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Cats
David Alderton · DK ADULT
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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The visual recognition guides in this series are designed to make identification as simple and accurate as possible. Each volume contains clear photographs and artwork with text. This handbook focuses on cats. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
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The Private Life of Spiders
Paul Hillyard · Princeton University Press; 1ST edition
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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With more than 100 different families and 40,000 individual species, spiders are among the most successful creatures on Earth. Highly adaptable, they live almost everywhere, from equatorial rainforest to Arctic tundra. And they come in a huge range of shapes and sizes, from the tiny Patu... |
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The Bird Almanac: The Ultimate Guide to Essential Facts and Figures of the World's Birds
Professor David Bird PhD · Firefly Books
Pages: 462
Format: Paperback
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This volume is an invaluable resource, impressive in scope & depth & complemented with tables. Bird is a well-known ornithologist who teaches at McGill Univ., & is the Dir. of the Avian Science & Conservation Centre. The wealth of knowledge in these pages is highlighted by a listing of bird... |
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The Odyssey of KP2: An Orphan Seal, a Marine Biologist, and the Fight to Save a Species
Terrie M. Williams · Penguin Press HC, The; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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When a two day-old Hawaiian monk seal pup is attacked and abandoned by his mother on a beach in Kauai, environmental officials must decide if they should save the newborn animal or allow nature to take its course. But as a member of the most endangered marine mammal species in U.S. waters,... |
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Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs: The Life of Velma Johnston
David Cruise · Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1950, Velma Johnston was a thirty-eight-year-old secretary enroute to work near Reno, Nevada, when she came upon a truck of battered wild horses that had been rounded up and were to be slaughtered for pet food. Shocked and angered by this gruesome discovery, she vowed to find a way to stop... |
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Natural History Museum Book of Animal Records
Mark Carwardine · Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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Here are the achievers and the unique from the animal world mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes and invertebrates. These are not only familiar records like highest, fastest, largest, these are the unusual, such as slowest growth the deep sea clam, most pecks in a day black woodpecker,... |
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Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker
A N WILSON · Harper
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life.With the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin - hailed as the man who "discovered evolution" - was propelled into the pantheon of great scientific thinkers, alongside Galileo,... |
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Aquariums: The Complete Guide to Freshwater and Saltwater Aquariums
Christian Piednoir · Firefly Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A detailed and comprehensive guide. Freshwater and saltwater fishkeeping are challenging and tremendously rewarding hobbies. Aquariums is a big book that covers every aspect a fishkeeper needs to know. Step-by-step technical instructions are illustrated with hundreds of color diagrams... |
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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
Ben Goldfarb · Chelsea Green Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers... |
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All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
David Gessner · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it.Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts... |
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Boas and Pythons of the World
Mark O'Shea · Princeton University Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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Few reptiles command more respect than the mighty boas and pythons. Prized for their size, relative docility, and spectacular coloration and patterning, they are the most dramatic snakes in the world. But the same snakes that many consider gentle giants--the Green Anaconda can exceed twelve... |
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