Natural history
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Stone Desert
$21.95 Add to cart“Few writers can better express the strange vitality of desert landscapes than Childs.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Originally published over twenty-five years ago, Stone Desert brings the wonder and wildness o… [more below]
- Author: Childs, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1948814714
- Language: English
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The Lives of Beetles: A Natural History of Coleoptera
$35.00 Add to cartA richly illustrated introduction to the incredible world of beetles
With some 400,000 species, beetles are among the largest and most successful groups of organisms on earth, making up one-fifth of a- Series: Lives of the Natural World #3
- Author: Evans, Arthur V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0691236518
- Language: English
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Sloth
$22.00 Add to cartA richly illustrated cultural and natural history of the lethargic animal–from prehistoric ancestry to modern-day memes.
Sloths are perhaps the most recognized and loved Central and South American a- Series: Animal
- Author: Rauch, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1789147999
- Language: English
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30 Animals That Made Us Smarter: Stories of the Natural World That Inspired Human Ingenuity
$29.00 Read moreDid you know that mosquitoes’ mouthparts are helping to develop pain-free surgical needles? Who’d have thought that the humble mussel could inspire so many useful things, from plywood production to a … [more below]
- Author: Aryee, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1642832677
- Language: English
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Horizon
$21.00 Add to cartONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most fa
THE NEW YORK TIMES – NPR – THE GUARDIAN- Author: Lopez, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0375708472
- Language: English
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Picture Puzzler: A Natural History Hide-And-Seek
$19.99 Add to cartIn author Rachel Williams and illustrator Ksenia Bakhareva‘sPicture Puzzler: A Natural History Hide-and-Seek, step into the world’s wildest places to solve 72 picture riddles and search for camouflage
- Author: Bakhareva, Ksenia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 1419771353
- Language: English
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Plants That Cure: Plants as a Source for Medicines, from Pharmaceuticals to Herbal Remedies
$29.95 Add to cartA full-color illustrated guide to the natural history of plants with medicinal properties
Of the nearly 400,000 plants that have evolved on Earth, around seven percent of them have been used in tradit- Author: Dauncey, Elizabeth A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0691200181
- Language: English
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The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
$20.00 Read more**The instant New York Times bestseller**
“Hugely impressive, a major work.”–NPR
*An international bestseller*
A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new pe- Author: Winegard, Timothy C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1524743429
- 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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Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology
$17.95 Add to cartOver the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific discipline. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in prehistoric bones that no one could have previous
- Series: Rediscovered
- Author: Benton, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0500295530
- Language: English
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The Lives of Seaweeds: A Natural History of Our Planet’s Seaweeds and Other Algae
$35.00 Add to cartAn engaging and richly illustrated exploration of the natural history of seaweeds and other algae
As photosynthetic organisms, seaweeds and other algae transfer billions of tons of carbon globally fro- Series: Lives of the Natural World #4
- Author: Phillips, Julie A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0691228558
- Language: English
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How to Read a Rock: Our Planet’s Hidden Stories
$34.95 Add to cartRocks are time machines and the keepers of our history. This guide is a geological field trip through Earth’s incredible rock formations and the stories they hold
Like rings on a tree stump hold the h- Author: Zalasiewicz, Jan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1588347281
- Language: English
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Life Sculpted: Tales of the Animals, Plants, and Fungi That Drill, Break, and Scrape to Shape the Earth
$27.50 Read more“There is much to love between this book’s covers. . . . There are many eureka moments in Life Sculpted–and some truly beautiful ones.”–Eugenia Bone, Wall Street Journal
Meet the menagerie of lifef- Author: Martin, Anthony J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 02 2023
- ISBN10: 022681047X
- Language: English
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Planting Our World
$25.99 Read moreWith fun, fascinating vignettes, a renowned neurobiologist illuminates the interconnectedness of plant life and how we can learn from it to better plan our communities.
We animals account for a paltry- Author: Mancuso, Stefano
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1635422566
- Language: English
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Reef Coral Identification: Florida Caribbean Bahamas, Including Marine Plants
$39.95 Add to cartThe Reef Coral Identification Florida Caribbean Bahamas by Paul Humann and Ned DeLoach, originally published in 1993, is the most comprehensive field guide ever compiled for the visual identification … [more below]
- Series: Reef Set (New World) #03
- Author: Humann, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: November 01 2013
- ISBN10: 187834854X
- 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
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The Complete Insect: Anatomy, Physiology, Evolution, and Ecology
$38.00 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated exploration of the world’s most extraordinary animals
With an astounding 3.5 million species occupying virtually every habitat on Earth, insects are one of the most diverse g- Author: Grimaldi, David A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0691243107
- Language: English
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Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City
$45.00 Add to cartMore than a history, Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City is a book of science, natural history, and imagination, a call for us to stretch our thoughts back to 1609 when Henry Hudson first s… [more below]
- Author: Sanderson, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 1419707485
- Language: English
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In the Beginning
$25.99 Add to cartThis book is a sequel (or better: a prequel) to Immanuel Velikovsky’s main work, the best-selling Worlds in Collision, in which he gave a detailed reconstruction of two global natural catastrophes bas
- Author: Velikovsky, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1906833109
- Language: English
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Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves
$34.95 Add to cartThis timely and original book lays out the latest scientific understanding of mass extinction on our planet. Cutting-edge techniques across biology, chemistry, physics, and geology have transformed ou
- Author: Benton, Michael J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0500025460
- Language: English
