Wild Scientists

Reducere. Coral reefs around the world are in peril and approximately half of the world's coral cover has been lost since 1970 due to impacts from climate ch...

The study of the chimpanzee, one of the human species' closest relatives, has led scientists to exciting discoveries about evolution, behavior, and...

Reducere. DescriptionWild Migrations: Atlas of Wyoming's Ungulates tells the story of the long-distance migrations that elk, mule deer, moose, pronghorn, big...

Reducere. Fossils Inside Out brings fossils, paleoecology, and the fossil industry to life in a beautiful and easy-to-understand format suitable for young ad...

Scores of wild species and ecosystems around the world face a variety of human-caused threats, from habitat destruction and fragmentation to rapid ...

Reducere. Burmese pythons are invading Florida. These enormous snakes are native to Southeast Asia, so when one showed up dead along the side of a Florida hi...

Reducere. Why cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes Throughout most of human his...

Reducere. In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they...

Reducere. The first edition of Ultimate Weird But True was an instant hit in Fall 2011. Now the second edition has even more zany fun Ultimate Weird But True...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sandra MarkleIn 2007 only thirty Amur leopards remained in the wild. Scientists knew they needed to do more to help these b...

Reducere. A new approach to writing culture has arrived: multispecies ethnography. Plants, animals, fungi, and microbes appear alongside humans in this singu...

Reducere. For thousands of years, tracking animals meant following footprints. Now satellites, drones, camera traps, cellphone networks, and accelerometers r...

Wilder Lives uses ideas of 'wildness' and 'rewilding' to rethink human relationships with our environments in challenging but affirming ways. If th...

Wildlife conservation is at a critical juncture. While large, charismatic mammals may be the first animals that come to mind--the mere 3, 000 wild ...

Reducere. Crassostrea virginica, the eastern oyster. These humble bivalves are the living bones of the Chesapeake and the ecological and historical lifeblood...

Britain's shallow seas are a mysterious domain. They remain largely unseen and unexplored except by marine scientists and divers, who have been doc...

DescriptionA dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American ...

Explore the wonders of wild Mongolia through the eyes of a distinguished field biologist Mongolia became a satellite of the Soviet Union in the mid...

How the lives of wild honey bees offer vital lessons for saving the world's managed bee coloniesHumans have kept honey bees in hives for millennia,...

Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), the largest protected area in Central America, is characterized by rampant violence, social and ethnic in...

Reducere. Selected as a 2020 Michigan Notable Book by the Library of MichiganIn 1906 George Shiras III (1859-1942) published a series of remarkable nighttime...

DescriptionCelebrated National Geographic photojournalist Joel Sartore continues his Photo Ark quest, photographing species around the world that a...

America the Beautiful showcases the stunning spaces closest to our nation's heart--from the woods in the Great Appalachian Valley that Davy Crocket...

Reducere. The fabled Great Bear Rainforest stretches up the rugged Pacific coast from northern Vancouver Island to southern Alaska. A longtime resident of th...

Reducere. What if you could upgrade your brain in 15 minutes a day? Let Elizabeth Ricker, an MIT and Harvard-trained brain researcher turned Silicon Valley t...

Reducere. The Wild West provided the setting for some famous battles, but the gunfight at O.K. Corral doesn't hold a candle to the Bone Wars. Following the C...

Narrated by Bella, a wise Newfoundland, Protecting Piping Plovers describes her efforts to understand conflicts between wildlife, people, and pets....

Reducere. How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies p...

Reducere. Paul Shapiro gives you a front-row seat for the wild story of the race to create and commercialize cleaner, safer, sustainable meat--real meat--wit...

In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold, Brenda Peterson tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. ...

Reducere. First explored by naturalist William Bartram in the 1760s, the St. Johns River stretches 310 miles along Florida's east coast, making it the longes...

DescriptionIn Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women, both historical and current, whose influential writing helps deepen our connection t...

Reducere. The elusive Canada lynx bears kittens in Minnesota's northeastern woods. In the far southeastern part of the state, the succulent Leedy's roseroot ...

For readers of Jane Goodall and Lawrence Anthony, this up-close, captivating look at bears traces our complex relationship to the animal throughout...

Reducere. DescriptionTHIS BOOK CONTAINS SHOCKING PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE THAT WE HAVE ALREADY TRAVELED TO MARS AND SET UP SECRET BASES THERE THANKS TO TECHNOLO...

