Science & Nature

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Almost Green - trade paperback
By James Glave - $22.00 - add to cart

In Almost Green, James Glave demonstrates that the journey along the path to a greener life is not always easy but is frequently hilarious and always enlightening. Glave—a writer and stay-at-home d...

 

Architecture by Birds and Insects: A Natural Art - hardcover
By Peggy Macnamara - $25.00 - add to cart

Influential American architect Philip Johnson once mused, “All architecture is shelter; all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in th...

 

Best-Ever Backyard Birding Tips: Hundreds of Easy Ways to Attract the Birds You Love to Watch - trade paperback
By Deborah L. Martin - $21.95 - add to cart

Grab a front row seat for the sights and sounds of feeding, nesting, and bathing birds right in your backyard using these tips shared by experienced birders. Whether the aim is to attract tiny humm...

 

Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It - hardcover
By Elizabeth Royte - $27.95 - add to cart

An incisive, intrepid, and habit-changing narrative investigation into the commercialization of our most basic human need: drinking water. Having already surpassed milk and beer, and second now on...

 

Chasing Kangaroos: A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Creature - trade paperback
By Tim Flannery - $15.50 - add to cart

In his most personal book yet, Tim Flannery, the internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers, draws on three decades of travel, research, and field work to craft a love letter to his nat...

 

Competition: The Birth of a New Science - trade paperback
By James Case - $17.50 - add to cart

When we interview for a job, play a pickup game of basketball or check our mutual funds, we're competing with other people. Writer and business consultant Case, who has a Ph.D. in mathematics, surv...

 

Dare To Survive: Death, Heartbreak and Triumph in the Wild - trade paperback
By Rick And Amy Rinehart - $20.00 - add to cart

Demonstrating that in the eternal battle between man and the elements, nature almost always prevails, Dare to Survive collects classic stories of both human suffering and survival in the American W...

 

Deer World - hardcover
By Dave Taylor - $39.95 - add to cart

A year in the life of North America's most beautiful and popular game species. This exciting book by renowned wildlife photographer Dave Taylor features 375 images of North American deer specie...

 

Eco-Friendly Families - trade paperback
By Helen Coronato - $17.50 - add to cart

Parents and kids making the world a better place. Eco-friendliness has grown into a way of life across the country. Eco-Friendly Families is the perfect guide to raising a family with agreena valu...

 

Firefly Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians - hardcover
By Chris Mattison - $49.95 - add to cart

Authoritative, comprehensive and beautiful, this landmark volume is strongly recommended for anyone with a keen interest in amphibians and reptiles.

 

Living with Wolves - trade paperback
By Jim Dutcher - $30.95 - add to cart

Man has unfairly demonized wolves for centuries. More than two million have been exterminated by humans due to misconceptions about the wolf being a destructive, ruthless, random predator. The Dutc...

 

Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life - hardcover
By Carl Zimmer - $30.00 - add to cart

•Within days of being born, we are infected with billions of E. coli. They will inhabit each and every one of us until we die. E. coli is notorious for making people gravely ill, but engineered str...

 

Shells - hardcover
By Philippe Bouchet And Gilles Mermet - $45.00 - add to cart

More than just an appreciation of shells, this book captures all the artistry of the undersea world. Prized since ancient times for their beauty, shells appear in Mexican temple art, on Greek and R...

 

Talking Hands - trade paperback
By Margalit Fox - $17.50 - add to cart

Talking Hands offers a fascinating introduction to the signed languages of the world -- languages as beautiful, vital and emphatically human as any other -- explaining why they are now furnishing c...

 

The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - trade paperback
By Ian Stewart - $19.50 - add to cart

Flatland is a unique, delightful satire that has charmed readers for over a century. Published in 1884 by the English clergyman and headmaster Edwin A. Abbott, it is the fanciful tale of A. Square,...

 

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