The Cowboy and His Elephant by St. Martin's Press
The Bedside Book of Beasts: A Wildlife Miscellany by Nan A. Talese $35.00
This stunning companion to the internationally bestselling Bedside Book of Birds explores the relationship between predators and their prey.The intricate, complex connection between the hunter and the hunted has defined animal life on Earth throughout time. In The Bedside Book of Beasts, Graeme Gibson gathers from all eras and cultures works of art and literature that capture the power, grace,...
Animals without Backbones by University of Chicago Press
"Animals Without Backbones" has been considered a classic among biology textbooks since it was first published to great acclaim in 1938. It was the first biology text book ever reviewed by "Time" and was also featured with illustrations in "Life." Harvard, Stanford, the University of Chicago, and more than eighty other colleges and univerisities adopted it for use in courses. Since then, its...
Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment, 4th Edition by Cambridge University Press
Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife by Farrar, Straus and Giroux $25.00
Love and loss, life and death, among the nighttime creatures of the city that never sleeps Like her bestseller Red-Tails in Love, Marie Winn’s Central Park in the Dark explores a once-hidden world in a series of interlocking narratives about the extraordinary denizens, human and animal, of an iconic American park. Her beguiling account of a city’s lakes and woodlands at night takes the...
The View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures by Sierra Club Books $15.95
Attempts to enable us to view the world of ticks, flies, birds, jelly fish, and other animals through their senses, not our own.
The Modern Ark: The Story of Zoos : Past, Present and Future by Avon Books (P) $12.00
A history of zoological parks traces the transformation of animal captivity from an entertainment role to attempts to preserve endangered species and maximize genetic diversity. 12,500 first printing.
Equine Color Genetics by Wiley-Blackwell $79.99
Equine Color Genetics 2e is a complete discussion of horse and donkey colors, including details of their genetic control and their identification. The book explains how to accurately identify horses and donkeys by using colors. It furthers an understanding of the genetic basis of color and contributes to research on specific behavioral characteristics associated with color. The author includes...