Animal-Speak
: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small
by Ted Andrews
(Paperback -- October 1993)
A New Kind of Science
by Stephen Wolfram
Listed under Science
The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship, Tragedy, and Survival
in the Alaskan Wilderness
by Lynn Schooler
Listed under Ecology
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior
by David Allen Sibley
Listed under Birds
The
Future of Life
by Edward Osborne Wilson
The eminent Harvard naturalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Wilson
marshals all the prodigious powers of his intellect and imagination in
this impassioned call to ensure the future of life. Opening with an imagined
conversation with Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond, he writes that he
has come "to explain to you, and in reality to others and not least to
myself, what has happened to the world we both have loved." Based on a
love affair with the natural world that spans 70 years, Wilson combines
lyrical descriptions with dire warnings and remarkable stories of flora
and fauna on the edge of extinction with hard economics. How many species
are we really losing? Is environmentalism truly contrary to economic development?
And how can we save the planet? Wilson has penned an eloquent plea for
the need for a global land ethic and offers the strategies necessary to
ensure life on earth based on foresight, moral courage, and the best tools
that science and technology can provide. -- Lesley Reed - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 256 pages
Knopf; ISBN: 0679450785; 1st edition (January 8, 2002)
Salt:
A World History
by Mark Kurlansky
Hardcover: 352 pages
Walker & Co; ISBN: 0802713734; (January 2002)
The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees
: Eastern Region (Eastern)
by Elbert Luther Little, et al
Listed under Trees
Silent
Spring
by Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is now 40 years old. Written over the
years 1958 to 1962, it took a hard look at the effects of insecticides
and pesticides on songbird populations throughout the United States, whose
declining numbers yielded the silence to which her title attests. "What
happens in nature is not allowed to happen in the modern, chemical-drenched
world," she writes, "where spraying destroys not only the insects but also
their principal enemy, the birds. When later there is a resurgence of the
insect population, as almost always happens, the birds are not there to
keep their numbers in check." The publication of her impeccably reported
text helped change that trend by setting off a wave of environmental legislation
and galvanizing the nascent ecological movement. It is justly considered
a classic, and it is well worth rereading today. Amazon.com
Paperback from Mariner Books
Book Published: 22 October, 2002
Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
by Michael Capuzzo
Listed under Fish & Sharks
Newcomb's
Wildflower Guide: An Ingenious New Key System for Quick, Positive Field
Identification of the Wildflowers, Flowering Shrubs and Vines of N
by Lawrence Newcomb, Gordon Morrison (Illustrator)
(Paperback -- April 1989)
Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
by Erik Larson, Isaac Monroe Cline
Listed under Hurricanes
The Woodbook
by Klaus Ulrich Leistikow
Listed under Woodworking
Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home
by Paul Stamets, J. S. Chilton
Listed under Mushrooms
Water
and Wastewater Calculations Manual
by Shun Dar Lin, C. C. Lee
Book Description: Adapted from the Handbook of Environmental
Engineering Calculations, Water and Waste Water Calculations Manual is
designed as a quick-reference resource for solving most of the mathematical
problems encountered by professionals specializing in water and wastewater.
Calculations methods for all areas water and waste water are represented
and practical solutions are provided.
Water and Waste Water Calculations Manual includes such topics as conversion
factors, calculations for flows in aquifers, pumping, stream sanitation,
techniques for classification of lake water quality, hydraulics for environmental
engineers pipe networks for water supply distribution and fundamental concepts
of water flow in pipes, weirs, orifices and open channels.
Paperback from McGraw-Hill Professional
Book Published: 03 May, 2001
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