How can you maximize success--and limit failure? Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Cohen brilliantly investigates the mystery and science of streaks...

***NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book 2015*** A POIGNANT STORY OF LOSS AND SURVIVAL In the midst of a sugar cane field, within sight of skyscraper...

In this inspiring manifesto, an internationally renowned ecologist makes a clear case for why protecting nature is our best health insurance, and w...

Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our abi...

Reducere. An award-winning author's quest to find and understand a creature as rare and enigmatic as any on Earth In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team...

Reducere. DescriptionNaturalist Tim Gallagher journeys deep into the savagely beautiful Sierra Madre, home to rich wildlife and other natural treasures and a...

A manual for opening the doors of perception and directly engaging the intelligence of the Natural World - Provides exercises to directly perceive ...

Reducere. Description"From head to toe, and in between, scientists get dressed for the work they do and the places they do it " In Scientists Get Dressed by ...

DescriptionA visual guide to beautiful botanic watercolour painting from life for artists. Botanical artists hold a unique status: they can record ...

Reducere. Sibert Medalist, National Book Award Honoree, and New York Times best-selling author Sy Montgomery turns her formidable talents to the story of Cal...

Reducere. Never has the term mad scientist been more fascinatingly explored than in internationally recognized popular science author Clifford Pickover's ric...

Reducere. This powerful nonfiction picture book explores wildlife crossings around the world and how they are helping save thousands of animals every day. Ar...

Reducere. More than ten thousand known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee according to the Tennessee Cave Survey, a nonprofit organization that catalog...

Reducere. Wilda retired from the Temporal Agents for an excellent reason. Retired Temporal Agent Wilda Firestone just wanted to run her Toronto shop: garb Ti...

Reducere. 60th Anniversary EditionA strange sea monster suddenly appears on the lake ...a fortune is unearthed from an old cannon ... a valuable dinosaur egg...

Reducere. In this work Terrie offers an assessment of the roles that the Adirondacks have played in American history. He brings to life the scientists and sc...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this addition to the critically acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, Dorothy Patent follows the scientists trying to put a stop t...

Reducere. The California condor has been described as a bird "with one wing in the grave."Flying on wings nearly ten feet wide from tip to tip, these birds t...

Reducere. DescriptionJoe and Rob visit the robotic wild west in this second adventure in the hilarious Bots chapter book series. Many years ago, scientists o...

Reducere. An incredible and moving account of one man's journey into the world of lions, why they are fast disappearing and what can be done to save them fro...

The first four adventures of the hilarious Bots chapter book series are now available all together in one awesome bind-up! Many years ago, scientis...

Reducere. Edgar Award-winning series: On a trip to Glacier Bay, Alaska, the Skeleton Detective pursues a cold-hearted killer who buries evidence in an avalan...

Packed with real-life tales of adventure, breathtaking illustrations, and practical tools, this handbook is an inspiring guide for the next generat...

Packed with real-life tales of adventure, breathtaking illustrations, and practical tips, this handbook is an inspiring guide for the next generati...

When reclusive reporter Miren Lassiter inherits her scientist uncle's riverside cottage, her carefully guarded world is upended. She discovers the ...

This book explores the lives of the world's largest living mammals. Drawing on the latest scientific research, Whales describes these incredible an...

Reducere. A fascinating look at the way we age today and the extent to which we can shape the processIn What Makes Olga Run? Bruce Grierson explores what the...

Reducere. DescriptionHow are humans different from other animals? This is a question scientists have long tried to answer. As it turns out, some of the very ...

Reducere. "Excellent keys, superbly drawn illustrations. To the student or layman I recommend this book most highly." -- Farida A. Wiley, American Museum of ...

Reducere. The second book in the bestselling, critically-acclaimed, optioned-for-film Mystery & Thriller series."Stirring and imaginative . . . the reader [...

Reducere. The Plains Indians found medicinal value in more than two hundred species of native prairie plants. Unfortunately, modern American culture has not ...

Reducere. In a world where science faces challenges from creationists and climate change deniers, and where social media is awash with wild conspiracy theori...

Reducere. A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature ...

Reducere. Out of sight, out of mind ... Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track casse...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert TriversRobert Trivers is a living legend in biology and the social sciences, a man the Harvard psychologist Steven P...