Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, March 2006. Hardcover. An argument for the urgent danger of global warming in a book that is sure to be as influential as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Known for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial subject of global warming..... More
Bloomsbury USA, December 2006. Paper Back. Long known for her insightful and thought-provoking political journalism, author Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial and increasingly urgent subject of global warming. In what began as groundbreaking three-part series in the New Yorker, for which she won a National Magazine Award in 2006..... More
Livingston Publishing, January 1970. Hardcover. Octavo. Turquoise cloth covered boards with somewhat faded gold illustration and lettering. Cloth heavily worn along board edges, especially bottom. Name and address scrawled in ballpoint ffep. Tanning of margins and gutter to end pages front and rear. Marginal ink notations on a few pages..... More
Yale University Press, November 1990. Cloth. Madagascar, isolated for at least 120 million years and the fourth largest island in the world, is home to a remarkable variety of endemic animals and plants. This book is a guide to the unusual bird life of Madagascar. 40 watercolour illustrations provide clear..... More
Bloomsbury USA, March 2011. Trade Paperback. Forty years after her mother's work changed the way we eat, Anna Lappé's Diet for a Hot Planet changed the way we think about food production and global warming. Fifty years ago, Frances Moore Lappé's Diet for a Small Planet sparked a revolution in..... More
Morgan James Publishing, April 2018. Trade Paperback. With climate change in the news, an urban core that has reached boiling point, and many children growing up without role models and with limited dreams, where is hope? There is a quiet experiment in Milwaukee that is turning heads. It starts with..... More
Thames & Hudson, September 2022. Hardcover. The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events. They sustain critical ecosystems, recycling nutrients and connecting plants across vast areas, and help to produce many staples of modern life, such as wine, chocolate, bread, detergent, and penicillin. Today, in the face..... More
University of Georgia Press, May 2007. Trade Paperback. To his legions of readers, Gene Logsdon is best known as the Contrary Farmer. His writings, which blend commonsense advice, curmudgeonly wit, and respect for the earth, are manna to anyone who wants to live, as Logsdon puts it, "at nature's pace."..... More
University of Georgia Press, May 2007. Trade Paperback. To his legions of readers, Gene Logsdon is best known as the Contrary Farmer. His writings, which blend commonsense advice, curmudgeonly wit, and respect for the earth, are manna to anyone who wants to live, as Logsdon puts it, "at nature's pace."..... More
Houghton Mifflin, September 1992. Trade Paperback. This complete guide to 150 species of ducks, geese, and swans provides color illustrations of all major plumages and subspecies and offers informative details on voice, population, distribution, range, habits, and habitats--for beginners and experts. More
Bloomsbury Publishing, March 2023. Paper Back. Winner of the 2022 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award * Winner of the 2022 Science in Society Journalism Award (Books) * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize "Thoughtful, insightful, and wise, Wild Souls is a landmark work."--Ed Yong, author of An Immense..... More
University Press of Mississippi, July 2008. Trade Paperback. In 1982, sisters Ruth Finley and Margaret Finley Shackelford made wills bequeathing 2,500 acres and two antebellum houses in Marshall County, Mississippi, to the National Audubon Society. Early in 1998, the surviving sister Margaret Shackelford invited the society to open its state..... More
Produccicones de la Hamaca, March 2009. Trade Paperback. 101 Birds of Belize is the second edition of 100 Birds of Belize written by Carolyn M. Miller in 1995, which selected 100 out of more than 500 birds found in Belize for illustration and description. The second edition added the Harpy..... More
University of Arizona Press, December 1991. First Edition. Cloth. In 1962 the Green River was poisoned and its native fishes killed so that the new Flaming Gorge Reservoir could be stocked with non-native game fishes for sportsmen. This incident was representative of water management in the West, where dams and..... More
Smith-Morley, July 1992. Oversize Softcover. Previous owner's name on the title page. More
University of California Press, November 1995. Trade Paperback. California Rivers and Streams provides a clear and informative overview of the physical and biological processes that shape California's rivers and watersheds. Jeffrey Mount introduces relevant basic principles of hydrology and geomorphology and applies them to an understanding of the differences in..... More
Back Bay Books, September 2001. Trade Paperback. By enquiring into the puzzle of sibling relations, Frank J. Sulloway pioneers a new view of how family affects individual development. He shows that birth-order is so fundamental to the family that it transcends gender, class and nationality. More
Back Bay Books, September 2001. Trade Paperback. By enquiring into the puzzle of sibling relations, Frank J. Sulloway pioneers a new view of how family affects individual development. He shows that birth-order is so fundamental to the family that it transcends gender, class and nationality. More
Back Bay Books, September 2001. Trade Paperback. By enquiring into the puzzle of sibling relations, Frank J. Sulloway pioneers a new view of how family affects individual development. He shows that birth-order is so fundamental to the family that it transcends gender, class and nationality. More
Sierra Club Books, March 1989. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine-uncreased; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Gibbs Smith Publishers, April 2011. Hardcover. Part of John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their preservation. His successes dot the landscape and are evident in all the natural features that bear his..... More
Grand Central Publishing, September 2022. Hardcover. What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill--the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty-ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak--asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication. A New Yorker Best Book of..... More
Milkweed Editions, September 2020. Hardcover. "Hands-down one of the most beautiful books of the year." --NPR From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us. As a child, Nezhukumatathil..... More
Macmillan, January 2006. Trade Paperback. More
Alfred A. Knopf, June 1979. Flexible Boards. Nothing is as colorful as a field of wildflowers in full-bloom so what could be more appropriate than a magnificent field guide with beautiful full-color photographs? More than 1,000 species are covered in full detail, with notes on more than 400 others. The..... More
