Nature & Ecology

A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer--updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irre...

In This Remarkable Groundbreaking Book, A Documentarian And Conservationist, Determined To Dispel Misplaced Fear And Correct Common Misconceptions, Explores...

Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants...

The Former Mayor Of New York City And The Former Sierra Club Head Present A Manifesto On How The Benefits Of Taking Action On Climate Change Can Be Real, Im...

From Roger Rosenblatt, author of the bestsellers Making Toast and Unless It Moves the Human Heart, comes a moving meditation on the passages of grief, the ...

An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its aftermath, and the indelible power of love--for readers of ...

An astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelligence. Decades of research document plants' impressive ...

I. Dragons. A Classification Of Dragons -- Evolution And Anatomy -- The Kinds Of Living Dragons -- The European Fire-breating Dragon -- The Oriental Mist-br...

A new reference source to perennial flowers presents 161 major perennial entries as well as data on hundreds of species and cultivars arranged in helpful ch...

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 ...

From Josh Tickell, one of America’s most celebrated documentary filmmakers, comes a “fascinating, easy-to-follow blueprint for how eating in ways that ...

The renowned animal lover shares the heartwarming stories of the various animals that inhabit the Black Beauty Ranch, animals that have been saved from deat...

How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history’s mighty empires\In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity...

Our Global Environment, regarded for decades as the quintessential introduction to environmental health for its authoritative coverage and cogent prose, pr...

All 101 species in this guide are common roadside wildflowers, making this book ideal to take along on car trips in the country or when exploring the world ...

The stimulating and healing effects of crystals and gemstones have been known for thousands of years. Today they are still widely used for their therapeutic...

An Exhilarating, Anti-colonial Reclamation Of Nature Writing And Memoir, Rooted In The Forests And Flatlands Of Taiwan From The Winner Of The Rbc Taylor Pri...

Kimberly Rae Miller is an immaculately put-together woman with a great career, a loving boyfriend, and a beautifully tidy apartment in Brooklyn. You would ...

The Vaquita is a book about the world's most endangered marine mammal, the Vaquita porpoise. Less than 100 remain, and this book provides information on the...

Captain Guyan March had spent his entire professional career aboard Windjammer Barefoot Cruises' fleet of extravagant tall ships that carry passengers on we...

This Book Tells The Story Of Survival And Our Powerful Bond With Man's Best Friend, In The Aftermath Of The Nation's Most Notorious Case Of Animal Cruelty. ...

Dogs fill our hearts with love and our minds with wonder, but their emotional lives have remained unexplored since Darwin 125 years ago. Now in Dogs Never ...

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

"The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater ...

When Susan Lucci And All My Children Were Introduced To The World In 1970, American Television Changed Forever. Susan’s Character, The Beautiful, Spirited, ...

"Gypsies are justly famed for their psychic powers and the ability to curse or bring good luck to those that cross their path." A sparkling compilation of s...

Confronting harsh ecological realities and the multiple cascading crises facing our world today, An Inconvenient Apocalypse argues that humanity's future ...

"This book comes at just the right moment. It is NOT too late if we get together and take action, NOW." --Jane Goodall A gift to enlighten and restore hop...

With streamlined coverage of ecology, agriculture, energy, and water Essentials of Environmental Science provides a focused treatment of science concepts to...

Allen J. Coombes ; Photography By Matthew Ward. A Dorling Kindersley Book--t.p. Verso. Includes Index.Categories: Science & Math Nature & EcologyRef...

with The Text Of The Biblical Beatitudes As An Undercurrent, The Story Of The Civil Rights Movement Is Told In Lyrical Text And Stirring Illustrations. sch...

A comprehensive guide to animal tracking covers rodents, rabbits, weasels, racoons, foxes, wolves, coyotes, deer, sheep, elk, moose, and bearsCategories: Sp...

Le Nouveau Monde abrite certains des plus beaux paysages de notre planète. A Denali, Crater Lake, Yellowstone, Wrangell-Saint-Elie ou encore Wind Cove, cha...

In Sea Change, Sylvia Earle Makes It Clear That We Are Currently In A Time Of Pivotal Significance Regarding The Decisions We Make For The World's Oceans. H...

When teenaged Aaron discovers a baby elephant nearly drowning in the swimming pool at the guest lodge where he works, he acts quickly and manages to save th...

371 pages of excellent text, filled with great photos. a touching biography of James Herriot, a British veterinary surgeon and author. Herriot was his pen n...

The New York Times bestselling examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change Paul Hawken has spent more than a decade researchi...

With This Book, The Author, Former Vice President Al Gore Brings Together Leading-edge Research From Top Scientists Around The World; Photographs, Charts, A...

Ever since October 1967, when he set off in a battered motor home to explore America and talk to its people, Charles Kuralt has been one of our premier chr...

The Value of Life is an exploration of the actual and perceived importance of biological diversity for human beings and society. Stephen R. Kellert identif...

Secrets of the Soil tells the fascinating story of the innovative, nontraditional, often surprising things that certain scientists, farmers, and mystics are...

Train your dog the positive way. Includes how to raise a puppy positively, how to build a strong relationship, manners training, teaching a really reliable ...

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...

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 ...

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food ra...

"On January 12, 2010 a massive earthquake laid waste to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Within three days, Dr. Paul Farmer a...

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...

Tracy DiSabato-Aust has taught thousands of readers how to design and maintain their gardens. Her first book—The Well-Tended Perennial Garden—is Timber's ...