Natural History

The Uninhabitable Earth Hits You Like A Comet, With An Overflow Of Insanely Lyrical Prose About Our Pending Armageddon.--andrew Solomon, Author Of The Noond...

In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, arche...

Peterson First Guides are the first books the beginning naturalist needs. Condensed versions of the famous Peterson Field Guides, the First Guides focus o...

How Did We Get Here? All Cultures Have A Creation Story, But A Little Over 150 Years Ago Charles Darwin Introduced A Revolutionary New One. We, And All Livi...

I. Dragons. A Classification Of Dragons -- Evolution And Anatomy -- The Kinds Of Living Dragons -- The European Fire-breating Dragon -- The Oriental Mist-br...

This book treats all of the more than 700 species of birds recorded from the region, illustrating more than 600 of them in forty-seven fine color plates and...

Follows The Sequence Of Events In The Evolution Of Life On Earth, From The Emergence Of One-celled Organisms To Man. The Infinite Variety -- Building Bodies...

From One Of Canada's Most Exciting Writers And Ecological Thinkers, A Book That Will Change The Way We See Nature And Show That In Restoring The Living Worl...

David Bainbridge is a vet with a particular interest in evolutionary zoology - and he has just turned forty. As well as the usual concerns about greying hai...

Provides A Moving Account Of The Disappearances Occurring All Around Us And Traces The Evolution Of Extinction As Concept, From Its First Articulation By Ge...

More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in h...

A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Nonfiction Book of Winter 2020 A revelatory investigation of friendship, with profound implications for our understanding of...

Review\"One of Amazon.com's 2014 Best Books of the Year: Arts & Photography"\"One of nbc.com’s "Holiday Gift Books Span the Science Spectrum" for 2014...

He read the classics but he adored pulp science fiction. He had no academic credentials but he was a co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Ae...

The latest outstanding compilation of nature photography showcasing the winners of the annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition Presenting the...

Nestled near the Hamptons, the fashionable summer playground of America's rich and famous, and in the shadow of New York City, lies an unimposing 840-acre ...