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The Bedside Book of Beasts
A Wildlife Miscellany
Written by Graeme Gibson
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $35.00
In a wonderfully diverse selection of writings and gorgeous illustrations, this stunning companion to The Bedside Book of Birds explores the relationship between predators and their prey.
The intricate, complex connection between the hunter and the hunted has defined animal life on earth throughout time. In The Bedside Book of Beasts, Graeme... Read more >
A Wildlife Miscellany
Written by Graeme Gibson
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $35.00
In a wonderfully diverse selection of writings and gorgeous illustrations, this stunning companion to The Bedside Book of Birds explores the relationship between predators and their prey.
The intricate, complex connection between the hunter and the hunted has defined animal life on earth throughout time. In The Bedside Book of Beasts, Graeme... Read more >
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The Red Hourglass
Lives of the Predators
Written by Gordon Grice
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2009
Price: $19.00
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Lives of the Predators
Written by Gordon Grice
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2009
Price: $19.00
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When Elephants Weep
The Emotional Lives of Animals
Written by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Contribution by Susan McCarthy
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2009
Price: $17.00
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The Emotional Lives of Animals
Written by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Contribution by Susan McCarthy
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2009
Price: $17.00
Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Animal Magnetism
My Life with Creatures Great and Small
Written by Rita Mae Brown
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $25.00
Rita Mae Brown’s earliest memory is of the soothing purr of Mickey, her family’s long-haired tiger cat, who curled up and claimed a spot in her crib. From there, a steady parade of cats, dogs, horses, and all manner of two- and four-legged critters have walked, galloped, and flown into and... Read more >
My Life with Creatures Great and Small
Written by Rita Mae Brown
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $25.00
Rita Mae Brown’s earliest memory is of the soothing purr of Mickey, her family’s long-haired tiger cat, who curled up and claimed a spot in her crib. From there, a steady parade of cats, dogs, horses, and all manner of two- and four-legged critters have walked, galloped, and flown into and... Read more >
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Animal Magnetism
My Life with Creatures Great and Small
Written by Rita Mae Brown
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $25.00
Rita Mae Brown’s earliest memory is of the soothing purr of Mickey, her family’s long-haired tiger cat, who curled up and claimed a spot in her crib. From there, a steady parade of cats, dogs, horses, and all manner of two- and four-legged critters have walked, galloped, and flown into and... Read more >
My Life with Creatures Great and Small
Written by Rita Mae Brown
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $25.00
Rita Mae Brown’s earliest memory is of the soothing purr of Mickey, her family’s long-haired tiger cat, who curled up and claimed a spot in her crib. From there, a steady parade of cats, dogs, horses, and all manner of two- and four-legged critters have walked, galloped, and flown into and... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Dark Banquet
Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
Written by Bill Schutt
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
"A witty, scientifically accurate, and often intensely creepy exploration of sanguivorous creatures."
—San Francisco Chronicle
For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes us on a fascinating voyage into the world of some... Read more >
Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
Written by Bill Schutt
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
"A witty, scientifically accurate, and often intensely creepy exploration of sanguivorous creatures."
—San Francisco Chronicle
For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes us on a fascinating voyage into the world of some... Read more >
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Ghosts of Tsavo
Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa
Written by Phillip Caputo
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $16.00
1898, Tsavo River Kenya, the British Empire has employed 140 workers to build a railroad bridge. The bridge's construction comes to a violent halt when two maneless lions devour all 140 workers in a savage feeding frenzy that would make headlines›and history—all over the world. Caputo's Ghosts of Tsavo is a... Read more >
Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa
Written by Phillip Caputo
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $16.00
1898, Tsavo River Kenya, the British Empire has employed 140 workers to build a railroad bridge. The bridge's construction comes to a violent halt when two maneless lions devour all 140 workers in a savage feeding frenzy that would make headlines›and history—all over the world. Caputo's Ghosts of Tsavo is a... Read more >
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Eating Stone
Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
Written by Ellen Meloy
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 29, 2009
Price: $14.00
An inspired reflection on the bond between wild creatures and the human imagination, told as a chronicle of four seasons with a band of rare desert bighorn sheep.
Among the steep cliffs of Utah’s canyonlands a band of rare desert bighorn sheep simply vanished. Although the word “extinct” was bandied about, their... Read more >
Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
Written by Ellen Meloy
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 29, 2009
Price: $14.00
An inspired reflection on the bond between wild creatures and the human imagination, told as a chronicle of four seasons with a band of rare desert bighorn sheep.
