Includes more than 2,000 plants and animals. Spanning the land from Florida to Alaska, it embraces field, forest and prairie. Includes color-coded name tabs for all 16 sections, habitat guides, maps and 2000 color portraits (1 for every plant and animal).
This title shapes a unified and rational picture of nature, history, and life that is often at odds with what we intuitively 'know' to be true. The book asks the reader to reconceptualize their view of natural reality in a fundamental way. Just as a full house in poker expresses an excellence of all parts together, fortuitous in origin but shaped ...
From the day it was released in 2000, KEEPING A NATURE JOURNAL has struck a profound chord among professional, casual and occasional naturalists of all ages. Sales have grown steadily from year to year. Rave reviews from journal-keepers continue to pour in. What makes KEEPING A NATURE JOURNAL so popular? It is inspiring and easy to use. Clare and ...
ildlife-viewing safari, the guide allows even a novice wildlife observer to understand the behavior of nearly one hundred large mammals, from antelopes, hippos and elephants to lions, monkeys and gorillas. 100 illustrations.
Here is the strange story of the seas - how they were born, how life emerged from them, and the marine world within them. Rachel Carson's writing teems with images - the newly-formed Earth cooling beneath an endlessly overcast sky; volcanic action throwing up huge masses on the ocean floor to create immense mountains and desolate canyons; giant ...
A whole new way to look at your world: New England, Florida, California, and the Pacific Northwest are the first four subjects in a series of comprehensive field guides to the flora, fauna, landscape, and climate of specific geographic regions of North America. Up-to-date, concise, accurate species accounts; sensible, user-friendly organization; ...
A whole new way to look at your world: New England, Florida, California, and the Pacific Northwest are the first four subjects in a series of comprehensive field guides to the flora, fauna, landscape, and climate of specific geographic regions of North America. Up-to-date, concise, accurate species accounts; sensible, user-friendly organization; ...
A bestseller since its debut in 1990, with more than 100,000 copies sold, Botany for Gardeners has now been revised, expanded and updated. This edition of Botany for Gardeners will introduce and explain fundamental botanical concepts to gardeners of all abilities, helping them understand plants from a plant's point of view. In engaging, clear ...
Continuing the tradition begun in the acclaimed series of "Foxfire" books first published in 1972, the eleventh book includes articles on wild plant uses, gardening wit and wisdom, beekeeping, tool making, fishing, and more affairs of plain living.
This is the holy writ of cannabis, documenting varieties and providing a commemtary on their aromas, flavours, effects, and origins. Learn the history of marijuana breeding and decide whether "Doc Kevorkian", "Black Widow" and others are suitably named.
Up-to-date, concise, accurate species accounts, sensible, user-friendly organization, extraordinary color photography and illustrations--these features and others combine to make the National Audubon Society Field Guides among the most encyclopedic guidebooks around. 1,500 color photos, plus 200 maps & illustrations in each guide.
At last, a perennial encyclopedia that gardeners can really use--not just look at. It presents 161 major perennial entries, plus hundreds of species and cultivars, all described in detail in the encyclopedia section with complete growing and landscaping information. Charts and tables provide current information on every aspect of perennial ...
Wonderfully illustrated book by famed 19th-century illustrator lists over 200 plants and their figurative equivalents -- tulip = fame; blue violet = faithfulness, etc. Flower-related verses at back of book. 85 full-color illustrations.
One of the greatest books ever written on practical survival is back in print for the next generation of self-reliant citizens! Mel Tappan was the godfather of the modern preparedness movement, and this classic collection of his writings is an indispensable resource for information on how to develop a survival mind-set, identify the best survival ...
The newly revised and updated Everything You Need to Know About... series provides kids and parents with a quick refresher to 4th through 6th grade curriculum topics. The organization and scope of these concise homework-help guides make them an essential reference resource. Researched according to middle-grade curriculum and current textbooks, and ...
"Garden Insects of North America" is the most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the common insects and mites affecting yard and garden plants in North America. In a manner no previous book has come close to achieving, through full-color photos and concise, clear, scientifically accurate text, it describes the vast majority of species ...
This 50-year-old back-to-the-land classic shows how to find land, build a homestead, grow vegetables and fruits, raise livestock, build farm structures, and more.
This book is the first-ever revision of a classic guidebook. It provides information on each plant's characteristics, distribution, and medicinal qualities, as well as updated taxonomy and 15 new species. It shows how to identify and use wild plants for medicinal purposes. This illustrated guide to North American wild medicinals has been a nature ...
This handbook to reading animal tracks and signs has been revised to include more information on tracking and identifying more than 50 species of wildlife.
"Gingrich has been a avid follower of de Waal's work for years. He has even placed de Waal's Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among the Apes on his recommended reading list, along with better known texts such as the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Federalist Papers. What secrets has Gingrich gleaned from our simian ...
Barry Field's "Environmental Economics, 3e", examines all the facets of the connection between environmental quality and the economic behavior of individuals and groups of people. The book contains 21 chapters covering Cost and Benefits of Environmental Policy, Environmental Analysis, Policy Analysis, US Policy (Air Pollution, Toxic Wastes, State ...
Lavishly illustrated with nearly three hundred gorgeous full-colour photos, this engaging guidebook carefully describes forty different edible species of wild mushrooms found around Illinois and surrounding states, including Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, Indiana, and Kentucky. With conversational and witty prose, the book provides extensive detail on ...
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