Nature & Ecology

Looks At The Causes And Impact Of The Great Famines In Nineteenth Century IrelandCategories: Science & Math Nature & Ecology EnvironmentNatural Disa...

The leading guide to driving growth and profits through green strategy—now revised and updated "Green to Gold provides the definitive thinking on how busi...

since It Was First Published In 1997, Homeowners, Serious Gardeners, And Professional Nursery Owners Have Responded Enthusiastically To deer Proofing Your ...

Environmental lawyer Boyd assesses the effectiveness of Canadian environmental laws and policies, examines reasons for the country's progress or lack thereo...

The story of the discovery of a coelacanth, a fish thought to be extinct for seventy million years, and its study by an eccentric icthyologist is dramatical...

The new DK Nature Guides form a comprehensive, accessible, and informative series of illustrated reference books that tackle key natural history subjects i...

The Chemical Maze: Your Guide to Food Additives and Cosmetic IngredientsCategories: Medical Books PharmacologyToxicology

Updated And Expanded Edition. Winner Of The Grawemeyer Award For Ideas Improving World Order 1992, Named New Options Best Political Book. Economist Herman D...

The praying mantis is the only animal on Earth with one ear―and it’s in the middle of its chest. Aphids are born pregnant. Moths can’t fly during an e...

Mark Kurlansky, beloved author of the award-winning bestseller Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, offers a riveting new book for kids abo...

To much of the world, North Korea is an impenetrable mystery, its inner workings unknown and its actions toward the outside unpredictable and frequently pr...

Superb treasury of 319 royalty-free designs skillfully rendered from French, English, German, Swiss, and Russian textiles of 18th and 19th centuries. Profus...

Cat behaviorist and star of Animal Planet's hit television show My Cat from Hell, Jackson Galaxy, a.k.a. "Cat Daddy," isn't what you might expect for a cat ...

In this year's Rupert Annual, Rupert goes on an adventure with the frogs, befriends the young Hamish, rescues a merboy and much more! Enjoy a brand-new sto...

Explore the timeless wisdom of God's Word through this beautiful horse devotional. Horses nuzzle their way into our hearts and have a way of teaching us a ...

Today most Americans live in the city or suburbs--a safe, comfortable life, at least on the surface. Few of us realize how close we are to the elemental st...

In this expanded version of an inspiring speech delivered in December 2009, David Suzuki reflects on how we got where we are today and presents his vision f...

A shepherd on the family farm in the Lake District, James Rebanks became a bestselling author and gathered a huge following on Twitter for his wonderfully e...

A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as amission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outd...

From the rear cover of this 444 page book: "'Secrets of the Soil' tells the fascinating story of the innovative, nontraditional, often surprising things tha...

The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets, Spycraft and Gaia TheoryCategories: Science & MathHistory & Philosophy

The most comprehensive field guide to Arctic wildlife. This is the ideal guidebook to the wildlife of the Arctic, which is undergoing such a perilous chan...

Sustainability is the integrating theme of this current and thought-provoking book. SUSTAINING THE EARTH provides the basic scientific tools for understandi...

Newfoundlanders and Labradorians love to talk about the weather. And why wouldn't they? The province is known for its great gales, fierce blizzards, destru...

Rainforests Cover Only A Small Amount Of Earth, But They Have More Unique Plants And Animals Than Anywhere Else On Our Planet. Packed With Beautiful And Eng...

It is now abundantly clear that we have at our fingertips all of the tools we need to solve the climate crisis. The only missing ingredient is collective w...

To escape the tough streets of Southeast Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s, young Rodney Stotts would ride the metro to the Smithsonian National Zoo. There...

It all dates from those summers alone in the high desert, me lying on my belly and watching wild horses with my binoculars for hours at a time. Straining to...

James Herriot. Originally Published 1992.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

Since the beginning of the US shale gas revolution in 2005, the development of unconventional oil and gas resources has gathered tremendous pace around the ...

An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's path...

Horses of all breeds, colors, shapes, and sizes are perennially fascinating to equine enthusiasts of all ages. Collected in a perfect little pocket guide ...

In this new approach to helping a person (and family) with cancer, renowned medical oncologist Dr. Robert Buckman takes a step-by-step look at coping with a...

Environmental Change and Challenge: A Canadian Perspective, Updated Second Edition with DVD helps students understand the ongoing change, complexity, and co...

From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to The Year Without Summer, Bill Streever journeys through history...

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...

As New Groundbreaking Research Suggests That Climate Change Played A Major Role In The Most Extreme Catastrophes In The Planet's History, Award-winning Scie...

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...

From Legendary Science Fiction Author Kim Stanley Robinson Comes A Vision Of Climate Change Unlike Any Ever Imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson Is One Of Contemp...

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...

Richard Leakey, One Of The World's Foremost Experts On Man's Evolutionary Past, Now Turns His Eye To The Future And Doesn't Like What He Sees. To the ph...

This anthology contains 37 articles published since 1974 in American Scientist, the journal of the scientific society Sigma Xi. While sequenced particularly...

“Lively and fascinating... The reader comes away cheered, better informed, and with a new and deeper appreciation for our amazing canine companions and t...

A veteran war correspondent journeys to remote mountain communities across the globe-from Albania and Chechnya to Nepal and Colombia-to investigate why so ...

This book develops the Sustainable Governance Approach and the principles of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM). It provides practical exa...

In the tradition of Silent Spring and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent, meticulously researched, and groundbreaking book about the ways in which chemicals i...

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...