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Among Chimpanzees: Field Notes from the Race to Save Our Endangered Relatives
Nancy J. Merrick - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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Foreword by Jane GoodallA former student and colleague of Jane Goodall shares stories of chimps and their heroes, and takes readers on a journey to save mans closest relative. Unbeknownst to much of the public, chimps are in trouble censuses show them to be extinct in four African countries... |
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White Beech: The Rainforest Years
Germaine Greer - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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One bright day in December sixty-two-year-old Germaine Greer found herself confronted by an irresistible challenge in the shape of sixty hectares of dairy farm one of many in southeast Queensland Australia which after a century of logging clearing and downright devastation had been abandoned... |
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Berlin Now: The City After the Wall
Peter Schneider - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A smartly guided romp, entertaining and enlightening, through Europe's most charismatic and enigmatic cityIt isn't Europe's most beautiful city, or its oldest. Its architecture is not more impressive than that of Rome or Paris; its museums do not hold more treasures than those... |
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker PhD - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert - Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab - reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.Sleep is one of the most... |
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Lab Girl
Hope Jahren - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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A New York Times 2016 Notable BookNational Best SellerNamed one of TIME magazine's "100 Most Influential People"An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016A Washington Post Best Memoir of 2016A TIME and Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016 So Far An illuminating... |
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The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century
Ronald Bailey - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the past five decades there have been many, many forecasts of impending environmental doom. They have universally been proven wrong. Meanwhile, those who have bet on human resourcefulness have almost always been correct. In his widely praised book Ecoscam, Ronald Bailey strongly countered... |
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