Topical/Ecology
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Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth’s Last Dinosaur
$22.99 Add to cartThe story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist
Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human e- Author: Safina, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0805083189
- Language: English
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A Naturalist at Large: The Best Essays of Bernd Heinrich
$26.00 Add to cartSome of the world’s greatest writings on ravens and other birds, insects, trees, elephants, and more, collected for the first time in book form showing why Bernd Heinrich is so beloved for his “passio… [more below]
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0544986830
- Language: English
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Soul of Nowhere
$19.99 Add to cartIncludes black-and-white photographs and pen-and-ink drawings by the author
In Soul of Nowhere, Craig Childs answers the call of fierce places; the more desolate the landscape, the more passionately he
- Author: Childs, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 231
- Publish Date: April 06 2006
- ISBN10: 0316735884
- Language: English
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Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World
$49.00 Add to cartAsk anyone to picture a bird or a fish and a series of clear images will immediately come to mind. Ask the same person to picture plankton and most would have a hard time conjuring anything beyond a v… [more below]
- Author: Sardet, Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 05 2015
- ISBN10: 022618871X
- Language: English
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Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly
$24.95 Add to cartLives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspective on how these tenacious plants came abou
- Author: Cardina, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501758985
- Language: English
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Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, a Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State
$18.95 Add to cartThis national bestseller chronicles one man’s 650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco–sure to appeal to readers of naturalist works like Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, Paul Thoreau’s … [more below]
- Author: Neely, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 164009444X
- Language: English
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Octopus: The Ocean’s Intelligent Invertebrate
$29.00 Add to cartThe visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance and an uncanny intellect, this exceptional sea creature has inspired fear in famo… [more below]
- Author: Mather, Jennifer A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 21 2010
- ISBN10: 1604690674
- Language: English
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Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage
$18.95 Add to cartCrossing the ocean on a slave ship, working the land under threat of violence, eluding racists in nighttime chases through moonless fields and woodlands, stumbling across a murder victim hanging from … [more below]
- Author: Glave, Dianne D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1556527667
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to the Natural World of the Twin Cities
$29.95 Add to cartAn illustrated guide to the natural habitats and rich diversity of wildlife in the greater Minneapolis and St. Paul metro area
Though the Twin Cities and environs have proven a fine habitat for one p- Author: Moriarty, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1517905494
- Language: English
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Chesapeake Bay Explorer’s Guide: Natural History, Plants, and Wildlife
$24.95 Add to cartKnown for its beauty and bounty, the Chesapeake Bay stretches nearly 200 miles from the mouth of the Susquehanna River to the ocean capes of the Atlantic, its tidal waters enriching the vibrant coasta
- Author: Malmquist, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493051334
- Language: English
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Land Art as Climate Action: Designing the 21st Century City Park
$45.00 Add to cartHow clean energy technologies can create beautiful, post-carbon cities.
As the world races to address the climate crisis, new sustainable energy sources and other infrastructures are transforming our- Author: Ferry, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 3777440930
- Language: English
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Turning Feral: A Modern Journey of Hunting, Trapping, and Living Intentionally in the Wilderness
$15.99 Add to cartZachary Hanson lived on cruise control. He had a thriving career, designer clothes, and a jet-setting lifestyle. He practiced high-level jiu-jitsu, ran ultramarathons, and pursued academic interests,
- Author: Hanson, Zachary Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1544535171
- Language: English
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
$17.00 Read moreThirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.
Bill McKibben’s- Author: McKibben, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1250256852
- Language: English
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the- Author: Griswold, Eliza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1250215072
- Language: English
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Last Rhinos
$27.00 Add to cartAn inspiring story of conservation in the face of brutal war and bureaucratic quagmires, The Last Rhinos will move animal lovers everywhere.
Conservationist Lawrence Anthony’s South African wildlife r- Author: Anthony, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 20 2013
- ISBN10: 1250031699
- Language: English
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Black Diamonds: A Childhood Colored by Coal
$17.95 Add to cartA 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Award winner
“Young’s memoir of her hometown is as powerful a picture as Inness’ painting, revealing its harsh transformation a century later.”
–BOOKLIST
In 1855, … [more below]
- Author: Young, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1948814838
- Language: English
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Joseph W. Taylor BORN TO BIRD
$39.99 Add to cartJoseph W. Taylor BORN TO BIRD is a biography of the foremost North American amateur ornithologist and conservationist in the mid-twentieth century.
BORN TO BIRD examines Joe Taylor’s life path as a jo… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: March 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218144852
- Language: English
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Natural Design, Organic Architecture: Lessons for Building Green from an American Original
$65.00 Add to cartAn unsung prophet of today’s green movement in architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright was an innovator of eco-sensitive design generations ahead of his time. An architect and designer of far-reaching vision… [more below]
- Author: Weintraub, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0847837963
- Language: English
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For Love of Orcas: An Anthology
$20.00 Add to cartAfter the Southern Resident orca Tahlequah swam with her newly born dead calf for 17 days, scientists, poets, and writers responded to her grief and the plight of the endangered orcas in this moving a
- Author: Shattuck McBride, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: February 10 2019
- ISBN10: 057846277X
- Language: English
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Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland
$30.99 Add to cartA Kirkus Best Book of 2016
Many of the men and women doing today’s most consequential environmental work–restoring America’s grasslands, wildlife, soil, rivers, wetlands, and oceans–would not call th
- Author: Horn, Miriam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354873
- Language: English
