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Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays
CANDACE SAVAGE · Greystone Books
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
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Internationally celebrated nature writer Candace Savage presents the Corvid family - surprisingly bright, brassy, and colorful birds - in a remarkable collection of full-color, close-up photographs by some of the world's best wildlife photographers.Birds have long been viewed as the archetypal... |
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Illumination in the Flatwoods: A Season Living Among the Wild Turkey
JOE HUTTO · Lyons Press
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
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When Joe Hutto began his experiment in imprinting two dozen wild turkey - in the tradition of the great animal behaviorist, Konrad Lorenz - he had no idea that it would change his life. Told with skill and humor, and vibrating with the natural wonders of the Florida flatwoods, Illumination... |
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A Song for the River
Philip Connors · Cinco Puntos Press
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the last working fire lookouts comes this sequel to the award-winning Fire Season -- a story of calamity and resilience in the world's first Wilderness.A dozen years into his dream job keeping watch over the Gila National Forest of New Mexico, Philip Connors bore witness... |
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When the Last Lion Roars: The Rise and Fall of the King of the Beasts
Sara Evans · Bloomsbury Wildlife
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The 2015 killing of a much-loved lion called Cecil by an American big-game hunter in Zimbabwe sparked international outrage. It also drew world attention to shrinking numbers of the 'king of the beasts' and and the facts that humans continue to hunt them for sport. There are no lions... |
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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 World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
Vince Beiser · Riverhead Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives.After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every... |
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Skeletons: The Extraordinary Form & Function of Bones
Andrew Kirk · Wellfleet Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Everything you need to know about the framework of the body - our bones!Bone is one of the most extraordinary materials in the natural world; flexible, strong, and available in a number of types and densities. Yet we can only absorb quite how amazing it is when we look at the range of different... |
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