Gold Rush in the Jungle: The Race to Discover and Defend the Rarest Animals of Vietnam's "Lost World"
10 best books like Gold Rush in the Jungle: The Race to Discover and Defend the Rarest Animals of Vietnam's "Lost World" (Dan Drollette): The Kingdom of Rarities, Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything, Canton Elegy: A Father's Letter of Sacrifice, Survival, and Enduring Love, Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America, For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement, The Last Great Ape: A Journey Through Africa and a Fight for the Heart of the Continent, The Nature of Horses, The Moral Lives of Animals, The Power of the Herd: Building Social Intelligence, Visionary Leadership, and Authentic Community through the Way of the Horse, The Sun's Heartbeat: And Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet
| Author | Eric Dinerstein |
| ISBN | 1610911954 |
When you look out your window, why are you so much more likely to see a robin or a sparrow than a Kirtland's warbler or a California condor? Why are some animals naturally rare and others so abundant? The quest to find and study seldom-seen jaguars and flamboyant Andean cocks-of-the-rock is as alluring...
Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything
| Author | Doug Macdougall |
| ISBN | 0520249755 |
"Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now use to determine the...
Canton Elegy: A Father's Letter of Sacrifice, Survival, and Enduring Love
| Author | Stephen Lee |
| ISBN | 1780285736 |
Stephen Lee's grandchildren knew him as a humble grocer. Beneath his humble exterior, however, lay one of the most extraordinary stories of the twentieth century.
Lee was born in Canton, China in 1902. As a teenager he was sent to live with relatives in San Francisco. He attended college...
| Author | Jerry Thompson |
| ISBN | 1582436436 |
There’s a crack in the earth’s crust that runs roughly 31 miles offshore, approximately 683 miles from northern California up through Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia. The Cascadia Subduction Zone has generated massive earthquakes over and over again throughout geologic...
| Author | Kathryn Shevelow |
| ISBN | 0805080902 |
The engaging story of how an unlikely group of extraordinary people laid the foundation for the legal protection of animals
In eighteenth-century England—where cockfighting and bullbaiting drew large crowds, and the abuse of animals was routine—the idea of animal protection was...
| Author | Ofir Drori |
| ISBN | 1605983276 |
Staging heart-pounding, espionage-style raids, Ofir Drori and his organization, The Last Great Ape (LAGA), have put countless poachers and traffickers of endangered species behind bars, and they have fought back against a Kafkaesque culture of corruption. Before Ofir arrived in Cameroon, no...
| Author | Stephen Budiansky |
| ISBN | 0684827689 |
Horses have a shared history with man going back millennia to their domestication around 4000 B.C. Yet only in very recent years have scientists begun to turn the tools of modem science on this remarkable animal that has been so wrapped up in human dreams and legends. Now modern scientific research...
| Author | Dale Peterson |
| ISBN | 1596914246 |
Wild elephants walking along a trail stop and spontaneously try to protect and assist a weak and dying fellow elephant. Laboratory rats, finding other rats caged nearby in distressing circumstances, proceed to rescue them. A chimpanzee in a zoo loses his own life trying to save an unrelated infant...
| Author | Linda Kohanov |
| ISBN | 1577316762 |
Linda Kohanov is beloved for her groundbreaking articulation of “the way of the horse,” an experiential wisdom known to riders for centuries but little studied or adapted to off-horse use. Now Kohanov takes those horse-inspired insights on exceptional communication and leadership into the...
| Author | Bob Berman |
| ISBN | 0316091014 |
The beating heart of the sun is the very pulse of life on earth. And from the ancients who plotted its path at Stonehenge to the modern scientists who unraveled the nuclear fusion reaction that turns mass into energy, humankind has sought to solve its mysteries. In this lively biography of the sun, Bob...
| Author | Connie Barlow |
| ISBN | 0465005527 |
A new vision is sweeping through ecological science: The dense web of dependencies that makes up an ecosystem has gained an added dimension-the dimension of time. Every field, forest, and park is full of living organisms adapted for relationships with creatures that are now extinct. In a vivid narrative,...
The Modern Dog: How Dogs Fit into Our Society, Culture, and Our Personal and Emotional Lives
| Author | Stanley Coren |
| ISBN | 1416593683 |
Dogs are invented creatures -- invented by humans, who have been shaping the lives of these four-legged companions for more than 14,000 years. However, we often forget that, just as dogs live in our world, we live in theirs. "The Modern Dog" is a look at our coevolution, interpreting both canine and human...
| 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...
Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World
Bed bugs. Few words strike such fear in the minds of travelers. In cities around the world, lurking beneath the plush blankets of otherwise pristine-looking hotel beds are tiny bloodthirsty beasts just waiting for weary wanderers to surrender to a vulnerable slumber. Though bed bugs today have infested...
| Author | Peter Lane Taylor |
| ISBN | 1580132618 |
This was one of the most fascinating Holocaust survival stories I’ve ever read. Can you imagine living in a series of caves deep underground for 344 days, without once seeing the sun? That is what a group of Jewish villagers, all related by blood or marriage, did to escape from the Nazis during World...
Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist's Journey to Climate Skepticism
| Author | Jim Steele |
| ISBN | 1490390189 |
For 25 years, as director of San Francisco State University's Sierra Nevada Field Campus, Jim Steele has opened the eyes and ears of countless students to the magic of California's Sierra Nevada. His first book, Landscapes and Cycles, An Environmentalist's Journey to Climate Skepticism will likewise...
| Author | Kelle James |
| ISBN | 1442406232 |
Kelle James left an abusive home at the age of sixteen and went to the best place she could imagine: New York City. She had big plans of becoming a model, but within a week she was homeless and broke. What follows is her exceptional story of trying to make it on her own with nothing to her name and no one to trust....
| Author | Christine Johnson |
| ISBN | 0373282710 |
Her Heart and Her Business Are on the Line
Dressmaker Ruth Fox gave up her dream of a husband and children long ago. Her family's floundering dress shop, her ailing father and her two younger sisters require Ruth's full attention. Though the handsome new stranger in town is intriguing, Ruth...
In the wild summer of 1974, fifteen year old Kevin Copeland falls madly in love with the wrong girl at the worst time. His dream girl is a stunning knockout, but she’s also the bold and seductive daughter of the threatening, other woman in his father’s life. Kevin’s journey into first love becomes...
The Turks in World History
| Author | Carter V. Findley |
| ISBN | 0195177266 |
Beginning in Inner Asia two thousand years ago, the Turks have migrated and expanded to form today's Turkish Republic, five post-Soviet republics, other societies across Eurasia, and a global diaspora. For the first time in a single, accessible volume, this book traces the Turkic peoples' trajectory...
| Author | David Harvey |
| ISBN | 1557866813 |
This book engages with the politics of social and environmental justice, and seeks new ways to think about the future of urbanization in the twenty-first century. It establishes foundational concepts for understanding how space, time, place and nature - the material frames of daily life - are constituted...
Beyond the Bear: How I Learned to Live and Love Again after Being Blinded by a Bear
| Author | Dan Bigley |
| ISBN | 0762784555 |
The unbelievable true story of a man who narrowly survived one of the most brutal grizzly bear attacks, and the love that separated his blindness from the dark.
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A 25-year-old backcountry wanderer, a man happiest exploring wild places with his dog, Dan Bigley woke up one midsummer morning...
| Author | Christopher Leonard |
| ISBN | 1451645813 |
An investigative journalist takes you inside the corporate meat industry—a shocking, in-depth report every American should read.
The biggest takeover in American business that you’ve n ever heard of
The American supermarket seems to represent the best in America: abundance,...
Mestengo: A Wild Mustang, a Writer on the Run, and the Power of the Unexpected
| Author | Melinda Roth |
| ISBN | 0762790199 |
Exhausted by her job as a political press secretary, Melinda Roth found the courage to escape. Her goal: a simpler life in rural Illinois that would let her pursue her passion for writing. But then real life intervened. A fire at a neighboring farm and a misinterpreted gesture of kindness transformed...
| Author | Zachary Bartels |
| ISBN | 1401690564 |
THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA WERE THERE WHEN JERUSALEM FELL, THEY WERE THERE WHEN THE TEMPLARS DISINTEGRATED, AND THEY’RE THERE NOW . . . WAITING IN DETROIT FOR A BORN-AGAIN CON MAN TRYING TO SAVE HIS FAMILY.
Former con man Fletcher Doyle is finally home after six years in the pen. He’s working a menial...
