Topical/Ecology
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Octopus: The Ocean’s Intelligent Invertebrate
$29.00 Add to cartThe visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance and an uncanny intellect, this exceptional sea creature has inspired fear in famo… [more below]
- Author: Mather, Jennifer A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 21 2010
- ISBN10: 1604690674
- Language: English
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Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage
$18.95 Read moreCrossing the ocean on a slave ship, working the land under threat of violence, eluding racists in nighttime chases through moonless fields and woodlands, stumbling across a murder victim hanging from … [more below]
- Author: Glave, Dianne D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1556527667
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to the Natural World of the Twin Cities
$29.95 Add to cartAn illustrated guide to the natural habitats and rich diversity of wildlife in the greater Minneapolis and St. Paul metro area
Though the Twin Cities and environs have proven a fine habitat for one p- Author: Moriarty, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1517905494
- Language: English
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Chesapeake Bay Explorer’s Guide: Natural History, Plants, and Wildlife
$24.95 Add to cartKnown for its beauty and bounty, the Chesapeake Bay stretches nearly 200 miles from the mouth of the Susquehanna River to the ocean capes of the Atlantic, its tidal waters enriching the vibrant coasta
- Author: Malmquist, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493051334
- Language: English
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Land Art as Climate Action: Designing the 21st Century City Park
$45.00 Read moreHow clean energy technologies can create beautiful, post-carbon cities.
As the world races to address the climate crisis, new sustainable energy sources and other infrastructures are transforming our- Author: Ferry, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 3777440930
- Language: English
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Turning Feral: A Modern Journey of Hunting, Trapping, and Living Intentionally in the Wilderness
$15.99 Add to cartZachary Hanson lived on cruise control. He had a thriving career, designer clothes, and a jet-setting lifestyle. He practiced high-level jiu-jitsu, ran ultramarathons, and pursued academic interests,
- Author: Hanson, Zachary Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1544535171
- Language: English
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
$17.00 Read moreThirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.
Bill McKibben’s- Author: McKibben, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1250256852
- Language: English
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the- Author: Griswold, Eliza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1250215072
- Language: English
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Last Rhinos
$27.00 Add to cartAn inspiring story of conservation in the face of brutal war and bureaucratic quagmires, The Last Rhinos will move animal lovers everywhere.
Conservationist Lawrence Anthony’s South African wildlife r- Author: Anthony, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 20 2013
- ISBN10: 1250031699
- Language: English
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Black Diamonds: A Childhood Colored by Coal
$17.95 Add to cartA 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Award winner
“Young’s memoir of her hometown is as powerful a picture as Inness’ painting, revealing its harsh transformation a century later.”
–BOOKLIST
In 1855, … [more below]
- Author: Young, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1948814838
- Language: English
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Joseph W. Taylor BORN TO BIRD
$39.99 Add to cartJoseph W. Taylor BORN TO BIRD is a biography of the foremost North American amateur ornithologist and conservationist in the mid-twentieth century.
BORN TO BIRD examines Joe Taylor’s life path as a jo… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: March 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218144852
- Language: English
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Natural Design, Organic Architecture: Lessons for Building Green from an American Original
$65.00 Add to cartAn unsung prophet of today’s green movement in architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright was an innovator of eco-sensitive design generations ahead of his time. An architect and designer of far-reaching vision… [more below]
- Author: Weintraub, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0847837963
- Language: English
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For Love of Orcas: An Anthology
$20.00 Add to cartAfter the Southern Resident orca Tahlequah swam with her newly born dead calf for 17 days, scientists, poets, and writers responded to her grief and the plight of the endangered orcas in this moving a
- Author: Shattuck McBride, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: February 10 2019
- ISBN10: 057846277X
- Language: English
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Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland
$30.99 Add to cartA Kirkus Best Book of 2016
Many of the men and women doing today’s most consequential environmental work–restoring America’s grasslands, wildlife, soil, rivers, wetlands, and oceans–would not call th
- Author: Horn, Miriam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354873
- Language: English
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Mossback: Ecology, Emancipation, and Foraging for Hope in Painful Places
$18.95 Add to cartIn Mossback, David Pritchett traverses geography, history, and genealogy to explore landscapes and mythologies at the intersection of environmental, indigenous, and social justice. This collection of … [more below]
- Author: Pritchett, David Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 159534991X
- Language: English
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Wild Plant Culture: A Guide to Restoring Edible and Medicinal Native Plant Communities
$39.99 Read moreReconnect. Restore. Reciprocate. Repairing landscapes and reconnecting us to the wild plant communities around us.
Integrating restoration practices, foraging, herbalism, rewilding, and permaculture,
- Author: Rosenbaum, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0865719802
- Language: English
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George Masa’s Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina
$28.95 Add to cartWinner of the Thomas Wolfe Award
2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist
George Masa’s Wild Vision recounts the incredible, overlooked life of the photographer George Masa.
Self-taught- Series: Cold Mountain Fund
- Author: Martin, Brent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1938235932
- Language: English
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Lake Flato Houses: Respecting the Land
$85.00 Read morePresenting their new and recent projects, LakeFlato Architects demonstrate the inexhaustible potential of the modern house to enter into a dialogue with nature.
LakeFlato Architects, based in San Ant
- Author: Ojeda, Oscar Riera
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0847869997
- Language: English
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The Extreme Life of the Sea
$17.95 Add to cartA thrilling tour of the sea’s most extreme species, coauthored by one of the world’s leading marine scientists
The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments- Series: Princeton Science Library #122
- Author: Palumbi, Anthony R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0691229236
- Language: English
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The Kootenay Wolves: Five Years Following a Wild Wolf Pack
$45.00 Add to cartA spectacularly illustrated photography book full of behavioural observations and wolf tales that will engage those interested in the state of wild wolves in North America.
On August 24, 2013, professi
- Author: Marriott, John E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1771604948
- Language: English
