Martha E H Rustad
Take an up-close look at the fascinating lives of ants and aphids. Learn how this animal team works together to survive.... (read more)
Paul Hillyard
Despite Little Miss Muffet's well-documented confrontation, most spiders are quite harmless -- except to smaller bugs. In "The Book of The Spider", spider specialist Paul Hillyard explores the engaging world of arachnids -- especially the funny and often... (read more)
Paul Stamets
More mushrooms, less pollution! Yes, you heard right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment and mushroom expert Paul Stamets explains how in MYCELIUM RUNNING, a groundbreaking manual for saving the world through... (read more)
Dale Peterson
This essential biography of one of the most influential women of the past century shows how truly remarkable Jane Goodalls accomplishments have been. Goodall was a secretarial school graduate when Louis Leakey, unable to find someone with more fitting... (read more)
John A Long
We all know about the birds and the bees, but what about the ancient placoderm fishes and the dinosaurs? The history of sex is as old as life itself—and as complicated and mysterious. And despite centuries of study there is always more to know. In... (read more)
Marlene Zuk
An exposé of pseudoscientific myths about our evolutionary past and how we should live today.
We evolved to eat berries rather than bagels, to live in mud huts rather than condos, to sprint barefoot rather than play football — or did we?... (read more)
Sandra Markle
Prairie dogs find safety in numbers. Hundreds of them live together in underground tunnels. When the small animals come to the surface to nibble prairie grasses, they keep a close watch for enemies, such as eagles, coyotes, or black-footed ferrets. When... (read more)
Jonathan Clements
One of the most fascinating writers and scientists the world has ever seen, Charles Darwin is presented in this journal-like biography through his personal writings and discoveries. Progress with Darwin through his early schooling, his studies in the... (read more)
