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Hope on Earth : a conversation
Paul R Ehrlich - The University of Chicago Press,
Format: Print book
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"Hope on Earth is the thought-provoking result of a lively and wide-ranging conversation between two of the world's leading interdisciplinary environmental scientists: Paul R. Ehrlich, whose book The Population Bomb shook the world in 1968 (and continues to shake it) , and Michael... |
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Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology
Frederick Rowe Davis - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Rachel Carson’s eloquent book Silent Spring stands as one of the most important books of the twentieth century and inspired important and long-lasting changes in environmental science and government policy. Frederick Rowe Davis thoughtfully sets Carson’s study in the context... |
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The Homing Instinct: Meaning & Mystery in Animal Migration
Bernd Heinrich - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A noted naturalist explores the centrality of home in the lives of humans and other animals . . . A special treat for readers of natural history" (Kirkus Reviews) . Every year, many species make the journey from one place to another, following the same paths and ending up in the same... |
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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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Everglades: America's Wetland
Mac Stone - University Press of Florida
Format: Hardcover
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"Fervent and stirring." - David Yarnold, president and CEO, National Audubon Society "Stone's spectacular photography captures the splendor of America's Everglades. His remarkable book is convincing proof that our nation cannot risk losing this unique natural wonder."... |
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A Dog's History of the World
Laura Hobgood-Oster - Baylor University Press,
Format: Print book
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Canines and humans have depended upon one another for tens of thousands of years. Humans took the initial steps of domesticating canines, but somewhere through the millennia, dogs began dramatically to affect the future of their masters. In A Dog's History of the World, Laura Hobgood-Oster... |
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Seven Elements that Changed the World: An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery
John Browne - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of how seven elements - iron, carbon, gold, silver, uranium, titanium, and silicon - have changed modern life, for good and ill.With carbon we access heat, light and mobility at the flick of a switch, while silicon enables us to communicate across the globe in an instant.... |
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A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
Joel Greenberg - Bloomsbury
Format: Hardcover
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In the early nineteenth century 25 to 40 percent of North America's birds were passenger pigeons, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours or even days. The down beats of their wings would chill the air beneath and create a thundering roar that would drown out all other... |
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