Books in category General Nature

Full House

Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : Random House Inc
ISBN : 9780609801406
Few would question the truism that humankind is the crowning achievement of evolution; that the defining thrust of life's history yields progress over time from the primitive and simple to the more advanced and complex; that the disappearance of .400 hitting in baseball is a fact to be bemoaned; or that identifying an existing trend can be helpful in making important life decisions. Few, that is,

The Nature Of Paleolithic Art

Author: R. Dale Guthrie
Publisher : Univ of Chicago Pr
ISBN : 9780226311265
The cave paintings and other preserved remnants of Paleolithic peoples shed light on a world little known to us, one so deeply embedded in time that information about it seems unrecoverable. While art historians have wrestled with these images and objects, very few scientists have weighed in on Paleolithic art as artifacts of a complex, living society. R. Dale Guthrie is one of the first to do so,

Creation

Author: Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : W W Norton & Co Inc
ISBN : 9780393062175
A scientists asks, How can we save the planet? The answer he comes up with is: religion. Or, rather, science and religion, together. Edward O. Wilson, author of books such as THE NATURE OF LIFE, makes an urgent plea for scientists and religionists to join forces to protect nature in the interest of all humanity. With so much at stake, the two cultures, to use C.P. Snow`s term, may be Earth`s l

Snowstruck

Author: Jill Fredston
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN : 9780156032544
Jill Fredston stalks avalanches. She predicts where and when they will strike, deliberately triggers them with explosives, teaches potential victims how to stay alive, and leads rescue efforts when tragedy strikes. Reaching deep into this trove of personal experience, Fredston captures the overwhelming force of avalanches from a panorama of perspectives: a skier making what may prove his final dec

Chumash Ethnobotany

Author: Jan Timbrook, Chris Chapman
Publisher : Heyday Books
ISBN : 9781597140485
A catalog of plants with information culled from published sources about Chumash knowledge and use. The book is Number 1 in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History's Monographs in Anthropology in Publication Series. A technical and academic publication marketed to academics.

Nature Spirits and Elemental Beings

Author: Marko Pogacnik
Publisher : Findhorn Pr
ISBN : 9781899171668
Based on practical experiences in communicating with natural spririts, the author gives insight into related topics, such as the flow of energies within the landscape and the long-suppressed Goddess culture.

Creation

Author: E.O. Wilson
Publisher : W W Norton & Co Inc
ISBN : 9780393330489
With his usual eloquence, patience, and humor, the Pulitzer Prize-winning entomologist pleads for the salvation of biodiversity, arguing that both secular humanists like himself and believers in God acknowledge the glory of nature and can work together to save it. Illustrated.

Demonic Males

Author: Dale Peterson, Richard Wrangham
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN : 9780395877432
Whatever their virtues, men are more violent than women. Why do men kill, rape, and wage war, and what can be done about it? Drawing on the latest discoveries about human evolution and about our closest living relatives, the great apes, Demonic Males offers some startling new answers to these questions.

Chesapeake Bay

Author:
Publisher :
ISBN : 9780870333514
This book has become the definitive field guide to the Chesapeake. Flora and fauna descriptions are arranged according to the Bay's nine major habitats -- from freshwater wetlands to saltwater marshes. Accordingly, readers can easily refer to the habitat in which they might be canoeing, for instance, and find the species that are common there. As a further aid in this process, the most important f

The Conjurer's Bird

Author: Martin Davies
Publisher : Random House Inc
ISBN : 9781400097340
THE CONJURER`S BIRD is a beautiful story in the spirit of POSSESSION that is as exciting as THE CLUB DUMAS, inspired by one of the great puzzles of natural history: that of the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta. Seen only once, in 1774, by Captain Cook`s second expedition to the South Seas, a single specimen was captured, preserved, and brought back to England. The bird was given to famed naturalist Josep

The Last Forest

Author: Mark London, Brian Kelly
Publisher : Random House Inc
ISBN : 9780679643050
The Last Forest is a masterpiece of contemporary reporting. A complex, vibrant portrait of the Amazonian region on the edge of crisis, this is also a seductive journey and a searing account of political, environmental, and social tumult.

Building Minds

Author: James L. Gould, Carol Grant Gould
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN : 9780465027828
From two of the world''s most distinguished experts in animal behavior, a radical, creative, and accessible new approach to understanding animal minds through the structures they build

Tree

Author: David Suzuki, Robert Bateman, Wayne Grady
Publisher : Greystone Books
ISBN : 9781553651260
Only God can make a tree, wrote Joyce Kilmer in one of the most celebrated of poems. In their book, authors Suzuki and Grady extend that celebration. The richly detailed text and Bateman's original art pay tribute to this ubiquitous organism that is too often taken for granted.

Saltwater Fishes

Author: Kavanagh
Publisher : Waterford Pr
ISBN : 9781583551165
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Five Equations That Changed the World

Author: Michael Guillen
Publisher : Hyperion Books
ISBN : 9780786881871
As a regular contributor to daytime's most popular morning news show and an instructor at Harvard University, Dr. Michael Guillen unravels the equations that have led to the inventions and events that characterize the modern world. The stories behind Five Equations That Changed the World are not only chronicles of science, but also gripping dramas of jealousy, fame, war, and discovery.

Sacred Geometry

Author: Stephen Skinner
Publisher : Sterling Pub Co Inc
ISBN : 9781402741296
The Da Vinci Code has awakened the public to the powerful and very ancient idea that religious truths and mathematical principles are intimately intertwined. Sacred Geometry offers an accessible way of understanding how that connection is revealed in nature and the arts. Over the centuries, temple builders have relied on magic numbers to shape sacred spaces, astronomers have used geometry to calcu

When Elephants Weep

Author: J. Moussaieff Masson, Susan McCarthy
Publisher : Dell Books
ISBN : 9780385314282
This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as a masterpiece by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as marvelous by Jane Goodall. The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson appeared on Dateline NBC, Good Morning America, and was profiled in People for his ground-breaking and fascinating study. Not since Darwin's The Expre

Cacti of the Desert Southwest (Paperback)

Author: Meg Quinn
Publisher : Rio Nuevo Pub
ISBN : 9781933855370
Deserts of the American Southwest are home to an incredible diversity of drought-tolerant plants, including many found nowhere else on earth. And no other group says desert quite like cacti. Their prickly nature notwithstanding, cacti are very fragile, as are the arid deserts they inhabit. In Cacti of the Desert Southwest, botanist and educator Meg Quinn describes eighty significant cacti of the S

Water Follies

Author: Robert Jerome Glennon
Publisher : Island Pr
ISBN : 9781559634007
... a book as rich in detail as it is devastating in its argument. -SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Water Follies deserves a place alongside the late Marc Reisner's classic Cadillac Desert. -ENVIRONMENT a lively account of hydrology -NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS if you want to scare yourself silly, read Water Follies, by Robert Jerome Glennon. In it you'll learn how America is irrigating itself to death-just like

Red Sky at Morning

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Publisher :
ISBN : 9780300107760
In this powerful book, a renowned environmental leader warns that despite all the international negotiations of the past two decades, efforts to protect Earths environment are not succeeding. He explains why this is so and presents eight specific steps that governments and citizens can take to achieve a sustainable future. For this new paperback edition the author has added an Afterword that brin