Nature and the natural world: general interest

Todo lo que necesita saber sobre más de 150 especies de árboles de la mano de uno de los más grandes conocedores del jardín en Chile, Raúl Silva, con más de 40 años de trayectoria.

Dirt, soil, call it what you want-it's everywhere we go.

Water scarcity, urban population growth, and deteriorating infrastructure are impacting water security around the globe.

California's varied landscape is characterized by a spectacular abundance of plant life, including a magnificent variety of trees and shrubs.

Return to the Sea portrays the life and evolutionary times of marine mammalsfrom giant whales and sea cows that originated 55 million years ago to the deep-diving elephant seals and clam-eating walruses of modern times.

The Northern California coast--from Monterey County to the Oregon border--is home to some of the richest avian habitats on the North American continent.

All animals must eat.

"e;Unfold a map of North America,"e; Keith Heyer Meldahl writes, "e;and the first thing to grab your eye is the bold shift between the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains.

From two of the world's leading authorities on dogs, an imaginative journey into a future of dogs without peopleWhat would happen to dogs if humans simply disappeared?

La búsqueda de Gobi es la milagrosa historia de Dion Leonard, un corredor de ultramaratones experimentado que se encontró con una perrita callejera mientras competía en una carrera de 155 millas a través del desierto de Gobi en China.

Nautilus Book Awards Silver Award Winner, Animals & Nature Category, 2020 These stories take readers where they cannot go, be it out into space, back in time, deep under the ocean, down to microscopic scales, or out onto the geologic overview.

Whether you have a newly adopted dog, a brand new pup, a challenging adolescent dog, or any age dog with behavior problems, Puppy Politeness Poker (PPP) can be helpful.

A New York Times bestselling book!

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

Foundations of Wildlife Diseases is a comprehensive overview of the basic principles that govern the study of wildlife diseases.

Written for anyone interested in green development-including policy makers, architects, developers, builders, and homeowners-this practical guide focuses on the central question of how to conserve biodiversity in neighborhoods and to minimize development impacts on surrounding habitats.

Natural history, the deliberate observation of the environment, is arguably the oldest science.

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.

Do dogs live in the same world as humans?

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

The rich tapestry of Alaska is threaded together by 365,000 miles of waterways, from cascading mountain streams to meandering valley rivers, from the meltwaters of glaciers to broad rivers that empty into the sea.

This beautifully illustrated and user-friendly book presents the most up-to-date information available about the natural histories of birds of the Sierra Nevada, the origins of their names, the habitats they prefer, how they communicate and interact with one another, their relative abundance, and where they occur within the region.

Dear Diary,I'm 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.

';If we mean to change our ways, how will we do it?

Vibrant, opinionated, and independentthats Galveston widow Rose Parrish.

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.

In a situation where survival is at stake, plants can provide crucial food and medicine.

Learning from Thoreau is an intimate intellectual walk with America's most edgy and original environmentalist.

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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.

Established in 1836, the Bristol Zoo is the world's oldest surviving zoo outside of a capital city and has frequently been at the vanguard of zoo innovation.

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.

Ecology, like all literary narrative, has the potential for turnabout, surprise, lessons learned, and tragedy.

Study of the sea--both in terms of human interaction with it and its literary representation--has been largely ignored by ecocritics.

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 .

The New York Times-bestselling author Donald McCaig has established an expansive literary career, founded equally on books about working sheepdogs and the Civil War novels Jacob's Ladder and Rhett Butler's People, the official sequel to Gone with the Wind.

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.