Natural Science | Science
Jun.28.2012
American wildlife artist Charles R. Knight (1874–1953) spent a lifetime creating some of the first paintings and sculptures of dinosaurs, mammoths, and cavemen that were both spectacularly beautiful and scientifically accurate. For generations, his work has inspired scientists, artists, and...
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Feb.04.2011
Through engaging stories from around the world, the authors introduce readers to a diverse group of people who are pioneering new approaches to conservation.
Daily and Ellison describe the dynamic interplay of science, economics, business, and politics that is involved in establishing these new...
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Jan.24.2011
When a huge unexplainable explosion occurs in the North Atlantic the Navy is dispatched to investigate. Evidence of the explosion can’t be found, which elicits the NSA to hire a Washington “think tank” to act as the lead investigator. The odds are against the small team from the start. The main...
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Oct.10.2009
Theoretical Physics: Unthinkable Works ! (72 pages in total) is most definitely not a book an any new theories. It is a book which contains major essays in theoretical physics that uncovers new and exact solutions - never seen before - making this monograph one of the most...
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Jan.28.2009
A fictionalised autobiography of the scientist Alfred Wegener - the man behind the idea of continental drift.
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May.23.2008
A heart stone is one of nature's gifts. Heart stones are not rare or precious in the typical sense--a good scour of a beach with any stones at all will usually turn up one or two heart-shaped stones. But heart stones, lifted from their obscurity, with all of their cracks and blemishes, lopsided and...
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Apr.15.2008
From the Publisher
Elephants swim gracefully underwater and use their trunks like snorkels. Hippos sink to the bottom and go to sleep. Walruses sing as they swim along, and so do whales. Linda Capus Riley has written a lovely - and informative - poem about the ways that sixteen animals behave in...
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Feb.26.2008
This book tells the story of human evolution, the epic of Homo sapiens and its colorful precursors and relatives. The story begins in Africa, six to seven million years ago, and encompasses twenty known human species, of which Homo sapiens is the sole survivor. Illustrated with spectacular, three-...
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Feb.09.2008
900+ translated haiku, all on the sea cucumber and most over a hundred years old, with a good measure of natural history.
You might know about Ponge and his object poems, but the sea cucumber, a featureless and formless (protean) animal without a ganglia of brain, is the ultimate "thing,...
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Jan.09.2008
THE SACRED HOOP, by Bill Broder, Sierra Club Books "Bill Broder's THE SACRED HOOP is a special book in which the moral qualities of the human spirit, linked to a metaphysical presence moving through history and pervading life, are persuasive and affecting. It's a fine piece of writing. A...
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