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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year"... |
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Decorating with Plants: What to Choose, Ways to Style, and How to Make Them Thrive
Baylor Chapman · Artisan
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Houseplants are more popular than ever before - especially with millennials, who are setting up their homes for the first time and discovering that nothing can add energy, style, and that essential "lived-in-ness" to their spaces better than a little bit of green. Whether it's... |
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The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
Paul Morland · PublicAffairs
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling new history of the past 200 years, recast as a story of population: how irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires The advance and subsequent retreat of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower;... |
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A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration
Kenn Kaufman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A close look at one season in one key site that reveals the amazing science and magic of spring bird migration, and the perils of human encroachment. Every spring, billions of birds sweep north, driven by ancient instincts to return to their breeding grounds. This vast parade often goes... |
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The Lost Words
ROBERT MACFARLANE · Anansi International
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling Landmarks author Robert Macfarlane and acclaimed artist and author Jackie Morris, a beautiful illustrated book for readers young and old. All over the country, there are words disappearing from children's lives. These are the words of the natural world -- Dandelion,... |
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The Last Elephants
Don Pinnock · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
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Amazing photographs of elephants accompany narratives from researchers, scientists, and conservationists celebrating elephants and calling for their preservationAfrican savanna elephants--among the most magnificent and beloved of our fellow mammals--are an extraordinary, social, and intelligent... |
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Wild Horse Country: The History, Myth, and Future of the Mustang, Americas Horse
DAVID PHILIPPS · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's history of wild horses in America -- and an eye-opening story on their treatment in our time.Wild horses -- also known as mustangs -- live in a strange twilight. They are deeply American but not native; they are free-born symbols of liberty but tightly... |
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How to Houseplant: A Beginner's Guide to Making and Keeping Plant Friends
Heather Rodino · Sterling
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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A fun, gifty guide to growing and caring for the top 50 houseplants! Houseplants are more popular than ever: as expert writer and gardening enthusiast Heather Rodino notes, "plants have demonstrated therapeutic value, clean the air, and are an affordable way of decorating, adding... |
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The Living Forest: A Visual Journey into the Heart of the Woods
Joan Maloof · Timber Press
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
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"With precise, stunning photographs and a distinctly literary narrative that tells the story of the forest ecosystem along the way, The Living Forest is an invitation to join in the eloquence of seeing." - Sierra Magazine From the leaves and branches of the canopy to the roots... |
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Adapt: How Humans Are Tapping into Nature's Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future
Amina Khan · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money. Humans are animals too, and animals are incredibly... |
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Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood
Terry Masear · Mariner Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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"I cannot believe what a gripping read this is." - Robin Young, host of NPR's Here and Now "A book that will change forever the way you look at these little birds." - Los Angeles Times Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna's hummingbird with... |
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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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