We'd like to share our personal favorites with you. Here are titles that we particularly want to "hand-sell" to you—books that we think are outstanding, and that we don't want you to miss.
Robert L. Fleming Jr., Dorje Tsering, & Liu Wulin. Jimmy Carter, foreword.
Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393061178. Daedalus Item Code: 01922
Presented in color photographs, captions, and a detailed narrative travelogue, this book depicts the staggering beauty and diversity of Tibet, from Mount Everest to the world's deepest gorge, from ... (Read More)
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In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere, Mark Moffett recounts his entomological exploits in search of the hidden world of ants. A biologist and ... (Read More)
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In this remarkable new perspective on the human love of animals, anthropologist Pat Shipman reveals that the domestication of animals has not only changed them, it has had a profound developmental ... (Read More)
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The stunning large photographs in this book, up to 23 x 11 1/2 inches, offer sweeping views and also super close-up images of the animal kingdom. Among the captioned images here you'll find an ... (Read More)
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As a child growing up in the Bronx, Linda Lombardi preferred her basket full of plastic animals to dolls; later in life she gave up a tenured position as a professor to take a zookeeping job, then ... (Read More)
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First-person narratives, cultural histories, nature and science writing, and fiction comprise this anthology of writing on the Arctic, surveying four centuries of exploring and scientific study while ... (Read More)
In eleven chapters, each featuring a different animal or plant, wildlife writer Todd McLeish takes readers on an entertaining journey with scientists who study marine creatures in New England waters. ... (Read More)
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Bedbugs were believed to have been eradicated by DDT and organophosphates in the 1950s, but they are now reaching epidemic levels; some cities have seen a 1000% increase in bedbug infestations within ... (Read More)
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This beautifully illuminated companion to Graeme Gibson's Bedside Book of Birds explores the relationships between predators and their prey in the animal kingdom—here are beasts rampaging and ... (Read More)
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The loyalty, affection, and adventurous spirits of dogs have inspired a rich body of short fiction, and anthologist Paul Staudohar presents 23 outstanding stories of canine companions, from such ... (Read More)
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Environmental author and speaker Diane MacEachern offers this simple but revolutionary message: the fastest, most effective way to change the industries that pollute the planet is to mobilize the ... (Read More)
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An oasis of 843 green acres in the middle of Manhattan, Central Park is also, according to the New York City Audubon Society, one of the top ten birding spots in America, hosting more than 200 ... (Read More)
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