Sierra Nevada Natural History, Paperback

Reducere. Saddle up and ride the winding trails of the Sierra through the pages of this book. In the not so distant past, exploration and settlement of this ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the story of the beginnings of the southern Sierra Nevada, the High Sierra region, from its birth to the historic era. It descri...

Reducere. The Sierra Nevada region is a land of alpine lakes, ubiquitous mountains, and meadows filled with a seemingly endless variety of wildflowers. This ...

This book takes us inside the adventure, hardships, and joys peculiar to the packing trade. Part One is an account of the evolution of the packing ...

It is our intent to present as accurate and up-to-date an account as possible of Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindl.) Buchh., known popularly as the g...

Reducere. DescriptionTrails change Since writing my two guidebooks, 48 Dog-Friendly Trails and Dog-Friendly Trails for All Seasons, I found some wonderful ne...

Reducere. DescriptionCovers the Truckee, Walker, Carson, Eagle, Davis, Ruby, mountain lakes, and more. Dave Stanley is recognized nationwide as the most know...

Guidebook to walks and multi-day treks in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Spain's Andalucia. The 38 routes include the highest point of contine...

Let the Marco Polo map of USA West guide you around this incredible country. Highly durable, this overview map of USA West folds away easily and is...

Remarkable artworks by British artists from the late 17th Century to modern times. Published to tie in with a new art exhibition opening at the Mus...

The Sierra Nevada, California's iconic mountain range, harbors thousands of remote high-elevations lakes from which water flows to sustain agricult...

Reducere. Snow surveyors throughout the world get to see what most of us only dream about: stunning terrain, birdlife and animals rarely seen in lower elevat...

They came from all points of the compass, these women. Some were married to men who had traveled to Nevada to make a fresh start in life or to mayb...

Reducere. "If you have an interest in bears then Dave Taylor's sixteen years of research and photographs will keep your interest for hours with his new book....

Reducere. What is morality and what is the source of our moral ideas? Philosophers have explored these questions for centuries, suggesting that both emotion ...

Nevada County's tumultuous wine history includes several booms and busts, starting in the 1850s when gold prospectors brought the first grapevines ...

Reducere. An incomparable illustrated look at the critical role bees play in the life of our planetBees pollinate more than 130 fruit, vegetable, and seed cr...

Reducere. An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of why our waterways continu...

Dinosaurs continues to make science exciting and understandable to science and non-science majors alike, through its emphasis of scientific concept...

Early American naturalists assembled dazzling collections of native flora and fauna, from John Bartram's botanical garden in Philadelphia and the a...

Reducere. The roadside history series charts a course to the present through carefully selected and researched stories that relate what we see today with wha...

Reducere. ``Surprising. Impressive. Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity.`` --Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review For centuries scientists hav...

Reducere. DescriptionSnakes, particularly venomous snakes and exceptionally large constricting snakes, have haunted the human brain for a millennium. They ap...

Reducere. The saguaro, with its great size and characteristic shape--its arms stretching heavenward, its silhouette often resembling a human--has become the ...

Afoot in Connecticut, is a love letter to this often overlooked region of America, an inspirational story that will have you taking to the trails a...

DescriptionThe Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and innovative book, the world's last great wilderness has...

Reducere. Award NameNortheastern Minnesota Book AwardAward categoryNonfictionThis 365-day journal of daily natural history is a delightful book for anyone in...

DescriptionThis "natural history" of the face unravels the surprising mysteries of one of the most familiar sights in everyday life, exploring the ...

Reducere. Evolutionary theory is the theme that binds together these essays on such seemingly disparate topics as the feeding habits of flamingos, flowers an...

Reducere. Among scientists who write, no one illuminates as well as Stephen Jay Gould doesthe wonderful workings of the natural world. Now in a new volume of...

Reducere. Pantheism has seen a resurgence of late primarily because of the rise of the new atheists and those who can no longer believe in a God set apart fr...

Reducere. From the peaks of the Continental Divide to the expanse of its eastern prairie, Montana contains some of America's richest wildlife habitat. Wilder...

Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of sa...

Reducere. These stories take readers where they cannot go, be it out into space, back in time, deep under the ocean, down to microscopic scales, or out onto ...

DescriptionFew events in the history of the world have aroused the passions of the decent, the fair, the peaceful, and the just as much as the brut...

Every budding young palaeontologist will want to join the hunt to discover the ferocious rulers of the prehistoric world with this exciting interac...

Guidebook to walking in the mountains of Ronda and Grazalema in Andalucia, southern Spain. The 32 graded routes range from 4 to 16km and explore th...