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Crow
Boria Sax · Reaktion Books
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
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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... |
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Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon
Bronwen Dickey · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 330
Format: Print book
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The hugely illuminating story of how a popular breed of dog became the most demonized and supposedly the most dangerous of dogs - and what role humans have played in the transformation. When Bronwen Dickey brought her new dog home, she saw no traces of the infamous viciousness in her affectionate,... |
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The Arctic Guide: Wildlife of the Far North
Sharon Chester · Princeton University Press
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback
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The Arctic Guide presents the traveler and naturalist with a portable, authoritative guide to the flora and fauna of earth's northernmost region. Featuring superb color illustrations, this one-of-a-kind book covers the complete spectrum of wildlife--more than 800 species of plants,... |
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Feral Cities: Adventures with Animals in the Urban Jungle
Tristan Donovan · Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book
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We tend to think of cities as a realm apart, somehow separate from nature, but nothing could be further from the truth. In Feral Cities, Tristan Donovan digs below the urban gloss to uncover the wild creatures that we share our streets and homes with, and profiles the brave and fascinating... |
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Summer
KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD · Penguin Pr
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer. June--It is completely dark out now. It is twenty-three minutes to midnight and you have already slept for four... |
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Paris in Bloom
Georgianna Lane · Abrams Image
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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Paris - City of Love, City of Light, City of Flowers. From elegant floral boutiques to lively flower markets to glorious blooming trees and expansive public gardens, flowers are the essential ingredient to the lush sensory bouquet that is Parisian life. With beautiful photography, Paris... |
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Talking to Animals: How You Can Understand Animals and They Can Understand You
Jon Katz · Atria Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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There are so many benefits to learning how to communicate with animals. Love, trust, a spiritual connection that goes to the heart of the human-animal bond. Every time I listen to them, I learn about myself.We seem to need animals in our disconnected lives more and more, yet we understand... |
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Off the Leash: A Year at the Dog Park
Matthew Gilbert · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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OFF THE LEASH is a group portrait of dog people, specifically the strange, wonderful, neurotic, and eccentric dog people who gather at Amory Park, overlooking Boston near Fenway Park. And its about author Matthew Gilberts transformation, after much fear and loathing of dogs and social groups,... |
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Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man
Jason Mark · Island Press
Format: Hardcover
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In New Mexico's Gila Wilderness, 106 Mexican gray wolves may be some of the most monitored wildlife on the planet. Collared, microchipped, and transported by helicopter, the wolves are protected and confined in an attempt to appease ranchers and conservationists alike. Once a symbol... |
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