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Meditations on Nature, Meditations on Silence
Edited by Roderick MacIver
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2009
Price: $16.95
Meditations on Nature, Meditations on Silence is a collection of hundreds of quotes on the beauty and mystery of the natural world by writers and thinkers, including Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Edward Abbey, Rainer Maria Rilke, Henry David Thoreau, Louise Dickinson Rich, and Lewis Thomas.
Through their inspirational poetry and other writings... Read more >
Edited by Roderick MacIver
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2009
Price: $16.95
Meditations on Nature, Meditations on Silence is a collection of hundreds of quotes on the beauty and mystery of the natural world by writers and thinkers, including Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Edward Abbey, Rainer Maria Rilke, Henry David Thoreau, Louise Dickinson Rich, and Lewis Thomas.
Through their inspirational poetry and other writings... Read more >
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On Thin Ice
The Changing World of the Polar Bear
Written by Richard Ellis
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $28.95
Polar bears—fierce and majestic—have captivated us for centuries. Feared by explorers, revered by the Inuit, and beloved by zoo goers everywhere, polar bears are a symbol for the harsh beauty and muscular grace of the Arctic. Today, as global warming threatens the ice caps’ integrity, the polar bear has also come... Read more >
The Changing World of the Polar Bear
Written by Richard Ellis
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $28.95
Polar bears—fierce and majestic—have captivated us for centuries. Feared by explorers, revered by the Inuit, and beloved by zoo goers everywhere, polar bears are a symbol for the harsh beauty and muscular grace of the Arctic. Today, as global warming threatens the ice caps’ integrity, the polar bear has also come... Read more >
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On Thin Ice
Written by Richard Ellis
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $28.95
Polar bears—fierce and majestic—have captivated us for centuries. Feared by explorers, revered by the Inuit, and beloved by zoo goers everywhere, polar bears are a symbol for the harsh beauty and muscular grace of the Arctic. Today, as global warming threatens the ice caps’ integrity, the polar bear has also come... Read more >
Written by Richard Ellis
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $28.95
Polar bears—fierce and majestic—have captivated us for centuries. Feared by explorers, revered by the Inuit, and beloved by zoo goers everywhere, polar bears are a symbol for the harsh beauty and muscular grace of the Arctic. Today, as global warming threatens the ice caps’ integrity, the polar bear has also come... Read more >
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The Urban Tree Book
An Uncommon Field Guide for City and Town
Written by Arthur Plotnik
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $23.00
Open The Urban Tree Book and discover the joys of forest trekking--right in your city or town. This first-of-a-kind field guide introduces readers to the trees on their block, in neighborhood parks, and throughout the urban landscape. Unlike traditional tree guides with dizzying numbers of woodland species, The Urban Tree Book... Read more >
An Uncommon Field Guide for City and Town
Written by Arthur Plotnik
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $23.00
Open The Urban Tree Book and discover the joys of forest trekking--right in your city or town. This first-of-a-kind field guide introduces readers to the trees on their block, in neighborhood parks, and throughout the urban landscape. Unlike traditional tree guides with dizzying numbers of woodland species, The Urban Tree Book... Read more >
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The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
Practical Advice from The Union of Concerned Scientists
Written by Michael Brower and Warren Leon
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $15.00
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Practical Advice from The Union of Concerned Scientists
Written by Michael Brower and Warren Leon
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $15.00
Read more >
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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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Science as a Contact Sport
Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate
Written by Stephen H. Schneider
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $28.00
It’s been nearly four decades since scientists first realized that global warming posed a potential threat to our planet. Why, if we knew of the threats way back in the Carter Administration, can’t we act decisively to limit greenhouse gases, deforestation, and catastrophic warming trends? Why are we still addicted to... Read more >
Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate
Written by Stephen H. Schneider
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $28.00
It’s been nearly four decades since scientists first realized that global warming posed a potential threat to our planet. Why, if we knew of the threats way back in the Carter Administration, can’t we act decisively to limit greenhouse gases, deforestation, and catastrophic warming trends? Why are we still addicted to... 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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The Bedside Book of Beasts
A Wildlife Miscellany
Written by Graeme Gibson
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $20.00
This stunning companion to the internationally bestselling 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 Gibson gathers from all eras and cultures works... Read more >
A Wildlife Miscellany
Written by Graeme Gibson
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $20.00
This stunning companion to the internationally bestselling 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 Gibson gathers from all eras and cultures works... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Bird
A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From, and How They Live
Written by Colin Tudge
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $30.00
• How are birds so good at flying and navigating?
• Why are birds so like mammals– and yet so very different?
• Did birds descend from dinosaurs, and if so, does that mean birds are dinosaurs?
• How do they court each other and fend off rivals?
• What' s being communicated in... Read more >
A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From, and How They Live
Written by Colin Tudge
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $30.00
• How are birds so good at flying and navigating?
• Why are birds so like mammals– and yet so very different?
• Did birds descend from dinosaurs, and if so, does that mean birds are dinosaurs?
• How do they court each other and fend off rivals?
• What' s being communicated in... Read more >
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The Bird
A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From, and How They Live
Written by Colin Tudge
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $30.00
• How are birds so good at flying and navigating?
• Why are birds so like mammals– and yet so very different?
• Did birds descend from dinosaurs, and if so, does that mean birds are dinosaurs?
• How do they court each other and fend off rivals?
• What' s being communicated in... Read more >
A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From, and How They Live
Written by Colin Tudge
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $30.00
• How are birds so good at flying and navigating?
