English Landscape Garden
Rizzoli International Publications, August 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. {8 & 1/4' x 11 & 3/8'} In bright, clean jacket. Airforce textured blue paper. Tight binding. Sound as new interiors. [144 pages]. More
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What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
Penguin Press, June 2023. Hardcover. An instant New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 Named a Best Book of 2023 by Publishers Weekly From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific investigation into owls--the most elusive of birds--and..... More
Treeline
Griffin, December 2023. Paper Back. Winner of the 2023 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism "Original and readable." ?Financial Times' Best Environmental Books of 2022 "Superb, inspiring." ?Winner, National Academies of Science Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications "Illuminating." --Silver Medalist, National Outdoor Book Awards Longlisted for..... More
Tyrannosaurus Sue: The Extraordinary Saga of Largest, Most Fought Over T. Rex Ever Found
St. Martins Press-3pl, May 2001. Trade Paperback. Over 65 million years ago in what is now South Dakota, a battle-scarred Tyrannosaurus rex matriarch--perhaps mortally wounded in a ferocious fight--fell into the riverbed and died. In 1990 her skeleton was found, virtually complete, in what many have called the most spectacular..... More
Tyrannosaurus Sue: The Extraordinary Saga of Largest, Most Fought Over T. Rex Ever Found
St. Martins Press-3pl, May 2001. Trade Paperback. Over 65 million years ago in what is now South Dakota, a battle-scarred Tyrannosaurus rex matriarch--perhaps mortally wounded in a ferocious fight--fell into the riverbed and died. In 1990 her skeleton was found, virtually complete, in what many have called the most spectacular..... More
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Riverhead Books, May 2020. Hardcover. A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020 Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR "A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe--and how we've all been doing it wrong for a long, long..... More
Entangled Life: The Illustrated Edition: How Fungi Make Our Worlds
Random House, November 2023. Hardcover. Merlin Sheldrake's New York Times bestseller, Entangled Life, is now a lavish visual journey into the hidden lives of fungi. When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live..... More
Shark: Portraits
Rizzoli, September 2023. Hardcover. The beauty of the apex predator captured up close and unflinchingly. A global shift from fright to endearment is happening, and the world is falling in love with sharks as risk of their endangerment increases. Mike Coots, who was nearly killed by a tiger shark as..... More
Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
Mariner Books, September 2023. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * THE PERFECT GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERS * INCLUDES ARTWORK * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * AMAZON EDITOR'S PICK and BEST BOOK OF 2023 * INDIE BESTSELLER "Montgomery's heart-tugging conversations with teammates and her commitment to helping an octogenarian named Fire Chief..... More
Mind-Gut Connection: How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health
Harper Wave, June 2018. Trade Paperback. Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with the latest discoveries on the human microbiome, a practical guide in the tradition of Wheat Belly and Grain Brain that conclusively demonstrates the inextricable, biological link between mind and body. We have all experienced the connection between our mind and..... More
Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2019. Hardcover. A landmark book about how we form habits, and what we can do with this knowledge to make positive change We spend a shocking 43 percent of our day doing things without thinking about them. That means that almost half of our actions..... More
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 2005. Trade Paperback. #1 New York Times bestseller "Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history."--Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."--Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in..... More
The Home Garden Book of Herbs and Spices
Doubleday & Company, 1952. Book Club. Cloth. {4 & 1/2' x 7 & 1/2'} In heavily chipped, torn and tattered jacket. Flap not clipped. DJ verso has tanning & soiling especially at spine. Cloth covered boards: 1. light green at spine side and grey on fore-edge. Green is fading/discolored. [236..... More
Book of Stones: Who They Are and What They Teach (Revised)
North Atlantic Books, March 2015. Oversize Softcover. Often dubbed the crystals bible, this comprehensive reference guide to the spiritual and healing qualities of 455 sacred stones has become the go-to book for looking up the properties of gems and minerals. Each entry includes vivid color photographs for each stone to..... More
History of Medical Illustration: From Antiquity to 1600.
Editions Medicina Rara, 1970. Cloth. {( & 1/4' x 11 & 1/2'} Tan cloth covered boards with gold lettering framed within burgundy rectangles on spine and front panel. Squash colored end papers. In stiff brown cloth covered slipcase worn at corners & edges. [178 pages]. More
Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2023. Hardcover. Starting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bottom of the ocean, and accompanied us to the moon. The..... More
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
Mariner Books, October 2023. Hardcover. Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Max Bennett chronicles the five "breakthroughs" in the evolution of human intelligence and reveals what..... More
Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
The MIT Press, October 2023. Hardcover. An exciting new title in the vein of Hidden Figures, which tells the inspiring stories of long-overlooked women physicists and astronomers who discovered the fundamental rules of the universe and reshaped the rules of society. Women physicists and astronomers from around the world have..... More
The Long-Legged House
Audubon/Ballentine, 1971. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Edges of the print block tanned. Light shelf wear. Very lightly bumped corners. More
Magick of Physics: Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life
Simon & Schuster, March 2023. Hardcover. An award-winning Oxford physicist draws on classic sci-fi, fantasy fiction, and everyday phenomena to explain and celebrate the magical properties of the world around us. If you were to present the feats of modern science to someone from the past, those feats would surely..... More
Braiding Sweetgrass
Milkweed Editions, September 2014. Trade Paperback. A New York Times bestseller A Washington Post bestseller A Los Angeles Times bestseller Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub A Book Riot "Favorite Summer Read of 2020" A Food Tank Fall 2020 Reading Recommendation As a botanist, Robin..... More
The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology
MIT Press. Paper Back. More
YOSEMITE: ITS DISCOVERY
Random House, September 1981. Hardcover. More
Tyrannosaurus Sue: The Extraordinary Saga of Largest, Most Fought Over T. Rex Ever Found
St. Martins Press-3pl, May 2001. Trade Paperback. Over 65 million years ago in what is now South Dakota, a battle-scarred Tyrannosaurus rex matriarch--perhaps mortally wounded in a ferocious fight--fell into the riverbed and died. In 1990 her skeleton was found, virtually complete, in what many have called the most spectacular..... More
Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God andDiversity on Steroids
Penguin Press HC, The, May 2008. Hardcover. A bestselling author and award winning journalist follows a year in the life of a big urban hospital, painting a revealing portrait of how medical care is delivered in America today Most people agree that there are complicated issues at play in the..... More
