Water: A Natural History, Paperback - Alice Outwater

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

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 ...

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. 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 ...

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...

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

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. Here it is The first comprehensive guide to trails of the South Fork. For more than ten years the Group for the South Fork has been working with th...

Reducere. Winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir Jeffery Smith was living in Missoula, Montana, working as a psychiatric case manag...

Publisher: Somerset Archaeological and Natural History SocietyAuthor(s): Sue BakerIllustration(s): black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 25...

Reducere. The bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses now explores the allure of adultery, the appeal of aphrodisiacs, and the cult of the kiss...

An original and revelatory exploration of the hidden world of slime - the substance upon which we and our world depend.Publisher: Granta BooksAutho...

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Description"Through a narrative that roams in unexpected directions through surprising details and history, then periodically grounds itself by loo...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Ian TattersallIllustration(s): 73 b-w illus.Number of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x ...

DescriptionA celebration of beer--its science, its history, and its impact on human culture What can beer teach us about biology, history, and the ...

Reducere. An illustrated look at corals and the reefs they build around the world, and the causes and dire consequences of their rapid disappearance Corals a...

Reducere. A microscopic and intense view of the sometimes invisible and ignored parts of the world we inhabit. Peering into cities and our place within them,...

Reducere. Charles Darwin called it "a little world within itself." Sailors referred to it as "Las Encantadas"-- the enchanted islands. Lying in the eastern P...

Learn everything you ever wanted to know about poo in this exciting new edition of a bestselling book. Hippos navigate by it, sloths keep in touch ...

Reducere. A comprehensive, richly illustrated introduction to the fascinating natural history of the horse, from prehistory to the presentThere are countless...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robbin C. MoranA Natural History of Ferns is an entertaining and informative look at why ferns and their relatives are uniq...

DescriptionIn 1697 Martin Martin, a Gaelic-speaking scholar from Skye, traveled to St Kilda to study the island's flora and fauna and to learn abou...

Reducere. A lavishly illustrated introduction to the world's dragonflies and damselfliesDragonflies and damselflies are often called birdwatchers' insects. L...

An imaginative natural history survey of the wide world of spirits, from whiskey and gin to grappa and moonshinePublisher: Yale University PressAut...

Reducere. The most recent and comprehensive study of the veriety of fish species that inhabit Idaho's waters. An exhaustive natural survey of all species kno...

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Reducere. DescriptionAn Indie Next Selection for July 2019 An Indies Introduce Selection for Summer/Fall 2019 From New York Times opinion writer Margaret Ren...

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Poppy DavidNumber of pages: 64Collection: Folklore Field GuidesPublication date: 2021Dimensions...

DescriptionThroughout British history rivers have been of profound economic, social and cultural importance--yet as we see with increasing frequenc...

Reducere. A stunningly illustrated natural history of spidersSpiders are among the most versatile creatures on the planet, inhabiting six of the seven contin...

Reducere. From "one of the master naturalists of our time" (American Scientist), a fascinating exploration of what seashells reveal about biology, evolution,...

DescriptionWinner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology, American Psychological AssociationWinner of a PROSE Award, Associa...

Reducere. DescriptionAuthor and naturalist David Rockwell explains the evolution of the park's geology from the erosion of Australian mountains more than a b...

DescriptionWhat are you? Obviously, you are a person with human ancestors that can be plotted on a family tree, but you have other identities as we...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen a titanic explosion ripped through the Number Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in 1986, spewing flames and chunks of bur...

With superb illustrations and illuminating text, we are led to the wild side of Mull. Every facet of the Scottish island's natural history is consi...

Reducere. Part natural history, part poetry, Mountains of the Heart is full of hidden gems and less traveled parts of the Appalachian Mountains Stretching al...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael H. JacksonTwenty thousand copies of the first edition of Galapagos were sold. An attractive and comprehensive guide...

DescriptionA Wall Street Journal Favorite Read of the YearA Guardian Top Science Book of the YearTool-making or culture, language or religious beli...

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The story of ancient cities from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Ages: a tale of war and politics, pestilence and famine, ...

Publisher: SteinerBooks, IncAuthor(s): Marjorie SpockIllustration(s): colour illustrationsTranslator: Peter StebbingNumber of pages: 48Publication ...