The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator's Deadly Return to Suburban America
10 best books like The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator's Deadly Return to Suburban America (David Baron): The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators, The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild, Of Wolves and Men, Hawkeye, Volume 3: L.A. Woman, Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals, A Walk Across America, They All Fall Down, X-Men: Season One, When a Pet Dies
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 | William Stolzenburg |
| ISBN | 1596912995 |
A provocative look at how the disappearance of the world's great predators has upset the delicate balance of the environment, and what their disappearance portends for the future, by an acclaimed science journalist.
It wasn't so long ago that wolves and great cats, monstrous fish and flying...
From one of the finest nature writers at work in America today; a lyrical, dramatic, illuminating tour of the hidden domain of wild animals.
Whether recalling the experience of being chased through the Grand Canyon by a bighorn sheep, swimming with sharks off the coast of British Columbia,...
| Author | Barry Lopez |
| ISBN | 0684163225 |
Originally published in 1978, this classic exploration of humanity’s complex relationship with and understanding of wolves returns with a new afterword by the author.
Humankind's relationship with the wolf is the sum of a spectrum of responses ranging from fear to admiration and affection....
Hawkeye, Volume 3: L.A. Woman
| Author | Matt Fraction |
| ISBN | 0785183906 |
Kate Bishop heads to Los Angeles to get away from New York, life, and Clint Barton - but not away from trouble! Because Madame Masque is hanging out at poolside with the rich and famous as well! As Kate helps a reclusive and Sixties-damaged pop music genius find his lost masterpiece, Madame Masque finds...
| Author | Hal Herzog |
| ISBN | 0061730866 |
Combining the intellect of Malcolm Gladwell with the irreverent humor of Mary Roach and the paradigm-shifting analysis of Jared Diamond, a leading social scientist offers an unprecedented look inside our complex and often paradoxical relationships with animals.
Does living with a pet...
Twenty-five years ago, a disillusioned young man set out on a walk across America. This is the book he wrote about that journey -- a classic account of the reawakening of his faith in himself and his country.
"I started out searching for myself and my country," Peter Jenkins writes, "and found...
| Author | Rachel Howzell Hall |
| ISBN | 0765398141 |
It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime.
Delighted by a surprise invitation, Miriam Macy sails off to a luxurious private island off the coast of Mexico, with six strangers—an ex-cop, a chef, a financial advisor, a nurse, a lawyer, a young widow.
Surrounded by miles of open water...
| Author | Dennis Hopeless |
| ISBN | 0785156453 |
Welcome to the X-Men's first year - hope you survive the experience!
Professor Charles Xavier has recruited five of the most powerful mutants he's ever seen, in order to save a world that hates and fears them. But there's only one problem - they're teenagers who have to survive hormones and uncontrollable...
| Author | Fred Rogers |
| ISBN | 0698116666 |
In this useful book from the First Experience series, the affable star of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood helps children share feelings of the loss of a pet while offering reassurance that grieving is a natural, healing thing to do.
"A sensitive and sensible first book about death." The Bulletin...
The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest
| Author | William Dietrich |
| ISBN | 0140177507 |
Phenomenal. One of the first times I have really taken time to listen to diverse perspectives in the conservation/preservation debate and suddenly found myself on the side of the loggers in Forks,WA. It made me feel more connected to the diverse perspectives people come from in relating to the natural...
| Author | David Quammen |
| ISBN | 1844133230 |
For millennia, nature's biggest and fiercest predators have tormented mankind. The knowledge and fear of the existence of these ferocious man-eaters is forever in the back of our minds, looming in our worst nightmares. Millions of humans have suffered attacks by predators on land and at sea. Yet animals...
| Author | Jim Sterba |
| ISBN | 0307341968 |
This may be hard to believe but it is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals, birds and trees in the eastern United States today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history. For nature lovers, this should be wonderful news -- unless, perhaps, you are one of more...