• Why are birds so like mammals– and yet so very different?
• Did birds descend from dinosaurs, and if so, does that mean birds are dinosaurs?
• How do they court each other and fend off rivals?
• What' s being communicated in... Read more >
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hardcover.
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British Pigs
Written by Val Porter
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $12.95
Not so long ago, there were local British pigs of every size, color and shape. Over the centuries different localities had developed their own tastes in what their pigs should look like - often colored pigs in the Midlands, black ones in the southern countries and white ones in the north... Read more >
Written by Val Porter
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $12.95
Not so long ago, there were local British pigs of every size, color and shape. Over the centuries different localities had developed their own tastes in what their pigs should look like - often colored pigs in the Midlands, black ones in the southern countries and white ones in the north... Read more >
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Flora Mirabilis
How Plants Have Shaped World Knowledge, Health, Wealth, and Beauty
Written by Catherine H. Howell
Foreword by Peter H. Raven
Introduction by Douglas Holland
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $35.00
Flora Mirabilis is a sumptuously designed showcase of superb illustrations paired with fascinating stories of botanical exploration and trade through the ages. A collaboration between National Geographic and the world-renowned Missouri Botanical Garden, this book will prove an evergreen source of delight, not just for gardeners and flower aficionados, but for... Read more >
How Plants Have Shaped World Knowledge, Health, Wealth, and Beauty
Written by Catherine H. Howell
Foreword by Peter H. Raven
Introduction by Douglas Holland
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $35.00
Flora Mirabilis is a sumptuously designed showcase of superb illustrations paired with fascinating stories of botanical exploration and trade through the ages. A collaboration between National Geographic and the world-renowned Missouri Botanical Garden, this book will prove an evergreen source of delight, not just for gardeners and flower aficionados, but for... Read more >
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Jacques Cousteau
The Sea King
Written by Brad Matsen
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $27.95
Jacques Cousteau opened up the undersea world as no one has done before or since. But not generally know is the fascinating and compelling individual behind the acclaimed television personality.
With the cooperation of many of Jacques Cousteau’s collaborators, friends, and family, Brad Matsen gives us the first full picture of this... Read more >
The Sea King
Written by Brad Matsen
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $27.95
Jacques Cousteau opened up the undersea world as no one has done before or since. But not generally know is the fascinating and compelling individual behind the acclaimed television personality.
With the cooperation of many of Jacques Cousteau’s collaborators, friends, and family, Brad Matsen gives us the first full picture of this... Read more >
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Jacques Cousteau
The Sea King
Written by Brad Matsen
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $27.95
Jacques Cousteau opened up the undersea world as no one has done before or since. But not generally know is the fascinating and compelling individual behind the acclaimed television personality.
With the cooperation of many of Jacques Cousteau’s collaborators, friends, and family, Brad Matsen gives us the first full picture of this... Read more >
The Sea King
Written by Brad Matsen
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $27.95
Jacques Cousteau opened up the undersea world as no one has done before or since. But not generally know is the fascinating and compelling individual behind the acclaimed television personality.
With the cooperation of many of Jacques Cousteau’s collaborators, friends, and family, Brad Matsen gives us the first full picture of this... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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National Geographic Illustrated Birds of North America, Folio Edition
Written by Jon L. Dunn and Jonathan Alderfer
Format: Hardcover, 504 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $50.00
Building on the superb foundation of the National Geographic field guide—in print continuously for more than a quarter-century—this generously-sized folio edition combines the award-winning features that have distinguished our portable guide with magnificently detailed oversize artwork in keeping with the Audubon tradition of bird illustration.
Rescaled and enlarged to 150 percent of... Read more >
Written by Jon L. Dunn and Jonathan Alderfer
Format: Hardcover, 504 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $50.00
Building on the superb foundation of the National Geographic field guide—in print continuously for more than a quarter-century—this generously-sized folio edition combines the award-winning features that have distinguished our portable guide with magnificently detailed oversize artwork in keeping with the Audubon tradition of bird illustration.
Rescaled and enlarged to 150 percent of... Read more >
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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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Finding Beauty in a Broken World
Written by Terry Tempest Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $16.00
"Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision," Terry Tempest Williams tells us. "Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together." Ranging from Ravenna, Italy, where she learns the ancient art of mosaic, to the American Southwest, where she observes prairie dogs on the brink of... Read more >
Written by Terry Tempest Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $16.00
"Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision," Terry Tempest Williams tells us. "Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together." Ranging from Ravenna, Italy, where she learns the ancient art of mosaic, to the American Southwest, where she observes prairie dogs on the brink of... 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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The World Is Blue
How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
Written by Sylvia A. Earle
Foreword by Bill McKibben
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $26.00
A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
In recent decades we’ve learned more... Read more >
How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
Written by Sylvia A. Earle
Foreword by Bill McKibben
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $26.00
A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
In recent decades we’ve learned more... Read more >
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eBook.
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The World Is Blue
Written by Sylvia A. Earle
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $26.00
A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
In recent decades we’ve learned more... Read more >
Written by Sylvia A. Earle
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $26.00
A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
In recent decades we’ve learned more... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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American Buffalo
In Search of a Lost Icon
Written by Steven Rinella
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.00
A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination.
In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds—there’s only a 2 percent chance of drawing the permit, and fewer... Read more >
In Search of a Lost Icon
Written by Steven Rinella
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.00
A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination.
In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds—there’s only a 2 percent chance of drawing the permit, and fewer... Read more >
