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A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
Donald Worster · Oxford University Press, USA; 1ST edition
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing."In... |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018
Sam Kean · Mariner Books
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
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Best-selling author of The Disappearing Spoon, The Violinist's Thumb, and more, Sam Kean, selects the year's top science and nature writing, looking for writers who balance research with humanity and in the process uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines. |
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Bats
Phil Richardson · Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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A comprehensive illustrated guide to the fascinating biology and natural history of bats Phil Richardsons expert text tells the amazing and often bizarre story of bats from around the world and the challenges they face Unfortunately most bat populations in North America are declining... |
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Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
John Bradshaw · Basic Books
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover
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Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, and yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. Unlike dogs, cats evolved as solitary hunters, and, while... |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016
Amy Stewart · Mariner Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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"Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten," notes guest editor Amy Stewart in her introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016. "But at the end of the day, we're all writers... |
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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America, 6th Edition
Roger Tory Peterson · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 6th edition
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Guide to birds of eastern and central north america guides a unique identification system, which has been called the greatest invention since binoculars. This guide is illustrated with drawings and photographs in color and black and white and all provide up to date range information and the most... |
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Pure Joy: The Dogs We Love
Danielle Steel · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 154
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In this moving memoir, Danielle Steel tells the story of how she met a dog the size of a mouse with a personality that could light up an entire room. From Minnie's arrival at home in San Francisco to clothes-shopping jaunts in Paris, her adventures... |
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Volcanoes and Earthquakes: A Guide To Our Unquiet Earth
Chiara Maria Petrone · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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Concise and engaging visual guide to Earth's most devastating natural forces: earthquakes, volcanoes, and plate tectonicsOne in 20 people in the world live within range of an active volcano. On average, Magnitude 2 and smaller earthquakes occur several hundred times a day worldwide.... |
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Wave
Sonali Deraniyagala · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearOn the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank... |
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On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon;
Alan Tennant · Knopf
Pages: 301
Format: Hardcover
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In this extraordinary narrative, Alan Tennant, a passionate observer of nature, recounts his all-out effort to radio-track the transcontinental migration of the peregrine falcon - an investigation no one before him had ever taken to such lengths.
On the Wing transports us from... |
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Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them
Ted Danson · Rodale Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Most people know Ted Danson as the affable bartender Sam Malone in the long-runningtelevision series Cheers But fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a halfdecades Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a looming globalcatastrophethe massive destruction... |
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