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The Animals Among Us: How Pets Make Us Human
John Bradshaw · Basic Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Dog Sense and Cat Sense explains why living with animals has always been a fundamental aspect of being human Pets have never been more popular. Over half of American households share their home with either a cat or a dog, and many contain both. This is a huge change... |
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Panda Love: The Secret Lives of Pandas
Ami Vitale · Hardie Grant
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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Panda Love is a collection of incredible images of these gentle giants. Ami Vitale's stunning photographs, taken on location in China, document the efforts to breed pandas and release them back into the wild. Ami was given unprecedented access to the pandas and her photos give an amazing... |
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Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture
Bruce Pascoe · Scribe US
Pages: 278
Format: Paperback
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History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong. In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were... |
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The Wasting of Borneo: Dispatches from a Vanishing World
Alex Shoumatoff · Beacon Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Acclaimed naturalist Alex Shoumatoff issues a worldwide call to protect the drastically endangered rainforests of BorneoIn this wide-ranging narrative, seasoned travel and environmental writer Alex Shoumatoff takes readers on a journey from the woods of rural New York to the rain forests... |
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Life in the Garden
PENELOPE LIVELY · Viking
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and lifePenelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening in this philosophical and poetic memoir. From the courtyards... |
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Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction
Chris D. Thomas · PublicAffairs
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural world. Throughout history we've introduced species and infectious diseases to foreign shores; hunted slow-moving (and slower-reproducing) mammals to extinction; and polluted previously pristine tracts of land.... |
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Encyclopedia of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises
Erich Hoyt · Firefly Books
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
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In the Encyclopedia of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, award-winning author and whale researcher Erich Hoyt takes readers into the field for an intimate encounter with some 90 species of cetaceans that make their homes in the world's oceans. Drawing on decades of firsthand experience... |
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How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea
Tristan Gooley · The Experiment
Pages: 393
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Bestseller Read the sea like a Viking and interpret ponds like a Polynesian - with a little help from the "natural navigator"! In his eye-opening books The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs and The Natural Navigator, Tristan Gooley helped readers reconnect... |
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The Secret Language of Dogs: Unlocking the Canine Mind for a Happier Pet
Victoria Stilwell · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 151
Format: Print book
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The star of Animal Planet's It's Me or the Dog Victoria Stilwell reveals how to both interpret and "speak" the hidden language of dogs. Recent studies into the minds of canines show that they have a rich social intelligence and a physical and vocal language as complex and subtle... |
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Nature's Temples: The Complex World of Old-Growth Forests
Joan Maloof · Timber Press
Pages: 200
Format: Print book
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Gain a better understanding of old-growth forests and why they matter! An old-growth forest is one that has formed naturally over a long period of time with little or no disturbance from humankind. They are increasingly rare and largely misunderstood. In Nature's Temples, Joan Maloof,... |
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Cache Lake Country: Or, Life in the North Woods
John J. Rowlands · Countryman Press
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
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The classic chronicle of life and self-reliance in the great Northern Forest, reissued for its many fans "Cache Lake Country is a gem for many reasons -- a simple narrative, the ways in which it conveys the work-a-day joys and exertions of life in the wilderness, the woodscraft techniques... |
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