http://www.ebooks.com/NatureFeatured Nature titles at eBooks.comhelp@ebooks.com©2009 Ebooks Corporation Ltd11/9/2009 3:30:04 AMhttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=44779820090911.44779811/9/2009 3:30:04 AMThis profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature’s best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems.If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature – taking advantage of evolution’s 3.8 billion years of R&D since the first bacteria. Biomimics study nature’s best ideas: photosynthesis, brain power, and shells – and adapt them for human use. They arhttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=45362720090911.45362711/9/2009 3:30:04 AMFirst published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the Wisconsin countryside; another part that gathers informal pieces written by Leopolhttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=25785420090911.25785411/9/2009 3:30:04 AMA groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus’s landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=28482220090911.28482211/9/2009 3:30:04 AMWondering about weather? Learn Mother Nature's secrets. Meteorology Demystified presents a complete. explanation of essential physical and scientific concepts. before delving into a more detailed look at various. weather phenomena.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=30733520090911.30733511/9/2009 3:30:04 AMA concise, non-technical account of the structure and evolution of woodlands and forests.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=36346920090911.36346911/9/2009 3:30:04 AMTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea(s) (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, published in 1870. It is about the fictional Captain Nemo and his submarine, Nautilus, as seen by one of his passengers, Professor Pierre Aronnax. The first illustrated edition (which is not the original edition which had no illustrations) was published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Edouard Riou. — Excerpthttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=30844920090911.30844911/9/2009 3:30:04 AMThe only recognition guide to use a comprehensive photographic approach, with an easy-to-use layout to ensure quick and accurate identification of birds in the field.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=32576120090911.32576111/9/2009 3:30:04 AMReview of future climate change for life sciences and environmental science students, and policy-makers.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=36369120090911.36369111/9/2009 3:30:04 AMCharles Darwin was an English naturalist, eminent as a collector and geologist, who proposed and provided scientific evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process of natural selection. Darwin’s discovery remains the foundation of biology, as it provides a unifying logical explanation for the diversity of life. This collection includes 17 most significant works complemented by author biography and contemporary analysis. These books are readablehttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=32976020090911.32976011/9/2009 3:30:04 AM"I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla," writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming-of-age in remote Africa. 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Their abundance is both an indicator of ecological imbalance and a generous opportunity to connect with the animal world. CROW PLANET reminds us that we do not need to head to faraway places to encounter "nature." Rather, even in the suburbs and cities where we live we are surrounded by wild life such as crows, and through observing them we can enhance our appreciation of the world's natural order. CROW PLANET richly weaves Haupt's own "http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=33601420090911.33601411/9/2009 3:30:04 AMA detailed account of mutualisms; a fascinating and growing subject in modern ecology.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=36276520090911.36276511/9/2009 3:30:04 AMExpert advice on staying safe in the outdoors from one of America’s best-known survival writers. The best way to survive an extreme situation in the wilderness is to avoid it in the first place, says Rich Johnson in this refreshing new guide to outdoor survival skills. Avoiding both the rigid "primitive skills" ideology and macho, military/survivalist posturing, Johnson focuses on proven, easily implemented methods to handle emergency situations in an easy, low-stress manner.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=41561320090911.41561311/9/2009 3:30:04 AMOrangutan populations show extensive variation in behaviour and demography.The two main aims of this book are to carefully compare data from all orangutan research sites, examining the differences and similarities between orangutan species, subspecies and populations and to develope a theoretical framework in which these can be explained. - ;This book describes one of our closest relatives, the orangutan, and the only extant great ape in Asia. It is increasingly clear that orangutan populations