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Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
Emily Monosson - ?W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi -- and how to avert further loss across species, including our own.Fungi are everywhere. Most are harmless; some are helpful. A few are killers. Collectively, infectious fungi are the most devastating agents of disease... |
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The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
Manjula Martin - Random House Audio Format: Hardcover
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H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman's experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record.Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire... |
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Improving Animal Welfare: A Practical Approach
Temple Grandin Format: 3rd Edition
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Praise for previous editions: "(There) sometimes appear publications which are worthy of specific attention... (they) stimulate, instruct and present new concepts. Among such books belongs the reviewed book... we can only hope that this successful work gets to the hands of those... |
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Bluebird Seasons: Witnessing Climate Change in My Piece of the Wild
Mary Young - Chicago Review Press Format: Paperback
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In this A Sand County Almanac for the twenty-first century, nature writer and zoologist Mary Taylor Young tells the story of the growing effects of climate change on her land in the pine-covered foothills of southern Colorado. Climate change wasn't yet on the public radar when Young... |
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Dinosaurs: A Smithsonian Coloring Book
Smithsonian Institution Format: Paperback
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Dinosaurs come to life--with your help! The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and IDW Publishing present a fascinating new coloring book that provides a beautiful and informative tour through the prehistoric world of dinosaurs.Withthis exquisitely designed coloring book,... |
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Bushcraft Whittling: Projects for Carving Useful Tools at Camp and in the Field
Rick Wiebe Format: Paperback
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An easy and fun introduction to the essential outdoor skill of bushcraft whittling.Bushcraft whittling -- the art of shaping improvised campsite and hiking implements -- requires no special tools or complex techniques, and you can practice on just about any wood that comes to hand. Plus,... |
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Complete Guide to Winter Camping
Kevin Callan - Firefly Books; Second Edition, Revised and Expanded Format: Paperback
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With careful planning, tenting during the year's coldest months can be safe and fun. Complete Guide to Winter Camping offers advice on selecting a four-season tent and constructing other types of shelter, maintaining personal hygiene, cooking in the cold, choosing a sleep system and getting... |
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Desert Jewels: Cactus Flowers of the Southwest and Mexico
John P. Schaefer - ?Sentinel Peak Books Format: Hardcover
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Cactus flowers are jewels of the desert - they add brilliant pops of color to our arid surroundings. In this book, renowned Tucson photographer John P. Schaefer brings the exquisite and unexpected beauty of the cactus flower to the page. Hundreds of close-up photographs of cactus flowers... |
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