Penguin Press, 2020. Hardcover. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think. "There is the.....
Penguin Books, 2017. Paperback. An award-winning science writer tours the globe to reveal what makes birds capable of such extraordinary feats of mental prowess Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. In The Genius.....
Mariner Books, 2019. Paperback. "A vertiginous, white-knuckled adventure through some of the most spectacular forests in the world." --Washington Post Meet the man who climbs trees for a living. In this adventure memoir, Aldred carries us with him across the globe and up to the top of these towering forest.....
Ten Speed Press, 1986. Paperback. Simply the best and most complete mushroom field guide and reference book, MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED includes descriptions and keys to more than 2,000 species of mushrooms, with more than 950 photographs. Mushroom authority David Arora provides a beginner's checklist of the 70 most distinctive and common.....
Chronicle Books, 2020. Hardcover. National Bestseller--New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publisher's Weekly, Washington Post Learn how to buy, style, and present seasonal flower arrangements for every occasion. With sections on tools, flower care, and design techniques, Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers presents all the secrets to arranging garden-fresh.....
Chronicle Books, 2017. Hardcover. The Cut Flower Garden Erin Benzakein is a florist-farmer, leader in the locaflor farm-to-centerpiece movement, and owner of internationally renowned Floret Flower Farm in Washington's lush Skagit Valley. A stunning flower book: This beautiful gardening book and guide to growing, harvesting, and arranging gorgeous blooms year-round.....
ABRAMS, 2020. Hardcover. The latest in the popular Life & Love Of series by Lewis Blackwell. Showcasing the work of the world's leading nature photographers, The Life & Love of the Forest is a breathtaking visual tour of our most remarkable woodlands. Author Lewis Blackwell takes us on an extraordinary journey.....
Lyons Press, 2020. Paperback. All ages. Entertaining, colorful, and deceptively full of facts, This Phenomenal Life tells the story of the wondrous ways that humans are always completely at one with our surrounding world. From the vast galaxies above to the miniature microbes within, humans are organically connected to the.....
Broadway Books, 2018. Paperback. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The enthralling true story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her. Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were.....
Timber Press (OR), 2017. Paperback. A must-have growing guide for gardeners in the Pacific Northwest A gardener's plant choices and garden style are inextricably linked to the place they call home. In order to grow a flourishing garden, every gardener must know the specifics of their region's climate, soil, and.....
Boreal Books, 2019. Paperback. *Selected as a Top 10 Must-Read Book About Antarctica by the International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators Poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield's fourth collection, Toward Antarctica, documents and queries her work as a guide on ships in Antarctica, offering an incisive insider's vision that challenges traditional tropes of.....
William Morrow & Company, 2019. Paperback. THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY, hails Scientific American: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. A masterpiece of science writing. --Washington Post A New York Times Bestseller - Goodreads Choice Awards Winner - A BEST BOOK.....
Anchor Books, 2021. Paperback. Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body--with a new afterword for the Vintage paperback.Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us.....
Chillicothe, Illinois: The American Botanist Booksellers, 1988. Third Edition. Hardcover. 5-3/8 x 7-7/8", brown cloth, xv, 667pp, 1p publisher's ad, index, illus. with nearly 100 delicate woodcuts by Isaac Sprague. Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varieties; With Directions for Propagation, Culture, and Use; Illustrated. Reprinted with.....
Atelier Editions, 2020. Paperback. Foraging for mushrooms with John Cage: writing, art, photography and ephemera from an idiosyncratic chapter in the composer's life Imagined as an extended mushroom-foraging expedition, John Cage: A Mycological Foray gathers together Cage's mushroom-themed compositions, photographs, illustrations and ephemera. Indeterminacy Stories and other writings by Cage.....
Princeton University Press, 2017. Paperback. Now the subject of a feature film that the New York Times calls spellbinding How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right.....
Scientific American, 2017. Paperback. Plants can hear--and taste things, too! Thoroughly updated from root to leaf, this revised edition of the groundbreaking What a Plant Knows includes new revelations for lovers of all that is vegetal and verdant. The renowned biologist Daniel Chamovitz builds on the original edition to present.....
Torrey House Press, 2019. Paperback. "It's impossible to imagine another writer in America who is better than Craig Childs at elegizing the fearsome and confounding appeal of our most austere landscapes." --KEVIN FEDARKO, author of The Emerald Mile From the author of The Secret Knowledge of Water and Atlas of.....
Oregon State University Press, 2019. Paperback. This compelling anthology gathers together personal impressions of the Malheur-Steens country of southeastern Oregon, known for its birding opportunities, its natural beauty and remoteness, and, more recently, for the 2016 armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Contributors of poetry and narrative nonfiction.....
Oregon State University Press, 2019. Paperback. The Other Oregon: People, Environment, and History East of the Cascades is a multidisciplinary work that ranges widely through a diverse and often under-appreciated land, drawing on the fields of environmental history, cultural and physical geography, and natural resource management to tell a comprehensive.....
London: John Murray, 1878. 6th Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, xxi, 458pp, original embossed green cloth, brown endpapers, additions & corrections, historical sketch, introduction, glossary of scientific terms, index, folding chart. 6th Edition with additions and corrections to 1872 (Twentieth Thousand). The book went through six editions during Darwin's lifetime, each extensively.....
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2018. Paperback. Winner - Kirkus Prize for NonfictionFinalist - National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction)A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, NPR, Library Journal, and gCaptainBooklist Editors' Choice (History) Longlisted for the.....
Knopf Publishing Group, 2020. Hardcover. A captivating new book from Wade Davis--award-winning, best-selling author and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence for more than a decade--that brings vividly to life the story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and future Travelers often become enchanted with the first country.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. Paperback. Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition--in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos--to reveal how smart animals really are, and how we've underestimated their abilities.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2020. Paperback. Mama's Last Hug is a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals, beginning with Mama, a chimpanzee matriarch who formed a deep bond with biologist Jan van Hooff. Her story and others like it--from dogs "adopting" the injuries of their companions.....
