Ecology
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Sustainable Soul: Eco-Spiritual Reflections and Practices
$14.00 Add to cart“A valuable reminder that this environmental crisis–and our response to it–must exist in many dimensions. Here’s a deep take on how to make that happen.” –Bill McKibben, environmentalist, journalis
- Author: Hecking, Rebecca James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1558966056
- Language: English
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Habitat Threshold
$17.95 Read moreWith Habitat Threshold, Craig Santos Perez has crafted a timely collection of eco-poetry that explores his ancestry as a native Pacific Islander, the ecological plight of his homeland, and his fears f… [more below]
- Author: Perez, Craig Santos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1632430800
- Language: English
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One River
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America–Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis–an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history.In 1941, … [more below]
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 05 1997
- ISBN10: 0684834960
- Language: English
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The Land of Little Rain (Warbler Classics)
$12.95 Add to cartMary Austin’s love of the desert is everywhere evident in The Land of Little Rain, a collection of fourteen vignettes about the land and people of the region that today includes Death Valley National
- Author: Austin, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1735778966
- Language: English
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The Living City: Why Cities Don’t Need to Be Green to Be Great
$30.00 Add to cartA sociologist explores why “green cities” won’t fix everything–and urges us to celebrate urban life as it is
Everywhere you look, cities are getting greener. The general assumption is clear: if som- Author: Fitzgerald, Des
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1541674502
- Language: English
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Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
$20.00 Add to cartDavid Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous has become a classic of environmental literature. Now he returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature.
As- Author: Abram, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0375713697
- Language: English
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New England’s Roadside Ecology: Explore 30 of the Region’s Unique Natural Areas
$24.95 Read moreStep Out of Your Car and Right into Nature!
New England’s Roadside Ecology guides you through 30 spectacular natural sites, all within an easy walk from the road. The sites include the forests, wetlan- Author: Wessels, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 164326009X
- Language: English
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Racing to Extinction: Why Humanity Will Soon Vanish
$20.00 Add to cartGlobal warming, loss of biodiversity, and toxic chemicals are undermining the ability of the planet to support complex life. Routinely overlooked in causing our current predicament is that several mil… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Lyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989638109
- Language: English
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The Hidden Company That Trees Keep: Life from Treetops to Root Tips
$29.95 Read moreA spectacularly illustrated journey into the intimate communities that native trees share with animals, insects, fungi, and microbes
You can tell a lot about a tree from the company it keeps. James Na- Author: Nardi, James B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0691237972
- Language: English
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Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
$16.99 Add to cart“No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. In Slime, Ruth Kassinger gives this underappreciated group its due.” — Elizabeth Kolbert
Say “algae” and most people think of pond- Author: Kassinger, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 035829956X
- Language: English
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Assembling California
$20.00 Read moreAt various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these tr
- Series: Annals of the Former World #4
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0374523932
- Language: English
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In Defense of Plants: An Exploration Into the Wonder of Plants (Plant Guide, Horticulture, Trees)
$18.95 Add to cartThe Study of Plants in a Whole New Light
“Matt Candeias succeeds in evoking the wonder of plants with wit and wisdom.” ―James T. Costa, PhD, executive director, Highlands Biological Station and a
- Author: Candeias, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 164250453X
- Language: English
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Man Who Made Things Out of Trees: The Ash in Human Culture and History
$22.99 Add to cartOut of all the trees in the world, the ash is most closely bound up with who we are: the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. One frigid winter morni
- Author: Penn, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354121
- 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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A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A Year of Keeping Bees
$17.95 Add to cartA Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings begins as Helen Jukes is entering her thirties and struggling to settle into her new job and home. Then friends gift her a colony of honeybees–a gift that, accordin
- Author: Jukes, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501766538
- Language: English
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Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Stories of Generosity and Cooperation in the Natural World
$27.95 Add to cartWhat if Nature is more cooperative, and less competitive, than we think?
A follow-up to Kristin Ohlson’s previous book, The Soil Will Save Us (Rodale 2014), Sweet in Tooth and Claw extends the concept… [more below]
- Author: Ohlson, Kristin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1952338093
- Language: English
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Marine Biology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe oceans are our planet’s most distinctive and imposing natural habitat. They cover 71 percent of its surface; support a remarkably diverse and exquisitely adapted array of life forms, from microsco… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Mladenov, Philip V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 019884171X
- Language: English
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Earth Grief: The Journey Into and Through Ecological Loss
$24.95 Add to cart*2023 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Death/Dying Grief & Loss (Small Press)
News reports appear every day now on the ecological state of our planetary home and the news is not good. Ecological
- Author: Buhner, Stephen Harrod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0970869673
- 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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The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors
$19.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2018 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING NATURAL HISTORY WRITING
“Both a love song to trees, an exploration of their biology, and a wonderfully philosophical analysis of their role they… [more below]- Author: Haskell, David George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 143111302
- Language: English
