handbook - adapted to be useful in the era of personal computers and powerful handheld devices. Now this version will quickly establish itself as the "user-friendly"...

The Man Who Stalked Einstein: How Nazi Scientist Philipp Lenard Changed the Course of History

Bruce J. Hillman · Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover

By the end of World War I, Albert Einstein had become the face of the new science of theoretical physics and had made some powerful enemies. One of those enemies, Nobel Prize winner Philipp Lenard, spent a career trying to discredit him. Their story of conflict, pitting Germany's most...

Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever

Maude Barlow · The New Press
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover

In her bestselling books Blue Gold and Blue Covenant, world-renowned water activist Maude Barlow exposed the battle for ownership of our dwindling water supply and the emergence of an international, grassroots-led movement to reclaim water as a public good. Since then, the United Nations...

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