|
Weather: An Illustrated History: From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change
ANDREW REVKIN · Sterling
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Andrew Revkin, who is the senior climate reporter at ProPublica after a prize-winning 21-year stint at The New York Times, presents an intriguing illustrated history of humanity's evolving relationship with Earth's dynamic climate system and the wondrous weather it generates. Colorful... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring
BRUCE M BEEHLER · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The story of an ornithologist's journey to trace the spring migration of songbirds from the southern border of the United States through the heartland and into Canada.In late March 2015, ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler set off on a solo four-month trek to track songbird migration and the northward... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
One More Warbler: A Life with Birds
Victor Emanuel · University of Texas Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Victor Emanuel is widely considered one of America's leading birders. He has observed more than six thousand species during travels that have taken him to every continent. He founded the largest company in the world specializing in birding tours and one of the most respected ones in ecotourism.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
At the Lightning Field
Laura Raicovich · Coffee House Press
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
|
|
Walter De Maria's "Lightning Field" is 400 stainless steel poles, positioned 220 feet apart, in the desert of central New Mexico. Over the course of several visits, it becomes, for Raicovich, a site for confounding and revealing perceptions of time, space, duration, and light;... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
Nicholas Pyenson · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A dive into the secret lives of whales, from their evolutionary past to today's cutting edge of scienceWhales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. They evolved from land-roaming, dog-sized creatures into animals that move like... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
Lauren E. Oakes · Basic Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming worldSeveral years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Animals' Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age
Marc Bekoff · Beacon Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
|
|
A compelling argument that the time has come to use what we know about the fascinating and diverse inner lives of other animals on their behalfWide-ranging studies of animal intelligence and emotions have enabled us to learn ever more about what animals think, feel, and want. However, this... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Train Your Dog Now!: Your Instant Training Handbook, from Basic Commands to Behavior Fixes
Jennifer L Summerfield · Adams Media
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
|
|
Presenting a new way to work with your dog, with simple step-by-step instructions and lists to help you teach your dog the most important and necessary skills.Take your dog from wild to well-behaved in just a few steps! Train Your Dog Now! takes the best dog training tips, advice, and instructions... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Talking to Animals: How You Can Understand Animals and They Can Understand You
Jon Katz · Atria Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
|
|
There are so many benefits to learning how to communicate with animals. Love, trust, a spiritual connection that goes to the heart of the human-animal bond. Every time I listen to them, I learn about myself.We seem to need animals in our disconnected lives more and more, yet we understand... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Birds of the Photo Ark
Joel Sartore · National Geographic
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
|
|
For avian enthusiasts, from armchair observers to dedicated life-listers, this brilliant book from acclaimed National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore celebrates the beauty of all birds, great and small.This elegantly packaged celebration of birds from around the world unites incredible... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
How to Toilet Train Your Cat: 21 Days to a Litter-Free Home
Paul Kunkel · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
|
|
Follow this foolproof 21-day program and you can teach any litter-trained cat to use a toilet instead of a box. Discover a better way: Now cat owners everywhere can put down their scoops, stop ferrying backbreaking sacks of litter, enjoy a fresh-smelling home, and save hundreds of dollars... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Living with Chickens: Everything You Need To Know To Raise Your Own Backyard Flock
JAY ROSSIER · Lyons Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
|
|
A revised and updated bestseller Revised in coordination with the American Poultry AssociationCovers all the essentials of raising and keeping chickens.More than 75 color photographs and illustrations.People across the country are raising chickens, whether for food or companionship. You can,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Bono: The Amazing Story of a Rescue Cat Who Inspired a Community
HELEN BROWN · Citadel
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
|
|
From New York Times bestselling author Helen Brown comes a funny and moving account of her life-changing month as a foster mother - to a homeless cat named Bono. When Helen Brown arrived in New York for a month-long business stay, a fellow animal-lover talked her into fostering a shelter... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves
Brenda Peterson · Da Capo Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
|
|
In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold, Brenda Peterson tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. It is also our own history, seen through our relationship with wolves. The earliest Americans revered them. Settlers zealously exterminated... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
