Wildlife: general interest

Imagine a garden that is as beautiful as it is productive, that gives you fresh, wholesome, chemical-free food with flavours that go way beyond anything the shops can offer.

Arthur Parkinson's town garden is like a path of pots, a tiny, exposed stage on bricks.

A tale of obsession and very big fish from Jeremy Wade, the presenter of ITV's RIVER MONSTERS.

Honey bees-and the qualities associated with them-have quietly influenced American values for four centuries.

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Mono Lake is one of the largest lakes in California, and Californians have been using it, enjoying it, and abusing it since nomadic northern Paiutes began hunting the lake's vast bird populations.

In 1906 George Shiras III (1859-1942) published a series of remarkable nighttime photographs in National Geographic.

For sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ecology of the Southwest from its source in New Mexico to its confluence with the Colorado River in Arizona.

New Mexico is home to 165 species and subspecies of snakes, lizards, turtles, frogs, toads, and salamanders.

Designed to help birders and banders identify, age, and sex all seventeen species of hummingbirds found in North America, this is the only identification guide devoted entirely to hummingbirds that includes up-close, easy-to-use illustrations.

Extending from the spillway below Cochiti Dam, about fifty miles north of Albuquerque, to the headwaters of Elephant Butte Reservoir, near Truth or Consequences in the southern portion of New Mexico, the Middle Rio Grande Bosque is more than a cottonwood woodland or forest.

No book has ever before specifically focused on the birds of prey of New Mexico.

Dynamics of Degeneration and Growth in Neurons is a collection of papers presented at the International Symposium on the Dynamics of Degeneration and Growth in Neurons, held in Stockholm, Sweden, on May 16-18, 1973.

Centering Animals in Latin American History writes animals back into the history of colonial and postcolonial Latin America.

An Epistemology of the Concrete brings together case studies and theoretical reflections on the history and epistemology of the life sciences by Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, one of the world's foremost philosophers of science.

The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest.

The Last Beach is an urgent call to save the world's beaches while there is still time.

In an era of global warming, natural disasters, endangered species, and devastating pollution, contemporary writing on the environment largely focuses on doomsday scenarios.

In Eating the Ocean Elspeth Probyn investigates the profound importance of the ocean and the future of fish and human entanglement.

In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parrenas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo.

The domestication of plants and animals is central to the familiar and now outdated story of civilization's emergence.

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One night, poet and environmental writer John Lane tuned in to a sound from behind his house that he had never heard before: the nearby eerie and captivating howls of coyotes.

Barbara Hurd's Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music.

The Definitive Guide to Alabama's Reptilian Wildlife.

Collects the most recent findings of virtually all experts in the field as of 2012 Alabama Wildlife, Volume 5 offers a comprehensive update and provides a wealth of new information concerning changes and developments relative to the conservation status of wild animal populations of the state that have occurred in the decade since publication of the previous four volumes in 2004.

Capture Every Stage of Alabama's Butterfly Wonder.

From Riverbeds to Coastlines: The Ultimate Guide to Alabama's Turtles.

Their Blood Runs Cold is entertaining, informative reading that not only enhances our understanding of a unique group of animals, but also provides genuine insight into the mind and character of a research scientist.

Year of the Pig is a personal account of one avid hunter's pursuit of wild pigs in eleven American states.

For young readers, an engaging and beautifully illustrated story about the return of beavers to the Detroit River.

An examination of the ecological damage that has been done by several invasive species in the Great Lakes.

Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical, living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial role in human history.

Known for its natural beauty, Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is the largest inland peninsula in the United States.

Known for its natural beauty, Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is the largest inland peninsula in the United States.

Honey bees-and the qualities associated with them-have quietly influenced American values for four centuries.

"e;Integrates history, technology, sociology, economics, and politics with this remarkable insect serving as the unifying concept"e; (Buffalo News).

The first complete field guide to the exotic amphibians and reptiles established in the continental United States and Hawaiʻi, this book provides practical identification skills and an awareness of the environmental impacts of these species.

With a writer’s eye and an explorer’s spirit, Mark Walters travels the state to report on the natural history and current predicament of Florida’s flagship bird, providing a portrait of a species on the brink.

Florida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy Book AwardStretching along 156 miles of Florida's East Coast, the Indian River Lagoon contains the St.

The first complete field guide to the exotic amphibians and reptiles established in the continental United States and Hawaiʻi, this book provides practical identification skills and an awareness of the environmental impacts of these species.

Having survived since the Mesozoic era, alligators teetered on the brink of extinction in the 1960s.

The Earth's surface is mostly oceans, the human body is approximately 60% water, and the human imagination has been captivated by this life-giving, life-sustaining liquid from time immemorial.

The Bottlenose Dolphin presents for the first time a comprehensive, colorfully illustrated, and concise overview of a species that has fascinated humans for at least 3,000 years.