Nature & Ecology

In The Coming Famine, Julian Cribb Lays Out A Vivid Picture Of Impending Planetary Crisis--a Global Food Shortage That Threatens To Hit By Midcentury--which...

The incredible true story of a place where animals heal and children learn to hope‘When I started The Gentle Barn, some viewed it as a hobby or an obsess...

Environmental Geography combines traditional physical geography with a consideration of human-related environmental issues. This unique text emphasizes phys...

The Official Children's Book To The Netflix Original Documentary Series, Our Planet, With A Foreword By Sir David Attenborough. This Glorious Visual Celebra...

Timber Is A Vital Resource That Is All Around Us. It Forms Our Homes And Furniture, Our Disposable Diapers And Newspapers, And Boxes Our Cereal And New Appl...

A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title More than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myt...

120 color photos & 30 b&w illus. 11 x 11 3/4.Categories: Science & Math Nature & EcologyFauna

Canada is packed with intriguing places for travel where heritage and landscape interact to create stories that fire our imagination. Scattered across the ...

This third edition provides a concise yet approachable introduction to seismic theory, designed as a first course for graduate students or advanced undergra...

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...

Here, for the first time, the world's two leading authorities—Tom Regan, who argues for animal rights, and Carl Cohen, who argues against them—make their ...

Petroleum is the most valuable commodity in the world and an enormous source of wealth for those who sell it, transport it and transform it for its many use...

A regular contributor to Harper's Magazine who writes about business and environmental issues, introduces general readers to the coming depletion of fossil...

This textbook is for the standard, one-semester, junior-senior course that often goes by the title Elementary Partial Differential Equations or Boundary V...

This best-selling Laboratory Manual, written by Terry R. Martin to accompany Hole's Human Anatomy and Physiology, has been updated throughout. The new 15th ...

Ken Drushka. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Business & MoneyIndustries Human Resources Science & Math Nature & Eco...

Taxonomy, Geographic Variation, And Population Genetics Of Bornean And Sumatran Orangutans / Benoît Goossens ... [et Al.] -- The Functional Significance Of ...

The most comprehensive design reference available on remediation techniques, waste disposal methods and various waste containment systems. Covers several im...

Deserts and Desert Environments focuses on geomorphic systems, providing a comprehensive introduction to the physical, biological, temporal, and human com...

?ming in Nature's Image provides, for the first time, a detailed look into the pioneering work of The Land Institute, the leading educational and research ...

In 1999, Photojournalist Gary Braasch Began A Journey Around The World To Observe And Document Environmental Changes Resulting From The Warming Of Our Plane...

The dramatic transformation of relationships between humans and animals in the 20th century are investigated in this fascinating and accessible book. At the...

Miller's LIVING IN THE ENVIRONMENT, 14th Edition is the most comprehensive and up-to-date environmental science text on the market. It has the most balanced...

"The most persuasive forecast of the 21st century I have seen." -- E.O. Wilson, author of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge and twice winner of a Pulitzer...

The Hubble Space Telescope. No other telescope combines instant name recognition with the production of consistently spectacular images. Yet few people out...

A brave, intimate, beautifully crafted memoir by a survivor of the tsunami that struck the Sri Lankan coast in 2004 and took her entire family.On December ...

Covering the identification, biology and relationships of all true shrikes, bush-shrikes, helmet-shrikes, wood-shrikes, shrike flycatchers, philentomas, bat...

Most of us watch with mild concern the fast-disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution-related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in ferti...

This Book Is Aimed At Non-science-major Undergraduates And Is Tightly Focused On The Problem Of Anthropogenic Climate Change. The First Half Of The Book Foc...

This colorful textbook explains how the biological and nonbiological systems of the Earth function in synchrony. It walks through the stages of Earth's his...

Planet Earth needs its own lawyer. James Thornton is that lawyer. Who will stop the planet from committing ecological suicide? The UN? Governments? Activis...

Exploring the shifting ways in which geographers have studied nature, this book emphasizes the relationships and differences between human geography, phys...

Taking a step back, we see that cities are just one part of a larger landscape made up of a mixture of agriculture areas, protected wilderness, rivers and l...

Numerous concepts are applied to everyday experiences that we have in our homes, at the cottages, while fishing, canoeing, or swimming Applied Aquatic Ecos...

An ideal alternative to ecology texts that tend to be too difficult for non-majors, this succinct 11-chapter, full-color textbook covers scientific principl...

The New York Times Bestselling Author Jonathan Safran Foer Re-evaluated His Meat-based Diet--and His Conscience--in His Powerful Memoir And Investigative Re...

Edited By Richard E. Warner And Kathleen M. Hendrix. Includes Bibliographies And Index.Categories: Science & Math Biological Sciences BiologyGeneral ...

An Inconvenient Truth of water.“Imagine a world in twenty years, in which no substantive progress has been made to provide basic wastewater service in th...

Introduction -- Planting The Flag : Establishing British/canadian Sovereignty In The North -- Arctic Frontiers : The Canadian North And The Cold War -- Inte...

In this comparative, interdisciplinary study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources, Janet Sturgeon examines the different trajectories ...

Development And Biology -- Reductionist Versus Evolutionary Approaches To The Study Of Insect Development -- Insect Ontogeny: A Summary -- A Note On Phyloge...

We Bask In The Idea That Canada Holds 20% Of The World{u2019}s Fresh Water, Confident That We Will Always Have Enough. Water Crises Face Other Countries, Bu...

An omnibus edition of Facing Up and Facing The Frozen Ocean, about two of the greatest adventures of Bear Grylls, one of the world's most famous survivors B...

A Chronicle Of Author Kathleen Winter's Journey Through The Northwest Passage, Including Vivid Descriptions Of The Land And Its People. 1. An Invitation -- ...

Gathers stories about animals--including dogs, cats, gorillas, dolphins, bears, seagulls, rats, and pigs--who have performed acts of love and compassionCate...

After three years of unusually dry weather, the British Columbia Interior was ready to explode. All that was needed was a spark to start a conflagration.By ...

Trainer Monty Roberts, who is famous the world over as "the man who listens to horses," celebrates his best-loved horses, chosen from the tens of thousands ...

A comprehensive guide to weather phenomena in Canada. Canada's Weather explores the fascinating science and history of Canada's weather from coast to coast...