Among the steep cliffs of Utah’s canyonlands a band of rare desert bighorn sheep simply vanished. Although the word “extinct” was bandied about, their... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes
And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients
Edited by Lucy H. Spelman, DVM and Ted Y. Mashima, DVM
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $15.00
A moray eel diagnosed with anorexia…A herd of bison whose only hope is a crusading female doctor from Paris…A vet desperately trying to save an orphaned whale by unraveling the mystery of her mother’s death…This fascinating book offers a rare glimpse into the world of wild animals and the doctors who... Read more >
And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients
Edited by Lucy H. Spelman, DVM and Ted Y. Mashima, DVM
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $15.00
A moray eel diagnosed with anorexia…A herd of bison whose only hope is a crusading female doctor from Paris…A vet desperately trying to save an orphaned whale by unraveling the mystery of her mother’s death…This fascinating book offers a rare glimpse into the world of wild animals and the doctors who... Read more >
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In the Womb: Animals
Written by Michael Sims
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $26.00
In the Womb: Animals follows the developmental path of three different mammals utilizing some of the most amazing technology available. This incredible journey was first chronicled for the critically acclaimed National Geographic Channel special of the same name, where 3-D and 4-D ultrasound was used on animals for the first time... Read more >
Written by Michael Sims
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $26.00
In the Womb: Animals follows the developmental path of three different mammals utilizing some of the most amazing technology available. This incredible journey was first chronicled for the critically acclaimed National Geographic Channel special of the same name, where 3-D and 4-D ultrasound was used on animals for the first time... Read more >
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A Lion Called Christian
The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion
Written by Anthony Bourke and John Rendall
Foreword by George Adamson
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $21.95
In 2008 an extraordinary two-minute film clip appeared on YouTube and immediately became an international phenomenon. It captures the moving reunion of two young men and their pet lion Christian, after they had left him in Africa with Born Free’s George Adamson to introduce him into his rightful home in the... Read more >
The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion
Written by Anthony Bourke and John Rendall
Foreword by George Adamson
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $21.95
In 2008 an extraordinary two-minute film clip appeared on YouTube and immediately became an international phenomenon. It captures the moving reunion of two young men and their pet lion Christian, after they had left him in Africa with Born Free’s George Adamson to introduce him into his rightful home in the... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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A Lion Called Christian
The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion
Written by Anthony Bourke and John Rendall
Foreword by George Adamson
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $21.95
The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion
Written by Anthony Bourke and John Rendall
Foreword by George Adamson
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $21.95
In 2008 an extraordinary two-minute film clip appeared on YouTube and immediately became an international phenomenon. It captures the moving reunion of two young men and their pet lion Christian, after they had left him in Africa with Born Free’s George Adamson to introduce him into his rightful home in the...
Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Dark Banquet
Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
Written by Bill Schutt
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $25.95
For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes readers on an entertaining voyage into the world of some of nature’s strangest creatures—the sanguivores. Using a sharp eye and mordant wit, Schutt makes... Read more >
Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
Written by Bill Schutt
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $25.95
For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes readers on an entertaining voyage into the world of some of nature’s strangest creatures—the sanguivores. Using a sharp eye and mordant wit, Schutt makes... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Dark Banquet
Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
Written by Bill Schutt
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $15.00
For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes readers on an entertaining voyage into the world of some of nature’s strangest creatures—the sanguivores. Using a sharp eye and mordant wit, Schutt makes... Read more >
Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
Written by Bill Schutt
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $15.00
For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes readers on an entertaining voyage into the world of some of nature’s strangest creatures—the sanguivores. Using a sharp eye and mordant wit, Schutt makes... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Finding Beauty in a Broken World
Written by Terry Tempest Williams
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $16.00
In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between the natural world and humankind, Williams has broadened her concerns over the past several... Read more >
Written by Terry Tempest Williams
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $16.00
In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between the natural world and humankind, Williams has broadened her concerns over the past several... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Finding Beauty in a Broken World
Written by Terry Tempest Williams
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $26.00
In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between the natural world and humankind, Williams has broadened her concerns over the past several... Read more >
Written by Terry Tempest Williams
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $26.00
In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between the natural world and humankind, Williams has broadened her concerns over the past several... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes
And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients
Edited by Lucy H. Spelman, DVM and Ted Y. Mashima, DVM
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $15.00
A moray eel diagnosed with anorexia…A herd of bison whose only hope is a crusading female doctor from Paris…A vet desperately trying to save an orphaned whale by unraveling the mystery of her mother’s death…This fascinating book offers a rare glimpse into the world of exotic animals and the doctors who... Read more >
