Category - Science
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Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence
HardcoverOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From the scientist duo behind True or Poo?, their original New York Times bestselling sensation—a scientifically precise, fully illustrated, utte...
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The Science and Spirit of Seaweed: Discovering Food, Medicine and Purpose in the Kelp Forests of the Pacific Northwest
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Sustainable Pacific Northwest-based seaweed harvester Amanda Swinimer describes the ecology, culinary uses, evidence-based health benefits and clim...
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Geopedia: A Brief Compendium of Geologic Curiosities
HardcoverOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A garden of geologic delights for all Earthlings Geopedia is a trove of geologic wonders and the evocative terms that humans have devised to descri...
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After the Blast: The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEOn May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted. Fifty-seven ...
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Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A fascinating exploration of the natural history of scent and human perceptions of fragrance from the viewpoint of plant and pollinator "An evocati...
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Bold Forecast: The Hurricane Agnes Deluge
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Everyone knew the flood was impossible. But the sentinels warned it was coming. A vivid saga of courage, sacrifice and survival, Bold Forecast bri...
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Hummingbirds: Marvels of the Bird World
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Marvel at the lives of hummingbirds with this collection of photographs and information by award-winning author and wildlife photographer Stan Teki...
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Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A hopeful journey around the world and across time, illuminating better ways to live with water. Nearly every human endeavor on the planet was co...
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Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A beautiful, lyrical exploration of the places where nature is flourishing in our absence "[Flyn] captures the dread, sadness, and wonder of behold...
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How Light Makes Life: The Hidden Wonders and World-Saving Powers of Photosynthesis
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /It's a clunky word for a miracle: Photosynthesis. But there's no life on Earth without it. For biologist Raffael Jovine, it's a consuming passion, ...
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1,001 Voices on Climate Change: Everyday Stories of Flood, Fire, Drought, and Displacement from Around the World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Join journalist Devi Lockwood on this "monumental achievement" (Richard Moor, bestselling author of On Trails) as she bikes around the world collec...
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Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Horse comes the enthralling examination of one of the most popular and most int...
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Acrocanthosaurus Inside and Out
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /How can paleontologists know what a living dinosaur was like more than a hundred million years ago, particularly when only partial skeletons remai...
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After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This "ambitious [and] delightful" (The New York Times) work of literary nonfiction interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant ...
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The Earth: Biography of Life: The Story of Life on Our Planet Through 50 Creatures
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /It is difficult to conceive of the vast scale of the history of life on Earth, from the very first living organisms that developed in hydrothermal ...
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Spiders of North America
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /An accessible field guide to more than 500 of the most commonly found spider species in North America Of the more than 49,000 species of spider wor...
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Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the ...
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Field Guide to Rivers & Streams: Discovering Running Waters and Aquatic Life
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In Field Guide to Rivers & Streams, Dr. Ryan Utz (Chatham University) presents a broad scientific understanding of rivers, streams, and the ani...
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The Modern Crisis
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Six incisive essays from the father of social ecology.Murray Bookchin's frank assessment of the disaster we are heading toward at increasing speed ...
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Writing Gaia: The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis
HardcoverOriginal price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /Writing Gaia tells the story of the scientific collaboration between James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis through an annotated record of their four-dec...
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Local Voices, Local Choices: The Tacare Approach to Community-Led Conservation
HardcoverOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Discover the stories behind Jane Goodall's visionary approach to community-led conservation. You know of Jane Goodall's work with wild chimpanzees ...
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How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill--the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty-ton humpback whale breach...
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Chasing Plants: Journeys with a Botanist Through Rainforests, Swamps, and Mountains
HardcoverOriginal price $27.50Original price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A New Scientist Best Book of the Year From an acclaimed botanist and artist, a thrilling and beautifully illustrated expedition around the globe i...
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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this scientifically informed account of the changes in nature over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian David Atten...
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