Oregon State University Press, March 2003. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn.....
Vintage, August 2016. Trade Paperback. A biography of Alexander von Humboldt (1769 - 1859), the insatiably curious scientist, explorer, naturalist and humanist. He foresaw human-caused climate change, railed against slavery, and mapped South American volcanos. He inspired thinkers who changed the world including Darwin, Thoreau, and John Muir. Now nearly.....
Ballantine Books, June 1990. Mass Market Paperback. "We can place this book on the shelf that holds the writings of Thoreau and John Muir." San Francisco Chronicle These astonishing portraits of the natural world explore the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled American landscape -- the mountains and the prairies, the.....
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2017. Trade Paperback. Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition--in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos--to reveal how smart animals really are, and how we've underestimated.....
W. W. Norton & Company, April 1999. Trade Paperback. In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the.....
Spiegel & Grau, July 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year * 2021 Summer Reading Pick by BUZZFEED * NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * KIRKUS * TIME MAGAZINE * GOOD MORNING AMERICA * PEOPLE MAGAZINE * THE.....
Penguin Books, November 2019. Trade Paperback. The most influential teenager on Earth A stirring collection of Greta Thunberg’s powerful public speeches, from street protests to the United Nations’ halls of power. This affordable paperback from the founder of Youth Strike for Climate will move and inspire. All proceeds for this.....
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1993. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The definitive work on the West's water crisis. --Newsweek The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue.....
Simon & Schuster, April 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A "remarkable" (Los Angeles Times), "seductive" (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don't Exist is a dark and.....
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau, 1919. First Edition Thus. Poster. Poster, 23 x 27.75 inches with 12 color plates depicting clouds over bodies of water, each signed 'Cronau' or 'R. Cronau'. First edition thus. Very good copy. Mild soiling to poster with 1 1/2 closed tear at top.....
Grove Press, July 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. From the New York Times bestselling author of H is for Hawk and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, comes a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world. Animals don't exist in order to.....
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, September 2018. Hardcover. A new copy. A New York Times bestseller! National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals--her friends--who have profoundly affected her in this stunning, poetic, and life-affirming memoir featuring illustrations by Rebecca Green. Understanding someone who belongs.....
Liveright, April 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Hailed as a "nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond's best-seller Collapse, and Simon Winchester's Atlantic" (Dallas Morning News), Jack E. Davis's The Gulf is "by turns informative, lyrical, inspiring and chilling for anyone who cares about the.....
Oxford University Press, May 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Few books have had a greater impact than A Sand County Almanac, which many credit with launching a revolution in land management. Written as a series of sketches based principally upon the flora and fauna in a rural part of.....
Milkweed Editions, September 2020. Hardcover. A new copy. A New York Times Best Seller Barnes & Noble 2020 Book of the Year A Kirkus Prize Finalist for Nonfiction A Southern Book Prize Finalist An NPR Best Book of 2020 An Esquire Best Book of 2020 A BookPage Best Book of.....
Storey Publishing, LLC, September 2003. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Experience the splendor of nature with fresh eyes! Featuring an inspiring portfolio from Clare Walker Leslie's nature journals, this guide offers easy-to-learn techniques for capturing the world around you in pictures and words. Encouraging you to.....
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New.....
Grove Press, January 2016. Trade Paperback. A new copy. One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year One of Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book).....
Mango, February 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. The Study of Plants in a Whole New Light "Matt Candeias succeeds in evoking the wonder of plants with wit and wisdom." ?James T. Costa, PhD, executive director, Highlands Biological Station and author of Darwin's Backyard #1 New Release in Nature & Ecology.....
Timber Press, October 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "A rare gift: an inspiring tale about trees, trauma and the very purpose of life." --Andrew Nikiforuk, author of Empire of the Beetle Diana Beresford-Kroeger--a world-recognized botanist and medical biochemist--has revolutionized our understanding of the natural world with her startling insights.....
Heyday, October 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A new edition of Muir's writings that places his environmentalist ideals alongside his damaging prejudices Essayist. Preservationist. Mountain man. Inventor. John Muir may be California's best-known icon. A literary naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club and Yosemite National Park, Muir left.....
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Printed by S. & J. Bentley, Wilson and Flet, n.d., ca. 1890. Trade Paperback. 39 pages. Natural history of findings at the seashore with B/W illustrations and engraving opposite title page and on final leaf. Unknown printing of scarce monograph. Prior owner's signatures on front.....
Picador, January 2015. Trade Paperback. Kolbert, a New Yorker writer, is a modern-day Rachel Carson, raising a hue and cry over coming environmental catastrophes. This book makes that case that the earth is at the beginning of great extinction period (like when an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs). This one.....
Vintage, March 2020. Trade Paperback. "Hope Jahren is the voice that science has been waiting for." --Nature "A superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove the only life-bearing planet within ten light years, written in a brilliantly sardonic and conversational style." --E. O. Wilson "Hope.....
Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2013. Trade Paperback. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). "Enough absorbing science to concede that plants continue to inspire and amaze us." --The Wall Street Journal How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can it feel an insect's tiny.....