|
Book of Queens
Pardis Mahdavi · Hachette Books
Format: Book
|
|
The untold story of generations of Middle Eastern freedom fighters - horsewomen who safeguarded an ancient breed of Caspian horse - and their efforts to defend their homelands from the Taliban and others seeking to destroy them.. Book of Queens reaches back centuries to the Persian Empire... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Cat Wars
Peter P Marra · Princeton University Press
Format: Book
|
|
In 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles. In just over a year, the Stephens Island Wren, a rare bird endemic to the island, was rendered extinct. Mounting scientific evidence confirms what many conservationists... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Dogs of Avalon
Laura Schenone · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book
|
|
After adopting an Irish sight hound, Laura Schenone discovers a remarkable and little-known fight to gain justice for dogs and for all animals.Greyhounds, bred to be the fastest racing dogs on earth, are streaks of lightning. Beautiful, astonishing creatures, tens of thousands of them... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The gospel of kindness
Janet M Davis · Oxford University Press
Format: Book
|
|
When we consider modern American animal advocacy, we often think of veganism, no-kill shelters, Internet campaigns against trophy hunting, or celebrities declaring that they would "rather go naked" than wear fur. Contemporary critics readily dismiss animal protectionism as a modern... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
How to Give Up Plastic
Will McCallum · Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
|
|
An accessible guide to the changes we can all make - small and large - to rid our lives of disposable plastic and clean up the world's oceans It takes 450 years for a plastic bottle to fully biodegrade, and there are around 12.7 million tons of plastic entering the ocean each year.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Land on Fire
Gary Ferguson · Timber Press
Format: Book
|
|
"This comprehensive book offers a fascinating overview of how those fires are fought, and some conversation-starters for how we might reimagine our relationship with the woods." - Bill McKibben, author Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet Wildfire season is burning longer... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Rover
ANDREW GRANT · Firefly Books
Format: Book
|
|
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.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Season on the Wind
Kenn Kaufman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book
|
|
A close look at one season in one key site that reveals the amazing science and magic of spring bird migration, and the perils of human encroachment. Every spring, billions of birds sweep north, driven by ancient instincts to return to their breeding grounds. This vast parade often goes... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Urban Forests
Jill Jonnes · Viking
Format: Book
|
|
A celebration of urban trees and the Americans - presidents, plant explorers, visionaries, citizen activists, scientists, nurserymen, and tree nerds - whose arboreal passions have shaped and ornamented the nation's cities, from Jefferson's day to the present Nature's largest... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
