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Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell
Alexandra Horowitz · Scribner
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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Alexandra Horowitz, the author of the lively, highly informative New York Times bestselling blockbuster Inside of a Dog, explains how dogs perceive the world through their most spectacular organ - the nose - and how we humans can put our under-used sense of smell to work in surprising ways.To... |
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson · Broadway Books; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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One of the worlds most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country,... |
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A Good Horse Is Never a Bad Color: Tales of Training through Communication and Trust
Mark Rashid · Skyhorse
Pages: 206
Format: Book
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In A Good Horse Is Never a Bad Color, Mark Rashid continues to share his talent for training horses through communication rather than force. Rashid uses humorous, feel-good stories to relate his techniques of teaching horses by examining their view of the world. This book is a must-have... |
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
Bernd Heinrich · Harper Perennial; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, and from torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must alter the environment to accommodate physical limitations, animals... |
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The Golden Shore: California's Love Affair with the Sea
David Helvarg · New World Library
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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From the first human settlements to the latest marine explorations, The Golden Shore tells the tale of the history, culture, and changing nature of California's coasts and ocean. David Helvarg takes the reader on both a geographic and literary journey along the state's 1,100-mile... |
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The Secret Life of Flies
Erica McAlister · Firefly Books
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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Stories and science about nature's most complex, crucial and highly adaptive insect. The Secret Life of Flies takes readers into the hidden world of snail killers, con artists, crazy sex and a great many silly names. It dispels common misconceptions about flies and reveals how truly... |
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Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood
Teresa E Masear · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 306
Format: Print book
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A heartwarming account of the trials and triumphs a hummingbird rehabber encounters while caring for her tiny, fragile patients Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna's hummingbird with a head and throat cloaked in iridescent magenta feathers, could spiral 130 feet in the air,... |
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Frans de Waal · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 340
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Bestseller From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal, a groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic.What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your... |
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InDognito: A Book of Canines in Costume
Karen Ngo · Little
Pages: 128
Format: Book
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Hilarious, charming, and inventive, INDOGNITO is Karen Ngo's visual treat for today's breed of dog lovers. A whimsical collection of stylishly photographed dog portraits, it affectionately embraces the quirky spirit of the primped pooch. Including humorous quotations, this book is sure... |
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At the End of the Road
Nancy Peckinpaugh · Nancy Peckinpaugh
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback
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Ezra tells his touching story of family love, laughter and loss while looking back to the years most influential in his young life. Living on a cattle ranch among Colorado's northern Rockies, his life in the 1950's unfolds as we are introduced to his two brothers, a sister, Gramps,... |
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What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
Jonathan Balcombe · Scientific American/Farrar
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In "What a Fish Knows, " the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea,... |
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