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 mammal.....
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.....
Vintage, 2020. Paperback. A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil--the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has.....
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.....
Bodleian Library, 2014. Hardcover. A charm of goldfinches. An ostentation of peacocks. A murder of crows. The English language brims with witty words for flocks of birds! Thought to have originated from hunting manuals, the practice of inventing collective nouns for birds has since evolved into a sport all its.....
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, 2017. Hardcover. 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.....
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.....
Rodale Books, 2013. Paperback. An incredibly versatile cooking ingredient containing an abundance of vitamins, minerals, and possibly cancer-fighting properties, mushrooms are among the most expensive and sought-after foods on the planet. Yet when it comes to fungi, culinary uses are only the tip of the iceberg. Throughout history fungus has.....
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.....
University of Texas Press, 2018. Hardcover. A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927-1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists. In this eloquent memoir, his.....
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.....
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.....
Beaverton, Oregon: Kahuna Books, (2014). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, xi, black paper over boards, 379pp, glossary, biblio, index, illus., appended with 2 poems written in 1931 by Leslie Lowell & C. O. Bunnell. Signed by the author on the title page. Oral histories of Depression Era alpinists on Oregon's Mount.....
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.....
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.....
