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The Sea Inside
Philip Hoare · Random House Inc
Pages: 374
Format: Hardcover
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A yearlong adventure through the world's oceans with Philip Hoare, the award-winning author of The WhaleIn colorful prose and lively line drawings, Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts. Starting at his home on the shores of Britain's Southampton... |
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The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History
Brian Fagan · Bloomsbury Press
Pages: 308
Format: Print book
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Animals, and our ever-changing relationship with them, have left an indelible mark on human history. From the dawn of our existence, animals and humans have been constantly redefining their relationship with one another, and entire civilizations have risen and fallen upon this curious bond... |
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The Cat Whisperer: Why Cats Do What They Do--and How to Get Them to Do What You Want
Mieshelle Nagelschneider · Bantam Books
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
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Who says you can't train a cat? Just when you thought you had reached the end of your ball of twine, one of America's most popular cat behaviorists comes to the rescue of perplexed cat owners everywhere, providing practical and effective strategies for solving every feline behavior... |
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Cynthia Barnett · Crown Publishers
Pages: 355
Format: Print book
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Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents... |
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22 Ideas That Saved the English Countryside: The Campaign to Protect Rural England
Campaign For The Protection Of Rural England. · Frances Lincoln
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) is one of the world's longest running environmental groups, marshalling the conservation movement in England since 1926. This book celebrates the achievements of the CPRE and associated groups in bequeathing to the present generation a countryside... |
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The Wasting of Borneo: Dispatches from a Vanishing World
Alex Shoumatoff · Beacon Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Acclaimed naturalist Alex Shoumatoff issues a worldwide call to protect the drastically endangered rainforests of BorneoIn this wide-ranging narrative, seasoned travel and environmental writer Alex Shoumatoff takes readers on a journey from the woods of rural New York to the rain forests... |
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The Outrun: A Memoir
Amy Liptrot · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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"The Outrun will no doubt sit alongside . . . Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk -- the sheer sensuality of Liptrot's prose and her steely resolve immediately put her right up there with the best of the best." -- New StatesmanWhen Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade... |
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Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle
Douglas J. Emlen · Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The story behind the stunning extreme weapons we see in the animal world--teeth and horns and claws--and what they can tell us about the way humans develop and use arms and other weaponsIn Animal Weapons Doug Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where hes been... |
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Love Me, Feed Me: Sharing with Your Dog the Everyday Good Food You Cook and Enjoy
Judith Jones · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the esteemed food editor and author Judith Jones a charming practical guide to sharing the pleasures of home cooking with your dog Doesnrsquot manrsquos best friend deserve a little more than cardboard-dry kibble day in and day out Judith Jones thinks so and in this delightful new cookbook... |
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Tipping Point for Planet Earth: How Close Are We to the Edge?
Anthony D Barnosky · St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Tipping Point for Planet Earth explains why Earth is headed for a tipping point, a change so fast, dramatic, and unexpected that humanity will reel at the consequences.Midway through this century, there will be more than nine billion people on the planet. Already we are using most of the arable... |
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Wonderlandscape: Yellowstone National Park and the Evolution of an American Cultural Icon
JOHN CLAYTON · Pegasus Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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An evocative blend of history and nature writing that tells the story of Yellowstone's evolving significance in American culture through the stories of ten iconic figures. Yellowstone is America's premier national park. Today is often a byword for conservation, natural beauty, and a way for everyone... |
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