From The Land Before Time to Jurassic Park, images of fantastically large, long-necked, plant-eating dinosaurs have captured our imaginations. These are the sauropods: centerpieces of museums and gentle giants of the distant past. Imagine what it must have been like to crest a hill and see in the valley below not just ......
Bees make honey; we all know that. But what happens between the bee buzzing around our backyard, and the sticky knife in the jar, is a mystery to most of us. How many bee-hours does it take to make just one jar of honey? What do the honeybees' waggling dances really mean? Why do bees swarm? What is a 'house bee'? ......
The Amazing Ways We Are Connected with Our Universe
Entertaining, colorful, and deceptively full of facts, This Phenomenal Life tells the story of the wondrous ways that humans are always completely at one with our surrounding world. From the vast galaxies above to the miniature microbes within, humans are organically connected to the complex cycles and mysterious processes of our universe. Every ......
A Complete Guide to Their Biology, Behavior, and Conservation
For more than a hundred million years, sea turtles have been swimming in the world's oceans. These magnificent, long-lived creatures spend their lives in the water, coming ashore to lay their eggs. Upon hatching, the baby turtles leave the nest and enter a dangerous world of storms and predators. The females will return to the same beach to lay ......
The first edition of Frans de Waal's Chimpanzee Politics was acclaimed not only by primatologists for its scientific achievement but also by politicians, business leaders, and social psychologists for its remarkable insights into the most basic human needs and behaviors. Twenty-five years later, this book is considered a classic.Featuring a new ......
Glorious photographs and accurate answers to every question about parrots make this a must-have for any bird lover.
Have you ever wondered what parrots eat in the wild? Or why so many species live in the Amazon? How intelligent are parrots? What is the world’s rarest parrot? Parrots: The Animal Answer ......
Here are fresh ways of seeing and understanding nature with a vivid journey through the seasons. Detailed facts are interwoven with artistic insights, showing how science can be practised as an art, and how art can help science through using the holistic approach of Goethe. Readers are helped by simple observation exercises, by inspiring ......
Tucked into one of the most beautiful and conflicted regions of the world are the last of the mountain gorillas. These apes have survived centuries of human encroachment into their habitat and range and decades of intense conflict and violence. The remaining 720 mountain gorillas exist in a fragile habitat, nestled in an area torn by human ......
In this extensive update of his definitive reference, Charles D. Michener reveals a diverse fauna that numbers more than 17,000 species and ranges from the common honeybee to rare bees that feed on the pollen of a single type of plant.
In this fourth volume of the “Secrets of the Forest”series, outdoor educator Mark Warren describes the details of how to make and operate the tools that hurl projectiles toward a target including:
· “firing” techniques of a sling, spear, atl-atl, bow and arrow, throwing knife, tomahawk, and blowgun.
· a comprehensive lesson in the art of archery ......
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?
Treating the traditional God concept, as conventionally presented in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions, like any other scientific hypothesis, this title examines the claims made for God's existence. It considers the Intelligent Design arguments as evidence of God's influence in biology.
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.
