Life Sciences - Ecology
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Creek Critters
$11.95 Read moreDo you like scavenger hunts? How do you tell if creek water is clean and healthy? Join Lucas and his sister as they act like scientists looking for certain kinds of stream bugs (aquatic macroinvertebr
- Author: Keats Curtis, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 21, 2020
- ISBN10: 1643517538
- Language: English
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The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities
$24.95 Add to cartOne of Smithsonian Magazine‘s Favorite Books of 2022
With wildlife thriving in cities, we have the opportunity to create vibrant urban ecosystems that serve both people and animals. The Accidental Eco- Author: Alagona, Peter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0520397886
- Language: English
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The Prairie That Nature Built
$8.99 Read moreLearn about the plants and critters that depend upon one of the most endangered ecological systems in the world: the prairie! A beautiful picture book perfect for any young nature enthusiast, classroo
- Author: Lorbiecki, Marybeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1584694920
- Language: English
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Why Sharks Matter: A Deep Dive with the World’s Most Misunderstood Predator
$26.95 Read moreGet submerged in the amazing world of sharks! Your expert host, award-winning marine biologist Dr. David Shiffman, will show you how–and why–we should protect these mysterious, misunderstood guardia
- Author: Shiffman, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1421443643
- Language: English
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Last Chance to See
$18.00 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author Douglas Adams and zoologist Mark Carwardine take off around the world in search of exotic, endangered creatures.
Join them as they encounter the animal kingdom in its- Author: Adams, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13 1992
- ISBN10: 0345371984
- Language: English
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Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life
$18.00 Add to cartTo be an environmentalist early in the twenty-first century is always to be defending, arguing, acknowledging the hurdles we face in our efforts to protect wild places and fight climate change. But le… [more below]
- Author: Monbiot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 26 2017
- ISBN10: 022632527X
- Language: English
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After the Blast: The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens
$19.95 Read moreA CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE
On May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted. Fifty-seven people were killed and hundreds of square miles of wh
- Author: Wagner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0295750715
- Language: English
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
$40.00 Add to cartA manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism
“Reduce, reuse, recycle” urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimiz- Author: McDonough, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 22 2002
- ISBN10: 0865475873
- Language: English
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Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Eastern California: Second Edition
$24.00 Add to cartEastern California–a geologically dramatic region with the ever-present risk of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, flash floods, and sand storms–boasts spectacular and easily viewed rocks and landform… [more below]
- Author: Glazner, Allen F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: February 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0878427074
- Language: English
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The Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling and the Metamorphosis of Science
$34.99 Add to cartA new way of understanding our place in the web of life from a scholar praised for his “graceful prose” (Publishers Weekly).
The disconnection between humans and nature is perhaps one of the most funda
- Author: Weber, Andreas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0865717990
- Language: English
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The New Neotropical Companion
$39.95 Read moreThe acclaimed guide to the ecology and natural history of the American tropics–now fully updated and expanded
The New Neotropical Companion is the completely revised and expanded edition of a book th- Author: Kricher, John C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0691115257
- Language: English
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Armadillos to Ziziphus: A Naturalist in the Texas Hill Country
$29.95 Read moreA collection of essays on the ecology, biodiversity, and restoration of the Texas Hill Country.
For most of five decades, evolutionary biologist David Hillis has studied the biodiversity of the Texas- Author: Hillis, David M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1477326731
- Language: English
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Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
$18.99 Add to cartFor centuries, agricultural practices have eroded the soil that farming depends on, stripping it of the organic matter vital to its productivity. Now conventional agriculture is threatening disaster f
- Author: Montgomery, David R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356094
- Language: English
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Explore the Beach
$9.99 Add to cartCompanion to the bestselling National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book series, this delightful take-along nature guide helps young children find, identify, and learn about the fascinating animals… [more below]
- Series: Little Kids First Nature Guide
- Author: Brydon, Alli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1426373686
- Language: English
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A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
$18.99 Add to cart“An arresting vision of this relentless natural world” (New York Times) by a leading ecologist, who urges us to heed nature’s iron laws
Our species has amassed unprecedented knowledge of nature, which
- Author: Dunn, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1541603125
- Language: English
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Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Declineof America’s Man-Made Landscape
$20.00 Add to cartThe Geography of Nowhere traces America’s evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones a
- Author: Kunstler, James Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 26, 1994
- ISBN10: 0671888250
- Language: English
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Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
$30.00 Add to cartNAMED A TOP-TEN BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
A “fascinating” exploration (Elizabeth Kolbert) of how ecosystems are sculpted and sustained by animals eating, pooping, and dying–and how th- Author: Roman, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0316372927
- Language: English
