Browsing the "Nature" category: 201 books
A charming and comprehensive guide to birds of North America. ...more »
ISBN: 1589291786 / PocketPCpress / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 758K
What is barramundi farming? What is needed to establish a barramundi farm? Barramundi farming is a new growth industry that has attracted considerable attention. This book describes current aquaculture techniques and presents the physical requirement ...more »
ISBN: 0734501668 / Department of Primary Industries, Queensland / Pub Date: Dec 2001 / File Size: 127K
A history of zoos and a fascinating and articulate plea to re-invent zoos by a noted zoo director and designer. ...more »
ISBN: 1589292332 / DPC, Inc / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 882K
With remarkable insight, impeccable research, and captivating writing, controversial psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, a new father himself, introduces us to the world's best dads. He takes us to such places as Antarctica, as he explores how Emperor peng ...more »
ISBN: 0743417801 / Pocket Books / Pub Date: Oct 1999 / File Size: 285K
Gary Kowalski, author of The Souls of Animals, explores the ancient stories of the Creation, Noah's Ark, Abraham's near sacrifice of Isaac, the torment of Job, and Jonah and the whale to explore their relevance today--especially in regard t ...more »
ISBN: 1930051832 / Lantern Books / Pub Date: May 2001 / File Size: 623K
This authoritative, up to the minute book explores the history of one of the most powerful and disruptive forces in nature. It includes: (1)An account of the first man on record to predict a hurricane --Christopher Columbus -- and others throughout h ...more »
ISBN: 0375713980 / Knopf / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 1290K
Over 500 flowers are here described, classified by color for easy indentification, in this comphrehensive and charming book. A degree in botany isn't required here; only a love of and interest in flowers. ...more »
ISBN: 1589291719 / PocketPCpress / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 815K
Beginning with the memorable story of an extraordinary pink diamond
discovered in Brazil in 1998, Matthew Hart illuminates the rich and
obsessive world of diamonds in a fascinating, original narrative. Hart's
story sparkles with the science ...more »
ISBN: 0802799264 / Walker & Co / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 4224K
Tales from a medical masseur--who is the only massage therapist in the world to have worked on beluga whales, dolphins, a walrus, and many other animals. ...more »
ISBN: 0312271751 / St Martins / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 251K
From one of the world's most influential scientists (and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author) comes his most timely and important book yet: an impassioned call for quick and decisive action to save Earth's biological heritage, and a plan to ach ...more »
ISBN: 0375414568 / Knopf / Pub Date: Jan 2002 / File Size: 282K
Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been founded on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it, the settlement of North America was based on it. To those it has sustained, it is a treasure m ...more »
ISBN: 0802799523 / Walker & Co / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 2274K
The Science Editor of the New York Times issues a call to arms for beach lovers and environmentalists in a beautifully written book that covers the ecology of the coast, as well as the hubris-filled history of Americans' efforts to hold back the sea. ...more »
ISBN: 0231500114 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Apr 2001 / File Size: 2105K
The celebrated autobiography of the former director of The Monterey Bay Aquarium ...more »
ISBN: 1589292200 / DPC, Inc / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 828K
The world of the dinosaurs revealed, from the world's leading scientists and visionaries ...more »
ISBN: 1588243389 / iBooks / Pub Date: Jun 2000 / File Size: 2144K
Water quality and water quantity have been intensely debated issues in America for many years. In Water Quality, speakers and panelists at a Heritage Foundation symposium discuss the solutions that states and local communities, the agricultural indus ...more »
ISBN: 0891955127 / The Heritage Foundation / Pub Date: Jan 1999 / File Size: 462K
"The Wyoming Centennial Wagon Train ended in Cody in a dismal, torn-down drive-in movie theater. Before setting up the corral, we were forced to clear away shards of glass, bent nails, broken lumber. My prairie skirt and petticoats hung ragged a ...more »
ISBN: 1588360334 / Random House / Pub Date: Feb 2002 / File Size: 513K
World-famous science and science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke and photographer Mike Wilson spent two adventurous years exploring the Great Barrier Reef, the mightiest coral formation in the world. Presented here are "the adventures and mishaps, s ...more »
ISBN: 1591760070 / iBooks / Pub Date: Mar 2002 / File Size: 429K
McKay Jenkins writes, "No matter how we have defined our relationship to mountains, avalanches have always fatally foiled our best efforts to move through, inhabit, or climb them.....Avalanches have always found their way down the slope, and have alw ...more »
ISBN: 0375505954 / Random House / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 390K
The original edition of this seminal book, published in 1991, introduced the concept of using markets and property rights to protect and improve environmental quality. Since publication, the ideas in this book have been adopted not only by conserv ...more »
ISBN: 0312299737 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 976K
"The Spider has a bad nameà" begins this classic, fascinating study of our many leggedàfriends? ...more »
ISBN: 1589290895 / PocketPCpress / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 365K
Master storyteller Peter Benchley combines high adventure with practical information in Shark Trouble, a book that is at once a thriller and a valuable guide to being safe in, on, under, and around the sea. The bestselling author of Jaws ...more »
ISBN: 1588362078 / Random House Group / Pub Date: Jun 2002 / File Size: 1188K
A fascinating loving look at insect natural history and biology by a passionate reclusive amatuer with a compulsively readable style. The author wrote in the late 1800's and was only "discovered" late in his life. His works remain justly popular. ...more »
ISBN: 1589292197 / PocketPCpress / Pub Date: May 2001 / File Size: 273K
Biological weapons do not need to be anthrax or plague--pathogens lethal to humans. Destructive germs aimed at food crops are also part of the biological arsenal. These undercontrolled weapons can be deployed quietly and inconspicuously yet could dev ...more »
ISBN: 1591761603 / ibooks, Inc. / Pub Date: Jan 1900 / File Size: 100K
At the turn of the twentieth century Gertrude Jeykll led the gardening world into a new era. Her principles of garden design shaped the way we garden today and continue to provide a solid grounding for a new millennium of gardening. Wood and Garde ...more »
ISBN: 0594086167 / Barnes & Noble World Digital Library / Pub Date: Feb 2002 / File Size: 2621K
EARTH REPORT 2000, sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute--"the best environmental think tank in the country," according to the WALL STREET JOURNAL--sets a new standard for examining humankind's stewardship of this planet. In remarkab ...more »
ISBN: 0071342605 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Nov 1999 / File Size: 2884K
