A Guide to 140 of the State's Best Rockhounding Sites
More than a third of New Mexico is public land that holds untold quantities of mineralogical treasure. With this book anyone can learn where to find unusual mineral displays, fossils, jasper, agate, petrified wood-not to mention more obsidian than one rockhound could possibly collect in a lifetime. The array and quality of such materials just ......
This fully revised and updated 3rd edition of A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of Southeast Asia is an easy-to-use identification guide to 264 snake species most commonly found in Southeast Asia (covering Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali), and is perfect for resident and visitor alike.
A man needs a dog to catch long-legged rabbits, so he buys a hound with longer legs than the rabbits. It's the fastest dog he's ever seen--the fastest dog anyone has ever seen. The dog is so fast, in fact, the man takes on the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad in some friendly competition. Hilarity ensues.
Birdwatching is for everyone. No other outdoor pursuit yields so much knowledge of nature's ways with so little effort--if one knows what to look for. Birding Florida opens the world of birding to the novice and expert in this complete guide to getting the most out of birding in Florida. Birding Florida includes sections on birding technology, ......
A Field Guide to the Birds of Acadia National Park
Birdwatching is for everyone. No other outdoor pursuit yields so much knowledge of nature's ways with so little effort--if one knows what to look for. Best Easy Bird Guide Acadia National Park opens the world of birding to the novice and expert in this complete guide to getting the most out of birding in Acadia National Park. Best Easy Bird Guide ......
Birdwatching is for everyone. No other outdoor pursuit yields so much knowledge of nature's ways with so little effort--if one knows what to look for. Best Easy Bird Guide Cape Cod opens the world of birding to the novice and expert in this complete guide to getting the most out of birding in Cape Cod. Best Easy Bird Guide Cape Cod includes ......
In Wetlands and Western Cultures: Denigration to Conservation, Rod Giblett examines the portrayal of wetlands in Western culture and argues for their conservation.
Ecocriticism, the Universal Ecosystem, and the Astropocene
In The End of the Anthropocene, Michael J. Gormley examines late-stage anthropocene literature and the imagining of the astropocene. Focusing on science fiction literature, Gormley frames a changing ecoethic for the end of the anthropocene.
Eighty Years of Intentional Community Building and Commons Stewardship i
In Seeing Like a Commons, Joshua P. Lockyer traces the development of one of the United States's oldest intentional communities from its founding in 1937 to the present. Lockyer examines how community members have developed flexible sets of cooperative processes for the stewardship of the land and other resources.
The mountains and foothills of western Maine are a hiker's paradise, featuring some of the finest hiking terrain in the Eastern United States. Join Registered Maine Guide Doug Dunlap on more than two dozen excursions.
Environmental Postcolonialism investigates the environmental ramifications of colonialism and furnishes a hopeful ecocritical vision of a postcolonial world.
Communicating the Climate Crisis lays out fresh directions and strategies for creating a new story of hope through action-not as isolated and "guilty" consumers, but as social actors who use emotional resilience, climate conversations, justice, and faith to break the current social inertia and create a desired future.
In Communicating in the Anthropocene: Intimate Relations, the contributors analyze how to live in connection with other beings in the face of crisis and to engage the concept of the Anthropocene from within.
Reading Cats and Dogs offers fifteen examples of ecocritical animal studies from around the world. The essays in this volume complicate the concept of "companion animals" by exploring our relationships with stray and feral animals, utilitarian relationships with other species, and the troubling realities of domestication, ownership, and abuse.
Reading Aridity in Western American Literature focuses on literature - fiction, film, non-fiction, and travel literature arid the American West. Treating "classic" authors, ignored works, and books and films by non-Americans, the volume employs ecocritical and/or new materiali...
Turkish Ecocriticism affirms the relevance and necessity of Turkish perspectives in environmental literatures and arts, and explores the rich historical and contemporary ecoliterary and ecosocial traditions of Turkey.
This book highlights the environmental challenges that India faces due largely to high population and limited natural resources, making larger implications about environmental issues in developing countries and the role of the judiciary system when tackling these problems.
This book retraces "the nature of hate" as hate in its primal form as told and conveyed in so many culturally influential Bible stories that are at the root of hatred as it manifests itself today and "the hatred of nature" as contempt for the natural world and also nature hating in return through Western literature.
Dwellings of Enchantment probes literature and cues humans to experience awe, love, and respect for our wonderfully complex, multispecies home. Interweaving new materialist, postcolonial, ecopoetic, ecofeminist, and ecopsychological approaches, it delves into various ontologies, literary modes, and tropes framing our coevolution within the oikos.
The familiar Monarch butterfly is one of over 5,000 species of butterflies found in the diverse ecosystems of North America. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 70 familiar and unique species and includes information on their life cycle and features illustrations of common caterpillars and pupae. This convenient e-book is an ideal, ......
A Waterproof Folding Guide to Familiar Animals & Plants
This beautifully illustrated guide to Eastern Seashore Life highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of birds, mammals, nearshore fishes, seashore creatures, seashells and plants and a map featuring wildlife-viewing areas. Laminated for durability, this pocket guide is an ideal source of information for use by visitors and residents.
An Introduction to Familiar Plants, Animals and Outstanding Natural Attr
Field guide introduces common plants and animals and highlights the diversity of species found in Colorado. More than 350 full color illustrations and maps featuring the major wildlife viewing destinations in different parts of the state. Checklists and full indices allow citizen scientists and nature watchers to track their viewing experiences.
An Introduction to Familiar Plants, Animals and Outstanding Natural Attr
Serving as an introduction to the natural history of the Lone Star State, this beautifully illustrated guide includes a stirring essay by James C. Rettie. It also features 350 common plants and animals, nine maps depicting major wildlife-viewing areas and parks, plus full checklists and indices for educators, learners, naturalists, birders, ......
T.R.'s Amazing Adventures as a Naturalist, Conservationist, and Explorer
No American president has been more enthusiastic in appreciating the wilderness and in conserving our nation's natural treasures than Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919). And no other president wrote more about nature and his explorations of it than T. R., in scattered books, such as African Wilderness, and in his countless letters, including those ......
The Wingless Crow joins together thirty-three superb short essays on nature, science, country living, and self. They are written by a man who—watchful, inquisitive, at times prickly—is animated by delight, wonder, and love for the rural places and wildlife of Pennsylvania. Charles Fergus wrote these insightful pieces for ......
Morgan Bulkeley first saw the Berkshires on a golden fall day in 1928. A school outing brought him to Bear Mountain, where he ate a sandwich ashis eyes feasted on the natural beauty spread before him. He was fourteen and suddenly found himself in love with a place. In more than 100 pithy, beautiful, and frequently witty pieces, Bulkeley records ......
An in-the-field identification guide to more than 40 common mushrooms of the northeast, including detailed descriptions of what to look for and what to avoid. 70 illustrations.
THE DESCENT OF MAN (1871) looks at the emergence of humans in terms of primate evolution. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) focuses on the origin and history of our own species, claiming that humans are closest in ancestry to African chimpanzees and gorillas. Darwin presents a strictly mechanistic and materialistic interpretation of the human animal that ......
Documents the dynamic relationship between organisms and their climatic habitats. This book helps in understanding and appreciating the evolving life on Earth.
Environmental Conflicts and Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbe
A war on the environment, driven by free-market policies, is sweeping Latin America. Thousands of local disputes over the control and use of natural resources have flared up as a result. This wide-ranging anthology provides an up-to-date guide to this human and environmental drama.
