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Sierra Club 2010 Engagement Calendar

Written by Sierra Club

Format: Non-traditional book, 120 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $13.95

The most popular nature calendar ever published, this Sierra Club classic features “wire-o” binding, a week-by-week format, and 55 full-color images by some of America’s leading nature photographers. Packaged in a sturdy gift box/mailer, it’s perfect for holiday giving. Read more >

Dirty Bow Wow

Written by Jeffrey Katz

Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2009
Price: $14.95

A winsome collection of 50 full-color, all-breed canine portraits, each posed with a favorite play toy and accompanied by an affectionate anecdote.

Dirty Wow Wow was ranked #3 on Entertainment Weekly's "Ten Things We Love" List

The creators of the popular book DIRTY WOW WOW present this brand new album, featuring... Read more >

Extreme Ice Now
Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate: A Progress Report
Written by James Balog

Format: Hardcover, 120 pages
On Sale: March 24, 2009
Price: $24.00

Using both time-lapse and conventional photography as well as digital video, the Extreme Ice Survey is the most extensive visual study ever conducted to illustrate the catastrophic melting of glacial ice. The result is a dramatic and timely demonstration of global warming’s dangerous consequences from Alaska to Iceland to the Alps... Read more >

Phodography
How to get Great Pictures of your Dog
Written by Kim Levin

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $17.95

Sit. Stay. Say cheeeeeese! At last! Here’s the book that combines heartwarming stories from pet owners with practical ideas for taking good, better, best photographs of our four-legged friends. With full discussions of black-and-white versus color portraits, indoors versus outdoors, composition, and capturing movement, PhoDOGraphy offers techniques that amateurs can use... Read more >

Canyon Wilderness of the Southwest (Deluxe Edition)

Photographed by Jon Ortner
Introduction by Greer Chesher

Format: Hardcover, 248 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $195.00

Straddling the borders of Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico lies a magnificent wilderness known as the Colorado Plateau. Encompassing over 130,000 square miles, it is a high, eroded tableland of rock, canyon, and desert, and within its boundaries are the greatest concentration of National Parks, National Monuments, State Parks, Wilderness... Read more >

Sierra Club 2009 Engagement Calendar

Written by Sierra Club

Format: Non-traditional book, 120 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $13.95

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Sierra Club 2009 Wilderness Calendar

Written by Sierra Club

Format: Non-traditional book, 24 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $12.95

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Wild Birds of the American Wetlands

Photographed by Rosalie Winard
Foreword by Temple Grandin
Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams

Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $39.95

For over a decade, photographer Rosalie Winard has traveled the country by foot, canoe, airboat, and ATV, taking pictures of large birds of the wetlands from Florida to California, Louisiana to North Dakota. Her intimate portraits--tethered to an ethereal palette of white, gray, and black--are alight with Winard's passion for the... Read more >

Planet Ocean
Voyage to the Heart of the Marine Realm
Written by Laurent Ballesta and Pierre Descamp
Introduction by Jean-Michel Cousteau

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $40.00

Spanning the vast range of Earth's marine environments, from Greenland to the Polynesian Islands, Planet Ocean reveals hidden landscapes of unsurpassed beauty and awe. These fascinating undersea worlds occupy more than three quarters of the globe, and their natural richness is the source of all life—yet they are still poorly understood... Read more >

Wild at Heart
Man and Beast in Southern Africa
Text by Peter Godwin
Photographed by Chris Johns
Introduction by Nelson Mandela

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $65.00

Reprising the years-long, in-depth collaboration that produced much of National Geographic magazine's coverage of southern Africa, award-winning photographer Chris Johns and veteran foreign correspondent Peter Godwin present this important critical exploration of the region's myriad facets and its collisions between tradition and modernity, conservation and development, and people and animals.

