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|  | Field Guide to Animal Tracks by Olaus J. Murie, Roger T. Peterson
Includes descriptions of the habits, habitats, tracks, signs, and ranges of all the mamals of North America. More than 1,000 illustrations show individual tracks, different track patterns, animals in their habitats, droppings, and gnawed trees - every type of clue the tracker needs. AUTHOR: Olaus J. Murie, Roger T. Peterson
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature 
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 | Riddle of the Ice by Myron Arms
By any account, the impenetrable barrier of sea ice that blocked the Brendan`s Isle halfway up the Labrador Coast should not have been there in July, in what was one of the hottest summers on record a few hundred miles to the south. Frustrated and mystified at having to turn back so early in his 1991 northbound voyage, sailor Myron Arms became determined to explain the unsettling anomaly. Three years later, having pursued this obsession from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to Columbia`s Lamont-Doherty Observatory to NASA`s Goddard Space Flight Center, Arms took his fifty-foot sailboat and a small crew back up the coast to test his ideas - this time making it past the Arctic Circle. Weaving together the unfolding narrative of the voyage itself with a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest theories about Arctic ice production - and the troubling signals it may now be sending us - Riddle of the Ice is a taut, suspenseful science mystery told as captain`s log. AUTHOR: Myron Arms
PUBLISHER: Doubleday Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Ecology by Ernest Callenbach
With this lively guide to the essentials of ecology, Ernest Callenbach provides a pocket-sized introduction to the wonderful complexity of life on Earth--and our part in it. In 60 information-packed entries, the author uses everyday, nontechnical language to explain basic ecological concepts. Line art. AUTHOR: Ernest Callenbach
PUBLISHER: University of California Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | The Sea Otters of California by Joan Duden
Description not available.Introduces the world of sea otters, their physical characteristics, behavior, and interaction with humans. AUTHOR: Joan Duden
PUBLISHER: Capstone Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | What If We Run Out of Fossil Fuels? by Kimberly M. Miller
Description not available.Examines our dependence on fossil fuels through scenarios that describe life without such items as oil heaters and gasoline powered cars, and describes alternative energy sources and other ways to prepare for this possible future. AUTHOR: Kimberly M. Miller
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Animals Like Us by Mark Rowlands
Foot-and-mouth and mad-cow disease are but two of the results of treating animals as commodities, subject only to commercial constraints and ignoring all natural and moral considerations. Chickens hanging by their necks on conveyor belts, bloated dead sheep with their legs in the air, mutilated dogs waiting to die after undergoing horrendous experiments in the name of science or even just product-testing--these are some of the images that illustrate the indifference of a consumerist society to the suffering of animals. Few are willing to recognize that the packaged, sanitized supermarket meat that materializes on their dinner tables every day is the result of an industrial process involving unimaginable pain and suffering. In this clearly argued book, Mark Rowlands claims that it is simply unjust to harm animals. As conscious, sentient beings, biologically continuous with humans, they have interests that cannot simply be disregarded. Using simple principles of justice, he argues that animals have moral rights, and examines the consequences of this claim in the contexts of vegetarianism, animal experimentation, zoos and hunting, as well as the animal rights activism that has resulted form the recognition by a relatively small group of political activists that animals cannot simply be considered in their relation to humans. AUTHOR: Mark Rowlands
PUBLISHER: Verso
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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