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Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction
Helen Pilcher · Bloomsbury SIGMA
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Helen Pilcher is uniquely qualified to explain the cutting-edge science that makes the resurrection of extinct animals a very real possibility, while acknowledging the serious and humorous aspects of giving a deceased animal a second chance to live. If you could bring back to life a person... |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018
Sam Kean · Mariner Books
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
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Best-selling author of The Disappearing Spoon, The Violinist's Thumb, and more, Sam Kean, selects the year's top science and nature writing, looking for writers who balance research with humanity and in the process uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines. |
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Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada's Last Great Trees
Harley Rustad · House of Anansi Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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On a cool morning in the winter of 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. His job was to survey the land and flag the boundaries for clear-cutting. As he made his way through the forest, Cronin came across... |
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Making Sense of Weather and Climate: The Science Behind the Forecasts
Mark Denny · Columbia University Press
Pages: 312
Format: Print book
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How do meteorologists design forecasts for the next day's, the next week's, or the next month's weather? Are some forecasts more likely to be accurate than others, and why? Making Sense of Weather and Climate takes readers through key topics in atmospheric physics and presents a cogent... |
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Eat the Beetles!: An Exploration of Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects
David Waltner-Toews · ECW Press
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
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Will eating insects change the world for the better??Meet the beetles: there are millions and millions of them and many fewer of the rest of us - mammals, birds, and reptiles. Since before recorded history, humans have eaten insects. While many get squeamish at the idea, entomophagy - people... |
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Vaquita: Science, Politics, and Crime in the Sea of Cortez
Brooke Bessesen · Island Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In 2006, vaquita, a diminutive porpoise making its home in the Upper Gulf of California, inherited the dubious title of world's most endangered marine mammal. Nicknamed "panda of the sea" for their small size and beguiling facial markings, vaquitas have been in decline for decades,... |
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Rover: Wagmore Edition
ANDREW GRANT · Firefly Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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In 2009, Andrew Grant began photographing dogs, starting with two French bulldogs at an unrelated commercial "shoot". Then he discovered the sad fact that millions of lost or abandoned dogs enter animal shelters every year. And only a few leave, through rescue and adoption. The rest... |
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Carnivore Minds: Who These Fearsome Animals Really Are
G. A. Bradshaw · Yale University Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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Myth and media typically cast animals we consider predators or carnivores as unthinking killers - dangerous, unpredictable, and devoid of emotion. But is this portrait valid? By exploring their inner lives, this pioneering book refutes the many misperceptions that hide the true nature of these... |
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Meet Your Dog
Kim Brophey · Chronicle Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Every dog owner knows that along with the joy can come the stress and frustration of behavioral problems, which are expensive to diagnose and treat. Enter Kim Brophey, award-winning canine behavior consultant. Using cutting-edge research, Brophey has developed a groundbreaking system that... |
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Ten Plants that Changed Minnesota
Mary Hockenberry Meyer · Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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"If we cannot name and recognize plants, how can we value them and realize how essential they are to our environment and our well-being as humans?" - from the IntroductionIn 2012 a committee of experts chose the ten plants that most changed Minnesota from nearly five hundred... |
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Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm
Sarah Menkedick · Pantheon
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Sarah Menkedick spent her twenties trekking alone across South America, teaching English to recalcitrant teenagers on Reunion Island, picking grapes in France and camping on the Mongolian grasslands; for her, meaning and purpose were to be found on the road, in flight from the ordinary.... |
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The Red Caddy: Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey
Charles Bowden · University of Texas Press
Pages: 120
Format: Hardcover
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A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927-1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists. In this... |
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