|
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
Jonathan White · Trinity University Press Pages: 360 Format: Hardcover
|
In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Crow
Boria Sax · Reaktion Books Pages: 184 Format: Paperback
|
Though not generally perceived as graceful, crows are remarkably so - a single curve undulates from the tip of the bird's beak to the end of its tail. They take flight almost without effort, flapping their wings easily and ascending into the air like spirits. Crow by Boria Sax is a celebration... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
33 Artists in 3 Acts
Sarah Thornton · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
|
This compelling narrative goes behind the scenes with the world's most important living artists to humanize and demystify contemporary art.The best-selling author of Seven Days in the Art World now tells the story of the artists themselves -- how they move through the world, command... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Elevations: A Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River
Max McCoy · University Press of Kansas Pages: 306 Format: Hardcover
|
The upper Arkansas River courses through the heart of America from its headwaters near the Continental Divide above Leadville, Colorado, to Arkansas City, just above the Kansas-Oklahoma border. Max McCoy embarked on a trip of 742 miles in search of the river's unique story. Part adventure... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies: 1
WILLIAM T VOLLMANN · Viking Pages: 624 Format: Hardcover
|
A timely, eye-opening book about climate change and energy generation that focuses on the consequences of nuclear power production, from award-winning author William T. VollmannIn his nonfiction, William T. Vollmann has won acclaim as a singular voice tackling some of the most important... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
Jonathan Balcombe · Scientific American/Farrar Pages: 288 Format: Print book
|
Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In "What a Fish Knows, " the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea,... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Woolly: The True Story of the De-Extinction of One of History's Most Iconic Creatures
BEN MEZRICH · Atria Books Pages: 293 Format: Hardcover
|
Science fiction becomes reality in this Jurassic Park-like story of the genetic resurrection of an extinct species - the woolly mammoth - by the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and The 37th Parallel."With his knack for turning narrative nonfiction into stories worthy... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Beasts at Bedtime: Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children's Literature
Liam Heneghan · University of Chicago Press Pages: 338 Format: Hardcover
|
Talking lions, philosophical bears, very hungry caterpillars, wise spiders, altruistic trees, companionable moles, urbane elephants: this is the magnificent menagerie that delights our children at bedtime. Within the entertaining pages of many children's books, however, also lie profound... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wild Encounters: Iconic Photographs of the World's Vanishing Animals and Cultures
David Yarrow · Rizzoli Pages: 336 Format: Print book
|
From big cats to elephants and indigenous communities, Wild Encounters is a must-have for nature lovers, conservationists, and anyone who is inspired by all that remains wild. David Yarrow travels from pole to pole and continent to continent to visit frozen Arctic tundras, vast African... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dog Gone: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home
Pauls Toutonghi · Knopf Publishing Group Pages: 272 Format: Print book
|
The true story of a lost dog's journey and a family's furious search to find him before it is too late. Saturday, October 10, 1998. Fielding Marshall is hiking on the Appalachian Trail. His beloved dog - a six-year-old golden retriever mix named Gonker - bolts into the woods. Just like... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
Stephen Brusatte · William Morrow Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
|
For fans of Sapiens, Your Inner Fish, The Sixth Extinction, and I Contain Multitudes, a sweeping narrative scientific history - the only one of its kind - that tells the epic story of the dinosaurs, examining their origins, their habitats, their extinction, and their living legacy, from... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Leaving the Wild: The Unnatural History of Dogs, Cats, Cows, and Horses
GAVIN EHRINGER · Pegasus Books Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
|
A thought-provoking and surprising book that explores the ever-evolving relationship between humans and domesticated animals. The domestication of animals changed the course of human history. But what about the animals who abandoned their wild existence in exchange for our care and protection?... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Backyard Bugs: An Identification Guide to Common Insects, Spiders and More
JARET C DANIELS · Adventure Publications Pages: 240 Format: Paperback
|
How many times have you seen a bug and wondered, "What in the world is that?" Wonder no more! Acclaimed entomologist and nature author Jaret C. Daniels presents a simple yet informative guide to backyard bugs of the United States and southern Canada. Featuring more than 160 species... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Winter
Karl Ove Knausgaard · Penguin Press Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
|
The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History
ULRICH RAULFF · Liveright Pages: 464 Format: Hardcover
|
A surprising, lively, and erudite history of horse and man, for readers of The Invention of Nature and The Soul of an Octopus.Horses and humans share an ancient, profoundly complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build... |
|
|
|
|
|