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Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink

10 best books like Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink (Jane Goodall): Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects, Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide, Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, Cry of the Kalahari, The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness, The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures, Brave the Tempest, The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects
AuthorAmy Stewart
ISBN1565129601
In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes—creatures that infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs. From the world’s most painful hornet, to the flies...
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
AuthorPeter Allison
ISBN0762745657
A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “only food runs!”

In the tradition of Bill Bryson, a new writer brings us the lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide. Peter Allison gives us the guide’s-eye view of living in the bush,...
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
AuthorPaul Hawken
ISBN0143130447
- New York Times bestseller -

The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world

"At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution...
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
AuthorWilliam McDonough
ISBN0865475873
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, such an approach only perpetuates the one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing...
Cry of the Kalahari
AuthorMark Owens
ISBN0618711880
Oh, to be Mark and Delia and lie under the clear sky with only lions for company. That is the stuff of dreams for an animal lover. I feel privileged to have been taken by the authors to Botswana Kalahari and given a glimpse of the rare world out there, so inaccessible to most of us. So for that, thank you, Mark...
The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness
AuthorDelia Owens
ISBN0395680905
I really wanted to love this book. I tried. The information and the story of what these two conservationists have done is amazing, however the overly flowery descriptions and romanticized views of Africa almost drowned out the reason for the book. In North Lunagwa National Park in Zambia the elephants...
The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures
AuthorLawrence Anthony
ISBN1250004519
When Lawrence Anthony learned that the northern white rhino, living in the war-ravaged Congo, was on the very brink of extinction, he knew he had to act. If the world lost the sub-species, it would be the largest land mammal since the woolly mammoth to go extinct. In "The Last Rhinos," Anthony recounts...
Brave the Tempest
AuthorKaren Chance
Cassie Palmer has been chief seer of the supernatural world for a little over four months. In that time, she's battled two gods, fallen in love with two men, and confronted the two sides of her own nature, both god and human. So it's not surprising that she currently finds herself facing two adversaries,...
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
AuthorNoah Strycker
ISBN1594486352
An entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world—and deep connection with humanity.

Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As scientists come to...
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
AuthorKara Cooney
ISBN1426219776
This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today.

Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in...
Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
AuthorLawrence Anthony
ISBN0312358326
When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, located in the city center and caught in the war's crossfire. Once Anthony entered Baghdad he discovered that full-scale combat and uncontrolled looting had killed nearly all the animals...
Strangers She Knows
AuthorChristina Dodd
I have three deadly problems:
1. I've seriously offended a maniacal killer.
2. I just had a bullet removed from my brain.
3. My new daughter is growing up too fast--and she's in the line of fire.

Living on an obscure, technology-free island off California means safety from the murderer...
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