Storm Kings
The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers
Written by Lee Sandlin

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $26.95

With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations

From the acclaimed author of Wicked River comes Storm Kings, a riveting tale of supercell tornadoes and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists whose discoveries created the science of modern meteorology.
 
While tornadoes have occasionally been spotted elsewhere, only the central plains of North America have the perfect...

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The One-Straw Revolution
An Introduction to Natural Farming
Written by Masanobu Fukuoka
Preface by Wendell Berry
Afterword by Masanobu Fukuoka
Translated by Larry Korn
Introduction by Frances Moore Lappe

Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $15.95

Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book,” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man... Read more >

Why I Wake Early
New Poems
Written by Mary Oliver

Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2005
Price: $15.00

The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world... Read more >

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Seashells

Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Format: Hardcover, 896 pages
On Sale: August 12, 1981
Price: $19.95

The essential book for beach-combers and divers, this guide explores more than 705 seashells, living mollusks, abalone, periwinkles, conchs, limpets, oysters, clams, mussels, and cockles found on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts of North America and the West Indies. The photographs are arranged by shape and color, making identification quick... Read more >

The Wave
In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
Written by Susan Casey

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 31, 2011
Price: $15.95

A New York Times Notable Book
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

In her astonishing new book Susan Casey captures colossal, ship-swallowing waves, and the surfers and scientists who seek them out.
 
For legendary surfer Laird Hamilton, hundred foot waves represent the ultimate challenge. As Susan Casey travels...

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Desert Solitaire

Written by Edward Abbey

Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1985
Price: $7.99

"A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEW
Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he... Read more >

Walden
Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Introduction by Bill McKibben

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2004
Price: $10.95

First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau's groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a love of nature. With Bill McKibben providing a newly revised Introduction and helpful annotations that place Thoreau firmly in his role as cultural and... Read more >

Time Bandit
Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs
Written by Andy Hillstrand, Johnathan Hillstrand and Malcolm MacPherson

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $16.00

Every Alaskan king crab season, brothers Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand risk their lives and seek their fortunes upon the treacherous waters of the Bering Sea. Sons of a hard-bitten, highly successful fisherman, and born with brine in their blood, the Hillstrand boys couldn’t imagine a life without a swaying deck underfoot... Read more >

Inside Animal Minds
The New Science of Animal Intelligence
Written by Virgina Morell, Mary Roach and Peter Miller

Format: eBook, 62 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $3.99

The Animal Intelligence Bundle:
 
“Minds of Their Own” by Virginia Morell (March 2008)
“Almost Human” by Mary Roach (April 2008)
“The Genius of Swarms” by Peter Miller (July 2007)
 
In “Minds of Their Own,” Virginia Morell provides an overview of the science of animal intelligence. She introduces you to... Read more >

Swan
Poems and Prose Poems
Written by Mary Oliver

Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $14.00

“Joy is not made to be a crumb,” writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be “made out of the dust of stars,” we are of the world she captures here so...

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