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Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West
James Pogue · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary inside look at America's militia movement that shows a country at the crossroads of class, culture, and insurrection.In a remote corner of Oregon, James Pogue found himself at the heart of a rebellion. Granted unmatched access by Ammon Bundy to the armed occupation... |
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Weather: An Illustrated History: From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change
ANDREW REVKIN · Sterling
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Andrew Revkin, who is the senior climate reporter at ProPublica after a prize-winning 21-year stint at The New York Times, presents an intriguing illustrated history of humanity's evolving relationship with Earth's dynamic climate system and the wondrous weather it generates. Colorful... |
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The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us
LUCY JONES · Doubleday
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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By the world-renowned seismologist, a surprising history of natural disasters, their impact on our culture, and new ways of thinking about the ones to comeEarthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanoes--these all stem from the same forces that give our planet life. It is only when they exceed... |
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The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
WENDELL BERRY · Counterpoint
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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"Mr. Berry's sentences and stories deliver a great payload of edifying entertainment, which I hungrily consume, but it is the bass note of morality thumping through his musical phrases that guides me with the most constant of hands upon my plow." -- Nick Offerman, New York... |
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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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The Dog: A Natural History
A?da?m Miklo?si · Princeton University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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An accessible and richly illustrated introduction to the natural history of dogs -- from evolution, anatomy, cognition, and behavior to the relationship between dogs and humansAs one of the oldest domesticated species, selectively bred over millennia to possess specific behaviors and physical... |
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Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America
Craig Childs · Pantheon
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, tracing the arrival of the First People in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates. This book upends our notions of where these people came... |
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My Patients and Other Animals: A Veterinarian's Stories of Love, Loss, and Hope
SUZANNE FINCHAM-GRAY · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A moving memoir of a life spent in the company of animals - a veterinarian sheds light on the universal experiences of illness, healing, and how we care for loved ones. The pursuit of a childhood dream has taken Suzy Fincham-Gray on a journey in veterinary medicine from pastoral farms... |
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