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An exposition of parenting in the animal kingdom. The author illuminates the similarities and differences between the interaction humans have…
with their offspring and the maternalistic and paternalistic tendencies of insects, fish, and other mammalsOur fascinating earth
Par Philip Seff. 1996
A collection of almost 180 articles presenting unusual scientific facts and information on natural wonders. Each of the nine chapters…
covers a variety of topics such as wolves, scorpions, the Kohinoor diamond, the pyramids, dinosaurs, rivers, carnivorous plants, hurricanes, even garlic. For junior and senior high and older readersWood-notes wild: walking with Thoreau
Par Henry Thoreau. 1995
Scenes from nature described by Thoreau on his long daily walks during a twenty-four-year period. The selections are arranged by…
season, giving sensory impressions of the woodland plants, earth, and animals that the nineteenth-century philosopher encounteredAn unspoken hunger: stories from the field
Par Terry Williams. 1994
A collection of eighteen essays by a naturalist who draws attention to the earth and reminds readers that they are…
part of the environment. The author urges people to become more intimate with natureA handmade wilderness
Par Donald Schueler. 1996
In 1968, Schueler and his companion, Willie Brown, set out to homestead the "least worst land" they could find. Schueler…
recounts their twenty-five-year struggle to restore a despoiled eighty-acre tract in southern Mississippi and tells of Brown's death from AIDS in 1987The weather companion: an album of meteorological history, science, legend, and folklore
Par Gary Lockhart. 1988
A compendium of weather facts and fables, from ancient myths to modern research. Discusses weather cycles, phenomena, forecasting tools, and…
even Noah's ark. Tells the best time to go fishing. For junior and senior high and older readersJobs vs. the environment: can we save both?
Par Nathan Aaseng. 1994
Aaseng rejects the claim that environmentalists negatively impact the economy, yet also proposes ways to protect the Earth that would…
disrupt workers' lives least. He provides an overview of the issue from 1681 to the 1990s. For junior and senior high and older readersNaked Earth: the new geophysics
Par Shawna Vogel. 1995
Nearer nature
Par Jim Arnosky. 1996
The noted naturalist and artist shares his observations of tracking wildlife in and around his Vermont farm over the course…
of one winter and spring. He scrutinizes animal tracks in the snow, attends the birth of lambs, notes the feeding habits of porcupines, and observes a fox stalking a vole. For grades 5-7Essays on human coexistence with the changing natural environment. Explores such issues as acid rain, global warming, destruction of the…
Amazon rain forest, and the debate between preservationists and developers. Presses the theme that society and nature exist in an inexorable, mutually dependent relationshipThe good society: the humane agenda
Par John Galbraith. 1996
Contending that big governments arise from the people's need for services, economist Galbraith explores the nature and elements of a…
"good society" that he finds practically achievable. He posits the essential human needs of personal liberty, basic well-being, social and ethnic equality, and individual opportunity, while offering a liberal blueprint for building a safer and better futureEndangered plants
Par Elaine Landau. 1992
Certain species of plants become endangered because of development such as shopping malls and highways, from overcollecting by plant suppliers,…
or from overgrazing by both livestock and wild animals. The author describes at-risk plants and tells what is being done to protect them. For grades 4-7The time before history: 5 million years of human impact
Par Colin Tudge. 1996
The British science writer presents the lengthy history of human activity on the planet. He details the formation of the…
earth, the evolution of the animals, and the development of human beings. Tudge cites evolutionary advantages that have made humans uniquely destructive and proposes ways to save the earth, the remaining animals, and ourselvesThe hidden life of the desert
Par Thomas Wiewandt. 1990
Description of how plants and animals have learned to live within the limits of the five seasons of the northern…
part of the Sonoran Desert in the American Southwest. Creosote, saguaro cactus, paloverde, and century plants provide food and shelter for rodents, insects, lizards, toads, coyotes, and bighorn sheep. For grades 4-7On our own terms: portraits of women business leaders
Par Liane Enkelis. 1995
Interviews with fifteen women who lead large corporations and also have a personal life. The women include the principal chief…
of the Cherokee Nation, the president of two highly successful catalog companies, and the head of one of the world's leading software companiesMaterial world: The six raw materials that shape modern civilization
Par Ed Conway. 2023
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and…
greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern world would not exist, and the battle to control them will determine our future. • Finalist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award The fiber-optic cables that weave the World Wide Web, the copper veins of our electric grids, the silicon chips and lithium batteries that power our phones and cars: though it can feel like we now live in a weightless world of information—what Ed Conway calls "the ethereal world"—our twenty-first-century lives are still very much rooted in the material. In fact, we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. For every ton of fossil fuels, we extract six tons of other materials, from sand to stone to wood to metal. And in Material World, Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth—traveling from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates. Material World is a celebration of the humans and the human networks, the miraculous processes and the little-known companies, that combine to turn raw materials into things of wonder. This is the story of human civilization from an entirely new perspective: the ground upCactus
Par Carol Lerner. 1992
Because they can hoard large amounts of water, cacti are called succulents. The part that holds the water is the…
green stem of the cactus. Lerner discusses some of the many types of cacti, how the cactus plant works, and where it grows. For grades 4-7On your own: a guide to working happily, productively & successfully from home
Par Lionel Fisher. 1995
Fisher, a writer who works out of his home, focuses on the mental, emotional, psychological, and motivational challenges of working…
alone. Topics include getting organized, avoiding procrastination, promoting self-actualization, setting office boundaries, and befriending solitudeFlat rock journal: a day in the Ozark mountains
Par Ken Carey. 1994
Since buying his piece of Ozark wilderness twenty years ago, writer and environmentalist Carey has learned to open his mind…
and heart to the renewing energies of spring. He describes the annual day-long trek he takes through the land. Interspersed are recollections of the almost magical happenings that led him and his family to this place and the difficult but rewarding life they have lived sinceThe contrary farmer
Par Gene Logsdon. 1993
Writer and part-time farmer Logsdon describes the contrary cottage (small acreage) farmer. "A farmer with deep ecological sensitivity is to…
the plow jockey...what a French chef is to...hamburger handlers." Contrary farmers use technological cleverness and handiness to reduce manual labor by skill instead of expensive machines. They have a "love of home," subscribe to pastoral economics, and learn to let nature do work for them