Animals

In 1990, the skeleton of a battle-scarred Tyrannosaurus rex matriarch was found, virtually complete, in what many call the most spectacular dinosaur fossil discovery to date. Not just another dinosaur book, Tyrannosaurus Sue is a fascinating introduction...

for SATB, upper voices, and organ This compelling work tells the story of creation through a tapestry of biblical passages, spiritual writings, poems, and hymns by writers such as Thomas Traherne. The piece is structured around a recurring refrain,...

The only current field guide to sharks and rays of the West Coast of British Columbia.Sharks! The very mention of the word conjures up images of dangerous creatures with a voracious appetite. This public image couldn't be farther from the truth for a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807085493Author Freeman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 298g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979669613Author Richard E MalleryFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Mallerybooks.comPublisher Mallerybooks.comWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The Yucatan Peninsula is today divided among Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico. Travelers to this region discover both astonishing archaeological sites and a stunning array of wildlife, including crocodiles, turtles, lizards, snakes, frogs, toads, and...

From the start of the European integration process, one question has puzzled scholars: what type of political association is the European Union? In absence of an agreed upon response, most scholars have suggested that the European Union is 'sui generis'...

A lavishly illustrated overview of the world's lizardsLizards are one of nature's great success stories: survivors from the time of the dinosaurs, they have taken advantage of almost every habitat on earth, from tropical rainforest to Arctic tundra and...

The Bees in Your Backyard provides an engaging introduction to the roughly 4,000 different bee species found in the United States and Canada, dispelling common myths about bees while offering essential tips for telling them apart in the field. The book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for IndieFab awards (Nature) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9781550173611Author Andy LambFormat HardbackPage Count 398Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262083836Author Adrian HepworthFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1196gDimensions(mm) 308mm * 241mm * 19mm

Since its first publication more than a decade ago, Wildlife of the Galapagos has become the definitive, classic field guide to the natural splendors of this amazing part of the world. Now fully updated, this essential and comprehensive guide has been...

In this majestic book, Cyril Ramaphosa reveals his passion and love for cattle as he introduces us to the magnificent Ankole cattle, originating in Uganda, and now, through his intervention, flourishing in South Africa. He reflects on the legacy...

This book sets out to bridge the order scales among pike researchers, populations, communities, management, and fisheries. It emphasizes the progress of pike research during the last two decades, during which the order-bridging approach emerged. This...

From the kings of the Indus Valley to Hannibal's Alpine cavalry, humans have been living and working with elephants for millennia. In Giants of the Monsoon Forest, Jacob Shell travels to communities that still rely on this ancient partnership. After the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648346873Author Kieran DownsFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint TorquePublisher TorqueWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 157mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485309840Author Dr.Michael CluverFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 245mm *...

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 *...

A richly illustrated and up-close look at the secret lives of spiders and other arachnidsThe American Southwest is home to an extraordinary diversity of arachnids, from spitting spiders that squirt silk over their prey to scorpions that court one another...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998723600Author John Anthony WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Bes PressPublisher Bes PressWeight(grams) 318g

First published more than a century ago, The Biography of a Grizzly recounts the life of a fictitious bear named Wahb who lived and died in the Greater Yellowstone region. This new edition combines Ernest Thompson Seton's classic tale and original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080203762Author Christine ArgotFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 890g

Britain is home to almost 100 species of mammals. Many of them are nocturnal, almost all are difficult to see, and most people - even very keen natural history enthusiasts - struggle to see more than about 10 a year - rabbits, foxes, a few deer, perhaps...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222344Author Tobias FischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor PressWeight(grams) 280g

This comprehensive introduction to the biology of bats offers a summary of the large body of information about bats that the scientific community has amassed over the years. Gerhard Neuweiler, a leading, internationally recognized expert in the field,...

For thousands of years, tracking animals meant following footprints. Now satellites, drones, camera traps, cellphone networks, and accelerometers reveal the natural world as never before. Where the Animals Go is the first book to offer a comprehensive,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312373009Author Michael J TougiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

This innovative two-volume book highlights and examines the most important challenges facing farmers, conservationists, and policy makers, using examples of real-life, linked studies from a farmed landscape, which bridge the divide between the theory and...

Here is a completely revised, full-color second edition of the established go-to source for equestrian information. This comprehensive A-to-Z guide covers "everything horse" and bridges gaps in the equestrian universe between English and Western styles...

Animals have featured in the lives and cultures of the people of Merseyside since the dawn of time, and in so many ways. Beastly Merseyside describes this, and tells wonderful stories about these animals, and about the roles they have played. Horses...

Hebe Uhart's Animals tells of piglets that snack on crackers, parrots that rehearse their words at night, southern screamers that lurk at the front door of a decrepit aunt s house, and, of course, human animals, whose presence is treated with the same...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855462772Author Valerie K. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Richmond Publishing Co LtdPublisher Richmond Publishing Co LtdWeight(grams) 95g

Over the past thirty years, forensic anthropologist Mary H. Manhein has helped authorities to identify hundreds of deceased persons throughout Louisiana and beyond. In Bone Remains, she offers details of twenty riveting cases from her files -- many of...

In this fully revised edition of A Guide to Dragonflies & Damselflies of South Africa, all 164 species known to occur in South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland are described and illustrated, grouped according to family (six dragonfly and six damselfly...

The Living Elephants is the authoritative resource for information on both Asian and African elephants. From the ancient origins of the proboscideans to the present-day crisis of the living elephants, this volume synthesizes the behavior, ecology and...

On his nineteenth birthday, Peter Allison flipped a coin. One side would take him to Africa and the other to South America, the two places he wanted to explore before he died. He recounted his time spent as a safari guide in Africa to much acclaim in...

Wolves on a wilderness island illuminate lessons on the environment, extinction, and life.For more than a quarter century, celebrated biologist John Vucetich has studied the wolves, and the moose that sustain them, of the boreal forest of Isle Royale...

Why are some species admired or beloved while others are despised? An eagle or hawk circling overhead inspires awe while urban pigeons shuffling underfoot are kicked away in revulsion. Fly fishermen consider carp an unwelcome trash fish, even though the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553382662Author Stephen BuchmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261g

Black Union soldiers and refugees fleeing enslavement during the Civil War faced dire circumstances when they fell ill or were injured. During the war, white Northerners routinely promoted ideas about Black inferiority using the language of science and...