Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide
10 best books like Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide (Lawrence Newcomb): The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, The Future Of Life, Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves, National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, A Field Guide to Western Birds: A Completely New Guide to Field Marks of All Species Found in North America West of the 100th Meridian and North of Mexico, A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America, If They Come for Us, Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds, A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and Central North America
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
| Author | David Quammen |
| ISBN | 0684827123 |
David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment...
| Author | Edward O. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0349115796 |
A magisterial accomplishment: both a moving description of our biosphere and a guidebook for the protection of all its species, including humankind.
From one of the world’s most influential scientists (and two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author) comes his most timely and important...
| Author | Tom Wessels |
| ISBN | 0881504203 |
An intrepid sleuth and articulate tutor, Wessels teaches us to read a landscape the way we might solve a mystery. What exactly is the meaning of all those stone walls in the middle of the forest? Why do beech and birch trees have smooth bark when the bark of all other northern species is rough? How do you tell...
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
| Author | Frans de Waal |
| ISBN | 0393635066 |
New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.
Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which...
| Author | National Geographic Society |
| ISBN | 0792268776 |
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America continues to be the most sought-after, the most authoritative, and the easiest to access field guide to birds on the market. Now in its 4th Edition, revisions include 250 updated range maps, and new classification information National...
| Author | Roger Tory Peterson |
| ISBN | 0395911745 |
"The Birder’s Bible" for more than 60 years, Roger Tory Peterson’s classic Field Guide to Western Birds includes all species found in North America west of the 100th meridian and north of Mexico. Featuring the unique Peterson Identification System, Western Birds contains 165 full-color paintings...
A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
| Author | Roger Tory Peterson |
Features the unique Peterson Identification System, which has never been surpassed as a tool for field identification and is available only in Peterson Guides. "The Birder's Bible" for over sixty years. All the birds of eastern and central North America--including accidentals, exotics, and escapes--shown...
Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being a Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America, while exploring identity, violence, and healing.
In this powerful and imaginative debut poetry collection, Fatimah Asghar nakedly captures...
| Author | Paul R. Ehrlich |
| ISBN | 0671659898 |
This is the most complete and authoritative reference book about the birds of North America -- up to date and in field-guide format.
The Birder's Handbook is the first of its kind: a portable library of fascinating information not included in your identification guide. For each of the 646 species...
Informative and interesting, Lee Allen Peterson's A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and Central North America is a reference guide that has been conceptualised for one main purpose and therefore specifically and only describes the many edible wild plant species of Eastern and Central...
| Author | National Audubon Society |
| ISBN | 0679428526 |
Introduced in 1977 and completely revised in 1994, these bestselling photographic field guides have become the birding bibles of more than four million enthusiasts. Virtually every bird found in North America is brought to life in a full-color photograph and with textual information on the bird's...
A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and...
| Author | Kenn Kaufman |
| ISBN | 0395964644 |
About myself: I've been birding for all of three months, not really taking walks for the purpose of birding or making IDs until this past Christmas Bird Count. So I imagine I fall right in the target demographic for this work. My impression of the several times I've built a stack of several guides to look...
| Author | Masanobu Fukuoka |
| ISBN | 8185569312 |
I legally downloaded the book in PDF form from http://www.soilandhealth.org/
This book made me realize that something else is possible.
The author writes that he is a farmer in Japan who gets rice yields that meet or eclipse the most highly productive regions in Japan, yet he:
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