Life Sciences
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Methuselah’s Zoo: What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives
$29.95 Read moreStories of long-lived animal species–from thousand-year-old tubeworms to 400-year-old sharks–and what they might teach us about human health and longevity.
Opossums in the wild don’t make it to the- Author: Austad, Steven N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0262047098
- Language: English
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Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining
$25.95 Read moreIn a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world’s sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to mee… [more below]
- Author: Pilkey, Orrin H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1478018798
- Language: English
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Deep Thinkers: Inside the Minds of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises
$63.33 Read moreHumans aside, dolphins, whales, and porpoises are often considered to be the smartest creatures on Earth. Science and nature buffs are drawn to stories of their use of tools, their self-recognition, t… [more below]
- Author: Mann, Janet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 11 2017
- ISBN10: 022638747X
- Language: English
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Earth Before the Dinosaurs
$45.00 Read moreThis beautiful volume introduces the incredible animals that populated the planet before the Age of the Dinosaurs. Readers voyage to a time, beginning about 370 million years ago, when the first four-
- Series: Life of the Past
- Author: Steyer, Sébastien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0253223806
- Language: English
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Atlas of Poetic Botany
$24.95 Read moreBotanical encounters in the rainforest: trees that walk, a leaf as big as an awning, a plant that dances.
This Atlas invites the reader to tour the farthest reaches of the rainforest in search of exoti
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Halle, Francis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0262039125
- Language: English
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The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
$19.00 Read more“Damasio undertakes nothing less than a reconstruction of the natural history of the universe. . . . A] brave and honest book.”
The Strange Order of Things is a path
—The New York Times Book Review- Author: Damasio, Antonio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0345807146
- Language: English
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Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia
$48.95 Add to cartA hidden world of amphibians and reptiles awaits the outdoor adventurer in Georgia’s streams, caves, forests, and wetlands. Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia makes accessible a wealth of information
- Author: MacKinnon, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0820331112
- Language: English
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The Language of the Face: Stories of Its Uniquely Expressive Features
$29.95 Read moreA broad and riveting cultural history of physiognomy, exploring how the desire to divine deeper meaning from our looks has compelled humans for millennia.
How do you read a face? For thousands of year- Author: Gonzalez-Crussi, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047535
- Language: English
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Field Guide to North American Truffles: Hunting, Identifying, and Enjoying the World’s Most Prized Fungi
$18.99 Read moreThe second most expensive food in the world after saffron, truffles are treasured, coveted, and savored for their mysterious and exotic flavor. This complete field guide shows chefs and fungi aficiona… [more below]
- Author: Trappe, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1580088627
- Language: English
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The Reality of God: The Layman’s Guide to Scientific Evidence for the Creator
$16.95 Read moreDoes God exist? Which is true? Evolution, creation…or both? Are we no more than meaningless collisions of molecules? Or do we owe our existence to a Creator, who has willed us (and everything else) … [more below]
- Author: Hemler, Steven R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1618907131
- Language: English
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The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
$17.00 Read moreA thrilling story of scientific detective work and medical potential that illuminates the newly understood role of microglia–an elusive type of brain cell that is vitally relevant to our everyday liv… [more below]
- Author: Jackson Nakazawa, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 152479919X
- Language: English
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Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
$19.00 Read moreAn exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national bestseller, Your Inner Fish, this extraordinary journey of discovery spans centuries… [more below]
- Author: Shubin, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1101972688
- Language: English
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The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes
$27.95 Read more2022 NAUTILUS SILVER WINNER FOR LYRIC PROSE–In The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes, Lynne Heasley illuminates an underwater world that, despite a ferocious industrial… [more below]
- Author: Heasley, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1611864070
- Language: English
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The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity
$21.95 Read more“The most remarkable history of biology that has ever been written.”–Michel Foucault
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Fran?is Jacob’s The Logic of Life is a landmark book in the history of biology and s- Series: Princeton Science Library #62
- Author: Jacob, François
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0691182841
- Language: English
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Practical No-Till Farming: A Quick and Dirty Guide to Organic Vegetable and Flower Growing
$34.99 Read moreDo less, produce more, and grow soil that feeds crops using chemical-free, organic no-till methods
Andrew Mefferd, veteran farmer, author of The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution, and editor of Growi
- Author: Mefferd, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0865719667
- Language: English
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Fishes of the Salish Sea: Puget Sound and the Straits of Georgia and Juan de Fuca
$165.00 Read moreFishes of the Salish Sea is the definitive guide to the identification and history of the marine and anadromous fishes of Puget Sound and the Straits of Georgia and Juan de Fuca. This comprehensive t
- Author: Pietsch, Theodore Wells
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1074
- Publish Date: July 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0295743743
- Language: English
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Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics
$39.95 Read moreFor 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 An
- Author: Cheshire, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0393634027
- Language: English
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The Hidden World of Mosses
$40.00 Read moreMosses have a spectacular diversity of beautiful and surprising forms.
They are nearly always, what we as humans would consider, small; but they play a critical role in climate change prevention and- Author: Bell, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 191087745X
- Language: English
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Bodystories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy
$29.95 Add to cartBodyStories is a book that engages the general reader as well as the serious student of anatomy. Thirty-one days of learning sessions heighten awareness about each bone and body system and provide sel
- Author: Olsen, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0819579440
- Language: English
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How Science Points to God
$14.95 Read moreWe are told that science and religion are wholly incompatible and that those of us who profess faith in God are unwilling to bend our wills to the truth.
In this highly gratifying book, scientist Dr. G
- Author: Verschuuren, Gerard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 16 2020
- ISBN10: 164413151X
- Language: English
