Nature and the natural world: general interest

A New York Times bestselling book!

This informativeguide makesit easy to identify birds in your backyard, favorite parks, and wildlife areas.

This is an outstanding treatise on one of America's most widely hunted and most important big-game animals.

Reading Weather provides a quick and simple way to understand how the atmosphere works, how to interpret and use weather forecasts before venturing outdoors, and also how to make your own forecast in the field by observing the changes in the weather.

Updated and revised guide filled with helpful tips on traveling and camping in bear country.

Dear Diary,Im in a very unusual place: the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

He was born in rural Missouri, and it was immediately clear that he was different from the rest.

In the newest addition to the successful Living With series, Hathaway and Schatz let readers in on everything they need to know about how to raise one or twenty goats in their own backyards.

Field guide to more than 300 wildflowers conveniently arranged for easy identification.

Grizzly Bears: AFalcon Field Guide presents readers with substantive yet easily digestible information on this most revered and feared of large mammals.

It was one of the biggest scandals in New York University history.

Each Falcon Field Guide to birds introduces the 180 most common and sought-after species in a state.

Each Falcon Field Guide to birds introduces the 180 most common and sought-after species in a state.

Rocks, Gems, and Minerals is a field guide to80 of themost common and sought-afterrocks, gems, and minerals hidden throughout North America.

Techniques from international tracking experts applicable to any quarry and terrain.

On his nineteenth birthday, Peter Allison flipped a coin.

Each Falcon Field Guide to birds introduces the 180 most common and sought-after species in a state.

A complete guide and source-book brimming with advice on collecting and preparing gems and minerals .

Each Falcon Field Guide to birds introduces the 180 most common and sought-after species in a state.

This is the authorized guide to the Maine Birding Trail, which opens in 2009.

Falcon Field Guides are full-color, visually appealing, easily packable guides for identifying animalsand learning about nature.

The only complete guide to the rich and unique flora of Arizona, featuring more than 900 full-color photographs and detailed descriptions of each plant.

Focuses on the animal's track pattern, making windblown and obscured tracks identifiable.

By living a normal, boring life like most people do, one has an excellent chance of becoming yet another statistic on the proverbial list of the leading causes of death.

Falcon Field Guides[TM] are full-color, visually appealing, on-the-go guides for identifying plants and animals and learning about nature.

The New York Times Bestseller.

A complete guide and source-book brimming with advice on collecting and preparing gems and minerals .

Extraordinary photos that expose the elusive world of fur and teeth, light and shadow, and wolf behavior seldom seen by the human eye.

Wolves: A Falcon Field Guide presents readers with substantive yet easily digestible information on this most feared yet misunderstood predator.

Detailed track and trail data for 135 species with actual-size track illustrations.

Butterflies & Moths is an easily accessible fieldguide to familiar North American butterflies and moths.

For hunters, listening to the accounts of kindred spirits recalling the drama and action that go with good days afield ranks among life's most pleasurable activities.

The stunning wildlife along the Blue Ridge Parkway attracts more than 14 million annual visitors from near and far for viewing and photographing opportunities.

Trees is a must-have, field guide for beginners and experts alike.

No Buddy Left Behind unveils the life-altering relationships American troops serving in the Middle East have shared with the stray dogs and cats they've rescued from the brutalities of war.

Engaging natural history information for a general audience on one of the most beloved groups of birds, including tips on attracting and watching hummingbirds.

A surefire hit with young backyard diggers and bug-watchers, BasicIllustrated Guide to Frogs, Snakes, Bugs, and Slugs combines detailed illustrations of bugs, slugs, snakes, toads, and other creepy crawlies with clear and kid-friendly information to help the young bug-lover identify what's crawling up the tree, buzzing in his ear, or hiding under a log.

In this latest installment of FalconGuide's Adventures with the Parkers series, the Parkers, an intrepidfamily of four,journey to Acadia National Park inMaine where they explore the beautiful coastal waters and hike many of the park's finest trails, including to the top of Cadillac Mountain, the first place in the U.

This easy-to-use guide features: a tough, water-resistant cover and extra-durable binding, made to withstand vigorous field use; detailed descriptions and color photos of more than 200 plants; an introduction to the habitats and ecology the Canyonlands region; a primer on plant characteristics; and a glossary of botanical terms.

For twelve years, Andrea Lankford lived in the biggest, most impressive national parks in the world, working a job she loved.

Songbirds, waterfowl, owls, shorebirds, warblers, woodpeckers, nightjars, birds of prey.

The annual World's Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair attracts so-ugly-they're-cute contestants, their devoted owners, and hundreds of thousands of fans, both in person and via worldwide media attention.

Comprehensive guide to the animals of North America.

Offers expert instruction and in-the-field advice for the novice and experienced tracker.

Identify and understand the wildlife most commonly found living near humans--and how they've adapted to thrive in cities and suburbs.

Animal Tracks highlightseighty-eight of the most common and sought-after mammal, bird, reptile, and amphibian species in North America.

Falcon Field Guides[TM] are full-color, visually appealing, on-the-go guides for identifying plants and animals and learning about nature.

Every existence has its pulse points,"e; writes Ted Leeson in this latest book, "e;those places where life rises somehow closer to the surface and makes itself more keenly felt.

When do you watch a wild animal suffer and let nature take its course, and when do you intervene?

Max Edelman was just 17 when the Nazis took him from his Jewish ghetto in Poland to the first of five work camps, where his only hope of survival was to keep quiet and raise an emotional shield.