Product Catalog

Science & Natural History

Individual titles:

• 50 Ways to Save the Earth - by Anne Jankeliowitch
• Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery - by David Attenborough
• American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon - by Steven Rinella
• Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas - After laborious training and preparation, Kincaid and a group of botanists trek the Himalayas.
• Animal: The Definitive Guide to the World's Wildlife - by David Burnie
• Antarctica: The Blue Continent - Illustrated guide to Antarctica's environment, geography, wildlife, and history
• The Appalachian Trail Reader - edited by David Emblidge
• Arctic Circle: Birth and Rebirth - by Robert Leonard Reid
• Arctic Refuge : A Circle of Testimony (Literature for a Land Ethic ) - by Hank Lentfer
• Audubon: Early Drawings
• Between Grass and Sky: Where I Live and Work - Essays from one of the most widely published American environmental writers
• Big Sur to Big Basin: California's Dramatic Central Coast
• Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern - by Edward Dolnick
• Coral Reefs: Of the Caribbean, the Bahamas, and Florida - by Alfonso Silva Lee
• The Cruise of the Corwin: Muir's Final Great Journey - The story of Muir's journey 15,000 nautical miles from San Francisco into the Artic Sea.
• Dancing at the Red Sea - Tracking the World's Environmental Hotspots
• The Darwin Experience: The Story of the Man and His Theory of Evolution - by John Van Wyhe
• Defining the Wind - by Scott Huler
• Dersu the Trapper
• Desert Time: A Journey Through the American Southwest - by Diana Kappel-Smith
• Doctor Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation - by Olivia Judson
• Down the River - by Edward Abbey
• Downcanyon - by Ann Zwinger
• Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet - by Bill McKibben
• East 40 Degrees: An Interpretive Atlas - Examines a succession of beautiful but little-known towns along this cordillera
• Elemental South: An Anthology of Southern Nature Writing - A gathering of works by some of the region's best nature writers
• Encounters with the Archdruid
• Ends of the Earth:: Anthology of the Finest Writings on the Arctic & Antarctic - by Elizabeth Kolbert
• Eternal Frontier : An Ecological History of North America and its Peoples - by Tim Flannery
• Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival - by Carl Safina
• Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change - Known for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, "New Yorker" writer Kolbert now tackles the controversial subject of global warming.
• From So Simple A Beginning: The Four Great Books of Charles Darwin
• Fruitless Fall: Collapse of the Honey Bee - by Rowan Jacobsen
• Galapagos: Smithsonian Natural History - by John C. Kricher
• Galapagos, Worlds End - by Wiliam Beebe
• Glacier: A Natural History Guide - A fascinating and intimate portrait of one of the world's last truly wild places
• Gorillas in the Mist - The story of Fossey's years studying mountain gorillas in the rainforests of Rwanda.
• The Great Divide: A Biography of the Rocky Mountains - by Gary Ferguson
• The Great Naturalists - The story of natural history as seen through the lives, observations, and discoveries of the worlds greatest naturalists
• Great Warming Climate Change - by Brian Fagan
• Hispaniola:: A Photographic Journey Through Island Biodiversity
• History of the Sierra Nevada - Indispensable for any lover of the high country
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded:: Why We Need a Green Revolution - A New York Times Notable Book - 2008
• The House on Nauset Marsh: A Cape Cod Memoir - by Wyman Richardson
• Insectopedia - by Hugh Raffles
• Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic & Survival in Gloucester - by Mark Kurlansky
• The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World - Intimate images as well as authoritative essays about the polar bear in the context of climate change
• A Leaky Tent Is a Piece of Paradise 20 Young Writers on Finding a Place in the Natural World - Brimming with insight and humor, these compositions offer new perspectives on personal identity in relation to nature
• Life: A Journey Through Time - Planet Earth's amazing biodiversity.
• Lords and Lemurs - by Alison Jolly
• Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest - by Richard Nelson
• The Man Who Walked Through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon - The remarkable classic of nature writing by the first man ever to have walked the entire length of the Grand Canyon
• Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City
• Monster of God: Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind - Explores the natures of man-eating predators and the variety of human attitudes toward them through sources as diverse as prehistoric cave paintings, "Beowulf," and the "Alien" movies.
• Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Nature and Science
• Smithsonian Natural History: The Ultimate Guide - Features more than 5000 illustrations of items of natural origin, from rocks to redwoods and microbes to mammals.
• Natural History of the Point Reyes Peninsula
• New Zealand: A Natural History - A well-illustrated survey of the geography, flora and fauna of New Zealand, an area of unique species
• North Woods: An Inside Look at the Nature of Forests in the Northeast - by Peter J. Marchand
• Olympic National Park: A Natural History (revised) - by Tim McNulty
• On the Origin of Species: An Illustrated Edition
• Oranges - by John McPhee
