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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451627015Author Laurel BraitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The Boids are back in town ... The follow-up to the award-winning EXTINCT BOIDS, this book features more of the incredible art of cartoonist Ralph Steadman. This time the focus is not on the birds that are gone, but the ones that there's still time to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538719985Author David AttenboroughFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

The climate crisis requires that we drastically reduce carbon dioxide emissions across all sectors of society. The Story of CO2 contributes to this vital conversation by highlighting the cutting-edge science and emerging technologies - a number of which...

The Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, created by President Obama in 2016 and eviscerated by the Trump administration in 2017, contains more archaeological sites than any other region in the United States. It's also a spectacularly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685393878Author Karen StephensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Do bear attacks touch people in the far-back recesses of their psyches? Reach latent ancestral memories of cave days when humans were potential prey? Indeed, there are those who say their nightmares involved bears before they ever saw one, either in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547238487Author David BeadleFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 720gDimensions(mm) 185mm *...

From "Winter Wonderland" to "Snowmageddon," we've had a long, love-hate relationship with snow. This entertaining look at snow in all its delightful and fearsome manifestations delves into science, history, economics, and popular...

Mushrooms are loved, despised, feared and misunderstood. They have been a familiar part of nature throughout human history and occupy a special place in our consciousness. Now in paperback, Mushrooms introduces the mythology and science of the...

"Close-up views of endangered fauna in their natural habitats are difficult enough to obtain, but the breathtaking artistic quality of the photography in this valuable documentation of Asia's disappearing forest habitats makes this book highly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037088Author Gerald DurrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 206gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 131mm...

Common and exotic, glamorous and ferocious, sociable and sullen: zebras mean many things to many people. The extraordinary beauty of their striped coats makes them one of the world's most recognizable animals. They have been immortalized in paint by...

From caged orangutans to roasted pig, from dog training to horse phobias, from communicating bees to ruminating cows, Derek Ryan explores how animals are encountered in theoretical discourse. Over the course of an introduction and four thematically...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570619427Author Sandi DoughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Sasquatch BooksPublisher Sasquatch BooksWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539265Author Vincent IalentiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899296293Author Ted HooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Alphabet and Image LtdPublisher Alphabet and Image Ltd

People are using the future to search for better ways to achieve sustainability, inclusiveness, prosperity, well-being and peace. In addition, the way the future is understood and used is changing in almost all domains, from social science to daily life...

"The author has devoted a lifetime to learning and mastering the ways of the wilderness. . . . His concepts have been proven by the more than 10,000 students..." -Booklist Newly updated to include color photos throughout, this timeless survival guide is...

Can Orthodox Christianity offer spiritual resources uniquely suited to the environmental concerns of today? This book makes the case emphatically that it can indeed. In addition to being the first substantial and comprehensive collection of essays, in...

Just like humans, animals and plants suffer from infectious diseases, which can critically threaten biodiversity. This book describes key studies that have driven our understanding of the ecology and evolution of wildlife diseases. Each chapter...

The epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world.Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists...

The sight, sound and smell of animals are a part of the story of every great city - and are also part of its hidden history. The royal standard of Scotland features a lion rampant, and Edinburgh can trace its earliest depiction of the beast to the Roman...

This book introduces the notion of "educational ecology" as a necessary and promising pedagogic principle for the teaching of Anglophone literatures and cultures in a time of climate change. Drawing on scholarship in the environmental humanities and...

Conservation research is essential for advancing knowledge but to make an impact scientific evidence must influence conservation policies, decision making and practice. This raises a multitude of challenges. How should evidence be collated and presented...

Bison once ranged across the Great Plains of North America in vast herds - early eighteenth century explorers described them as 'innumerable' - and at the beginning of the nineteenth century they numbered in the tens of millions. However, during the next...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623174477Author Giles HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

Since the early 2000s, authoritarianism has risen as an increasingly powerful global phenomenon. This shift has not only social and political implications, but also environmental implications: authoritarian leaders seek to recast the relationship between...

Among rock-forming minerals, the zeolite group is large and widespread, and is enormously important to industry. Zeolites form excellent crystals. The group is structurally complex and notable for its ability to exchange cations with surrounding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386809Author Juliet EilperinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782496052Author Barbara OliveFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CICO BooksPublisher Ryland, Peters & Small LtdWeight(grams) 453g

Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales...

Combining inspiration, humor, and entomology, Instagram artist Ali Beckman (@SoFlyTaxidermy) is the internet's go-to gal for bug-related content that makes you a happier human. Beckman's witty comics, which use actual insects in everyday situations,...

Down the River is a collection of essays both timeless and timely. It is an exploration of the abiding beauty of some of the last great stretches of American wilderness on voyages down rivers where the body and mind float free, and the grandeur of nature...

This is the only field guide to provide comprehensive coverage of the mammals of Central America and Southeast Mexico. This edition features 21 new species accounts, including nine for bats. Four new full-color maps show parks and protected areas,...

With a new introduction by the author Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and armadillos the size of automobiles, these...

Animal lovers who feed meat to other animals are faced with a paradox: perhaps fewer animals would be harmed if they stopped feeding the ones they love. Animal diets do not raise problems merely for individuals. To address environmental crises, health...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780261720Author Maite MompoFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications...

This spectacular edition of the best-selling Helm field guide of all time covers all resident, migrant and vagrant species found in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. More than 1,300 species are illustrated with full details of all the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906720523Author Michael KentFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Alison HodgePublisher Alison HodgeDimensions(mm) 150mm * 153mm * 5mm