2012-10-25T07:00:00Z The sixth title in the bestselling Collins Guide series, this book covers the fungi of the British Isles, with considerable relevance for Europe and the wider temperate world.
Leading mycological artists have been specially commissioned to ensure accurate, detailed illustrations. Where possible, species are described and illustrated on the same page, with...[Read More]
2019-02-09T08:00:00Z This is a guide and manual is for implementing the program Earth Leaders for Environmental Monitoring. Children will be taught to make modules using sensors for environmental monitoring and share the information. All the children participating in this program are considered as Earth Leaders, that is because of the values that they create for the earth. The intention...[Read More]
2021-09-14T07:00:00Z Power -- why giving it up might just save humanity and the planet
This is the story of power -- humanity's power over nature and the power of some people over others.
How has Homo sapiens -- one species among millions -- become powerful enough to threaten a mass extinction and disrupt the Earth's climate? Why have we developed so many ways ...[Read More]
2020-07-14T07:00:00Z From Carolyn Turgeon, editor in chief of Enchanted Living and author of The Faerie Handbook and The Mermaid Handbook, comes this exquisitely illustrated and beautifully designed lifestyle compendium, a complete guide to the world of unicorns covering fashion and beauty; arts and culture; and home, food, and entertaining with step-by-step crafts and recipes. [Read More]
2017-11-14T08:00:00Z Sol?cito como una ardilla, leal como un cuervo, compasivo como un rat?n de campo, triste como una cierva... ?Pueden los animales tener tales emociones? ?Cabe una vida emocional tan vasta que no est? s?lo reservada a los seres humanos? Mediante los m?s recientes conocimientos cient?ficos, ilustrados con observaciones y experiencias personales con animales, ...[Read More]
2014-05-06T07:00:00Z The Handmaid's Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed and deformity means death.
Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora i...[Read More]
2021-06-01T07:00:00Z Double Blind follows three close friends and their circle through a year of extraordinary transformation. Set between London, Cap d'Antibes, Big Sur, and a rewilded corner of Sussex, this thrilling, ambitious novel is about the headlong pursuit of knowledge--for the purposes of pleasure, revelation, money, sanity, or survival--and the consequences of fleei...[Read More]
2009-10-13T07:00:00Z Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a "raven father," as well as observing them in their natural habitat. He studies their daily routines, and in the process, paints a vivid picture of the ravens' world. At the heart of this book ar...[Read More]
2021-04-02T07:00:00Z What does the future hold in store for our world? What threats brought on by global warming, the global economic crisis or our sometimes indiscriminate manipulation of technology could cause major upheaval in the years, decades and centuries to come? And above all, what ethical, social and technological revolutions could presage a new era full of hope instead...[Read More]
2010-01-05T08:00:00Z "I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi--it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people depend on it, and there's no backup plan. As Steven Solomon makes clear, the same is true the world over; ...[Read More]
2018-07-24T07:00:00Z A comprehensive, richly illustrated celebration of the natural history of the chicken
Inherently social creatures, chickens are enjoying a renaissance as prized members of many households and small farms. From feathers and flock formation to imprinting and incubating, The Chicken provides a comprehensive, richly illustrated guide to understa...[Read More]
