|
American Museum of Natural History Birds of North America
Paul D. Hess · DK
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Updated to reflect all the latest taxonomic data, American Museum of Natural History Birds of North America is the complete photographic guide to the 657 species of birds found in the United States and Canada.Ideal for the armchair bird enthusiast or dedicated bird watcher, this book includes... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
The Modern Homesteader's Guide to Keeping Geese
Kirsten Lie-Nielsen · New Society Publishers
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
|
|
While chickens preen in the spotlight, geese are the historic unsung heroes of small farms and homesteads. Providing weed control, large eggs, and entertainment, and acting as "security" over other animals, geese are the ultimate modern homesteading companion.The Modern Homesteader's... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Dangerous Years: Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward
David W Orr · Yale University Press
Pages: 300
Format: Print book
|
|
A leading environmental thinker takes a hard look at the obstacles and possibilities on the long road to sustainability This gripping, deeply thoughtful book considers future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and related threats. David Orr, an award-winning,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Wood for the Trees: One Man's Long View of Nature
Richard Fortey · Vintage
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
|
|
Award-winning scientist Richard Fortey, upon his retirement, purchased four acres of ancient woodland in the Chiltern Hills of Oxfordshire, England. The Wood for the Trees is the joyful, lyrical portrait of what he found there. Fortey leads us through the seasons over the course of a year,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea
Anna Badkhen · Riverhead Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
|
|
An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed.The sea is broken, fishermen say. The sea is empty. The genii have taken the fish elsewhere.For centuries, fishermen have launched... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring
BRUCE M BEEHLER · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The story of an ornithologist's journey to trace the spring migration of songbirds from the southern border of the United States through the heartland and into Canada.In late March 2015, ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler set off on a solo four-month trek to track songbird migration and the northward... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
National Geographic Complete National Parks of the United States, 2nd Edition
Mel White · National Geographic Society
Pages: 543
Format: Print book
|
|
From recreation areas and trails to historic sites, from nature hikes to seashores, this comprehensive travel guide and reference to the United States National Parks has been completely revised and updated, with a brand-new cover, more than 30 new photos, and 15 new properties that have... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future
Jim Robbins · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A fascinating investigation into the miraculous world of birds and the powerful - and surprising - ways they enrich our lives and sustain the planetOur relationship to birds is different from our relationship to any other wild creatures. They are found virtually everywhere and we love to watch... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Missouri River Journals of John James Audubon
John James Audubon · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Historians, biographers, and scholars of John James Audubon and natural history have long been mystified by Audubon's 1843 Missouri River expedition, for his journals of the trip were thought to have been destroyed by his granddaughter Maria Rebecca Audubon. Daniel Patterson is the first... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene
Jedediah Purdy · Harvard University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions, industrial-scale crop pollens,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
PIG/PORK: Archaeology, Zoology and Edibility
Pía Spry-Marqués · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Pigs unite and divide people, but why? Pig/Pork explores the love-hate relationship between humans and pigs through the lenses of archaeology, biology, history, and gastronomy, providing a close and affectionate look at the myriad causes underlying this multi-millennial bond. What is it that... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Earthquake Time Bombs
Robert S Yeats · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 361
Format: eBook
|
|
In a media interview in January 2010, scientist Robert Yeats sounded the alarm on Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as an 'earthquake time bomb', a region at critical risk of major seismic activity. One week later, a catastrophic earthquake struck the city, leaving over 100,000 dead and triggering... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Pasta for Nightingales: A 17th-Century Handbook of Bird-Care and Folklore
CASSIANO DAL POZZO · Yale University Press
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The first-ever English translation of a seventeenth-century ornithology text, complete with historic watercolor illustrations This beautifully illustrated book brings together the newly commissioned, first-ever English translation of one of the earliest studies in ornithology with the original... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Warrior Pups: True Stories of America's K9 Heroes
Jeff Kamen · Lyons Press
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Lavishly illustrated with full-color photos throughout, Warrior Pups takes you behind-the-scenes into the lives of the fiercely dedicated military men and women and their civilian supporters who make the US Military Working Dog program the success that it is. It has been estimated that... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