In... Read more >

A Pony in the Picture
Vintage Portraits of Children and Ponies
Written by Victoria Randall

Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2007
Price: $14.95

Children everywhere have always loved ponies. Those lucky enough to grow up with horses invariably recall them as the keepers of their happiest childhood memories. But for most, a brief ride on a rented pony was the closest they would ever get to a horse of their own. A PONY IN... Read more >

Chesapeake
Exploring the Water Trail of Captain John Smith
Written by John Page Williams

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $12.95

This richly illustrated, informative, and inviting book intertwines two fascinating stories of discovery. The first, among the earliest classics of New World adventure, recounts Captain John Smith's exploration of Chesapeake Bay 400 years ago; the second revisits this stunning landscape as it is today—both to showcase its still-unspoiled splendors and to... Read more >

The Best Dog in the World
Vintage Portraits of Children and Their Dogs
Written by Donna Long

Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2007
Price: $14.95

The abiding trust, loyalty, and love between children and their dogs shine from the pages of this unique collection of antique and vintage photographs. Taken between 1875 and 1925, the charming mix of posed portraits and informal snapshots offers a poignant glimpse at childhood from a bygone era, while capturing the... Read more >

The Cannabible Collection
The Cannabible 1/the Cananbible 2/the Cannabible 3
Written by Jason King

Format: Boxed Set, 384 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2007
Price: $25.00

At last, the choicest herb from renowned pot connoisseur Jason King'¬?s popular CANNABIBLE books is now rolled together in one potently psychotropic package. Asian Fantasy, Diesel, Haze, HP13, Mothership, Purple Urkel-all the legendary strains are here (plus hundreds more), illustrated with stunning photos of dank nugs, lush crop, and mind-blowing microscopic... Read more >

The Betterphoto Guide to Digital Nature Photography

Written by Jim Miotke

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2007
Price: $24.95

From the tiniest ladybug to a towering glacier, from a horse running in a field to a leaf falling slowly from a tree, nature subjects offer some of the greatest challenges and the greatest rewards to photographers. In the BetterPhoto tradition, here’s a complete photo course in a book. Hands-on lessons... Read more >

Ngorongoro

Written by Reinhard Kunkel
Foreword by Benjamin William Mkapa

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $75.00

Two and a half million years ago, in what is today Northern Tanzania, the top blew off a gigantic volcanic mountain leaving behind one of the biggest craters in the world. Over the millennia the crater became a national park for wildlife. Herbivores followed vegetation to the Ngorongoro and predators followed... Read more >

Archipelago
Portraits of Life in the World's Most Remote Island Sanctuary
Written by David Liittschwager and Susan Middleton

Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $65.00

For this project, Middleton and Liittschwager gained unprecedented access to photograph on and around these protected islands that are otherwise completely off-limits to people. Home to nearly seventy percent of our nation's coral reefs, known as the "rainforests of the sea," the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands is a remarkable ecosystem that supports... Read more >

Last Place on Earth

Written by Mike Fay
Photographed by Michael Nichols

Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2005
Price: $150.00

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Through the Eyes of the Gods
An Aerial Vision of Africa
Written by Bobby Haas

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2005
Price: $50.00

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No One Loved Gorillas More

Written by Camilla De La Bedoyere
Photographed by Bob Campbell

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2005
Price: $30.00

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Mastering Nature Photography
Shooting and Selling in the Digital Age
Written by John Kieffer

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2004
Price: $24.95

A one-stop resource to shooting and selling nature photography, this guide provides a comprehensive real-life account of the field's working conditions along with the artistic, business, and technical skills needed to succeed in it. The information is presented in a practical field-guide format, for users of both traditional and digital equipment... Read more >

Flying Flowers

Photographed by Rick Sammon

Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2004
Price: $40.00

Flying Flowers is an exquisite collection of intimate and up-close images of living butterflies by renowned nature photographer Rick Sammon. A mediation and celebration of one of nature's most beautiful creatures, Flying Flowers takes the reader on a visual journey into the miracle of transformation. The butterfly, with its amazing metamorphosis... Read more >

Horses
Photographs
Written by Michael Eastman

Format: Hardcover, 168 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2003
Price: $49.95

More than a hundred extraordinary portraits—lush, rich, textured, sculptural—that reveal the spirit and nobility of the horse. Portraits of horses gazing at the camera, standing in the golden light, stamping away flies, galloping, bucking, rolling in the dust.

They are the work of Michael Eastman, a self-taught photographer influenced by Edward... Read more >

Remains of a Rainbow
Rare Plants and Animals of Hawaii
Written by Susan Middleton and David Liittschwager
Afterword by David S. Wilcove
Foreword by W.S. Merwin

Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2003
Price: $30.00

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The Quotable Equine

Written by Jim Dratfield

Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2003
Price: $20.00

From the Old West legend of the weathered cowboy and his trusty horse to the urbane athleticism of the hunter and jumper, from the majestic mountains of Montana to the volcanic terrain of Iceland, horses are an integral part of everyday life for many people around the world. In these beautiful... Read more >