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

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

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 ...

Butterflies and moths are some of the most amazing creatures in nature. There are over 180,000 different kinds and they can ...

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 ...

When summer is at its zenith and the sallow foliage develops a bluish tinge, a giant butterfly – beautiful, bold and ...

Lila Nova is a thirty-two year-old advertising copyrighter who lives alone in a plain, white box of an apartment. Recovering ...

The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying ...

A journey into the weird, wonderful and truly astonishing lives of the small but mighty creatures who keep the world ...

Robert F. Sibert Medal winner Bugs, of all kinds, were considered to be “born of mud” and to be “beasts ...

WINNER OF THE 2017 NASW SCIENCE IN SOCIETY JOURNALISM AWARD A FINALIST FOR THE 2017 PEN/E. O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING ...

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A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our ...

'If civilisation is to survive, this century will have to be a time of dramatic transformation, not just in technological ...

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

The extraordinary true story of a journey into the deepest recesses of the Amazon to track one of the planet's ...

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

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

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

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

Subtitle in pre-publication: The true story of the de-extinction of one of history's most iconic creatures....

Looks at the interactions that have occurred between scientists and animal subjects and explains what is being discovered about how ...

A fascinating, entertaining dive into the long-standing relationship between humans and insects, revealing the surprising ways we depend on these ...

From the author of The Hidden Lives of Owls, an exploration of the elusive lives of whales in the Pacific ...

“In terrifying detail, Unholy illustrates how a vast network of white Christian nationalists plotted the authoritarian takeover of the American ...

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

Edward O. Wilson -- University Professor at Harvard, winner of two Pulitzer prizes, eloquent champion of biodiversity -- is arguably ...

Follows the 1998 Big Year competition between Sandy Komito, Al Levantin, and Greg Miller, during which the three rivals risked their ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of ...

“I pull on my balaclava and step onto the bridge wing. It’s loud outside: I can hear the rumbles ...

For many years, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of a fierce struggle. At stake is the future of ...

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

Few growing up in the aftermath of World War II will ever forget the horrifying reports that Nazi concentration camp ...

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

From the author of the acclaimed Li Du novels comes Elsa Hart's new atmospheric mystery series. London, 1703. In a time ...

How fast do butterflies fly? Does a butterfly have ears? Do they sleep? Does a caterpillar have a skeleton? How ...

"With its evocative Dublin setting, lyrical prose, tough but sympathetic heroine, and a killer twist in the plot, Sarah Stewart ...

The true story of a brilliant herpetologist killed by a snake in the jungle of Burma is vividly recounted in ...