Princeton University Press, August 2022. Hardcover. From award-winning author and ornithologist Tim Birkhead, a sweeping history of the long and close relationship between birds and humans Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art, and philosophy. We have..... More
Mariner Books, October 2018. Trade Paperback. Few people realize how sophisticated and intelligent bats are. Merlin Tuttle knows, and he has stopped at nothing to find and protect them on every continent they inhabit. Sharing highlights from a lifetime of adventure and discovery, Tuttle takes us to the frontiers of..... More
Dutton, June 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather. The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather..... 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
Vintage, June 2022. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest--a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery "Finding the Mother Tree reminds us..... More
Storey Publishing, LLC, October 2021. Paper Back. With the surging interest in foraging for mushrooms, those new to the art need a reliable guide to distinguishing the safe fungi from the toxic. But for beginner foragers who just want to answer the question "Can I eat it?", most of the..... More
Chelsea Green Publishing, September 2008. Trade Paperback. A best seller in France, and already translated into Spanish, Italian, Greek, and Korean, Herv Kempf's "How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth" now appears in its first English edition. Bringing to bear more than twenty years of experience as an environmental journalist..... More
Riverhead Books, February 2007. Trade Paperback. A new form of strip mining has caused a state of emergency for the Appalachian wilderness and the communities that depend on it-a crisis compounded by issues of government neglect, corporate hubris, and class conflict. In this powerful call to arms, Erik Reece chronicles..... 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. "When a whale is in the..... More
Trinity University Press, August 2022. Paper Back. Looking for adventure and continuing a process of self-discovery, Janisse Ray has repeatedly set out to immerse herself in wildness, to be wild, and to learn what wildness can teach us. From overwintering with monarch butterflies in Mexico to counting birds in Belize..... 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 North Carolina Press, April 1986. Flexible Boards. Identifies individual species and examines the habitat, annual cycle, and migration patterns of coastal and inland birds. More
Island Press, May 2022. Hardcover. "Engaging hybrid - part lyrical travelogue, part investigative journalism and part jeremiad, all shot through with droll humor." --The Atlanta Journal Constitution In 1867, John Muir set out on foot to explore the botanical wonders of the South, keeping a detailed journal of his adventures..... More
Old Farmer's Almanac, August 2022. Paper Back. Happy New Almanac Year! It's time to celebrate the 231st edition of The Old Farmer's Almanac! Long recognized as North America's most beloved and best-selling annual, this handy yellow book fulfills every need and expectation as a calendar of the heavens, a time..... More
Bloomsbury Publishing, November 2022. Hardcover. 'The warnings are coming thick and fast now and Lymbery's are clear, concise and truly frightening - we are burning and poisoning the global larder. But we have solutions that we must implement now.' - Chris Packham 'Philip Lymbery pulls no punches in cataloguing the..... More
Cool Springs Press, September 2008. Paper Back. From the expert editors at Cool Springs Press, a series of regional bird books that love the outdoors as much as you do. "Patience is a virtue," said no backyard bird ever. That's why, when these busy creatures come flitting into view, you..... More
Knopf, June 1980. Flexible Boards. The most comprehensive field guide available to the trees of North America's eastern region--a must-have for any enthusiast's day pack or home library--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers. Nearly 700 species of trees are detailed in beautiful, full-color photographs of..... More
Experiment, June 2012. Trade Paperback. From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret World of Weather and The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs, learn to tap into nature and notice the hidden clues all around you Before GPS, before the compass, and even before cartography, humankind was navigating..... More
Ecotrust, September 2010. First Edition. Oversize Softcover. Cache offers a fresh, hopeful perspective at a time when global economic, social, and environmental crises are growing. It is a compelling book for business people who wish to build businesses with more than the bottom line in mind, for conservationists who wish..... More
Scribner Book Company, March 1999. Trade Paperback. In Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, award-winning journalist David Quammen reminds us why he has become one of our most beloved science and nature writers. This collection of twenty-three of Quammen's most intriguing, most exciting, most memorable pieces introduces kayakers on the Futaleufu..... More
Picador, November 2010. Trade Paperback. A Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year If environmental destruction continues at its current rate, a third of all plants and animals could disappear by 2050-along with earth's life-support ecosystems, which provide food, water, medicine, and natural defenses against climate change. Now Caroline..... More
HarperCollins, August 2005. Trade Paperback. Nearly every species that has lived on earth is extinct. The last of thedinosaurs was wiped out after a Mount Everest-sized meteorite slammedinto the earth 65 million years ago. The great flying and marine reptiles areno more. Before humans crossed the Bering Land Bridge some..... More
TarcherPerigee, October 2022. Hardcover. A one-of-a-kind guide to birding locally that encourages readers to slow down and notice the spectacular birds all around them. Many birders travel far and wide to popular birding destinations to catch sight of rare or "exotic" birds. In Slow Birding, evolutionary biologist Joan E. Strassmann..... More
Milkweed Editions, November 2022. Hardcover. "Birds are my almanac. They tune me into the seasons, and into myself." So begins this lively collection of essays by acclaimed filmmaker and novelist Priyanka Kumar. Growing up at the feet of the Himalayas in northern India, Kumar took for granted her immersion in..... More
Basic Books, October 2022. Hardcover. The?epic?story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees.?But?as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when?naturalists embarked on?a quest?to?locate and precisely date the oldest?living things..... More