• On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition - by Charles Darwin
• Our Changing Planet: The View from Space - Combines science and beautiful imagery of the changing Earth
• The Path : A 1 Mile Walk Through the Universe - Raymo describes the one-mile walk he has taken every day for the past 40 years, exploring in-depth its natural features and historic relevance.
• Pine Barrens - by John McPhee
• Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960 - by Douglas Brinkley
• Rainforests
• Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert - Analyzes the wildlife, human characters, and Anasazi petroglyphs of the red-rock landscape surrounding her home outside Moab
• The Reluctant Mr. Darwin - A fresh look at Darwin's most radical idea, and the mysteriously slow process by which he revealed it.
• Remarkable Trees of the World - by Thomas Pakenham
• Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century - by Alex Prud'homme
• Riviera Nature Notes - Quirky, erudite and eminently readable, the fifty-four essays comprising these "Notes" give an astonishingly clear picture of plant and animal life in the South of France at the turn of the 20th century.
• Roadless Yaak: Reflections about One of Our Last Great Wild Places - by Rick Bass
• Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today - by Ted Conover
• Sable Island - Sable Island-- in the midst of the worst weather in the North Atlantic--is a 30-mile-long sand dune that illuminates grand and global themes, both human and natural.
• Salt Tide: Currents of Nature and Life on the Virginia Coast - by Curtis J. Badger
• A Sand County Almanac With Essays on Conservation from Round River
• Searching for Yellowstone - An absolute "must read" for anyone wanting to understand why the park is engraved in the American consciousness
• Seen and Unseen: Discovering the Microbes of Yellowstone - A spectacular and colorful look through the microscope at the minute organisms that underlie Yellowstone.
• Shadows On the Gulf - by Rowan Jacobsen
• The Singing Wilderness - Olson tells his story through descriptions of the simple events in nature that bring meaning to his life
• Six Degrees: Our Future On a Hotter Planet - by Mark Lynas
• Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches - Fredston captures the overwhelming force of avalanches from a panorama of perspectives
• Socotra : A Natural History of the Islands and their People
• The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions - by David Quammen
• Storm Chaser: A Photographer's Journey - by Jim Reed
• Story Line: Exploring the Literature of the Appalachian Trail - by Ian Marshall
• Suicidal Planet:: How to Prevent Global Climate Catastrophe - An outstanding overview on global warming--and what we can do about it--from a distinguished world-class authority"
• Summer World a Season of Bounty - by Bernd Heinrich
• Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insects - A New York Times Notable Book - 2008
• Terra Antarctica: Looking Into the Emptiest Continent - Fox brings to life a place that few have seen and offers us a look into both the nature of landscape and ourselves
• The Maine Woods - by Henry David Thoreau
• This Grand and Magnificent Place: The Wilderness Heritage of the White Mountains - A sweeping environmental history of a quintessential American wilderness.
• A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf - A wonderful portrait of a young man in search of himself and a particularly vivid portrait of the post-war American South
• Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Ancient Mammals - by Michael Novacek
• Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion - Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer tracks trash in the name of science
• Tree of Rivers: Story of the Amazon
• The Tree Where Man Was Born - The exploration of the origins of man in Africa's Great Rift Valley.
• The Trees in My Forest - by Bernd Heinrich
• Tropical Nature
• Valley of Grass: Tallgrass Prairie and Parkland of the Red River Region - edited by Kim Alan Chapman
• Voyage of the Beagle - by Charles Darwin
• Wake Up and Smell the Planet: The Non-Pompous, Non-Preachy Grist Guide to Greening
• Wandering Home - The author walks from his home in Vermont to his former home in the Adirondacks and reflects on the two landscapes
• Way of the Panda: The Curious History of China's Political Animal - by Henry Nicholls
• Weather Makers - by Tim Flannery
• The Weeping Goldsmith: Discoveries in the Secret Land of Myanmar - A natural history exploration in the wild lands of Myanmar in search of rare, beautiful, and scientifically unknown plants.
• Where Mountains Are Nameless: Passion & Politics in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - by Jonathan Waterman
• Wild Places - A New York Times Notable Book - 2008
• Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
• Windswept: The Story of Wind and Weather - Starts with the wind gods of ancient times and continues to today's high-tech schemes to control hurricanes.
• World of Trees
• The World Without Us - A penetrating take on how the planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence.
• Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century - From eco-building to responsible shopping, political action to humanitarian relief, this work puts the power to solve problems into the readers' hands.
• Year in the Notch - by William Sargent
• The Yosemite - A vivid, accurate description of the land and a passionate homage to nature
• You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon But Get Lost in the Mall - by Colin Ellard