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Backyard Wildlife
Todd Telander · Falcon Pr Pub Co
Pages: 195
Format: Book
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Falcon Pocket Guide: Backyard Wildlife is a field guide to the most common and sought-after species you can find in your very own backyard. Anatomically correct illustrations and detailed descriptions about each animal's prominent physical attributes and natural habitat make it easy to identify... |
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Wild Sex: The Science Behind Mating in the Animal Kingdom
Carin Bondar Ph. D. · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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A brilliantly engaging guide to the reproductive habits of creatures great and small, based on the author's popular webseries "Wild Sex," which has received over 14 million views Birds do it, bees do it -- every member of the animal kingdom does it, from fruit flies to blue... |
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Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words
Dr. John W. Pilley Jr. Ph.D · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller The amazing story of a very smart Border collie who is redefining animal intelligence. Chaser has a way with words. She knows over a thousand of them - more than any other animal of any species except humans. In addition to common nouns like house, ball, and tree,... |
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Storm Kings: The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers
Lee Sandlin · Pantheon; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrationsFrom the acclaimed author of Wicked River comes Storm Kings, a riveting tale of supercell tornadoes and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists whose discoveries created the science of modern meteorology. While tornadoes have occasionally... |
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Radiation: What It Is, What You Need to Know
Robert Peter Gale · Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The essential guide to radiation the good, the bad, and the utterly fascinating, explained with unprecedented clarity. Earth, born in a nuclear explosion, is a radioactive planet without radiation, life would not exist. And while radiation can be dangerous, it is also deeply misunderstood... |
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Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters
Jason A. Ramos · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature's blazes.Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and deadlier... |
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
JARED DIAMOND · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback
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"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history." -- Bill Gates In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped... |
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Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth
Jane Alexander · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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A moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists, zoologists, environmentalists, and conservationists.... |
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Humankind: How Biology and Geography Shape Human Diversity
Alexander H. Harcourt · Pegasus Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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An innovative and illuminating look at how the evolution of the human species has been shaped by the world around us, from anatomy and physiology, to cultural diversity and population density.Where did the human species originate? Why are tropical peoples much more diverse than those at polar... |
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A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention
Matt Richtel · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Matt Richtel, a brilliant, narrative-driven exploration of technologys vast influence on the human mind and society, dramatically-told through the lens of a tragic texting-while-driving car crash that claimed the lives of two rocket scientists in 2006.In... |
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Why Cows Need Names And More Secrets of Amish Farms
Randy James · Kent State Univ
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring glimpse into the struggles of a young Amish farm familyAgriculture continues to be the largest industry in the United States with over 2.2 million farms. Amazingly, well over 100,000 new small family farms have sprung up in the past few years . . . and almost no one noticed.Why... |
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The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger
Elizabeth H Blackburn · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 398
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease... |
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Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science
Christoph Irmscher · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Charismatic and controversial Louis Agassiz is our least known revolutionarysome fifty years after American independence he became a founding father of American science One hundred and seventy-five years ago a Swiss immigrant took America by storm launching American science as we know... |
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Visions of Infinity: The Great Mathematical Problems
Ian Stewart · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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It is one of the wonders of mathematics that for every problem mathematicians solve another awaits to perplex and galvanize them Some of these problems are new while others have puzzled and bewitched thinkers across the ages Such challenges offer a tantalizing glimpse of the fields unlimited... |
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