And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients
Edited by Lucy H. Spelman, DVM and Ted Y. Mashima, DVM
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $15.00
A moray eel diagnosed with anorexia…A herd of bison whose only hope is a crusading female doctor from Paris…A vet desperately trying to save an orphaned whale by unraveling the mystery of her mother’s death…This fascinating book offers a rare glimpse into the world of exotic animals and the doctors who... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes
And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients
Edited by Lucy H. Spelman, DVM and Ted Y. Mashima, DVM
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $22.00
A moray eel diagnosed with anorexia…A herd of bison whose only hope is a crusading female doctor from Paris…A vet desperately trying to save an orphaned whale by unraveling the mystery of her mother’s death…This fascinating book offers a rare glimpse into the world of exotic animals and the doctors who... Read more >
And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients
Edited by Lucy H. Spelman, DVM and Ted Y. Mashima, DVM
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $22.00
A moray eel diagnosed with anorexia…A herd of bison whose only hope is a crusading female doctor from Paris…A vet desperately trying to save an orphaned whale by unraveling the mystery of her mother’s death…This fascinating book offers a rare glimpse into the world of exotic animals and the doctors who... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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A Buffalo in the House
The Extraordinary Story of Charlie and His Family
Written by R. D. Rosen
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $14.00
A buffalo in the house? Yes, a buffalo. More than a hundred years after her pioneer ancestors hand-raised two baby buffalo to help rescue the species from the brink of extinction, Veryl Goodnight and her husband, Roger Brooks, commit themselves to saving just one. When they welcome an orphaned baby buffalo... Read more >
The Extraordinary Story of Charlie and His Family
Written by R. D. Rosen
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $14.00
A buffalo in the house? Yes, a buffalo. More than a hundred years after her pioneer ancestors hand-raised two baby buffalo to help rescue the species from the brink of extinction, Veryl Goodnight and her husband, Roger Brooks, commit themselves to saving just one. When they welcome an orphaned baby buffalo... Read more >
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Old Poultry Breeds
Written by Fred Hams
Format: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $11.95
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Written by Fred Hams
Format: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $11.95
Read more >
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Working Oxen
Written by Martin Watts
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $11.95
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Written by Martin Watts
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $11.95
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Buffalo for the Broken Heart
Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch
Written by Dan O'Brien
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.00
For twenty years Dan O’Brien struggled to make ends meet on his cattle ranch in South Dakota. But when a neighbor invited him to lend a hand at the annual buffalo roundup, O’Brien was inspired to convert his own ranch, the Broken Heart, to buffalo. Starting with thirteen calves, “short-necked, golden... Read more >
Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch
Written by Dan O'Brien
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.00
For twenty years Dan O’Brien struggled to make ends meet on his cattle ranch in South Dakota. But when a neighbor invited him to lend a hand at the annual buffalo roundup, O’Brien was inspired to convert his own ranch, the Broken Heart, to buffalo. Starting with thirteen calves, “short-necked, golden... Read more >
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Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind
A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife
Written by Warner Shedd
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Did you know that "flying" squirrels are incapable of true flight? Were you aware that opossums don't "play dead," as in the common folk saying "playing possum"? In this fascinating and gorgeously illustrated new book, wildlife expert and enthusiast Warner Shedd, former executive for the National Wildlife Federation, uncovers the scientific... Read more >
A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife
Written by Warner Shedd
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Did you know that "flying" squirrels are incapable of true flight? Were you aware that opossums don't "play dead," as in the common folk saying "playing possum"? In this fascinating and gorgeously illustrated new book, wildlife expert and enthusiast Warner Shedd, former executive for the National Wildlife Federation, uncovers the scientific... Read more >
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The Pig Who Sang to the Moon
The Emotional World of Farm Animals
Written by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s groundbreaking bestseller, When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin’s time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he focuses exclusively on the contained world of the farm animal, revealing startling, irrefutable evidence that barnyard creatures have feelings too, even... Read more >
The Emotional World of Farm Animals
Written by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s groundbreaking bestseller, When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin’s time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he focuses exclusively on the contained world of the farm animal, revealing startling, irrefutable evidence that barnyard creatures have feelings too, even... Read more >
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You Belong in a Zoo!
Tales from a Lifetime Spent with Cobras, Crocs, and Other Extraordinary Creature s
Written by Peter Brazaitis
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
From catching alligators in the reservoirs of New York and capturing giant crocodiles in Venezuela and giant frogs in West Africa to finding mummified human heads in a Bronx apartment, eels on a bus, cobras on the loose, and crocodiles that make change—a memoir of one man’s career working with exotic... Read more >
Tales from a Lifetime Spent with Cobras, Crocs, and Other Extraordinary Creature s
Written by Peter Brazaitis
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
From catching alligators in the reservoirs of New York and capturing giant crocodiles in Venezuela and giant frogs in West Africa to finding mummified human heads in a Bronx apartment, eels on a bus, cobras on the loose, and crocodiles that make change—a memoir of one man’s career working with exotic... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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