A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics - Revised and Expanded Second Edition

7 best books like A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics - Revised and Expanded Second Edition (John C. Kricher): The Monkey Wrench Gang, Witch & Wizard, Rising from the Plains, Here on Earth, Biophilia, Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America, Mycroft Holmes

The Monkey Wrench Gang

Author	Edward Abbey
ISBN	0061129763

Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the American wilderness requires more than a little of the old willing suspension...

Witch & Wizard

Author

James Patterson

The world is changing-the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now kids are disappearing. For fifteen-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside-down when they are hauled out of bed one night, separated from their parents, and thrown into a secret compound...

Rising from the Plains

Author	John McPhee
ISBN	0374520658

This is about high-country geology and a Rocky Mountain regional geologist. I raise that semaphore here at the start so no one will feel misled by an opening passage in which a slim young woman who is not in any sense a geologist steps down from a train in Rawlins, Wyoming, in order to go north by stagecoach...

Here on Earth

Author	Alice Hoffman
ISBN	0425169693

After nearly twenty years of living in California, March Murray, along with her fifteen-year-old daughter, Gwen, returns to the sleepy Massachusetts town where she grew up to attend the funeral of Judith Dale, the beloved housekeeper who raised her. Yet returning to her hometown also brings her back...

Biophilia

Author	Edward O. Wilson
ISBN	0674074424

I will be so bold as to define biophilia as the innate tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes.
from the Prologue





E.O. Wilson, September 2009 (Wiki, Acghost)

Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929) is an American biologist, researcher (sociobiology,...

Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America

Author	Adrian Forsyth
ISBN	0684187108

This book is written by two biologists who spent a lot of time in the tropical rain forests of central and south America. Each chapter in the book is dedicated to a different subject in the forests, and can be read independently.

Anyone who is curious about the nature world , would be thrilled by...

Mycroft Holmes

Author	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
ISBN	1783291532

Fresh out of Cambridge University, the young Mycroft Holmes is already making a name​ ​for himself in government, working for the Secretary of State for War. Yet this most British of civil servants has strong ties to the faraway island of Trinidad, the birthplace of his best friend, Cyrus Douglas,...