Nature
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
Imagine a world where parasites control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their destruction. Imagine a world where parasites are masters of chemical warfare and camouflage, able to cloak themselves with their hosts' own molecules.
The Coming Global Superstorm
Two of America's leading investigators of unexplained phenomena - Art Bell, the top-rated late-night radio talk-show host, and Whitley Strieber, No.
The Emperor's Embrace: Reflections on Animal Families and Fatherhood
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's "marvelous" (Jane Goodall) New York Times bestseller, When Elephants Weep, made us re-evaluate the emotional lives of animals.
Biosciences on the Internet
The internet is becoming increasingly important as a reference tool, with many students using it as their first choice of resource material.
Animals and Their Moral Standing
Twenty years ago, people thought only cranks or sentimentalists could be seriously concerned about the treatment of non-human animals.
Representing Animals
Representing Animals explores the complex and often surprising connections between our imagining of animals and our cultural environment. The contributors ? historians, literary critics, anthropologists, artists, art historians, and scholars of cultural studies ?
Storm Watchers
A lively, inspiring account of the pioneers who sought to accurately predict the weather. Benjamin Franklin . . . James P. Espy . . . Cleveland Abbe . . . Carl-Gustaf Rossby . . . Jule G. Charney . . .
Environmental Justice in America
Edwardo Lao Rhodes examines the issue of environmental justice as a public policy concern and suggests the use of a new methodology in its evaluation.
Mediterranean Desertification
Desertification is land degradation in arid and semi-arid regions from both climatic and anthropogenic causes.
Mother/Nature
This brief but ambitious book explores the relationship with nature through the imagery we use when we talk about Mother Nature.