Nature & Ecology

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...

in This Gem, The Scientist And Noted Essayist Trains A Wry Wit And A Highly Perceptive Eye On His Two-plus Decades Of Observing Baboon Behavior In Kenya. ...

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 ...

With dozens of simple prompts and exercises, best-selling author, naturalist, and artist Clare Walker Leslie invites you to step outside for just a few minu...

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

A Manifesto For A Radically Different Philosophy And Practice Of Manufacture And Environmentalism. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Urge Environmentalists--in Other ...

An Italian boy sips from a fountain in the town square. A hiker takes a refreshing drink from a mountain stream. Black-robed women in India stride gracefu...

A fascinating exploration of lakes around the world, from Walden Pond to the Dead Sea. More than a century and a half have passed since Walden was first pu...

A Revelatory History--spanning Continents And Millennia--of How The Distribution Of Water Has Shaped Human Civilization, By The Chief Strategy Officer And G...

From One Of The World’s Most Renowned Cave Divers, A Firsthand Account Of Exploring The Earth’s Final Frontier: The Hidden Depths Of Our Oceans And The ...

Happy New Almanac Year! It's Time To Celebrate The 230th Edition Of The Old Farmer's Almanac! Long Recognized As North America's Most-beloved And Best-selli...

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...

In The Wake Of Hurricane Katrina, Longtime New Orleans Residents Abdulrahman And Kathy Zeitoun Are Cast Into An Unthinkable Struggle With Forces Beyond Wind...

Richard Louv was the first to identify a phenomenon we all knew existed but couldn't quite articulate: nature-deficit disorder. His book Last Child in the ...

Winner • Pulitzer Prize for History Winner • Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Finalist • National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) A New York Times ...

Dr. Maffetone's unique training system for champions proves that the kinder, gentler approach actually works the best. This fitness regimen has worked for c...

Thoreau Went To Walden Pond To Live Simply In The Wild And Contemplate His Own Place In The World By Observing Nature. Robert Sullivan Went To A Disused, Ga...

A Testament To The Miraculous Beings That Share Our Planet, The Wild In You Is A Creative Collaboration Between A Lauded Nature Photographer And An Internat...

Nature: The Wilderness That Environmentalists Try To Protect From Industrial Despoliation; The Spectacular National Parks Where People Seek Refuge From Thei...

An Absorbing History Of Changing Views Of What Fossils Are And How They Contribute To An Understanding Of The History Of The Earth. Rudwick Makes Ample Use ...

Ecology; Concepts and Applications was written this book for students taking their first undergraduate course in ecology. Ecology is an integrative discipli...

As well as outlining and explaining such historic breakthroughs in human understanding of the physical world as Kepler’s law of planetary motion and Newto...

The National Geographic Readers series has expanded beyond elementary school levels to reach children at the very beginning of their lifelong relationship w...

The Nile, one of the world’s great rivers, has long been an object of fascination and obsession. From Alexander the Great and Nero, to Victorian adventure...

Le Présent Document Est Un Excellent Outil Pour L'enseignante Ou L'enseignant De Même Qu?un Incitatif Pour L'élève à Découvrir Le Monde Qui L'entoure....

in This Short Book, David Archer Gives Us The Latest On Climate Change Research, And Skillfully Tells The Climate Story That He Helped To Discover: Genera...

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

“Few fish have captured the souls and minds of men and women quite like wild Atlantic salmon.” — Bill Taylor, President, Atlantic Salmon FederationCel...

Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction Every summer between 1882 and 1929, naturalist William Francis Ganong travelled through the wildernes...

For All The Remarkable Fathers In Your Life, This Book Shares The Wisdom Of The Animal Kingdom's Most Caring Fathers And Showcases The Power Of A Father's L...

This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for i...

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...

Bjørn Lomborg. Originally Published In Danish As Verdens Sande Tilstand, 1998. This Revised And Updated Version First Published In English By Cambridge Uni...

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 Author Offers A Memoir Of His Two Decades In The Field Studying Kenyan Baboons As He Describes The Members Of The Baboon Troop And Their Behavior And Hi...

Product Description Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals ac...

The latest findings, brought vividly to life. This highly acclaimed encyclopedia combines authoritative, easy-to-read essays with exciting photographs sho...

The Definitive Story Of Hollywood's Most Famous Couple He Was A Tough-guy Welshman Softened By The Affections Of A Breathtakingly Beautiful Woman;...

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

A best-selling author and a popular radio talk show host team up to reveal the pending ill-effects of human-made changes to the Arctic weather patterns, pre...

What Is Project Finance? What Makes Project Or Structured Finance So Relevant For Large Renewable Energy Infrastructure? Which Vocabulary Do I Need To Know ...

Book by Thurman, Harold V.Categories: Science & Math Nature & Ecology Oceans & Seas OceanographyGeneral

The visual guide to more than 500 species of fossils from around the world. The Eyewitness Handbook of Fossils is packed with 1,000 vivid full-color photos,...

the Beloved Author Of refuge, Terry Tempest Williams Is One Of The Country’s Most Eloquent And Imaginative Writers. The Desert Is Her Blood. In This Poten...

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

A beautiful and surprising exploration of a phenomenon that is at once familiar and baffling: the mystery of why birds sing. KLIATT David Rothenberg is a...

Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Whereas just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild, ra...

In his most widely appealing book yet, one of today's leading authors of popular anthropology looks at the intriguing history and peculiar nature of money...