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Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes
Mark Bittman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning champion of culinary simplicity who gave us the bestselling How to Cook Everything and How to Cook Everything Vegetarian comes Food Matters, a plan for responsible eating that's as good for the planet as it is for your weight and your health.We are finally starting... |
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Basic Texas Birds: A Field Guide
Mark Lockwood · University of Texas Press
Pages: 403
Format: Paperback
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Finding all the birds in Texas can be a lifetime pursuit. Basic Texas Birds, an easy-to-use field guide, will help you identify over 180 species of birds that are found across the state, including a selection of the rarer "Texas specialties" that draw birders to Texas from around... |
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The Nueces River: Río Escondido
Margie Crisp · Texas A&M University Press
Pages: 284
Format: NOOK Book
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First appearing on early Spanish maps as the Río Escondido, or hidden river, and later named Río de las Nueces after the abundant pecan trees along its banks, the Nueces today is a stream of seeming contradictions: a river that runs above and below ground; a geographic reminder of a history... |
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The Soul of a Horse: Life Lessons from the Herd
Joe Camp · Crown; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A surprise birthday gift plunged Joe Camp and his wife, Kathleen, into the world of horses as complete neophytes without a clue as to what horses needed or wanted. The Camps went searching for logic and sense in the rule books of traditional horse care and what they found was not what they... |
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Matagorda Island: A Naturalist's Guide
Wayne H. McAlister · Univ of Texas Pr
Pages: 354
Format: Hardcover
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Once, all barrier islands were natural places where sand dunes and sea grasses, water birds and beach creatures flourished, undisturbed by human development. Matagorda Island still is. Part of a chain of five major barrier islands that shelter the Texas coastline from the Gulf of Mexico,... |
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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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The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
Jack E Davis · Liveright
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
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The tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic.When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented... |
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This I Can Leave You: A Woman's Days on the Pitchfork Ranch
Mamie Sypert Burns · Texas a & M Univ Pr
Pages: 281
Format: Hardcover
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When D Burns arrived at the mighty Pitchfork Ranch as the new manager in 1942, he walked straight into the hostility of a lot of longtime hands who did not want to take orders from an outsider. Gradually, though, D and his wife, Mamie, won allies and made a place for themselves on the historic... |
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A Rock between Two Rivers: The Fracturing of a Texas Family Ranch
Hugh Fitzsimons III · Trinity University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A Rock between Two Rivers is the story of a man coming to terms with the environmental legacy of his family's ranch in Dimmitt County, Texas, and reckoning with the birthright he'll leave for the generations who follow. What began for Hugh Fitzsimons as a mission to expose local... |
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The Life and Love of the Sea
Lewis Blackwell · Abrams, in association with PQ Blackwell, 2015.
Pages: 216
Format: Print book
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Showcasing cutting-edge underwater photography from the world's leading marine and nature photographers, The Life & Love of the Sea is a breathtaking visual tour of the ocean's great diversity. Readers will experience land meeting sea with images of dramatic coastlines, barrier... |
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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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Whitetail Country
Daniel J Cox · Northword Pr
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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Beautiful photographs |
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