|
|
|
|  | The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos by Brian Swimme
Opens up not only the exhilarating truths that science reveals of the birth of the universe, but how these truths can transform our lives. AUTHOR: Brian Swimme
PUBLISHER: Orbis Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature 
|
 | Deep Sky Companion by David H. Levy, Stephen J. O'Meara
If there were a canon for viewing the night sky, Charles Messier would be its author. The galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae cataloged by the famous comet hunter in the late 1700s are still the most widely observed celestial wonders in the heavens. They are the favorite targets of amateur astronomers, with such rich variety and detail that they never cease to fascinate. This book provides new and experienced observers with a fresh perspective on the Messier objects. Stephen James O'Meara has prepared a visual feast for the observer. Using the finest optical telescopes available for amateur work, he describes and sketches the view from the telescope as never before. There are new drawings, improved finder charts, and new astronomical data on each object, including findings from the Hubble Space Telescope. Expand your universe and test your viewing acumen with this truly modern Messier Guide. It is a must for budding night watchers. Stephen James O'Meara is a contributing editor to Sky and Telescope. AUTHOR: David H. Levy, Stephen J. O'Meara
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
|
 | Backwoodsmen by Thad Sitton
Backwoodsmen: Stockmen and Hunters along a Big Thicket River Valley presents a detailed social history of the back-country stockmen, hunters, and woodsmen of the Neches River in southeastern Texas. Labeled crackers , pineys , sandhillers , and nesters by townspeople at different locations across the upland South, throughout the years the southern backwoodsmen have been dismissed by historians as well. One of the first works to quarrel with these stereotypes was Frank Owsley`s Plain Folk of the Old South (1949). In Backwoodsmen, Thad Sitton follows Owsley`s stockmen and small farmers into the twentieth century. Like parts of Appalachia, the Neches Valley was a cultural survival area. There many elements of the centuries-old herding and hunting lifeway persisted into the 1960s. In this area - called the Big Thicket and the Big Woods by early settlers - southern free-range stock raising served as the economic linchpin. Rural people allowed livestock to run free to forage for themselves in the river bottoms and pine uplands; there were no fences except those around cultivated fields. By long-established custom, everything outside the fenced fields was open range , a wooded commons in which hogs, cattle, and backwoodsmen were free to roam. And roam they did - not only stockmen, with their rooter hogs and woods cattle , but also tie cutters, grey-moss gatherers, hunters, trappers, fishermen, and moonshiners. Their daily activities are detailed in Backwoodsmen. The stories in Backwoodsmen are told not about the participants but rather by them: by Avy Joe Havard, stockman; by Aubrey Cole, hunter; by Louis Bingham and Bob Allen, timbermen. AUTHOR: Thad Sitton
PUBLISHER: University of Oklahoma Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
|
 | Epicurean Simplicity by Stephanie Mills
The virtues of the simple life, one lived with awareness and deliberation, are celebrated by an ecologist and activist. AUTHOR: Stephanie Mills
PUBLISHER: Island Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
|
 | Crocodilians by Bettina Bird, Deborah Savin, Joan Short
For 190 million years, the reptiles known as crocodilians have existed on Earth. They were here during the time of the dinosaurs, and they are still here. Discover what makes these enduring animals tick. AUTHOR: Bettina Bird, Deborah Savin, Joan Short
PUBLISHER: Mondo Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
|
 | Eye of the Elephant by Delia Owens, Frances Cassidy, Mark Owens, Mark James Owens
Description not available.Two naturalists describe how a battle to save the elephants of Africa turned into a fight for their lives when commercial poachers heard of their work AUTHOR: Delia Owens, Frances Cassidy, Mark Owens, Mark James Owens
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
|
|
|
