The Language Of Butterflies How Thieves Hoarders Scientists And Other Obsessives Unlocked The Secrets Of The Worlds Favorite Insect

"Williams explores the lives of one of the world's most resiliant creatures--the butterfly--shedding light on the role that [it plays] ...

In this “deeply personal and lyrical book” (Publishers Weekly) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse, Wendy ...

In this fascinating book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams explores the lives of ...

An enthralling look at one of the world’s most beautiful and resilient animals, and the role they play in ...

An enthralling look at one of the world's most beautiful and resilient animals, and the role they play in our ...

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Kraken is the traditional name for gigantic sea monsters, and this book introduces one of the most charismatic, enigmatic, and ...

Presents a chronicle of nineteenth-century America's fascination with butterflies that traces the achievements of six naturalists who identified countless new ...

This book is an essential, up-to-date reference on moths by an Australian authority. Emphasis is given to behaviour, defence mechanisms ...

In the last fifty years our butterfly populations have declined by more than eighty per cent and butterflies are now ...

The revelatory and groundbreaking adventure into the 56-million-year history of the horse that horse-lovers have been waiting for Horses have ...

“The ultimate truffle true crime tale”*: A thrilling journey through the hidden underworld of the world's most prized luxury ingredient. *...

Seashells are the sculpted homes of a remarkable group of animals: the molluscs. These are some of the most ancient ...

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Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, there were cephalopods-the ...

An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we—and the planet we inhabit—could ...

Offers a public law theory that elaborates the idea of human dignity to illuminate and justify innovations in constitutional practice....

2019 Foreword Indie Silver Award Winner for Science Welcome to the biggest, fastest, deadliest science book you'll ever read. The world's ...

"[Strange Harvests is] an impressive addition to the modern travelogue, painting some of the world's most remote terrain in visceral ...

Discover why insects look and behave the way they do in this fully illustrated field guide to the world’s ...

Groundbreaking new research shows that by grabbing hold of the three-step "loop" all habits form in our brains--cue, routine, reward--we ...

Down the Wild Cape Fear: A River Journey through the Heart of North Carolina...

An introduction to insect physiology, genetics and behaviour which looks at the interaction between humans and insects, and explores both ...

Trouet delights us with her dedication to the tangible appeal of studying trees, a discipline that has taken her to ...

Thanks to its size and geographic position, Texas is home to nearly 30,000 species of insects, likely making its insect population ...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2014 We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, ...

Extraordinary new insights into the minds and lives of our fellow creatures from two of the world’s top animal ...

Securing Social Media in the Enterprise is a concise overview of the security threats posed by the use of social ...

When Jim gordon set out to build a wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, he knew some people ...

A historian presents “an excellent guide to how pirates became the outlaw celebrities of the high seas” (Greg Jenner, host ...

"This book is a tour de force." -- Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take A ...

This edited collection focuses on the sociology of 'social censure' – the sociological term advocated by Colin Sumner in his seminal ...

A New York Times 2018 Holiday Gift Selection Honey bees get all the press, but the fascinating story of North America’...

A remarkable look at the rarest butterflies, how global changes threaten their existence, and how we can bring them back ...

In the tradition of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, a groundbreaking global investigation into the industry ravaging the environment and ...

With this stunning collection of images of the Southern Appalachians, James Valentine presents an enduring portrait of the region's unique ...

A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% ...

A riveting memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the ...

"In this provocative work full of intriguing female characters from tattoo history, Margot Mifflin makes a persuasive case for the ...

The fascinating and complex evolutionary relationship of the monarch butterfly and the milkweed plant Monarch butterflies are one of nature's ...