Nature

Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world's most regulated river, providing most of the water supply of Las Vegas, Tucson, and San Diego, and much of the power and water of Los Angeles and Phoenix. If the river ceased flowing,...

The definitive field guide to the magnificent wildflowers of the Adirondacks.Covering more than six million acres of protected wilderness, the Adirondacks, with their landscape of high peaks, verdant wetlands, majestic trees, and lush carpets of flowers,...

Kruger National Park - Questions & answers is a compilation of the questions most frequently asked by visitors to the Park, and their answers, given by a seasoned game park official. This new edition has been expanded, and reflects management decisions...

The South Pacific is a vast expanse of ocean-over 50 million km(2)-with tiny scattered islands and island groups. From Kiribati, Tuvalu, and Fiji in the west, to the far-flung Marquesas and Austral Islands in French Polynesia in the east, this book...

Part of the new Te Papa Te Taiao Nature Series, this accessible, handsomely illustrated guide to the commonly encountered native plant species of Aotearoa New Zealand has wide appeal. Native Plants of Aotearoa describes and beautifully illustrates fifty...

Knowledge of Africa's complex farming systems, set in their socio-economic and environmental context, is an essential ingredient to developing effective strategies for improving food and nutrition security.This book systematically and comprehensively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619025318Author Thomas BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

George Schaller has spent much of his life traversing wild and isolated places in his quest to understand and conserve threatened species - from mountain gorillas in the Virunga to snow leopards in the Himalaya. Throughout his career, Schaller has spent...

Living with Animals is a collection of imagined animal guides-a playful and accessible look at different human-animal relationships around the world. Anthropologists and their co-authors have written accounts of how humans and animals interact in labs,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593329924Author Joan E. StrassmanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g

Waterfowl can be identified by using information about size, shape, color pattern, markings, behavior, habitat, range and calls. All clues are important, but by far the most important things to concentrate on for this group are shape and patterns of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989580014Author Richard LaMotteFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Sea Glass PublishingPublisher Sea Glass PublishingWeight(grams) 1134g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882149707Author Benjamin SellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Spring PublicationsPublisher Spring PublicationsWeight(grams) 152g

E. J. H. Corner's perennial favorite The Life of Plants, copiously stocked with now-classic botanical illustrations, is one of the most fascinating and original introductions to the world of plants ever produced-from the botanist to the amateur, no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619024588Author Kyle BoelteFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949643596Author Sam MickeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Apocryphile PressPublisher Apocryphile PressWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

The definitive field guide to all the sharks, rays and chimaeras of eastern North AmericaThe waters off the East Coast of North America are home to an amazing variety of sharks, rays and chimaeras. This groundbreaking, comprehensive and easy-to-use field...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487009496Author Charlie AngusFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint House of Anansi PressPublisher House of Anansi PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Beavers can and do dramatically change the landscape. The beaver is a keystone species-their skills as foresters and engineers create and maintain ponds and wetlands that increase biodiversity, purify water, and prevent large-scale flooding. Biologists...

Ecologies of the Heart offers a highly readable new look at the range of approaches we use in thinking about environmental management. In answering the questions of why people hold beliefs about the environment that are `counterfactual' - against the...

Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small-scale planning and development. This is an introduction to ecological footprint analysis, showing how...

An essential guide for writers on how to record and use rich detail to enliven their work.The goal of the writer is to live with the keenness of the foreigner. To experience, wide-eyed, the sensations aroused and the events offered up by peculiar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495375736Author Lee CrakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Written for researchers and practitioners in environmental pollution, management and ecology, this interdisciplinary account explores the ecological issues associated with industrial pollution to provide a complete picture of this important environmental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999889435Author Jeremiah WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Jeremiah WoodPublisher Jeremiah WoodWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772033038Author Nina ShoroplovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486411309Author William GatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Plants of Subtropical Eastern Australia describes the rich flora of this biogeographically distinct region located on the east coast of Australia, covering the north coast of New South Wales and South-East Queensland. This guide presents a selection of...

Covering 825 species, more than any comparable field guide, Trees of Eastern North America is the most comprehensive, best illustrated, and easiest-to-use book of its kind. Presenting all the native and naturalized trees of the eastern United States and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604866742Author Derrick JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 326g

In Quetzals, the renowned ornithologist Alan F. Poole introduces readers to one of the world's most alluring group of birds. Native to the cloud forests of Mexico, and Central and South America, quetzals have played an essential role in the cultures of...

From John Muir to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos-to protect nature from the march of human development. But we have to face the...

Biology and Physiology of Freshwater Neotropical Fish is the all-inclusive guide to fish species prevalent in the neotropical realm. It provides the most updated systematics, classification, anatomical, behavioral, genetic, and functioning systems...

Identify bird calls with this handy guide and CD, which together feature 500 distinctive southern African species. The CD gives the best-known song or call of each species; the book provides clear and accessible text, with a brief account for each...

Habitat loss and degradation are currently the main anthropogenic causes of species extinctions. The root cause is human overpopulation. This unique volume provides, for the very first time, a comprehensive overview of all threatened and recently extinct...

Foreword by Chris Packham. Do you have a passion for wildlife, and do you enjoy watching birds? Are you also hopeless at identifying some of the more difficult ones? Do you feel lost without a field guide, and can you count on both hands the number of...

After a distinguished career in climate science as the Director of the UN Global Climate Observing System in Geneva, David Goodrich returned home to the United States to find a nation and a people in denial. Concerned that the American people are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565126831Author Amy StewartFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin BooksWeight(grams) 300g

Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness "composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist." At this time in history when many people are trying to understand their true relationship with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394519920Author National Audubon SocietyFormat HardbackPage Count 926Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 609g