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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
Sean M Carroll · Dutton
Pages: 470
Format: Print book
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*An instant New York Times Bestseller**Publishers Weekly #1 Most Anticipated Science Book of Spring 2016*"You will be enthralled." - Wall Street Journal"A tour de force." - Salon.comAlready internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging... |
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My Gentle Barn: Creating a Sanctuary Where Animals Heal and Children Learn to Hope
Ellie Laks · Harmony Books
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover
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"My Gentle Barn is a wonderful book. You'll love Ellie Laks and the animals she rescued--and who rescued her back." -Sy Montgomery, The Good Good PigFounder Ellie Laks started The Gentle Barn after adopting a sick goat from a run-down petting zoo in 1999. Some two hundred... |
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We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement that Restores the Planet
XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ · Rodale Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Challenge the status quo, change the face of activism, and confront climate change head on with the ultimate blueprint for taking action.Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is a 16-year-old climate activist, hip-hop artist, and powerful new voice on the front lines of a global youth-led movement. He and his group... |
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Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture
Erez Aiden
Format: Book
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?One of the most exciting developments from the world of ideas in decades, presented with panache by two frighteningly brilliant, endearingly unpretentious, and endlessly creative young scientists.” ? Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature Our society has gone from... |
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The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration
Bernd Heinrich · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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"A noted naturalist explores the centrality of home in the lives of humans and other animals . . . A special treat for readers of natural history." - Kirkus Reviews Every year, many species make the journey from one place to another, following the same paths and ending up in the same... |
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Fishes: A Guide to Their Diversity
Philip A. Hastings · University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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There are more than 33,000 species of living fishes, accounting for more than half of the extant vertebrate diversity on Earth. This unique and comprehensive reference showcases the basic anatomy and diversity of all 82 orders of fishes and more than 150 of the most commonly encountered... |
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Cathedral of the Wild: An African Journey Home
Boyd Varty · Random House of Canada, Limited
Pages: 281
Format: Hardcover
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Boyd Varty had an unconventional upbringing. He grew up on Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa, a place where man and nature strive for balance, where perils exist alongside wonders. Founded more than eighty years ago as a hunting ground, Londolozi was transformed into a nature reserve... |
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Seven Flowers: And How They Shaped Our World
Jennifer Potter · Overlook Books
Format: Hardcover
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The lotus. The lily. The sunflower. The opium poppy. The rose. The tulip. The orchid. Seven flowers, each with its own story full of surprises and secrets, each affecting the world around us in subtle but powerful ways. But what is the nature of their power and how did it develop? Why have... |
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Charles Darwin: Destroyer of Myths
Andrew Norman · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: eBook
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Charles Darwin did not deliberately set out to be the “destroyer of mythical beliefs,” some of which, in his early days as a young Christian, he had previously espoused. He was a modest man who liked to avoid controversy of any kind, yet paradoxically, he was to be the cause... |
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Voyaging in Strange Seas: The Great Revolution in Science
David Knight · Yale University Press
Format: Book
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In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed—Luther’s Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the ignorance of the ancient Greeks and Romans. A new,... |
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Rare Birds of North America
Steve N. G. Howell · Princeton University Press
Pages: 428
Format: Hardcover
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Rare Birds of North America is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the vagrant birds that occur throughout the United States and Canada. Featuring 275 stunning color plates, this book covers 262 species originating from three very different regions--the Old World, the New World... |
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