Nature & Ecology

Wide, breathtaking landscapes; crystal-clear, blue lakes; high, snow-covered mountain peaks--but also wild grizzlies, buffalos, mustangs, and rare animal ...

Tropical and subtropical forests cover a relatively small portion of the earth’s surface, but they’re home to over half of the animal and plant species ...

Picture yourself on a sunlit, sugar-sand beach before a turquoise sea. This "Wish You Were There" 12-month planner transports you to a tropical paradise thr...

"If you're keen to get your children or grandchildren interested in the natural world, Love Bees could be just what you need to fire their imaginations." - ...

A Former British Newspaper Columnist Describes How He Uprooted His Family To The English Countryside And Purchased A Dilapidated Zoo, Home To More Than Two ...

The winter months offer the perfect opportunity for us to become better acquainted with our favorite birds. As they forage in gardens for seeds and berries...

Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She wrestles alligators, eats roadkill, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she b...

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...

A brief introduction to the characteristics and habits of various kinds of sharks.Categories: Science & Math Nature & Ecology FaunaFish & Sharks...

Take a stunning sloth’s-eye view of the world in this beautiful and informative photographic nonfiction picture book from award-winning author and photogr...

Ontario's diverse mammal population is beautifully portrayed in this comprehensive and easy-to-use field guide. Colour-coded header bars organize the mammal...

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

In this revised and expanded edition of his collected writings, David Suzuki continues to explore the themes that have informed his work for more than four ...

On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New DealCategories: Science & Math Earth SciencesClimatology

Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great Wh...

A “well-written, Engaging Detective Story” (kirkus Reviews, Starred Review) About A Rogue Who Trades In Rare Birds And Their Eggs—and The Wildlife Det...

The Relationship Between Human Communities And The Environment Is Extremely Complex. In Order To Resolve The Issues Involved With This Relationship, Interdi...

It's December 1997 and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. To the horrified astonishment of a team of hunters,...

Science and Imagination Collide! Inspired by a trip with his young daughter to view the famous dinosaur exhibit of New York City's Museum of Natural Histor...

In A Countryman's Journal, originally published in 1981, author Roy Barrette describes life on his small coastal Maine farm. Equipped with a few barnyard an...

thomas Berry Is One Of The Most Eminent Cultural Historians Of Our Time. Here He Presents The Culmination Of His Ideas And Urges Us To Move From Being A Di...

National Wildlife Federation’s new all-photographic field guide to North American insects, spiders, and related species, is the most up-to-date of its kin...

To some it's the classic "gateway drug," to others it is a harmless way to relax, or provide relief from pain. Some fear it is dangerous and addictive, wh...

Find what you're looking for with Peterson Field Guides—their field-tested visual identification system is designed to help you differentiate thousands of...

two Of Zed's Best-known Authors, One An Economist, The Other A Physicist And Philosopher, Come Together In This Book On A Controversial Environmental Agen...

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...

Horse and rider are one. Theirs is a relationship of trust, harmony, and respect born of a way of life that is all but lost. One man puts it within our gras...

Essays by Cape Cod nature writer Robert Finch, inviting the reader to enjoy special places on the landscape of Cape Cod and the Islands.Categories: Science ...

The Cape and Islands—Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket—provide some of the best walking and hiking in coastal New England. There is a great v...

From the authors of Cradle to Cradle, we learn what’s next: The Upcycle The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, one of the mo...

When Pres. John F. Kennedy established the Cape Cod National Seashore in 1961, it was acclaimed as the "finest victory ever recorded for the cause of conser...

The compelling story of one family’s life among the rugged landscapes of the Coast Mountains, converting youthful ideals, raw land and a passion for the ...

Get positive suggestions for practical solutions to this heated issue. Hotly debated in the political arena and splashed across the media almost 24/7, glob...

Possibly the most graphic treatment of global warming that has yet been published, Six Degrees is what readers of Al Gore's best-selling An Inconvenient T...

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...

Like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, This Is A Book About The Fate Of The Earth And The Survival Of Our Planet. Wilson Attempts To Bridge The Seemingly Irrec...

Krist does wonders . . . [He] describes the frantic rescue efforts . . . and the malevolent, unending storm. In a thrilling, climactic chapter, he conjure...

A comprehensive encyclopedia on birds with contributions by over 100 zoologists, covering all aspects of bird behavior, evolution and including reference c...

An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing fi...

Charting the history of contemporary philosophical and religious beliefs regarding nature, Roderick Nash focuses primarily on changing attitudes toward nat...

No animal has captured the human imagination quite like the horse, depicted in cave drawings thousands of years ago through countless renderings in paint, c...

A Prairie as Wide as the Sea is one of the Dear Canada series, which are historical novels, written in diary format, about fictional girls during different ...

The Complete Book of Plant Propagation reveals how simple and satisfying propagating your own plants can be. A general introduction explains when and why pr...

written By An Acclaimed Nature Photographer And Featuring 175 Remarkable Color Photographs This Is A Season-by-season Account Of The Life Of Polar Bears, I...

In the much-anticipated follow-up to his 2002 international triumph The Sea, photographer Philip Plisson figuratively widens his lens to provide a more glob...

Gripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacting the wo...

Learn about 318 species of Ontario birds in fascinating detail. Descriptions of each bird, illustrations and range maps help you identify birds and understa...

50 Things to See with a Small Telescope explores the planets, stars, galaxies and nebulae visible from your own backyard! The book includes easy to follow s...