This popular guide for identifying trees in any season features 600 color photos and 200 line drawings showing bark, branching patterns, fruits, flowers, nuts, leaves, and more. Covers every common tree in eastern North America, updated with the latest taxonomy and 130 range maps. Useful in the field or at home; field tested by forestry experts.
Frogs are amazingly diverse, ranging from the massive Goliath frog, which weighs several pounds, to the recently discovered gold frog, which measures a mere three-eighths of an inch when fully grown. Frogs have inhabited the earth for more than 200 million years. Today, however, these amphibians face more challenges than any other vertebrate ......
Ever wonder how many kinds of turtles there are? Or if they have teeth? Why so many turtles have yellow stripes on their neck? If it is wise to feed turtles in your neighborhood pond or lake?
Although Christians have professed the God of Israel, they have often assumed a naturalistic theism that harks back to the Greeks. Doing so, the author says, has masked the explanatory potential of a basic Christian affirmation: the incarnation. He forges a third way of thinking about divine engagement with the world, beyond deism and theism.
This book examines the vital role of swamps in the making of Australian culture, history, society, community, and language. The volume highlights the importance of the wetlands to indigenous Australian cultures, nineteenth-century European explorers and settlers, and contemporary conservationists and ecologists.
A Fully Illustrated Guide To Wilderness Living And Survival
A fully illustrated guide to wilderness living and survival. Includes step-by-step detailed instructions for how to make your own clothing, shelter, and equipment; how to make and use hunting tools, utensils, wild game traps, tents, deer-horn jewelry, and much more.
Toward the end of his career, Karl Barth made the provocative statement that perhaps what Schleiermacher was up to was a "theology of the third-article" and that he anticipated in the future that a true third-article theology would appear. The author investigates this claim, and argues for a Barthian pneumatology.
Those iconic birds made even more famous by the 2005 film March of the Penguins, penguins conjure up images of caring parents, devoted couples and tough survivors. In Penguins: The Animal Answer Guide, Gerald Kooyman and Wayne Lynch inform readers about all seventeen species, including the Emperor Penguin made famous by the film. Do you know why ......
The polar bear, king of the Arctic, is one of the world's most recognizable animals. Images of the majestic beasts roaming across the ice cap, plunging into frigid waters, and playing with furry cubs have come to symbolize the beauty and grandeur of the Arctic. Andrew E. Derocher and Wayne Lynch have spent decades following the bears, and this ......
