Natural History

A gorgeously illustrated volume devoted to the natural history drawings and watercolors of Leonardo da Vinci and other outstanding artists of the A...

A Sky Wonderful with Stars: 50 Years of Modern Astronomy on Maunakea tells the fascinating story of how a remote mountaintop in the middle of the P...

It is the evening of 26 August 2009 on Christmas Island. The last known pipistrelle emerges from its day-time shelter. Scientists, desperate about ...

Although relatively little known, fungi provide the links between the various organisms and ecosystems that underpin our functioning planet. The Al...

General George Armstrong Custer and his wife, Libbie Custer, were wholehearted dog lovers. At the time of his death at Little Bighorn, they owne...

For well over a century, the Night Parrot lured its seekers into Australias vast, arid outback. From the beginning it was a mysterious bird. Fewer ...

Florida is home to two of the worlds major types of climatetropical wet-dry and humid subtropical. It ranks among the top states for tornadoes and ...

Inform and inspire young naturalists with this book about a very special butterfly garden. Mrs. Carters Butterfly Garden is the story of how former...

The second edition of the award-winning book The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia is a fully updated guide to all butterfly species...

This full-color, simple-to-use field guide makes shrub identification easy and fun. It features 100 of the most common shrubs that grow in and arou...

A new book, expanded from the 1995 first edition, describing detailed, step-by-step procedures for sculpting, molding and painting original prehist...

In Down the Wild Cape Fear, novelist and nonfiction writer Philip Gerard invites readers onto the fabled waters of the Cape Fear River and guides t...

Over the course of several decades, scientific fact has overtaken science fiction as humankind's understanding of the universe has expanded. Mirror...

Raising an almost perfect pet does not happen by accident. When people acquire pets, they may not be certain about what to expect, but few antic...

Adorable and sometimes surprising historic images of New Zealand dogs and their owners. This entertaining selection of over 100 photos of New Zeal...

Covering the Carolinas from up-country to the Piedmont to the Coastal Plain, this book is an in-depth yet accessible primer on the many ways that C...