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10 best books like Rainforest (Thomas Marent): The Life of Birds, Jaguar: One Man's Struggle to Establish the World's First Jaguar Preserve, Meetings with Remarkable Trees, Human, Maker Lab: 28 Super Cool Projects, Who Eats What?: Food Chains and Food Webs, Germs Make Me Sick!, The Forgotten Pollinators, Ocean: The World's Last Wilderness Revealed, Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife

The Life of Birds
AuthorDavid Attenborough
ISBN0563387920
Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightness, freedom and richness of plumage and song.

David Attenborough has been...
Jaguar: One Man's Struggle to Establish the World's First Jaguar Preserve
AuthorAlan Rabinowitz
ISBN1559638028
In 1983, zoologist Alan Rabinowitz ventured into the rain forest of Belize, determined to study the little-known jaguar in its natural habitat and to establish the world's first jaguar preserve. Within two years, he had succeeded. In Jaguar he provides the only first-hand account of a scientist's...
Meetings with Remarkable Trees
AuthorThomas Pakenham
ISBN0375752684
Thomas Pakenham's bestselling book of tree portraits. With this astonishing collection of tree portraits, Thomas Pakenham produced a new kind of tree book. The arrangement owed little to conventional botany. The sixty trees were grouped according to their own strong personalities: Natives, Travellers,...
Human
AuthorRobert Winston
ISBN0756605202
A highly comprehensive and illustrated account of what makes us what we are: how we evolved, how our bodies work and develop, and how we think and behave, this unbelievable reference examines the qualities all humans share but also highlights the diversity of human society and culture. Profiling more...
Maker Lab: 28 Super Cool Projects
AuthorJack Challoner
ISBN1465451358
Create your own science lab and try out amazing experiments with Maker Lab: Make Your Own Science Experiments.

Put on that lab coat and secure those safety glasses before testing over 30 kid-safe experiments that use common household items. Grow geodes in eggshells, make a bouncing ball out...
Who Eats What?: Food Chains and Food Webs
AuthorPatricia Lauber
ISBN0064451305
Informative and intriguing, this science book teaches children to think about the complex and interdependent web of life on Earth. Every link in a food chain is important because each living thing depends on others for survival, no matter how big or how small. Lively drawings from Holly Keller illustrate...
Germs Make Me Sick!
AuthorMelvin A. Berger
ISBN0064451542
How are you feeling?

Most of the time you feel fine, but sometimes you get sick. Sometimes a germ catches up with you.

Germs are all around you, but they are too small for you to see. Many germs are harmless, but two kinds, viruses and bacteria, can make you sick. Read and find out about germs,...
The Forgotten Pollinators
AuthorStephen L. Buchmann
ISBN1559633530
Really good.

I had read about this years ago, and finally got around to it, expecting something fairly academic.

I was surprised then to see the vivid, kind of aggressive cover as various pollinators come right at you. This is accompanied by several other illustrations that are surprisingly...
Ocean: The World's Last Wilderness Revealed
AuthorRobert Dinwiddie
ISBN0756622050
As the site where life first formed on Earth, a key element of the climate, and a continuing but fragile resource, oceans are of vital importance to our planet. From the geological and physical processes that affect the ocean floor to the key habitat zones, flora, and fauna, this is the definitive reference...
Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife
AuthorDavid Burnie
ISBN0756616344
Unrivaled in its breadth and visual impact, this unique guide sets out to illustrate, describe, and explain the incredible range of creatures that make up the animal kingdom. Exceptional Coverage. This authoritative volume starts with a clear introduction to the animal world, examining the reasons...
Frozen Planet
AuthorAlastair Fothergill
ISBN1846079624
Frozen Planet is the exciting successor to the ground-breaking Planet Earth and Blue Planet series, and has been created by the same award-winning team. Most of us will never travel to these great wildernesses and, even for those lucky enough to have gone, this portrait of our polar regions will surprise...
Natural History
AuthorBecky Alexander
ISBN0756667526
A landmark in reference publishing and overseen and authenticated by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, Natural History presents an unrivaled visual survey of Earth's natural history. Giving a clear overview of the classification of our natural world-over 6,000...
The World Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures
AuthorDougal Dixon
This is my current obsession...The illustrations are splendid.As the title indicates, it's not just dinosaurs...the book comes up into relatively recent times and recently extinct creatures (read a few hundred to a few thousand years). It's interesting to learn that we may just be in an extended...
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
AuthorPeter Matthiessen
ISBN0140255079
A classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise
 
Peter Matthiessen crisscrossed 20,000 miles of the South American wilderness, from the Amazon rain forests...
Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot
AuthorTom Butler
ISBN1939621232
Every problem facing humanity, from poverty to violent conflict over resources, is exacerbated by a ballooning human population – and so is every problem facing nature, including ecosystem loss, species extinctions, and climate chaos. But why is the demographic explosion and its effects ignored...
Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America
AuthorAdrian Forsyth
ISBN0684187108
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...
The Truth about Poop
AuthorSusan E. Goodman
ISBN0670036749
Did you know that sharks produce spiral poop? That the average Japanese woman uses 2 1/2 miles of toilet paper a year? That when wolverines are done feeding on a dead animal, they save the rest for later by defecating all over it? Those gross and fascinating facts can be found in The Truth about Poop, an informative...
Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages
AuthorThomas R. Holtz Jr.
ISBN0375824197
WRITTEN BY A PROFESSIONAL paleontologist for young readers, this award-winning guide to the complete Dinosauria is packed with enough detail and insider information to satisfy even adult dinophiles! The text includes brief entries on all 800+ "named" species of Mesozoic dinosaurs, as well as chapters...
Tracking and the Art of Seeing: How to Read Animal Tracks and Sign
AuthorPaul Rezendes
ISBN0062735241
In this newly revised and updated edition of his highly acclaimed field guide, renowned nature photographer and tracking expert Paul Rezendes brings the fields and forests to life with his unique observations on North American wildlife and their tracks and sign. Illustrated with hundreds of his...
Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas
AuthorCheryl Bardoe
ISBN0810954753
The only picture book available about the father of genetics and his pea plants!

How do mothers and fathers—whether they are apple trees, sheep, or humans—pass down traits to their children? This question fascinated Gregor Mendel throughout his life. Regarded as the world’s first...
The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong
AuthorJohn Lloyd
Fast on the heels of the New York Times bestseller The Book of General Ignorance comes The Book of Animal Ignorance, a fun, fact-filled bestiary that is sure to delight animal lovers everywhere. Arranged alphabetically from aardvark to worm, here are one hundred of the most interesting members of...
The Life Of A Fossil Hunter
AuthorCharles H. Sternberg
ISBN0253355494
This classic memoir-first published in 1909 and long out of print-is part scientific autobiography, part adventure story, and all an authentic piece of Americana. It tells the story of Charles Sternberg and his life-long passion for dinosaur fossils. Sternberg writes vividly of his discoveries...
Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them
AuthorTed Danson
ISBN1605292621
Most people know Ted Danson as the affable bartender Sam Malone in the long-running
television series Cheers. But fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half
decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a looming global
catastrophe—the...
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