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Tipping Point for Planet Earth: How Close Are We to the Edge?
Anthony D Barnosky · St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Tipping Point for Planet Earth explains why Earth is headed for a tipping point, a change so fast, dramatic, and unexpected that humanity will reel at the consequences.Midway through this century, there will be more than nine billion people on the planet. Already we are using most of the arable... |
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Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
NOAH STRYCKER · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first person to see more than half the world's 10,000 species of birds in one year. In 2015, Noah Strycker set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world's birds in one year.... |
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Why Dinosaurs Matter
KEN LACOVARA · Simon & Schuster/ TED
Pages: 120
Format: Hardcover
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What can long-dead dinosaurs teach us about our future? Plenty, according to paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, who has discovered some of the largest creatures to ever walk the Earth.By tapping into the ubiquitous wonder that dinosaurs inspire, Lacovara weaves together the stories of our geological... |
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Frans de Waal · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 340
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Bestseller From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal, a groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic.What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your... |
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Brilliance and Fire: A Biography of Diamonds
Rachelle Bergstein · Harper
Pages: 375
Format: Print book
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From the author of Women from the Ankle Down comes a lively cultural biography of diamonds, which explores our society's obsession with the world's most brilliant gemstone and the real-world characters who make them shine."A diamond is forever." Who among us doesn't recognize... |
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Cat Castles: 20 Cardboard Habitats You Can Build Yourself
Carin Oliver · Quirk Books
Pages: 96
Format: Print book
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Build your cat "paw-some" homemade habitats with easy instructions and common materials. Shoeboxes and paper bags are fine for other cats. But your favorite felines deserve luxurious living spaces! This DIY construction guide includes fun and easy instructions for making cardboard... |
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One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives
Bernd Heinrich · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 210
Format: Print book
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The acclaimed scientist's encounters with individual wild birds, yielding "marvelous, mind-altering" (Los Angeles Times) insights and discoveries In his modern classics One Man's Owl and Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written memorably about his relationships with wild... |
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Woolly: The True Story of the De-Extinction of One of History's Most Iconic Creatures
BEN MEZRICH · Atria Books
Pages: 293
Format: Hardcover
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Science fiction becomes reality in this Jurassic Park-like story of the genetic resurrection of an extinct species - the woolly mammoth - by the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and The 37th Parallel."With his knack for turning narrative nonfiction into stories worthy... |
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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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K-9 Korea: The Untold Story of America's War Dogs in the Korean War
J Rachel Reed · Regnery History
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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The men of the 8125th Sentry Dog Detachment had no idea what they would find when their ship docked at Incheon, Korea. The dogs in the unit seemed even more uncertain than the men: they could smell the terror in the place. Almost immediately, these soldiers came to rely on each other - man and dog alike... |
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Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
Jill Jonnes · Viking
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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A celebration of urban trees and the Americans - presidents, plant explorers, visionaries, citizen activists, scientists, nurserymen, and tree nerds - whose arboreal passions have shaped and ornamented the nation's cities, from Jefferson's day to the present Nature's largest... |
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
Karen Piper · Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover
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“There's Money in Thirst,” reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestlé, purveyor of bottled water, heartily agrees. It is important to give water a market value, he says in a promotional video, so “we're all aware that it has a price.”... |
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Shake Cats
Carli Davidson · Harper Design
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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The fur flies in this irresistible third installment in the bestselling Shake series by popular pet photographer Carli Davidson, featuring adorable and hysterical color photographs of more than sixty cats caught mid-shake.Pet photographer Carli Davidson has enchanted readers around the world... |
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