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Insects of the Texas Lost Pines

Scott B. Fleenor, Stephen Welton Taber

About the Author Stephen Welton Taber has written two other books previously published by Texas A&M University Press, Fir...

Wild Mammals of Montana (Special publication No.12)

Kerry R. Foresman

Wild Mammals of Montana (Special publication No.12)...

Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape, and the Problem of Belonging

David Mcdermott Hughes

Review “Hughes ingeniously and persuasively weaves together ethnography, environmentalism, and aesthetics. His eloqu...

The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants

Samuel Thayer

The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants...

Loving Nature: Towards an Ecology of Emotion

Kay Milton

Review 'This is a deeply intelligent and rewarding book. It is lucidly written, blessedly free of academic preening, and ...

Loving Nature: Towards an Ecology of Emotion

Kay Milton

Review 'This is a deeply intelligent and rewarding book. It is lucidly written, blessedly free of academic preening, and ...

Edible Mushrooms

Clyde Martin Christensen

From the Back Cover Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessib...

Simon & Schuster's Guide to Insects (Fireside Book)

Richard L. Jacques, Ross H. Arnett

Animal Minds

Donald R. Griffin

Amazon.com Review In 1945, Donald Griffin was one of the codiscoverers of echolocation by bats. In the 1980s he became a...

La luna fredda

Jeffery Deaver

La luna fredda...

Il ronzio delle api (I blu)

Jürgen Tautz

From the Back Cover Attraverso foto spettacolari e un testo di facile comprensione Il ronzio delle api racconta la storia d...

Ravished by Beauty: The Surprising Legacy of Reformed Spirituality

Belden C. Lane

Review "Lane scores on every shot . . . In addition to rich quotes from others, Lane offers his own memorable thoughts, h...

The Invention of the Countryside: Hunting, Walking, and Ecology in English Literature, 1671-1831

Donna Landry

Review "...an important contribution to the study of literature and the environment...an engaging book..."--Deborah Kenne...

Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life: Numerical Approaches to the Evaluation of Fossils and Ancient Ecosystems (Topics in Geobiology 36)

James D. Schiffbauer, Marc Laflamme, Stephen Q. Dornbos

From the Back Cover This volume provides a detailed description of a wide range of numerical, statistical or modeling tec...

Chemische Evolution und der Ursprung des Lebens

Horst Rauchfuss

Review Max-Planck Forschung 2/2006: Das Wissenschaftsmagazin der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft: "Welche chemischen Wege das Leb...

Mastering Your PhD: Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond

Bart D. Noordam, Patricia A. Gosling

Review From the reviews: "It focuses on the non-scientific aspects of academic life and the PhD process, discussing issues...

Icons of England

Bill Bryson, Eric Clapton, Hrh Prince Charles, Michael Palin, Bryan Ferry, Jo Brand, Jonathan Dimbleby, Kate Adie, Kevin Spacey

About the Author Formed in 1926, CPRE (the Campaign to Protect Rural England) is one of the longest-established campaign...

The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining

Inc. Foxfire Fund

From the Publisher In the late 1960's, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine Foxfire in an effort to ...

Weak Links: The Universal Key to the Stability of Networks and Complex Systems, 2nd Edition (The Frontiers Collection)

Peter Csermely

Review Opinions "This is an excellent book, which shows the far-reaching consequences of the great variety of weak links....

Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How War, Porn and Fast Food Shaped Technology As We Know It

Peter Nowak

Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How War, Porn and Fast Food Shaped Technology As We Know It...

Favorite Roses Coloring Book

Ilil Arbel

Favorite Roses Coloring Book...

In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA

James Schwartz

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Understanding the nature of genetic inheritance was essential for evolution to be ...

British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter

Review Fa-ti Fan's study of the encounter between the British culture of the naturalist and the Chinese culture of the Qi...

The Illustrated History of Natural Disasters

Vladimir Cermak, Jan Kozák

Review From the reviews: “The Illustrated History of Natural Disasters, by geophysicists Jan Kozak and Vladimir Cerm...

Intertidal Fishes: Life in Two Worlds

Karen L.M Martin, Michael A. Chotkowski, Michael H. Horn

Review "...the authors of Intertidal Fishes are commended for writing the first comprehensive text that I am aware of on ...

Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People (New, enlarged edition)

Roy A. Rappaport

From the Publisher Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Hayano, Road through the Rain Forest: Living Anthropol...

A Religion of Nature

Donald A. Crosby

From Library Journal Two dissimilar arguments on nature and religion are here offered by McGrath (theology, Oxford) and ...

Hudson Bay Watershed: A Photographic Memoir of the Ojibway, Cree, and Oji-Cree

Basil H. Johnston, John Macfie

Review "The old ways are disappearing so quickly that this visual record of traditional native ways is invaluable." ...

Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places

Evelyn Dean, Steve Brill

About the Author Naturalist-Author "Wildman" Steve Brill has been leading public foraging tours in parks throughout the gr...

Flowers for Northern Gardens

Leon Snyder

Flowers for Northern Gardens...

The Secret Life of Plants

Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird

Review "Plenty of hard facts and astounding scientific and practical lore." -- --Newsweek From The Washington Post...

The Tallgrass Prairie Center Guide to Seed and Seedling Identification in the Upper Midwest (Bur Oak Guide)

Dave Williams

Review “For identification of plants, most books rely upon characteristics of the flowers and fruits. Even then, so...

Armageddon: Der Einschlag

Nadja Podbregar, Ralf Blasius

Review Aus den Rezensionen: "… Eine zweiteilige, aufwendig an Schauplätzen in Mexiko, Afrika und Island herge...

Insect Clocks, Third Edition

C.G.H. Steel, D.S. Saunders, R.D. Lewis, X. Vafopoulou

Review J. Hardie...It is a very readable, erudite volume that will appeal to undergraduate scholars, postgraduate and pos...

Quantitative Ecology, Second Edition: Measurement, Models and Scaling

David C. Schneider

About the Author By David C. Schneider ...

Grand Canyon: A Visitor's Companion (National Park Visitor's Companion)

George Wuerthner

About the Author George Wuerthner has written more than 20 books, including other National Parks Visitor's Companions. He...

The Dusky Dolphin: Master Acrobat Off Different Shores

Bernd Wursig, Melany Wursig

Review "... this beautifully illustrated book, with many color photos (e.g., p. 247) and close to a thousand combined ref...

Introduction to California Chaparral (California Natural History Guides)

Ronald D. Quinn, Sterling C. Keeley

Review From the reviews: "The monograph includes eight in-depth review chapters contributed by leading experts in ...

Mappae Mundi: Humans and their Habitats in a Long-Term Socio-Ecological Perspective: Myths, Maps and Models

Bert De Vries, Johan Goudsblom

Mappae Mundi: Humans and their Habitats in a Long-Term Socio-Ecological Perspective: Myths, Maps and Models...

Experimental Evolution: Concepts, Methods, and Applications of Selection Experiments

Michael R. Rose, Theodore Garland

Review "Will surely be of interest to researchers looking for new ways to ask evolutionary questions. . . . This book, a...

Lines in the Water: Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca

Ben Orlove

Review "Lines in the Water is both an unusually thoughtful book and a major contribution to the discussion on 'sustainabl...

Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space

Charlie Hailey

Review "Drawing from an expansive range of sources, from anarchists to Boy Scouts, Katrina refugees to GTM...

Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm

David M. Masumoto

From Publishers Weekly This is a peach of a book, as delectable as the Sun Crest peach Masumoto is struggling to save. It...

Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin

Stephen Jay Gould

Amazon.com Review The human mind has a trusty device for simplifying a complex world: reduce to averages and identify tre...

Missouri Caves in History and Legend (Missouri Heritage Readers Series)

H. Dwight Weaver

About the Author Former show cave operator H. Dwight Weaver is the author of nine books, including Wilderness Underground...

Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science (Science and Literature Series)

Laura Dassow Walls

Review “An excellent book, well-written, even eloquent. Walls is clearly the first scholar to read Thoreau thoroughl...

For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future

Herman E. Daly, John B. Cobb

From Publishers Weekly Pushing for economic growth above all else, industrial nations ignore the damage done to the biosp...

The Egg and I

Betty Macdonald

About the Author A longtime resident of Washington State, Betty MacDonald (1908-1958) authored four humorous, autobiograph...

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