Natural History

Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten,” notes guest editor Amy Stewart in her...

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 Human Genome, The Complete Set Of Genes Housed In Twenty-three Pairs Of Chromosomes, Is Nothing Less Than An Autobiography Of Our Species. Spelled Out I...

In This Rich, Irreverent, Compelling History, Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Steven Weinberg Takes Us From Ancient Miletus To Medieval Baghdad And Oxford, Fr...

“Unpredictable and amusing and informative and original, cavorting between biology, history, travel writing, and memoir.” —Mark Kurlansky The Whale...

The adventure spans the world from Stonehenge to astronomically aligned pyramids at Giza, from Mayan observatories at Chichen Itza to the atomic clock in W...

Richard Fortey. A Borzoi Book--t.p. Verso. Originally Published In Great Britain As Life : An Unauthorized Biography By Harpercollins Publishers, London, In...

Written in a style that should appeal to both the serious ornithologist and those merely interested in identifying a common species seen in the garden, this...

Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in ...

The PETERSON FIRST GUIDE TO FISHES features 220 common and conspicuous fishes of North America, with full-color illustrations and a clear, precise descrip...

Few Books Have Had A Greater Impact Than A Sand County Almanac, Which Many Credit With Launching A Revolution In Land Management. Written As A Series Of Ske...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that ani...

Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says ac...

From The Author Of The Bestselling The Professor And The Madman Comes The Fascinating Story Of William Smith, The Orphaned Son Of An English Country Blacksm...

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...

"A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose...

Every species in full color. Thousands of identification capsules, range maps, and habitat symbols. A special 32 page guide to wildlife communities. Birds a...

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...

One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science ...

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...

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...